Bioactive compounds and antioxidant capacities of “Phulae” and “Nanglae” pineapple (Ananas comosus L. Merr) which are important geographical indications of Chiang Rai, Thailand were investigated. Two pineapple varieties were collected at 20-40 % yellow peel colour. Total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), total polyphenols, β-carotene, vitamin C and antioxidant capacity (ferric redu...

Instant coffee exhibits direct genotoxic activity in the tester strains TA 98, 100, 102, 104 and YG 1024. In the Ames tester strain TA 100, the presence of S9 mix, S100 mix, S9 mix without cofactors led to a significant decrease of the genotoxicity observed. The decrease observed in the presence of S9 mix seems to be highly correlated with the catalase content of S9 mix. The genotoxicity of ins...

The study aimed on evaluating the feasibility of NIRS to predict sweetness and acidity of intact mango fruit in form of soluble solids content (SSC) and titratable acidity (TA) through calibration modeling. Diffuse reflectance spectra in NIR wavelength range of 1000 – 2500 nm were acquired for a total of 58 mango samples. PCR and PLSR were used to develop SCC or TA prediction models respectivel...

Turning Angles Representation (TA) is considered one of the most interestingmethods for representing object shapes in content-based image retrieval systems. Nevertheless, the distance commonly used to measure the similarity between shapes represented by TAs, the Euclidean one, is generally too sensitive to small variations in the shapes. In this paper we present a new distance between shapes re...

Acute contractile activity increases the activation of protein kinases involved in signal transduction. We hypothesized that the contractile activity-induced kinase phosphorylation would occur to a lesser degree in muscle with elevated mitochondrial content. We compared red and white sections of tibialis anterior (TA) muscle with two- to threefold differences in mitochondrial volume, and we inc...

PURPOSE We investigated the composition of collagen and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in the corpus cavernosum (CC) and tunica albuginea (TA) of normal human penises. MATERIALS AND METHODS Penises were obtained from a 6-month-old child (group 1), a 2-year-old child (group 2), 18 to 34-year-old adults (group 3), 37 to 53-year-old adults (group 4) and 22 fetuses at 17.2 to 33.3 menstrual weeks (gro...

This work aims to develop solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) loaded with retinoic acid (RA) to evaluate the influence of two lipophilic amines, stearylamine (SA) and benethamine (BA), and one hydrophilic, triethylamine (TA), on drug-encapsulation efficiency (EE) and cytotoxicity in cancer cell lines. The SLNs were characterized for EE, size, and zeta potential. The mean particle size decreased fr...

Abstract Flowers have received special attention not only for their ornamental nature but also nutraceutical, cosmetic, aromatic, and culinary properties. This study aimed to characterize physicochemical attributes the antioxidant capacity of flowers four gladiolus cultivars. The cultivars used were White Friendship, Rose Supreme, Jester, T704. We analyzed content total soluble solids (SS), tit...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of taspine hydrochloride (TA/HCl) on skin wound healing in rats and its mechanism. METHODS Bilateral round wounds were made on the backs of SD rats. The effect of TA/HCl on the skin wound was evaluated through determining closure time and contracting ability of the skin wound, observing histopathological characteristics and measuring contents of hydroxyproline (H...

The Vitek GPS-TA card (Vitek Systems, Hazelwood, Mo.) was compared with single-concentration broth microdilution and disk diffusion methods using high-content disks for the detection of high-level resistance to gentamicin and streptomycin in 99 isolates of enterococci (81 Enterococcus faecalis isolates and 18 Enterococcus faecium isolates). The GPS-TA card accurately detected high-level resista...