The current essay analyzes the anti-corrosion properties of epoxy primers including anti-corrosion pigment calcium hydrogen orthophosphate and hydrophobic nano silica with various percentages optimized by Taguchi experimental design. The impact of influential factors such as the percentage of anti-corrosion pigments, percentage of nano silica and pigment to binder ratio on anti-corrosion proper...

persian shallot (allium altissimum regel.) is one of the perennial medicinal and industrial plant which is naturally growing in high elevated lands. in order to evaluate the effects of different nutrient elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium on photosynthetic rate and pigment content of persian shallot; an experiment was conducted as factorial based on completely randomized design...

Human monocyte-derived macrophages ingest diamide-treated red blood cells (RBC), anti-D immunoglobulin (Ig)G-opsonized RBC, or Plasmodium falciparum ring-stage parasitized RBC (RPRBC), degrade ingested hemoglobin rapidly, and can repeat the phagocytic cycle. Monocytes fed with trophozoite-parasitized RBC (TPRBC), which contain malarial pigment, or fed with isolated pigment are virtually unable ...

In the eyes of teleosts and amphibians, melanin pigment granules of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) migrate in response to changes in light conditions. In the light, pigment granules disperse into the cells' long apical projections, thereby shielding the rod photoreceptor outer segments and reducing their extent of bleach. In darkness, pigment granules aggregate towards the base of the RPE...

1. Two important methods for the study of malarial pigment are described. (a) A method for obtaining a solution of malarial pigment from fixed tissues without the removal of a trace of hemoglobin from the red blood corpuscles. (b) A method for obtaining an iron reaction in malarial pigment. 2. By comparing the bleach reactions and solubility of melanins and malarial pigment, the dissimilarity o...

A . Kah, D . Dörnemann, and H . Senger Fachbereich Biologie/Botanik der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Lahnberge, D-3550 Marburg/L. , Bundesrepublik Deutschland Z . Naturforsch. 43c , 563-571 (1988); received March 3/Apr i l 12, 1988 C-5-Pathway, 4,5-Dioxovalerate, 5-Aminolevul inic Ac id , 4,5-Dioxovalerate Aminotransferase, Scenedesmus In the present paper the purif ication of a specific 4,5-d...

The microalgal pigment phycoerythrin (PE) is of commercial interest as natural colorant in food and cosmetics, as well as fluoroprobes for laboratory analysis. Several methods for extraction and quantification of PE are available but they comprise typically various extraction buffers, repetitive freeze-thaw cycles and liquid nitrogen, making extraction procedures more complicated. A simple meth...