Octyl enamine-grafted acetoacetylated polyvinyl alcohol film (AAPVA x –OA) with a “soft-core–hard-sheath” layered structure was prepared through simple soaking. The shows excellent mechanical property and good programmable shape deformation.

The phorbol ester tumor promoter phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA) induced mouse resident peritoneal macrophage spreading in an in vitro system in a time- and dose-dependent manner; this process was modified by agents which alter intracellular calcium metabolism. After a 35-min incubation with PMA, 50% of the macrophages were spread (as classified by at least a 2-fold increase in cell surfa...

A semi-automated reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method has been developed and validated for the quantification of the novel anticancer drug docetaxel in human plasma. The chromatographic system also separated putative hydroxylated metabolites. A limited validation was performed for the assay of the metabolites while these reference compounds were not available in l...

In Chenopodium album, leaf excision and light both increase urease (EC. 3.5.1.5) activity. Dithiothreitol (DTT), reduced glutathione (GSH), cysteine and diazoinedicarboxylic acid bis(N,N-dimethylamide) (diamide) activated the crude enzyme. In contrast, crude urease was inhibited by phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride (PMSF) and Na-p -tosyl-L-lysine chloromethyl ketone HCl (TLCK), suggesting the pres...

Chiral gold( i ) isocyanide complexes [Au( p -C 6 F 4 OR 1 )( -CNC H (O 2 CC )] with R , or both being ( )-2-octyl, display an interesting and unprecedented response to mechanical thermal stress.

The oleaginous yeast Moniliella spathulata R25L270 was the first yeast able to grow and produce extracellular lipase using Macaúba (Acrocomia aculeate) cake as substrate. The novel lipase was recently identified, and presented promising features for biotechnological applications. The M. spathulata R25L270 lipase efficiently hydrolyzed vegetable and animal oils, and showed selectivity for genera...

BACKGROUND In these reported cases, we observed the outcomes of skin take and wound healing using 2-octyl-cyanoacrylate glue, which was used as tissue glue in the reconstruction of complex genital skin loss due to fournier gangrene. METHODS Fifteen patients with Fournier's gangrene were treated in this study. After initial surgical debridement, all defects were repaired using STSG. In this me...

A procedure for the purification of a very hydrophobic lipase from Pseudomonas sp. strain ATCC 21808 was elaborated by avoiding the use of long-chain detergents in view of subsequent crystallization of the enzyme. The purification procedure included chromatography on Q-Sepharose in the presence of n-octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, Ca2+ precipitation of fatty acids, and Octyl-Sepharose chromatogra...

The tumor promoters, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-IS-acetate (TPA), phorbol-12,13-didecanoate, teleocidin, and dihydroteleocidin, at nw levels, but not the non-tumor-promoting 4«-phorbol12,13-didecanoate even at ¡Mconcentrations, stimulated arachidonic acid metabolism in cultured rat liver cells. These liver cells synthesize primarily prostaglandin I2 [measured as its nonenzymatic hydrolytic pro...