1 National Poisons Centre, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2 Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Surgical Sciences, Blå Stråket 5, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden 3 National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham Unit) and West Midlands Poisons Unit, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK; School of Bioscience...

Monolithic columns for analytical applications have attracted the researcher's attention. In this work, laboratory-made organic-polymer monolithic column is modified with trypsin and further applied as a nanobiocatalyst microreactor stationary phase separating chiral compounds by liquid chromatography. The monolith was synthesized in-situ copolymerization of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) ethylene...

Polycationic systems based on poly(hexamethylene biguanide) (PHMBG), branched polyethyleneimine (PEI) and poly(N-vinylguanidine) (PVG) have been evaluated as heterogeneous catalysts for the transesterification of sunflower oil by methanol. Insoluble networks are synthesized via crosslinking of PHMBG by either 4,4'-methylenebis(N,N-diglycidylaniline) or polyisocyanate prepolymer, PEI with sebaco...

This study provides thermal expansion data for blood vessels permeated with the cryoprotective cocktail DP6, when combined with selected synthetic ice modulators (SIMs): 12% polyethylene glycol 400, 6% 1,3-cyclohexanediol, and 6% 2,3-butanediol. The general classification of SIMs includes molecules that modulate ice nucleation and growth, or possess properties of stabilizing the amorphous state...

Here we report the full genome sequence of Klebsiella oxytoca KCTC 1686, which is used in production of 2,3-butanediol. The KCTC 1686 strain contains 5,974,109 bp with G+C content of 56.05 mol% and contains 5,488 protein-coding genes and 110 structural RNAs.

and neuropathology of cerebral "anoxic-ischemic" cell change. Arch Neurol 29: 367-374, 1973 20. Rice JE, Vannucci RC, Brierley JB: The influence of immaturity on hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in the rat. Ann Neurol 9: 131-141, 1981 21. Salford LG, Plum F, Siesjo BK: Graded hypoxia-oligemia in rat brain. Arch Neurol 29: 227-233, 1973 22. Levine S: Anoxic ischemic encephalopathy in rats. Am J Pat...

Among the promising bulk chemicals, 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PD) and 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BD) are two bio-based diols, which have a wide range of applications in cosmetic and food industry, as antifreezes, lubricants, fuel additives, as well as in the production of polymers. The possibility to obtain diols from the waste glycerol is topical by two reasons. First, the waste glycerol is received in la...

Butanediol fermentation in two Serratia species is shown to be affected by N-acyl-L-homoserine lactone-dependent quorum sensing. Knockout of quorum-sensing signal production caused a shift towards enhanced acid production, resulting in early growth arrest, which was reversible by the addition of synthetic signal molecules.

A new type of materials, the backbone-thermoresponsive hyperbranched polyether, was successfully synthesized by proton-transfer polymerization of 1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether and various triols, and the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) values can be readily adjusted from 19.0 to 40.3 degrees C by changing the hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance of BDE and triols.

Serratia marcescens strain ATCC 14041 was found to be an efficient meso-2,3-butanediol (meso-2,3-BD) producer from glucose and sucrose. Here we present a 5.0-Mb assembly of its genome. We have annotated 4 coding sequences (CDSs) for meso-2,3-BD fermentation and 2 complete operons including 6 CDSs for sucrose utilization.