Nucleic acid-based therapy is a growing field of drug delivery research. Although ultrasound has been suggested to enhance transfection decades ago, it took a combination of ultrasound with nucleic acid carrier systems (microbubbles, liposomes, polyplexes, and viral carriers) to achieve reasonable nucleic acid delivery efficacy. Microbubbles serve as foci for local deposition of ultrasound ener...

Since CO(2) is carbonic acid gas, it will decrease the pH if added to water. Therefore, a simple test can determine whether CO(2) is present in a gas mixture. If the pH of gassed water does not change significantly, then CO(2) is not present in the gas.

An abscisic acid derivative was formed by reaction with pentafluorobenzyl bromide which allowed highly sensitive detection by gas-liquid chromatography with electron capture detection. In comparison to the methyl ester derivative, the pentafluorobenzyl derivative of abscisic acid was four times more sensitive to electron capture detection and was stable at room temperature in the presence of ul...

An unknown guanidino-positive peak has been identified in urines of three sisters affected with hyperargininaemia. Identification was made on the basis of its similarity with the liquid and thin-layer chromatographic characteristics of enzymatically synthesized 2-oxo-5-guanidinovaleric acid. Identification was also made by combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of the unknown compound pe...

The cellular fatty acid composition of Brucella canis and Brucella suis was determined by gas-liquid chromatography. The presence of relatively large amounts of a 19-carbon cyclopropane fatty acid in B. suis was a major distinguishing feature between these organisms. The gas-liquid chromatography test for cellular fatty acids provides an additional criterion for the distinction of antigenically...

In this report, the degradation of 1-Naphthol was studied under xenon irradiation for 2 h using    WO3-rGO nanocomposite as photocatalyst. Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy demonstrated nanocomposite formation. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique which was utilized to analyze the degradation products, confirmed the formation of salicylic acid as a...

In the heteromolecular title structure, C(10)H(8)N(2)S·C(8)H(6)O(4), the two components are linked by O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds to form a one-dimensional chain. These chains are further inter-connected by weak inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and weak C-H⋯π inter-actions to generate a three-dimensional supra-molecular structure.

Nanostructured TiO2 has attracted much attention for a variety of applications including photocatalysts, electrodes for water photolysis, dye-sensitized solar cells, and gas sensors. In this work we report on TiO2 fiber mats for use in gas sensors demonstrating exceptionally high sensitivity to NO2, a toxic gas responsible for acid rain and other air pollution effects, and high sensitivity to H...