Background: Although DC Bead has been useful in treatment of multiple and large hepatocellular carcinoma, loading time of doxorubicin into the DC Bead takes a long time of 30-120 minutes. Epirubicin is also used as an antitumor agent together with DC Bead, but its loading efficiency was not sufficiently elucidated. Methods: To shorten loading time of epirubicin into DC Bead (100-300μm, 300-500μ...

up flow anaerobic sludge blanket (uasb) treatment has proved its efficiency among other treatment methods especially for hardly degradable wastewaters such as industrial wastewaters and leachate. uasb is a widely used reactor with a resistance biomass. waste landfills' leachate is one of the most polluted wastewaters which cause great concerns due to landfill implementations for municipal ...

an efficiency-centred hierarchical model is developed to assess the performance ofwastewater treatment plants (wwtps). specifically, a new treatment performance index (tpi) hasbeen proposed to determine the overall treatment performance of wwtp by analysing the tpivalues and the weights of individual treatment phase for overall treatment performance. threemodules have been developed to examine ...

BACKGROUND Cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) oligodeoxynucleotides activate Toll-like receptor 9, leading to induction of proinflammatory cytokines, which play an important role in induction and maintenance of innate and adaptive immune responses. Previously, we have used boron nitride nanospheres (BNNS) as a carrier for delivery of unmodified CpG oligodeoxynucleotides to activate Toll-like rece...

In recent years, use of biodegradable polymers based nanoparticles has received highinterest in the development of vaccines delivery vehicles. The aim of study was to preparechitosan nanoparticles (CS NPs) for loading Echis carinatus (EC) venom and evaluate theirpotential as an adjuvant and antigen delivery system on a pilot scale. CS NPs were preparedusing ionic gelation method, and their char...

In this study, performance evaluation for the gas-phase o-xylene removal using a xylene-acclimated biotrickling filter (BTF) was conducted. Substrate interactions during aerobic biodegradation of three poorly soluble compounds, both individually and in paired mixtures (namely, o-xylene and ethyl acetate, o-xylene and dichloromethane, which are common solvents used by pharmaceutical industry), w...

in this study, feasibility of upgrading and retrofitting municipal wastewater treatment plantswas investigated at laboratory scale using moving bed biofilm reactor (mbbr) process. for this purpose,an aerobic pilot was operated for nearly one year in different conditions, in which a moving bed carrier with aspecific biofilm surface area of 500 m2/m3 and a filling rate of 60% was utilized. system...

the aim of the research work was to chemically modify guar gum(gg) as a ph sensitive co-polymer and formulating intestinal targeting eso nanoparticles (nps) using the synthesized co-polymer. poly acrylamide-grafted-guar gum (paam-g-gg) co-polymer was synthesized by free radical polymerization. chemical modification of paam-g-gg by alkaline hydrolysis results in formation of a ph-sensitive co-po...

background: disulfiram is oral aldehyde dehydrogenase (aldh) inhibitor that has been used in the treatment of alcoholism. recent studies show that this drug has anticancer properties; however, its rapid degradation has limited its clinical application. encapsulation of disulfiram polymeric nanoparticles (nps) may improve its anticancer activities and protect rapid degradation of the drug. mater...

objective(s): over the past two decades, considerable interest has been focused on utilizing biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles (mnps) for biomedical applications. in this study, production of human serum albumin (hsa) nanoparticles using desolvation technique that were simultaneous loaded with high amounts of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (spions) and 5-flourouracil (5-fu) was i...