Coriolus effect

Obviously, clogged drains are not much fun. But free-flowing ones can be. They afford fantastic opportunities for scientific conjecture and experimentation. For example, does water really spiral down the drain counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Certainly, hurricanes and tornadoes spin in opposite directions above and below the equator. This is due to the so-called Coriolus effect, which is based on the fact that the earth spins in an easterly direction at a speed of about a thousand miles per hour at the equator. As we move north or south the speed decreases, since less distance has to be covered in the same time. Now, imagine that there Is a gigantic bathtub extending from the equator to the North Pole. The water near the equator will travel east much faster than the water near the North Pole. If we pull the plug, the water will spin down the drain counterclockwise due to the... 

Coriolus versicolor (L. ex Fr.) Quel. Yun Chih Polysaccharides, poly saccharapeptide.415416417418 Antimetastatic effect, anti-lung cancer, tumor inhibition, against immunodeficiency virus. 

Figure 1 Effect of acetylation on the decay resistance of wood against Tyromyces palustris (A). Serpula lacrymans (B), Coriolus versicolor (C), and soil burial (D). (O) Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica), ( ) Japanese red pine Pinus densiflora) (A) albizzia (Albizia falcata), (A) Japanese beech (Fagus crenata). Relative weight loss = Wj/Wi X 100, W, weight loss of control wood W2. weight loss of acetylated wood.

One of these fnngi, Coriolus versicolor, is recommended by ASTM D1413 (see above) for the determination of the effect of fungi on the properties of wood and WPC materials... 

H.S. Kim, S. Kacew and B-M. Lee, Tn vitro chemopreventive effects of plant polysaccharides Aloe barbadensis Miller, Lentinus edodes, Ganoderma lucidum and Coriolus versicolor), Carcinogenesis, 20 (8), 1637-1640,1999. 

Lee, CL Yang, X Wan, JMF. The culture duration affects the immunomodulatory and anticancer effect of polysaccharopeptide derived from Coriolus versicolor Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 2006, 38, 14-21. 

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