ENHANCING EFFECTS OF VARIOUS JELLY-FORMING SUBSTANCES ON KAMABOKO-JELLY

Lifespan-Extending Effects of Royal Jelly and Its Related Substances on the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

BACKGROUND One of the most important challenges in the study of aging is to discover compounds with longevity-promoting activities and to unravel their underlying mechanisms. Royal jelly (RJ) has been reported to possess diverse beneficial properties. Furthermore, protease-treated RJ (pRJ) has additional pharmacological activities. Exactly how RJ and pRJ exert these effects and which of their c...

Enhancing Effect of Starch on Jelly Strength of Fish Meat Jelly-II. Effect of Amylose and Amylopectin

In the first paper of this series, it was shown that gelatinization of starch was necessary to enhance jelly strength of fish meat jelly (Kamaboko), and that starch added in Kamaboko , though gelatinized, chiefly existed in the jelly as granules and partly dispersed into meat as amylose. In the present paper, amylose and amylopectin, the two components of starch , were isolated by an improved S...

Jelly wobbles

(Pelagia noctiluca) — a well-known summer problem off Spain’s Mediterranean beaches – thriving through the winter. Joseph Maria Gili, leading the survey, said that these animals developed last autumn and will themselves reproduce in the spring in readiness for what is expected to be another massive summer population around Spain’s beaches this year. While measures are now being considered to pr...

Electrode Jelly in Electrocardiography.

Underneath the “apple-jelly”

A 44-year-old Caucasian woman presented with asymptomatic skin lesions on the trunk, arms and legs. These lesions had suddenly appeared 4 months before and have been unchanged ever since. Medical history included arterial hypertension and hypertriglyceridemia. The patient recalled an acute episode of painful subcutaneous nodules on the lower legs some years ago that disappeared with NSAID and l...