Most of the problems of endodontic origin have a bacterial etiological agent. Thus, there is a continued interest in seeking more effective chemical substances that can replace the camphorated paramonochiorophenol or antibiotics as intracanal medicaments. Among the possible substances, ozone has some interesting biological characteristics: bactericidal action, debriding effect, angiogenesis sti...

A method for quantitative determination of glycine in serum and urine, involving degradation to formaldehyde with chloramine-T and subsequent measurement by the Hantzsch reaction or chromotropic acid, has been evaluated and modified. The inhibitory effect of some physiological constituents on the analysis is pointed out. We recommend that samples be purified by passage through a column of ion-e...

Plasmonic colour printing has drawn wide attention as a promising candidate for the next-generation colour-printing technology. However, an efficient approach to realize full colour and scalable fabrication is still lacking, which prevents plasmonic colour printing from practical applications. Here we present a scalable and full-colour plasmonic printing approach by combining conjugate twin-pha...

A 3D-printed microfluidic device was designed and manufactured using a low cost ($2000) consumer grade fusion deposition modelling (FDM) 3D printer. FDM printers are not typically used, or are capable, of producing the fine detailed structures required for microfluidic fabrication. However, in this work, the optical transparency of the device was improved through manufacture optimisation to suc...

A new method for colorimetric determination of urinary hydroxylysine is described. Approximately one-hundredth of human urine collected for 24 hr was diluted to 25 ml and titrated to pH 2.0 with 2 hcl, and then subjected to column chromatography on Dowex 50 X 4 (H+ form). Amino acids were eluted from the column with 1.5 N NH4OH. Hydroxylysine in the elute with 1.5 N NH4OH was separated from th...

Covalent grafting of chromotropic acid (CA) moiety to a glassy carbon electrode was performed by electrochemical reduction of the corresponding diazonium cation generated in situ. Grafted electrodes were subjected to the electrochemical detection of multivalent cations using Fe(CN)(6)(3-/4-) as an electrochemical probe molecule. In the absence of metal cations, redox reaction of the anionic p...