Counting coated and uncoated inorganic fibers in sputum has been used to investigate the level of environmental or occupational asbestos exposure and the concentration of fibrous dusts in human lung. Inorganic fibers in sputum were counted by light microscopy after chemical digestion and microfiltration processing. The same method was used for processing gastric juice and lung tissue. There wer...

Citrus by-products are the processing wastes generated after citrus juice extraction and constitute about 50% of fresh fruit weight. This solid residue is comprised of the peel (flavedo and albedo), pulp (juice sac residue), rag (membranes and cores) and seeds. The disposal of fresh peels is becoming a major problem for many factories. Usually, citrus juice industries dry the residue and it is ...

The plate loop count as described in Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products, 13th Edition, was investigated as a simplified technique for determining total viable counts in single strength orange juice. This pro cedure requires the use of standardized loops (0.01 and 0.001) for making serial dilutions in stead of pipets and dilution bottles. Data have been presented to show ther...

The analysis of starch in factory streams and products is tedious and time consuming. It is not surprising, therefore, that only one South African sugar mill laboratory currently analyses the factory streams for seasonal starch levels and trends. This essentially means that high starch levels are picked up only in the final raw sugar, causing an uncomfortable delay between detection and applica...

Vati Kalpana is the outcome of Kalka Kalpana, one five basic Ayurvedic pharmaceutical preparations. an essential component pharmaceutics because its various benefits, including ease administration, palatability, and dispensing transportation. a pharmacological method in which powder raw drugs (herbal or Herbo minerals) triturated with Kasayam, juice, even honey, medicines are prepared as pills ...

PERNICIOUs anaemia results from a failure of the supply of healthy red cells to the circulating blood. No way was known of restoring this lost power of regeneration of healthy red cells until Minot and Murphy [1926] observed that by feeding liver to persons suffering from this type of anaemia increased numbers of reticulocytes, or young red blood cells, appeared in the circulation, with the res...

Some herbal medications induce acute kidney injury. The acute kidney injuries caused by herbal medications are mild and commonly treated by palliative care. A 51-years-old man who drank the juice squeezed from the raw tubers of Dioscorea quinqueloba (D. quinqueloba) was admitted with nausea, vomiting and chilling. He developed a seizure with decreased level of consciousness. He was diagnosed wi...

The new European food safety legislative demands a risk-based improvement of the processes of meat production from farm to fork instead of just inspecting the carcasses of each slaughtered pig. One major tool to include the pre-harvest stage of meat production is profiling herds serologically especially for latent zoonotic infections. The paper describes the inclusion of continuously serologica...

In the 1980s, authors developed enzyme immunoassay (EIA) system for mouse nerve growth factor (NGF) to clarify its important physiological roles. Our EIA was a new and powerful tool measurement of extremely low levels NGF in vitro vivo, it contributed investigation into regulatory mechanism synthesis. After that, we demonstrated that compounds with molecular weight, such as 4-methylcatechol, wh...

The present work reports amounts of flavonoids and phenylpropanoids of culms of three sugarcane varieties and of raw juice, syrup, molasse and VHP sugar. The antioxidant activity of those materials was evaluated by the DPPH and b-carotene/linoleic acid methods. The predominant phenolics in culms were phenylpropanoids (caffeic, chlorogenic and coumaric acids), while flavones (apigenin, tricin an...