Cereals represent the most important group of crops in the structure of plant production from the economic, agronomic and consumer point of view. Spelt wheat (Triticum spelta L.) is an ancient bread cereal related to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) that has been cultivated for hundreds of years, and that is now being rediscovered in Europe and North America. Spelt is generating increasing interest...

Gelatin is a natural polymer widely used in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, photographic, and food industries. It is obtained by denaturation and partial hydrolysis of fibrous collagen. Collagen is the most abundant structural protein of animals and by far the main organic component of skin and bone of vertebrates. However, collagen is standing for a family of proteins with 21 different types of amin...

Chiral ionic solvents were almost unexplored before the last five years. This field which is of increasing importance could constitute a renewal for the chemistry of chiral solvents. So far reported examples are designed either from the chiral pool (aminoacids, hydroxyacids, amines, aminoalcohols, terpenes and alkaloids) or by asymmetric synthesis; they can bear central, axial or planar chirali...

The investigation was carried out to determine qualitatively the phytoconstituents from the methanol and petroleum ether extracts of Drynaria quercifolia Linn. rhizome. Among the phytochemical screening of these extract, methanolic extract showed high number of constituents like alcohol, carbohydrates, phytosterols, phenols, tannins, flavonoids, proteins and aminoacids, steroids, saponins, chol...

Levodopa-induced dyskinesia, one of the most frequent long-term side effects of antiparkinsonian therapy, is often attributed to denervation supersensitivity of dopamine receptors and perhaps more specifically the D-1 receptor. The available evidence based not only on clinico-pathological studies in patients but also on results of experiments performed on methyl-phenyl-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)...

The mRNA for preuteroglobin, a precursor of the hormonally induced protein uteroglobin, has been partially purified from the endometrium of progesterone treated rabbits. The purification procedure starts with total endometrial polysomes and involves treatment with proteinase K and dodecylsulfate, chromatography on oligo(dT)-cellulose, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, electrophoresis in ...

Adenosine diphosphate ribosylation (ADP-ribosylation) is a widely occurring post-translational modification of proteins at nucleophilic side chain of amino acid residues. Elucidation of ADP-ribosylation events would benefit greatly from the availability of well-defined ADP-ribosylated peptides and analogues thereof. In this paper we present a novel approach to the chemical synthesis of ribosyla...

We report on the universal fabrication of Janus microparticles from a wide variety of organic and inorganic components. The Janus particle fabrication described in this study details the synthesis of the highly cross-linked polymer nanocoatings on top of the partially embedded particles via plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Here we conducted the plasma enhanced polymerization of differ...