Corresponding Author: Mika A. Kähkönen Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, Division of Microbiology and Biotechnology, P.O. Box 56, Biocenter 1, FI 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Email: [email protected] Abstract: To find out ability of fourteen basidiomycetes and four ascomycetes strains to grow in the presence of synthetic colour dyes and to degrade them, fungi were ...

The purpose of this study was to assess red beet as a natural colorant in emulsified pork sausage and to investigate the effect of red beet on quality characteristics of emulsified pork sausage during 20 d of cold storage. Red beet was prepared as a powder and a substitute with sodium nitrite at 0.5% and 1.0% levels in emulsified pork sausage. Red beet significantly increased the moisture conte...

In the current opinion, we would like to study adhesion of DNA and RNA−amphiphile complexes to non–modified glasses, glasses containing phenylboronic acid (PBA) attached via 3– glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane (GPTMS) [(PBA–GPTMS–glasses)] and glasses containing grafted dimethyllacrylamide–acrylamide phenylboronic acid (DMAA–AAPBA) copolymer (DMAA–AAPBA– glasses). We prepared glasses modified wi...

The interaction of the dye reactive bright red 6C with bovine serum albumin has been investigated. Formation of a complex between reactive bright red 6C and bovine serum albumin was detected by use of absorption difference spectroscopy. The curves obtained by titration of the protein against the dye were recorded at different pH and ionic strength of the solution. An unusual form of titration c...

The removal of dyes from wastewater, is one of the major environmental concerns due to their high color density, and they are toxic at even low concentrations. Adsorption process by advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) has been found to be a more effective method than classical methods for treating dye-containing wastewater. This research, is to investigate the decolorization abilities of az...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this investigation was to study the effect of vitamin E treatment in oxidative stress of red and white cells of beta-thalassaemia intermedia patients. METHODS Nine patients undergoing occasional transfusions (5 females/4 males), median age 39 years (range 15-74), were recruited for oral daily administration of 400 IU vitamin E for 3 months. Twenty-seven milliliters of per...

Lipids extracted with chloroform-methanol from red blood cell membranes of 7 PNH and 13 control subjects were used for the preparation of liposomes, which were then examined with the reactive lysis test. PNH liposomes lysed to a higher extent than control liposomes as indicated by the higher dilution of the limiting complement reagent that was necessary to lyse 50% of the PNH liposomes. A simil...

A bacterial strain SVM1 with remarkable ability to decolorization textile dye Reactive Red ME4BL was isolated from the activated sludge soil collected from a common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in Perunduari, Erode district Tamil Nadu. Different parameters such as temperature and pH were optimized for decolorization of Red ME4BL by using isolated bacteria. The most promising bacterial isolat...

OBJECTIVE To determine the rates of red blood cell and leukocyte alloimmunization in patients with chronic kidney disease awaiting kidney transplantation. METHODS In this cross-sectional and prospective study, the serum of 393 chronic kidney disease patients on a transplant waiting list in Ceará, Northeastern Brazil were tested for red cell and leukocyte antibodies. In addition, demographic, ...