background the treatment of onychomycosis is a challenge and infections are typically more severe and difficult to treat in toenails than in fingernails. objectives the current study aimed to investigate the fungicidal effect of ultraviolet radiation on the growth of dermatophytes isolated from nails. patients and methods samples from patients with clinical manifestations of onychomycosis were ...

basil (ocimum basilicum) is an herb belongs to lamiaceae family. the essential oil of basil is widely utilized as an aromatic agent in the food, pharmaceutical and perfumery industries. basil essential oil possesses antimicrobial property. due to high economical value and high demand, basil production in greenhouse for permanent market selling is expanding. in order to the investigation of the ...

INTRODUCTION Stemodia Benth. is a genus of about 40 species belonging to the family Scrophulariaceae occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The chemical investigation of this genus is restricted to five species from which flavonoids, labdane diterpenes, and diterpenes derivatives with a rare tetracyclic skeletal, named stemodane, were isolated. [1-3] The diterpenes of this ...

Microspectrophotometric examination of the retina of a procellariiform marine bird, the wedge-tailed shearwater Puffinus pacificus, revealed the presence of five different types of vitamin A(1)-based visual pigment in seven different types of photoreceptor. A single class of rod contained a medium-wavelength sensitive visual pigment with a wavelength of maximum absorbance (lambda(max)) at 502 n...

the clay crosslinked hydrogel nanocomposites were synthesized by graft copolymerization of acrylamide and itaconic acid in the presence of different amounts of laponite using ammonium persulfate and n,n,n',n'-tetramethylethylene diamine  )temed) as a free radical initiator and catalyst, respectively. the xrd patterns of nanocomposites showed that the clay layers are completely exfolia...

The effect of gentian violet against Candida albicans and non-Candida albicans biofilms formed on polymethylmethacrylate strips was evaluated using a dry weight assay and confocal laser scanning microscopy. The ability of gentian violet to inhibit Candida albicans germination was also assessed. Gentian violet activity against Candida biofilms was demonstrated by a reduction in dry weight, disru...

Twenty four reference strains and 112 clinical isolates of coagulase negative staphylococci (CNS) were examined for their reactions in the crystal violet test. Some species gave a white reaction and others a purple reaction. Results were consistent and reproducible and each species gave only one pattern of crystal violet reaction. Within the limited variety of species represented in the clinica...

the heterogeneous photo-fenton degradation of crystal violet under visible light has been investigated usingcopper modified iron oxide. the photocatalyst has been prepared by coprecipitation method. the rate ofphotocatalyic degradation of dye was monitored spectrophotometrically. it has been observed thatphotocatalytic degradation follows pseudo first order kinetics. the effect of various param...

a new, local agro-industrial waste was valorized by chemical treatment and tested for its ability to remove cationic dye from aqueous solution. tendu (diospyros melanoxylon) leaves refuse, a solid waste from bidi industry which caused disposal problem, was studied as a biosorbent. raw tendu waste (tlr), along with sulfuric acid carbonized tendu waste (tlr-cm) and tendu waste treated with dilute...