The crude wax obtained from the chloroform extract of the human type of tubercle bacillus, Strain H-37, yielded on purification, as described in a former paper (l), two fractions; viz., a white solid substance designated as purified wax and a soft yellowish salve-like mass which was called soft wax. The present report deals with the analysis of the latter fraction. The work is far from complete...

Carotenoids are important phytochemicals contributing nutritional health benefits in the human diet, with a significant contribution from cereals as one of major food component around world. Different methods have been described and adopted for extraction isolation carotenoid compounds. Saponification can be seen an option it converts retinol esters to removes other abundant compounds such trig...

A method has been developed and validated for the determination of the six major conjugated bile acids, cholesterol, and total phospholipids in bile of human subjects previously injected with 4-(14)C-cholesterol. The procedure is designed for use with 5-10 ml of duodenal or T-tube bile and eliminates difficulties associated with existing methods for bile acid determination, in particular the re...

We investigated the preparation of CMB (cobalt-manganese-bromide) and CMA (cobaltmanganese-acetate) liquid catalysts as petroleum liquid catalysts by simultaneously recovering Co and Mn from spent Li-ion battery cathode material. To prepare the liquid catalysts, the total preparation process for the liquid catalysts consisted of physical pre-treatments, such as grinding and sieving, and chemica...

Obesity increases severity of acute pancreatitis (AP) by unclear mechanisms. We investigated the effect of the PPAR-gamma agonist rosiglitazone (RGZ, 0.01% in the diet) on severity of AP induced by administration of IL-12+ IL-18 in male C57BL6 mice fed a low fat (LFD) or high fat diet (HFD), under the hypothesis that RGZ would reduce disease severity in HFD-fed obese animals. In both LFD and HF...