To the Editor: We wish to substantiate the important observations of LeGatt and Tisdell (1) cautioning against the use of propylene glycol as an internal standard for quantifying ethylene glycol. A 32-yearold woman presented to our emergency department in an agitated state after the ingestion of multiple drugs in an attempted suicide. Gastric lavage and charcoal were administered as well as int...

OBJECTIVES The antioxidant capacity impairs in kidney and urinary bladder of animals with stone disease. Herbal medicine can improve the antioxidant condition of renal tissue. Cynodon dactylon (C. dactylon) is a medicinal plant with antioxidative and diuretic properties and different preparations of this plant have shown promising effects in stone disease. Assessment of the whole plant decoctio...

In this study the temperature dependent confor-mation of hexa(ethylene glycol) self-assembling monolayers (SAMs) under aqueous conditions (in situ) is investigated. To this end characteristic absorption modes in the fingerprint region (1050-1500 cm(-1)) were monitored with real-time polarization modulation infrared spectroscopy. We found a temperature induced conformational change from predomin...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review English-language articles on fomepizole administration in patients with ethylene glycol poisoning. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, EMBASE, Current Contents, and PubMed. Search terms were fomepizole, 4-methylpyrazole, and ethylene glycol. The search was supplemented with a bibliographic review of all relevant articles. STUDY SELECTION All published reports of fomepiz...

BACKGROUND Intoxication with ethylene glycol happen all around the world and without rapid recognition and early treatment, mortality from this is high. METHODS In our study, we retrospectively analysed six cases of ethylene glycol intoxication in our department. We measured ethylene glycol or glycolate levels, lactate levels and calculated the osmolal and anion gap. RESULTS Data from six p...

Mixtures of ethylene glycol and water are used in cooling the engines in automotive applications. To avoid the two-phase flow in the engine, the mixture is subcooled in the radiator before entering the engine block. Heat transfer is therefore essentially under subcooled flow boiling conditions. Very little information is available in the literature on the subcooled flow boiling characteristics ...

The present investigation is an attempt to evaluate the effect of Bergenia ciliata extract on kidney of ethylene glycol induced urolithiasis in adult female Wistar rats. The hydro-alcoholic extract of Bergenia ciliata/standard drug cystone were administrated simultaneously at a dose of 150 and 300 mg/kg body weight/day, p.o. along with ethylene glycol (0.75% v/v) for 28 days. Significant change...

Magnetic and macro/mesoporous bioactive glasses were synthesized by a one-pot method via a handy salt leaching technique. It was identified to be an effective and simple synthetic strategy. The non-ionic triblock copolymer, poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene glycol)-block-poly(ethylene glycol) (P123), was used as the structure directing agent for mesoporous structure but also as the red...

Gaston, Lamont W. (National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.) and E. R. Stadtman. Fermentation of ethylene glycol by Clostridium glycolicum, sp. n. J. Bacteriol. 85:356-362. 1963.-An anaerobic organism which utilizes ethylene glycol as a source of energy and carbon has been isolated from mud. It is a long (5 mu), slender, motile, gram-positive, spore-forming rod, wi...

Many plant species can be cryopreserved by treating shoot tips with complex cryoprotectant solutions before rapidly cooling them to liquid nitrogen temperatures. Plant vitrification solution 2 (PVS2), a commonly selected cryoprotectant, can be lethal with extended exposure times. To determine potentially toxic combinations, we have exposed mint shoot tips to one-, two-, three-, and four-compone...