Investigations were carried out to study the exhaust emissions from high grade low heat rejection (LHR) diesel engine consisting of air gap insulated piston with 3-mm air gap with superni (an alloy of nickel) crown, air gap insulated liner with superni insert and ceramic coated cylinder head with normal temperature condition of crude jatropha oil and carbureted alcohol (ethanol / methanol) with...

Percutaneous injection of ethanol for treatment of hepatic tumors was first described by Sugiura et al. [1] in 1983. To date, reported experience with the procedure has focused mainly on therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [2-15], with little information available regarding its use in treating metastatic liver lesions [16]. Interest in this technique has grown recently as a possible means...

This paper reports an economic, simple, and rapid FI-CL method for the determination of MCPA. This method requires simple instrumentation and it is fast enough to be used in routine analyses. A chemiluminescence signal is generated by reaction between photodegraded MCPA and ferricyanide solution in alkaline medium. All physical and chemical parameters in the flow injection chemiluminescence sys...

Objectives Sialorrhea is a common health and psychosocial problem for children with neuromuscular dysfunction secondary to a variety of disorders such as cerebral palsy. Current accepted treatments include the injection of botulinum toxin into the submandibular glands for temporary symptom relief. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of percutaneous ethanol injection for ...

Chronic ethanol consumption during gestation may adversely affect the developing human central nervous system (9, 10, 12). It is unknown, however, whether the pathologies result from circulating blood ethanol or from nutritional deficiencies and their consequences, since mothers bearing such children are generally malnourished. Morphological alterations in the developing cerebellar cortex produ...

Acute ethanol administration (4 g/kg i.p.) induced a significant decrease of nitrosoguanidine-sensitive guanylate cyclase activity in mouse cerebellum. The enzyme activity was maximally attenuated 20 min after the administration and recovered to the initial level within 24 hr. When nitrosoguanidine-sensitive guanylate cyclase activity was assayed in the presence of thiols such as glutathione an...

a simple, rapid and sensitive solvent assisted-dispersive solid phase extraction method was developed for the extraction of iron(ii) prior to its spectrophotometric determination. the fe(ii) reacted with 2,4,6-tris(2-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazine, neutralized with sodium dodecyl sulfate and extracted onto the fine particles of benzophenone which were formed upon rapid injection of a mixture of benzop...

Diabetes is the disease caused due to deficiency of insulin. Antidiabetic drug Gliclazide decreases blood glucose level by inducing insulin. Frequent administration of Gliclazide decreases patient compliance. The present study was aimed to formulate a sustained release formulation of Gliclazide, liposomes. Due to the sustained release property of liposomes it increases patient compliance. Ethan...

PURPOSE To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of transcatheter embolization by forcible intraarterial injection of a mixture of ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL) and ethanol under microballoon occlusion compared with conventional transcatheter arterial embolization methods in nontumoral swine liver. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nine swine were divided into three groups: embolization wi...

OBJECTIVE Development of liposomal mucoadhesive drug delivery system, which is able to improve the bioavailability of poorly absorbed oral drugs by prolonging their gastric and intestinal residence time, through facilitating the intimate contact of the delivery system with the absorption membrane. MATERIALS AND METHODS Liposomes containing model drug atenolol were prepared by the modified eth...