In this study, citrus pectin-derived, green, and tunable carbon microspheres with superior adsorption capacity and high adsorption rate, as well as good reusability toward methylene blue adsorption, were prepared by a facile hydrothermal method without any hazardous chemicals. The materials hold great potential for the treatment of methylene blue wastewater.

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND We aimed to minimalize operative complications by spraying of methylene blue stain on thyroid glands and the perithyroidal area. MATERIAL AND METHODS The intra-operative methylene blue spraying technique was used prospectively on a total of 56 patients who had undergone primary (not recurrent) thyroid surgery for a variety of thyroid diseases. Bilateral total thyroide...

fertilizer plant waste carbon slurry has been investigated after some processing as an adsorbent for the removal of dyes and phenols using columns. the results show that the carbonaceous adsorbent prepared from carbon slurry being porous and having appreciable surface area (380 m2/g) can remove dyes both cationic (meldola blue, methylene blue, chrysoidine g, crystal violet) as well as anionic (...

The influence of Tuftsin, the synthetic phagocytosis-stimulating tetrapeptide (L-threonyl-L-lysyl-L-prolyl-L-arginine), on the nitrous blue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes was investigated. It was found that this substance increases the NBT reduction by approximately as much as endotoxin. Other tetrapeptides do not share this property. When Tuftsin analogs are ...

OBJECTIVE Cartilage injury is one of the most common disorders of synovial joints. Fresh osteochondral allografts are becoming a standard treatment; however, they are supply constrained with a potential risk of disease transmission. There are no known virucidal processes available for osteochondral allografts and most methods presently available are detrimental to cartilage. Methylene blue ligh...

Organic photosensitizers can facilitate photochemical singlet-oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) production, providing a promising strategy for photocatalysis, photodynamic therapy, and environmental protection. Unfortunately, most organic tend to self-aggregate because of their hydrophobicity conjugated ?–? electronic structure, leading the inactivation photosensitizing capabilities. Thus, controlled aggregatio...

The American Associationi for the Advancecnient of Scitintific Apparatus and Laboratory Methods: Science: The Demonstration. of Nervonts Syste ins by M1accrThle Stiultuts-Nenral Control of Behavior During ation of Whlole An1im1als: WILLIAM S. CORNWELL. and After Learnin?g: PROFESSOR WALTER S. Tlhe Absorptiont of Methyleene Blue by the NeltiiiNTER 145 phlridlinne7 of thle Earthlworme: PROFESSOR ...

The inactivation of foot-and-mouth disease virus was studied by means of the interaction of neutral red, Toluidine Blue, and methylene blue with visible light. The virus, Type A, strain 1, CANEFA of Argentine origin, was grown in tissue culture and tested in the crude and clarified state. Virus and dye were mixed and incubated together at 4 C for 45 min in the dark, or were mixed and immediatel...

It has recently been reported that phycocyanin, a biliprotein found in the blue-green microalgae Spirulina, exerts anti-inflammatory effects in some animal models of inflammation. Taking into account these findings, we decided to elucidate whether phycocyanin might exert also inhibitory effects in the induced allergic inflammatory response and on histamine release from isolated rat mast cells. ...