Sentences with phrase «use lead compounds»

«Some racing fuels today still use lead compounds for boosting the octane rating of the fuel,» said Mathur.

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Bob Boutin, president of Skokie - based Knechtel Labs, a leading confectionary and food consultant, cautioned that brominated vegetable oil is an umbrella term that can be applied to different oils that may have been treated in a variety of ways, creating a wide variety of compounds used for different purposes.

Some online forums and websites have posted misleading or inaccurate information about the ingredients in vaccines, leading some moms to worry about their safety — specifically, singling out thimerosal, which is an ethylmercury - containing compound sometimes used to keep vaccines safe from contamination.

Oneida County Health Department (OCHD) warns parents and caregivers not to buy or use Bo Ying Compound, due to the potential risk of lead poisoning.

Mercury, lead, chromium and other toxic compounds, used in many industrial processes, rob years of healthy life from millions each year.

In 1987, an international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol led to a ban on the production and use of CFCs and many related compounds in industrial nations, but it ignored CH2Cl2 because researchers thought it didn't stay intact in the atmosphere long enough to rise into the stratosphere.

The objective of the research project led by Marko Kallio, Principal Scientist at VTT, was to accelerate the drug development process by identifying new compounds that would possess similar binding properties and cellular phenotype, but a different chemical structure, as the selected drugs in clinical use or investigational compounds in development.

In a paper published January 2, 2018, in Nature Communications, Berkeley Lab researchers led by the Northen lab report that specific compounds are transformed by and strongly associated with specific bacteria in native biological soil crust (biocrust) using a suite of tools Northen calls «exometabolomics.»

The PAM used in the IU - led study worked by amplifying two brain compounds — anandamide and 2 - arachidonoylglycerol — commonly called «endocannabinoids» because they act upon the CB1 receptor in the brain that responds to THC, the major psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

Research led by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Merced aim at bringing down the cost of hydrogen fuel cells by using a dirt - cheap compound to create an uneven surface that resembles a plant's leaves.

A specially designed chiral catalyst is used to oxidize hydrocarbons into multifunctional compounds that are obtained in high purity and are readily converted into an assortment of molecules that will streamline the synthesis of future pharmaceutical drugs,» said Dr. Leila Bayeh, a former graduate student and lead author of the study.

The study's lead author, Heather Stapleton, a Duke University assistant professor of environmental chemistry, said many of the compounds have been used in foam cushions only recently, replacing another chemical that was banned after 2004 because it was building up rapidly in human bodies.

The use of certain compounds in agriculture, notably difenoconazole, propiconazole, epoxiconazole, bromuconazole and tebuconazol are particularly likely to lead to resistance, yet are freely used in agriculture.

Lead author Nigel D'Souza, then a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont, discovered the phytoplankton response to oil seeps while on a ship in the Gulf of Mexico monitoring chlorophyll fluorescence — energy that is emitted as light by compounds inside phytoplankton cells used for photosynthesis.

«Despite the increased quality risks and the lack of safety and efficacy data for non-FDA regulated custom - compounded bioidentical hormones, their use by menopausal women is higher than expected and appears to be continuing to grow,» said lead researcher JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville.

That concern is one reason the research team, led by Christina Smolke, a synthetic biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, stopped short of making a yeast strain with the complete morphine pathway; medicinal drug makers also primarily use thebaine to make new compounds.

Researchers have used the compound to create a high - performance «flow» battery, a leading contender for storing renewable power in the electric utility grid.

The chemists, led by Ian Henderson and Michael Ohlmeyer of Pharmacopeia, a company in Princeton, New Jersey, were able to prepare over 6000 different compounds using just a few simple reactions.

University of Illinois professor of entomology May Berenbaum, who led the study, said that many organisms use a group of enzymes called cytochrome P450 monooxygenases to break down foreign substances such as pesticides and compounds naturally found in plants, known as phytochemicals.

«It never ceases to amaze me how a simple molecule, such as saccharin — something many people put in their coffee everyday — may have untapped uses, including as a possible lead compound to target aggressive cancers,» says Robert McKenna, Ph.D., who is at the University of Florida.

The results have led to a ban on the use of some parabens in foods and cosmetics in the EU, while a safety limit has been set for the addition of the compound in various products.

Next we use such assays to identify LEAD chemical compound (s) with therapeutic potential for HD or to validate drug or gene - based therapeutic approaches developed by our collaborators (Pr.

An alternative approach, most common for anti-infectives, is to use compounds («phenotypic inhibitors») which have already been shown to be active against the target organism in the living pathogenic cell as chemical leads for improvement by Medicinal Chemistry, towards systemically active Candidate Drugs.

SCIEX is a leading manufacturer of mass spectrometers used to identify and characterize chemical compounds in a variety of industrial and academic fields.

In order to explore new pharmacophore moieties, FC131 was used as a lead compound for the development of novel CXCR4 antagonists.

The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation awarded the grant to Curis to identify therapeutic compounds that could be used to treat the neuromuscular disease, which is the leading genetic cause of infant and toddler death.

The trial uses FDG - PET imaging to examine the potential of its lead compound, LMTX ®, in delaying the progression of disease pathology in the brain.

«The degradation of hydrocarbons using the crude enzyme extract is really encouraging and reached over 80 percent for various compounds,» says Satinder Kaur Brar, lead researcher on the study.

Commercially available subsets of the ZINC (15,868,179 compounds) and MolPort (7,241,662 compounds) databases were screened using the lead drug ponatinib as a reference.

In one of the latest examples, a team led by Kenichiro Itami of Nagoya University and Djamaladdin G. Musaev of Emory University has used a computational - experimental approach to create a predictive regioselective reaction for C — H imidation of aromatic compounds (Chem.

Cosford had been investigating ULK1 using medicinal chemistry and chemical biology, and had identified some promising lead compounds using rational design.

However, if you use dumbells and barbells and compound exercises, your body will be forced to activate every possible muscle fiber in order to control and balance the load, which leads to greater muscle growth.

This research, coupled with the fact that it has been used in traditional medicine for hundreds of years, has led to a surge in marketing of the plant and its compounds, along with widespread online discussion of its benefits relating to the treatment of hair loss, and a huge increase in sales, particularly in North America.

Using an arts - integrated approach, this lesson incorporates diagrams and illustrations that can lead to understanding the fuller meanings of compound words.

What if we told you we found a simple two factor method you can use to select investments that led to a 23.5 % per year compound return (market was 2.25 %) over the 12 years we tested?

Basically, dividend compounding is what happens when you use the dividends to buy extra shares of the same stock, which then leads to you receiving greater dividends.

In both cases, misunderstanding the effect of compound interest rates and repayment obligations involved in using a credit card or accepting a student loan can lead to poor decisions that may ruin an individual's credit score and opportunities for future use of credit.

I'm curious how you think about all this in your work that often uses objects of warfare: compound bows and gauntlets, swords, armor and guns leading to this exhibition with burnt and melted yoga mats — an action when perpetrated on a body - sized artifact like a matt — one can't help but sense violent undertones.

Using the whole period of data leads to an uncertainty estimate which is a compound of the desired uncertainty, and a bias estimate based on an average over the total span of the reanalysis dataset.

Given the ECS - imposed long lead time and the miracle of compound interest (there's that CAGR again), the money being spent on the Paris COP21 could have been invested and used to move all of Bangladesh to higher ground when the apparently inevitable sea level rise occurs, generations hence.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

The growing pressure on forests and agricultural land, compounded by unchecked land use, has led to the land's and its inhabitants» weakening resilience in the face of natural disasters.

This leads to the finding that, had there been only 1 compound claim, the person skilled in the art would not be guessing and would be able to use the invention successfully because they would know the «real compound» must be the specific claimed compound.

Although we didn't start over on our upstairs bathroom, first we stripped wallpaper off of old painted plaster, except for what we didn't get off because it looked like it was helping hold the paint / plaster together, then we used joint compound for a very heavy texture to hold the walls together and cover the lead - based paint.