Colon cancer is the third leading class of cancer causing increased mortality in developed countries. A polyp is one type of lesion observed in a majority of colon cancer patients. Here, we report a microscopic Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) study of normal, adenomatous polyp and malignant cells from biopsies of 24 patients. The goal of our study was to differentiate an adenomatous polyp fro...

Water-vapor adsorption on poorly crystalline boehmite (PCB) was studied using a gravimetric FTIR apparatus that measured FTIR spectra and water adsorption isotherms simultaneously. The intensity of the delta(HOH) band of adsorbed water changed linearly with water content and this linear relationship was used to determine the dry mass of the sample. Adsorption and desorption isotherms of PCB sho...

Photolyases (PHRs) are DNA repair enzymes that revert UV-induced photoproducts, either cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD) or (6-4) photoproducts (PPs), into normal bases to maintain genetic integrity. (6-4) PHR must catalyze not only covalent bond cleavage, but also hydroxyl or amino group transfer, yielding a more complex mechanism than that postulated for CPD PHR. Previous mutation analysis ...

IV–VI semiconductor multiple quantum well ~MQW! structures ~PbSe/PbSrSe! were grown on Si~111! and BaF2~111! substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. Structural and optical properties of the MQW structures have been studied using reflection high-energy electron diffraction, high resolution x-ray diffraction ~HRXRD!, Fourier-transform infrared ~FTIR! transmission, and midinfrared photoluminescence ...

Commercially, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is subjected to be adulterated with low-price oils having similar color to EVOO. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy combined with chemometrics has been successfully used for classification and quantification of corn (CO) and sunflower oils (SFOs) in EVOO sets. The combined frequency regions of 3027-3000, 1076-860, and 790-698 cm(-1) were u...

A recurring pattern of spectral changes indicative of periodic changes in the proportion of beta-structure and a-helix of a recombinant ECTO-NOX fusion protein of tNOX, with a cellulose binding domain peptide, was demonstrated by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopic analyses. The pattern of structural changes correlated with oscillatory patterns of enzymat...

Photosystem II (PSII), an essential component of oxygenic photosynthesis, is a membrane-bound pigment protein complex found in green plants and cyanobacteria. Whereas the molecular structure of cyanobacterial PSII has been resolved with at least medium resolution [Zouni, A., Witt, H.-T., Kern, J., Fromme, P., Krauss, N., Saenger, W. & Orth, P. (2001) Nature (London) 409, 739-743; Kamiya, N. & S...

variations in biochemical features are extensive among cells. identification of marker that is specific for each cell is essential for following the differentiation of stem cell and metastatic growing. fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ftir) as a biochemical analysis more focused on diagnosis of cancerous cells. in this study, commercially obtained cell lines such as human ovarian carcin...

This study evaluated the effect of blue light emitting diode (LED) and quartz tungsten halogen (QTH) on the degree of conversion (DC) of an etch-and-rinse Single Bond adhesive system (SB) and a mixture composed of primer solution and resin bond from Clearfil SE Bond self-etching adhesive system (CB) using Fourier transform infrared analysis (FTIR). Adhesives were applied to potassium bromide pe...

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) is one of the tools to represent molecular structure based on atomic vibration. It can denote a specific property chemical bond and in material, especially when analyzing specimens relating plastics, polymers, organic components. The FTIR peaks spectrum act as fingerprint bonding, which need sufficient reference database distinguish them. This paper address iss...