Liquid chromatographic analysis of prednisolone, prednisone and their 20-reduced metabolites in perfusion media

A reversed-phase liquid chromatographic assay was developed to quantitate prednisolone, prednisone and the 20 alpha-dihydro and 20 beta-dihydro reduced metabolites of both parent compounds in tissue culture media from in vitro perfusions of the human placental lobule. Steroids were extracted from perfusate, using reversed-phase cartridges, with average recoveries of 95.2% or greater. The internal standard for the analyses was 6 alpha-methylprednisolone. In this assay cortisol coelutes with prednisolone, however, no other significant interferences were found. Assay of each steroid was linear in the range 0-1 microgram/ml. Intra-assay coefficients of variation were measured at 10 and 750 ng/ml with ranges of 3.4% (20 alpha-dihydroprednisone) to 8.8% (20 beta-dihydroprednisolone) and 4.1% (20 beta-dihydroprednisone) to 8.8% (prednisone). The corresponding inter-assay coefficients of variation were 3.3% (20 alpha-dihydroprednisone) to 9.1% (20 beta-dihydroprednisolone) and 1.9% (prednisolone) to 3.5% (prednisone). The analyses utilized two C18 columns which were linked together and maintained at 40 degrees C.     

UniversalR-matrix for quantized (super)algebras

For quantum deformations of finite-dimensional contragredient Lie (super)algebras we give an explicit formula for the universalR-matrix. This formula generalizes the analogous formulae for quantized semisimple Lie algebras obtained by M. Rosso, A. N. Kirillov, and N. Reshetikhin, Ya. S. Soibelman, and S. Z. Levendorskii. Our approach is based on careful analysis of quantized rank 1 and 2 (super)algebras, a combinatorial structure of the root systems and algebraic properties ofq-exponential functions. We don't use quantum Weyl group.     

Luminescence of heterogeneous dimers of certain polymethine dyes in dichloroethane

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 881–884, November, 1991.     

A set of axioms for a value for partition function games

Myerson (1977) derived an efficient value for games in partition function form. In this paper, we present a set of axioms which characterize a different efficient value for such games. This latter value assigns value 0 to dummies and assigns nonnegative values to players in monotone simple games.