Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Chemistry

Development and Validation of Chromium Getters for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Power Systems

Ashish Aphale¹, Junsung Hong¹, Boxun Hu^1,2, Prabhakar Singh¹

¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, ²Center for Clean Energy Engineering, University of Connecticut

Cathode poisoning from airborne contaminants in trace levels remains a major concern for long-term stability of high-temperature electrochemical systems. We provide a novel method to mitigate the cathode degradations using getters, which capture airborne contaminants at high temperature before entering electrochemically active stack area.

Neuroscience

Stereological Estimation of Cholinergic Fiber Length in the Nucleus Basalis of Meynert of the Mouse Brain

Prabhakar Singh¹, David W. Peng¹, William Z. Suo^1,2,3,4

¹Laboratory for Alzheimer's Disease and Aging Research, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, ²Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, ³Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, ⁴The University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center

Neuronal fiber length within a three-dimensional structure of a brain region is a reliable parameter to quantify specific neuronal structural integrity or degeneration. This article details a stereological quantification method to measure cholinergic fiber length within the nucleus basalis of Meynert in mice as an example.