Mechanical Behavior of Hydrogels of Agar-agar

Behavior of the Serum proteins in starch-agar-gel electrophoresis

The Introduction of Agar-agar into Bacteriology.

Among fundamental developments in bacteriology the elaboration of solid culture substrates will always hold first place. With the introduction of a method for isolating micro6rganisms and growing them in pure culture, bacteriologists possessed the means for studying what Ferdinand Cohn (1872) called "Die kleinsten lebenden Wesen." Credit for the discovery of the solid medium technique is common...

Characterization and Degradation Behavior of Agar–Carbomer Based Hydrogels for Drug Delivery Applications: Solute Effect

In this study hydrogels synthesized from agarose and carbomer 974P macromers were selected for their potential application in spinal cord injury (SCI) repair strategies following their ability to carry cells and drugs. Indeed, in drug delivery applications, one of the most important issues to be addressed concerns hydrogel ability to provide a finely controlled delivery of loaded drugs, togethe...

Blood agar, chocolate agar, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

We have read with interest the recent paper by Drancourt et al. in which they reviewed the use of blood agar medium for the primary isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2). They state that to their knowledge “no comparative study comparing the efficacy of blood-based agars and egg-based agars has been carried out, and even the ability of blood agar to support growth of M. tuberculosis was f...

Comparison of acetate differential agar with sellers citrate-mannitol-agar.

A total of 245 isolates of Escherichia coli (paracolons) were employed in comparing the use of acetate differential agar (ADA) with the simple test described by Sellers to eliminate these organisms from consideration as enteric pathogens. At 18 hr after the media were inoculated, 83% of the isolates produced a positive citrate reaction on Sellers citrate-mannitol-agar (SCM) and 7% gave a positi...