Fresh basil (Ocimum basilicum) leaves contain chicoric acid, which is the principal phenolic compound in Echinacea purpurea and purportedly an active ingredient in dietary supplements derived from E. purpurea. Here the concentrations of chicoric acid in dried and fresh basil products available to consumers, and how these concentrations compare to those from E. purpurea are reported. A wide rang...

Basil seed gum (BSG) is a new hydrophilic colloid of natural plant origin. Extracted from basil seeds, it possesses excellent functional characteristics in terms emulsification, rheology, gelation, stability, and adsorption, which are just as favorable those certain commercial gums. Besides, BSG has been widely used food, medicine, industry, many other fields for its physiological functions wei...

Business Service Management (BSM), rooted in ITIL, helps organizations manage IT from a business perspective. By identifying and mapping business-critical processes to the underlying IT infrastructure and services, BSM connects key business services to the IT services that manage them, such as routers, servers, and applications. While BSM does the mapping, SOA serves as the framework that conne...

Recent studies revealed an involvement of RhoA/Rho-kinase in the contraction of bronchial smooth muscle (BSM), and this pathway has now been proposed as a new target for asthma therapy. A posttranslational geranylgeranylation of RhoA is required for its activation. Thus selective inhibition of geranylgeranyltransferase may be a novel strategy for treatment of the BSM hyperresponsiveness in asth...

Background. Calreticulin controls the C/EBPαp42/p30 at the translational level trough a cis-regulatory CNG rich loop in the CEBPA mRNA. We determined the effects of steroids and long-acting beta-agonists on the p42/p30 ratio and on calreticulin expression in primary human bronchial smooth muscle (BSM) cells. Methods. The effects of budesonide (10(-8) M) and formoterol (10(-8) M) were studied in...

The purpose of the study is to formulate and evaluate a new, cheap and effective natural mucoadhesive agent that can be used as an effective alternative for traditional mucoadhesive agent. The study procedure involved extraction of mucoadhesive agent from the Trigonellafoenumgraecum (fenugreek) seeds, solubility testing of the mucilage obtained, phytochemical testing, determination of swelling ...