Routine tissue processing is usually associated with histological artifacts as a consequence of shrinkage and distortion during dehydration required for embedding. With hydrated specimens such as lung, embryonic, and tissues in hydrophilic membranes, tissue processing can induce severe artifacts that interfere with adequate microscopic evaluation. Here we present a method for embedding hydrophi...

The underlying mechanism of UV light-induced dissociation and visible light-induced reformation of vesicles formed by an azobenzene diblock copolymer was investigated. These processes were studied in situ by monitoring changes in optical transmittance of the vesicular solution while being exposed to UV or visible light irradiation. The results indicate that the UV-induced dissociation of the ve...

A novel plant gene CFLl was cloned from cotton (GossJPium hirsutum L.) fibers by expressed se­ quence tag (EST) database searching and 5'-RACE (rapid amplification of eDNA ends). This gene shows sequence homology with FKSl which has been identified as the putative catalytic subunit of the yeast fi-1,3-glucan syn­ thase. It encodes a protein (CFLlp) of 219 kDa with 13 deduced transmembrane helic...

Surface modification of flat sheet ultrafiltration membranes, polyethersulfone (PES), was investigated to improve the hydrophilicity of the membrane surface thereby reducing adsorption of the proteins onto the membrane. Grafting of hydrophilic polymers onto UV/ozone-treated PES was used to improve the hydrophilicity of the commercial PES membranes. Hydrophilic polymers, that is, poly(vinyl alco...

In this paper, tert-amyl alcohol was employed to directly react with metal chlorides for the preparation of oxide nanoparticles. Some typical metal oxide or hydroxides with different morphologies, such as TiO(2) nanoparticles, TiO(2) nanorods, FeOOH nanowires, Fe(2)O(3) nanoparticles, and SnO(2) nanoparticles, can be easily fabricated through such simple chemical reactions. E1 reaction was foun...

We demonstrate the fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces consisting of micropillars with hydrophobic sidewalls and hydrophilic tops, referred to as Janus micropillars. Therefore we first coat a micropillar array with a mono- or bilayer of polymeric particles, and merge the particles together to shield the top faces while hydrophobizing the walls. After removing the polymer film, the top face...

PURPOSE To evaluate the microstructure of the edges of currently available hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lenses (IOLs) in terms of their deviation from an "ideal" square as a follow-up of preliminary in vitro studies of experimental poly(methyl methacrylate) IOLs and commercially available foldable hydrophobic IOLs. SETTING Berlin Eye Research Institute, Berlin, Germany. METHODS Twenty-fo...

PURPOSE To investigate the ability of an open capsule device to prevent posterior capsule opacification. METHODS A total of 40 eyes of 20 New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into six similar groups of 6 to 7 eyes each. After crystalline lens evacuation, one control group (group A) was implanted with a hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lens and no device, and another control group (g...

It was shown in a previous publication (Hoogerheide 1939) that Klebiella pneumonia (Friedla~nder's bacterium) is able to develop large capsules when allowed to grow in suitable media, and that, due to this abundant encapsulation, such cultures become very viscous. From a colloid-chemical point of view such an encapsulated culture may be considered as a suspension of small hydrophilic gel partic...

Effects of specific ions on the local translational diffusion of water near large hydrophilic lipid vesicle surfaces were measured by Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarization (ODNP). ODNP relies on an unpaired electron spin-containing probe located at molecular or surface sites to report on the dynamics of water protons within ~10 Å from the spin probe, which give rise to spectral densities for ...