Plantain and banana flour are important raw material in the baking and confectionery industry, and complementary food formulation. Five new plantain and banana hybrids developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) at Highrainfall Station, Onne, Nigeria were screened for certain anti-nutritional factors and some heavy metals commonly found in foods. Results show that PI...

Pleurotus tuber-regium is a tuberous wild mushroom species, highly expensive, nutritious, very rich in proteins and known to possess medicinal values. The dwindling forests and the absence of commercial cultivation of this mushroom have resulted in scarcity of the sclerotia. The study was conducted to determine the optimum temperature, pH and light regime for the growth of P. tuber-regium and e...

“The stability of the internal environment is the condition that life should be free and independent. . . So, far from the higher animal being indifferent to the external world, it is on the contrary in a precise and informed relation with it, in such a way that its equilibrium results from a continuous and delicate compensation, established as by the most sensitive of balances.” Claude Bernard...

Recombinant elastase strain K overexpressed from E. coli KRX/pCon2(3) was purified to homogeneity by a combination of hydrophobic interaction chromatography and ion exchange chromatography, with a final yield of 48% and a 25-fold increase in specific activity. The purified protein had exhibited a first ever reported homodimer size of 65 kDa by SDS-PAGE and MALDI-TOF, a size which is totally dis...

the complexation reactions between methylthymol blue (mtb) and co2+, ni2+, cu2+, zn2+ and pb2+ ions have been studied in different water-methanol mixtures at ph 4.45 and 25 °c by a spectrophotometric technique. the stepwise stability constants of the resulting 1:1 and 2:1 (metal ion to ligand) complexes were determined from the absorbance-mole ratio data. it was found that the overall stability...

objectives: the aim of current study was to determine the effects of hata yoga training on dynamic and static balances of elderly women in mashhad. methods and materials: the present study enjoys the semi-experimental design. the statistical population of the study, which has been carried out in 2009, were elderly women of mashhad who were voluntarily invited to participate in the research. 29 ...