A comprehensive inventory of the organic components and aroma-active compounds produced by Antrodia camphorata during growth in submerged culture has been established by extracting culture fluids using three different organic solvent systems and subjecting the extracts to gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and gas chromatography–olfactometry (GC-O). Forty-three organic components, of ...

This paper reports the experimentally determined and calculated partition coefficients (Kp) in a heterogeneous system consisting of two partially mixing organic solvents for trimethylsilyl derivatives of 119 compounds including phenols, phenolcarboxylic acids, mono- and dicarboxylic acids, and some carbohydrates and polyols. It was demonstrated that a simple model based on the available physico...

Mineralized biological tissues offer insight into how nature has evolved these components to optimize multifunctional purposes. These mineral constituents are weak by themselves, but interact with the organic matrix to produce materials with unexpected mechanical properties. The hierarchical structure of these materials is at the crux of this enhancement. Microstructural features such as organi...

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Non-collagenous phosphoproteins, almost all of which can be extracted in EDTA at neutral pH in the presence of proteinase inhibitors, are identified in the matrix of chicken bone, and are therefore not covalently bound to collagen. Similarly, all the peptides containing y-carboxyglutamic acid are present in the EDTA extract and none in the insoluble residue, confirming that none is covalently l...