silica  coated magnetite  nanoparticles were  covalent  grafted with  3-aminopropyl trimethoxysilane  to give aptscmnps. reaction of  the resulted nanomaterial with 4-formyl benzo-12-crown-4 ether afforded fb12c4/aptsmnps  nanocomposite  material  in  which  the  crown ether  moiety  was  attached  through  propyl  chain  spacer. characterization of  the prepared nanocomposite was performed wit...

Auxin physiologists often have attempted to establish correlations between the amount of auxin in a plant tissue and the manifestation of auxin activity such as growth, rooting, parthenocarpy, bud inhibition, etc. With Avena coleoptiles and tomato stem tips, to use specific examples, it is possible to demonstrate a correlation between growth and the amount of auxin which can be diffused from th...

Short-term exposure to diethyl ether strongly inhibits the metabolism of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). Twenty-six 6-week-old male Fischer 344 rats were exposed to ether vapor until their righting reflex was lost (approximately 2 min). The animals were removed from the ether and NDMA was immediately administered by i.v. bolus injection at a dose of 300 microgram/kg via a cannula surgically inse...

This study examined the antioxidant and anticancer activities of the petroleum ether extracts from the roots of Platycodon grandiflorum A. DC, which is a plant used as both a herbal medicine and food in Asia. Extracts from Platycodon grandiflorum in petroleum ether were fractionated (fractions I-V) by silica gel column chromatography using gradient solvents (petroleum ether: ethyl ether, 9:1-5:...

PURPOSE To evaluate the roles of CB1 cannabinoid receptors in cellular functions of trabecular meshwork (TM) cells, including cell migration, adhesion, morphology and cytoskeleton changes. METHODS Noladin ether, a selective CB1 receptor agonist, and SR141716A, a selective CB1 receptor antagonist, were used to characterize the cellular functions of cultured porcine TM cells. Fluorescence assis...

The objective of this study was to investigate the aquatic-toxic effects of glyoxal-containing cellulose ether with four different glyoxal concentrations (0%, 1.4%, 2.3%, and 6.3%) in response to global chemical regulations, e.g., European Union Classification, Labeling and Packaging (EU CLP). Toxicity tests of glyoxal-containing cellulose ether on 11 different microbial strains, Microcystis ae...

Cholesterol and ether lipids are ubiquitous in mammalian cell membranes, and their interactions are crucial in ether lipid mediated cholesterol trafficking. We report on cholesterol's molecular interactions with ether lipids as determined using a combination of small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering, and all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A scattering density profile model for an e...

ETHER has long been known to cause a short period of analgesia before inducing unconsciousness and surgical anesthesia. In 1794, Thomas Beddoes had already provided relief with a short inhalation of ether for a young woman suffering from a painful mastitis John Snow also alluded to that initial analgesic stage in his 1847 book on ether. Deep anesthesia was rarely sought or reached in the early ...