Objective:  Anchomanes difformis is a member of the plant family Araceae which is used as a diuretic but also has other medicinal applications. This study investigates the dietary effects of A. difformis on the kidneys of adult wistar rats. Materials and Methods: Sixteen rats were used and were weighed, before and after the experiment. All rats were randomly divided into four groups. All groups...

pomegranate, a small tree with potential human health benefits, is grown mainly in iran, india and usa as well as in most near and far east countries. it has been used extensively in folk medicine for a number of therapeutic purposes. in the present study, the ferric reducing/antioxidant power assay (frap) was employed and the frap value of the seed fraction of six different cultivars of pomegr...

Accepted: 08/06/2014 Abstract Six variety of betel leaf from different domain of India were extracted using five solvents in order to determine the effect of solvent and changing variety on total phenol content and antioxidant activity. Antioxidant activity was determined using DPPH, ABTS, FRAP, PCL (Photochemluminiscence) assay. However 80% methanol for TPC, 80% ethanol followed by 80% methano...

Grapes are widely known for health benefits due to their antioxidant content. In wine production, grape stems are often discarded, though they has a higher content of antioxidants than the juice. The effectiveness of using an environmentally friendly solvent, ethanol, as a superheated liquid and supercritical fluid to extract antioxidant compounds from grape stems of organically grown Crimson S...

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) has become a popular technique to investigate the behavior of proteins in living cells. Although the technique is relatively old, its application to studying endogenous intracellular proteins in living cells is relatively recent and is a consequence of the newly developed fluorescent protein-based living cell protein tags. This is particularly t...

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) has been a powerful tool for characterizing the mobility of cell surface membrane proteins. However, the application of FRAP to the study of intracellular membrane proteins has been hampered by the lack of specific probes and their physical inaccessibility in the cytoplasm. We have measured the mobility of a model transmembrane protein, the temp...

The rate of exchange of tubulin that is incorporated into spindle microtubules with dimeric tubulin in the cytoplasm has been measured in sea urchin eggs by studying fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching (FRAP). Dichlorotriazinyl amino fluorescein (DTAF) has been used to label bovine brain tubulin. DTAF-tubulin has been injected into fertilized eggs of Lytechinus variegatus and allow...

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), called endotoxin, is a major component of Gram-negative bacteria cell wall. LPS stimulates the synthesis and release of several metabolites from mammalian phagocytes which leads to fulminant systemic inflammation (endotoxic shock). Among LPS-induced metabolites, reactive oxygen species are considered to play crucial role in the pathogenesis of endotoxic shock via oxida...