Excessive fat consumption increases the level of fatty acids (FAs) in the blood, which reach the hypothalamus and damage the circuit related to energy balance. In the present study, we used palmitate in a primary culture of purified astrocytes to mimic the fat-rich environment found in obesity. ...

Amylose-lipid complexes can be formed by interaction between amylose and lipid as ligands. This study determines the effects of ascorbyl palmitate (0, 15, 50, 100, and 200 mg/g starch) on the functional properties of maize starches (normal and high amylose maize starch), amount of ascorbyl palmi...

Cancer development has been directly related to oxidative stress. During chemotherapy, some cancer patients use dietary antioxidants to avoid nutritional deficiencies due to cancer treatment. Among the antioxidants consumed, there are vitamins, including retinyl palmitate (PR) and ascorbic acid ...

Inflammation markers in zebrafish embryos reflect a toxic response that is common to other animal models and humans. Free fatty acids (FFAs) are known to cause damage in various tissues by inducing inflammation. In this study, we investigated whether a FFA (palmitate) induces inflammation in zeb...

The objective of this work was to investigate the effect of berberine (BBR) on the Cell viability, lipid accumulation, apoptosis, cytochrome c, caspase-9 and caspase-3 in lipid accumulation-hepatocytes induced by sodium palmitate in vitro. The lipid accumulation-hepatocytes (induced by 0.5 mM so...

Free fatty acids (FFAs) are considered the principal inducers of lipotoxicity, leading to cell dysfunction and/or cell death. Lipotoxicity in Schwann cells (SCs) damages neurons, which may be associated with peripheral neuropathies and axon degeneration. However, the molecular mechanism by which...

Many oil paintings, dating from the 15th century to the present, are affected by the formation of heavy-metal carboxylates (soaps) that alter the structural integrity and appearance of the works. Through transport phenomena not yet understood, free fatty acids formed from oils used as binders mi...

Non-covalent interactions imposed by polar groups affect the properties of polyisoprene in various ways. But traditional modification method only led to randomly functionalized product which ignored the effects of sequence and location of polar groups. In this work, by using a novel polar monome...

Administration of dibutyltin dilaurate (DBTL; 0, 20 or 40 mg/kg body wt.) by gavage to rats for 3 consecutive days produced a significant increase in polyamine levels in selected brain areas. At the higher dose of DBTL (40 mg/kg) Spermidine levels were raised in pons-medulla, hypothalamus and fr...

Antimalarial therapy is a major contributor to declining malaria morbidity and mortality. However, the high toxicity and low bioavailability of current antimalarials and emerging drug resistance necessitates drug-delivery research. We have previously developed glyceryl-dilaurate nanolipid carrie...

Chitin dihexanoate (DHCH) is the novel biocompatible and technologically friendly highly substituted chitin diester. Here we described optimization of DHCH and chitin dibutyrate (dibutyryl chitin, DBC) synthesis conditions (temperature and reaction time) to obtain desired polymers with high reac...

The room temperature structure of anhydrous lead (II) decanoate has been studied using X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy and polarizing light microscopy. A triclinic unit cell with dimensions: a=8.529 (3), b=11.207 (4), c=28.451 (2) Å; α=83.814 (2), β=88.971 (2), γ=65.143 (3); Z=4, M=5...

This study focused on tannate and decanoate coatings on iron surfaces and their potential combinations. The properties of the coatings were evaluated using a broad range of methods: spectrophotometry, contact angles measurement, impedance spectroscopy, mass gain, glow discharge optical emission ...

The study had been conducted to evaluate the effects of nandrolone decanoate (abused repeated doses) on female rat’s ovary and uterus during administration and withdrawal. The study included 18 rats that were divided into control group (n = 6) and treated group (n = 12). The treated group was i...

Lead is very susceptible to corrosion in the presence of organic acids and humidity. A potential countermeasure is to apply a lead carboxylate coating by immersing the metal in a sodium carboxylate solution/suspension. In this work we report on the degree of surface coverage and the corrosion re...

Nandrolone decanoate is an anabolic-androgenic steroid that is frequently used at a very high dose to improve the physical performance. Recently, this drug has been abused by athletes to augment their muscle mass and improve their physical performance. However, this could have an impact on other...

Nandrolone decanoate is an anabolic androgenic steroid that is abused worldwide by young athletes and bodybuilders to enhance their physical performance. Many clinical reports among those abusers demonstrated a variety of renal disorders. Lycopene is one of the dietary carotenoids found in fruit...

Daphnia magna, and to a lesser extent D. pulex, are commonly used in standardised laboratory toxicity tests. Neither of these species is common in lakes inhabited by fish which is explained by strong predation pressure by fish. They also exhibit different life-history strategies compared to lake...

The combined effects of diets varying in carbohydrate-lipid ratio, as well as preexposure to sublethal levels of sodium pentachlorophenate (NaPCP), on the lethal tolerance of waterborne NaPCP by rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were examined. The three diets used were practical salmonid formulati...

1.1. The addition of citrate, succinate, glutamate, and reduced TMPD stimulated the oxygen consumption of tissue homogenates of the snail Biomphalaria alexanrina.2.2. The rate of stimulation was increased by increasing the concentration of these substrates. Bayluscide and sodium pentachlorophena...