a flow injection method is reported for the determination of ascorbic acid based on amperometric detection, using a cobalt(ii) phthalocyanine (copc) modified graphite-epoxy electrode. the amperometric respons was evaluated with regard to ph, ionic strength of the electrolyte, flow rate of the carrier solution, injected sample volume and conditioning time of the electrode. the limit of detection...

The potential of different DNA based molecular markers was examined for the detection of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the waxy gene and a microsatellite (SSR) sequence closely linked to it in a collection of rice varieties. DNA was extracted from leaf samples of 68 different rice cultivars by the CTAB method and specific primers were designed for the amplification of waxy gene and SS...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Normal weight obese (NWO) syndrome is characterized by normal body mass index (BMI), but high amount of fat mass and reduced lean mass. We evaluated allelic frequency of the G/A -308 TNF-α polymorphism and prevalence of sarcopenia in NWO. METHODS We enrolled 120 Italian healthy women, distinguished into 3 groups: normal weight (NW); NWO, and preobese-obese (PreOB/OB) and ev...

BACKGROUND A keloid is pathological scar caused by aberrant response to skin injuries, characterized by excessive accumulation of histological extracellular matrix, and occurs in genetically susceptible individuals. Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of keloid. We investigated the association between PAI-1 polymorphisms and plasma PAI-1 level with ...

Objective: Hypospadias is known to have familial inheritance because of multifactorial etiology. Little is known about the genetic polymorphism involved in hypospadias. A few genetic associations have been reported but mainly in studies of small sample size and were based on case control stud . The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the genetic polymorphism ies usually seen in the affect...

Fe2+ ion-selective membrane sensor has been fabricated from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) matrixmembrane containing neutral carrier tetra phenyl porphyrin (TPP) ionophore. The addition ofsodium tetraphenylborate (NaTPB) and the plasticizer DBP has been found to substantiallyimprove the performance of the sensor. The best performance was obtained with the sensor havinga membrane of composition of TPP...