Spina bifida is a birth defect that affects the spines of developing fetuses and infants, and research in the 20th century indicated that chemicals in the herbicide Agent Orange likely led to the birth defect. People with spina bifida [6] can have nerve damage, paralysis, and mental disabilities. During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the US military employed Agent Orange and other herbicides to ...

Investigations have demonstrated that ratio of sugars to organic acids affects the particular taste of citrus fruit and carotenoids are essential for prevent of the disease.  It seems that some rootstocks enhance the ripening of fruits and stimulatethe biosynthesis of sugars and carotenoids. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of rootstocks on sugars, organic acids andcarotenoids o...

The objective of the present work is extraction of pectin from waste of orange fruit peel and further characterization for useful alternative pharmaceutical excipient. The pectin was subjected to phytochemical and physicochemical characterization of its safety and suitability to use as binding and suspending agent. FT-IR spectroscopy, DSC studies were performed for drug, orange peel pectin powd...

Orange (Citrus sinensis) and grapefruit (Citrus paradise) peels were used as a source of pectin, which was extracted under different conditions. The peels are used under two states: fresh and residual (after essential oil extraction). Organic acid (citric acid) and mineral acid (sulfuric acid) were used in the pectin extraction. The aim of this study is the evaluation the effect of extraction c...

in this study, a new reaction system for quantitative determination of ascorbic acid was introduced. the developed method is based on inhibitory effect of ascorbic acid on the orange g-bromate system. the change in absorbance was followed spectrophotometrically at 478 nm. the dependence of sensitivity on the reaction variables including reagents concentration, temperature and time was investiga...

Acridine orange decreases the amplitude of the 295-nm circular dichroism (CD) trough of ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) where the trough has been related to coil character. Since acridine orange is known from earlier work to intercalate between base pairs of nucleic acids, causing an unwinding of the coil, and our studies show a decrease in the 295-nm CD trough, it appears that CD measurement...

inrdction In an article on vaginal thrush, Liston and Cruickshank (1940) state that ' the organism finds an acid moist smuface on which to grow in two situations-the mouths of suckling infants or invalids and the vagie of adult women in certain circmnstances.' Further, they ' attach great importance to the pH reaction as a factor influencing the possibility of infection with Oidium albicans.' C...

We evaluated the in vitro antiproliferative and apoptotic potential of the ethyl acetate extract (EAE) of Peltophorum africanum, a member of the family Fabaceae (Sond) in order to validate its pharmacological use. Antiproliferation of human breast (MCF-7), colon (HT-29) and cervical (HeLa) cancer cell lines by EAE was investigated using the Cell Titer-Blue viability assay and the mechanism of a...