Keratins are the proteins of epidermal and skeletal tissues which are insoluble in the usual protein solvents, not digested by trypsin or pepsin, and high in cystine content. Such a definition intentionally excludes fibroin, the major protein of silk. It will be shown in this paper that keratins can be converted into proteins soluble in alkali or acid, with a definite optimum pH of flocculation...

Elimination of endogenous digoxin-like immunoreactive factors (DLIF) that interfere with accurate measurement of digoxin requires use of a highly specific anti-digoxin antibody, or that DLIF be separated from digoxin before immunoassay. Several commercial digoxin-assay kits include a step for separating serum proteins and other substances from digoxin before immunoassay. We tested six different...

Novel Bi(2)S(3)/BiOI heterostructures were successfully synthesized through a facile and economical ion exchange method between BiOI and thioacetamide (CH(3)CSNH(2)), and characterized by multiform techniques, such as XRD, Raman, FT-IR, XPS, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, SAED, BET and DRS. The obtained Bi(2)S(3)/BiOI photocatalysts showed excellent photocatalytic performance for decomposing organic dye meth...

A microtiter plate assay for quantitation of reduced (GSH) and oxidized (GSSG) glutathione in the rat liver tissue and bile is described. The assay is based on the established enzymatic recycling method and a new thiol-masking reagent, 1-methyl-4-vinyl-pyridinium trifluoromethane sulfonate (M4VP). Samples were first processed by homogenization with (liver) or addition of (bile) sulfosalicylic a...

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the quantification of doxorubicin derived from PEGylated liposomal doxorubicin (Doxil) and its major metabolite in human plasma. This method utilizes Triton X-100 to disperse the liposome, followed by a protein precipitation step with 5-sulfosalicylic acid. Analytes in the resultant supernatant are separated on a Discovery RP am...

Simultaneous determination of FeII and FeIII mixtures by spectrophotometric methods is a difficult problem in analytical chemistry because of spectral interferences. By multivariate calibration methods, such as partial least squares (PLS), it is possible to obtain a model adjusted to the concentration values of the mixtures used in the calibration range. The method is based on developing the re...