The study was conducted to evaluate metabolic answer of Lepidium sativum L. on Hg, compost, and citric acid during assisted phytoextraction. The chlorophyll a and b contents, total carotenoids, and activity of peroxidase were determined in plants exposed to Hg and soil amendments. Hg accumulation in plant shoots was also investigated. The pot experiments were provided in soil artificially conta...

OBJECTIVE Today, esophageal cancer (EC) has become one of the most common cancer types in China. Therefore, new drug and therapeutic strategies are urgently needed to improve postoperative survival rate of patients with EC. As a food additive, several lines of evidence have shown that citric acid can be served as glycolysis suppressor to inhibit growth of some tumor cells. However, little is kn...

Male Wistar-strain rats which had been fed a glycolic-acid diet developed severe nephrocalcinosis with urinary calculi within 4 weeks. Rats fed the same diet with citrate salts added had, however, either slight or no nephrocalcinosis without any stones in the urinary system. Nephrocalcinosis intermediate between those in the citrate groups and the glycolic-acid group, with some urinary calculi,...

Carbonaceous meteorites deliver a variety of organic compounds to Earth that may have played a role in the origin and/or evolution of biochemical pathways. Some apparently ancient and critical metabolic processes require several compounds, some of which are relatively labile such as keto acids. Therefore, a prebiotic setting for any such individual process would have required either a continuou...

From the sedimentation and diffusion constant values obtained in a solution containing 1 g./ 100 ml. H substance, and using the determined value of the partial specific volume, the molecular weight was calculated from the usual equation (Svedberg & Pedersen, 1940) giving a value of 320 000. From the same data the frictional ratio f/fo obtained was 4-2. This corresponds to an axial ratio of > 10...

Recently there has been increasing realisation of tile important part played by citric acid in the body’s metabolism. Thus administration of pyruvic acid, the intermediate metabolite common to the utilisation of carbohydrate, protein and perhaps fat, causes increased urinary excretion of citrate. Many tissues can form citrate by condensation of pyruvate and oxalacetate followed by reduction, an...

several therapeutic effects including hypnotic, antispasmodic, treatment of abdominal and chest pain and strengthening the heart have been described for the flowers of rosa damascena. north american indian tribes use a decoction of the roots obtained from the rosa damascena plant as a cough remedy and to treat eye problem. therefore, in the present study the antitussive effect of this plant in ...

objective: dendrimers are three-dimensional nanostructures that have numerous applications in medicine, including drug delivery and imaging. although anionic dendrimer polyethylene glycol–citrate has a high potential to increase solubility of water-insoluble drugs and drug delivery, its multi-step synthesis procedure is time consuming. in addition, toxic substances such as dichloromethane are u...

the condensation of benzylamine with glyoxal leads to hexabenzylhexaazaisowurtzitane (hbiw) in acetonitrile solvent with citric acid as a green catalyst under both conventional stirring and ultrasonic irradiation conditions. the influence of four variables, including the amount of catalyst, solvent, reaction time and ultrasonic power, on the reaction yield was investigated. the results showed t...

an approach to recycle precious metals of cathode materials from spent lithium cobalt oxide batteries by using organic citric acid and hydrogen peroxide has been studied in this paper. the effects of molar ratio, solid-liquid ratio, reaction time and temperature on leaching efficiency of cobalt were investigated respectively. meanwhile the leaching kinetics equation of cobalt was established, a...