Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) is a widely accepted method in drug and toxicological analyses to detect and quantify drugs and metabolites. However, current RP-HPLC methods use mobile phases...
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Liquid chromatography, Toxicological chemistry, High performance liquid chromatography, and Bioactive compounds
Most pesticides produce some risk of harm to the environment because pesticides are designed to kill or adversely affect living organisms (US EPA, 2010). It is desirable that alternate, safer forms of pest control be developed....
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emulsion, paraffin wax, pesticide, rheology, rheometry, and soy wax
Functional group interconversion is an essential strategy in synthetic organic chemistry with some functional groups being more difficult to. The ester functional group is relatively difficult to reduce when compared to...
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Organic compounds -- Synthesis, Esters, Borohydrides, and Reduction (Chemistry)
DNA polymerases are essential enzymes required to accurately and rapidly copy genetic material. Although they conserve a common function of duplicating DNA, DNA polymerases are incredibly diverse enzymes. The polymerase A...
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Actinobacteriophage, Bacteriophage, Cryptococcus neoformans, and DNA Polymerase
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Actinobacteria, Bacteriophages, Cryptococcus neoformans, and DNA polymerases
The logistical issues associated with completely sequencing a very large genome greatly limit the number organisms that can have such a project devoted to them. One of the methods developed to circumvent this impasse is the...
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DNA Sequencing, Expressed Sequence Tag, and Quercus rubra
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Red oak -- Genetics, Red oak -- Genome mapping, and Plant molecular biology
In the field of forensic science, discovered materials that could potentially be used as evidence are screened using presumptive and confirmatory tests before the samples are subjected to DNA analysis. Both of these tests have...
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Body fluids -- Analysis, Seminal proteins -- Analysis, Evidence, Criminal, Crime scene searches, Raman spectroscopy, Raman effect, Surface enhanced, and Chemistry, Forensic
Since the discovery of the topochemical 1,4-polymerization of 3,4-bis(methylene)hexanedioic acid (BMHA), the first reported polymerization of an internally substituted butadiene, an objective of our research group has been to...
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Butadiene, FT-IR, Kinetics, Polymerization, Topochemical, and X-ray powder diffraction
Studies on Superoxide Dismutase Inhibition We used NMR relaxation rates to study reactions of the enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD) with low molecular weight polyphenolic compounds. While the compounds appeared to inhibit SOD,...
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diabetes, flavonols, oxidative stress, and superoxide dismutase
Iron and the poly-anionic carbohydrate, hyaluronate (HA), have both been implicated as possible contributors to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology. In this work, we hypothesized that in RA...
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Rheumatoid arthritis -- Etiology, Carbohydrates -- Metabolism, and Iron -- Metabolism
Iron and the poly-anionic carbohydrate, hyaluronate (HA), have both been implicated as possible contributors to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology. In this work, we hypothesized that in RA...
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Rheumatoid arthritis -- Etiology, Carbohydrates -- Metabolism, and Iron -- Metabolism
