RATIONALE The purpose of this study was to identify the chemical responsible for cholestatic hepatitis in a 55-year-old woman who ingested 1,1'-iminodi (octamethylene) diguanidinium triacetate (iminoctadine triacetate), a fungicide. The fungicide formulation was also composed of polyoxyethylene nonylphenol (NP-40) and methanol. PATIENT CONCERNS Severe cholestatic hepatitis developed, which le...

Halogenated aryl ketones (XC6H4COR: X ) Cl, F; R ) Me, Et, Ph) and benzyl alcohols (XC6H4CH(OH)R: X ) Cl; R ) Me, Et) have been reduced catalytically over Pt/C at 50 °C, by bubbling H2 at atmospheric pressure into a multiphase system consisting of a hydrocarbon solvent (isooctane) and an alkaline aqueous phase (KOH 50%) in the presence of a phase-transfer (PT) agent (onium salts or polyoxyethyl...

Electroporation relates to a phenomenon in which cell membranes are permeabilized after being exposed to high electric fields. On the molecular level, the mechanism is not yet fully elucidated, although a considerable body of experiments and molecular dynamic (MD) simulations were performed on model membranes. Here we present the results of a combined theoretical and experimental investigation ...