Celiac disease, also called celiac sprue, is an auto-immune disease in which a reaction to a sequence of amino acids in prolamins, especially gliadin of wheat gluten, causes deformation of absorptive villae of the small intestine. As a result, nutrients are poorly absorbed. Children fail to thrive and, in the adult-onset form of the disease, intense intestinal distress is a characteristic, with...

objective: determination and comparison of the effect of infusion time on the antioxidant activity and total polyphenol contents of bagged and loosely packed black teas. materials and methods: for twenty loosely packed and eleven bagged tea samples, the antioxidant activity and total polyphenol content were analyzed using frap and folin-ciocalteau methods, respectively. the anova with tukey pos...

Industrially useful polyploid yeasts such as the brewing yeasts do not possess any auxotrophic genetic markers and hence are not easily amenable to plasmid-mediated DNA transformations. In an attempt to obtain genetic markers, a number of useful Saccharomyces sp. strains and some amylolytic Schwanniomyces sp. strains were tested for their susceptibility to the antibiotic Geneticin G418 , a 2-de...

Brewing has been mentioned in history as early as Egyptian times and has continued on to the present day with relatively few changes to the basic recipe. Malted barley is the main ingredient, which, when milled and heated in water to extract its nutrients, provides a nourishing sugarand protein-rich solution named wort (pronounced wert), an ideal medium in which yeast may grow and ferment. In c...