The aim of this study was to modify the sago starch and evaluate its efficacy as tablet disintegrant. Cross-linked carboxymethylated sago starch (CMSS) was synthesized using native sago starch (SS) and monochloroacetic acid (MCA) with sodium hydroxide in microwave radiation environment. FT-IR analysis of the sample confirmed the carboxymethylation by showing absorption peak at 1607.2 cm. CMSS w...

Rice starch added to bath water was studied for its possible beneficial effects on impaired barrier function as evaluated by transepidermal water loss measurements. The forearm skin of healthy volunteers was irritated by sodium lauryl sulphate. Exposure to rice-starch-containing bath water--twice daily for 15 min--led to a 20% improvement on the healing capacity of damaged skin. The beneficial ...

Starch graft copolymers are expected to become increasingly important as industrial and consumer chemicals in a large variety of end uses. Therefore, a quick and accurate analytical characterization of the graft copolymer is desirable. Vinyl side chains from starch-vinyl graft copolymers have preViously been isolated by several methods. Brockway (1) hydrolyzed the starch moiety with 1 N HCl at ...

Oxidation of urinary pregnane-17,20-diols (17.oxogenic steroids) by sodium metaperiodate is complete within 10 mm at 55#{176}C if the concentration of sodium metaperiodate at the end of the reaction exceeds 1.5 X 10-SM. A safe excess of sodium metaperiodate is present if assay samples, after incubation for 10 mm at 55#{176}C in 3 X 10-EM ethylene glycol, give a positive test with starch-iodide ...

Formation of thiazolidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid, the L-cysteine-glyoxylate adduct, is the putative mechanism by which L-cysteine reduces hepatic oxalate production from glycollate [Bais, Rofe and Conyers (1991) J. Urol. 145, 1302-1305]. This was investigated in isolated rat hepatocytes by the simultaneous measurement of both adduct and oxalate formation. Different diastereoisomeric ratios of ci...

   Aim of this research work was to develop mouth dissolving tablet that disintegrates rapidly in mouth by using tasteless complex of Levocetirizine and Tulsion-335. Effect of different parameters such as swelling time, resin activation, drug resin ratio as well as stirring time was optimized by taste and percentage drug loading. Formulated DRC (Drug Resin Complex) was characterized by infrared...

In this research a microstructure approach to reduce sodium levels in emulsion based foods is presented. If successful, this strategy will enable reduction of sodium without affecting consumer satisfaction with regard to salty taste. The microstructure approach comprised of entrapment of sodium in the internal aqueous phase of water-in-oil-in-water emulsions. These were designed to destabilise ...

Antibodies were used to probe the degree of association of starch biosynthetic enzymes with starch granules isolated from maize (Zea mays) endosperm. Graded washings of the starch granule, followed by release of polypeptides by gelatinization in 2% sodium dodecyl sulfate, enables distinction between strongly and loosely adherent proteins. Mild aqueous washing of granules resulted in near-comple...

INTRODUCTION This study compared the effects of hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4, hydroxyethyl starch 200/0.5, and succinylated gelatin on oxidative stress and the inflammatory response in a rodent hemorrhagic shock model. METHODS Sodium pentobarbital-anesthetized adult male Wistar rats (200 g to 220 g) were subjected to a severe volume-controlled hemorrhage using arterial blood withdrawal (30 mL/...

   Aim of this research work was to develop mouth dissolving tablet that disintegrates rapidly in mouth by using tasteless complex of Levocetirizine and Tulsion-335. Effect of different parameters such as swelling time, resin activation, drug resin ratio as well as stirring time was optimized by taste and percentage drug loading. Formulated DRC (Drug Resin Complex) was characterized by infrared...