ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study describes: a) Characterization of traditional methodologies and testing methods used to purify and quantify trypsin and α-chymotrypsin b) Re-engineering / development of a new method for ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study describes: a) the optimization of the current industrial-scale extraction and purification of Horseradish peroxidase from horseradish at BBI Enzymes, focussing on: a. Raw material quality, b. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Crosstalk exists between the stress- and immune-system and this crosstalk has pharmacological importance in the use of glucocorticoids (GCs) as anti-inflammatory drugs for diseases such as asthma and ...

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Due to a global lack of access to potable water, a problem particularly affecting people in developing countries and the poor, improvement on existing water purification methods are necessary to provide ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Progress in computational systems biology depends crucially on the availability of generic rate equations that accurately describe the behaviour and regulation of catalysed processes over a wide range ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The synthetic progestins, medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) and norethisterone (Net) and its derivatives (norethisterone enanthate (Net-EN) and norethisterone acetate (Net-A)), are widely used as ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Supply-demand analysis (SDA) is a tool that allows for the control, regulation and behaviour of metabolic pathways to be understood. In this framework, reactions are grouped into reaction blocks that ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Infection of potatoes by viral pathogens causes reduced crop yield and subsequent economic loss. In South Africa Potato virus Y (PVY) and Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) are the two most destructive ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Metabolic systems are open systems continually subject to changes in the surrounding environment that cause uctuations in the state variables and perturbations in the system parameters. However, ...