Some pathological changes: accompanying raw lima bean (RLB) feeding to growing rats were investigated. Among the gross patholo­gical observations severe pancreatic hypertrophy and spleen atrophy. The rela­tive weight of liver was significantly (P< 0M5) decreased while kidney 0.05) increas­ed. relative heart unaffected. At necropsy, small intestine fed 40% RLB aoove dilated filed with light-y...

Introduction: Study was taken with an objective to investigate the inhibitory effect of Phaseolus lunatus seeds extract on three enzymes (α-amylase, maltase and glucoamylase) which are involved in diabetes. The disadvantages related use synthetic drugs make it necessary search for alternative from medicinal plants. One therapeutic approach treatment postprandial hyperglycaemia is decrease plasm...

Demand for bean products is growing because of the presence of several health-promoting components in edible bean products such as phytates. Phytates are a naturally occurring compound, which is distributed widely in all cells of legume plants. Clinical studies have suggested that these health-promoting components, phytates, affect the immune system to protect the human body against cancers, an...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate which Doppler-derived flow index best predicts new distal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) stenosis in patients with left internal mammary artery (LIMA) graft. BACKGROUND The LIMA flow measurement has been proposed to assess graft function, but it may be misleading in case of new distal LAD stenosis and/or competitive flow fro...

Assessment of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) graft patency currently requires invasive investigation through coronary angiography. In the last years the successful application of noninvasive Doppler spectrum analysis has been reported for patency assessment of the LIMA graft after myocardial revascularization. Echocardiography is considered to be a sensitive noninvasive screening modal...

Henriete S. Vieira, Jacqueline A. Takahashi, Alaíde B. de Oliveira, Egler Chiari and Maria Amélia D. Boaventura* Departamento de Química, Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil Departamento de Produtos Farmacêuticos, Faculdade de Farmácia , Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Olegário Maciel, 2360,...

Hoeflea phototrophica Biebl et al. 2006 is a member of the family Phyllobacteriaceae in the order Rhizobiales, which is thus far only partially characterized at the genome level. This marine bacterium contains the photosynthesis reaction-center genes pufL and pufM and is of interest because it lives in close association with toxic dinoflagellates such as Prorocentrum lima. The 4,467,792 bp geno...