Egg yolk lecithin (EYL) is a good source of phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and it is different from soy lecithin (SL) in both fatty acid and phospholipid class composition. These factors may lead to different behavior in oxidative stability and emulsification properties in food systems. Therefore, these characteristics were investigated in this study. Emulsification...

Oxidative stability of egg and soy lecithin in emulsion was evaluated with two transition metal ions, cupric and ferric ion, at two concentration levels (50 and 500 microM). The effect of pH on lipid oxidation was also examined under these two concentrations for each ion. Egg lecithin (EL) had similar peroxide value (PV) development pattern as soy lecithin (SL) when treated with cupric ion unde...

THE most recent work on the decomposition of lecithin is due to Fischgold and Chain [1934], who have obtained evidence that lecithin, even in the absence of air, undergoes a spontaneous change. This change was found to be due to separation of free fatty acid from the lecithin molecule. C. W. Price and Lewis [1933, 1] noted a change in the electrophoretic properties of lecithin as it became aged...

We have shown previously that ox and pig bile accelerate in vitro growth of Giardia lamblia. We have now investigated the possible mechanisms by which mammalian biles promote parasite growth. Growth effects of (a) ox, pig, guinea pig, and human biles, (b) pure bile salts, and (c) egg and soybean lecithins were studied in the presence of a lecithin-containing growth medium. Individually, dilute ...

The lecithins and cephalins are complex mixtures of chemical entities differing from each other (a) in their component fatty acids, (h) in the case of the cephalins, in the nitrogenous constituent, and (c) in the point of substitution of t.he phosphoric acid-base group in the molecule. Power and Tutin (I) were the first to question the uniformity of the glycerophosphoric acids of lecithin. In 1...

Topical iodine forms are used for infected and necrotic pressure ulcers. Despite antimicrobial advantages several potential disadvantages were observed with controversial results. To clarify the controversy, the reactivity of povidone-iodine (PI) sugar ointment and cadexomer-iodine (CI) ointment toward biological components was investigated. L-Tyrosine as a component of proteins and egg lecithi...

In the absence of sterol, amphotericin B at 5 x 10(-6) M caused maximum marker release from the saturated dipalmitoyl lecithin liposomes, minimum release from the unsaturated dioleoyl lecithin liposomes, and an in-between response from egg lecithin liposomes. Nystatin at 2.5 to 4.0 x 10(-5) M induced appreciable marker release from all three types of sterol-free liposomes. The amphotericin B- a...

High-field 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to quantitate phospholipids in mixtures in organic solvents. The sample is dissolved in chloroform-methanol and analyzed at 161.7 MHz with decoupling of the protons. Signals were identified using authentic compounds, and their relative distribution was measured in mole percent. The method has good accuracy and reproducibility, and ...

To study whether cholesterol is absorbed by the gallbladder, we instilled from 1 to 300 nmoles of [4-14C]cholesterol dissolved in 1 ml of guinea pig bile into the in situ guinea pig gallbladder. The bile used in these experiments contained 7 mumole/ml bile acid, 27 nmole/ml lecithin, and 8 nmol/ml cholesterol. To this bile, we added the radioactive cholesterol, from 0 to 1 mumole/ml egg lecithi...