Cancer cells require an uninterrupted nutritional supply for maintaining their proliferative needs and this high demand in concurrence with inadequate supply of blood and nutrition induces stress in these cells. These cells utilize various strategies like high glycolytic flux, redox signaling, and modulation of autophagy to avoid cell death and overcome nutritional deficiency. Autophagy allows ...

The primary purpose of this research was to monitor the influence of acacia honey addition to yogurt milk on survival of the microbial flora of yogurt during refrigerated storage for 6 wk. Results showed that the presence of honey at 1.0% to 5.0% (w/v) did not significantly influence (P>0.05) the viability of characteristic microorganisms (i.e., Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delb...

Auxotrophic mutants of Rhizobium meliloti 104A14 were isolated using nitrous acid mutagenesis followed by penicillin enrichment. Mutants in ornithine transcarbamylase, argininosuccinate synthetase or serine-glycine biosynthesis formed nitrogen-fixing (Fix+) nodules on the roots of alfalfa (Medicago sativa). Mutants with defects in ornithine, pyrimidine, purine, asparagine, leucine, methionine o...

Enrichment of dry fermented sausages with n-3 fatty acids through a partial substitution of pork backfat by deodorised fish oil resulted in improved nutritional properties with regard to conventional sausages, without affecting sensory properties and oxidation status. The developed products supplied 0.64g EPA/100g and 0.46g DHA/100g product, and showed PUFA+MUFA/SFA ratio of 1.76 and n-6/n-3 ra...

Biochemical mutants which require guanine but are unable to utilize adenine and hypoxanthine obviously represent a very rare type of purine deficiency in microorganisms. So far, guanineless mutations have been observed only in the ascomycet,ous fungus, Ophiostoma multiannulatum, in which seven strains of this biochemical type were isolated after x-ray or ultraviolet irradiation (l-3). Three of ...

The objective of the present study was to determine the best material for enhancing nutritional value of Daphnia fed to climbing perch (Anabas testudineus) larvae. The study was conducted at Laboratory of Marine and Fishery Faculty, Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia in July 2015. The completely randomized design was used, this study was conducted with three enhancer materials; chicken manure, c...

Study of antioxidative properties and Maillard reaction (MR) products in ginger cakes enriched with rutin was conducted. The cakes were formulated on rye flour substituted by 30% (w/w) of flour from husked buckwheat or flour from roasted buckwheat groats. Enrichment of rye-buckwheat ginger cakes with rutin improved their antioxidative properties, showed protective effect on lysine blockage and ...

To improve the nutritional and functional properties of pasta, bread wheat flour was substituted with wholemeal flour from Amaranthus mantegazzianus (WMAF) at 15, 30, 40 and 50% w/w. Proteins, dietary fibre, glycemic index (GI) and carbohydrate and protein digestibility were determined in the resulting pasta. Squalene content was also measured, in view of the beneficial health properties of thi...

Genetic engineering is recognized as a powerful tool for altering the genetic characteristic of crop plants. Genetic engineering has tremendous potential in developing improved potato varieties with desired agronomic traits and has been utilized for improvement of several crop plants including potato to enhance essential amino acid, protein and lipids/carbohydrates contents as well to improve s...

In a nine year necropsy study in Western Australia, the incidence of Wernicke's encephalopathy was 2.8%. The incidence appears to be increasing. Although Wernicke's encephalopathy is a nutritional disorder, the majority of cases occur in the alcoholic population. Only 20% of the 131 cases studied had been diagnosed clinically as Wernicke's encephalopathy. This large discrepancy between numbers ...