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Production of Useful Chemicals from Sunflower Oil by Microorganisms

  • El-Sharkawy, Saleh Hassan
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.10-16
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    • 1995
  • A number of microorganisms have been screened for growth on sunflower oil as a sale carbon source for production of useful chemicals. Rhizopus stolonifer NRRL 1478 was found to transform the lipid contents of sunflower oil into dodecyl ${\beta}$-D-glucopyranoside and dodecanedioic acid in 15 and 25% yield respectively. The produced compounds were isolated and purified by column chromatography and its chemical identity were established using MS, IR, $^1H\;and\;^{13}C\;NMR$ spectroscopy.

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The Joins (SKI 306X) study: Effects on Arachidonic acid metabolism pathway and other inflammatory mediators

  • Ryu, Keun-Ho;Jung, Ki-Won;Han, Chang-Kyun;Kwak, Wie-Jong;Cho, Yong-Baik
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.143.2-144
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    • 2003
  • Joins (SKI 306X) is now clinically used for the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA). In previous reports, Joins a natural herbal product extracted from three herbs Clematis Radix. Trichosanthes Radix and Prunella Flos, was shown to have good analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects in several in vivo models. e.g., acetic acid-induced pain, carrageenan-induced paw edema and adjuvant-induced arthritis. (omitted)

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Screening and Identification of Natural Herbicidal Active Substance in Rye and Oat Extracts (호밀, 귀리 추출물로부터 제초활성물질 탐색 및 동정)

  • Yang, K.J.;Kim, K.H.;Chung, I.M.
    • Korean Journal of Weed Science
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.348-355
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    • 1998
  • This study was conducted to identify allelopathic compounds in rye and oat straw extracts by HPLC analysis. These extracts were analyzed with 12 standard chemicals including salicylic acid. 11 chemicals in rye extract except for naringin and in oat extract except for catechin were identified. Salicylic acid(8.34mg/g) in rye straw extracts and naringin(7.50mg/g) in oat straw extracts among these standard chemicals were identified as the largest amount substance. The germination of Chenopodium ablum seeds was significantly inhibited by these chemicals at $10^{-3}$ and $10^{-4}M$ concentrations as compared to control. Salicylic acid in rye and naringin in oat were considered as the major allelopathic substances although allelopathy may be caused by an interaction of many substances. Yet many unidentified chemical compounds are present in both extracts.

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Deterioration Mechanism of Paper according to Sizing and Beating(I)-Influences of Sizing- (사이징과 고해에 따른 종이의 열화기구(제1보)- 사이징의 영향 -)

  • 김봉용
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 1998
  • This study was carried out in order to elucidate the deterioration mechanism of paper according to various sizing chemicals. No additive paper and four kinds of papers containing rosin-alum, alum only, alkylketene dimer(AKD)-cation polymer and cation polymer only were treated by UV light to study changes of water-resistant, optical and mechanical properties from the view points of natural deterioration of paper. Since rosin chemicals have UV absorption at the relatively long wavelength region, rosins are degraded to form hydrophilic groups such as carboxylic acid from their double bonds by UV treatments. These phenomena caused the decreasing of sizing degree and wetting time in case of rosin-sized paper, while the UV treatments brought about the slight increase of wetting time in rosin-free papers such as no additive, alum and kymene only paper owing to the auto-sizing effect. Optical properties were primarily influenced by sizing chemicals. Rosin-sized paper showed lower brightness after UV and near UV treatment because of its UV instability.

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Studies on the Fish Kills by Histopathological Characteristics in Gills and Caudal Fins (아가미 혈종과 지느러미 표피탈락 현상을 이용한 어류 폐사원인 연구)

  • 최필선;최성수;이길철;윤준헌;박광식
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.11 no.3_4
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 1996
  • Histopathological changes of gills and caudal fins isolated from fishes, Cyprinus carpio, Carassius auratus, and Hernibarbus labeo, which were killed by oxygen deficiency or toxic chemicals, were studied. The toxic chemicals were HCl, NaOH, chloroform, benzene, heavy metals(Cu, Cr, Zn, Pb, Hg), and o-dichlorobenzene. The exposure level was enough to kill the fishes within 30 minutes. Oxygen deficient water was prepared by aeration of nitrogen gas and the oxygen concentration was less than l ppm. Cryocutting was used for the rapid preparation of tissue slides and the tissues were stained by hematoxylin/eosin. In the fishes killed by hazardous chemicals, congestion and/or hyperplasia of secondary lamella and erosion of fin were found as the major histopathological changes. Whereas, these characteristics were not observed in gills or caudal fins of fishes killed by oxygen deficiency. These different bioindications appeared in the fishes killed by toxic substances or natural causes, can be used for the rapid identification of the causes of fish kills.

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Simultaneous Determination of 285 Chemicals in Water at ppt Levels by GC-Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry

  • Kadokami, Kiwao;Sato, Kenji;Koga, Minoru;Shinohara, Ryota
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.771-778
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    • 1995
  • The authors have developed an analytical method for determining trace amounts of 285 kinds of chemicals in natural waters by GC-ion trap MS. The results of overall recovery tests at $0.1{\mu}g/l$ showed that the mean recovery was 92.1% and the mean relative standard deviation was 10.8%. The mean of the method detection limits was $0.036{\mu}g/l$. From the results of analysis of real samples, it was confirmed that this method is useful to elucidate the concentration levels and the fate of chemicals in the aquatic environment.

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Effects of Two Plant Growth Regulators, Terpal-C and Cerone, on Freezing Tolerance and Winter Survival of Canola ( Brassica napus L.)

  • Song, Moon-Tae
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.38-42
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    • 1998
  • One of the most attractive short-term possibilities for increasing freezing tolerance of winter crops may be the application of chemicals. This research was conducted to determine the effect of two plant growth regulators. Terpal-C and Cerone on freezing tolerance and winter survival of canola. Three cultivars were planted on the michigan state University Agronimy Farm at East Lansing. MI. on Sept. 10. 1992 and 1993 Chemicals were applied to one-month-old plants when they reached the 5 leaf stage. Ion leakage tests for freezing tolerance were conducted before and after chemical treatment. Winter survival was evaluated by counting the plant standing in the fall and spring. Neither of the chemicals. Terpal-C. inhibited natural cold hardening.

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PharmacoNER Tagger: a deep learning-based tool for automatically finding chemicals and drugs in Spanish medical texts

  • Armengol-Estape, Jordi;Soares, Felipe;Marimon, Montserrat;Krallinger, Martin
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.15.1-15.7
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    • 2019
  • Automatically detecting mentions of pharmaceutical drugs and chemical substances is key for the subsequent extraction of relations of chemicals with other biomedical entities such as genes, proteins, diseases, adverse reactions or symptoms. The identification of drug mentions is also a prior step for complex event types such as drug dosage recognition, duration of medical treatments or drug repurposing. Formally, this task is known as named entity recognition (NER), meaning automatically identifying mentions of predefined entities of interest in running text. In the domain of medical texts, for chemical entity recognition (CER), techniques based on hand-crafted rules and graph-based models can provide adequate performance. In the recent years, the field of natural language processing has mainly pivoted to deep learning and state-of-the-art results for most tasks involving natural language are usually obtained with artificial neural networks. Competitive resources for drug name recognition in English medical texts are already available and heavily used, while for other languages such as Spanish these tools, although clearly needed were missing. In this work, we adapt an existing neural NER system, NeuroNER, to the particular domain of Spanish clinical case texts, and extend the neural network to be able to take into account additional features apart from the plain text. NeuroNER can be considered a competitive baseline system for Spanish drug and CER promoted by the Spanish national plan for the advancement of language technologies (Plan TL).

A Study on Dissolve and Remove Analysis of Pollutants in Drinking Water by Suspected Cancer Causing Organic Chemicals using AOPs (Advanced Oxidation Processes) & M/F Hybird Process (고도산화와 정밀여과막 혼성공정을 이용한 먹는 물에 존재하는 발암원인으로 의심되는 유기화학성분의 분해 및 제거분석에 관한 연구)

  • An, Tai-Young;Park, Mi-young;Hur, Jang-hyun;Jun, Sang-ho;Han, Mi-Ae;An, Yoon-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.193-200
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    • 2007
  • The AOPs research defined by creating a sufficient amount of OH radicals from the dissolution of organic materials through photoxidation and research for a complete elimination of residual organic materials by membrane are actively ongoing. This research focuses on the hybrid processing of AOPs and M/F membrane to dissolve and eliminate organic chemicals in drinking water which are suspected of carcinogens. For this purpose, underground water was used as a source of drinking water for the hybrid processing of AOPs oxidation and M/F membrane, and a pilot plant test device was installed indoor. Carcinogenic chemicals of VOCs and pesticide were artificially mixed with the drinking water, which was then diluted close to natural water in order to examine treatment efficiency and draw optimal operation conditions. The samples used for this experiment include four chemicals phenol, chloroform, in VOCs and parathion, carbaryl in pesticide. As a result of the experiments conducted with simple, and compound solutions, the conditions to sufficiently dissolve and eliminate carcinogenic chemicals from the hybrid processing of where carcinogens were artificially added are : (hydrogen peroxide) prescribed solution 100 mg/L under pH 5.5~6.0, and the temperature $12{\sim}16^{\circ}C$, at the normal temperature and pressure. $d-O_3$ volume of 5.0 ppm and above and 30-40 minutes of reaction time are most appropriate and using MF/UF for membrane was ideal.

Efficient Synthetic Routes of Biomass-derived Platform Chemicals (바이오매스 유래 플랫폼 케미컬들에 대한 효과적인 합성 방법들)

  • Irshad, Mobina;Lee, Seongwoo;Choi, Eunju;Kim, Jung Won
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.280-289
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    • 2019
  • 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and its derivatives, 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) or 2,5-diformylfuran (DFF), are regarded as the "sleeping giants" owing to their wide range of applications and a good alternative source for the production of significant chemicals in almost all kind of industries. This mini-review briefly covers the aspects related to the syntheses, transformation, and applications for the biomass-derived platform chemicals from past to most recent. Many scientific efforts have continuously been made to find out the environmental benign applicable ways in order to achieve the full advantage of these renewable materials because of not only to protect the globe but also shield the future of new generations. One of the best solutions could be the development and utilization of platform chemicals from the natural biomass.