Article history: Received on: 21/06/2016 Revised on: 12/07/2016 Accepted on: 28/07/2016 Available online: 30/08/2016 Even though whey protein complex derived from milk, is being touted as a functional food with a number of health benefits, so far its full mechanistic effect has not been deeply explicated, which is the target of this study. For this reason, we observed the 2 months protection in...

PURPOSE The increasing use of herbal drugs and their easy availability have necessitated the use of mutagenicity test to analyze their toxicity and safety. The aim of this study was to evaluate the genotoxicity of Supermint herbal medicine in DNA breakage of rat hepatocytes in comparison with sodium dichromate by single cell gel electrophoresis technique or comet assay. METHODS Hepatocytes we...

Different chemical formulations for the synthesis of highly intercalated graphite bisulfate have been tested. In particular, nitric acid, potassium nitrate, potassium dichromate, potassium permanganate, sodium periodate, sodium chlorate, and hydrogen peroxide have been used in this synthesis scheme as the auxiliary reagent (oxidizing agent). In order to evaluate the presence of delamination, an...

Oxidation–reduction titrations and potentiometric methods provide a convenient experimental means to quantitatively determine compositions of unknown mixtures containing oxidizable/reducible species. Over the past decade, numerous titration methods have appeared in this Journal (1–6) and in standard laboratory manuals (7–10) involving common titrants such as potassium dichromate, iodine, potass...

An attempt was made to evaluate chronic effect of Potassium dichromate on Daphnia magna, semi-statically. Based on the results of an acute immobilisation study (48 hour EC50), the test item concentrations of 0.03, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.4 mg/L of Potassium dichromate was selected for the chronic investigation. During the study, physico-chemical parameters of M4 medium were recorded and maintained...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate different copro-preservation conditions along the duration of one month for a better outcome of molecular diagnosis of Cryptosporidium species. METHODS Ten samples out of 380 fresh stool samples collected from patients with diarrhea proved positive after direct examination, concentration, staining and confirmed by immunochromatographic test. The study was condu...

background traditional medicines are among the oldest medicines and their extensive use in the recent years reflects the public’s interest in alternatives to conventional medicine. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the genotoxicity of dillsun herbal medicine in dna damage of rat hepatocytes compared to sodium dichromate using a comet assay technique. materials and methods male...