Extrusion cooking, as a multi-step, multi-functional and thermal/mechanical process, has permitted a large number of food applications. Effects of extrusion cooking on nutritional quality are ambiguous. Beneficial effects include destruction of antinutritional factors, gelatinisation of starch, increased soluble dietary fibre and reduction of lipid oxidation. On the other hand, Maillard reactio...

Chang-Hun Park, M.D., Kiyoung Yoo, M.D., Ki-O Lee, M.T., Sun-Hee Kim, Ph.D., Ki-Woong Sung, Ph.D., and Hee-Jin Kim, Ph.D. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul; Korea Hemophilia Foundation, Seoul; Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul; Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Cent...

Isotopic techniques have become a valuable tool for assessing the lability or potential availability of elements in soil. Until now, work on soil Cu has been limited to E-value methods where soil solution extracts are obtained by physical means due to the very short (12.4 h) half-life of the radio isotope 64Cu. However, a stable isotope method has recently been developed for determining soil Cu...

The synthesis and characterisation of the solvent-stabilized salt [Zn2(THF)6](2+)[BAr4(F)]2(-) (1) is presented, which features the dizinc dication [Zn2](2+) as an analogue of the calomel dication [Hg2](2+). The labile tetrahydrofuran (THF) solvate molecules of 1 can be readily substituted by other ligands. Reaction with the strong donor ligand PMe3 (Me = CH3) leads to the Zn(ii) complex [Zn(PM...

An AgI dimer capped with labile organometallic diphosphorus ligands [Cp2 Mo2 (CO)4 (η2 -P2 )] (Cp=C5 H5 ) acts as a highly pre-organized molecular precursor to direct the construction of 1D or 2D, and 3D organometallic-organic hybrid coordination polymers upon reaction with ditopic pyridine-based linkers. The formation of the supramolecular aggregates can be controlled by the stoichiometry of t...

Strokes may occur with a large number of genetic disorders. Natowicz and Kelley have reviewed the single gene disorders capable of causing familial haemorrhagic strokes. These may be classified into four groups: a) hereditary disorders affecting clotting factors or platelets; b) hereditary disease producing vascular anomaly; c) hereditary disease causing hypertension and d) miscellaneous group ...

Inherited thrombophilia has been implicated as a possible cause of recurrent pregnancy loss. Although numerous studies are available in literature, thrombophilia rate seems to vary from study to another. The aim of our study was to determine the frequency of FII Prothrombin (G20210A), Factor V Leiden (G1691A), as well as methyl tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR C677T) polymorphisms, protein C, ...

BACKGROUND The clinico-surgical implication and successful management of a rare case of factor five (V) deficiency with portal hypertension and hypersplenism due to idiopathic extra-hepatic portal venous obstruction is presented. CASE PRESENTATION A 16-year old boy had gastro-esophageal variceal bleeding, splenomegaly and hypersplenism. During preoperative workup prolonged prothrombin time an...

Differences among individuals are necessary for natural selection to occur. The extent and expression of these differences can limit the power of selection to cause evolutionary change. When individuals inconsistently express a trait, selection is less powerful. Labile traits such as behaviour are most likely to be inconsistent in their expression, because of the substantial role of environment...

The occurrence in human urine of a factor labile to heat and alkali which replaces citrovorum factor (CF; 5-formyl-5,6,7 ,%tetrahydrofolic acid; 5-formyl-THFA) in supporting the growth of Leuconostoc citrovorum, strain 8081 (Pediococcus sp. (1)) has been observed (2). This growth activity is lost upon autoclaving (pH 6.0 to 7.0) or during storage of urine at room temperature at pH 4.5 or above....