The drawbacks of current state-of-the-art selective membranes, such as poor barrier properties, high cost, and recyclability, limit the large-scale deployment electrochemical energy devices redox flow batteries (RFBs) fuel cells. In recent years, cellulosic nanomaterials have been proposed a low-cost green raw material for but their performance in RFBs cells is typically poorer than that sulfon...

Granule-mediated cytolysis is the major pathway for killer lymphocytes to kill pathogens and tumor cells. Little is known about how granzyme K functions in killer lymphocyte-mediated cytolysis. We previously showed that human GzmK triggers rapid cell death independently of caspase activation with single-stranded DNA nicks, similar to GzmA. In this study we found that GzmK can induce rapid react...

Altered endothelial activity is enumerated amongst the leading causes of graft dysfunction following coronary artery bypass surgery and may account for differences in patency between arterial and venous grafts. This study investigates whether differences exist between basal endothelial functions of saphenous vein (SV) and internal mammary arteries (IMA) and explores the putative involvements of...

The most common spectrophotometric reagents employed for the determination of titanium (IV) are hydrogen peroxide[1] and tiron[2]. However, N-benzoylN-phenylhydroxylamine[3,4] and N-phenyllaurohydroxamic acid[5] are introduced for extractive spectrophotometric determination of titanium (IV). Aroylhydraones such as pyridoxal salicyloylhydrazone[6], diphenylglyoxal bis (benzoylhydrazone)[7] and d...

A simple and sensitive kinetic-spectrophotometric method is described for the determination of vanadium and the possible mechanism of catalytic reaction is proposed. The method is based on the vanadium(V)-catalyzed oxidation of 1,8-diaminonaphthalene (DNA) by potassium bromate (Tiron as activator) at pH 3.8 and 40 degrees C. The reaction was monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring the inc...

Previous studies have demonstrated that the large subunit (LSU) of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (Rubisco) is site-specifically cleaved by a hydroxyl radical (*OH) generated in the illuminated chloroplast lysates or by an artificial *OH-generating system. However, it is not known whether such cleavage of the LSU by reactive oxygen species (ROS) actually occurs in an intact leaf. When le...