type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic illness causing considerable morbidity and mortality. enormous advances have been made in medical care but more people are still having tendency to use herbal or alternative remedies. this study is a randomized, controlled trial on type 2 diabetic patients. the subject consisted of 60 patients divided randomly into three groups and supple-mented daily with ...

TLRs are important innate immune receptors. It has been found that vanadium can affect the immune function in broilers. However, vanadium action in the regulation of TLRs is unknown. A total of 420 one-day-old avian broilers were divided into six groups, and fed on a corn-soybean basal diet as control diet (vanadium 0.073 mg/kg) or the same diet supplemented with vanadium at the doses of 5, 15,...

Chromium is a trace metal of importance in human physiology and, in addition, as 51-chromate, has been extensively used as a label in the study of blood cell pool sizes and intravascular kinetics. The transport characteristics of 51-chromate were investigated in normal human leukocytes. Chromate uptake is unidirectional over a 1 hr incubation with extracellular chromate concentrations up to 200...

The oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of propane was investigated on vanadia dispersed on alumina containing a nominal polymolybdate monolayer (4.8 Mo/nm2). Dehydrogenation rates and selectivities on these catalysts were compared with those on vanadia domains dispersed on alumina. At a given vanadia surface density, ODH reaction rates per gram of catalyst were about 1.5–2 times greater on MoOx -c...

Vanadium (CAS No. 7440-62-2) is an element that exists in a number of oxidation states ranging from -1 to +5 and can be found in various locales around the world. Absorption of vanadium from the gastrointestinal tract is poor and most ingested vanadium is typically converted to vanadyl. Excretion of absorbed vanadium is primarily via urine while unabsorbed vanadium is mainly eliminated in feces...