The inhibitory effects of antibiotics (tetracycline, doxycycline, amoxicillin), an anti-inflammatory (ibuprofen) and an analgesic (paracetamol) on the via nitrite nitrogen and phosphorus removal processes were investigated. Biomass was collected from a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) and was spiked with fixed pharmaceutical concentrations (i.e. 50-500 mgL). Then, batch activity tests were conduc...

for patient safety. For example, our third patient presented to the emergency department with epigastric abdominal pain. After the spurious ethanol was reported, a presumptive diagnosis of alcoholic gastritis was made, and the diagnosis of acetaminophen toxicity and therapy with N-acetylcysteine was substantially delayed. Until the manufacturer can address this issue, we have implemented a poli...

We use Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to investigate the linkage between the volatility of ethanol security prices and the uncertainty surrounding the profitability of ethanol production and the price variations of non-ethanol energy securities. The joint evolution of return and volatility is modeled as a stochastic process that incorporates jumps in both return and volatility. While...

.................................................................................................2 Acknowledgement .....................................................................................4 Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................5 1. Literature Review: Recent development of FAAH/MGL inhibi...

Abstract Macrophage plasticity and functional activation are critical to the broad array of macrophage-mediated functions that help determine disease outcomes. galactose-type lectin (MGL), a type-2 C-type receptor (CLR) primarily expressed on myeloid cells, has been shown play an anti-inflammatory role in innate response some infectious agents. Our lab recently demonstrated MGL-1 contributes an...

Coproduction of fructose and ethanol from dates extract by a glucose-selective S. cerevisiae ATCC 36859 strain has been studied. Various initial sugar concentrations (i.e., 131.4, 315.3, 408.2, and 500.0 g/l) have been tested. The fermentation experiments were performed in a water shaker bath at 30°C and 120 rpm. The results showed that highest yields of fructose (95.0%) and ethanol (72.8%) wer...

Hypolipidaemic and antioxidant effects of ethanol extract of mature green fruits of Musa AAA (Chenkadali) was evaluated in alloxan induced diabetic rats. The effect of extract at two doses, 500 mg/kg body weight and 1000 mg/kg body weight was analysed and compared with a standard drug, glibenclamide. Rats administered with alloxan showed significantly increased levels of serum triacylglycerol, ...

Although sialic acid has long been recognized as the primary receptor determinant for attachment of influenza virus to host cells, the specific receptor molecules that mediate viral entry are not known for any cell type. For the infection of murine macrophages by influenza virus, our earlier study indicated involvement of a C-type lectin, the macrophage mannose receptor (MMR), in this process. ...

The endogenous cannabinoids anandamide (N-arachidonoylethanolamide, AEA) and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG) are upregulated during liver fibrogenesis and selectively induce cell death in hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), the major fibrogenic cells in the liver, but not in hepatocytes. In contrast to HSCs, hepatocytes highly express the AEA-degrading enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) that pr...