Urea coating has been conducted using polylactic acid (PLA) blended with an industrial softwood kraft lignin. The latter was pre-functionalized via esterification or Mannich reaction. The coated urea becomes therefore a highly effective nitrogen fertilizer due to the controlled release after the coating, the slow release from the organically bound nitrogen structure formed after the Mannich rea...

Depletion of soil fertility, depletion macro- and micro-nutrients organic matter inappropriate imbalanced fertilizer application are among the most important factors that reduces food barley production in Ethiopia. Therefore, experiment was conducted to evaluate NPSB blended rate effect on improving Semen Ari District, Southwestern Ethiopia during main cropping season. Control, (142 NPS + 159 U...

When behavioral avoidance cannot prevent an animal from being exposed to novel environmental toxins, physiological mechanisms must cope with the toxin and its effects. We are investigating the basis of urea tolerance in populations of Drosophila melanogaster that have been selected to survive and develop in food containing 300 mmol l(-1) urea. Previous research has demonstrated that the urea-se...

Within grazed pastures, urine patches are hot spots of nitrogen turnover, since dietary N surpluses are excreted mainly as urea in the urine. This short-term experiment investigated 13C uptake in microbial lipids after simulated deposition of cattle urine at 10.0 and 17.1 g of urea C m(-2). Confined field plots without or with cattle urine amendment were sampled after 4 and 14 days, and soil fr...

AIM To assess the value of measuring the gastric juice urea:ammonium ratio in detecting Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with chronic renal failure. METHODS Twenty three (12 men) patients with established chronic renal failure and dyspepsia were studied. Gastric juice (2 ml) was aspirated during endoscopy to measure urea and ammonium. The upper gastrointestinal tract was routinely in...

parsley has a very high nutritional value, containing a, b and c vitamins and mineral nutrients. in order to investigation of the effect of different nitrogen sources on parsley an experiment conducted in a factorial combination of three nitrogen forms (calcium nitrate, ammonium sulphate and urea) and four nitrogen levels (0, 100, 125, 150 kg ha-1) by using a factorial experiment based on rando...

This study confirms in humans an age-related increase in plasma urea levels (r = 0.62; P < 0.001; y = 0.229x + 18.26) and no correlation between plasma creatinine and age (r = 0.06; NS). Fractional urea excretion (FE urea) decreases with age (r = -0.41; P < 0.001; y = -0.226x + 55). Comparing urea and creatinine clearances, measured in 19 young and in 15 old women, a larger decrease of urea cle...

Au/CeLaOx mixed oxide catalysts containing 0.5 to 1.0 wt% Au were prepared via coprecipitation with HAuCl4, the appropriate nitrate precursors, and either urea or Na2CO3 as the precipitant. BET surface area measurements for the Au/CeLaOx catalysts varied in the range of 16-107 m/g depending on the precipitant, aging time, and calcination conditions. The catalysts were tested for the selective o...

Assembly of pulmonary surfactant lipid-protein complexes depends on conformational changes coupled with proteolytic maturation of proSP-B, the precursor of pulmonary surfactant protein B (SP-B), along the surfactant biogenesis pathway in pneumocytes. Conformational destabilization of the N-terminal propeptide of proSP-B (SP-BN) triggers exposure of the mature SP-B domain for insertion into surf...

a fiel experiments was laid out in agricultural research farm, city namin, ardabil province, iran in 2013. experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block with seven treatments and three replication. foliar spray treatments urea solution at a rate of 1, 2 and 3% (in two stages, the first stage a month after transplanting when they had reached 10 cm in height to 20 days after the first s...