... antimicrobial and antifungal properties similar to that of super-EBA and ZOE (Torabinejad et al 1995d, Al-Nazhan & Al-Judai 2003) The cytotoxic propertiesof MTA were lower than that of IRM and super-EBA ... by Holland et al (1999a), and Holland et al (2001b), that the mode of action of MTA was similar to Calcium hydroxide The basis for the biologic propertiesof MTA was due to the production of hydroxyapatite ... (Camilleri et al 2005a) Both PC and MTA were shown to be biocompatible (Holland et al 1999a) PC was shown to be biocompatible when tested using a cell culture study (Abdullah et al 2002) Implantation...
... petroleum-based polyester amides Sources and Structures From petroleum Cyclohexyl diol, diacyl chloride, cyclohexyl sebacamide Di-p-nitrophenyl sebacate and ptoluenesulfonic acid salt of Lphenylalanine ... Copolymer Random combination of polyester and nylon BAK 1095 Caprolactam (Nylon 6) Butanediol, Adipic acid BAK 2195 Nylon 6,6; Diethylene glycol Butanediol, Adipic acid 20 80, 87 Glucitol(diol), ... Environmentally friendly Potentially have good performance as petroleum based materials References: Hojabri, L. , X.H Kong, and S.S Narine, Biomacromolecules, 2009 10(4): p 884-891 Williams, C.K and...
... pigment, cultures from both origins were yellow pigmented and 10 cultures from Central Java and cultures from Hesse had a pale yellow pigment Amplification of the clumping factor gene clfA resulted ... et al Fig Typical amplicons of the genes encoding staphylococcal α-toxin (hla) and β-toxin (hlb) of S aureus with size of 534 bp (hla, lanes 1-2) and 833 bp (hlb, lanes 3-4) M, DNA molecular ... Eight cultures from Central Java and cultures from Hesse were non-hemolytic Cultivation of the bacteria on nitrocellulose membranes revealed that cultures from Central Java and 11 cultures from...
... to help reveal the relationship of ML2p and ML3p to MLII and MLIII The ML1p, ML2p, ML3p and ML3.1p A-chains were expressed in E coli in soluble and biologically active form The recombinant ML3p ... respectively Materials and methods Plant material Young leaves of mistletoe (Viscum album L) were harvested at the end of May from plants growing on a poplar tree (Populus alba L) in the Poltavskaya ... mistletoe lectins (ML) [14] The abbreviation ML is followed by the Roman numerals I, II, and III (MLI, MLII, MLIII) and refer to different carbohydrate specificity and molecular mass of each of the...
... supplemented with ampicillin (50 lgÆmL)1) and chloramphenicol (34 lgÆmL)1), and inoculated with E coli Rosetta(DE3)pLysS cells transformed with plasmid pPRODH2 Cells were grown at 37 °C until the ... mgÆmL)1 standard solution of authentic l- proline was also prepared in double deionized H2O and filtered through a 0.22 lm Millex-GP Acrodisc filter (Millipore Ltd., Watford, UK) for MALDI-TOF MS ... catalyst Identification of flavin cofactor in PRODH Following release from the enzyme, the chemical identity of the flavin cofactor in PRODH was determined by MALDITOF MS Cofactor was released from...
... MOBILITY AND HALL MOBILITY B.2.1 Haynes-Schockley Experiment B.2.2 Hall Effect for Carrier Density and Hall Mobility 487 488 490 PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE (PL) AND EXCITATION (PLE) ... astound us New materials, new structures, and new manufacturing tools have allowed novel high performance electronic and optoelectronic devices To understand modern semiconductor devices andto ... theory—has allowed us to understand the difference between metals, insulators, and semiconductors and how electrons respond to external forces in solids An understanding of electrons, holes, and carrier...
... atomic weights of all the atoms in the unit cell, V is volume of the unit cell and N is the Avogadro’s number Since each primitive unit cell of the spinel structure contains molecules, the X-ray ... chemical reagents used were NiCl2.6H2 O, CoCl2.6H2O, FeCl3.6H2O All the chemicals were dissolved in water with Fe3+ concentration of 0.8 mol, 0.4 mol of ions Co2+ and Ni2+ 0.48 mol solution of sodium ... several time with distilled water Finally it was annealed in oven at 6000C for hours 2.2 Measurements ofpropertiesof Ni-Co ferrite The morphology of the samples was performed by X-ray diffractometer...
... nanomaterials: Single-wall nanotube, multi-wall nanotube, and fullerene Environ Sci Technol 39:1378–1383 Jiang G, Li G (2006) Preparation andbiological activity of novel cucurbit[8]uril-fullerene complex ... 127:9368–9369 Levi N, Hantgan RR, Lively MO, Carroll DL, Prasad GL (2006) C60-Fullerenes: Detection of intracellular photoluminescence and lack of cytotoxic effects J Nanobiotechnol 4:14 Liu J, Ohta ... fullerenes and some of them seem to be very promising The lack of solubility in biologically friendly environments is the major obstacle in the development of this field The possibility of multiple...
... transcript in human tissues and cellular localization of MCPIP protein A blot loaded with mRNAs from several human tissues was subjected to Northern blot analysis using a molecular probe spanning ... activated by many stimulants, and regulates the level of IL-1b mRNA andof its own transcript Further studies are necessary to clarify the biological role of MCPIP as a nuclease andto identify ... well as of its own transcript, it may be regarded as a very important potential regulator of inflammatory processes Experimental procedures Cell culture and stimulation with cytokines All cell lines...
... Simpson et al [15] to investigate the antibacterial activity of these molecules Trappin-2 (also called full-length elafin or pre-elafin) and elafin were found to have bactericidal properties towards ... bacterial ⁄ fungal cells, causing structural changes such as membrane wrinkling and the formation of ion-permeable channels that probably increase membrane permeability and finally lead to cell lysis ... fact that elafin and trappin-2 are found at many mucosal surfaces, especially in the skin and in the lung, and are low molecular weight cationic molecules structurally related to SLPI, prompted...
... Cells were scraped off the Luria–Bertani plates, washed once with Sistroms’ medium [25] and then plated on Luria–Bertani plates containing lgÆmL)1 tetracycline and 20 lgÆmL)1 rifampicin to select ... complications from cation induced adduct formation A typical example of data collected is presented in Fig 4A, as well as the plot of Kd vs pH (Fig 4B), klim vs pH (Fig 4C) and the plot of klim ... second and fifth genes (aauA and aauB) encode the large and small subunits of AADH, respectively The genes aauD and aauE are similar to mauD and mauE, respectively, from the methylamine utilization...
... with the biological activity of melittin (GIGAVLKVLTTGLPALISWIKRK RQQ) and mastoparan (INLKALAALAKKIL) This is the first report of an extensive study on the antifungal activity of a-helical pore-forming ... microspectrophotometry of liquid cultures grown in microtiter plates as described previously [33] Briefly, in one well of a 96-well microplate, 20 lL of the protein sample was mixed with 80 lL of half-strength ... melittin and mastoparan on human red blood cells (Fig 6) Up to a concentration of lM, parabutoporin induces only a small hemolytic effect on human red blood cells (< 10%) Fifty percent hemolysis...
... potential applied was followed by monitoring the electrode current and by successively recording spectra in the visible range until no further changes were observed The equilibration generally took less ... concentration, electrode modification, mediators) for the full potential step from )0.5 V to 0.5 V andto selected potentials Typically, 128 interferograms at cm)1 resolution were coadded for each single beam ... Biochem 269) single wavelength by an interactive fit All parameters have to be adjusted manually until the theoretical Nernst curve and the measured data match well (fit by eye) RESULTS AND DISCUSSION...
... Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw Stock solutions of NiCl2 and CuCl2 were standardized gravimetrically with dimethylglyoxime and complexometrically with EDTA, respectively Concentrations of ... corresponding to the following formal reaction, which ignores ligand protonation: M ỵ c L ẳ Mc L where cL is total ligand concentration This constant is useful for comparing stabilities of metal complexes ... very useful in further studies of the toxicologically relevant Ni(II)-albumin complex It would be also interesting to follow the indirect effects of physiologically relevant Ca2+ binding (which occurs...
... extractive content of bamboo of different horizontal layers 2.3.2 Holocellulose Content and Alpha-cellulose Content Holocellulose include alpha-cellulose and hemicellulose Alpha-cellulose is the main ... of cotton and placed in a soxhlet extraction tube The boiling flasks contained a 2:1 solution of 95 percent ethyl alcohol and distilled toluene respectively and were placed on a heating mantle ... weighed and placed into a 250 mL flask with a small watch glass cover The specimen was then treated with 150 mL of distilled water, 0.2 mL of cold glacial acetic acid, and one gram of NaClO2 and placed...
... image of PS-2 along the mesopore channels in Fig 3d appears some black spots which are likely to originate from bigger platinum particles or clusters of ultra-small plantinum nanoparticles The black ... Synthesis and characterization of Bimetallic Pt-Au clusterderived catalyst Catalysis Today, 125, 269-274, 2006 [5] A.Corma and Hermenegilldo Garcia Nanoparticles and catalysis Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH and ... sites are located in confined spaces, so the collision rate of these sites with glucose molecules increase and catalytic activity of nanoparticles inside will be better than large clusters outside...
... (2010) Allostery in a monomeric protein: the case of human serum heme-albumin Biophys Chem 148, 1622 Curry S (2009) Lessons from the crystallographic analysis of small molecule binding to human serum ... domain I from HSA does not signicantly affect the functional and structural propertiesof domains I and II [i.e of the 1382 region of (t)HSA] l The values of the Hill coefcients (n1, n2, and n3) ... according to Eqn (7) [20]: koff ẳ koff2ị ẵibuprofen=K2 ẵibuprofenị ỵ koff3ị ẵibuprofen=K3 ẵibuprofenịị ỵ kỵ off 7ị where koff(2) and koff(3) indicate values of koff occurring at K2 < [ibuprofen]...
... 0.49 ± 0.05 lmolÆs)1Æmg)1, and 0.08 ± 0.01 lmolÆs)1Æmg)1 for (GlcNAc)6, (GlcNAc)5, (GlcNAc)4 and (GlcNAc)3, respectively Degradation of both a-chitin and b-chitin yielded (GlcNAc)2 and (GlcNAc)3, ... S3) is similar to that of the family 19 chitinase from barley, the best studied of the plant chitinases [9,12,13,27,28] and essentially identical to that of the catalytic domain of ChiC from S griseus ... enzyme, Glu67 and Glu89, are essential for catalysis The mutagenesis studies presented here show that Glu68 and Glu77 are essential for catalysis by ChiG Mutation of Glu68 to Gln resulted in total inactivation,...
... reduced lmol of 2,6-dichloroindophenol in Cellular fractionation Washed cells were sonicated using Vibra Cell (Sonics & Materials Inc., Danbury, CT, USA) and cell debris was 274 Z Bugaytsova and ... Microbiol 60, 3470–3473 Goebel, B.M & Stackebrandt, E (1994) Cultural and phylogenetical analysis of mixed microbial population found in natural and commercial bioleaching environments Appl Environ ... mineral sulfide oxidation In Microbial Mineral Recovery (Ehrlich, H .L & Brierley, C .L. , eds), pp 3–27 McGraw-Hill, NY 12 Dopson, M & Lindstrom, E.B (1999) Potential role of Thio¨ bacillus caldus...