47 research outputs found
Natural water purification system for local community
A simple household level natural water purification system to purify water to meat small family requirement. It disused with
six important components including Storage, Sedimentation, Biological treatment, and Filtering, Disinfection and Drinking
water storage. During the treatment process Electrical conductivity and Total Dissolved Solids values is not changed but pH
is slightly increased in the bio treatment compartment due to excretion of ammonia form by the fish. A Significant change
of Coli form bacterial count between UV treatment together with sand and Charcoal filter with comparing drinking water
tank It is 90.95% reduction comparing with raw water E coli count is completely removed from this treatment process
Mechanistic Study Of The Photochemical Hydroxide Ion Release From 9-hydroxy-10-methyl-9-phenyl-9,10-dihydroacridine
The excited-state behavior of 9-hydroxy-10-methyl-9-phenyl-9,10-dihydroacridine and its derivative, 9-methoxy-10-methyl-9-phenyl-9,10-dihydroacridine (AcrOR, R = H, Me), was studied via femtosecond and nanosecond UV-vis transient absorption spectroscopy. The solvent effects on C-O bond cleavage were clearly identified: a fast heterolytic cleavage (tau = 108 ps) was observed in protic solvents, while intersystem crossing was observed in aprotic solvents. Fast heterolysis generates 10methyl-9-phenylacridinium (Acr(+)) and -OH, which have a long recombination lifetime (no signal decay was observed within 100 mu s). AcrOH exhibits the characteristic behavior needed for its utilization as a chromophore in the pOH jump experiment
Preclinical quality, safety, and efficacy of a human embryonic stem cell-derived product for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, STEM-PD
Cell replacement therapies for Parkinson’s disease (PD) based on transplantation of pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons are now entering clinical trials. Here, we present quality, safety, and efficacy data supporting the first-in-human STEM-PD phase I/IIa clinical trial along with the trial design. The STEM-PD product was manufactured under GMP and quality tested in vitro and in vivo to meet regulatory requirements. Importantly, no adverse effects were observed upon testing of the product in a 39-week rat GLP safety study for toxicity, tumorigenicity, and biodistribution, and a non-GLP efficacy study confirmed that the transplanted cells mediated full functional recovery in a pre-clinical rat model of PD. We further observed highly comparable efficacy results between two different GMP batches, verifying that the product can be serially manufactured. A fully in vivo-tested batch of STEM-PD is now being used in a clinical trial of 8 patients with moderate PD, initiated in 2022
