IN current nutritional research it is a matter of importance that methods should be made available for detecting the presence of partial or latent deficiencies in the human subject-in other words, methods for assessing the "level of nutrition". Several such tests have been elaborated during the past few years, including the urinary excretion ("saturation") test for vitamin C and the darkadaptat...

Several investigators have described methods for the preparation of vitamin Bil concentrates practically devoid of vitamin Bz.~ However, very little has been reported on methods for procuring a rich source of vitamin B, free from vitamin B,. Salmon, Guerrant, and Hays (1) have described a preparation, made from velvet bean leaves, relying upon the specificity of fullers’ earth adsorption, solub...

Nitrite intoxication occurs frequently in ruminants and equines. The most common treatment of this disorder is administration of 1% methylene blue, although the use of some antioxidant agents e.g. vitamins and complementary treatment may also be useful. The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro antioxidative effects of some vitamins on methemoglobinemia induced by sodium nitrite. For t...

Patients with subacute combined degeneration who smoked had significantly lowered plasma thiocyanate levels than control smokers, but plasma thiocyanate levels in non-smoking patients with neurological disease due to vitamin B1, deficiency were not significantly different from control values. The results provide no support for the hypothesis that chronic cyanide intoxication is responsible for ...

Rice grains are the main crops consumed by more than half of world’s population. White rice contains carbohydrates, while pigmented varieties nutritious, with bioactive compounds that can potentially prevent pro-inflammatory diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Broken is produced in large quantities as a cheap by-product milling; however, its nutraceutical contents have not been identified....

nitrite intoxication occurs frequently in ruminants and equines. the most common treatment of this disorder is administration of 1% methylene blue, although the use of some antioxidant agents e.g. vitamins and complementary treatment may also be useful. the aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro antioxidative effects of some vitamins on methemoglobinemia induced by sodium nitrite. for t...