crystallization of aluminum fluoride at atmospheric pressure has been considered. structure, size and shape of crystals formed during the crystallization process have been investigated. by applying the direct analysis method for the existed aluminum in solution, the aluminum fluoride nucleation process has been detected as a concentration valley at the outset of crystallization process. the lin...

background existence of fluoride in drinking water above the permissible level causes human skeletal fluorosis. objectives electrocoagulation by iron and aluminum electrodes was proposed for removing fluoride from drinking water. materials and methods effects of different operating conditions such as treatment time, initial ph, applied voltage, type and number of electrodes, the spaces between ...

Interactions between fluorine (as F) and aluminum (as Al) have recently attracted much attention following reports of their possible involvement in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). An inverse correlation has been demonstrated between the incidence and severity of AD and the level of fluorine in drinking water.1-4 Aluminum has long since been implicated in the etiopathology of AD, and neurotoxicity stu...

The effects of aluminum fluoride and beryllium fluoride on smooth muscle myosin and its subfragments were studied. Mg(2+)-ATPase activity was inhibited in the presence of aluminum fluoride (beryllium fluoride). [3H]ADP bound to heavy meromyosin (HMM) in the presence of aluminum fluoride (beryllium fluoride) and was not dissociated after 3 days of dialysis demonstrating that [3H]ADP was trapped ...

Aluminum has no defined biological function and it is potentially involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders. Furthermore, the presence of fluoride causes more aluminum to accumulate in the brain, resulting in increased neuronal damage. In recent years, resveratrol through its ameliorative effects was found to be a neuroprotectant. This study reports the protective effects of r...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of addition of zinc sulfate to conventional and resinmodified glass ionomer restorative materials. The samples were prepared by addition of zinc sulfate to glass ionomer at different concentrations. The samples were tested for fluoride, zinc and aluminum release at different time intervals. The antibacterial activity of the restorative materi...

Crystallization of Aluminum fluoride at atmospheric pressure has been considered. Structure, size and shape of crystals formed during the crystallization process have been investigated. By applying the direct analysis method for the existed aluminum in solution, the aluminum fluoride nucleation process has been detected as a concentration valley at the outset of crystallization process. The...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate fluoride and aluminum concentration in herbal, black, ready-to-drink, and imported teas available in Brazil considering the risks fluoride and aluminum pose to oral and general health, respectively. METHODS One-hundred and seventy-seven samples of herbal and black tea, 11 types of imported tea and 21 samples of ready-to-drink tea were divided into four groups: I-herbal t...

We describe a pretreatment method before determining the total fluoride in solutions containing tetrafluoroborate ion (BF(4)(-)) with ion-selective electrodes (ISEs). BF(4)(-) was quantitatively converted to free fluoride by reacting with aluminum ions. The total fluoride concentration was then determined by ISE analysis without preliminary steam distillation using a tartrate- and tris(hydroxym...

Conformational changes in sigma 54 (sigma(54)) and sigma(54)-holoenzyme depend on nucleotide hydrolysis by an activator. We now show that sigma(54) and its holoenzyme bind to the central ATP-hydrolyzing domains of the transcriptional activators PspF and NifA in the presence of ADP-aluminum fluoride, an analog of ATP in the transition state for hydrolysis. Direct binding of sigma(54) Region I to...