the acorn is an edible nut of oak trees (quercus spp.) that had been used for human nutrition for a long time. besides nutritious components, acorn contains considerable amounts of phenolic substances. at present study, two different varieties of iranian oak acorns, namely, q. branti var. persica (qb) and qcastaneifolia var. castaneifolia (qc) were used. the total polyphenol content measured in...

A target-based approach has been used to develop novel drugs in many therapeutic fields. In the final stage of intracellular signaling, transcription factor-DNA interactions are central to most biological processes and therefore represent a large and important class of targets for human therapeutics. Thus, we focused on the idea that the disruption of protein dimers and cognate DNA complexes co...

Fluorescence (FL), chemiluminescence (CL) and bioluminescence (BL) have been extensively focused on luminescence assays. Various FL and CL compounds have been synthesized and evaluated their FL and CL properties. This review describes development of highly selective and sensitive FL and CL reagents by derivatizing luminol, indole and polyphenol. Luminol derivatives were used for measuring enzym...

Bulk Frying Oil (BFO) derived from semi-purified crude palm oil is widely used in Indonesia. Different from refined-bleached-deodorized palm olein that usually undergo full purification and fractionation, BFO is considered as lower quality because it still contains soft stearin fraction. Long shelf life and the reusability of frying oil could be improved by the addition of synthetic antioxidant...

pomegranate tree possesses a vast ethnomedical history and represents a phytochemical reservoir of heuristic medicinal value. in the present study, total phenolics, antioxidant, and antibacterial activities of pomegranate peel were determined by folin–ciocalteu, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (dpph) and disk-diffusion methods, respectively, and compared among the accessions. methanolic extract g...

Stemphylium sarcinaeforme (Cav.) Wilt. (formerly Macrosporium sarcinaeforme Cav.) and Monilinia fructicola (Wint.) Honey (formerly Sclerotinia fructicola (Wint.) Rehm.) are two fungi which have been widely used as test organisms for screening fungicides in the laboratory. S. sarcinaeforme is resistant to the toxicity of phenolic and quinonoid compounds (herein referred to as phenols and quinone...