Poly(epsilon-caprolactone)-poly(ethylene glycol) (PECL) copolymers were synthesized from polyethylene glycol (PEG) and epsilon-caprolactone (epsilon-CL) using stannous octoate as catalyst at 160 degrees C by bulk polymerization. The effect of the molecular weight of PEG and the copolymer ratio on the properties of the copolymers was investigated by (1)H-NMR, IR, DSC and GPC. PCL and PECL micros...

Several Ascomycetes fungi are commonly used in bio-industries and provide available industrial residues for lectin extraction to be valuable. A lectin from Penicillium chrysogenum, named PeCL, was purified from a fungal culture using gel-filtration chromatography column. PeCL was found to be a mannose-specific lectin by haemagglutination activity towards rabbit erythrocyte cells and was visuali...

Cashew tree (family Anacardiaceae) grows widely in many areas of the Southeast Asia countries including Indonesia. Its fruit and nut are used for food, whereas its leaf is one of the traditional antihypertensive medicine in Indonesia. Hypertension affects many people around the world especially in developing countries such as Indonesia. The study aimed to evaluate the in vitro antihypertension ...

The remodeling process of the arterial wall in atherosclerosis involves intimal thickening, which can be related to the barrier functions of the endothelial cell layer (ECL) and internal elastic lamina (IEL) using horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as a tracer. To evaluate the ECL and IEL permeabilities (PECL and PIEL, respectively) and intimal transport parameters, e.g., apparent HRP velocity (VI) a...

We evaluated the usefulness of the combination of three plasmids encoding tegumental (pECL and pSM14) and muscular (pIRV5) antigens of the Schistosoma mansoni on improving the protective immunity over the use of a single antigen as DNA vaccines. Female BALB/c mice were inoculated twice with 25 micro g DNA plasmid within two weeks interval. The challenge was performed with 80 cercarias of a regi...

In this article, we study the photoinduced electrochemiluminescence (PECL) of a luminol analog (L-012: 8-amino- 5‑chloro-2,3-dihydro-7-phenyl-pyrido[3,4-d]pyridazine-1,4‑dione) on n-type hematite (α-Fe2O3) nanorod arrays deposited by hydrothermal synthesis transparent conducting oxide. We report that material, when used as photoanode, triggers PECL at potential low -0.2 V vs Ag/AgCl and allows ...

In this study, the influences of pressure, temperature and equivalence ratio on onset cellular instabilities in premixed hydrogen/air laminar flames were studied using a constant volume fan-stirred combustion vessel. The instability is marked by critical stretch rate, at which flame speed rapidly deviates from its prior response to stretch. It noted that Peclet number, Pecl, increases with incr...

Murunga, M., G. T. Pecl, E. M. Ogier, P. Leith, C. Macleod, R. Kelly, S. Corney, I. Van Putten, D. Mossop, Cullen-Knox, Bettiol, Fox-Hughes, Sharples, and J. Nettlefold. 2022. More than just information: what does the public want to know about climate change?. Ecology Society 27(2):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13147-270214

Biodegradable and biocompatible polymeric scaffolds have been recently introduced for tissue regeneration purpose. In the present study we aimed to develop polymeric-based scaffolds for bone regeneration. Two polyesters, poly-beta-propiolactone (PBPL), poly-epsilon-caprolactone (PCPL) and two polyfumarates, polydiisopropyl fumarate (PDIPF), polydicyclohexyl fumarate (PDCF) were chosen to prepar...