for treatment of anti-nutritional factors(anfs), (?-n-oxalyl -l- ?, ? -diaminopropionic acid (?-odap) and condensed tannin (ct)) in grass pea, some such alkali treatments as naoh, nahco3, kmno4 and wood ash, besides water soaking and polyethylene glycol (peg) (6000 mw) were employed . metabolizable energy (me) of treated and of untreated grass pea was assessed using gas production technique, tw...

The aim of this study is to clarify the relationship between serum 3-O-methyldopa (3-OMD) and the clinical effects of entacapone. The 3-OMD and maximum serum concentration (Cmax) of levodopa were measured in 21 Parkinson's Disease patients who took 100 mg levodopa / dopa decarboxylase inhibitor. After the administration of entacapone, the 3-OMD concentration and percentage of "on" time during w...

Introduction The Lathyrus/lathyrism challenge is broad-based by its nature and requires multi-disciplinary efforts of specialists in the field of epidemiology, neurology, biochemistry, chemistry, nutrition, and agronomy. The role of chemists is in systematic determination of minor natural products in L. sativus seeds so that the sole responsibility of ß-ODAP for neurolathyrism is ascertained . ...

grasspea (lathyrus sativus) is a protein-rich forage legume that contains a neurotoxin (beta-odap) that causes severe malformation of the body’s extremities when eaten in large quantities. various low-toxin lines of grasspea have been developed to reduce the toxin’s concentration in the grain, i.e. to below the 0.2% critical value, but there are indications that zinc (zn) can also reduce the to...

The seeds and one to three years old plants of Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) were analyzed for their free amino acid contents. The neuro-excitatory beta-ODAP (beta-N-oxalyl-L-alpha,beta-diaminopropionic acid), suggested to be the cause of the crippling neurolathyrism, was the major component in the seed extract (70% of the total free amino acids detected) and showed the highest conce...

We present two variants of OMD which are robust against noncemisuse. Security of OMD—a CAESAR candidate—relies on the assumption that implementations always ensure correct use of nonce (a.k.a. message number); namely that, the nonce never gets repeated. However, in some application environments, this non-repetitiveness requirement on nonce might be compromised or ignored, yielding to full colla...