Purpose: To improve the hydrophobicity of diosmetin, the complex of diosmetin and lecithin was prepared and its physicochemical properties were characterized in this study. Methods: The complex of diosmetin and lecithin was prepared by solvent method. The physicochemical properties of the complex were investigated by ultraviolet-visible spectrometry (UV/Vis), infrared spectrometry (IR), scannin...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of soy isoflavone protein concentrate and soy lecithin on endothelial function, measured as flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery in healthy postmenopausal women. DESIGN This was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial with 25 participants (mean age, 61 years; body mass index, 25.46 kg/m2). The women underwent endothelial fu...

Cardiolipin antigens, used in the sero-diagnosis of syphilis, are mixtures of the phospholipids, cardiolipin, and purified natural lecithin (beefheart or egg), and usually also contain cholesterol. In 1949 Baer and Kates (1949, 1950) succeeded in the synthesis of L-ac-dimyristoyl lecithin and in the following years other types of synthetic lecithin were produced, including a D-oc-dimyristoyl le...

Four barrows of approximately 40 kg initial body weight, fitted with post-valvular T-cecum cannulas, were used to study the effect of lecithin as an external emulsifier on apparent ileal and overall digestibility of crude fat, fatty acids, and other dietary nutrients (DM, N, GE, crude fiber [CF], P, Ca, and Mg), as well as the utilization of N, GE, Ca, P, and Mg. Two levels of lecithin (0 and ....

Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (PMR) spectra at 270 MHz of aqueous dispersions of nonsonicated egg lecithin, dipalmitoyl lecithin, egg lecithin-cholesterol (1 : 1 ) and dipalmitoyl lecithin-cholesterol (1 : 1), together with PMR spectra of mitochondrial membranes and their extracted lipids, have been obtained. Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (CMR) spectra at 25.2 MHz of egg lecithin, eg...

Lecithin has been found to interfere with the combining reaction of Cl. welchii alpha toxin (lecithinase) and its antitoxin. If the lecithinase is first brought into contact with lecithin, and the antitoxin is then added, the antitoxin fails to stop the enzymatic reaction, but gradually decelerates it. If the lecithinase is brought into contact with both lecithin and antitoxin at the same insta...

Forty crossbred (Large White × Landrace × Duroc) female pigs (16.4 kg ± 0.94 kg) were used to investigate the effect of dietary lecithin supplementation on growth performance and pork quality. Pigs were randomly allocated to a commercial diet containing either 0, 3, 15 or 75 g lecithin/kg of feed during the grower and finisher growth phase. Pork from pigs consuming the diets containing 15 g and...

The activity of egg lecithin in preventing the antifungal action of the two imidazole antimycotics, clotrimazole and miconazole, was confirmed. However, addition of this phospholipid could not relieve an existing imidazole inhibition. Compared with egg lecithin, reduced egg lecithin showed no such protective effect. The addition of egg lecithin to an aqueous suspension of the imidazole drugs ch...