Powell (1953) introduced a method for the estimation of serum calcium using the EEL flame photometer, and claimed that it gave results in good agreement with a standard titrimetric procedure. In this laboratory, both these methods were found to give low results when tested against standard sera, prepared by adding known amounts of calcium to serum completely decalcified by treatment with a cati...

The occurrence of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) in normal human urine is suggested by the experiments of Page and his co-workers. Twarog & Page (1953) examined acetone extracts of urine by a pharmacological method (isolated heart of Venus mercenaria) and reported a 'serotonin-like activity' equivalent to 0'1-10yeg. of 5-hydroxytryptamine/ ml. ofurine. Later, Bumpus&Page (1955) described indol...

1. Effects of starvation or treatment with a cation exchange resin, dowex 50, parallel in some respects those seen earlier on the respiration and fermentation of bakers' yeast receiving 90,000 r of 250 kv. x-rays. Starvation increased the radiosensitivity of cell division processes whether measured by colony formation or by turbidimetric determination of growth in a liquid medium. The dowex 50 ...

A mixed plating rinse wastewater containing zinc, hexavalent chromium, trivalent chromium, and cyanide with total dissolved solids of 424 mg/1 was treated by a model consisting of a sand filter and ion exchange columns. A strongly acidic cation resin in hydrogen form and a strongly basic anion resin in hydroxide form were used in the columns as cationic and anionic exchangers, respectively. The...

A clean process has been developed for the synthesis of 2-adamantylphenol derivatives through adamantylation of substituted phenols with adamantanols catalyzed by commercially available and recyclable ion-exchange sulfonic acid resin in acetic acid. The sole byproduct of the adamantylation reaction, namely water, could be converted into the solvent acetic acid by addition of a slight excess of ...