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Biodegradation

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Hyperbranched Polylysine: A Versatile, Biodegradable Transfection Agent for the Production of Recombinant Proteins by Transient Gene Expression and the Transfection of Primary Cells

Harm-Anton Klok, Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser, Yashas Rajendra, Zuzana Kadlecova

The feasibility of a new transfection agent, HBPL, for the production of recombinant IgG antibody via TGE as well as for the transfection of primary cells is studied. Under the conditions investigated, transfection of CHO-DG44 cells using HBPL results in I ...

2012

Accelerated ageing and degradation in poly-L-lactide/hydroxyapatite nanocomposites

Pierre-Etienne Bourban, John Christopher Plummer, Claire Diane Delabarde

Dry, compression molded films of medical grade poly-L-lactide (PLLA) showed a marked reduction in tensile strength and strain after accelerated ageing in aqueous NaOH at 50 degrees C. accompanied by mass loss, surface erosion, increased hydrophilicity and, ...

Elsevier2011

Anaerobic degradation of vinyl chloride in aquifer microcosms

Christof Holliger

The anaerobic degradation potential at a chloroethene-contaminated site was investigated by operating two anoxic column aquifer microcosms enriched in iron(III). One column was fed with vinyl chloride (VC) only (column A) and one with acetate in addition ( ...

American Society of Agronomy2011

Synthesis of Functional Polyesters via Baylis-Hillman Polymerization

Sanhao Ji

Aliphatic polyesters receive increasing attention over the last years driven by their application as biodegradable substitutes for conventional commodity thermoplastics and applications in the biomedical field, where amongst the family of biodegradable pol ...

EPFL2011

Assainissement de la décharge de Colliare à Penthaz – Etude de variantes

Gabrielle Hack

The landfill of Colliare is situated on the left bank of the river « la Venoge », at the place of a former gravel pit in the municipality of Penthaz. It was exploited until 1995 and many different wastes were deposited in it, such as incineration slag of h ...

2011

Ecological Controls of Aerobic and Anaerobic Microbial Activities and Potential Impacts on Greenhouse Gases in Regenerating Peatlands

Andy Siegenthaler

Peatlands represent massive global carbon (C) pools and sinks. Carbon accumulation depends on the ratio between net primary production and decomposition of organic matter, both of which can change under projected increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO ...

EPFL2011

Fretting-corrosion behavior of beta titanium alloys in simulated synovial fluid

Stefano Mischler

Fretting-corrosion is a material degradation process resulting from the combined action of a corrosive environment and small displacement fretting wear. In this work, the fretting-corrosion behavior of Ti-12.5Mo, Ti-13Nb-13Zr, and Ti-29Nb-13Ta-4.6Zr, beta ...

2011

Tg-aprotinin fusion proteins and matrices thereof

Peter Frey, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Kristen Lorentz

Fusion proteins containing a first domain and a second domain, where the first domain contains a crosslinkable substrate domain and the second domain contains a fibrinolysis inhibitor, are provided. In a preferred embodiment, the fibrinolysis inhibitor is ...

2011

In silico feasibility of novel biodegradation pathways for 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Stacey Deleria Finley

Background: Bioremediation offers a promising pollution treatment method in the reduction and elimination of man-made compounds in the environment. Computational tools to predict novel biodegradation pathways for pollutants allow one to explore the capabil ...

BioMed Central2010

Physico-chemical properties and photo-reactivity relationship for para-substituted phenols in photo-assisted Fenton system

César Pulgarin, Félicien Mazille

The reactivity of phenolic compounds can be drastically affected by the electronic nature of the substituting groups. In this work, the effect of physico-chemical properties on the reactivity via photo-assisted Fenton catalysis is reported for several para ...

2010

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