This study was conducted to evaluate the antifungal activities of Cinnamomum zeylanicum and Origanum vulgare L. essential oil against Aspergillus flavus in culture media and tomato paste. 200 ppm of cinnamon and 500 ppm of oregano completely inhibited A. flavus growth in culture media, while in tomato paste 300 ppm of cinnamon and 200 ppm of oregano had the same effect. Test panel evaluations r...

BACKGROUND The loading dose of ticlopidine is 500 mg in both the US and Europe and 200 mg in Japan. A lower loading dose of clopidogrel might achieve adequate platelet inhibition in Japanese patients. METHODS AND RESULTS Platelet aggregation was serially measured at baseline, and 2, 4, 6, and 8 h after 150-mg (n=20) and 300-mg (n=20) clopidogrel loading. Platelets were stimulated with 5 and 2...

167 LABORATORY RESULTS Mrs. Gordon’s fasting lipid profile includes a total cholesterol level of 300 mg/dL; the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) level is 220 mg/dL, the high-density lipoprotein (HDL) level is 40 mg/dL, and the triglyceride level is 200 mg/dL. Fasting blood glucose level is 110 mg/dL. Liver enzyme assessment reveals an alanine aminotransferase value of 25 U/L and an aspartate amino...

Deltamethrin is a broad-spectrum insecticide mainly used to protect crops, fruit and vegetables from mites, ants, weevils, beetle etc. Thus deltamethrin contaminated food of commercial poultry diet may cause toxic effects in broilers and indirect adverse effects on human through food chain. Therefore, hematological and biochemical alterations in White Leghorn birds due to deltamethrin induced t...

Polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) as drug delivery systems are widely explored since they easily obtained by coacervation and biopolymers can be associated. However, particle distribution is a challenging critical parameter that has been infrequently focused. This work evaluated the effect of NaCl concentration on physicochemical properties PECs based chitosan hypromellose loaded with methotrexa...

Setting a biocathode potential at -300 mV improved the subsequent performance of an MFC for Cr(VI) reduction compared to a control (no set potential). With this set potential, the startup time was reduced to 19 days, the reduction of Cr(VI) was improved to 19.7 mg/L d, and the maximum power density was increased to 6.4 W/m(3) compared to the control (26 days, 14.0 mg/L d and 4.1 W/m(3)). Set po...

P ycnogenol, a standardized extract from the bark of the French maritime pine, consists of phenolic compounds including catechin, taxifolin, procyanidins, and phenolic acids (1). We investigated whether Pycnog-enol has a glucose-lowering effect because of personal verbal communication from patients reporting no need for insulin following supplementation with Pycnogenol. The study was designed a...

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 cyl. A/P cyl. L/R cyl. S/I recon. A/P recon. L/R recon. S/I • Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting men. • External beam radiation therapy is frequently used for treatment. • Despite careful positioning at the start of treatment, the prostate may move during the dose delivery. • Thus, there is a need for intrafraction monitoring of prostate position. Moti...

The present study is designed to investigate the hypolipidemic effect of ethanolic extract from the leaves of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. (HSEE) in hyperlipidemic rats. In the present work, HSEE was evaluated at three doses (i.e. 100, 200 and 300 mg/kg, orally) in cholesterol-induced (2 g/kg, orally) hyperlipidemic Wistar rats. Atorvastatin (10 mg/kg, orally) was used as the standard drug. Administr...

To investigate the effect of salicylic acid (SA) on growth and nitrogen metabolism in mungbean grown under saline conditions, an experiment was conducted in wire house in plastic pots containing soil + sand at NIAB Faisalabd. Mungbean (Vigna radiata L.) varieties, two salt tolerant (NM-98 and NM-92) and two salt sensitive (NM-54 and NM-13-1), identified in laboratory experiments, were grown und...