The decolourization ofmelanoidins was studied with a batch electrocoagulation (EC) process using aluminium electrodes. The effects of conductivity (K = 500-3000 microS/cm), initial pHi (4.2-8.2), current density (j = 2.5-7.5 A/m2), initial melanoidin concentration (C0 = 100-800 mg/L) and operating time (tEC = 0-60 min) were investigated on the decolourization efficiency. The results obtained fr...

Electrocoagulation (EC) is electrochemical water and wastewater treatment technology which in its simplest form uses an electrochemical cell where a dc voltage is applied to the electrodes, usually made of Iron or Aluminum, and the electrolyte is the water or wastewater. Current theory of EC has not been able to explain all the phenomena associated with the process, among others the differences...

Combination regimens are considered a valuable tool for the fight against drug-resistant falciparum malaria. This study was conducted to evaluate the antimalarial potential of clindamycin in combination with dihydroartemisinin in continuously cultured and in freshly isolated Plasmodium falciparum parasites, measuring the inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein II synthesis. I...

It remains unclear how global climate change affects dioecious plants that may be especially vulnerable to drivers, because they often exhibit skewed sex ratios and eco-physiological specialization in certain microhabitats. In this study, female male saplings of Populus cathayana were employed explore sex-specific responses the effects sexual competition under elevated temperature (ET), CO2 (EC...

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine the optimal non-viral transfection method for use in human smooth muscle cells (SMC) and endothelial cells (EC). METHODS: Coronary Artery (CoA) and Aortic (Ao) SMC and EC were transfected with a reporter plasmid, encoding chloramphenicol acetyltransferase type 1 (CAT), with seven different transfection reagents, two electroporation methods and ...

A question to be addressed in the present study is how different the eyes-closed (EC) and eyes-open (EO) resting states are across frequency bands in terms of efficiency and centrality of the brain functional network. We investigated both the global and nodal efficiency and betweenness centrality in the EC and EO resting states from 39 volunteers. Mutual information was used to obtain the funct...

To increase the antitumor efficacy, in the present study, we proposed several settings of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2/9-oriented combinations that comprise the MMP-2/9-targeting fusion protein dFv-LDP and the MMP inhibitor doxycycline (DOX) in association with EGFR/HER2-bispecific fusion protein Ec-LDP-Hr, its enediyne-energized analogue Ec-LDP-Hr-AE, and gemcitabine (GEM). The expressions...