Methylene in a sentence

He thought methylene blue could possibly be used in the treatment of malaria, tested it clinically, and by the 1890s methylene blue was being used for that purpose.

Methylene blue is becoming popular to treat urinary tract infections and neurological problems.

Several studies have linked exposure to the chemical in rodents to cancers, with papers going back to 1986 showing exposure to methylene chloride in the air led to tumors in the lungs and liver.

Some stores had started carrying alternative products without methylene chloride well ahead of the ban.

The external stimulus that blocks the fatty acid oxidation cycle for glucose synthesis is methylene cyclo-propyl glycine, present in the edible pulp of lychees.

And the last is the molecule 1,4-phenylenebis(methylene) diisonicotinate which is like a stick bent twice along its length and can bind to two molecules at its two ends.

Methylene chloride has killed four additional people since a ban on the substance was originally proposed.

The BizNGO report called two solvents the institute ultimately used lower risk, on par with safer alternatives to methylene chloride.

This report is exhaustive quantitative analyses of the Polymeric Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanate (MDI) industry and provides data for making Strategies to increase the market growth and effectiveness.

Y., invoked the deaths of Drew Wynne and Joshua Atkins, who both died from methylene chloride exposure.

After mid-1889, when Ehrlich was unemployed, he privately continued his research on methylene blue.

Ehrlich obtained methylene blue from the company Meister Lucius & Brüning AG (later renamed Hoechst AG), which started a long collaboration with this company.

He became particularly interested in its use to stain bacteria and parasites such as Plasmodiidae – the genus which includes the malaria pathogen – and found that it could be stained with methylene blue.

He was looking for an agent which was as effective as methylene blue, but without its side effects.

In the mid 1880s, Paul Ehrlich began to use methylene blue in his cell staining experiments that led to pioneering discoveries about different cell types; he won a Nobel Prize based in part on that work.

Later, Robert Koch also used methylene blue as a dye in his research on the tuberculosis pathogen.

Methylene blue is used to test for the presence of live yeast cells.

Microscopic visualization of the encapsulated bacilli, usually in very large numbers, in a blood smear stained with polychrome methylene blue (McFadyean stain) is fully diagnostic, though culture of the organism is still the gold standard for diagnosis.

The main action of these aldehyde fixatives is to cross-link amino groups in proteins through the formation of methylene bridges (-CH 2 -), in the case of formaldehyde, or by C 5 H 10 cross-links in the case of glutaraldehyde.

The reaction of pyridine with α- bromoesters give the related pyridinium salt, wherein the methylene group is highly acidic.