Phenolic pollutants are very toxic and their removal from aquatic resources is important. Adsorption by activated carbon, AC, the best method for of phenols solutions. However, high cost AC difficulty its regeneration after phenol adsorption puts demand on low price materials. Therefore, sugarcane bagasse as a sustainable, bulky fibrous biomass was selected purpose low-price formation adsorptio...

1. When iron and copper are allowed to act on hydrogen peroxide and pyrogallol, enough carbon dioxide is produced to be readily measured. 2. The curve of the production of carbon dioxide may be fitted by an empirical equation, by the use of which the initial rate and the total amount of the oxidation may be determined. 3. The effect of the concentration of the reagents is different in each case...

Generation of reactive oxygen species plays a pivotal role in the development of cardiovascular diseases. The present study describes the effects of the methanolic extract of Phoebe grandis (MPG) stem bark on reactive oxygen species-induced endothelial dysfunction in vitro. Endothelium-dependent (acetylcholine, ACh) and -independent relaxation (sodium nitroprusside, SNP) was investigated from i...

Hikiji, Hisako, Wee Soo Shin, Toshiyuki Koizumi, Tsuyoshi Takato, Takafumi Susami, Yoko Koizumi, Yoko Okai-Matsuo, and Teruhiko Toyo-oka. Peroxynitrite production by TNF-a and IL-1b: implication for suppression of osteoblastic differentiation. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 278: E1031–E1037, 2000.—To determine the roles of nitric oxide (NO) and its metabolite, peroxynitrite (ONOO2), on osteoblas...

Present study was aimed to investigate in vitro antioxidant and hepatoprotective activities of the ethanolic extracts of Astragalus subrobustus (A. subrobustus) and Astragalus woronowii (A. woronowii) on PCM induced liver damage in rats. The antioxidant activities of both extracts were assayed and their activities were compared to standard antioxidants, ascorbic acid and pyrogallol. Liver injur...

In simple chemical oxidation such as the oxidation of pyrogallol or of a ferrous salt, the hydrogen ion concentration plays an important role. In general, as in the case of pyrogallol, a slight acidity depresses oxidation, and increasing alkalinity, even to a marked degree, greatly increases the rate of oxidation. It has been assumed that in general this applied also to biological oxidation, bu...

Our study explores the antioxidant and cytoprotective effects of baicalein and further discusses the possible mechanisms. A methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) assay revealed that baicalein could considerably enhance the viability of hydroxyl radical-treated bone marrow-mesenchymal stem cells (bmMSCs) at 37-370 µM. The highest viability rate was 120.4%. In subsequent studies, baicalein was obser...

The objective of this study was to investigate the potential of various raw bean components as precursors of pyrogallol (1), hydroxyhydroquinone (2), catechol (3), 4-ethylcatechol (4), 4-methylcatechol (5), and 3-methylcatechol (6) under quasi "natural" roasting conditions by using the recently developed "in bean" model roast experiments. Freeze-dried, fully extracted bean shells were loaded wi...

Rosaindica and Psidiumguajava methanol extracts were tested for their effect on urease and collagenase enzyme by using phenol hypochlorite method and gelatin digestion assay, respectively. Among the two plant extracts evaluated, the highest inhibitory activity against Jack bean urease was exerted by R. indica(47.11%), while for collagenase P. guajava showed complete inhibition of enzyme at conc...