BACKGROUND Reperfusion therapy used in the treatment of cerebral ischemia often causes reperfusion neurological injury. Multiple pathological processes are involved in this injury including oxidative stress and components of the inflammatory response appear to play key roles in these deleterious effects. Thus new therapeutic strategies aimed at neutralization of OS-induced neurotoxicity support...

Platonia insignis fruit, popularly known as bacuri, is traditionally used in folk medicine for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Therefore, this study determined the chemical composition biological activities of bacuri’s shell seeds extracts, considered residues from consumption industrial uses. Four biflavonoids (GB-2a, GB-1a, morelloflavone, volkensiflavone) were identified ex...

During the past year treatment with the bioflavonoids has been widely publicized as a means of preventing or modifying the common cold. One of the reasons given for the effect has been that they potentiated ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in alleviating cold symptoms. Since there was no convincing proof available, either in support or in denial, we undertook a pilot study to explore the validity of t...

color that occurred during storage of the packs of canned grapefruit sections collected from plant A during the 1953-54 season, it was decided to obtain samples from two other plants during the following season in order to confirm such results. However, when this was done, the data obtained, as shown in Tables 2 and 3, indicated that the differences found after storage at 90 °F. for six months ...

The phytochemical constituents which comprise many edible berry fruits have increasingly been linked to modulation of biomarkers associated with conditions of diabetes, overweight/obesity, and cardiovascular disease (CVD), all components of metabolic syndrome. While many wild berries have long been valued in traditional medicine as health protective, it is only recently that the ability of berr...