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Drug metabolizing enzyme systems and their relationship to toxic mechanisms
The metabolism and toxicity of 3-methylfuran (3-MF) are described. The major product of metabolic activation of 3-MF appears to be disemicarbazones. Cursory description of toxic effects of 3-MF on lung and kidneys are provided. 18 refs
The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of procainamide in horses after intravenous administration
Searching for axion-like time-dependent cosmic birefringence with SPT-3G
Ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) are compelling dark matter candidates because of their potential to resolve small-scale discrepancies between CDM predictions and cosmological observations. Axion-photon coupling induces a polarization rotation in linearly polarized photons traveling through an ALP field; thus, as the local ALP dark matter field oscillates in time, distant static polarized sources will appear to oscillate with a frequency proportional to the ALP mass. We use observations of the cosmic microwave background from SPT-3G, the current receiver on the South Pole Telescope, to set upper limits on the value of the axion-photon coupling constant over the approximate mass range eV, corresponding to oscillation periods from 12 hours to 100 days. For periods between 1 and 100 days (), where the limit is approximately constant, we set a median 95% C.L. upper limit on the amplitude of on-sky polarization rotation of 0.071 deg. Assuming that dark matter comprises a single ALP species with a local dark matter density of , this corresponds to . These new limits represent an improvement over the previous strongest limits set using the same effect by a factor of ~3.8