V ARIOUS salts have been used in ruminant rations in attempts to reduce the incidence of urinary calculi. Bushman et al. (1967) have recently reported on the relative effectiveness of ammonium chloride, calcium chloride, sodium chloride and calcium carbonate. Also, a protective effect against phosphatic urolithiasis has been assigned to dietary potassium by Robbins et al. (1965). Crookshank (19...

The chemical stimuli of special significance to taste are sugars (sweet), amino acids (umami), sodium chloride and other salts (salty), alkaloids (bitter) and acids (sour). Sugars and amino acids tend to be preferred, while alkaloids and acids tend to be avoided. Intake of salts depends on electrolyte balance. The gustatory system codes taste qualities and their associated hedonic attributes. T...

The focus of the present work was to investigate the interaction of the anticancer drug mitoxantrone with two bile salts, sodium taurodeoxycholate (NaTDC) and sodium taurocholate (NaTC). Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy were used to quantify the interaction and to obtain information on the location of mitoxantrone in bile salt micell...

Sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate is one of a group of salts of alkylbenzene sulfonates used in cosmetics as surfactant-cleansing agents. Sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate is soluble in water and partially soluble in alcohol, with dermal absorption dependent on pH. Dodecylbenzenesulfonate salts are not toxic in single-dose oral and dermal animal tests, and no systemic toxicities were observed in repe...

Administration of large doses of either corticotropin (ACTH) (1) or tie adrenal steroids (2-5) to human subjects ordinarily results in an initial phase of sodium retention which is often accompanied by increased excretion of potassium in the urine and by a decrease in intracellular potassium (6). In order to minimize potassium depletion, it has become common practice to add supplements of potas...

Some known mechanisms proposed for the reduction of blood cholesterol by dietary fibre are: binding with bile salts in the duodenum and prevention of lipid absorption, which can be partially related with the bile salt binding. In order to gain new insights into the mechanisms of the binding of dietary fibre to bile salts, the goal of this work is to study the main interactions between cellulose...

The bioaccumulation of alkali and alkaline earth metals such as Na, K, Ca and Mg were studied in the fry of rohu, Labeo rohita (Ham.), a species of freshwater aquaculture importance in India. The experiments were conducted in laboratory conditions exposing the rohu eggs up to fry stage in one experiment; and fry to advanced fry stage in other experiment, to different concentrations of the salts...

Gold salts may attenuate inflammatory processes by inhibiting interleukin 1 production. It is shown that sodium aurothiomalate does not act as an antipyretic after intravenous injection of two pyrogens into rabbits. Consequently, it cannot suppress interleukin 1 production, a conclusion confirmed by an in vitro lymphocyte activating factor assay. Chronic sodium aurothiomalate treatment, however...

Conductometric measurements on solid lithium, sodium and potassium propanoates and X-ray powder diffraction measurements on the sodium and potassium salts have been performed over temperature ranges including solid state transitions. The temperature dependence of the transport and lattice parameters of the different crystalline phases and the changes of the same parameters in correspondence wit...