The human intake of selenium (Se), which is an essential element in animals and humans, can be increased through the consumption vegetables that have been biofortified during cultivation. There increasing interest wild edible plants (WEPs) due to their positive effects on health. In fact, many WEPs are rich microelements, vitamins, dietary fibers, several antioxidant compounds. Among WEPs, sea ...

A novel sulfate-reducing bacterium (strain DePue) closely related to Desulfovibrio vulgaris ssp. vulgaris strain Hildenborough was isolated from the sediment of a heavy-metal impacted lake using established techniques. Although few physiological differences between strains DePue and Hildenborough were observed, pulse-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) revealed a significant genome reduction in st...

OBJECTIVE Medicinal plants have attracted global attention due to their safety as well as their considerable antioxidant content that helps to prevent or ameliorate various disorders including memory impairments. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of beet root (Beta vulgaris) leaf extract on scopolamine-induced spatial memory impairments in male Wistar rats. MATERIALS AND METH...

The influence of polyamines (PAs), putrescine (Put) and spermidine (Spd) on the efficiency gynogenesis in ovule cultures red beet (syn. beetroot) (Beta vulgaris L. vulgaris) cultivar “Czerwona Kula” breeding accessions no. 3/2010 7/2008 was investigated. effect Put process plant regeneration from gynogenetic embryos studied. response to applied PAs strongly dependent genotype. In Kula”, an incr...

PSORIASIS VULGARIS IS DEFINED BY A SERIES OF LINKED CELLULAR CHANGES IN THE SKIN: hyperplasia of epidermal keratinocytes, vascular hyperplasia and ectasia, and infiltration of T lymphocytes, neutrophils and other types of leukocytes in the affected skin. Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) 158 polymorphism can reduce the activity of the COMT enzyme that may trigger defective differentiation of ...

This study compares two cleaning methods, one involving an ammonium carbonate-EDTA mixture and the other involving the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris subsp. vulgaris ATCC 29579, for the removal of black crust (containing gypsum) on marble of the Milan Cathedral (Italy). In contrast to the chemical cleaning method, the biological procedure resulted in more homogeneous removal ...