Birch, Scandinavian

One type of thick hardwood plywood stiU available is imported from the northern Scandinavian countries and is generally known as Finnish birch. Characteristically, these plywoods are manufactured using multiple layers of veneer of the same thickness, about 1.5 mm (1 /16 in.), and bonded with a urea—formaldehyde or melamine—urea—formaldehyde adhesive. 

A phenolic compound that resembles lignans in structure, platyphylloside (61), from Betula pendula, the Scandinavian birch, has been shown to account for 80% of the observed depression of in vitro organic matter digestibility in ruminant test systems (Sunnerheim et al., 1988). This observation cor-... 

Note The base furnish of conventional laboratory reference sheets consisted of a 70 30 mixture of hardwood and softwood pulp. Scandinavian softwood and birch hardwood pulps were refined to 23°SR and 21°SR, respectively... 

C12H20O11 340.283 Isol. from partial acid hydrolysates of maritime pine Pinus pinaster), birch (Betula verrucosa) and Scandinavian spruce (Picea abies) hemicelluloses. 

The recombinant, humanized anti-IgE MAb (rhuMAb-E25) is in late-stage clinical development for patients with allergic rhinitis. This anti-IgE MAb was been tested in two different models of seasonal pollinosis ragweed in the central United States and birch in several Scandinavian countries. 

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