In this study, a new reaction system for quantitative determination of ascorbic acid was introduced. The developed method is based on inhibitory effect of ascorbic acid on the Orange G-bromate system. The change in absorbance was followed spectrophotometrically at 478 nm. The dependence of sensitivity on the reaction variables including reagents concentration, temperature and time was investiga...

Background Clinical study of the correlation of plasma Vitamin B12 levels and mood disorders in a patient with history of long term treatment with antiepileptic drugs. A female patient with bipolar disorder II, treated in the near past with carbamazepine and sodium valproate, during her stay in our clinic ward mentioned weakness and loss of sensation in both arms, accompanied with a filling of ...

Mustard oil and ghee are the only two fats which enter as such into the dietary of the people of Bengal. Mustard oil is taken throughout the province, in towns as well as in villages, by the rich as much as by the poor. Ghee is much more used in the towns than in the villages and by the richer and the more well-to-do than by the mass. Both are used for culinary purposes, ghee particularly for c...

Plasma levels vitamin K dependent coagulation factors, for example, prothrombin and protein C and urinary r-carboxyglutamic acid (r-Gla) were measured in diabetes mellitus. Concentration of prothrombin was determined by Echis carinatus-chromogenic method. (S-2238) and protein C was determined by ELISA. Concentration of urinary r-Gla was determined using HPLC by Kuwada, et. al. Plasma samples we...