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Determination of Low Wear Rates in Metal-On-Metal Hip Joint Replacements Based on Ultra Trace Element Analysis in Simulator Studies
Metal-on-metal joint bearings are being increasingly used for total hip arthroplasty. Previous results from simulator tests to determine wear of metal-on-metal bearings exhibited high fluctuations. Consequentl...
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Occurrence and speciation of arsenic, antimony and tin in specimens used for environmental biomonitoring of limnic ecosystems
At present most of the regular environmental monitoring is focused on the observation of local emission sources and the operation of systems for air and water monitoring in several countries. But modern enviro...
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Exposure to Platinum-Group Metals Released by Automotive Catalytic Converters
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Extraction of antimony and arsenic from fresh and freeze-dried plant samples as determined by HG-AAS
Six extraction media (acetic acid, EDTA, tetrabutylammonium hydroxide, NaOH, MeOH/H2O, acetonitrile/H2O) were tested for their ability to extract antimony (Sb) and arsenic (As) from freeze-dried poplar leaves, p...
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Maternal selenium status in Slovenia and its impact on the selenium concentration of umbilical cord serum and colostrum
Objective: The aim of this study was to assess serum selenium (Se) level of Slovenian mothers at birth and to elucidate its impact on the Se content of umbilical cord serum of their newborns and of that of colost...
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Trace element transfer from the mother to the newborn — investigations on triplets of colostrum, maternal and umbilical cord sera
Objective: To investigate the trace element transfer from the mother to the newborn.
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Trace elements in formulas based on cow and soy milk and in austrian cow milk determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
With inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), the 18 trace elements Ba, (Be), (Bi), Cd, Co, Cs, Cu, La, Li, Mn, Mo, Pb, Rb, (Sb), (Sn), Sr, (Tl), and Zn were quantified in the digests of 13 formu...
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Trace elements in coronary heart disease
Concentrations of 14 trace elements (Bi, Cd, Co, Cs, Cu, Hg, Mn, Pb, Rb, Sb, Sn, Sr, Tl, and Zn) were determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) in 120 whole-blood and 121 plasma sampl...