Octodon degus is a desert rodent of northern Chile, adapted to survive with a limited supply of water. This rodent has a high degree of fecal dehydration, related to colon water absorption. With the hypothesis that aquaporins (AQPs) might be present in the colon epithelium of O. degus and involved in fluid absorption, we studied colon water absorption in vivo and the distribution of AQPs and Na...

The research aimed to study the effects of 0–20% substitution wheat flour with grape pomace powder (GPP) on rheological and pasting properties dough, sensory properties, digestive antioxidant activities prepared biscuits. results analysis showed that incorporation GPP concluded in reduced water absorption (WA) increased dough stability. Rapid visco-analyser (RVA) suggested could increase breakd...

dry beans are rich sources of dietary fiber and phytochemicals such as flavonoids and phenolics that exhibit good functional properties. in current study line, cooking and soaking time effects were investigated on water absorption, splitting and texture properties of different iranian red kidney beans to determine the best lines and the best soaking time for industrial use. d81083 line showed t...

for the purpose of increasing the permeability to oxygen and equilibrium water content in contact lenses, polar copolymers with nonionic monomers such as 2-hydroxyethle methacrylate(hema) is used. by adding the polar monomers to (hema), the permeability to oxygen and equilibrium with water content is increased and also the absorption of proteins on lens surface is changed. in this research, the...

The determination of groundwater potentiality is one the most significant challenges in hydro-geophysical research, especially arid areas with limited water resources. A geophysical survey wa...

This study was to develop novel soy protein isolate-based films for packaging using halloysite nanotubes (HNTs), poly-vinyl alcohol (PVA), and 1,2,3-propanetriol-diglycidyl-ether (PTGE). The structural, crystallinity, opacity, micromorphology, and thermal stability of the resultant SPI/HNTs/PVA/PTGE film were analyzed by the Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transformed infrared (ATR-FTIR) s...

A comparative study of the conditions that place and those in the adjoining are^ would show that the sectional incidence mottled enamel can be correlated with ^ occurrence of fluorides in the drinking wa , supplies. Thus, the analysis of the drinkjj1^ water supply of the afflicted persons shows ^ presence of 0.4 to 0.5 parts (per 100,000) fluorine, whereas the water supplies for the otn section...

Polyethylene glycol (PEG 4000), Browse Plus (BP), wood ash (WA) and boiling water were evaluated as tannin deactivation methods on tannins in Acacia nilotica fruits. Twenty four Matebele goats of mean body mass, 38.7 ± 3.12 kg, were used in a digestibility and nitrogen balance trial. A completely randomized design was used, and the initial weight was used as a covariate in data analysis. The go...