User talk:Benkeboy

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Phytoestrogens and cancer risk[edit]

Are you watching this page? As an endocronologist, I am more interested in the biology than the chemistry, and you appear to be a chemist. These substances have the potential to prevent or enhance cancers, particularly ones that are known to be hormonally responsive, such as breast and prostate cancer. Thanks for your comments.Pustelnik 19:59, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pustelnik, I saw that I made my input for the phytoestrogen article back in 2005. So no I have not been watching this page for a very long time. I definitively forgot about that by now. I think my interest came beacuse of some household chemical or similar having hormone disrupting effects. I maybe I read about the FSA report... Benkeboy 14:13, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

EPC 2000[edit]

Thanks for your comment on the EPC 2000. I have updated the article to reflect this. --Edcolins 20:13, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

Hi Benkeboy! I've noticed your username on the tissue engineering discussion page. I'm a 3rd year chem. student looking for material on the subject, and was wondering if you could help me out with a few questions I couldn't answer in wikipedia. 128.139.226.37 18:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi 128.139.226.37, fire away! Benkeboy 13:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! here are some question I've been trying to find answers to: 1. Out of the many articles, are there any working tissue engineering solutions that involve polymers other than PGA or PLA? I mean established procedures used on patients today, especially regeneration of nerves.

2. The Cad/printer technique, what kind of polymers are used? 3. The article about felt is not very complete, and I understand that some basic techniques involve nonwoven meshes of PGA/PLA sutures. Where can I find more information on those?

Thanks for your time... 128.139.226.37 10:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1. if you are looking for polymers used as "traditional" biomaterials the list would be very very long. there are a number of materials that are biodegradable in vivo that could be of interest such as polyurethanes, polyesters, starch and chitin. if you make search also try hydrogels and poly-HEMA (the latter is used for ocular lenses).

2. The Mironov 2003 article uses collagen and the co-polymer p(NIPA-co-DMAEA). The latter was supplied by the company OrganoGel that seems to have vanished from www.

3. I do not know what is in current clinical use. I guess collagen (a derivatives) has found a use also for neural repair but I am not sure about the clinical applications. Perhaps polycaprolactone?

Have you tried to search on Entrez PubMed?

Benkeboy 19:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a note: Since you a university stundent you probably have access to [ISI Web of Knowledge]. if you want clinical materials for actual indications try |FDA ( I am think they a public register of materials accepted for various biomedical uses) and any patent data base. There is a link to Derwent from ISI WOK. Benkeboy 19:27, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

European Society for Biomaterials[edit]

Almost nominated it for speedy deletion, but it is an interesting subject matter that may prove to be noteworthy; care to elaborate on it and develop the article to a higher standard? It needs wikification and major major major expansion, also illustrate clearly how it is noteworthy if you want it to survive. Just thought I'd touch base and provide some feedback as to why I didn't nominate it for deletion as I so often seem to do with new articles. :P Jachin 19:48, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Behnke?[edit]

Is your surname Benke? My mom's family are Behnke's. It is a very unusual name in the US. Our geneology has Swedish far in the past. Is the name common in Sweden? ike9898 13:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ike! My surname is not Benhke. BB is a nickname a friend of mine gave me long time ago. I dunno how he came up with it. Some ppl think my first name is Bengt, but that is not correct either. Neither Behnke nor Bengt is very coming in Sweden as far I know. Although probably Benke is reasonably common nickname for Bengt. Keep on guessing :-)

100,000,000 Guinea Pigs[edit]

Hey mate, I removed the chapter titles on 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs for the sake of brevity I guess, I was able to paraphrase the outline in the description section. Feel free to put them back in :-) Orchid Righteous 15:19, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Olives[edit]

The Ogre: do you know which herb(s) the PT use to diminish the bitter taste of olives? It is something that not just adds flavour, but "treats" the olives.Benkeboy (talk) 13:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay. I had to research. You see, presentely the "cure" of olives rarely follows tradicional recipes. There are two main ways to treat olives: "natural" cure with brine (salt and water - salmoura in Portuguese); industrial oxidation after a Sodium hydroxide brine treatment (called "american" or "californian" cure), generally done only to ripe (blackish) olives, who are also treated with ferrous gluconate (sometimes with Ferrous lactate) to stabilize and homogeneize the colour. These last ones are, in my opinion, tasteless and with a bad pulp consistency. They are, unfornately, the ones more produced. Now, tradicional salmoura included a wide variety of herbs that helped in the treatment process, chief amongst them was the so called Erva das Azeitonas (Herb of the Olives), also know as Nêveda or Calaminta (Satureja calamintha, also know as Calamintha baetica, Calamintha nepeta, Satureja nepeta, Nepeta calamintha, see Calamintha grandiflora). This was it! Cheers. The Ogre (talk) 15:33, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article upgrade assistance request (Pre-translation stage)[edit]

Seasons Greetings,

This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.

Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.

While Ceremonial poles have a long past and strong presence but usually less discussed subject. Even before we seek translation of this article in global languages, we need to have more encyclopedic information/input about Ceremonial poles from all global cultures and languages. And we seek your assistance in the same.

Since other contributors to the article are insisting for reliable sources and Standard native english; If your contributions get deleted (for some reason like linguistics or may be your information is reliable but unfortunately dosent match expectations of other editors) , please do list the same on Talk:Ceremonial pole page so that other wikipedians may help improve by interlanguage collaborations, and/or some other language wikipedias may be interested in giving more importance to reliablity of information over other factors on their respective wikipedia.

This particular request is being made to you since your user name is listed in Wikipedia:Translators available list.

Thanking you with warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 06:11, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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