The case presented in this report is one of 45-year-old female with dysphagia and swelling in the neck since 2 months, breathlessness, history of inability to open the mouth and course of events resembled scleroderma and diagnosis of primary systemic amyloidosis could not be established until autopsy. At autopsy skin, oesophagus, salivary glands, tongue and all the parenchymal organs like splee...

The specific reaction of potassium permanganate with thymine in single-stranded DNA was employed to analyze thymine [2+2] dimer repair in DNA and in DNA/peptide nucleic acid hybrid duplexes. This simple and highly sensitive chemical assay is convenient for monitoring repair of thymine dimers in oligonucleotides.

Alumina-supported manganese catalysts with cryptomelane and/or birnessite structure have been prepared using a simple method based on the thermal decomposition of potassium permanganate. The samples have been characterized by XRD, FTIR, TGA, DSC, N2 adsorption at −196 °C, SEM, H2-TPR and XPS, and their catalytic activity for soot combustion has been tested and compared to that of a reference Pt...

Quite recently, ion-track membranes of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) have attracted a renewed interest for their applications to next-generation electrochemical devices such as fuel cells [1,2]. In order to produce tracketched pores in PVDF films, several kinds of etching solutions were previously employed. In most cases [3], a highly concentrated aqueous KOH solution with a KMnO4 additive w...

Abstract Polyethylene oxide (PEO) incorporated with potassium permanganate (KMnO 4 ) was prepared using the solution casting technique forming PEO/KMnO complex composite films. The physicochemical properties, doping mechanism, and electron transition bands of were investigated. Introducing KMnO PEO matrix led to a decrease in crystallinity degree optical bandgap energy due creation polarons bip...