Anchote is a tuber crop indigenous to Ethiopia. Starch hydration properties and important gel characteristics which include: color, rheological (at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10% starch:water w/w) texture evolution w/w), during 0 192 h storage 4 °C), of anchote starches isolated from four cultivars (Desta 01, Desta 24, white red) were evaluated compared with potato cassava (PS CS). The lightness (L*) whitenes...

A photoperiodically sensitive cultivar of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. Shabet) (BMDR-8) and an isogenic, single-gene recessive mutant of this genotype that is insensitive to photoperiod (BMDR-1) were grown under continuous cool white light with or without supplemental far-red fluorescent light. BMDR-1 initiates flowers 6 days after germination, irrespective of light treatment, whereas BMDR-8 rema...

Polymorphism of red cell acid phosphatase types was examined among 573 unrelated residents of Aichi Prefecture. The phenotypic distribution obtained agreed well with the genetic hypothesis. No phenotypes associated with the allele pc were detected. The frequency of pa gene in Aichi Prefecture was estimated to be 0.209, which is very similar to those observed in other districts of Japan. 59 Hopk...

The vaginal route of administration is an alternative for several treatments for either local or systemic pharmacological effects. However, the permanence of a drug in this route represents a challenge for formulation development that can be overcome by using nanoencapsulation and chitosan gel. Thus, this work aimed to evaluate the performance of chitosan hydrogels containing cationic and anion...

In vitro induced oxidative damage to normal human RBCs has previously been shown to result in increased membrane rigidity as a consequence of the generation of a protein complex between hemoglobin and spectrin. In order to determine if in vivo generated hemoglobin-spectrin complexes may play a role in increased membrane rigidity of certain pathologic red cells, we measured both these parameters...