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Yellow sweet potato flour: use in sweet bread processing to increase carotene content and improve quality

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 90 (1), 2018
ABSTRACT Yellow sweet potato is mostly produced by small farmers, and may be a source of energy and carotenoids in the human diet, but it is a highly perishable crop. To increase its industrial application, yellow sweet potato flour has been produced for use in bakery products. This study aimed to evalua...

Quantification of anti-nutritional factors and their correlations with protein and oil in soybeans

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 90 (1), 2018
ABSTRACT Soybeans contain about 30% carbohydrate, mainly consisting of non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) and oligosaccharides. NSP are not hydrolyzed in the gastrointestinal tract of monogastric animals. These NSP negatively affect the development of these animals, especially the soluble fraction. This wo...

Potassium adsorption in soil cultivated with sugarcane

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 90 (1), 2018
ABSTRACT Vinasse is a byproduct of the process of distillation of sugarcane juice for the manufacture of sugar and alcohol. Because it is rich in nutrients, mainly potassium (K), is used as fertilizer and applied via fertigation, without concerning for the fate of this compound in the soil. Thus, the obj...

Apparent digestibility of conventional and alternative feedstuffs by hybrid tambacu juveniles

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 90 (1), 2018
ABSTRACT The apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC's) of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), and gross energy (GE) of conventional feedstuffs (cottonseed meal-CSM, soybean meal-SBM, wheat bran-WHB, corn-COR) and regional alternative feedstuffs (common bean residue meal-CBR, mesquite meal-MES, pasta b...

Short-term insulin intensive therapy decreases MCP-1 and NF-κB expression of peripheral blood monocyte and the serum MCP-1 concentration in newlydiagnosed type 2 diabetics

ABSTRACT Objective To observe the effect of short-term insulin intensive treatment on the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) as well as on the nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) expression of peripheral blood monocyte. This is also in addition to observing the serum MCP-1 level in newlydiagnose...

Evaluación de la actividad anti-inflamatoria de propóleos chileno sobre cortes histológicos de orejas de ratón

Int. j. morphol; 36 (1), 2018
RESUMEN: El propóleos es un producto resinoso complejo producido por las abejas Apis mellifera, el cual posee diversas actividades biológicas como inmunomodulador, antiinflamatorio, anticancerígeno, antiviral, antibacteriano, antioxidante, entre otros. El propósito del siguiente estudio fue realizar ...

Influence of nutritional status, laboratory parameters and dietary patterns upon urinary acid excretion in calcium stone formers

J. bras. nefrol; 40 (1), 2018
ABSTRACT Introduction: Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (MS) are associated with low urinary pH and represent risk factors for nephrolithiasis, especially composed by uric acid. Acidogenic diets may also contribute to a reduction of urinary pH. Propensity for calcium oxalate precipitation has been shown t...

Looking for combination of benznidazole and Trypanosoma cruzi-triosephosphate isomerase inhibitors for Chagas disease treatment

Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz; 113 (3), 2018
BACKGROUND The current chemotherapy for Chagas disease is based on monopharmacology with low efficacy and drug tolerance. Polypharmacology is one of the strategies to overcome these limitations. OBJECTIVES Study the anti-Trypanosoma cruzi activity of associations of benznidazole (Bnz) with three new syn...

Extração de compostos bioativos dos frutos da juçara: o açaí da Mata atlântica
Extraction of bioactive compounds from the fruits of the juçara: the açaí of the Atlantic Forest

Hig. aliment; 32 (276/277), 2018
A juçara é uma espécie em extinção devido à extração ilegal do seu palmito. A exploração do seu fruto vem sendo introduzida como uma alternativa de baixo impacto ambiental. No entanto, o pouco conhecimento sobre este fruto dificulta a extração dos seus compostos bioativos. Este trabalho objet...