The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant and anticholinesterase activities of yellow and white bitter yams from South Western Nigeria using methanolic extraction and simulated gastrointestinal digestion models. The phenolic compounds in the bitter yam varieties were evaluated by high performance liquid chromatography with a diode array detector (HPLC-DAD). The total phenolic co...

Wild bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L. var. abbreviate Seringe), a common vegetable in Asia, is used in traditional medicine to treat various diseases, including inflammation. Extant literature indicates that wild bitter gourds have components that activate PPARα and PPARγ. This research probed the influence of adding wild bitter gourd to diets on inflammation responses in mice with sepsis i...

This work describes the first approach in the development of a comprehensive classification method for bitterness of small molecules. The data set comprises 649 bitter and 13 530 randomly selected molecules from the MDL Drug Data Repository (MDDR) which are analyzed by circular fingerprints (MOLPRINT 2D) and information-gain feature selection. The feature selection proposes substructural featur...

While bitter manioc has been one of the most important staple crops in the central Amazon for thousands of years, there have been few studies of its cultivation in the fertile whitewater landscapes of this region. Anthropological research on bitter manioc cultivation in the Amazon has focused almost exclusively on long-fallow shifting cultivation in marginal upland areas of low soil fertility. ...

The genus Tanacetum belongs to family Asteraceae or Compositae. Literature review revealed that Tanacetum species have been used as remedies in traditional medicine since ancient times throughout the world. The literature review of photochemical studies on different Tanacetum species had revealed the presence of large number of chemical constituents. The essential oil from Tanacetum species con...

Other common name(s): couchgrass, wheatgrass diet, agropyron Scientific/medical name(s): Raphanus sativus. The common name "radish" is derived from Latin radix (root). Description The radish is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman times. Radishes have numerous varieties, varying in size, color and duration of required cultivation time...

Mapping of the chromosomal location of genes essential for sweet and bitter taste and identification of the relevant G protein-coupled receptors reveals unanticipated complexity in taste signaling pathways. The distribution of sweet and bitter receptors suggests complete cellular segregation of these taste modalities. Sweet compounds may be distinguished through differential expression of sweet...

1 2 3 Sweet-Bitter and Umami-Bitter Taste Interactions in Single 4 Parabrachial Neurons in C57BL/6J Mice 5 6 Kenichi Tokita and John D. Boughter Jr 7 8 Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology 9 University of Tennessee Health Science Center 10 855 Monroe Avenue, Suite 515, Memphis, TN 38163, USA 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Running head: Sweetand umami-bitter taste interactions in the mouse PbN 18