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Charcoal, Activated

Charcoal, Activated: A highly porous form of carbon used for a variety of applications, including water and air purification, adsorption of toxins, and medical treatments.
This highly adsorbent material is created through thermal or chemical activation processes that increase its surface area and enhance its ability to trap and remove impurities.
Activated charcoal is commonly used in emergency settings to treat poisoning and drug overdoes, as well as in chronic conditions to manage gastrointestinal issues.
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Scintigraphic Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Transit

To evaluate gastrointestinal transit parameters, an adaption of our established scintigraphic method was used [14 (link), 15 (link), 28 (link)]. Briefly, 0.1mCi ¹¹¹InCl₃ was mixed with a slurry of 5 mg of activated charcoal. The mixture was allowed to evaporate to dryness, after which the radiolabeled charcoal was packed into a gelatin capsule. This capsule was coated with one layer of methacrylate (Eudragit L, The Dow Chemical Company) which dissolves in a pH-sensitive manner upon reaching the alkaline terminal ileum, thus allowing radiolabel to be transferred to the colon for quantitation of colon transit. The ¹¹¹In containing capsule was administered following an overnight fast. After this capsule had emptied from the stomach, subjects ingested a ^99mTc-labeled meal. Estimation of colonic filling with ^99mTc at 6 hours (CF6h) served as a surrogate for small bowel transit. Subjects ingested standardized meals for lunch and dinner, 4 and 8 hours after the radiolabeled breakfast, respectively. Using a gamma camera, abdominal images with anterior and posterior cameras of 2 minutes duration were acquired immediately following ingestion of the radiolabeled meal and at specified time points during the subsequent 48 hours period.

Deiteren A., Camilleri M., Bharucha A.E., Burton D., McKinzie S., Rao A, & Zinsmeister A.R. (2009). PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF SCINTIGRAPHIC COLON TRANSIT MEASUREMENT IN HEALTH AND IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME AND RELATIONSHIP TO BOWEL FUNCTIONS. Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society, 22(4), 415-e95.

Publication 2009

Abdomen Acclimatization Capsule Charcoal Charcoal, Activated Colon Eudragit L Gamma Cameras Gelatins Ileum Intestines, Small Methacrylate Radionuclide Imaging Transits, Gastrointestinal

Folate Extraction and Quantification from Cells

Folates were extracted from cultured cells in 6 cm plates by aspirating media and immediately adding 1 mL ice cold 50:50 H₂O:MeOH containing 25 mM sodium ascorbate and 25 mM NH₄OAc at pH 7. Plates were kept on ice and cells were scraped and the resulting mixture of cells and solvent transferred to 1.5 mL centrifuge tubes after 30 min. Tubes were heated to 60 °C for 5 min to fully denature proteins, and precipitates were removed by centrifugation at 16000 × g for 5 min at 4 °C. To cleave glutamate tails, supernatants were dried under N₂ flow and resuspended in 450 μL potassium phosphate buffer (50 mM with 30 mM ascorbic acid and 0.5% 2-mercaptoethanol at pH 7). 25 μL rat serum pretreated with activated charcoal to remove endogenous folate (3 (link)) was added to the samples before incubating at 37 °C for 2 h. We measured folate content in the serum before and after activated charcoal treatment, and the charcoal-treatment depleted rat serum folates to undetectable levels. To clean up samples before LC-MS, Bond Elut-PH SPE columns (Agilent) were conditioned with 1 mL MeOH and then with 1 mL wash buffer (30 mM ascorbic acid in 25 mM NH₄OAc buffer at pH 4.0). After adjusting the samples to pH 4 with 7 μL of 40% formic acid solution at 4°C, the samples were loaded onto the conditioned SPE columns, washed with 1 mL wash buffer and subsequently eluted with 400 μL elution buffer (50:50 H₂O:MeOH containing 0.5% 2-mercaptoethanol and 25 mM NH₄OAc at pH 7). The eluate was dried down under N₂ flow, resuspended into HPLC water, centrifuged to remove possible precipitate, kept at 4°C in an autosampler and analyzed by LC-MS within 12 h to minimize degradation. Sample analysis was the same as described above with modification in the LC gradient, 0 min, 0% B; 2.5 min, 0% B; 5 min, 50% B; 13 min, 95% B; 14 min, 0% B; 20 min, 0% B. Mass spectrometry setup was the same except the scan window was m/z = 400 to 1000. In the case of NaBH₃CN or NaBD₃CN reduction, before cell extraction, 1 M NaBH₃CN or NaBD₃CN stock solution was added to 50:50 H₂O:acetonitrile extraction buffer containing 25 mM sodium ascorbate and 25 mM HEPES (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-1-ethanesulfonic acid) at pH 7 to a final concentration of 25 mM. Acetonitrile was used in place of methanol for extraction prior to derivatization, to avoid potential impact of formaldehyde, which is an impurity in methanol. The subsequent procedure was identical except 4 μL of 40% formic acid was added to adjust pH to 4 before SPE purification. For quantification of total pool size of THF species, 4 pmol of different THF species standards were spiked in to cell extracts before heat treatment.

Chen L., Ducker G.S., Lu W., Teng X, & Rabinowitz J.D. (2017). An LC-MS Chemical Derivatization Method for the Measurement of Five Different One-carbon States of Cellular Tetrahydrofolate. Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 409(25), 5955-5964.

Publication 2017

2-Mercaptoethanol acetonitrile Ascorbic Acid Buffers Cells Centrifugation Charcoal Charcoal, Activated Cold Temperature Cultured Cells ethane sulfonate Folate Formaldehyde formic acid Glutamate HEPES High-Performance Liquid Chromatographies Mass Spectrometry Methanol Piperazine potassium phosphate Proteins Radionuclide Imaging Serum Sodium Ascorbate Solvents Tail

Rodent Vapor Exposure Chamber Design

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Publication 2016

Atomizers Charcoal, Activated Drug Delivery Systems Medical Devices Rattus Vacuum

Synthesis and Characterization of RGD- and PEG-modified Alginate

Sodium alginate rich in guluronic acid blocks and with a high molecular weight (280 kDa, LF20/40) was purchased from FMC Biopolymer, and was prepared as has been described previously^{3 (link)}. Briefly, high molecular weight alginate was irradiated by a 3 or 8 Mrad Cobalt source to produce lower molecular weight alginates. RGD-alginate was prepared by coupling the oligopeptide GGGGRGDSP (Peptides International) to the alginate using carbodiimide chemistry at concentrations such that 2 or 20 RGD peptides were coupled to 1 alginate chain on average for high molecular weight alginate (peptide molar concentrations in low molecular weight alginates were kept the same according to high molecular weight alginate for each degree of substitution, respectively). For FRET experiments, either GGGGRGDASSK(carboxyfluorescein)Y or GGGGRGDASSK(Carboxytetramethylrhodamine)Y were used instead of standard RGD peptide sequence, and were coupled at a concentration of 2 peptides per alginate chain on average for high molecular weight alginate (peptide molar concentrations in low molecular weight alginates were kept the same according to high molecular weight alginate). The coupling efficiency using this procedure was previously characterized using ¹²⁵I labeled RGD peptides^{3 (link)}. These correspond to densities of 150 μM and 1500 μM RGD in a 2% wt/vol alginate gel. Alginate was dialyzed against deionized water for 2–3 days (molecular weight cutoff of 3.5 kDa), treated with activated charcoal, sterile filtered, lyophilized, and then reconstituted in serum free DMEM (Life Technologies).
Polyethylene glycol (PEG)-alginate was prepared by coupling PEG-amine (5 kDa, Laysan Bio) to the low molecular weight alginate (35 kDa) using carbodiimide chemistry with a similar procedure to the RGD coupling^{3 (link)}. In brief, 295 mg of PEG-amine was mixed with 50 mL of 10 mg/mL alginate in 0.1 M MES (2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid, Sigma-Aldrich) buffer at pH 6.5. Then 242 mg of EDC (N-(3-Dimethylaminopropyl)-N′-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride, Sigma-Aldrich) and 137 mg of Sulfo-NHS (N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide, Thermo Fisher Scientific) were added into the solution. The reaction was carried out for 20 hours under constant stirring. The product was dialyzed against deionized water for 3 days (molecular weight cutoff of 10 kDa), filtered with activated charcoal, sterile filtered, and lyophilized. The structure of the PEG-alginate was confirmed with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and gel permeation chromatography (GPC). Based on the change of molecular weight of alginate before and after PEG coupling (from 35 kDa to 45 kDa), an average of 2 PEG molecules were coupled to 1 alginate chain. This number was confirmed by ¹H NMR spectroscopy (Supplementary Fig. S14).

Chaudhuri O., Gu L., Klumpers D., Darnell M., Bencherif S.A., Weaver J.C., Huebsch N., Lee H.P., Lippens E., Duda G.N, & Mooney D.J. (2015). Hydrogels with tunable stress relaxation regulate stem cell fate and activity. Nature materials, 15(3), 326-334.

Publication 2015

2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid Alginate Alginates Amines Biopolymers Buffers Carbodiimides carboxyfluorescein Charcoal, Activated Cobalt Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Gel Chromatography guluronic acid Magnetic Resonance Imaging Molar N-hydroxysulfosuccimide N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide Oligopeptides Peptides Polyethylene Glycols Serum Sodium Alginate Spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Strains

Synthesis and Characterization of RGD- and PEG-modified Alginate

Publication 2015

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Activated Carbon Production from Coal Pitch

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Example 2

A mixture obtained by mixing 100 parts by mass of granular coal pitch having a softening point of 280° C. as an organic material with 0.9 part by mass of tris(2,4-pentanedionato)iron(III) (metal species: Fe) was fed into a melt extruder, where it was melted and mixed at a melting temperature of 320° C., and spun at a discharge rate of 16 g/min to obtain a pitch fiber. The pitch fiber was subjected to an infusibilization treatment by heating for 54 minutes, to 354° C. from ambient temperature in the air at a rate of 1 to 30° C./minute, to obtain an infusibilized pitch fiber as an activated carbon precursor. The iron (Fe) content in the activated carbon precursor was 0.11% by mass.

The activated carbon precursor was activated by conducting a heat treatment at an atmospheric temperature of 950° C. for 40 minutes, while continuously introducing a gas having a CO₂concentration of 100% by volume into an activation furnace, to obtain an activated carbon of Example 2. In the activated carbon, the pore volume A of pores with a size of 1.0 nm or less was 0.396 cc/g, the pore volume B of pores with a size of 3.0 nm or more and 3.5 nm or less was 0.016 cc/g, the iron content was 0.251% by mass, and the average fiber diameter was 13.6 μm.

Granular coal pitch having a softening point of 280° C. as an organic material was fed into a melt extruder, where it was melted and mixed at a melting temperature of 320° C., and spun at a discharge rate of 20 g/min, to obtain a pitch fiber. The pitch fiber was subjected to an infusibilization treatment by heating for 54 minutes, to 354° C. from ambient temperature in the air at a rate of 1 to 30° C./minute, to obtain an infusibilized pitch fiber as an activated carbon precursor. The iron content in the activated carbon precursor was 0% by mass.

The activated carbon precursor was activated by conducting a heat treatment at an atmospheric temperature of 875° C. for 40 minutes, while continuously introducing a gas having an H₂O concentration of 100% by volume into an activation furnace, to obtain an activated carbon of Comparative Example 2. In the activated carbon, the pore volume A of pores with a size of 1.0 nm or less was 0.401 cc/g, the pore volume B of pores with a size of 3.0 nm or more and 3.5 nm or less was 0.000 cc/g, the iron content was 0% by mass, and the average fiber diameter was 16.7 μm.

US11873235B2. Activated carbon (2024-01-16). AD'ALL CO., LTD. [JP], UNITIKA LTD. [JP], OSAKA GAS CHEMICALS CO., LTD. [JP]. Inventors: Tomoyasu Nakano [JP], Hirokazu Shimizu [JP], Akinori Kawachi [JP], Keiji Sakai [JP].

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Patent 2024

Carbon Fiber Charcoal, Activated Coal Fibrosis Iron Metals Patient Discharge Tromethamine

Activated Carbon Precursor from Coal Pitch

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Example 6

A mixture obtained by mixing 100 parts by mass of granular coal pitch having a softening point of 280° C. as an organic material with 0.3 part by mass of tris(acetylacetonato)yttrium was fed into a melt extruder, where it was melted and mixed at a melting temperature of 320° C., and spun at a discharge rate of 20 g/min to obtain a pitch fiber. The pitch fiber was subjected to an infusibilization treatment by heating for 54 minutes, to 354° C. from ambient temperature in the air at a rate of 1 to 30° C./minute, to obtain an infusibilized pitch fiber as an activated carbon precursor. The yttrium content in the activated carbon precursor was 0.06% by mass.

The activated carbon precursor was activated by conducting a heat treatment at an atmospheric temperature of 950° C. for 60 minutes, while continuously introducing a gas having a CO₂concentration of 100% by volume into an activation furnace, to obtain an activated carbon of Comparative Example 6. In the activated carbon, the pore volume A of pores with a size of 1.0 nm or less was 0.429 cc/g, the pore volume B of pores with a size of 3.0 nm or more and 3.5 nm or less was 0.000 cc/g, the yttrium content was 0.15% by mass, and the fiber diameter was 18.2 μm.

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Patent 2024

Carbon Fiber Charcoal, Activated Coal Fibrosis Patient Discharge Tromethamine Yttrium

Surgical Wound Treatment Regimen

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Example 1

General Treatment Regimen

Surgical treatment of a wound may be required before starting therapy. The wound area is opened as completely as possible. General surgical debridement is performed. Avital tissue and bone parts are removed if necessary. This serves as a first reduction of the germ load and prepares the wound bed. After sufficient hemostasis has been achieved, a first dressing (activated carbon NPWT) can be applied.

The combination therapy according to the invention is usually carried out in the outpatient department. Thanks to this less painful procedure, analgesics or even anesthesia standby can generally be dispensed with. Dressing changes are carried out under sterile conditions (sterile gloves, work surfaces, face masks). For this reason, two people are optimally required to carry out this therapy quickly and safely.

US11872247B2. Combination of a wound-rinsing solution and cold plasma for the treatment of wounds (2024-01-16). Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster [DE]. Inventors: Heinrich Rotering [DE].

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Patent 2024

Analgesics Anesthesia Bones Charcoal, Activated Cold Plasma Combined Modality Therapy Debridement Hemostasis Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy Operative Surgical Procedures Outpatients Pain, Procedural Sterility, Reproductive Therapeutics Tissues Treatment Protocols Wounds

Activated Carbon Suspension Gavage

Distilled water (800 ml) was added to 100 g gum arabic (A108975-500G, Beijing Meikang Instrument Equipment Co., Ltd). Boiled the solution until transparent. Then, 50 g of activated carbon (C139601, Beijing Meikang Instrument Equipment Co., Ltd) was added to the solution and boiled 3 times. After the solution was cooled, distilled water was subsequently added to make the final volume of the solution to 1,000 ml. After each rat was placed in a metabolic cage, they received a gavage of 2 ml of the 100 g/l activated carbon suspension. The time from the completion of the activated carbon gavage to the excretion of the rat’s first black stool was recorded as the fecal excretion time.

Li J., Sun Y., Wang R., Ma S., Shi L., Wang K., Zhang H., Wang T, & Liu L. (2023). Seasonal differences in intestinal flora are related to rats’ intestinal water metabolism. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1109696.

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Publication 2023

Charcoal, Activated Feces Gum Arabic Melena Tube Feeding

Optimizing Activated Carbons via Design of Experiment

The concept of Design of Experiment²⁷ (DoE) was employed to obtain information on the significance of activation temperature and impregnation ratio C:KOH (ratio of precursor to various amounts of KOH, 1:x) on the morphology and composition of the activated carbons. A face-centered central composite design with three replicates in the center point was chosen. The individual experiments were performed in random order to avoid introducing undesirable systematic effects. All mathematical operations were calculated with MATLAB® vR2020a. The experimentally obtained data were fitted to a six-parameter polynomial model (Eq. 1), where the responses

\hat{Y}

were expressed as a function of the two factors activation temperature x₁ and C:KOH ratio x₂.

\hat{Y} = b_{0} + b_{T} \cdot x_{1} + b_{C : K O H} \cdot x_{2} + b_{T^{2}} \cdot x_{1}^{2} + b_{C : K O H^{2}} \cdot x_{2}^{2} + b_{T \cdot C : K O H} \cdot x_{1} \cdot x_{2}

The significance of the model coefficients was validated using multiple linear regression, where the determination coefficients R² were calculated for each model coefficient by omitting the term from the overall model. A minimum value for R² of 0.80 is required to mark a good fit²⁸. In addition, a t-test was performed to assess the significance of the model coefficients, which were displayed as error bars in the bar charts. If the error bar exceeds the zero line, the model coefficient is considered insignificant and was discarded to avoid overfitting. All parameters were recalculated subsequently. An overview of the discarded model coefficients for each response and the corresponding determination coefficients is given in Table S1. Oxygen ingress during activation caused experiment 03 to fail. Due to a lack of precursor fibers, the experiment was repeated twice with a lower amount of fibers, both times resulting in complete degradation of fibers during activation. Therefore, experiment 03 was excluded from the matrix, as the model coefficients and the response surfaces would otherwise be distorted. The measured responses for that experiment were therefore not discussed.

Schaubeder J.B., Guizani C., Selinger J., Mautner A., Hummel M, & Spirk S. (2023). Design of experiments as a tool to guide the preparation of tailor-made activated carbons. Scientific Reports, 13, 3977.

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Publication 2023

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More about "Charcoal, Activated"

Activated charcoal, also known as active carbon or active charcoal, is a highly porous, adsorbent form of carbon that is widely used in a variety of applications.
This material is created through thermal or chemical activation processes, which increase its surface area and enhance its ability to trap and remove impurities.
Activated charcoal has a long history of use in medical and industrial settings.
In emergency situations, it is commonly used to treat poisoning and drug overdoses by adsorbing toxins and preventing their absorption in the gastrointestinal tract.
It is also used to manage chronic gastrointestinal issues, such as diarrhea, gas, and bloating.
Beyond its medical applications, activated charcoal is used in water and air purification, as well as in the removal of contaminants from various liquids and gases.
Researchers can leverage the power of PubCompare.ai's AI-driven protocol comparison tool to streamline their work on activated charcoal, easily locating and comparing protocols from literature, preprints, and patents to identify the best methodologies and products.
The production of activated charcoal typically involves the use of materials such as hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, ethanol, DMSO, NaCl, PVDF, methanol, and potassium hydroxide, among others.
These substances play a crucial role in the activation and modification of the charcoal to enhance its adsorptive properties and performance.
By utilizing PubCompare.ai's advanced tools, researchers can optimize their investigations on activated charcoal, making data-driven decisions and streamlining their research efforts.
The availability of AI-powered insights and the ability to compare protocols from various sources can be invaluable in advancing the understanding and applications of this versatile material.