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Bacillus circulans strain isolated from dump yards of vegetable wastes was tested for its abilities to hydrolyze the structural polysaccharides. The effect of different production parameters such as pH, temperature, carbon source, nitrogen source (Organic and inorganic), incubation time, inoculum sizes and surfactants on pectinase production by the isolated bacterial strain was studied. The enzyme production was assayed in submerged fermentation (SmF) condition. The maximum pectinase production was observed with Galactose (256 U/ml), Yeast extract (130 U/ml), Ammonium sulphate (72 U/ml), pH 7.0 (236 U/ml), Temperature 40°C (126 U/ml), Tween-80 (144 U/ml), Incubation time 48 hours (166 U/ml) and Inoculum size level 5% (136 U/ml) in the production...
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The present study was designed to compare the antioxidant, antimicrobial and thrombolytic effects of the Lannea coromandelica bark and leave extracts. After the initial phytochemical screening, the ethanolic fractions of the L. coromandelica bark and leaves were partitioned by solvents of different polarity. Methods used to evaluate the antioxidant potential of the extracts were total phenolic content, total flavonoid content, free radical scavenging capacity, total antioxidant capacity and reducing power assay. Total phenol and total flavonoid contents were found to be the highest for bark and leaves in the ethyl acetate fraction and lowest in the n-Hexane fraction. In DPPH free radical scavenging test, the lowest IC50 value was found in the ethyl acetate fraction of the bark and leaf, resulting IC50 value of 3.8±0.14 μg/ml and 6±0.32 μg/ml respectively. In the same vein, ethyl acetate fraction of both leaf and bark showed the highest antioxidant capacity and reducing power. Reducing power of both bark and leaves were found to be concentration dependent and most prominent was observed with...
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Through this work we adopted Rotating Disk Electrode (RDE) Voltammetry to study the kinetics of oxidation and the effect of hydrazide group on ferrocene in organic medium. Thus, two different electrodes (Pt and Gc) were used in ordre to determine this latter. According to the ferrocene taken as a witness the hydrazide group related to the ferrocene made oxydation more difficult. This ferrocenic derivative showed an electrochemical stability, a reversible electrochemical system and an electronic attractor effect of these substitutional ferrocene groups. Finally, we calculated some electrochemical parameters which were: the diffusion coefficients (D), the layer thickness (δ) in addition to the electron transfer...
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A simple, selective, rapid and economical reversed phase high performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of metformin hydrochloride in bulk and dosage forms has been developed and validated. The separation was carried out on a Discovery reversed phase C-18 column (250 mm x 4.6 mm, 5.0 µm) with UV detection at 233 nm. The mobile phase contained 34% acetonitrile and 66% aqueous phase. Aqueous phase contained 10 mM KH2PO4 and 10 mM sodium lauryl sulfate. Mobile phase pH was adjusted to 5.2. The mobile phase was run isocratically. The flow rate of the mobile phase was maintained at 1.3 ml/min. The linearity of the calibration curve was obtained in the concentration range of 2.5 to 20 µg ml-1 and coefficient of determination (R2) was found to be 0.9985. The % RSD value for intraday and interday precision was below 1 which indicated that the method was precise. Limit of detection and limit of quantification were 0.1 and 0.3 µg/ml...
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A simple, selective, precise and reliable HPLC method of analysis has been developed and validated for determination of the metronidazole benzoate and related impurities, including metronidazole, 2-methyl-5-nitromidazole and benzoic acidin bulk and marketed formulations. The method employed CN-RP column as stationary phase and acetonitrile and 0.1% octansulfonic acid sodium salt as mobile phase. The method was validated in terms of linearity, precision and accuracy. The LOD and LOQ were 0.076, 0.031, 0.033 and 0.024 μg/ml and 0.232, 0.095, 0.098 and 0.073 μg/ml respectively for metronidazole benzoate, metronidazole, 2-methyl-5-nitromidazole and benzoic acid. The average percentage recovery of metronidazole benzoate and related impurities was found to be within 98.6 – 101.5 % of range. The developed method can be successfully used for identification and quantification of metronidazole benzoate and related impurities in bulk and...
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