The effects of lactic acid bacteria-fermented soybean extract (Biofermentics; BF) on experimental models of hepatic and renal disorders were investigated in vivo and in vitro. In rat, hepatitis induced by feeding of deoxycholic acid (DCA, 0.5 wt/wt, n = 6) or intraperitoneal injection of d-galactosamine (GMN, 500 mg/body wt, n = 6), the increase in serum AST (aspartate aminotransferase) and ALT...

Effect of oral administration of potassium dichromate at 5 and 10 mg/ kg body weight daily for 30 days was investigated in reproductive organs and liver of adult female rats. The results revealed that in ovary, protein, cholesterol and ascorbic acid were decreased. Similarly in uterus, proteins and lipid levels were significantly declined with an increase in its glycogen levels. However, increa...

Without doubt the most satisfactory procedure for the quantitative determination of small amounts of sodium is that involving its precipitation as uranyl zinc sodium acetate, (UO&ZnNa(CH,C00)9.6Hz0, first introduced by Barber and Kolthoff (2). Applications of this method to biological material have been numerous, since the triple salt is readily estimated by a variet,y of gravimetric, calorimet...

An iron(II) solution is often used as a reducing agent in titrimetry and standardized with cerium(IV) or potassium dichromate. Such an iron(II) standard solution is needed for not only titrimetric analyses, but also instrumental ones. Iron(II) is unstable even in a highly acidic solution, mainly due to air-oxidation; therefore, its standardization is required before use. In the present study...

We optimized proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) for tissue analysis in a toxicity-disposition study. We used cultured rabbit renal slices as the biological system to demonstrate the use of PIXE analysis. The renal slices were exposed to HgCl2, CdCl2, K2Cr2O7, or NaAsO2 alone or in a mixture. The PIXE analysis provides information on concentrations of elements above atomic number 11, and it is...

Isolation of nonacosan-10-ol: The extract, after being digested with methanol and concentrated into a small volume, was chromatographed over silica gel with hexane to isolate a crystalline substance. The crystalline substance was recrystallized from hexane: mp 83 -84 ° , [a]D ± 0 ° , C29H60O (M® ion m/e 424; found: C 81.84%, H 14.30%; calc.: C 81,99%, H 14.24%). Acetylation of nonacosan-10-ol: ...