Magnesium and calcium ions, in concentrations comparable to those reported in the midgut fluids of lepidopteran larvae, bring about the precipitation of most of the tannic acid present in simple solutions buffered at pH 8.0 and 10.0, but not at pH 6.5. In contrast, when tannic acid is added to Manduca sexta midgut fluid, less than 31% of the tannic acid added to the gut fluid is converted to a ...

We describe herein the significance of a sodium citrate and tannic acid mixture in the synthesis of spherical silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Monodisperse AgNPs were synthesized via reduction of silver nitrate using a mixture of two chemical agents: sodium citrate and tannic acid. The shape, size and size distribution of silver particles were determined by UV-Vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scatt...

Chitosan film reinforced with nano-sized chitin whiskers and crosslinked using tannic acid was synthesized by the casting-vaporation method. The mechanical and physicochemical properties of several film samples (consisting of different ratio of chitin and tannic acid) were compared with neat chitosan. Tensile tests show that the addition of chitin improves the nanocomposite films mechanical pro...

Tannic acid is a polyphenolic compound that could be labeled with technetium-99m. To produce about 90% yield of  (99m)Tc-tannic acid in acidic media (pH), the conditions required were 150 μg tin chloride, 30 min reaction time, and 200 μg of the substrate. (99m)Tc-tannic was stable for 6 h. Oral biodistribution of (99m)Tc-tannic showed that it concentrated in the stomach ulcer to reach about 50%...

Two electron microscopic staining techniques, one using tannic acid-glutaraldehyde as a fixative, and the other using tannic acid-uranyl acetate solution as a stain on ultra-thin sections of glutaraldehyde fixed material, were directly compared for elastic fibre staining on several human and animal tissues. Various concentrations of tannic acid were compared using both techniques. The two techn...

The interactions between plant secondary metabolites (tannic acid, rutin, cinnamic acid and catechin) and glutathione transferase (GST) were investigated by fluorescence and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy. Intrinsic fluorescence of GST was measured by selectively exciting their tryptophan (Trp) residues and quenching constants were determined using the Stern-Volmer equation. The binding affinit...

Effects of tannic acid on hatching of Heterodera glycines eggs were determined in vitro using three batches of eggs obtained from greenhouse cultures in Florida or from naturally infested field soil in Minnesota. A quadratic model fits the percentage egg hatch. Hatch increased with increasing tannic acid concentrations from 0 to about 39 mg/liter, then declined with further increases in concent...

Purpose: Increasing evidence suggests that interaction between the chemoattractant CXCL12/stromal cell-derived factor-1 and its receptor CXCR4 plays a pivotal role in the metastasis of various tumors. Our previous studies showed that multi-component Chinese herbal medicines inhibited the effects of CXCL12/CXCR4. As a result of sequential chromatographic fractionation of one herbal medicine ingr...

By C. J. Warden, officiating Civil-Surgeon, Bhaugulpore. The chemical changes which drugs undergo before absorption into the blood, is a subject of great interest; and valuable hints for the treatment of disease, have been obtained by observing the form in which substances appear after having passed through the circulatory system. For instance, it is well known that tannic acid is a more powerf...

In this research, the protonation constant value of tannic acid was determined at 25 °C and different ionic strengths (0.1 to 0.7 mol/dm3 NaCl) using potentiometric titration technique. The dependence of protonation constant on ionic strength was modeled and discussed by a Debye-Hückel type equation. Then, based on the obtained data from experiments, the minimizing Sum o...