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Natalia Farkas, John A. Dagata, Chengli Yang, Antonina Rait, Kathleen Pirollo, Esther Chang
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Katrice A. Lippa, Michele M. Schantz, A. Lynn Roberts, Kevin Bisceglia
We present an isotopic-dilution direct injection reversed-phase liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous determination of 23 drugs of abuse, drug metabolites, and human-use markers in municipal wastewater. The method
Mark M. Bailey, Christine M. Mahoney, Elodie Dempah, Jeffrey M. Davis, Matthew Becker, Supang Khondee, Eric J. Munson, Cory J. Berkland
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Daniel W. Bearden, John E. Oatis, Pam Brunsfeld, James W. Rushing, Peter D. Moeller, Thomas N. Gallien, George W. Cooper
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Antonio Cardone, Ram D. Sriram, Wayne Albers, Harish C. Pant
A high-affinity inhibitor protein called CIP, which can be produced by small truncations of p35, was earlier identified by Amin, Albers, and Pant. P35 is one of the physiological activators of cdk5, a member of the cyclin-dependent kinase family. These
Michael Pikal, Daniel Rigsbee, Michael L. Roy, Dawn Galreath, Karl J. Kovach, Bingquan S. Wang, John Carpenter, Marcus T. Cicerone
This research presents storage stability of human growth hormone, hGH, in a variety of lyophilized formulations, including systems of varying sugar:hGH weight ratios for both sucrose and trehalose. Stability was assessed at multiple time points during
To maintain the efficacy of vaccines requires maintaining the storage temperature within well-defined limits; vaccine failure due to improper storage results in large direct and indirect public health costs. In this presentation, I give a brief
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Talapady N. Bhat, Yadu D. Tewari, H Rodriguez, Robert N. Goldberg
Federal agencies, academia and industries have invested heavily in the development of structural and biothermodynamics data. However, the data are still largely distributed over several public and private archives leading to issues of inadequate
Tissue engineering is an emerging new area of biotechnology that will provide replacement tissues for patients, as well as complex, functional biological systems for research and testing in the pharmaceutical industry. However, a lack of a formal
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J F. Morrison, L T. Sniegoski, W J. Yoo, Alim A. Fatah
Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) was investigated as an environmentally friendly alternative to currently used wet chemical procedures in hair drug testing protocols. The SFE behavior of cocaine and its primary metabolite benzoylecgonine was studied