It's hard to imagine another English author who could come up with a sentence like: "Her small, detergent-chafed hands, with their smell of lipstick, semen and rectal mucus, ran across my forehead".
In an example from 2008, he repainted the brightly colored design on a small laundry detergent box and substituted his own name for the brand name Tide.
The single life is inherently self-interested: it calls for vigilance on matters of self-preservation both large (financial autonomy) and small (dish detergent), and, in many cases, it frees the solitary from the sorts of daily interaction that help craft a sense of shared responsibility.
A simple small molecule detergent would normally be extremely damaging to cellular membranes, but it is possible that proteins can be designed to perform detergent-like functions without endangering cell membranes.
After ingested triglycerides pass through the stomach and into the small intestine, detergents called bile salts are secreted by the liver via the gall bladder and disperse the fat as micelles.
Conventional (small molecule) detergents are amphiphilic and can form soluble aggregates (micelles) in solution that can readily dissociate to form surface monolayers when required.
Alternative strategies to induce crystallization are the use of additives such as small micelle detergents, heavy metals, salts and organic solvents [57].
Recently, small aSyn detergent-insoluble aggregates with presynaptic localization were detected abundantly in patients with DLB, together with significant synaptic pathology with almost complete loss of dendritic spines at the postsynaptic area.
At a more fundamental level, the mechanism by which small-molecule detergents solubilise lipid bilayer membranes is likely to be inapplicable to larger, surfactant proteins.
Then he and his wife could scrape out a living selling small bags of detergent on the black market.
