Purpose To quantify cell survival and tissue structure preservation of porcine cornea stored in a bioreactor (BR) that recreates a transcorneal pressure gradient equivalent to intraocular pressure (IOP) and renews the medium. Methods A BR comprising endothelial and epithelial chambers was machined in a biocompatible material. The porcine cornea, securely held, separated the chambers. Medium f...

A total of 30 bacteria were isolated from the rhizoplane of rice cv. BR29 cultivated in Mymensingh, Bangladesh and from the seedlings obtained from surface-sterilized seeds of BR29. Upon screening, 6 isolates showed varying levels of phosphate solubilizing activity in both agar plate and broth assays using National Botanical Research Institute's phosphate medium. The bacterial isolates were ide...

AIM We hypothesized that 4 days of normal daily activity after 21 days of experimental bed rest (BR) will not reverse BR induced impaired glucose tolerance. DESIGN Glucose tolerance of seven male, healthy, untrained test subjects (age: 27.6 (3.3) years (mean (SD)); body mass: 78.6 (6.4) kg; height: 1.81 (0.04)  m; VO2 max: 39.5 (5.4) ml/kg body mass/min) was studied. They stayed twice in the ...

Treatment of Boc-protected (S)-serine (Ser) methyl ester with triphenylphosphine bromide Ph(3)PBr (intermittently generated from PPh(3) and N-bromosuccinimide) yields Boc-3-bromoalanine (R)-Boc-BrAlaMe and, after deprotection, bromoalanine methyl ester (R)-BrAlaMe in the form of its hydrobromide. Boc-BrAlaMe and BrAlaMe have been structurally characterised. The reaction between BrAlaMe, salicyl...

By systematically varying the geometric length and electronic properties of the second ligating ligands of halogen (Cl(-), Br(-), and I(-)) and pseudohalogen (CN(-), SCN(-), and N(3)(-)) anions, we synthesized 11 isomeric/isostructural copper(I) complexes: [Cu(2)(L3-3)I](n) (1), [Cu(2)(L4-4)Br](n) (2-Br), [Cu(2)(L4-4)Cl](n) (2-Cl), [Cu(2)(L3-4)(CN)](n) (3), [Cu(2)(L3-3)(CN)](n) (4), [Cu(3)(L4-4...

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) covers a wide spectral region with 14 bands from visible to the thermal infrared. The different band ranges can be capable of discriminating and mapping surface rocks and predicting pathfinder minerals (i.e. alunite, kaolinite etc.) on alteration assemblages of potential targets. The aim of this study is to compare two diffe...

Molland EA. Experimental renal papillary necrosis. Kidney Int 1978;13: 5-14. 2 Nanra RS, Stuart-Taylor J, De Leon AH, White KH. Analgesic nephropathy; etiology, clinical syndrome, and clinicopathologic correlations in Australia. Kidney Int 1978;13 :79-92. 3New Zealand Rheumatism Association Study. Aspirin and the kidney. Br MedJ 1974;i:593-6. 4 Macklon AF, Craft AW, Thompson M, Kerr DNS. Aspiri...

The title compound, [CuBr(C(9)H(9)N(5))](n), prepared by the solvothermal treatment of CuBr with 4-(2-allyl-2H-tetra-zol-5-yl)pyridine, is a new homometallic Cu(I)-olefin coordination polymer in which dinuclear Cu(2)Br(2) units are linked by the organic olefin ligand 4-(2-allyl-2H-tetra-zol-5-yl)pyridine, which acts as a bidentate ligand connecting two neighbouring Cu(2)Br(2) units through the ...

In the cation of the title compound, C(7)H(7)N(2) (+)·Br(-), all non-H atoms are essentially coplanar [r.m.s. deviation = 0.010 (5) Å]. The compound is isomorphous with the chloride analogue. In the crystal, the cations and anions are connected by N-H⋯Br hydrogen bonds.

The marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum is an important basal resource in the marine food chain and is used as a standard test organism in toxicological studies. In this study, in vivo experiments were performed to analyze the effects of 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ([C8mim]Br) on the growth, photosynthetic activity, and antioxidant enzymes of P. tricornutum using 96 h growth tests i...