Polyanhydrides are emerging as a new class of biodegradable polymers for drug delivery.1-3 The degradation of polyanhydride delivery systems is largely through surface erosion, potentially leading to zero-order release of encapsulated drugs.4,5 Recently, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of the polyanhydride poly[sebacic acid-co-1,3-bis(p-carboxyphenoxy)propane] to deliver d...

In a mixture containing γ-glutamyl donor (donor) and γ-glutamyl acceptor (acceptor), the glutaminase of Pseudomonas nitroreducens IFO 12694 simultaneously catalyzed a γ-glutamyl transfer reaction and hydrolysis of the donor. The variation of the activities responding to the concentration of glutathione and glycylglycine indicated that the enzyme might be classified in a group of glutaminases th...

Three phenylpropanoids (ferulic acid, chlorogenic acid, and caffeic acid) are simultaneously separated and determined within 13 min by a new capillary electrophoresis method using 15 mmol/L sodium borate (pH 8.71) as run buffer. The optimum conditions for the separation as well as the analytical characteristics, such as the calibration graph and limit of detection (LOD) for the determination of...

A simple and rapid capillary zone electrophoresis determination method with UV detection of grepafloxacin and clinafloxacin has been developed. The separation was performed in 35 mM borate-35 mM phosphate buffer solution (pH 8.6), containing 6% (v/v) of acetonitrile. Analyses were realised using fused-silica capillaries (57 cm length x 75 microm I.D.) and the operating conditions were: 15 kV ap...

This paper reports a new simple, sensitive and selective catalytic kinetic spectrophotometric method for the determination of trace quantities of Os(VIII). Janus Green is oxidized by hydrogen peroxide in borate buffer at pH 9.0 and Os(VIII) catalyzes the reaction. Reaction rate was monitored spectrophotometrically at 618 nm. The calibration graph is linear for 0.4 – 430.0 ng mL-1 of Os(VIII) an...

Some of the variables and the interferences which affect the reaction kinetics of proteins with bicinchoninic acid (BCA) (4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-biquinoline) have been studied. Interferences attributed to glucose, ascorbic acid, and uric acid in this reaction were significantly reduced by performing a two-point assay and by including borate ions in the buffer. The method was shown to be suitable f...

A tritium derivative method for sequence analysis of polyribonucleotides is detailed, which is based on borotritide reduction of oligonucleotide dialdehydes generated by treatment of polyribonucleotides with alkaline phosphatase and excess periodate at pH 8 (borate buffer; no primary amine present in the reaction mixture). While neither phosphatase nor periodate possess any intrinsic exonucleas...

1. EDTA in borate buffer has a marked bactericidal effect on Pseudomonas alcaligenes, which is more sensitive than Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The bactericidal effect is accompanied by solubilization of lipopolysaccharide and release of intracellular solutes. These effects are more pronounced at pH9.2 than 7.1. 2. Cell walls of P. alcaligenes were prepared and from them were obtained the readily ex...

Metastable creatine kinase MM isoenzyme was isolated and partially purified from homogenates of myocardium and skeletal muscle by gradient elution on carboxymethyl cellulose. This variant isoenzyme migrated between the MM and MB isoenzymes on agarose electrophoresis, accounted for 3.5% of the total creatine kinase activity in each tissue, was not a macromolecule, and had stable electrophoretic ...

A new method for the isolation of large numbers of individual myofibrils from fresh mammalian skeletal and cardiac muscle has been described. Purification of isolated myofibrils was accomplished by differential centrifugation of fresh frozen sections of muscle which had been mechanically agitated after exposure for 30 to 45 minutes at 0 degrees C. to the action of a dilute solution of trypsin i...