Irish potatoes is rich in carbohydrate, with varied glucose levels. It is also a very good source of apyrase, an enzyme used for platelet storage. The aim of this study was to explore Irish potatoes as an easily available source for apyrase extraction and purification. Apyrase was extracted from 5 Kg of Irish potatoes. Platelets were derived from 5-10 ml of human whole blood and G6PD activity w...

The use of laboratory rodents is, and will continue to be, essential in biomedical research. However, like all living things, laboratory rodents have their associated "baggage" of other organisms, whether paying passengers, silent stowaways, or mutineers and pirates of the goods at hand. In other words, we should expect laboratory rodents to have characteristic health flaws. The field of labora...

The aim of this paper is to establish critical success factors in 57 biomedical laboratories in academic hospitals and health research institutes in the Netherlands. Great differences could be demonstrated between the more-than-average and the lessthan-average performers, with regard to the effectiveness of personnel policy, the flexibility of administrative procedures and the establishing of n...

Stratosphere-troposphere exchange in a summertime extratropical low: analysis J. Brioude, J.-P. Cammas, and O. R. Cooper Laboratoire d’Aérologie, UMR5560, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado/NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, USA Received: 16 September 2005 – Accepted: 20 October 2005 – Publish...

Ground-based intercomparison of two isoprene measurement techniques E. Leibrock, L. G. Huey, P. D. Goldan, W. C. Kuster, E. Williams, and F. C. Fehsenfeld Aeronomy Laboratory, Environmental Research Labs, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado, USA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Inst...

Around the world in 17 days – hemispheric-scale transport of forest fire smoke from Russia in May 2003 R. Damoah, N. Spichtinger, C. Forster, P. James, I. Mattis, U. Wandinger, S. Beirle, T. Wagner, and A. Stohl Department of Ecology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Heidelb...

objectives: this study evaluated the effect of surface polishing on mercury release from dental amalgam after treatment with 16% carbamide peroxide gel. materials and methods: ninety-six samples from two different amalgam brands were prepared in truncated cone-shaped pvc polymer molds with an external surface area of 195 mm². half of the specimens were polished with green and red rubber, a brus...

∗DIMACS was founded as a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. It is a joint project of Rutgers University, Princeton University, AT&T Labs-Research, Bell Labs, NEC Laboratories America, and Telcordia Technologies, with affiliated partners Avaya Labs, Georgia Institute of Technology, HP Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Stevens In...