Following the work carried out on guar gum in our first paper of a series, the "pressure cell" solubilization method was applied to two other less highly substituted galactomannans: locust bean gum (LBG) and tara gum. True molecular solution of the polymers was achieved using appropriate temperature, time, and pressure regimes. The technique of capillary viscometry was used to determine the int...

A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed to differentiate the thickening agents locust bean gum (LBG) and the cheaper guar gum in finished food products. Universal primers for amplification of the intergenic spacer region between trnL 3' (UAA) exon and trnF (GAA) gene in the chloroplast (cp) genome and subsequent restriction analysis were applied to differentiate guar gum and LBG. The pr...

Tuberculosis remains a major global health problem and alternative therapeutic approaches are needed. Considering the high prevalence of lung tuberculosis (80% of cases), the pulmonary delivery of antitubercular drugs in a carrier system capable of reaching the alveoli, being recognised and phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages (mycobacterium hosts), would be a significant improvement to current...

Many migratory bird species, several of which are in severe decline, and African residents spend the northern winter Sahel, by nature a huge savannah, half has been converted into farmland. We analyse impact such large-scale changes on birds. On average, woody cover is 38% lower farmland than savannah. More critically, farmers have drastically changed vegetation communities their In arid semi-a...

Chemical analyses and a growth trial were carried out to determine the effect of duration cooking whole or crushed African locust bean seeds on proximate compositions, levels some anti-nutritional factors performance young rabbits. Samples subjected 30. 45 60 minutes respectively, analysed for composition factors. In completely randomized design, 56-day feeding was also conducted using 63 rabbi...

the nutritive values of honey locust pods obtained from different growing sites were evaluated by chemical composition and in vitro gas production techniques. growing site was found to have a significant (p< 0.001) effect on the chemical composition. the cp contents of honey locust pods ranged from 67.2 to 119.9 g kg-1 dm. water soluble carbohydrate (wsc) ranged from 122.3 to 152.2 g kg-1 dm. n...

Locust bean gum (LBG) is an industrially important polysaccharide used widely in food, cosmetics, textiles, and biopharmaceutical applications, where understanding its solution behaviour for formulation design. To address this, we investigate the structure dynamics of LBG aqueous using steady state shear rheology, static light scattering (SLS), ultra-small-angle (USALS), dynamic (DLS). We find ...

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