The biochemical changes consequent to respiratory chain inhibition and their relationship to cell death in Leishmania spp. remain elusive. Inhibitors of respiratory chain complexes I, II, and III were able to induce apoptotic death of the bloodstream form of Leishmania donovani. Complex I inhibition resulted in mitochondrial hyperpolarization that was preceded by increased superoxide production...

Time-resolved fluoroimmunoassays that make use of lanthanide chelates as labels require the addition of an enhancement solution to elicit the formation of a fluorescent lanthanide complex. All solutions previously described are based on 2-naphthoyltrifluoroacetone (NTA), a beta-diketone. Currently, this compound is not commercially available. We report here the properties and performance of an ...

the extraction of gadolinium (gd) from perchlorate and nitrate media in 1,2-dichloroethane(c2h4cl2), carbon tetrachloride (ccl4) and chloroform (chcl3) by mixtures of 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone (htta) and a crown ether benzo-15-crown-5 (b15c5) is investigated.the composition of the extracted species is determined as gd(tta)3.nb15c5 (n=1 in nitratemedium and n=2 in perchlorate medium). the values...

Nanoparticles of strontium aluminate phosphors co-a tivated by Eu2+ and Dy3+ have been prepared by heating theprecursorsobtained fromnitrate salt–ammoniumacetic–urea–gel combustionprocess at temperature of 1150 ◦C in a weak reductive atmosphere of thermal carbon. Transmission electronmicroscope

The extraction behavior of several divalent metal cations (M(2+)) in ionic liquid chelate extraction systems was investigated using several 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide ionic liquids ([Rmim][Tf(2)N]) as extraction solvent and thenoyltrifluoroacetone (Htta) as extractant. The behavior was compared with that using less hydrophobic 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hexa...