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The study was conducted to develop baked cakes using different pretreated sweet potato peels powders (such as fresh, boiled and citric acid) with various concentration (5%, 10% & 20%) and to evaluate the changes of quality characteristics. Sweet potato peel powder was investigated for the different nutritional and physiochemical properties were boiling and pretreatment effects also evaluated. Fresh peel, 0.5% citric acid treated and boiled sweet potato peel powder was utilized as sample powder for the studies. There were significant differences (p < 0.05) in fiber and ash content and Hunter color values between powders from fresh peeled, 0.5% citric acid treated and boiled sweet potato peels powders. However, fresh and boiled sweet potato peel powder had higher fiber content than treated. The highest amount of fiber content was found in cakes incorporated with 10% boiled treated sweet potato peels powders content highest fiber. Pretreated and boiled with citric acid samples were obtained overall acceptability in the hedonic rating test.
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Lycopene is an unsaturated carotenoid pigment which is acyclic and open chain, of great dietary prominence obtained mainly from colored plant sources. It is a phytochemical which is found mainly in red amaranth, tomatoes, water melon and other plants and fruits mostly red colored which covered various antioxidant which attracted attentions due to its biological properties. Lycopene has critical role in the prevention of tumor and cancer. Various ways can be utilized to identify, extract and purify lycopene from various sources by efficient analytical support. Several analyses have been attended for the extraction and quantification of lycopene in various natural sources such as various red leaf plants and fruits. This review study highlights lycopene as a carotenoid pigment including auspicious nutraceutical implications, and counts the important plant and also microbial sources for its production, and methods to calculate its bioavailability and utilization.
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This study was carried out in the Department of Urology, National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology, (NIKDU), during the period from Jan' 09 to Dec' 10 to assess the complications at donor site after lingual mucosal graft harvesting for urethroplasty. A total of 30 patients with mean age of 36.6 years (rang 21 to 56 years) and mean urethal stricture length of 36 mm (range 22 to 59 mm) who underwent urethroplasty for anterior urethral strictures using dorsal onlay of a lingual mucosal graft (LMG) were selected for the study. The site of the harvest graft was ventrolateral mucosal lining of the tongue. Donor site complications like pain, numbness, tightness, slurring of speech, salivatory changes and difficulty in protrusion of tongue were noted. The mean period of follow-up was 14 months (range 6-18 months). At the first postoperative day, 96% of the patients experienced pain at donor site and 26% had slurring of speech. Pain was mild to discomforting in 60% and distressing to excruciating in 37% of the patients. By third postoperative day, 22 (73%) patients were pain free, 06 (20%) suffered from mild pain and 02 (6%) suffered from discomforting pain only and none had slurring of speech. On the fifth postoperative day, only 02 (6%) patient suffered pain. By day 6 of surgery, all patients were pain free. Only 01 (3.3%) patients reported numbness which persisted during the whole period of follow up. The study showed that LMG is easy to harvest and associated with less postoperative pain, minor risk of donor site complications and without any functional or esthetic deficiency. So tongue may be the best alternative donor site for anterior urothroplasty.
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Stool examined for presence of nematodes from 467 school students in Dacca city showed 48% ova positive cases with 22% among them cases of mixed nematode infection. Highest prevalence of 58% was observed with roundworm and 5% was hookworm infestations. Among hookworm cases, Necator americana (68%) appears to be the predominant species. Two anthelmintics-pyrantel and levamisole achieved similar high cure rate (around 97%) and Egg reduction rate of 99% in roundworm infection. However, pyrantel was observed to be more effective in hookworm infestation (87% against 60%) particularly in Necator americana cases.