BACKGROUND The aim of the conducted studies was to evaluate the effect of 4-methylpyrazole, increasingly used in detoxifying treatments after ethylene glycol poisoning, on the activity of some antioxidant enzymes and lipid peroxidation formation in the liver of rats after experimental co-exposure to ethylene glycol and ethyl alcohol. METHODS The trials were conducted on adult male Wistar rats...

Environmental chamber experiments were carried out to assess the atmospheric ozone and particle matter (PM) impacts of selected representative VOCs emitted from architectural coatings. The UCR EPA environmental chamber was employed for the ozone and PM impact experiments, and most consisted of incremental reactivity experiments carried out at NO x levels of 25-30 ppb and at ambient surrogate RO...

Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is an uncommon mesenchymal neoplasm sometimes found in the orbit. We report a case of an aggressive orbital SFT with enlarged feeding vessels that was successfully resected immediately after transarterial embolization with Onyx (ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer). To our knowledge, this is the first report showing the histopathology of Onyx embolization material in a...

Graft poly(ε-caprolactone)s (PCLs) with high graft density were synthesized by using random copolymer poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) (EVOH) to initiate ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone, with and without cocatalyst Sn(Oct)2. The graft copolymer were characterized by IR, 1H and 13C NMR. The solution property and the crystallization behavior were also investigated.

The effect of ethylene on the induction of alcohol dehydrogenase-2 in seedling roots of maize is reported. Allele-specific differences are observed in the response to the hormone. Hormonal treatment acts to eliminate the difference in gene expression that is characteristic of the alleles in untreated roots.