The feasibility of anaerobic treatment of methanol condensate from pulp and paper mill in UASB reactor was investigated and compared with the anaerobic treatment of methanol. The UASB reactor treating methanol condensate was operated for 480 days with minimum problems of overload. COD removal from methanol condensate and methanol under normal operating conditions ranged from 84-86% to 86-98%, r...

Growth of the yeast Pichia pastoris on methanol induces the expression of genes whose products are required for its metabolism. Three of the methanol pathway enzymes are located in an organelle called the peroxisome. As a result, both methanol pathway enzymes and proteins involved in peroxisome biogenesis (PEX proteins) are induced in response to this substrate. The most highly regulated of the...

Alterations in the steady state level of rat brain biogenic amines - dopamine, nor-epinephrine, epinephrine, serotonin and 5-hydroxy indole acetic acid, in response to intraperitoneal administration of methanol (3g/kg b.w.) were studied in discrete areas of the rat brain. The monoamine changes induced by methanol were quite different from those induced by ethanol consumption. They were also reg...

methanol is responsible for a life-threatening poisoning. fomepizole, a potent alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitor, is an efficient and safe antidote that prevents or reduces toxic methanol metabolism. although no study has compared its efficacy with ethanol, fomepizole is recommended as a first-line antidote. treatment should be started as soon as possible, based on history and initial findings in...

background: in iran, methyl alcohol poisoning rarely occurs accidentally and usually occurs through abuse of contaminated ethanol. however, with proper and timely treatment complications and mortality of methanol poisoning can be prevented. in this study, the epidemiological profile of methanol poisoning in the iranian society was investigated. methods: in this prospective cross-sectional study...

background consumption of home-distilled alcohol may lead to epidemic or sporadic cases of severe acute methanol poisoning. the difficulty of establishing strict indications for hemodialysis in acute methanol poisoning is a widely recognized issue. materials and methods the determination of the clinical, especially hemodialysis, and para clinical factors influencing patient survival in 46 acute...

Electron solvation in methanol anion clusters, (MeOH)(n) (-) (n approximately 70-460), is studied by photoelectron imaging. Two isomers are observed: methanol I, with vertical binding energies (VBE) ranging from 2-2.5 eV, and methanol II, with much lower VBE's between 0.2 and 0.5 eV. The VBE's of the two isomers depend linearly on n(-1/3) with nearly identical slopes. We propose that the excess...

Methanotrophs in enrichment cultures grew and sustained atmospheric methane oxidation when supplied with methanol. If they were not supplied with methanol or formate, their atmospheric methane oxidation came to a halt, but it was restored within hours in response to methanol or formate. Indigenous forest soil methanotrophs were also dependent on a supply of methanol upon reduced methane access ...

J ^ ^^ r r I c Accepted for publication July 39, 1971 C3 A C MAJCKIDwIQ, Edwina Arm JAcx H. Mai+mzzsoN : Blood methanol corcentrntlone during experimentally induced ethanol intoxication in alcoholics. J. Pbarmacol. Exp. Ther. 179: 29;300, 1971. Accumulation of methanol in blood was detected in alcoholic subjects during a 10to 15-day period of chronic alcohol intake. Blood methanol levels increa...

Mouse embryos develop exencephaly when dams are exposed by inhalation to high concentrations (> or = 10,000 ppm) of methanol on gestational day 8 (GD8; copulation plug = GD0). The present study examined the role of formate, an oxidative metabolite of methanol, in the development of methanol-induced exencephaly in CD-1 mice and cultured mouse embryos. The pharmacokinetics and developmental toxic...