Corrigenda Sniffing Mustard Oil to Induce Couch

Can mustard gas induce late onset polyneuropathy?

 Abstract Background: Mustard gas, lethal in high doses, affects multiple organs such as skin, eye and respiratory system. We studied the development of late onset mustardinduced polyneuropathy among chemically wounded Iranian veterans. Methods: In this descriptive study, 100 chemically wounded Iranian veterans with severe eye involvement were examined for any signs and symptoms of polyneuropat...

Detection of argemone oil in mustard oil.

Disarming the mustard oil bomb.

Plants are attacked by a broad array of herbivores and pathogens. In response, plants deploy an arsenal of defensive traits. In Brassicaceae, the glucosinolate-myrosinase complex is a sophisticated two-component system to ward off opponents. However, this so-called "mustard oil bomb" is disarmed by a glucosinolate sulfatase of a crucifer specialist insect, diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella ...

Nutritive Value of Mustard Oil

By B. B. BRAHMACHARI, d.p.h. Director of Public Health Laboratory, Bengal As I have shown in my article on the vitamin value of the food fats of Bengal (Brahmachari, 1932), mustard oil, i.e., the oil expressed from the seeds of the mustard plants, and ghee are the only two fats which enter, as such, into the dietary of the people of Bengal, and, of the two, mustard oil is the more important. It...

Mustard oil assisted green synthesis of Nanomagnetites

Nanomagnetites were used as a most efficient agent for removal of heavy metals such as As and Cr for cleaning polluted water as heavy-metal contamination in groundwater is one of the severe global problems. In India, arsenic poisoning is very common but the major hurdle in synthesizing nanomagnetite in the lab is, high cost by decomposition method using FeOOH and oleic acid in 1-ODE. Here we ar...