Oxygen transport in the Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) plasma membrane has been studied by observing the collision of molecular oxygen with nitroxide radical spin labels placed in the lipid bilayer portion of the membrane at various distances from the membrane surface using the long-pulse saturation-recovery electron spin resonance (ESR) technique. The collision rate was estimated for 5-, 12-, and...

Membrane technology is being researched intensively due to its potential for generating clean water. Surface modifications of nanoporous membranes could be an engineering solution to designing chlorine-tolerant membranes that would last longer in operation and thus reduce the high costs associated with membrane operations. The average pore diameter in a membrane strongly determines its selectiv...

zinc is a substance that regulates neural excitability by binding whit sodium channel and potassium channel. the efficiency of free zinc ion, make down the neural survival rate, reduced the peak amplitude of na+ and make depolarization na channel, increased the peak amplitude of transition outward k+ currents and delayed rectifier. also it is an effective blocker of one subtype of tetrodoxine (...

A variety of cysteine-containing, lipid-modified peptides are found to be S-acylated by cultured mammalian cells. The acylation reaction is highly specific for cysteinyl over serinyl residues and for lipid-modified peptides over hydrophilic peptides. The S-acylation process appears by various criteria to be enzymatic and resembles the S-acylation of plasma membrane-associated proteins in variou...

the computer simulation program of a practical scale reverse electrodialysis process has been developed based on the program for saline water electrodialysis. the program is applied to compute the performance of an industrial-scale reverse electrodialysis stack (effective membrane area s = 1 m × 1 m = 1 m2, cell pair number n = 300 pairs). the stack operatingconditions are optimized. seawater a...

the aim of this study was to compare invasive and non-invasive strains of shigella flexneri isolated from tehran by a 120 kda protein band by sds-page, electron microscopy of cell culture and congo red dye methods. methods: s. flexneri strains were isolated by standard bacterial methods from fecal specimens of children attending to the 3 children’s hospitals. phenotype analysis for screening vi...

Polymer electrolyte based on Nafion-117 membranes in the Li+ form with intercalated 1,3-dioxolane-dimethoxyethane solvent mixtures (DOL-DME) has been obtained. The obtained Nafion-Li+-DOL-DME characterized by DSC analysis, IR- and impedance spectroscopy. uptake of membrane DOL-DME mixture amounts to 1.9. is an ionic conductivity ~10−7 S cm−1 at room temperature. comparative study electrochemica...