The sulphhydryl environment in various mixed-metal hybrid hemoglobins, viz. α2(Cu)β2(FeCO), α2(FeCO)-β2(Cu), α2(Cu)-β2(Ni), α2(Ni)-β2(Cu), was studied by reacting them with the sulphhydryl reagent, 4,4′-dithiodipyridine (4-PDS). The reactivity was compared with that of HbCO, NiHb and CuHb. It is found that there exists a correlation between conformational change and metal ion environment, not o...

Throughou t t he h i s to ry o f ag r i cu l tu ra l educa t ion , t he p rob lem so lv ing approach has been recommended by ag r i cu l tu ra l t eacher educa to rs as the p r imary s t ra tegy fo r teach ing . Severa l au tho rs o f ag r i cu l tu ra l edu c a t i o n t e x t s c i t e t h e p r o b l e m s o l v i n g a p p r o a c h a s t h e m o s t e f f e c t i v e app roach fo r t each ...

Benzildithiosemicarbazone (BDTSC) is proposed as a sensitive and selective analytical reagent for the extractive spectrophotometric determination of copper(II). BDTSC reacts with copper(II) in the pH range 1.0-7.0 to form a yellowish complex. Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration range 0.5-0.4 microg cm(-3). The yellowish Cu(II)-BDTSC complex in chloroform shows a maximum absorbance at 380 ...

Lanthanide cuprates of formula Ln₂CuO₄ exist in two principal forms, T and T' which are renowned for their exhibition at low temperatures of hole and electronic types of superconductivity, respectively. These structures differ primarily in the arrangement of oxygen between the perovskite layers and also in nature of the copper oxygen planes. The Cu-O distance in the T structure (~1.90 Å) is muc...

the catalytic oxidation of toluene over copper oxide supported on natural diatomite was investigated. the catalyst was prepared by the wet impregnation method and characterized by using the brunauer emmett teller (bet), field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem), x-ray diffraction (xrd), x-ray fluorescence (xrf) and temperature-programmed reduction (tpr) analysis. the highest catalytic ...

in this work, ag-cu nanoparticles (with different percentages of copper, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75% cu) were synthesized by wet chemical method. copper(ii) sulfate and silver nitrate were taken as metal precursors, ascorbic acid as reducing agent and anhydride maleic (ma) as a modifier. the prepared nanoparticles were characterized by means of x-ray diffraction (xrd) technique and scanning electron mic...

This manuscript proposes subjecting gas-atomized powders of ZrCu 39.85 Y 2.37 Al 1.8 metallic glass to spark plasma sintering (SPS). bulk (BMG) sinters at a temperature between its crystallization (T x ) and transition g temperatures, found be 457 °C 368 °C, respectively, via Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). Several samples were sintered different temperatures within the mentioned range...

Antigen-specific cytotoxic T cells can be generated by primary in vitro stimulation of spleen cells from C57BL/6 mice with appropriate peptide fragments. This response can be elicited without prior in vivo immunization. Chicken OVA fragmented with either cyanogen bromide (CN OVA) or trypsin (T OVA) was used as a source of mixed peptides. A synthetic peptide, NP365-380, representing the sequence...