Since the ancient discovery of the 'sweet odor' in human breath gas, pursuits of the breath analysis-based disease diagnostics have never stopped. Actually, the 'smell' of the breath, as one of three key disease diagnostic techniques, has been used in Eastern-Medicine for more than three thousand years. With advancement of measuring technologies in sensitivity and selectivity, more specific bre...

Arabian deep-sea red shrimp Aristeus alcocki is considered to be an ideal source of pigments, especially astaxanthin, and its analogs. Extraction pigments from exoskeleton discards A. was analyzed by using organic solvents, namely, n-hexane, acetone, ethyl acetate, methanol, ethanol under cold hot conditions. A significantly greater yield obtained acetone: methanol (1:1 v/v) (10.4-10.9%) (9.3-9...

An experimental investigation of the phosphorescence properties of liquid and vapour acetone is presented with the goal of introducing a novel technique for improved two-phase flow visualization. Commonly applied laser induced fluorescence (LIF) investigations of two-phase flows are challenging, in particular because of the large disparity in fluorescence intensity between the two phases and th...

This work presents a photocatalysis-based method to treat and purify air because of its broad applicability to common, oxidizable air contaminants. The effect of oxygen content, temperature, water vapor, and acetone concentration on the photooxidation of acetone on TiO2 surface was investigated. The photocatalytic decomposition reaction of acetone obeyed the first-order equation. The decomposit...

small pieces, homogenized with two volumes of 50mMTris buffer (pH 7.4) containing 0.25 Msucrose and 1 mMEDTA, and centrifuged at 700g for 10minutes. After removal of the precipitate (nuclear-debris), the supernatant was further centrifuged at 7,000g for 60minutes. To the resulting sediment (lysosomal-mitochondrial pellet) was added 200ml of cold acetone, and the suspension was stirred for an ho...

We estimated the expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) in HeLa S3 cells by flow cytometry with monoclonal antibody (MAb) PC10. HeLa cells were fued with six Merent fuation procedures: 15-mk and 30-min acetone, 15-mb acetone followed by 15-mb methanol (acetonelmethanol), 30-mb methanol, 15-min methanol followed by 15-mh acetone (methanollacetone), and a mixture of acetone and m...

Although the literature contains studies published more than 30 years ago showing that acetone is not metabolically inert, it is common to find biochemistry textbooks and current research publications asserting that acetone is a 'dead-end' metabolite. In fact, acetone derived from the non-enzymatic breakdown of acetoacetate in ketotic individuals or from the oxidation of ingested isopropanol ca...

The Tg.AC mouse is being evaluated for use in short-term carcinogenicity bioassays. Because the dermal test protocol necessitates dissolving test agents we determined the effects of several solvents on responsiveness of hemizygous mice to dermal applications of the classical skin tumor promoter. phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (TPA). Mice of both sexes received dermal applications of either ace...

Background: In acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation by Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 using corn-based substrate, the solvents are generally produced at a ratio of 3:6:1 (A:B:E, w/w). Results: A higher butanol/acetone ratio of 2.9:1 was found when cassava was used as the substrate of an in-situ extractive fermentation by C. acetobutylicum. This ratio had a 64% increment compared to t...

The effects of process variables (temperature, space velocity, water addition and Si/Al ratio) on the conversion of acetone to aromatic chemicals have been investigated. The reaction is carried out by fixed bed reactor at an atmospheric pressure to examine the activity and selectivity of HZSM-5. The results show that HZSM-5 exhibited a high active and a shape-selective catalyst for the formatio...