Vernonioside B2 isolated from the methanol extract of the Brazilian herb Vernonia condensata Baker was evaluated in vivo for analgesic and antiinflammatory activities. The compound reduced writhings (93.28%) and Evans blue dye diffusion (91.80%) induced by acetic acid (0.1 N) in a dose-dependent manner.

Anatase TiO(2) single crystals with exposed {001} and {110} facets have been successfully synthesized using a modified hydrothermal technique in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and hydrofluoric acid solution; these single crystals exhibited enhanced photocatalytic activities for degradation of Methylene Blue dye under ultraviolet light irradiation.

This method is based on the intravenous injection of Evans Blue in mice as the test animal model. Evans blue is a dye that binds albumin. Under physiologic conditions the endothelium is impermeable to albumin, so Evans blue bound albumin remains restricted within blood vessels. In pathologic conditions that promote increased vascular permeability endothelial cells partially lose their close con...

Molecular modelling and kinetic inhibition studies, as well as KD determinations by both difference-spectra and enzyme-inactivation studies, were employed to assess the ability of purpose-designed chimaeric biomimetic dyes (BM dyes) to act as affinity ligands for bovine heart L-malate dehydrogenase (MDH). Each BM dye was composed of two enzyme-recognition moieties. The terminal biomimetic moiet...

The binding of Cibacron blue F3GA to dihydrofolate reductase (EC 1.5.1.3) from chicken liver an amethopterin-resistant Lactobacillus casei has been studied by difference spectroscopy. The blue dye binds to the enzyme from each species in a specific fashion with a 1:1 stoichiometry. However, the mode of interaction of the dye with the enzyme and the site of interaction on the enzyme are very dif...

LTHOUGH A VAST AMOUNT OF LITERATURE has been published in recent years on the subject of hyaluronic acid and hyaluronidase, owing to the importance of a biologic function which has been ascribed to these two substances, no satisfactory method yet exists for the determination of minute quantities of hyaluronic acid or other mucopolysaccharides. Various mucopolysaccharides form stable dispersions...

An organic/inorganic hybrid compound consisting of methylene blue, a cationic surfactant and a reductant intercalated into saponite was found to serve as an oxygen indicator that changes color in the presence of oxygen. A mixture of a blue colored dye, methylene blue, a reductant in the form of ascorbic acid or reducing sugar, and cetyltrimethylammonium ion intercalated into synthetic saponite ...

Unmordanted haematein in aqueous solution varies in colour from yellowish orange at pH 3 to bluish magenta at pH 9. In the presence of aluminium sulphate, the colour of solutions of haematein at any particular pH depends on the number of aluminium atoms to each molecule of haematein. At pH 4-6 the colour varies from yellowish orange through dull red to rose as the number of aluminium atoms to e...

This reaserch aims at functionalizing magnetic mesoporous silica with methacrylic acid-3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (Fe3O4@MCM-41@MAA-APTES) applied for removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution. Several variables (such as pH, dye concentration, adsorbent amount and contact time) have been investigated. Under optimum conditions, maximum capacity of 87.71 mg g-1 of MB was obtained for the ...