An ascomycetes fungus was isolated from brine storage of green olives of the Arauco cultivar imported from Argentina and identified as Monascus ruber. The combined effects of different concentrations of sodium chloride (3.5-5.5%), sodium benzoate (0-0.1%), potassium sorbate (0-0.05%) and temperature (30-40°C) were investigated on the growth of M. ruber in the brine of stored table olives using ...

Penyakit demam berdarah akibat infeksi virus dengue dapat dikategorikan sebagai penyakit dengan self limiting disease masa penyembuhan sekitar 7 hari. Pada perjalanan tersebut, seringkali ditemukan berbagai macam penyulit yang menyebabkan terjadinya komplikasi hingga kematian. Berbagai permasalahan klinis ditimbulkan akan mengakibatkan penurunan kondisi penderita secara umum. Salah satu berbaha...

BACKGROUND About 10-15% patients who take statins experience skeletal muscle problems. Red yeast rice has a good safety profile could provide a compromise therapeutic strategy. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of red yeast rice, when compared to simvastatin, on the muscle fatigue symptom and the serum lipid level in dyslipidemic patients with low to moderate cardiova...

C-reactive protein (CRP), a nonspecific inflammatory marker, is widely used to monitor treatment of cardiovascular diseases (high serum CRP levels indicate poor outcome of heart disease). A healthy lifestyle decreases serum CRP levels, while obesity, physical inactivity, and smoking increase them. CRP, a stable pentameric protein, has a half-life of 19 hr, is not subject to diurnal variation, a...

Investigations were carried out on the mineral nutrients and organic food contents of seeds of three fodder Lablab purpureus, Leucaena leucocephala and Mucuna utilis for domestic consumption and industrial utilization. Leucaena leucocephala seeds contained the highest amount of lipids crude protein carbohydrates and ash contents. Lablab purpureus contained the lowest amount of lipid crude prote...

Cardiovascular diseases are the second largest cause of mortality worldwide. Increase in the cholesterol level is a major risk factor for progression of atherosclerosis, which is usually accompanied by the production of free radicals. Patients with cardiovascular disease showed significant increases in lipid peroxidation, which correlates with severity of hypercholesterolemia (1,2). Recent scie...

After gravistimulation of Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid. protonemata in the dark, amyloplast sedimentation was followed by upward curvature in the wild-type (WT) and downward curvature in the wwr mutant (wrong way response). We used ponderomotive forces induced by high-gradient magnetic fields (HGMF) to simulate the effect of gravity and displace the presumptive statoliths. The field was app...