Nurse Ratched desires order, and she wants complete power, so she manipulates her patients and the staff to do fulfill her desires. As the head nurse and as a woman with many connections both inside and outside of the hospital, she is able to maneuver things so that most situations fit her expectations.
Manganese is an important metallic element that has many uses in making steel, batteries, alloys, pigments, fertilizer, bricks, glass, textiles, plastics and many other products. Geology.com News Rocks Minerals Gemstones Articles Dictionary State Maps World Maps Store
1. Manganese (Mn) is an essential trace element that is found in varying amounts in all tissues. Manganese concentrations are highest in tissues rich in mitochondria, where it forms stable complexes with ATP and inorganic phosphate. Manganese functions as a constituent of metalloenzymes and an activator of enzymes. key neurochemical alteration associated with manganese neurotoxicity is altered extracellular glutamate levels. Attenuated glutamate uptake by astrocytes has been invoked as the primary cause for this disturbance (Hazell and Norenberg, 1997 and Erikson and Aschner, 2002).