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    Termination of Pregnancy in Zimbabwe: a Medico Legal Problem

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    A Zimbabwe Law Review ( ZLR ) article on abortion as a medical and legal problem

    Investigation of the molecular nature of low-molecular-mass cobalt ions in isolated osteoarthritic knee-joint synovial fluid

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    Abstract High field 1H NMR spectroscopy demonstrated that addition of Co(II) ions to osteoarthritic knee-joint synovial fluid (SF) resulted in its complexation by a range of biomolecules, the relative efficacies of these complexants/chelators being citrate >> histidine threonine>>glycine glutamate glutamine phenylalanine tyrosine > formate > lactate>>alanine > valine > acetate > pyruvate > creatinine, this order reflecting the ability of these ligands to compete for the available Co(II) in terms of (1) thermodynamic equilibrium constants for the formation of their complexes and (2) their SF concentrations. Since many of these SF Co(II) complexants (e.g. histidinate) serve as powerful •OH scavengers, the results acquired indicate that any of this radical generated from the Co(II) source in such complexes via Fenton or pseudo-Fenton reaction systems will be "site-specifically" scavenged. The significance of these observations with regard to cobalt toxicity and the in vivo corrosion of cobalt-containing metal alloy joint prostheses (e.g. CoCr alloys) is discussed

    The Neuroendocrine-Immune Interface

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