A highly specific and simple radioimmunoassay for cyclic AMP with a sensitivity of 0.04 picomoles/tube has been developed according to the method of Steiner et al., using 125I-succinyl cyclic AMP tyrosine methyl ester as a tracer. The tracer with higher immunoactivities could be simply and constantly prepared by an enzymatic iodination procedure utilizing lactoperoxidase, radioactive iodide and...

1. Dakin's hypochlorite and chloramine-T solutions will protect pigeons against multiple fatal doses of the toxin of Bacillus welch when the antiseptic and the toxin are mixed in vitro and allowed to stand in contact for 5 minutes before injection. 2. The detoxicating action of the solutions is demonstrable also in the presence of serum. 3. Phenol solution, 0.25 per cent, has no such action.

The susceptibility of a strain of Legionella pneumophila to disinfection by an organic halamine, free chlorine, and a mixture of the organic halamine and free chlorine was assessed. The organic halamine was found to have superior stability in solution and to exhibit adequate disinfectant potential over a period of 1 month of repeated reinoculations of fresh bacteria. The combined halamine exhib...

The kinetics of the oxidation of N-aminopiperidine with chloramine was studied at different temperatures, with variable concentrations of the two reactants and at a pH ranging between 12 and 13.5. The reaction showed to be involving two steps: the first corresponded to the formation of a diazene intermediate, the second to the evolution of this intermediate into numerous compounds within a comp...

Nitrile oxides were generated by the catalytic dehydrogenation of aromatic aldehyde oximes 2a-g with chloramine-T as oxidizing agent. The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of in situ generated nitrile oxides with ethyl oleate 1 produced a series of new ethyl 8-(3-aryl-4-octyl-4,5-dihydroisoxazol-5-yl)octanoate 3a-g in 6584% yield. Some of the synthesized cycloadducts have exhibited moderate to good ant...

2,10-Disubstituted phenothiazines are the best drugs in psychiatry. Several methods for their analysis have been reported in the literature. The official methods are based on non-aqueous titration or spectrophotometry. Various oxidizing agents have been used for the spectrophotometric determination of 2,10-disubstituted phenothiazines, e.g. Ce(SO4)2, NH4VO3, K2S208, KIO4, KIO3, KBrO3, FeCl3, Na...

Free chlorine and a combined organic N-chloramine (3-chloro-4,4-dimethyl-2-oxazolidinone, compound 1) were compared for efficacy as disinfectants against an admixture of cysts of Giardia lamblia and Giardia canis in water solution under a variety of test conditions; variables were pH, temperature, and water quality. In general, compound 1 was found to reduce the giardial excystation in the solu...