A local pH measurement around cell by pH sensing gel-tool with adhesivecontrollability was developed. We fabricated gel-tool impregnated with pH indicator Bromothymol blue (BTB), which is used for pH measurement in neutral range. Adhesion of the gel-tool to objects such as glass, gel-tool and cell is performed by UV illumination in an electrolyte solution of a certain concentration. Gel-tool is...

Three rapid spectrophotometric methods were developed for the determination of sunitinib based on the formation of ion-pair complex in acidic medium with bromocresol purple, bromothymol blue, and bromophenol blue. The formed ion-pair complexes, extractable with chloroform, were measured at 422 nm for bromocresol purple, 425 nm for bromothymol blue and 427 nm for bromophenol blue. All these meth...

Three sensitive, selective, rapid and easily reproducible spectrophotometric methods (A-C) have been developed for the determination of propranolol hydrochloride (PPH) as a hydrochloride free base propranolol (PPL) in bulk sample and in its dosage forms. These methods are based on ion-pair formation between propranolol as a hydrochloride and free base and three acidic (sulphonphthalein) dyes; n...

In this work, a simple, safe and rapid method for enumerating nitrifying bacteria was used as an alternative to traditional harmful chemical methods. The enumeration of nitrifying bacteria was based upon the change of color of the growth media containing pH indicators in response to acid production during nitrification. The oxidation of ammonia to strong acids by nitrifiers leads to pH decrease...

AIM Subclinical mastitis in bovines is mainly responsible for the huge economic loss of the dairy farmers, of which Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the causative agents. The study was aimed at a screening of suspected milk samples from different cattle farms of West Bengal for detection and confirmation of P. aeruginosa strains followed by their characterization. MATERIALS AND METHODS Around...

Although the history of photocatalysis research is not so long, many researchers have studied photocatalysis and a large number of papers on photocatalysis have been published. The objectives of this review paper are to revisit the fundamentals of photocatalysis, especially its thermodynamics and kinetics, which have not been reexamined in recent studies, to clarify the problems, if any, that p...

This paper, the second in a series concerning the use of indicator dyes to study the reactions of organic acids and bases in organic solvents, deals with halogen derivatives of phenolsulfonephthalein. Spectrophotometric data are given for mixtures of bromocresol green, bromophenol blue, iodophenol blue, and tetrabromophenol blue with primary, secondary, and tertiary aliphatic amines in benzene;...

An investigation of the phenotypic characteristics 19 rhizobial strains, isolated from root nodules different plant legumes grown in soil agriculture farms Ismailia governorate, transpired. Most isolates were creamy or white opaque, mucoid, with a convex elevation, translucent, and smooth margined. Microscopic revealed that all bacterial rod-shaped had no positive affinity for Gram-stain. Ident...