Nonmedical applications

Body composition and intra-/extraceUular fluid indexes can be determined for monitoring nutrition and physical training. Small portable loggers for heart rate and respiration rate during, for example, bicycling or treadmill exercise have found a large market as a part of the instrumentation for sports medicine. 

Meat quality assessments are made with bioimpedance measurements and multivariate analysis. Fermentation can be monitored in brewery industries. Plant properties can be determined in the living or dead state (wood quality). 

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In the United States today, the legal standard by which "good and "bad" drugs are now measured is the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. This act divides all known drugs into one of five classes, known as schedules. The primary criterion by which a compound is placed into one or another schedule is its potential for abuse, that is, its potential for addictive or otherwise harmful nonmedical applications. The Controlled Substances Act provides detailed descriptions of, restrictions on, and penalties for the use of chemical compounds in each of the five schedules. These schedules are defined as follows ... 

Any discussion of the chemistry of drugs must include some consideration of the nonmedical applications of such compounds. Just as early humans were searching their environment for natural products that would assuage pain and cure disease, so were they also looking for plants and other natural materials with psychoactive effects, materials that would provide an escape from the problems and worries of everyday life, or that would just make a person feel better for a period of time. They also incorporated psychoactive drugs into many of their religious ceremonies. The use of the peyote cactus, magic mushrooms, and similar products dates back centuries, if not millennia, in a variety of cultures. One hardly need point out that the use of psychoactive chemicals for recreational purposes continues in essentially every part of the world today. 

Currently applications of MABs fall within four main areas diagnosis, imaging, therapy, and purification. The primary focus is on human health care, but there have been many MABs generated for veterinary applications as well as nonmedical applications, such as environmental monitoring, and industrial processes, such as abzymes. 

Barenholz Y, Lasic D (eds) (1996) Handbook of nonmedical applications of liposomes, vol III. CRC, Boca Raton, FL... 

Mrksich, M. Cell-based technologies nonmedical applications. In WTEC Panel on Tissue Engineering Research-. Final Report, Mclntire, L.V., Ed. Academic Press New York, 2002 61-69. 

Collective protection serves a vital role in the medical area since treatment of casualties must continue even in a contaminated environment, thus collective protection is required to allow this critical function to continue. In addition, it allows individuals to rest and eat, and provides temporary relief from the individual protection equipment thus allowing continuing military operations in the contaminated environment. Collective protection systems have been designed to be used in either a medical or a nonmedical application. 

Table 6.2 gives selecting databases for extracting physiological and functional in-formation from gene sequences, and Table 6.3 describes the contribution of genomics to nonmedical applications of biotechnology. 

Table 6.3. Contribution of genomics to nonmedical applications of biotechnology...

Poor shear strengtii of the adhesive joint, particularly in aqueous environments in both medical and nonmedical applications... 

D.D. Lasic, Y. Barenholz (Eds.), Handbook of Nonmedical Applications of Liposomes, CRC, Press, Boca Raton, 1996. 

The Comprehensive Capacity to Control Association of Oil-like Domains Provides the Necessary Understanding for Meaningful Engineering of Protein-based Materials for Diverse Medical and Nonmedical Applications... 

Design of Nonmedical Applications Release of Agricultural Enhancement Factors... 

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