Petroleum Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Petroleum, including details on crude oil, extraction, chemistry, pollution.

Volume 4 (2008), Issue 7 (July)

1. Hydrocarbon pollution in the sediment from the jarzouna-bizerte coastal area of Tunisia (mediterranean sea).
   Bull Environ Contam Toxicol, 80(6): 566-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Functional Gene Abundances (nahAc, alkB, xylE) in the Assessment of the Efficacy of Bioremediation.
   Appl Biochem Biotechnol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Nickel and vanadium concentrations and its relation with sediment acute toxicity.
   Bull Environ Contam Toxicol, 80(6): 555-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Enhanced Rat Sciatic Nerve Regeneration through Silicon Tubes Implanted with Valproic Acid.
   J Reconstr Microsurg, 24(4): 267-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Soil quality effects on Chenopodium album flavonoid content and antioxidant potential.
   J Agric Food Chem, 56(13): 5050-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Distribution of heavy metals in agricultural soils near a petrochemical complex in Guangzhou, China.
   Environ Monit Assess. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Chemical composition of volatile extract and biological activities of volatile and less-volatile extracts of juniper berry (Juniperus drupacea L.) fruit.
   J Agric Food Chem, 56(13): 5021-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Diversity and spatial distribution of sediment ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeota in response to estuarine and environmental gradients in the Changjiang Estuary and East China Sea.
   Microbiology, 154: 2084-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Spatial distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils from typical oil-sewage irrigation area, Northeast China.
   Environ Monit Assess, 143(1): 257-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Evaluation of leaf extracts of Vitex negundo L. (Family: Verbenaceae) against larvae of Culex tritaeniorhynchus and repellent activity on adult vector mosquitoes.
    Parasitol Res, 103(3): 545-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Morphological transformations of native petroleum emulsions. I. Viscosity studies.
    Langmuir, 24(14): 7124-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors. Biphenylsulfonamides with inhibitory action towards the transmembrane, tumor-associated isozymes IX possess cytotoxic activity against human colon, lung and breast cancer cell lines.
    J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Ecotoxicological environmental risk limits for total petroleum hydrocarbons on the basis of internal lipid concentrations.
    Environ Toxicol Chem. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Occupational exposures associated with petroleum-derived products containing trace levels of benzene.
    J Occup Environ Hyg, 5(9): 565-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Action mechanisms of petroleum hydrocarbons present in waters impacted by an oil spill on the genetic material of Allium cepa root cells.
    Aquat Toxicol, 88(4): 214-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Bioremediation of oil-contaminated soil using Candida catenulata and food waste.
    Environ Pollut. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Competitive oxidation of volatile fatty acids by sulfate- and nitrate-reducing bacteria from an oil field in Argentina.
    Appl Environ Microbiol, 74(14): 4324-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Risk Management of BTEX Contamination in Ground Water-An Integrated Fuzzy Approach.
    Ground Water. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Sterols in red and green algae: quantification, phylogeny, and relevance for the interpretation of geologic steranes.
    Geobiology. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Bioactivities and chemical constituents of a Vietnamese medicinal plant Che Vang, Jasminum subtriplinerve Blume (Oleaceae).
    Nat Prod Res, 22(11): 942-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Ocular disorders in a petroleum industry in Nigeria.
    Eye, 22(7): 925-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Isolation and identification of insecticidal components from Citrus aurantium fruit peel extract.
    J Agric Food Chem, 56(14): 5577-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Chemical Fingerprinting of Adhesive Tapes by GCMS Detection of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Products.
    J Forensic Sci. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Adaptive critic learning techniques for engine torque and air-fuel ratio control.
    IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern, 38(4): 988-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. A novel quorum sensing system co-regulated by chromosome- and plasmid-encoded genes in Serratia marcescens H30.
    Mol Cell Biochem. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Effects of growth factors and glucosamine on porcine mandibular condylar cartilage cells and hyaline cartilage cells for tissue engineering applications.
    Arch Oral Biol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Extraction of Alternative Fuels from Fire Debris Samples.
    J Forensic Sci. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Use of an Optimized 1,2-Indanedione Process for the Development of Latent Prints.
    J Forensic Sci. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Identification of different type of polymers in plastics waste.
    J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng, 43(11): 1303-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Rapid hydrocarbon analysis using a miniature rectilinear ion trap mass spectrometer.
    Analyst, 133(8): 1064-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Biodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene by recombinant Gordonia alkanivorans RIPI90A.
    Bioresour Technol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Inhibition of Bacterial Quorum Sensing-Regulated Behaviors by Tremella fuciformis Extract.
    Curr Microbiol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Understanding the fate and transport of petroleum hydrocarbons from coal tar within gasholders.
    Environ Int. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Biodiesel production from high acid value waste frying oil catalyzed by superacid heteropolyacid.
    Biotechnol Bioeng, 101(1): 93-100. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Hysteresis and strain hardening in the creep response of a polyaniline ER fluid.
    J Colloid Interface Sci, 325(1): 122-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Rapid characterization of fatty alcohol ethoxylates by non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis.
    Electrophoresis, 29(14): 3060-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Diversity of ring-hydroxylating dioxygenases in pristine and oil contaminated microbial mats at genomic and transcriptomic levels.
    Environ Microbiol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Hair growth promoting activity of Eclipta alba in male albino rats.
    Arch Dermatol Res, 300(7): 357-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Testing the Accuracy of Correlations for Multicomponent Mass Transport of Adsorbed Gases in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Diffusion of H2/CH4 Mixtures in CuBTC.
    Langmuir, 24(15): 8254-8261. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Biocatalytic desulfurization (BDS) of petrodiesel fuels.
    Microbiology, 154: 2169-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Catalytic ozonation of p-chlorobenzoic acid by activated carbon and nickel supported activated carbon prepared from petroleum coke.
    J Hazard Mater. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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