(1) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
(2) These results suggest that aluminum is able to gain access to the central nervous system under normal physiological conditions.
(3) Marked declines in stainable bone-surface aluminum were associated with increases in bone formation rate and osteoblastic osteoid following deferoxamine.
(4) This is suggested by the fact that patients with overt hyperparathyroidism are protected from developing aluminum-related bone disease even when they are given large parenteral loads of aluminum.
(5) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
(6) The neurotransmitter alterations which accompany aluminum neurofibrillary degeneration were examined in order to assess how closely they mimic those of Alzheimer's disease.
(7) Children with renal failure, on aluminum supplementation, should be carefully monitored for toxicity.
(8) From the existing data, 2 g deferoxamine administration intraperitoneally three times per week in the overnight exchange appears to provide the maximum aluminum removal for minimum deferoxamine dosage.
(9) After exposure to 400 microM aluminum lactate and removal of unbound aluminum, human cytoskeletal proteins were degraded two- to threefold more slowly by calpain.
(10) BDF1 mice were immunized with a protein antigen, such as ovalbumin (OA) or keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), absorbed to aluminum hydroxide gel, and their spleen cells were stimulated by homologous antigen for the formation of glycosylation-enhancing factor (GEF).
(11) Chronic dietary deficiency of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) with excessive intake of aluminum (Al) and manganese (Mn) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of high incidence amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the Western Pacific.
(12) The growth plates did not increase in width despite the presence of osteomalacia and histologic evidence of extensive deposition of aluminum in bone.
(13) The monovalent serovar C aluminum-hydroxide-gel vaccine also gave significant protection (94%) against a serovar C challenge.
(14) Two different prototypes of columella materials made from aluminum oxide ceramics were newly designed by the author for ossicular reconstruction.
(15) The trienone XIII was subsequently epoxidised with alkaline hydrogen peroxide and m-chloroperbenzoic acid to give diepoxide XV which was reduced with aluminum amalgam to the final product V.
(16) To test the technique, a feasibility study was performed with known thicknesses of aluminum (simulating bone), lucite (simulating tissue), and polyethylene (simulating fat).
(17) The dissolution t50 and various pharmacokinetic parameters showed directly compressible starch and carboxymethylstarch to be the most effective disintegrants in the concentrations employed while magnesium aluminum silicate and microcrystalline cellulose were about equal but less effective than the previous disintegrants.
(18) when an aluminum plate is imaged, forms the basic Q.C.
(19) The effect of aluminum phosphate on the bioavailability of ranitidine has been investigated in 10 young, healthy volunteers.
(20) Furthermore, a Gh.PLC complex can be induced by incubation with aluminum fluoride in a detergent solution and partially purified without the dissociation of related proteins.
Amphibole
Definition:
(n.) A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three subcohorts were defined: 3212 men whose only exposure to asbestos was to amosite; 3430 exposed to crocidolite; and 675 to both amphiboles.
(2) Amphibole fibre counts were raised when compared with a non-occupationally exposed group and matched those seen in cases of pleural plaques, mild asbestosis, and mesothelioma.
(3) The second, with amphibole or glassy fibres, is mediated by fibronectin which first binds to the fibre.
(4) Six measures of asbestos-in-air concentration were considered: (1) total asbestos structures per cubic centimeter: (2) chrysotile structures per cubic centimeter; (3) amphibole structures per cubic centimeter; (4) structures per cubic centimeter at least 0.5 micron long and at least five times wide; (5) structures per cubic centimeter at least 5 microns long; and (6) structures per cubic centimeter at least 5 microns long and at least 0.2 micron wide.
(5) The ingestion of filtered water results in the eventual disappearance of amphibole fibers from urine.
(6) When fibre-length distributions were calculated using a scanning electron microscope, however, it was found that the chrysotile clouds used in this study contained many more fibres over 20 microgram long than either of the amphibole clouds.
(7) A suitable quarry was found about 11 km from the port but unfortunately the rock was found to be contaminated to a small extent with a fibrous mineral identified with the analytical transmission electron microscope as a non-commercial type of fine amphibole with many long fibres.
(8) The most positive lavages, probably reflecting exposure to industrial amphiboles, were found in patients presenting with radiological evidence of asbestosis.
(9) The amphibolic asbestos types lie in the upper half and the rock wool sample in the lower half of the range.
(10) Based on the results obtained, the following metabolic pathway is proposed: isopropylbenzene----2,3-dihydro -2,3-dihydroxyisopropylbenzene----3-isopropylcatechol----2 -hydroxy-6-oxo-7-methylocta-2,4-dienoate----isobutyrate + 2-oxopent-4-enoate----amphibolic intermediates.
(11) While amphibole cleavage fragments are usually visible by PCM, asbestos fibers (such as amosite and chrysotile) have finer widths that may render them invisible by PCM.
(12) In general, chrysotile had a toxic effect on the macrophages, whereas amphibole varieties did not.
(13) Of particular importance is an apparent increase in the proportion of mesothelioma risk attributable to tremolite, since the fibers heretofore most responsible for that disease--commercial amphiboles--have been or are being severely regulated or completely eliminated in production and use.
(14) The first reported case was a village woman whose lung tissue contained amphibole asbestos fibres, which were later identified as tremolite.
(15) Crocidolite fiber, a commercial amphibole not native to the region, was nonetheless identified in lung tissue from 15 of 23 chrysotile miners and millers.
(16) There was a rather good correlation between numbers of amphibole fibers and asbestos bodies, with an average ratio of 10:1.
(17) Chrysotile asbestos was much more active in binding IgG than was amphibole asbestos.
(18) Analytical electron microscopy of asbestos body cores showed that in the BL group 95.6% were chrysotile fibres whereas in the AC group amphiboles accounted for 93.1%.
(19) The magnesium amphibole contained the longest (6.03 microns) fibres, and the nickel amphibole contained the shortest (2.7 microns) fibres, resembling those of crocidolite.
(20) Electron microscopic examination of these water samples confirms the presence of asbestiform amphibole fibers.