background: world health organization (who) reported continuous increase of alcohol consumption in southeast asian region. on social and religious ground, open alcohol consumption is banned in bangladesh though incidence of acute methanol intoxication is seriously increasing. unfortunately, apart from who report (2004) there is no available epidemiological and clinical data in bangladesh. this ...

in order to gain a better understanding of the chemistry of methanl-to-hydro-carbon conversion, it is necessary to determine the nature of the primary reaction products. experiments carried out in this work on h-zsm-11, using a continuous flow reactor linked to an on-line gas chromatograph demonstrated that ethylene and methane are the primary reaction products. the results obtained using solid...

Despite the significant contributions of tissue culture and bacterial models to toxicology, whole animal models for developmental neurotoxins are limited in availability and ease of experimentation. Because Drosophila is a well understood model for embryonic development that is highly accessible, we asked whether it could be used to study methanol developmental neurotoxicity. In the presence of...

Methanol poisoning is an uncommon but an extremely hazardous intoxication. Since methanol is a versatile fuel and is having increasing usage in an energy-conscious society, a high index of suspicion and swift laboratory confirmation is essential in managing this poisoning. Methanol poisoning may occur in sporadic or epidemic circumstances. Chronic exposure may occur in the occupational setting....

The metabolism of methanol was monitored in whole cells of the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha by using [13C]methanol and n.m.r. in vivo. The main products observed under normal conditions were trehalose and glycerol, whereas cells that were starved before exposure to [13C]methanol also accumulated glutamate, glutamine and alanine; formate was also more prominent in spectra from starv...

Liquid methanol and methanol clusters have been comprehensively studied to reveal their local structure and hydrogen bond networks. However, our understanding of the crystal forms of methanol is rather limited. The known crystal structures of solid methanol, α, β, and γ, are composed of infinite hydrogen bond chains in their unit cell. The structural diversity of solid methanol is much less tha...

Methanol is considered an interesting carbon source in "bio-based" microbial production processes. Since Corynebacterium glutamicum is an important host in industrial biotechnology, in particular for amino acid production, we performed studies of the response of this organism to methanol. The C. glutamicum wild type was able to convert (13)C-labeled methanol to (13)CO2. Analysis of global gene ...