Redox properties and activity of iron-citrate complexes: evidence for redox cycling.

Iron in iron overload disease is present as non-transferrin-bound iron, consisting of iron, citrate, and albumin. We investigated the redox properties of iron citrate by electrochemistry, by the kinetics of its reaction with ascorbate, by ESR, and by analyzing the products of reactions of ascorbate with iron citrate complexes in the presence of H2O2 with 4-hydroxybenzoic acid as a reporter molecule for hydroxylation. We report -0.

Models of the iron-only hydrogenase: structural studies of chelating diphosphine complexes [Fe2(CO)4(micro-pdt)(kappa2P,P'-diphosphine)].

Six chelating diphosphine complexes, [Fe2(CO)4(micro-pdt)(kappa2P,P'-diphosphine)], have been crystallographically characterised allowing differences between basal-apical and dibasal conformations to be analysed.

Breast cancer in black African women: a changing situation.

Black African women in rural South Africa have a very low incidence rate of breast cancer, 5-10 per 100,000. The rate, however, is rising in the considerably increasing urban population. During the period 1994 to 1999 in Durban, enquiries revealed an average of 57 urban patients admitted to hospital each year, from a population of about 600,000 African women, indicating an age-adjusted annual incidence rate of 15.