A sensitive and rapid extractive spectrophotometer method has been developed for the assay of carvedilol in pharmaceutical formulations. The method is based on the formation of a chloroform soluble ion-pair complex between carvedilol and bromocresol green in an acidic medium. The complex shows absorption maximum at 415 nm and the system obeys Beer’s law in the concentration range of 5-25 μg/ml....

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is a biopolyester/bioplastic that is produced by a variety of microorganisms to store carbon and increase reducing redox potential. Photosynthetic bacteria convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds using light energy and are known to accumulate PHA. We analyzed PHAs synthesized by 3 purple sulfur bacteria and 9 purple non-sulfur bacteria strains. These 12 purple b...

Objective: A simple, direct and accurate spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of glimepiride (GLM) in pure and pharmaceutical formulations by complex formation with bromocresol green (BCG). Methods: The method involves the formation of a yellow ion-pair complex between bromocresol green reagent with glimepiride (C24H34N4O5S); after reacted it with Na2CO3 to give C2...

Tzvetana R. Lazarova and M aya Y. Velitchkova Central Laboratory of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Akad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 21, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria Z. Naturforsch. 48c, 500-503 (1993); received July 3/September 16, 1992 Purple Membranes, Apomembranes, Retinal, Membrane Fluidity, Spin Label Three spin-labelled fatty acids were used to detect the dynamics of lipid bilayer of apomem...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a well-recognized cause of human illness. Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in five purple soils from Sichuan Province was investigated. The dynamics of E. coli O157:H7 survival in purple soils were described by the Weibull model. Results showed that this model is suitable to fit survival curves of E. coli O157:H7 in purple soils, with the calculated td value (sur...

employment of solarization using the polyethylene mulch can be effective as a non-chemical approach for some control noxious weed management such as purple nutsedge (cyperus rotundus). in order to determine the effect of different levels of polyethylene mulches including one- layer clear polyethylene film, two- layer clear polyethylene film, one- layer black polyethylene film and two- layer bla...

Primer sets were designed to target specific 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequences of photosynthetic bacteria, including the green sulfur bacteria, the green nonsulfur bacteria, and the members of the Heliobacteriaceae (a gram-positive phylum). Due to the phylogenetic diversity of purple sulfur and purple nonsulfur phototrophs, the 16S rDNA gene was not an appropriate target for phylogenetic rDNA ...

In the present study, the aphrodisiac properties of the purple corn ( Zea mays) in male rats were analyzed. The aqueous crude extract of purple corn (at 25, 50, and 75 mg/kg) was administered to ( a) copulating male rats and ( b) anesthetized and spinal cord transected male rats. Behavioral parameters of copulatory behavior and parameters of the genital motor pattern of ejaculation previous to ...