background: medicinal plants with biologically active components such as antioxidant and antidiabetic are useful sources of novel therapeutics. in iran, traditionally believed that the aqueous extract of berberry fruit (berberis integerima f.) improved health, especially in people with diabetes. objective: in this study, in vitro phytochemical and antioxidant activities of b. integerrima and b....

There is significant interest in farming algae for the direct production of biofuels and valuable lipids. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is the leading model system for studying lipid metabolism in green algae, but current methods for isolating mutants of this organism with a perturbed lipid content are slow and tedious. Here, we present the Chlamydomonas high-lipid sorting (CHiLiS) strategy, which ...

The effects of growth phase on the lipid content and surface properties of oleaginous microalgae Botryococcus sp. FACGB-762, Chlorella sp. XJ-445 and Desmodesmus bijugatus XJ-231 were investigated in this study. The results showed that throughout the growth phases, the lipid content of microalgae increased. The surface properties like particle size, the degree of hydrophobicity, and the total c...

Research has been conducted on Spirogyra sp heterotrophic cultivation by providing cassava starch hydrolysate (CSH) as a carbon source under dark condition. The purpose of this research was to obtain the concentration of CSH which could increase biomass concentration and lipid content of Spirogyra sp under heterotrophic cultivation. The treatment of CSH (15 g/L) could produce the highest biomas...

in the present study, free-radical-scavenging and antioxidant activities of angipars™, an herbal extract which has been registered as a therapeutic drug for diabetic foot ulcer, were examined. we investigated the protective effect of angipars™ on cytotoxicity produced by exposure to h2o2 (300 µm) in hepg2 and a549 cell lines, using mtt assay, glutathione (gsh) content analysis, and lipid peroxi...

the impacts of salicylic acid and silicon on some physiological parameters of maize seedlings in the presence ofcadmium (100 μm) were investigated. inhibitory effects of cadmium on seedling growth resulted in reduced shoot and root fresh weight, low percentage of relative water content, low chlorophyll, free proline and soluble sugars contents and a low rate of lipid peroxidation. results indic...

Carnitine has been reported to improve growth performance and reduce body lipid content in fish. Thus, we hypothesised that carnitine supplementation can improve growth performance and reduce lipid content in the liver and muscle of yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco), a commonly cultured freshwater fish in inland China, and tested this hypothesis in the present study. Diets containing l-c...

Fifteen necropsy specimens of human descending aorta and from eight patients with atheromatous vascular disease were studied by magnetic resonance imaging at 0.5 T. Images were acquired in coronal and transverse planes to localised protruding lesions and then chemical shift imaging was performed by techniques described by Dixon and by Hinks. These techniques produce images in which signal stren...