Lactobacilli have been used in the dairy and pharmaceutical industries because of their nutritious and/or
therapeutic effects. Lactobacillus acidophilus and
Lactobacillus bulqaricus were isolated from a commercially
available product and studied for their growth and colony
characteristics as described in Chapter I and Chapter II.
Survival of these lactobacilli in...
Horticultural therapy is the use of plants and plant-related activities as an adjunct therapy assisting medical, psychological and other rehabilitative therapies in the improvement of physical and mental health. Although long associated with having a beneficial effect upon people characterized as mentally ill, mentally deficient, socially maladapted and physically disabled,...
The sea offers a wide variety of potentially useful resources. Marine algae have been a rich source of structurally unique natural products showing diverse biological properties. The current need to develop new antifungal, antibiotic, anticancer and antiviral drugs has prompted intense research efforts into the discovery, isolation and structure determination...
Melatonin is an neurohormone secreted by the pineal gland.
Several therapeutic possibilities for melatonin administration have
been suggested. However, clinical studies with melatonin have been
limited by lack of a delivery system capable of mimicking the
physiological release pattern of melatonin. There is an increasing
recognition that the skin can...
This investigation was conducted to determine the
effect of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) on vitamin B-6
status of postmenopausal women. Nineteen postmenopausal
women served as subjects. Nine (54.7 + 4.7 years) were
taking ERT (experimental group); ten (56.8 + 2.3 years)
were not (control group). For three consecutive days,
subjects...
The problem discussed in this research concerns the content of
the dreams of low-functioning sex offenders and clinical applications
of those dreams in the treatment of these offenders. The subjects
of the research are five low-finctioning sex offenders in the Social
Skills Program (SSP) of the Oregon Forensic Psychiatric Center...
Erythrocytic inclusion body syndrome (EIBS) was artificially
established in selected stocks of juvenile fall and spring chinook
salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), chum salmon (0. keta), coho
salmon (0. kisutch), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), and rainbow
trout (0. mykiss). Adult spring chinook salmon were also
artificially infected with the EIBS virus. Adult...
Two factorial experiments were conducted to determine if
high dietary fluoride would inhibit selenite toxicity in
rats. In each study, two levels of selenite (0.05 and 5
mg/kg diet) were matched against two levels of fluoride (1
and 150 mg/kg diet) for either 6 or 8 weeks. Fluoride failed
to...