Louisiana State University

About: Louisiana State University is a education organization based out in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 40206 authors who have published 76587 publications receiving 2566076 citations. The organization is also known as: LSU & Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.

The gene for the peripheral myelin protein PMP-22 is a candidate for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A.

Abstract: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) is an autosomal dominant peripheral neuropathy associated with a large DNA duplication on the short arm of human chromosome 17. The trembler (Tr) mouse serves as a model for CMT1A because of phenotypic similarities and because the Tr locus maps to mouse chromosome 11 in a region of conserved synteny with human chromosome 17. Recently, the peripheral myelin gene Pmp-22 was found to carry a point mutation in Tr mice. We have isolated cDNA and genomic clones for human PMP-22. The gene maps to human chromosome 17p11.2-17p12, is expressed at high levels in peripheral nervous tissue and is duplicated, but not disrupted, in CMT1A patients. Thus, we suggest that a gene dosage effect involving PMP-22 is at least partially responsible for the demyelinating neuropathy seen in CMT1A.

Handbook of food engineering

Abstract: Rheological Properties of Foods, H. Dogan and J. L. Kokini Reaction Kinetics in Food Systems, R. Villota and J. G. Hawkes Phase Transitions and Transformations in Food Systems, Y. H. Roos Transport and Storage of Food Products, M.A. Rao Heating and Cooling Processes for Foods, R. P. Singh Food Freezing, D. R. Heldman Mass Transfer in Foods, B. Hallstroem, V. Gekas, I. Sjoeholm, and A. M. Romulus Evaporation and Freeze, K. R. Morison and R. W. Hartel Membrane Concentration of Liquid Foods, M. Cheryan Food Dehydration, M. R. Okos, O. Campanella, G. Narsimhan, R. K. Singh, and A. C. Weitnauer Thermal Processing of Canned Foods, A. Teixeira Extrusion Processes, L. Levine and R. C. Miller Food Packaging, J. M. Krochta Cleaning and Sanitation, E. A. Plett and A. Grasshoff Appendix Index

Sorption-Enhanced Hydrogen Production: A Review

Abstract: In the sorption-enhanced hydrogen production process, hydrocarbon reforming, water gas shift, and CO2 separation reactions occur simultaneously in a single reaction step over a reforming catalyst mixed with a CO2 sorbent. Transferring CO2 as it is formed from the gas to the solid phase shifts the normal equilibrium restrictions and allows both the reforming and water gas shift reactions to approach completion. Depending on reaction conditions, the product (dry basis) may contain as much as 98% H2 and only ppmv levels of CO and CO2, thereby minimizing the final H2 purification step or even eliminating it for some applications. A number of CO2 sorbents have been studied including calcium-based oxides, K-promoted hydrotalcite, and mixed metal oxides of lithium and sodium. The sorbent is consumed during H2 production so that the process is intrinsically unsteady state. Process economics requires that the sorbent be regenerable and used in many reaction−regeneration cycles. Regeneration may occur via temperatu...