Ingestion of even small amounts of MDMA ('ecstasy') by a small subset of the population may result in a potentially fatal clinical syndrome of severe hyperpyrexia, cardiovascular collapse, coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis and multiple organ failure. Rapid and aggressive temperature control is of utmost importance in the management of these patients. We report a case of MDMA toxicity presenting with...

Several methods for the preparation of "white ghosts" or "resealed ghosts" were described in the recent literature. This article compares three methods to prepare white, resealed ghosts from bovine erythrocytes based on the principle of hypotonic lysis. The methods described differ by the removal of hemoglobin from the empty cells. The main difference between the standard centrifugation, the ge...

This paper deals with the time-optimal operation and parameter estimation problem of a general diafiltration process in the presence of fouling. Fouling stands for one of the dominant problems in the membrane separation processes. The dynamic behavior of the fouled membrane is described by a general fouling model taken from literature. An Extended Kalman filter is proposed for the recursive est...

we studied the expression of human growth hormone (hgh) in e. coli under a bacteriophage t5-base promoter in a pqe30 expression vector. for an efficient expression of hgh cdna, a number of codons at the hgh n-terminal coding region were altered based on the e. coli major codons. an over-expression of hgh in the bacteria, carrying the recombinant plasmids, was observed at 37°c in the presence of...