2. THE DIGITAL DIVINE Postproduction of Majid Majidi’s The Willow Tree

During the years 2006 and 2007 the phytoextraction ability of maize (Zea mays), willow-tree (Salix smithiana) and poplar (Populus nigra × P. maximowiczii) to accumulate cadmium, copper, mercury and zinc was investigated. Small scale field experiment was carried out on soil contaminated with chemicals from the waste incineration plant in Hradec Kralové (Czech Republic). Screening of this allotment showed very different contamination of all observed risk elements on places where the material intended to be burnt without safety of leakage into soil. Grown plants showed the different accumulation of observed elements in plant tissues as well as the influence of total content of the risk elements in soil. The highest Cd (1.5–1.73 mg/kg) and Zn (242–268 mg/kg) concentrations were found in willow-tree biomass mainly in the leaves. Cu and Hg were mostly accumulated by maize roots (14.6–15.8 mg Cu/kg and 1.3–7.4 mg Hg/kg) and lower amount was found out in willow-tree leaves again. In reference to total production of each plant the maximum Cd and Zn uptake by aboveground biomass was found in poplars (201 mg Cd/m2 and 38 200 mg Zn/m2) and maize, which showed high Zn uptake. The biggest amount of copper (2563 mg Cu/m2) was accumulated by aboveground maize biomass on the collection point with the highest Cu concentration in soil and by poplar (2394 mg Cu/m2) on the other collection point. The highest Hg uptake differs in reference to total Hg content in soil; willow-tree has the highest uptake on the place with lower Hg content in soil (44.6 mg Hg/m2) and maize has the highest uptake on the place with higher Hg content in soil (92 mg Hg/m2).

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The extracts of Japanese willow tree species are effective forapoptotic desperation or differentiation of acute myeloid leukemia cells

Pharmacognosy Magazine ◽

10.4103/0973-1296.131023 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (38) ◽

pp. 125 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kounosuke Fujita ◽

PravatK Mohapatra ◽

HanyA El-Shemy ◽

Masashi Hosokawa ◽

Kazuo Miyashita ◽

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Keyword(s):

Acute Myeloid Leukemia ◽

Tree Species ◽

Myeloid Leukemia ◽

Leukemia Cells ◽

Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells ◽

Acute Myeloid ◽

Willow Tree

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The residual value of a sulphatic fertilizer applied to a basaltic soil

Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture ◽

10.1071/ea9630180 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 3 (10) ◽

pp. 180 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

K Spencer

Keyword(s):

New South ◽

Calcium Sulphate ◽

First Year ◽

Residual Value ◽

Potential Response ◽

South Wales ◽

Native Pasture ◽

Second Year ◽

Yield Responses ◽

Willow Tree

Yield responses d a native pasture on a basaltic soil near Willow Tree, New South Wales, were measured in the second, fourth, and seventh years after the application of several rates of calcium sulphate in the first year. The value of the residues declined sharply at first and then more slowly. Fifty per cent of the potential response by the legumes (the responsive component of the pasture) was achieved by an application of 7lb of sulphur an acre in the first year ; residues from an application of 20 lb of sulphur an acre were required in the second year, and from 48 lb S of sulphur an acre in the fourth year, to obtain the equivalent responses. By the seventh year, effects were too small to allow the derivation of a comparable figure.

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The mechanism of aspirin

10.1093/med/9780198834359.003.0015 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Pierre Sirois ◽

Pedro D’Orléans-Juste

Keyword(s):

Beneficial Effect ◽

Mechanism Of Action ◽

Inflammatory Diseases ◽

Tissue Homogenates ◽

Willow Tree

Aspirin has been used for the treatment of pain and inflammation for more than a hundred years; however, the medical use of what we now called aspirin dates back to antiquity, since willow-tree extracts containing salicylates were described in the Egyptian pharmacopoeia around 1543 bc. In 1971, Sir John Vane and his collaborators discovered its mechanism of action. This discovery has generated tremendous interest into the beneficial effect of this drug for the treatment of pain, inflammation, many inflammatory diseases, and even cancers. Vane and his collaborators also tested a number of other well-known aspirin-like drugs, or NSAIDs (for non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs), and found that they all inhibited to a different extent the release of prostaglandins from organs as well as from tissue homogenates.

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