PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of orally administered dehydrated garlic powder on cytokine excretion in the urinary tract. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 60 healthy volunteers, randomized into 3 groups, were given a single oral dose of 1 g or 3 g of dehydrated garlic powder or placebo. Urine samples were obtained 6.0 and 24.0 h after garlic intake and assayed for interleukin-8 (IL-8), inte...

Four new azo-dyes, 3-phenyl azopentane-2,4-dion (LA), 3-(4-nitro phenyl azo)-pentane-2,4-dion (LP), 3-(2-nitro phenyl azo)-pentane-2,4-dion (LO) and 4-(1-acetyle-2-oxo-propyl azo)-benzene sulfonate sodium (LS), were synthesized from, aniline, 4-nitroaniline, 2-nitroaniline and sulfanilic acid with acetylacetone, respectively. Reaction of these new dyes with acetate salts of copper(II), nickel(I...

Few novel cobalt(II) and copper(II) complexes [M(fmp)3]Cl2, [M(fmp)(bpy)2]Cl2,[M(fmp)(phen)2]Cl2 and [M(fmp)(phen)(bpy)]Cl2 (fmp = 3-furan-2-ylmethylene-pentane-2,4-dione, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) have been synthesized andcharacterized by elemental analyses, molar conductance, magnetic susceptibility measurements,IR, electronic, EPR, mass spectra and cyclic voltammetri...

a highly selective, rapid and economical differential pulse polarographic method has been developed for the determination of trace amounts of cadmium and lead present together in various standard alloys and biological samples after adsorption of their 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol complexes on microcrystalline naphthalene. cadmium and lead complexes are equantitatively adsorbed on microcrystallin...

the problem of removing pollutants from water is an important process and is becoming moreimportant with the increasing of industrial activities. one of the most important environmental problems iswater resources pollution by heavy metals. bioabsorbtion is affordable adsorbents for the removal of heavymetals from aqueous solutions. this study explores the adsorption potential of cr (vi), cd (ii...

The synthesis, characterization and quantum-chemical investigations of two new Co(II) complexesderived from fluorescent benzimidazoles have been reported. Two new fluorescentheterocyclic ligands were synthesized from the reduction of imidazo[4',5':3,4]benzo[1,2-c]isoxazole derivatives, and characterized by elemental analyses, IR, mass, and NMR spectra. Coordination of the bidentate ligands ...

B. P. Baranwal*, S. S. Das, Poonam Singh Chemistry Department, University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur 273009 India Z. Naturforsch. 52b, 1039-1042 (1997); received July 7, 1997 Cobalt(II) Derivatives, Cyclic Phosphazenes, IR Spectra Chlorine atoms of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene were substituted with -NH.C2H5, -NH.CH 2C6H5 and -O C 2Hs to yield organotriphosphazene ligands. Anhydrous cobalt(II) chl...

The synthesis and characterization of bis-mercaptoethanediazaheptane cadmium(II) is reported and compared to the analogous zinc complex. Of significance is the dimeric form of the [Zn(N(2)S(2))](2) complex achieves penta-coordination about zinc through a bridging thiolate whereas cadmium engages two thiolate as S-bridges resulting in hexa-coordination about cadmium within a coordination polymer...