Three different strains of bacteria isolated from spoiled, uncooked chicken were grown in pure culture on Trypticase soy agar supplemented with yeast extract. The volatile organic compounds produced by each culture were concentrated on a porous polymer precolumn and analyzed by high-resolution gas chromatographic mass spectrometry. Twenty different compounds were identified. Both qualitative an...

A series of benzimidazole-2-thione derivatives was synthesized using a reaction between the macrocyclic aminal 16H,13H-5:12,7:14-dimethanedibenzo[d,i]-[1,3,6,8] tetraazecine (DMDBTA, 5) and various nucleophiles in the presence of carbon disulfide. A full chemical characterization using IR, ¹H-, ¹³C-NMR and GC-MS analyses of the new compounds is provided. These compounds were separated from the ...

Lentinula edodes is a macrofungus with great potential for therapeutic applications and serves as a model for investigating functional fungi properties and isolating pure compounds for pharmaceutical use. Mushrooms have a great nutritional value and present medicinal molecules including polysaccharides, terpenoids, sterols and lipids, that participate actively in several human disorders and mod...

An overview of the synthetic methods developed to build all the cis-fused stereoisomers of octahydroindole-2-carboxylic acid (Oic) and its -methylated derivative [( Me)Oic] in enantiomerically pure form is presented. Both asymmetric synthetic strategies (auxiliaryor substrate-controlled processes) and procedures based on the resolution of racemic compounds (chemical, enzymatic, and chromatograp...

Background: Alpinia galanga L. belonging to the family Zingiberaceae is widely grown in the state of Kerala, India. They are effective antioxidant and free radical scavenger under both in vitro and in vivo condition. The efficacy of the isolated flavonoids in conferring protection from radiation induced damages to genomic DNA was studied. Materials and Methods: The bioflavonoids, galangin and k...

We have developed a rigorous computational screening protocol to identify novel fragment-like inhibitors of N(5)-CAIR mutase (PurE), a key enzyme involved in de novo purine synthesis that represents a novel target for the design of antibacterial agents. This computational screening protocol utilizes molecular docking, graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated molecular dynamics, and Molecular ...

Plants of the genus Elsholtzia (Lamiaceae) have a long history of medicinal use in folk. The phytochemical investigations revealed the presence of flavonoids, phenylpropanoids, terpenoids, and other compounds. Abundant volatile components are also identified. Pure compounds, volatile constituents and crude extracts from the genus exhibited a wide spectrum of in vitro and in vivo pharmacological...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is rapidly rising all over the world at an alarming rate and has changed from a mild disorder to major causes of mortality and morbidity in the youth and middle-aged people, and the prevalence is seen especially in six inhabited continents of the globe. The present study aims to explore the antidiabetic, lipid lowering effect of Cassia auriculata L. flowers in alloxan-induce...

14 15 16 The impact of using Trepat and Monastrell red grape varieties during the manufacture 17 of rosé sparkling Cava wines on the nitrogen and volatile composition compared to a 18 white Cava manufactured with a blend of typical white grape varieties (Xarello: 19 Macabeo: Parellada) has been investigated. The wines were industrially manufactured 20 in a cellar, and the concentrations of outs...

A new method for estimating the cubic of equation of state parameters for both pure and mixture fluids without using critical properties is proposed. In this method, the solvation charging free energy and the solvation cavity are used to determine the temperature-dependent energy parameter a(T) and volume parameter b. This method requires only element specific parameters (3 parameters for each ...