It has been reported that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-Parkinsonism-dementia in Guam might be related to the eating of Cycas seeds, which contain cyanide. Based on this assumption, we determined the urinary thiocyanate excretion level in patients with ALS and compared this with that of other neurological diseases. The assay method was designed to use column chromatography with Amberlite IRA 40...

Although the existence of the pancreatic hyperglycemic factor was postulated by Kimball and Murlin (1) in 1923, it was only recently that glucagon was isolated in crystalline form by Staub et al. (2). Glucagon was shown to be a basic polypeptide at that time. Such a peptide would be expected to yield successfully to chromatography on the carboxylic ion exchange resin Amberlite IRC-50, except fo...

Studies were conducted on the Bacillus sp. neutral protease immobilization on different matrices. The immobilized protease was prepared by three methods, such as entrapment on calcium alginate and gelatin; physical adsorption by celite and alumina; ionic binding by amberlite IR-120 and DEAE-cellulose. The maximum immobilization yield was obtained with celite adsorbed protease. The immobilized e...

HE INTRODUCTION OF the carboxylic acid cation exchange Amberlite XE-96 (or IRC-50) Azure A resin’ as the medium for hydrogen ion exchange in place of the quininium exchange resin has simplified greatly the determination of gastric acidity without intubation (1). Solvent extraction and fluorimetry are no longer required. The amount of blue dye excreted in the urine is readily measured by visual ...

In this work, thorium (IV) removal from aqueous solutions was investigated in batch systems of cationic and anionic resins of Amberlite IR-120 and IRA-400. In this way, the effects of pH, initial Th(IV) concentration and the amount of adsorbent were investigated. A Central Composite Design (CCD) under Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was employed to determine the optimized condition. The resu...