Gastric mucosal cell-derived L-lactic acid strongly enhances proliferation of Helicobacter pylori, and may contribute to the long-term colonization of H. pylori in the stomach. Therefore it is assumed that inhibitory substances active against L-lactic acid-dependent growth of H. pylori will be useful candidates as novel therapeutic agents for H. pylori infection. In this study, we developed a n...

Cultures of Azotobacter chroococcum strain A6 were grown for 14 days in a nitrogen-deficient mineral medium, the supernatant fluid and bacteria extracted and examined by paper partition chromatography with two solvent systems which separate authentic gibberellin (GA 3) and indolyl-3-acetic acid (IAA). Gibberellin-like substances were not detected on the chromatograms examined under ultraviolet ...

1. Through a set of preliminary injections of colloidal copper or hirudin, given from the second to the sixth day after transplantation, we can weaken the effect of injections of the same substances given from the ninth to the thirteenth day after transplantation. 2. Injections of colloidal copper given before the transplantation of the tumor lead to a weakening of the effect of injections give...

In the last section of the book genetic, hormonal, and enzymatic factors affecting the growth of the nervous system are taken under consideration. Excellent reviews of genetic aspects are given by S. Gluecksohn-Waelsch and L. S. Penrose. G. W. Harris contributes a thoughtful chapter on the relationship between endocrine activity and the development of the nervous system. Although most of the ma...

The power of a large number of aniline dyes to restrain the growth of Bacillus tuberculosis and Bacillus typhosus has been determined. Many substances have been found with especial restraining power for the tubercle bacillus under the conditions of the test. This capacity to restrain growth in the case of the tubercle bacillus apparently bears no simple relation to true disinfectant action. Opi...

The retardation and arrest of fermentation, observed before the complete sugar consumption of high-sugar grape must, come from an inhibition of the yeast metabolism during its decline phase and are variable with the strain. The addition of nutritional growth factors stimulates the initial growth of the yeast but is ineffective in the decline phase. Some substances, known previously as yeast ana...

In the course of studies on the nutritional requirements of some of the more exacting bacteria it wase found that the addition of certain brands of gelatin to a simplified synthetic medium caused growth of a number of bacteria which were unable to develop in the same medium without the gelatin. The use of gelatin in amounts ordinarily employed for culture media produced results which were compa...

The preparation of the silica gel is similar to the method of Bulen, et al (2) for organic acid chromatography. Silicic acid (Mallinckrodt's 100 mesh analytical reagent) is prepared, generally in one pound batches. by repeatedly washing it in distille(d water, and decanting the fine particles that do not settle out of suspension after an arbitrarily chosen period of 15 minutes. After the silici...