Plant sources, chemical properties, bioactivities, as well as the synthesis of indigo dye and its derivatives, are reviewed in this paper. These compounds were chosen because of their significant benefits and scope of application as both coloring agents in the textile industry and as pharmacologically active natural products. Their use in traditional chinese medicine (TCM) has directed the atte...

Indigo carmine (also known as 5,5'-indigodisulfonic acid sodium salt or indigotine) is a blue dye that is administered intravenously to examine the urinary tract and usually is biologically safe and inert. Indigo carmine rarely may cause adverse reactions. We treated a 66-year-old man who had general anesthesia and radical retropubic prostatectomy for prostate cancer. He had a previous history ...

Indigofera truxillensis and I. suffruticosa, are used as a source of indigo dye and to treat several diseases. The mutagenic activity of the methanolic extracts from aerial parts, glycerolipid, flavonoid and alkaloid fractions of the extract were evaluated by means of Salmonella/microsome assays using TA100, TA98, TA102 and TA97a strains. The methanolic extract of I. truxillensis showed mutagen...

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of and risk factors for injury to the lower urinary tract during total laparoscopic hysterectomy. METHODS All patients who underwent total laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign disease from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2005, at an academic medical center are included. Subjects undergoing laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy, supracervical hysterec...

Ziel des Projektes indiGo war die Entwicklung einer integrierten Lösung für prozessorientiertes Wissensmanagement in Software Engineering Umgebungen [Rech et al, 2004] [Rech und Althoff, 2004]. Dadurch wird die verteilte und kollaborative Einführung, Evaluation und Verbesserung von Prozessmodellen in einem Unternehmen ermöglicht. Dieser Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse des indiGo-Projekts vor und ...

We report a case of first-degree atrioventricular (A-V) block progressing to second-degree (Wenckebach-type) A-V block after administration of indigo carmine in a patient undergoing hysterectomy under general anesthesia. We believe that the onset of Wenckebach-type A-V block may have been induced by one or more of three factors: 1) preoperative first-degree A-V block, 2) the anesthetics used (p...

This paper discusses colorants found in Tumulus MM, the tomb of King Midas or his father, at Gordion, capital Phrygian kingdom. Chromophores, colorants, and auxiliaries are preserved largely independent textiles they once colored. The MM now fragmentary due to degradation processes that occurred inside chamber. For DHA 26 (Vienna, Austria, 2007), we discussed a group golden-yellow fragments fro...

The bearing of lipid solubilities and substantivities of dyes on the results of cytochemical staining reactions is briefly discussed. Solubilities of indigoid dyes in various lipids are qualitatively similar to those in symtetrachloroethane. Quantitative determinations made in this solvent indicate that, in general, indigo and its 5:5'and 6:6'-substituted derivatives are sparingly soluble, wher...