Cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL) is a cheap source of natural phenolic compounds that have numerous applications. These chemical structures with chromophores similar to those found in synthetic UV-filters, which are present commercial sunscreen products (SSPs). Thus, this study investigated the impact solvents on yield, total phenol content (TPC), flavonoid (TFC), and sun protection factor (SPF) c...

Previously, an in vitro study of the SPF value a cream formulation with active ingredients from broiler eggshells was conducted using UV-vis spectrophotometry at wavelength 290-320 nm and obtained 8.335 concentration 9000 ppm. This aims to continue testing UV protective activity vivo on creams these combination adding 5% titanium dioxide. The experimental animals used consisted 12 female rabbit...

BACKGROUND/AIM Chronic venous ulcer (CVU), a disease of high incidence, is one of the most serious chronic venous insufficiency complications. It has been estimated that there are 1%-2% of adults with CVU deriving a high social significance. The aim of this study was to, using the clinical experience, determine the influence of subcutaneous paratibial fasciotomy (SPF) on the course and the trea...

Up to date, no worldwide standard in vitro method has been established for the determination of the sun protection factor (SPF), since there are many problems in terms of its repeatability and reliability. Here, we have studied the problems on the in vitro SPF measurements brought about by the phenomenon called viscous fingering. A spatially periodic stripe pattern is usually formed spontaneous...

The effect of the mitochondria-targeted, plastoquinone-containing antioxidant SkQ1 on the lifespan of outbred mice and of three strains of inbred mice was studied. To this end, low pathogen (LP) or specific pathogen free (SPF) vivaria in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Stockholm were used. For comparison, we also studied mole-voles and dwarf hamsters, two wild species of small rodents kept under si...

AIM We tested the effects of a cancer cachexia-anorexia sydrome upon the balance of anti and pro-inflammatory cytokines in the hypothalamus of sedentary or trained tumour-bearing (Walker-256 carcinosarcoma) rats. METHODS Animals were randomly assigned to a sedentary control (SC), sedentary tumour-bearing (ST), and sedentary pair-fed (SPF) groups or, exercised control (EC), exercised tumour-be...