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Showing papers in "Journal of the Indian Institute of Science in 1956"


Journal Article
TL;DR: Besides their powerful metabolic effects vitamins play an impottant role in the host parasite relationship in diseases.
Abstract: Besides their powerful metabolic effects vitamins play an impottant role in the host parasite relationship in diseases. the effiects of vitamin deficiency and supplementation vary with different kinds of infections.

7 citations


Journal Article
TL;DR: Vitamins play an important role in the host· parasite relationship of many diseases, the concentration of the vitamin affecting the onset, course, duration and severity of the infection.
Abstract: Vitamins play an important role in the host· parasite relationship of many diseases, the concentration of the vitamin affecting the onset, course, duration and severity of the infection.

5 citations


Journal Article
TL;DR: A number of solvenl combinations have been tried in an attempt to obtain the best separation of the flavins, and IT-butanol-acetic acid·water in the proportion 40: 10: 50 was found to give the best resolution both for qualitative charactedsation as well as quantitative evaluation.
Abstract: A method for lhe separation, identification and quantitative determination of riboflavin and its derivatives (flavin mononucleotide, flavinadenine dinucleotide, lumiflavin and lumichrome) by circular paper chromatography is described. A number of solvenl combinations have been tried in an attempt to obtain the best separation of the flavins, and IT-butanol-acetic acid·water in the proportion 40: 10: 50 was found to give the best resolution both for qualitative charactedsation as well as quantitative evaluation. Quantitative determination of the individual flavins was made by cutting out the bands from the chromatograms (after identification under ultra-violet light), eluting them with water and measuring the fluorescence in a fluorimeter. Spectrophotometric analysis was also carrJed out as a check-up and the recovery was fotmd to be satisfactory. Some applications of the method for the study of riboflavin metabolism in a mutant yeast BY2, arc briefly described. The advantages and possible applications of the technique are discussed.

2 citations