Manganese is an essential nutrient that also may be toxic at high concentrations. Subjects chronically exposed to manganese-laden dust in industrial settings develop neuropsychological changes that resemble Parkinson's disease. Manganese has been proposed as an additive to gasoline (as a replacement for the catalytic properties of lead), which has generated increased research interest in the po...

For nearly a century, manganese has been recognized as an essential nutrient for proper bone formation, lipid, amino acid and carbohydrate metabolism. While manganese deficiency is characterized by symptoms ranging from stunted growth and poor bone remodeling to ataxia, it is manganese toxicity that is far more devastating from a public health standpoint. Most cases of manganese toxicity are th...

Amines inhibit photosynthetic oxygen evolution by binding to manganese in the oxygen evolving complex. This inhibition is more effective if chloride is absent. Steady-state kinetic analyses show that ammonia and chloride compete for the same site in the oxygen evolving complex; inhibition of oxygen evolution by either chloride depletion or by ammonia addition induces Signal IIr, which saturates...

Uniform manganese hexacyanoferrate hydrate nanocubes are prepared via a simple chemical precipitation method at room temperature. Due to both micro/mesopores of the Prussian blue analogue and nanocubic structures, the manganese hexacyanoferrate hydrate nanocubes allow the efficient charge transfer and mass transport for electrolyte solution and chemical species. Thus, the manganese hexacyanofer...

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) pith explants were grown on manganese containing medium. At moderate concentration (10 millimolar), manganese selectively inhibited chlorophyll synthesis, resulting initially in growth of white callus. Several weeks later the white callus turned brown due to the accumulation of a pigment identified as protoporphyrin IX by its elution profile using high performance li...

A symmetric micro-supercapacitor is constructed by electrochemically depositing manganese oxide onto micro-patterned current collectors. High surface-to-volume ratio of manganese oxide and short diffusion distance between electrodes give an ultra-high areal capacitance of 56.3 mF cm(-2) at a current density of 27.2 μA cm(-2).

BACKGROUND Most toxicologic studies focus on a single agent, although this does not reflect real-world scenarios in which humans are exposed to multiple chemicals. OBJECTIVES We prospectively studied manganese-lead interactions in early childhood to examine whether manganese-lead coexposure is associated with neurodevelopmental deficiencies that are more severe than expected based on effects ...

Manganese is capable of forming complex ions with many substances found naturally in the body (1). It seems reasonable to assume, therefore, that manganese injected as MnSO4 (hereafter referred to as "ionic manganese") will be complexed in the body to a varying extent shortly after administration. If the Mn is strongly chelated before it is injected, a state of competition between ligands is se...