Dietary isoflavones are reported to have significant influences on human health. The beneficial effects reported include reduced risk of cancers, decreased menopausal symptoms, reduced osteoporosis etc. Most of these benefits have been deduced from epidemiological studies involving soy bean as the source of dietary isoflavones, since soy bean is an important food crop in several parts of the wo...

The inositol-containing phosphatides of soy beans have been the subject of a number of investigations (l-7) since 1939 when Klenk and Sakai (8) first reported the presence of inositol in soy bean phosphatides. Previous work at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory (3) has shown that the alcohol-insoluble portion of soy bean phosphatides can be separated into two inositol-containing fraction...

Investigations undertaken to elucidate the mechanism whereby concentrates of the soy bean trypsin inhibitor depress growth have indicated that an inhibition of intestinal proteolysis is not the only factor involved (l-3). In a previous paper (4), it was shown that a concentrate of the soy bean trypsin inhibitor, which had been treated so as to destroy its antitryptic activity, still retained th...

Objective: This study was carried out to determine the effects of vegetable and animal proteins on renal failure in diabetic rats. Design: We used male, adult Wistar rats [n = 90 rats] in which diabetic renal disease was induced. Intervention: Rats were fed either a control diet or diets in which the protein came from vegetable [soy, lentil, or white bean] or animal [fish, beef, chicken, or egg...

For some years now a systematic survey of deoxyribonucleases has been carried out in this laboratory in the hope that a deoxyribonuclease would be found with limited, yet well defined, specificity. A preliminary note of Masui, Hara, and Hiiamatsu (2) described an apparently labile DNase from soy bean sprouts which liberated first deoxyadenylic, then deoxyguanylic, acids. We encountered difficul...

in this study the effect of different nitrogen source substrates on the amount of chitosan production by aspergillus niger was investigated. a. niger ptcc 5012 from the persian type culture collection (ptcc) was grown on soy bean, corn seed and canola residues at 30 °c for specified cultivation days under sterilized conditions. chitosan was extracted from the fungal mycelia using hot alkaline a...

A novel soy-based epoxy resin system was synthesized by the process of transesterification and epoxidation of regular soy bean oil, which has the potential to be widely usable in various composite manufacturing processes. Cure kinetics and rheology are two chemical properties commonly required in process modeling. In this work, the cure kinetics and rheology of the soy-based resin system were m...