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The objective of this study was to determine whether ultraviolet-light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) could serve as an efficient photon source for heterogeneous photocatalytic oxidation (PCO). An LED module consisting of 12 high-power UV-A (lambda max = 365 nm) LEDs was designed to be in...
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PMID: 22010378
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In the present study single-crystalline ZnO samples grown from the vapor phase, the melt, and a high-temperature aqueous solution (hydrothermal growth) are investigated before and after hydrogen plasma treatments, by means of deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) and high-resolution Laplace DLTS....
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PMID: 21813951
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To evaluate the effect of adhesive temperature on the resin-dentin bond strength (μTBS), nanoleakage (NL), adhesive layer thickness (AL), and degree of conversion (DC) of ethanol/water- (SB) and acetone-based (PB) etch-and-rinse adhesive systems.
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PMID: 21851256
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Plant acclimation to stress is associated with profound changes in proteome composition. Since proteins are directly involved in plant stress response, proteomics studies can significantly contribute to unravel the possible relationships between protein abundance and plant stress acc...
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PMID: 21329772
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We previously determined that down-regulation of flagellar motility is required for virulence and is governed by the reciprocal activities of the MogR transcriptional repressor and the bifunctional flagellar anti-repressor/glycosyltransferase, GmaR. In this study, we determined that GmaR is also a p...
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PMID: 21829361
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We have shown that snakes co-opt a non-heat-sensitive channel, vertebrate TRPA1 (transient receptor potential cation channel A1), to produce an infrared detector. Here we show that vampire bats tune a channel that is already heat-sensitive, TRPV1, by lowering its thermal activation threshold to abou...
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PMID: 21814281
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With the help of thermonetry and general calorimetry body temperature and heat production in ambient temperatures 20 degrees C, 28 degrees C, 33 degrees C were recorded. The experiments showed, that at the temperature 20 degrees C the rectal temperature was changing very little. But...
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PMID: 21961306
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We review the current knowledge on the molecular stress adaptation responses in L. monocytogenes cells as revealed through transcriptome, proteome, genetic, and physiological analysis. The adaptation of L. monocytogenes to stress exposure is achieved through global expression changes in a large numb...
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PMID: 21495855
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This study compared physiological responses and total work tolerance time following forearm submersion (FS) or leg submersion (LS) in cool water, after performing work in a hot environment while wearing fire fighting protective clothing (FPC). Participants walked at 3.5 mph on a trea...
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PMID: 21756136
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Calcination is the second step in a washing-calcination-conversion system in which treated municipal solid waste incinerator fly ash and bottom ash can be reused as raw material in the cement industry and can decompose or stabilize hazardous compounds, reduce residue amounts, and alter residue charac...
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PMID: 21850828
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We treated 3T3-L1 preadipocytes with adipogenic inducers for 24 h in control medium versus J774A.1-MacCM. The differentiation-induced mRNA and protein expression of cyclin A, an activator of cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) 2 which phosphorylates Rb, was inhibited by 82% and 73%, respectively, by J774A...
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PMID: 21660953
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We also predict that Glu15, Lys43, and Tyr46 may be important in the catalytic efficiency and thermostability of enzyme. The new structural and mechanistic insights obtained from computational study should be valuable for detailed structures and mechanisms of the member of the DJ-1 superfamily....
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PMID: 20711794
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Sticky yellow rectangle traps have been used for many years to capture Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae) fruit flies. Traditional sticky yellow traps are coated with a sticky gel (SG) that can leave residues on the hands of users. An alternative to SG on traps are hot melt pressure sensitive adhesive...
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PMID: 21735911
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We describe the benefits of heat treatment of neutrophils in reducing protein degradation for subsequent proteome analysis. Neutrophils isolated from four healthy volunteers were each divided into three aliquots and subjected to different preparation methods for 2-DE: (i) Heat treatment, (ii) resusp...
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PMID: 21598391
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A two dimensional simulation study was performed to investigate the photoacoustic signal properties of non-aggregated and aggregated erythrocytes. Spatial distributions of non-aggregated blood samples were generated by employing a Monte Carlo method and aggregated blood samples were simulated using a...
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PMID: 21568396
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In several Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) industries, relatively high temperatures are used as part of their industrial processes. In coal combustion, as occur in other high temperature processes, an increase of the activity concentration of every natural radioisotope is produced bot...
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PMID: 21093128
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We have found that multidendritic nociceptors in the head respond to harsh touch throughout their receptive field but respond to gentle touch only at the tip of the nose. Whereas the harsh touch response depends solely on cell-autonomous mechanosensory channels, gentle nose touch responses require f...
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PMID: 21521615
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Functional and rheological properties of proteins from frozen turkey breast meat with different ultimate pH at 24 h postmortem (pH(24)) have been studied. Sixteen breast fillets from Hybrid Tom turkeys were initially selected based on lightness (L*) values for each color group (pale, normal, and dark...
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PMID: 21489962
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We report on a novel high temperature liquid phase "calcination" method with trioctylphosphine oxide (TOPO), tri-n-octylamine (TOA), and squalene for removing the template and strengthening the silica network in colloidal mesoporous silica (CMS) nanoparticles. For such materials, the common calcinat...
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PMID: 21480591
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We have previously reported that air-puff stimulation (APS) activates the nucleus locus coeruleus/subcoeruleus (LC/SC) so that the DIP is induced. The LC/SC is one of the structures that plays an important role in endogenous pain control. Our particular interest is whether APS induces nociceptive mo...
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PMID: 21529786
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Monomer sequence is a potentially powerful but underutilized tool for the control of copolymer properties. Sequence is demonstrated to dramatically affect the hydrolysis profile for the degradation of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), a member of the most widely used class of bio...
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PMID: 21488683
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We examined disease prevalence among all known species of scleractinian coral, soft coral and zoanthid (Palythoa) at a variety of coral reef habitats at Palmyra over a 2 yr period. In 2008, overall disease prevalence across the atoll was low (0.33%), but higher on the shallower backreef (0.88%) and...
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PMID: 21648237
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We have demonstrated that (i) major cholesterol auto-oxidation products, 7β-hydroxycholesterol (7β) and 7-ketocholesterol (7keto), rendered vesicles more responsive to temperature changes; (ii) 7keto imparted greater thermo-induced membrane dynamics than 7β; (iii) 7β and 7keto vesicles synergist...
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PMID: 21600872
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The press-residue of black currants provides a good source of phenolic antioxidants. The purpose of this study was to optimize the extraction of phenolic compounds from the press-residue by use of extraction conditions compatible with food use. The effects of temperature, extraction duration, and use...
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PMID: 21401036
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A mechanochemical-assisted extraction (MCAE) method was proposed and investigated for the fast extraction of two kaempferol glycosides (kaempferol-3-O-[2-O-β-D-galactopyranosyl-6-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl]-β-D-glucopyranoside and kaempferol-3-O-[2-O-β-D-xylopyranosyl-6-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl]-β-D-gl...
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PMID: 21410254
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Zeins were isolated from corn ethanol coproduct distiller's dried grains (DDG) and fractionated into α- and β γ-rich fractions. The effects of the ethanol production process, such as fermentation type, protease addition, and DDG drying temperature on zein recovery, were evaluated. Yield, purity, a...
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PMID: 21388133
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We present an algorithm for finding the probabilities of rare events in nonequilibrium processes. The algorithm consists of evolving the system with a modified dynamics for which the required event occurs more frequently. By keeping track of the relative weight of phase-space trajectories generated...
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PMID: 21517466
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We propose a method by which the generalized transport properties and coefficients at all wavelengths and frequencies can be obtained by inversion of an exact kinetic equation. The necessary data are the density-density, energy-energy, and density-energy time correlation functions, which can be obta...
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PMID: 21517485
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We extend the method described in paper I [D. Bertolini and A. Tani, preceding paper, Phys. Rev. E 83, 031201 (2011)] to molecular liquids, which allows us to solve the exact kinetic equation proposed by de Schepper et al. [Phys. Rev. A 38, 271 (1988)] without approximations. In particular, generali...
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PMID: 21517486
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As an ultrasound wave propagates nonlinearly, energy is transferred to higher frequencies where it is more strongly attenuated. Compared to soft tissue, the skull has strongly heterogeneous material parameters. The authors characterize with experiments and establish a numerical method that can descri...
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PMID: 21520833
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This in-vitro study compared the marginal and internal fit and also the microleakage of zirconia infrastructures (Procera All-Zircon, Cercon Smart Ceramics) in contrast to heat-pressed ones (Empress 2).Thirty maxillary premolars (n=30) were divided into three groups (n=10) and prepared with individua...
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PMID: 21488732
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During March 2007 there was an epidemic outbreak associated with the consumption of ultrapasteurized milk. Four hundred people were affected and 60 required hospitalization. S. aureus subspecies aureus was isolated from 5 patients, 3 operators and 3 milk samples. All strains produced enterotoxins. St...
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PMID: 21491064
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To measure the threshold of feeling temperature, comfortable temperature and tolerant temperature to ginger-partition moxibustion and suspended moxibustion at different acupoints of healthy persons, and to instruct the clinical practice of moxibustion better.
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PMID: 21644310
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Tension along a polymer chain traps neighboring s-trans/s-trans-1,3-diradicals from the mechanically induced ring opening of gem-difluorocyclopropanes (gDFCs). The diradicals correspond to the transition states of the force-free thermal isomerization reactions of gDFCs, and the tension trapping allow...
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PMID: 21341786
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We study temperature coding in Drosophila, and show that temperature is represented by a spatial map of activity in the brain. First, we identify TRP channels that function in the fly antenna to mediate the detection of cold stimuli. Next, we identify the hot-sensing neurons and show that hot and co...
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PMID: 21335241
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Birch reduction of few-layer graphene samples gives rise to hydrogenated samples containing up to 5 wt % of hydrogen. Spectroscopic studies reveal the presence of sp(3) C-H bonds in the hydrogenated graphenes. They, however, decompose readily on heating to 500 °C or on irradiation with UV or lase...
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PMID: 21282617
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In plants, the nucleocytoplasmic protein EDS1 (Enhanced disease susceptibility1) is an important regulator of innate immunity, coordinating host-cell defence and cell-death programs in response to pathogen attack. Arabidopsis thaliana EDS1 stabilizes and signals together with its partners PAD4 (Phyt...
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PMID: 21301097
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Penicillin-binding proteins catalyze the biosynthesis of the peptidoglycan chains of the bacterial cell wall, which protects cells from osmotic pressure. Although Lmo0540 has been identified as a putative penicillin-binding protein that contributes to the virulence of Listeria monocytogenes, the bio...
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PMID: 21301102
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The cysteine protease inhibitor from Ascaris lumbricoides, a roundworm that lives in the human intestine, may be involved in the suppression of human immune responses. Here, the molecular cloning, protein expression and purification, preliminary crystallization and crystallographic characterization...
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PMID: 21301092
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Anwar A Ullah,
Priscila Oliveira PO de Giuseppe,
Mario Tyago MT Murakami,
Dilza D Trevisan-Silva,
Ana Carolina Martins AC Wille,
Daniele D Chaves-Moreira,
Luiza Helena LH Gremski,
Rafael Bertoni RB da Silveira,
Andrea A Sennf-Ribeiro,
Olga Meiri OM Chaim,
Silvio Sanches SS Veiga and
Raghuvir Krishnaswamy RK Arni
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Phospholipases D are the major dermonecrotic component of Loxosceles venom and catalyze the hydrolysis of phospholipids, resulting in the formation of lipid mediators such as ceramide-1-phosphate and lysophosphatidic acid which can induce pathological and biological responses. Phospholipases D can b...
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PMID: 21301094
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The Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain is a protein-protein interaction domain that is found in both animal and plant immune receptors. In animal Toll-like receptor signalling, both homotypic TIR-domain interactions between two receptor molecules and heterotypic interactions between receptors...
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PMID: 21301095
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Poly(A) polymerase (PAP) synthesizes the polyadenine tail at the 3'-end of messenger RNA. A disulfide cross-linking strategy was implemented to obtain a complex between bovine PAP (bPAP) and a 15-mer oligo(A). All seven endogenous cysteines were mutated to eliminate nonspecific cross-linked complex...
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PMID: 21301096
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The study examined whether or not acute exposure to unfamiliar hot or cold conditions impairs performance of highly skilled coordinative activities and whether prior physical self-efficacy beliefs were associated with task completion. Nineteen volunteers completed both Guitar Hero and Archery activit...
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PMID: 21466095
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Fabrication of polycaprolactone (PCL)-chitosan (CS) three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds using the novel technique of melt stretching and multilayer deposition was introduced. In brief, firstly, the PCL-CS monofilaments containing 0% (pure PCL), 10%, 20% and 30% CS by weight were fabrica...
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PMID: 21205996
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From the view of macroscopic animal ethology combined with computer and modem image processing technique, by monitoring the temperature tropism of animal affected by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with different Cold and Hot natures and obtaining many behavior parameters which were difficult to a...
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PMID: 21598557
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To study the chemical changes of salvianolic acid B and lithospermic acid of Salvia miltiorrhiza under the conditions of high temperature and high pressure and explore the reaction mechanism.
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PMID: 21598535
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We report the characterization of four anhydrous forms of ACV and a new hydrate in addition to the known hydrate. Two of the anhydrous forms appear as small needles and are stable to air exposure, whereas the third form is morphologically similar but quickly absorbs water from the atmosphere and con...
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PMID: 21280051
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Mismatch in thermal expansion properties between veneering ceramic and metallic or high-strength ceramic cores can induce residual stresses and initiate cracks when combined with functional stresses. Knowledge of the stress distribution within the veneering ceramic is a key factor for understanding a...
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PMID: 21232786
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Sensory changes are thought to be involved in gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD). The esophageal multimodal pain model can be used to investigate sensations in response to distension, heat, electric current and acid.
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PMID: 21221787
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We developed a procedure that randomly mutagenizes a specific segment of a gene through error-prone PCR and screens for mutants on the basis of the properties of the holoenzymes reconstituted in vivo (REM-ivrs). Previous work showed that the N-terminal domain includes the valine-binding ACT domain o...
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PMID: 21224018
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Pyrazinamidase (PncA) activates the first-line antituberculous drug pyrazinamide into pyrazinoic acid. The crystal structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis PncA protein has been determined, showing significant differences in the substrate binding cavity when compared to the pyrazinamidases from Py...
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PMID: 21283666
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We report that once germinated, A. fumigatus conidia were able to stimulate host PLD activity and internalize more efficiently in A549 cells without altering PLD expression. The internalization of A. fumigatus in A549 cells was suppressed by the downregulation of host cell PLD using chemical inhibit...
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PMID: 21760893
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We report here a process that we term protected annealing, that allows the thermal treatment of preformed precursor particles at temperatures up to 1000 °C while preserving their small size and state of dispersion. In a first step, pristine nanoparticles are prepared by a glycothermal reaction, lea...
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PMID: 21384045
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Recently, titanate nanotubes have attracted a significant deal of interest, but the mechanism of formation as well as some structural aspects of these materials is still under debate. In this context, the main goal of the present study is to identify the key factors affecting the mor...
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PMID: 21472179
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We investigated the molecular mechanisms of action of the various additives that prevent thermoinactivation of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A and hen egg white lysozyme. The thermoinactivation of both proteins in the presence of additives showed clear correlations with deamidation and β-eliminati...
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PMID: 21509951
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5-Formyl-6-aminopyrimidine-2,4-(1H, 3H)-dione (2) has been previously prepared fromcompound 1. Cyclocondensation reaction of compound 2 with cyanoacetamide gave substituted pyridopyrimidine 3. Also, compound 2 was condensed with p-amino acetophenone and hydrazine derivatives to give 5-([(4-acetylphen...
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PMID: 21796933
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We demonstrate that the use of the supported-metal catalysts and hydrogen flow suppresses tar formation and lowers the required reaction temperature....
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PMID: 21847789
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