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Published on the 1 February 2003

The delivery rate of dietary carbohydrates affects cognitive performance in both rats and humans

RATIONALE: Glucose is the main metabolic fuel of the brain. The rate of glucose delivery from food to the bloodstream depends on the nature of carbohydrates in the diet, which can be summarized as …

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Published on the 1 January 2003

Effects of ING-911, a tryptic hydrolysate from bovine Milk alpha S1-Casein on anxiety of Wistar male rats measured in the conditioned defensive burying paradigm and the elevated-plus maze test

ING-911 is a tryptic hydrolysate from bovine milk that contains as a major component, a peptide corresponding to the 91-100 fragment of the α S1-casein. As diazepam (DZ), ING-911 was found to have an …

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Published on the 1 November 2002

A new method of implanting orthotopic rat bladder tumor for experimental therapies

We developed a model of orthotopic transplantation of bladder tumor cells in female Fischer rats using a new reproducible technique. After first performing the mechanical abrasion of a portion of the …

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Published on the 1 September 2002

Determination of the maximal tumor:normal bladder ratio after i.p. or bladder administration of 5-aminolevulinic acid in Fischer 344 rats by fluorescence spectroscopy in situ

The two major steps in our study on the treatment of bladder tumors by photodynamic therapy (PDT) were the development of a new bladder tumor model in Fischer rats by implantation of tumor cells and t…

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Published on the 1 September 2002

Induction of syngeneic intradermal and orthotopic epidermal carcinomas in hairless Skh-1 mice as a reproducible model for experiments

Epidermoid carcinomas, clinically and histologically similar to human squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), were obtained in hairless Skh-1 mice. Tumor cells originated from chemically-induced skin cancers….

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Published on the 20 December 2001

Nonprotein amino acids in edible lentil and garden pea seedlings.

Commercial edible seedlings of garden pea (Pisum sativum L.) and lentil (Lens culinaris L.) contain high concentration of nonprotein amino acids and trigonelline. Both seedlings grown in the laborator…

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Published on the 17 December 2001

Identification and quantification of natural isoxazolinone compounds by capillary zone electrophoresis.

A capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) method that is specific, simple, rapid and also cheap was developed to analyse some natural UV-absorbing isoxazolinone compounds with toxic potential present in …

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Published on the 22 October 2001

Amino acids in seeds and seedlings of the genus Lens.

The amino acid content of seeds and 4-day-old seedlings were studied in five species of lentil: Lens culinaris, L. orientalis, L. ervoides, L. nigricans and L. odemensis. Free amino acid and also tota…

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