Citric acid has been shown to act as an agent for increasing the solubility of aluminum oxyhydroxides in aqueous solutions of high (>2.47 mol/mol) hydroxide-to-aluminum ratios. Conversely, citric acid also colloidally stabilizes particles in aqueous suspensions of aluminum-containing particles. Solutions of aluminum chloride, with and without citric acid added, were titrated with NaOH(aq). The ...

AsbA catalyses the highly enantioselective desymmetrisation of citric acid via ATP-dependent condensation with spermidine, as well as the condensation of citric acid with several spermidine analogues and the condensation of the citric acid analogue tricarballylic acid with spermidine, suggesting that it may be a useful biocatalyst for asymmetric synthesis.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), citric acid, and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), alone or in combination, on reducing the population of four foodborne pathogens, including Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella typhimurium, and Staphylococcus aureus on eggshells. In each series of tests, eight fresh eggs were inoculated with each bact...

The possible use of cotton waste as a carbohydrate source of citric acid production by Aspergillus niger was examined. No citric acid was produced when A. niger was grown on cotton waste as a sole carbon source. In two-stage fermentations, however, mycelium obtained from surface cultures in cotton waste medium yielded more citric acid when transferred to sucrose-containing media than when direc...

Numerous methods, enzymatic and chemical, have been reported for the determination of small amounts of citric acid in biological fluids. Of the chemical methods the majority involve the conversion of the citric acid to pentabromoacetone, which may be estimated by various gravimetric, titrimetric, or calorimetric procedures. The more recent modifications (l-3) of the met.hod have simplified it a...

Chromium-VI would impose detrimental effects morphological, physiological, and metabolic in plants. This study aimed to research the impact of citric acid (0, 2.5 and 5 mM), on different the morphological and physiological characteristics of garden cress exposed to chromium-VI stress (0, 1, and 10 mM). Results showed that some growth parameters, chlorophyll, carotenoids, and DPPH activity decre...

We examined the sour taste transduction mechanism in the mouse by applying whole cell patch-clamp technique to nondissociated taste cells from the fungiform papillae. Localized stimulation with 0.5 M NaCl and 25 mM citric acid (pH 3.0) of the apical membrane enabled us to obtain responses from single taste cells under a quasi-natural condition. Of 28 taste cells examined, 11 cells (39%) respond...

AIM The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of organic acids as replacer to antibiotics in their various combinations on feed consumption, body weight gain, and feed conversion ratio (FCR) in broiler chicks during different phases of growth. MATERIALS AND METHODS Antibiotics and organic acids were incorporated into boiler feed in different combinations to form 10 maize based te...

Aconitase and NADand NADP-linked isocitric dehydrogenases were examined in two strains of Aspergillus niger. The mutant strain 72-44 produced higher yields of citric acid on the culture medium used than did the parent strain 7 2 4 . After growth for 22 hr on a medium in which citric acid did not accumulate, the amounts of each enzyme in the parent strain were approximately the same as those in ...

BACKGROUND Cough is an important symptom of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The cough threshold to citric acid and capsaicin in patients with COPD and in normal volunteers was measured, as well as bronchial hyperresponsiveness to methacholine. METHODS Nineteen patients with COPD and 22 controls were recruited. Subjects underwent a methacholine bronchoprovocation te...