The objective of the present study was to compare the chemical and sensory properties of regular cream cheese (control) and cholesterol-reduced cream cheese manufactured using crosslinked β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) or powdered β-CD. Crosslinked β-CD was made using adipic acid. The composition of cream cheese treated by the crosslinked β-CD was similar to the regular cream cheese. Approximately 91% o...

OBJECTIVE To determine if combinations of maternal characteristics and measurements of parameters used in screening for aneuploidies at 11-13 weeks provide significant prediction of macrosomia. METHOD Maternal characteristics, fetal nuchal translucency (NT), free β-human chorionic gonadotrophin (β-hCG) and pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) were recorded at 11(+0)-13(+6) weeks in ...

silica-bonded n-propyldiethylenetriamine sulfamic acid (sbpdsa) was found as an efficient solid acid for the synthesis of coumarins. coumarin derivatives were obtained via the pechmann condensation reaction of phenols and β-keto-esters at 80 oc under solvent-free conditions. also, biscoumarins were obtained via the condensation of aldehydes and 4-hydroxycoumarin in water at reflux conditions. t...

Cells remove unstable polypeptides through protein quality-control (PQC) pathways such as ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis and autophagy. In the present study, we investigated how these pathways are used in β-thalassemia, a common hemoglobinopathy in which β-globin gene mutations cause the accumulation and precipitation of cytotoxic α-globin subunits. In β-thalassemic erythrocyte precursors, free...

Sarcopenia is characterized by two major phenotypic components: low handgrip strength (HGS) and appendicular lean mass index (ASMI). Oral corticosteroid (OCS) use an important medication for acute respiratory exacerbations in patients with COPD asthma. However, the association of OCS sarcopenia components older people are largely unexplored. To examine between HGS or ASMI general population exp...

Let G = Fqo 〈β〉 be the semidirect product of the additive group of the field of q = p elements and the cyclic group of order d generated by the invertible linear transformation β defined by multiplication by a power of a primitive root of Fq. We study endomorphisms of G. We find an arithmetic condition on d so that every endomorphism is determined by its values on (1, 1) and (0, β). When that i...

OBJECTIVE To establish normative weight-adjusted models for the median levels of first trimester serum biomarkers for trisomy 21 screening in southern Thai women, and to compare these reference levels with Caucasian-specific and northern Thai models. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 1,150 normal singleton pregnancy women to determine serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A...

The aim of this work is to improve physical properties and biological activities of the two flavanones hesperetin and naringenin by complexation with β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and its methylated derivatives (2,6-di-O-methyl-β-cyclodextrin, DM-β-CD and randomly methylated-β-CD, RAMEB). The free energies of inclusion complexes between hesperetin with cyclodextrins (β-CD and DM-β-CD) were theoreticall...

14-aryl- and 14-alkyl-14-h-dibenzo [a,j]xanthenes are prepared from the reaction of aromatic- and aliphaticaldehydes with β-naphthol in the presence of catalytic amounts of 4-dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid(dbsa) as asurfactant-type brønsted acid catalyst in toluene and under solvent-free conditions in excellent yields and shortreaction times. the catalyst was recovered and reused for five successi...

in this work, so3h-functionalizedphthalimide (sfp) as a so3h-containing solid acid is prepared by the reaction of phthalimide with chlorosulfonic acid, and characterized by ft-ir, 1h and 13c nmr, mass, tg, dtg, xrd and sem. then, it is utilized as a highly efficient, heterogeneous and green catalyst for the one-pot multi-component condensation of dimedone with arylaldehydes, β-ketoesters and am...