(n.) Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, toluene undergoes methyl-substitution in preparations of human bone marrow incubated with S-adenosyl-L-methionine to yield o-xylene, m-xylene, and p-xylene.
(2) We have investigated the whole-body dermal penetration of styrene, xylene, toluene, perchloroethylene, benzene, halothane, hexane, and isoflurane in rats and compared the permeability constants with available human studies on vapor penetration.
(3) As organic solvents, 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCE), trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, toluene, m-xylene and trichloro-trifluoroethane (FC-113) were used in this study.
(4) In experiments in vitro, neither benzene, toluene nor xylene changed the number of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) or the number of chromosomal aberrations in human lymphocytes.
(5) The m-xylene-adapted microorganisms in the aquifer column degraded toluene, benzaldehyde, benzoate, m-toluylaldehyde, m-toluate, m-cresol, p-cresol, and p-hydroxybenzoate but were unable to metabolize benzene, naphthalene, methylcyclohexane, and 1,3-dimethylcyclohexane.
(6) A 27-year-old male committed suicide by ingestion of a large quantity of xylene.
(7) Blot and give 2 fast changes in absolute ethanol with agitation before transferring to xylene.
(8) Time-course experiments did not indicate any delay in the peak micronucleus response to benzene caused by either pyridine or xylene.
(9) Six scenarios for human exposure were examined, based primarily on measured air and water concentrations of total hydrocarbons, benzene, xylenes, and toluene.
(10) Perhaps alpha activation is indicative of stimulating and excitatory effects induced by m-xylene exposure, which has been noted heretofore in the absorption phase of alcohol intake.
(11) During the first part, the same test group was exposed to m-xylene for a period of 4 hours, whereas during the second part, the group was exposed to m-xylene in combination with other solvents.
(12) Finally, the sections were cleared in xylene and mounted in D.P.X.
(13) The 24-h excretion of the urine metabolites of m-xylene was decreased by 22-24% in mixed exposures: the excretion of methylhippuric acid was decreased (29%), but that of 2,4-dimethylphenol increased (9-35%).
(14) By the combined use of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry the methyl esters of hippuric acid and m-methylhippuric acid were identified in the urine of a volunteer who had been exposed to toluene and m-xylene vapours.
(15) The ability of the recombinant to utilize 3-chlorobenzoate, chlorobenzene, and 1,4-dichlorobenzene as well as its loss of utilization of xylenes and methylbenzoates appears to be associated with the transfer and integration of chromosomal DNA from P. alcaligenes into a Tol-like plasmid of P. putida R5-3.
(16) After repeated inhalation exposures the excretion of xylene metabolites in urine was consistently higher, whereas the concentrations of xylene in fat (but not the concentration of MEK) were lower than after a single treatment, conceivably due to accelerated metabolic clearance of xylene.
(17) Using various fixation procedures (formalin, paraformaldehyde, B-5, Zamboni and AMeX) we found that fixation in cold acetone (-20 degrees C) overnight followed by 2x15 min fixation in acetone at +4 degrees c and at room temperature, cleared in methyl benzoate and xylene (AMeX procedure) gives reproducible nuclear staining when a variety of normal and tumor tissues are treated with an anti c-myc protein antibody.
(18) Transfer slide to 0.5% n-butylamine in xylene for a few seconds until the section is blue, then, after 2 changes of xylene, mount in DPX.
(19) The effect of alimentary deficiency, ethanol intake and exposure to xylene on the coronary microvessels and heart weight were investigated in rats.
(20) Treatment of P. putida BG1 with nitrosoguanidine led to the isolation of a mutant strain which, when grown with fructose, oxidized both p-xylene and p-toluate to (-)-cis-1,2-dihydroxy-4-methylcyclohexa-3,5-diene-1-carboxylic acid (cis-p-toluate diol).
Xylol
Definition:
(n.) Same as Xylene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mammalian tissues fixed in these fixatives can be hydrolysed in 6N HCl at 35 degrees C for 10 min, rinsed in water, stained with Schiff reagent after exposing the sections under UV light for 10 min, washed in water, dehydrated through a graduated series of ethanol, cleared in xylol and mounted in DPX.
(2) Best results can be obtained by using metal irons at least 25 millimeters thick and 14 millimeters wide with xylol as a wetting agent for ten seconds in young or thin skinned animals and up to twenty seconds in mature or thick skinned animals.
(3) Musk xylol was shown to be a weak contact sensitizer.
(4) Toxicity and carcinogenicity studies of musk xylol were examined in B6C3F1 mice.
(5) In the central nervous system (CNS) the stored substances are not soluble in water or alcohol and xylol, give a PAS-positive reaction, and stain for lipids and with luxol fast blue.
(6) In this study, methylene chloride, methyl chloroform, tetrahydrofuran, xylol and eucalyptol were tested for their capacity to dissolve or soften gutta-percha points compared with chloroform.
(7) The anastomotic segments were removed at intervals after construction varying from one to six weeks and studied histologically after haemotoxylin and eosin staining, by xylol-clear thick sections and by angiography, a gelatin Micropaque emulsion being used to fill the vascular network.
(8) Samples were cut from paraffin embedded corneae, deparaffinized in xylol, dried in aceton, critical-point desiccated, covered by evaporating with a thin layer of carbon and examined by SEM.
(9) The results demonstrated that musk xylol is carcinogenic in B6C3F1 mice of both sexes when given at dose-levels of 0.075 or 0.15% in the diet for 80 weeks.
(10) The nonsulfated compound (A) had the following conventional structure: delta GlcA(beta 1-3)-GalNAc(beta 1-4)GlcA(beta 1-3)Gal(beta 1-4)Xylol, where GlcA, delta GlcA and GalNAc are glucuronic acid; 4,5-unsaturated glucuronic acid and 2-deoxy-2-N-acetylamino-D-galactose, respectively.
(11) The workers were simultaneously exposed to copper, chromium, zinc, xylol, and fumes of sulphuric acid in the course of their work.
(12) Sumithion (FNT 51.7%, emulsifiers 12.5% and xylol 35.8%) was used as fenitrothion.
(13) It was established that the efference of substances (acetic acid ethers, aliphatic spirits) from the liquid absorber (m-xylol) could be described by a first-order kinetic equation against the determined compound.
(14) The skin inflammation was induced by xylol application in experiments on rats.
(15) The synthesis of the histamine-sensitive liquid ion exchanger, composed of tetrafluorophenylboron histamine plus 3-nitro-o-xylol, and the construction of the two-barrel microelectrode (0.1-0.5 micron tip diameter) sensitive to histamine based on such an exchanger is reported.
(16) Based on the data of 2,6-dibromoindophenol stability the method of indophenol-xylol extraction was proved to be unsatisfactory for the assay of dehydroascorbic acid.
(17) The effect of simultaneous exposure to noise and dimethylformamide (DMF), noise and xylol and also vibration and lead on the metabolism of the myocardium of albino rats was studied.
(18) Reliable osmification of the azoindoxyl dye is only possible if hexazotized p-rosaniline is employed for coupling; without further posttreatment all azoindoxyl dyes are extracted by ethanol, isopropanol or xylol.
(19) The obtained findings have shown that dominating inter-impulse intervals in the area of 1000 and more ms, and multimodality of their distribution occur in benzene, toluol, xylol injection within time-structure of some neurons activity of sensomotor cortex, hippocampus, thalamus and lateral hypothalamus.
(20) kg-1 (5 days in a week), and xylol in a concentration of 300 mg .