Ubiquinone (Q) is an essential, lipid soluble, redox component of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Much evidence suggests that ubiquinol (QH2) functions as an effective antioxidant in a number of membrane and biological systems by preventing peroxidative damage to lipids. It has been proposed that superoxide dismutase (SOD) may protect QH2 form autoxidation by acting either directly as a su...

We have reported earlier some work on the grafting of vinyl monomers onto cellulose extracted from pine needles. The grafting was carried out both by radiation1,2 and by a chemical initiation method3,4. The optimum grafting conditions for a single monomer were used to co-graft it with other comonomers so as to improve upon the intrinsic properties of the cellulose backbone5,6. These graft copol...

Emulsion polymerization remains the most attractive method to produce waterborne dispersions for coatings and adhesives, thanks use of water as dispersion medium. The possibility replace surfactants necessary stabilization by biopolymers would make this route even more alleviate shortcomings surfactants. Herein, dextrins were used sole stabilizer stable latex emulsion with solid contents up 55 ...

The aim of the study was to monitor the influence of increasing initiator concentrations on the properties of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (polyNIPA) nanoparticles obtained via surfactant free precipitation polymerization (SFPP). In all studied systems P-001 to P-1, the same amount of monomer was used, and increasing amounts of potassium persulphate (KPS). The course of each reaction was monitore...

Purpose: The aims of the present study are to correlate the ISQ values, registered by the Osstell ISQ system, with the insertion torque during the placement of the implant, and to assess the influence of the thread initiator on the ISQ values and on the insertion torque. Materials and methods: 140 rough surface implants screw-shaped implants, placed in 10 bovine ribs, were assigned to Group A (...

Two manual liquid medium systems, the Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) and MB Redox tube systems, were evaluated in comparison to the radiometric BACTEC-460 semiautomated system for recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum specimens. The highest level of recovery, from a total of 77 culture-positive specimens, occurred with the BACTEC-460 system (92.2%), followed by the MB Re...

Reduction-oxidation (redox) reactions are an essential part of cell metabolism and represent a major fraction of all catabolic and anabolic reactions. Their dominant characteristic is that they generate and consume compounds with in part highly negative redox potential. Redox reactions occur at many sites in the cell, e.g. in membranes such as thylakoids, plastid envelope, and plasma membrane a...

Reduction-oxidation (redox) reactions are an essential part of cell metabolism and represent a major fraction of all catabolic and anabolic reactions. Their dominant characteristic is that they generate and consume compounds with in part highly negative redox potential. Redox reactions occur at many sites in the cell, e.g. in membranes such as thylakoids, plastid envelope, and plasma membrane a...

The rubber-producing tree, Ficus elastica (the Indian rubber tree), requires the same substrates for rubber production as other rubber-producing plants, such as Hevea brasiliensis (the Brazilian or Para rubber tree), the major source of commercial natural rubber in the world, and Parthenium argentatum (guayule), a widely studied alternative for natural rubber production currently under commerci...

Suspension polymerization process is commonly used to produce expandable polystyrene. In the conventional method for producing this polymer, two different initiators are added to the process at two different temperature levels. In the industrial scale, this process is time consuming and difficult to control. A new method (Multi-Stage Initiator Dosing, MID) is proposed, in which, the initiator i...