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Empty polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cages in anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) show slow radiographic fusion that reduces clinical improvement: results from the prospective multicenter “PIERCE-PEEK” study

Patient Safety in Surgery, 2017
Background Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a well-established surgical treatment for radiculopathy and myelopathy. Previous studies showed that empty PEEK cages have lower radiographic fusion rates, but the clinical relevance remains ...
Olaf Suess, Martin Schomaker, Mario Cabraja, Marco Danne, Theodoros Kombos, Michael Hanna   +5 more
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Sensing Mercury for Biomedical and Environmental Monitoring

Sensors, 2009
Mercury is a very toxic element that is widely spread in the atmosphere, lithosphere, and surface water. Concentrated mercury poses serious problems to human health, as bioaccumulation of mercury within the brain and kidneys ultimately leads to ...
Julia Xiaojun Zhao, E. Michael Collins, Hanying Xu, Paul D. Selid, Marla Striped Face-Collins   +4 more
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The prevalence of inorganic mercury in human cells increases during aging but decreases in the very old

Scientific Reports, 2021
Successful aging is likely to involve both genetic and environmental factors, but environmental toxicants that accelerate aging are not known. Human exposure to mercury is common, and mercury has genotoxic, autoimmune, and free radical effects which ...
Roger Pamphlett
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Interactions between wild pigs and the spread of disease

eLife
Tracking wild pigs with GPS devices reveals how their social interactions could influence the spread of disease, offering new strategies for protecting agriculture, wildlife, and human health.
Mercury Shitindo
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A novel direct activator of AMPK inhibits prostate cancer growth by blocking lipogenesis

EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2014
5′AMP‐activated kinase (AMPK) constitutes a hub for cellular metabolic and growth control, thus representing an ideal therapeutic target for prostate cancers (PCas) characterized by increased lipogenesis and activation of mTORC1 pathway. However, whether
Giorgia Zadra, Cornelia Photopoulos, Svitlana Tyekucheva, Pedram Heidari, Qing Ping Weng, Giuseppe Fedele, Hong Liu, Natalia Scaglia, Carmen Priolo, Ewa Sicinska, Umar Mahmood, Sabina Signoretti, Neal Birnberg, Massimo Loda   +13 more
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Occurrence characteristics of mercury in high-mercury coal and distribution rule of mercury in products of an air dense medium fluidized bed

International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, 2018
Mercury emitted from direct combustion of high-mercury coal does great harm to the environment. To make good use of high-mercury coal, it is necessary to study the occurrence characteristics of mercury in coal and high-efficient methods of mercury ...
Guilin Zhang, Shulei Song, Weiqiao Yang, Bo Zhang, Jianqing Wang   +4 more
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The activation of hydrogen by excited mercury atoms [PDF]

, 1925
That mercury atoms excited by absorption of the line 2537Å are able to activate various kinds of atoms by collisions of the second kind has been shown in several different ways.
Mitchell, Allan C. G.
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A comprehensive sulfate and DOM framework to assess methylmercury formation and risk in subtropical wetlands

Nature Communications
Wetlands play a vital role in contaminant cycling and uptake. Understanding how sulfate (SO4 2‒) influences the conversion of inorganic mercury (Hg(II)) to toxic methylmercury (MeHg) is critical for predicting wetland responses to land use and climate ...
Brett A. Poulin, Michael T. Tate, Sarah E. Janssen, George R. Aiken, David P. Krabbenhoft   +4 more
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Comparison of Numerical Simulations of Propeller Open-Water Performance with Cavitation for High-Speed Planing Hulls

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Numerical simulations of an open-water propeller are performed using CFDShip-Iowa. The propeller, originally designed by Mercury Marine for a 21 feet high-speed planing hull, is scaled to match a 42 feet hull configuration. Three advance ratios (J = 0.8,
Sungtek Park, Zhaoyuan Wang, Frederick Stern, Andrew Gunderson, John Scherer   +4 more
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Leaching behaviour of mercury from hazardous solid waste generated by chlor-alkali industry [PDF]

, 2013
Through the conventional chlor-alkali production process, highly mercury (Hg) contaminated waste sludge is produced. Improper handling and disposal of this sludge may cause an environmental hazard.
Busto, Yailen, Tack, Filip, Xiomara, Cabrera   +2 more
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