Allergic rhinitis (AR) is an inflammatory disorder typified by symptoms such as sneezing, congestion, and rhinorrhea. Histamine plays important roles in eliciting AR symptoms. Up-regulation of the histamine H(1) receptor (H1R) and histidine decarboxylase (HDC) mRNAs was observed in AR patients. Th2 cytokines are also involved in the pathogenesis of AR. We examined the effect of suplatast tosila...

Abstract Partial (10% to 30%) substitution of soy flour in polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate (pMDI) resin substantially reduces platen sticking during hot-pressing particle mats. Adding the a fixed dose pMDI (instead substituting it) an even greater extent. The decreases tack cured pMDI, thereby reducing propensity resinated particles transfer platen. reduction effect on contrasts with its...

BACKGROUND Two outbreaks of allergic contact dermatitis caused by isocyanates at two companies in southern Sweden initiated a research project focusing on contact allergy to isocyanates. Within the project, there was an interest in determining how often contact allergy to the most common isocyanate, diphenylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate (4,4'-MDI), occurred. OBJECTIVES To determine and compare th...

Hydrogels based on gelatin have evolved as promising multifunctional biomaterials. Gelatin is crosslinked with lysine diisocyanate ethyl ester (LDI) and the molar ratio of gelatin and LDI in the starting material mixture determines elastic properties of the resulting hydrogel. In order to investigate the clinical potential of these biopolymers, hydrogels with different ratios of gelatin and dii...

A new series of exTTF hosts has been synthesized for supramolecular binding study of fullerenes C60 and C70. Binding constants for C60 in chlorobenzene, toluene, toluene-CH2Cl2 and CS2 have been calculated for different hosts and a direct structure-affinity relationship has been established. As predicted, receptors with two exTTF moieties (1, 3 and 4) have demonstrated higher binding abilities ...

An aryl diisocyanate has been used to attach an appropriately protected 2'-deoxyribonucleoside bearing a free 3'-hydroxyl group, to a long chain alkylamine controlled pore glass support via a urethane moiety, in a simple two step procedure. This obviates the need for the preparation and short column chromatographic purification of the 2'-deoxyribonucleoside-3'-O-succinates required for preparat...

The chemical industry accounts for 20% of global industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the plastics production is increasing worldwide by approx. 4% annually. To reduce GHG increase transparency in value chains despite secrets, we developed an approach to estimate product carbon footprint chemicals site-specifically without using classified data. new approach, applied two comparative ca...