A sensitive, precise microbiological assay was developed for the determination of tissue distribution of dl-alanosine, a new antitumor agent.

This article presents a historical perspective on the different methods used to measure folate status in populations and clinical settings. I discuss some of the advantages and limitations of these procedures. For >50 y researchers have used microbiological assay methods to assess folate status in clinical settings and in population-based studies, such as NHANES. Serum and red blood cell folate...

Folate-depleted, cryoprotected preparations of Lactobacillus casei are stable for at least eight months at -18 degrees C, capable of reproducible growth and suitable as a ready source of inoculum for measurement of folates in physiological fluids. Cryoprotected microorganisms can be a commercially available laboratory reagent, thus simplifying and further standardizing the microbiological assay...

Stability study of ceftazidime was realized in order to investigate kinetics of degradation of this drug both in powder for injection and reconstituted sample. Ceftazidime was submitted to conditions of accelerated thermal degradation and photodegradation. Analyses of the degraded samples were performed by microbiological assay and decomposition reactions could be described by zero-order and se...

Many commercial folate radioassay kits have proven to be unsatisfactory in the past. It has been found that the Schwarz/Mann Iodine-125 folate radioassay kit permits a rapid measurement of folic acid requiring only a single incubation at pH 9.3. At this pH, the relative affinity of pteroylglutamic acid (FA) and N-5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid (MTFA) for the milk binder is the same. Additionally,...

The preliminary research work carried to find out the concentration of Gentamicin in the raw material. Two different techniques used in this study for the quantification of Gentamicin. They are microbiological assay method and reversed phase HPLC. The concentration of Gentamicin was quantified even at very lower concentration by microbiological assay method and it is sensitive. The test organis...

The spectrophotometric and microbiological assay methods used for the determination of ampicillin levels in ampicillin/cloxacillin combinations were compared. A total of 24 samples of ampicillin/cloxacillin suspensions from 8 batches and 3 companies (B2, D and E) were assayed for their ampicillin content levels using the Spectrophotometric assay method. Infra-red (IR) Spectroscopy confirmed the...