An attempt has been made to develop a simple and effective approach for the treatment of snakebite ulcers using citric acid as the sole antimicrobial agent. Fifty-two (52) cases of snakebite ulcers not responding to conventional antibiotic therapy and local wound care were investigated for culture and susceptibility of swabs collected from the ulcers. Staphylococcus aureus (30.69%) an...

the influence of aluminum on some serum parameters related to bone metabolism has been investigated by daily administration of aluminum over different periods of time. daily administration of aluminum (1 mg/kg bw) for 20 or 50 days elevated serum phosphorous concentration by 16 percent and had no significant effect on serum calcium level. when aluminum was injected as a complex with citric acid...

The influence of aluminum on some serum parameters related to bone metabolism has been investigated by daily administration of aluminum over different periods of time. Daily administration of aluminum (1 mg/kg BW) for 20 or 50 days elevated serum phosphorous concentration by 16 percent and had no significant effect on serum calcium level. When aluminum was injected as a complex with citric...

Lehninger (1945) has shown that the initiation of fatty acid oxidation in cell-free preparations of animal tissues must be accompanied by oxidative phosphorylation. Grafflin & Green (1949) considered that the co-oxidation of a citric-acid cycle intermediate is also necessary to provide oxaloacetic acid to condense with the two-carbon fragments formed in the breakdown of fatty acids. The condens...

Pectin from passion fruit peels was extracted using citric acid extraction. The effects of citric acid concentration from 0.05 to 0.21 % (wt/wt), extraction time from 30 to 120 minutes and extraction temperatures from 35 to 85 ̊C on pectin yield and the degree of esterification (DE) were investigated. Using the central composite design (CCD), the optimized pectin yield was 6.44 % and degree of ...

A solid state fermentation method was used to utilize wheat straw as substrates for citric acid production by using Aspergillus niger ATCC 9142. The Plackett Burman design (PBD) of experiments was used to test the relative importance of the variables affecting production such as moisture content, age of spore, inoculum size, initial pH of substrate, methanol conce...

Received: December 28, 2013; Revised; January 25, 2014; Accepted: March 2, 2014 . Abstract: A major problem in the micro propagation of litchi is the secretion of polyphenols into the medium by the tissues once excised. This secretion undergoes oxidation to produce substances that kill the tissues. The first visual symptom of deterioration is skin browning which has been reported to appear due ...

Organic acids are essential to fruit flavor. The vacuolar H(+) transporting adenosine triphosphatase (V-ATPase) plays an important role in organic acid transport and accumulation. However, less is known of V-ATPase interacting proteins and their relationship with organic acid accumulation. The relationship between V-ATPase and citric acid was investigated, using the citrus tangerine varieties '...

This work is based on the scientific hypothesis published in Medical Hypotheses, where I suggested that the cause of cancer is the result of the evolution of mitochondria in cells, and that on inhibiting glycolysis with citric acid, the mitochondria in neoplastic cells can be debilitated and cancer can be treated [1]. The patient treated with citric acid is a boy, he is 10 years old and he was ...

Studies on the oxidation and bromination of citric acid to pentabromoacetone were reported as early as 1847 by Cahours (1). This reaction has since formed bhe basis for many of the procedures for determining citric acid. A qualitative test by Stahre (2), reported in 1897, was adapted fol quantitative analysis by Kunz (3). Pucher, Sherman, and Vickery (4) described the first microphotometric met...