Quaternary Ammonium Compounds: Bioaccumulation Potentials in Humans and Levels in Blood before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Environ Sci Technol, 2021 Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) are commonly used in a variety of consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical products. In this study, bioaccumulation potentials of 18 QACs with alkyl chain lengths of C8–C18 were determined in the in vitro–in vivo ...
Zheng G, Webster TF, Salamova A.
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Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QACs) and Ionic Liquids (ILs) as Biocides: From Simple Antiseptics to Tunable Antimicrobials. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2021 Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) belong to a well-known class of cationic biocides with a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity. They are used as essential components in surfactants, personal hygiene products, cosmetics, softeners, dyes ...
Vereshchagin AN +4 more
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Exposure to Quaternary Ammonium Compounds Selects Resistance to Ciprofloxacin in Listeria monocytogenes. [PDF]
Pathogens, 2021 In this contribution, the antimicrobial susceptibility toward 11 antibiotics and four biocides of a panel of 205 Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) strains isolated from different ecological niches (i.e., food, animals and natural environment) was evaluated ...
Guérin A +8 more
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Effect of ammonium content in nutrition solution on vitamin C, phenols, and antioxidant capacity of three apple cultivars during cold storage [PDF]
Dysona. Applied Science, 2020 Pre-harvest nutritional condition is one of the major fruit quality influencers in apple whether directly after harvest or throughout cold storage.
Fares Alhaj Alali +2 more
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Quaternary Ammonium Compounds as Candidate Photoprotective Compounds in Reef-Building Corals
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) – e.g., betaines – have a chemical structure related to that of the tertiary sulfonium compounds (TSCs) – e.g., dimethylsulfoniopropionate – explaining why these two classes of coral metabolites are often studied and ...
Richard W. Hill
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Repurposing Quaternary Ammonium Compounds as Potential Treatments for COVID-19. [PDF]
Pharm Res, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted an important role for drug repurposing. Quaternary ammonium compounds such as ammonium chloride, cetylpyridinium and miramistin represent widely accessible antiseptic molecules with well-known broad-spectrum ...
Baker N +3 more
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Crystals, 2020 The synthesis of YBa2Cu3O7−x (YBCO or 123) superconductor was carried out under hyper- and hypo-eutectic conditions with different ammonium compounds, i.e., ammonium nitrate, formate, acetate, carbonate, bicarbonate, and tetramethylammonium nitrate.
Omar Gómez Rojas +2 more
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Assessment of ecological hazards and environmental fate of disinfectant quaternary ammonium compounds. [PDF]
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf, 2020 DeLeo PC +4 more
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Adverse Outcome Pathway for Antimicrobial Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 2022 Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) or quats are a large class of antimicrobial chemicals used in households and institutions as sanitizers and disinfectants. These chemicals are utilized as food processing sanitizers, algicides, in the process of water
T. Osimitz, W. Droege
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Are Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, the Workhorse Disinfectants, Effective against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2? [PDF]
ACS Infect Dis, 2020 A novel virus named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged from Wuhan, China in late 2019. Since then, the virus has quickly spread worldwide, leading the World Health Organization to declare it as a pandemic; by the end of ...
Schrank CL, Minbiole KPC, Wuest WM.
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