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The vesicles were separated by centrifugation at 30,000 x g from the enzyme solution. Precipitated PC vesicles underwent a washing process once and were resuspended with the phosphate buffer solution (PBS) and adjusted to 25 ml. Stimuli which have the potential to induce the controlled release of enzyme from PC vesicles in suspension were examined in terms of the releasing pattern. Original vesicles suspensions were stimulated by mixing with an equal volume of a stimulus solution in glass vials with... 

Figure 10.3 Electrophysiological response of the CHC sensillum to nestmate or non-nestmate CHCs with or without CjapCSP. Left column Recordings to stimulus solutions of 10 mM NaCI, 10 mM NaCI plus CSP and 10 mM NaCI plus bovine serum albumin (BSA). Middle column Recordings to non-nestmate CHCs dissolved in the same stimulus solutions. Right column Recordings to nestmate CHCs dissolved in the same stimulus solutions.

Sensory perception is both quaUtative and quantitative. The taste of sucrose and the smell of linalool are two different kinds of sensory perceptions and each of these sensations can have different intensities. Sweet, bitter, salty, fmity, floral, etc, are different flavor quaUties produced by different chemical compounds the intensity of a particular sensory quaUty is deterrnined by the amount of the stimulus present. The saltiness of a sodium chloride solution becomes more intense if more of the salt is added, but its quaUty does not change. However, if hydrochloric acid is substituted for sodium chloride, the flavor quahty is sour not salty. For this reason, quaUty is substitutive, and quantity, intensity, or magnitude is additive (13). The sensory properties of food are generally compHcated, consisting of many different flavor quaUties at different intensities. The first task of sensory analysis is to identify the component quahties and then to determine their various intensities. 

Generalizations. Several generalizations can be made regarding taste (16,26). A substance must be in water solution, eg, the Hquid bathing the tongue (sahva), to have taste. Water solubiUty is the first requirement of the taste stimulus (12). The typical stimuli are concentrated aqueous solution in contrast with the Hpid-soluble substances which act as stimuli for olfaction (22). Many taste substances are hydrophilic, nonvolatile molecules (15). Taste detection thresholds for lipophilic molecules tend to be lower than those of their hydrophilic counterparts (16). 

When a process is continuous, nucleation frequently occurs in the presence of a seeded solution by the combined effec ts of mechanical stimulus and nucleation caused by supersaturation (heterogeneous nucleation). If such a system is completely and uniformly mixed (i.e., the product stream represents the typical magma circulated within the system) and if the system is operating at steady state, the particle-size distribution has definite hmits which can be predic ted mathematically with a high degree of accuracy, as will be shown later in this section. 

If we glance back over the various branches of application of thermodynamics to chemical problems detailed in the preceding sections of this book, looking more especially at the historical sequence, we shall find that the physical chemists have, until recently, focussed their attention on the theory of dilute solutions. This preference is due to the great stimulus given by the... 

Inspired by the elastin-based side-chain polymers, Lemieux et al. prepared elastin-based stimulus-responsive gold nanoparticles. To this end, they capped gold particles with a layer of a single repeat of thiol-functionalized VPGVG peptides (Fig. 17a). These nanoparticles showed LCST behavior, which was modulated by varying the pH of the solution [131]. 

Concerning drug delivery, electrically erodible polymer gels for controlled release of drugs have been prepared, and a measured release rate of insulin has been observed under electrical stimulus [69]. A suspension of zinc insulin in a mixed solution of poly(ethyloxazoline) and PMAA was formed into a gel by decreasing the pH of the suspension. The obtained complex gel with 0.5 wt% of insulin was attached to a woven platinum wire cathode which was 1 cm away from the anode and immersed in 0.9% saline solution. When a stepped function of electrical current of 5 mA was applied to the insulin-loaded gel matrix, insulin was released in a stepwise manner up to a release of 70%. The insulin rate measured was 0.10 mg/h. 

Davies, J. A. et al., J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1980, 2246-2249 Extremely sensitive to thermal and mechanical shock, occasionally detonating spontaneously without external stimulus, it should only be prepared and used in solution. The solid is an extreme hazard, and the acetone-solvated complex is also explosive. 

Stimulus-responsive ABC triblock micelles were also investigated by Patrickios et al. for copolymers containing insoluble PEVE blocks, thermore-sponsive PMVE midblocks, and water-soluble PMTEGVE outer blocks with varying block sequences [277]. While in aqueous solutions only unimers were found, and the addition of salt led to aggregates. 

The increasing interest in polymer blends has acted as a stimulus not only to the aspects just outlined but also to a study of interactions between polymer A and polymer B in solution as a route to quantifying their thermodynamic compatibility. Hyde167 has reviewed the relevant theory whilst Kratochvfl and co-workers168,169 have been responsible for much of the latest experimental studies. 

These results of Narten et al. 175> are an excellent basis for a recapitulation of the preceding short account on the status of experiments. We shall first derive a picture of ionic solutions and the connection lines to gas-phase solvation and to molecular theories in a speculative manner, which must not be taken really literally, but should be considered to be an artificially optimistic stimulus for a concerted effort of theory and experiment. 

Soft Chemistry , proximity to nature and bionics contain the idea that chemical-technical solutions from nature can provide a stimulus for industrial processes and products. 

In garter snakes Thamnophis sirtalis) a VNO-mediated stimulus can reinforce behavior dried earthworm wash or earthworm bits can be used to reward correct performance in a conditioned response to an arbitrary stimulus, such as dots versus stripes in a Y-maze (Halpern etal., 1985). In red-eared turtles the VNO is considered to involve aqueous chemoreception in water. Salt solutions and soluble vapor substances generated activity in the accessory olfactory bulb (Hatanaka and Hanada, 1987). 

Harper, H. W. and Rossetto, M. (1978). An "artificial tongue" for calibrating solution flow characteristics of taste stimulus delivery systems. Chem. Sens. Flav. 3(3), 267-280. 

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