BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES A cyclic lipopeptide (CLP), surfactin produced by a strain of Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis (VCRC B471) was found to exhibit mosquitocidal activity. The present study was carried out to enhance the surfactin level using low cost material in the production medium. METHODS Two carbon sources, glucose and common sugar, and two nitrogen sources, ammonium nitrate and so...

Epidemiological studies indicate that Asian women have a lower incidence of breast cancer compared with their counterparts in the West, and soya consumption has been suggested as a contributory factor. Clinical and animal studies have revealed that cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression is associated with a risk of breast cancer. In the present study, we investigated the effect of soya isoflavones...

Sixty two babies under the age of 6 months who were admitted with gastroenteritis completed a study of gradual refeeding compared with abrupt refeeding after a period of rehydration. There was no difference in the incidence of recurrence of diarrhoea due to lactose intolerance, effect on weight, or duration of hospital stay. Twenty six babies (42%) had recurrence of diarrhoea after refeeding, a...

1. The adsorption of bile salts from aqueous solution on the soya-bean flour, wheat bran, fine dry sawdust and lucerne (Medicago sativa) was measured. Adsorption on to the residuum after the first three of these substances had been extracted with organic solvents, pronase or solvents, pronase and acid (to produce lignin) was also measured. 2. The removal of saponins from soya-bean flour did not...

Plackett-Burman design was employed for screening 18 nutrient components for the production of inulinase using Garlic as substrate by Streptomyces sp. in solid-state fermentation (SSF). From the experiments, 4 nutrients, namely, NH(4)NO(3), MnSO(4)·7H(2)O, Soya bean cake, and K(2)HPO(4) were found to be most significant nutrient components. Hence, these 4 components are selected. The selected c...

It has been shown that a substance with properties akin to those of syphilis " antigen " can be extracted from commercial soya bean flour (Stevenson, 1949). The most satisfactory method is the following: 25 g. commercial soya flour is extracted successively with 100, 75, 75, 75 ml. pure ether. The flour is then dried and weighed and extracted for one hour at 800 C. with 95 per cent. ethyl alcoh...

Bu çalışmada, biyobozunur polilaktik asit polimerinin yağ-su ayırımındaki performansı incelenmiştir. Çalışma kapsamında membranlar hazırlanmış ve vakum filtrasyon işlemi uygulanmıştır. Membranın yağ suya olan ilgisi, su içindeki şişme testleriyle belirlenmiştir. hidrofilitesini arttırmak performansını iyileştirmek için içine halosit nanotüp (HNT) eklenmiş nanokompozit haline getirilmiştir. yüze...

1. Amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) activity found in the intestinal tract of chicks posterior to the stomach is of endogenous origin, as amylase in the food is inactivated by the low pH in the stomachs. 2. Ingestion of raw soya-bean diet (RSD) or of heated soya-bean diet (HSD) supplemented with trypsin inhibitors induced higher amylase activites in the lower part of the small intestine and caecum as compa...

rams fed, during 3 successive periods, the following 3 isoenergetic, isonitrogenous diets. I: control straw + 150 g of grain corn and 135 g of soya cake per kg of straw; 11: NaOH-treated straw + 155 g of soya cake per kg of straw; III: urea-treated straw + 70 g of soya cake per kg of straw; with 20 g of 9/15 CM daily and water ad libitum. After a 20 d adaptation period during which the animals ...