The dextran sulphates resemble heparin in being active inhibitors of several different forms of biological activity, e.g., blood coagulation, serum complement activity, and certain enzyme systems (Walton, 1954). In each case the activity of the dextran sulphate appears to be dependent upon direct interaction with one or more protein components of the biological system under investigation. In fa...

Poorlyand well-crystallized efflorescent sulphates sequences beginning with the simple hydrated salts from divalent to trivalent cations are described in acid mine drainage (AMD) elsewhere (Alpers et al., 1994; Nordstrom, 1999; Nordstrom and Alpers, 1999; Buckby et al., 2003; Romero et al., 2006; among others). Weathering of pyrite and pyrrothite produces acidity and Fe, followed by precipitati...

1. An analytical procedure has been developed for the determination of urinary 17-oxosteroid sulphates and 11-deoxy-17-oxosteroid glucosiduronates. 2. By submitting urine to the following operations: (a) extraction of the 17-oxosteroid conjugates into chloroform (in the presence of pyridinium sulphate), (b) solvolysis (in the absence of acid) of the steroid sulphates, (c) separation of the ster...

The synthesis in vitro of the sulphuric acid esters of ordinary phenols by rat-liver preparations has been demonstrated by De Meio & Tkacz (1952), De Meio, Wizerkaniuk & Fabiani (1953), De Meio, Wizerkaniuk & Schreibman (1954) and Bernstein & McGilvery (1952a, b). De Meio & Lewycka (1955) were able to observe the formation in vitro of dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate by the same type of preparat...

1. A simple method for the extraction of 17-oxo steroid sulphates of plasma is described; glucosiduronates and orthophosphates are extracted, but to a smaller extent. 2. Four methods of analyses of the extracts are given and are relatively simple. Three of these are specific for steroid sulphates and two measure the sulphate conjugates directly. 3. Values for dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate and...

High-field 1H-n.m.r.-spectroscopic studies supported by chemical carbohydrate analyses show that skeletal keratan sulphates (KS-II) of bovine origin may be sub-classified into two groups. Keratan sulphate chains from articular and intervertebral-disc cartilage (KS-II-A) contain two structural features, namely alpha(1----3)-fucose and alpha(2----6)-linked N-acetyl-neuraminic acid residues, that ...

This paper presents the spatial and temporal mass concentration variations of major acidic species (chlorides, nitrates and sulphates) in high risk particle fraction PM2..5 in Zagreb air. The sampling was carried out at four measuring sites during the summer of 2002 (June – July) and winter 2002-2003 (November – January). The results show no significant differences in pollutant concentration le...

Sections of liver and spleen from six cases of secondary amyloidosis have been examined, by various improved histochemical methods, for acidic mucosubstances. The results indicate a complex in amyloid deposits of protein and sulphated mucopolysaccharides in which the principal substance is heparan sulphate with traces of chondroitin sulphates. Deposits also contain sialic acid. The results are ...