The current essay analyzes the anti-corrosion properties of epoxy primers including anti-corrosion pigment calcium hydrogen orthophosphate and hydrophobic nano silica with various percentages optimized by Taguchi experimental design. The impact of influential factors such as the percentage of anti-corrosion pigments, percentage of nano silica and pigment to binder ratio on anti-corrosion proper...

The reliability of gene expression profiling based technologies and methods to find transcriptional differences representative for the original samples is influenced by the quality of the extracted RNA. Hence, RNA extraction is the first step to investigate the gene expression and its function. Consequently, the quality of extracted RNA is really significant. Correspondingly, this research was ...

To the Editor: In a recent report, Keren et al. (1 ) described a case in which the Sebia semiautomated electrophoresis method failed to demonstrate proteinuria in a 50-fold concentrated urine sample despite the presence of 2 g/24 h total protein. The reason for this failure was attributed to the presence of debris associated with cellular elements that interfered with the wicking of the urine i...

the incorporation of several anti-rodent masterbatches into polyethylene (pe) granules used for gas pipes and the effects of the masterbatches on the physical properties of the pipes were studied. four commercial anti-rodent masterbatches from different international companies including, clariant, alchemix, polyone, and newgen were used in this research. each of the masterbatch was primarily dr...

background: alopecia areata (aa) is a noncicatricial (nonscarring) alopecia. the association between aa and celiac disease (cd) is debatable. several studies declare the relationship between aa and cd as measurement of celiac autoantibodies (anti‑gliadin iga and anti‑gliadin igg), but a few studies consider anti‑tissue transglutaminase iga. the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency di...

Ascorbate, 2-mercaptoethanol, and 2,3-dimercaptopropanol (l-3) are used as protective agents to stabilize solutions of tetrahydrofolate and its derivatives. The protective action of these compounds has been thought to be due exclusively to their reducing properties. The spontaneous decomposition of HI-folate to the diazotizable amine, p-aminobenzoylglutamate, has been used to measure quantitati...