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Legumes
Published in Christopher Cumo, Ancestral Diets and Nutrition, 2020
Another factor, the boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) crossed the Rio Grande north into the United States in 1892, devastating cotton.100 The ensuing shortage of cottonseed oil prompted farmers to plant soybeans for oil.101 As noted later, others switched from cotton to peanuts. After 1910, the tractor replaced horses, prompting transition from oats that had fed them to soybeans.102 The 1930s’ dust bowl revealed soybeans’ greater drought tolerance than grain, leading farmers to plant them.103 Moreover, Congress combatted the Great Depression (1929–1939) by paying farmers not to plant cotton and other crops that glutted the market. Because Congress did not extend this provision to soybeans, farmers abandoned cotton for them, collecting government payments and harvesting a crop that generated income on its own.104
Alternative medicine for endometriosis: Diet and nutrition
Published in Seema Chopra, Endometriosis, 2020
Vitamin E–rich sources are nuts and oil seeds, for example, sunflower seeds (35 mg/100 g), almonds (26 mg/100 g), hazelnuts (15 mg/100 g), peanuts (9 mg/100 g), pumpkin seeds (2.2 mg/100 g), and so on. A handful of nuts and seeds should be a part of daily diet. Certain oils are very rich in vitamin E. Wheat germ oil provides approximately 150 mg/100 g, sunflower oil and almond oil—40 mg/100 g, cotton seed oil and safflower oil—35 mg/100 g, rice bran oil—32 mg/100 g, and canola oil—18 mg/100 g (Figure 14.5) [15].
Chemistry and Biology of Monoglycerides in Cosmetic Formulations
Published in Eric Jungermann, Norman O.V. Sonntag, Glycerine, 2018
In a study by Mattson et al. [22], in which 12 groups of 10 weanling male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed diets containing various pure mono-, di-, and triglycerides at a level of 25% for a period of 10 weeks, growth of all groups was normal and autopsies revealed no peculiarities. Ames et al. [23] reported that the feeding of monoglycerides (derived from the fatty acids of cottonseed oil) to rats for three generations disclosed no untoward effects attributable to the ingestion of the compounds. On the basis of a feeding study in which rats were fed mono-, di-, and triglycerides (prepared from a mixture of partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils) at levels of 15 or 25% of the diet for 70 days, Harris and Sherman [24] stated that these compounds exhibit no differences in caloric efficiency, nor do they produce any differences in body weight gain.
Dietary fluted pumpkin seeds induce reversible oligospermia and androgen insufficiency in adult rats
Published in Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, 2019
Rex-Clovis C. Njoku, Sunny O. Abarikwu, Augustine A. Uwakwe, Chidimma J. Mgbudom-Okah, Chioma Yvonne Ezirim
Although efforts to develop effective plant-derived male contraceptive agents have been undertaken, the progress in this area has been minimal. For instance, daily use of Tripterygium wilfordii extract elicited antifertility properties in animals and men by distorting sperm development and lowering sperm count but its use was associated with adverse side effects (Qian 1987; Herdiman et al. 2006; D’Cruz et al. 2010; Jing et al. 2017). Furthermore, gossypol obtained from cotton seed oil provoked antifertility effects in human and animal models through reduction in sperm quality and increase in sperm mortality, degeneration of the testis and disruption of spermatogenesis and steroidogenesis (Coutinho 2002; Santana et al. 2015; Lim et al. 2019). However, a reduction in serum potassium levels and permanent azoospermia was observed in volunteer patients taking gossypol (Coutinho 2002; Lim et al. 2019). Furthermore, the irreversibility of azoospermia, slow contraceptive effectiveness, and other undesired side effects associated with some plant-derived contraceptive agents have heightened the focus of most laboratories on the search of potential plant-based male contraceptives that satisfy the criteria of an effective male-contraceptive agent (Coutinho 2002; Jing et al. 2017; Verma et al. 2017; Ain et al. 2018; Lim et al. 2019).
Benzyl alcohol suppresses seizures in two different animal models
Published in Neurological Research, 2019
Yinhao Violet Wu, Junhan Liu, Ziying Chen, W.Mcintyre Burnham
Dose–response Testing. Dose–response testing was initiated one week (minimum) after the mice had arrived from the breeding farm. Each mouse was injected with a single dose of BnOH (0, 100, 200, 400 and 800 mg/kg i.p.). The injection volume was kept constant, and BnOH was therefore diluted in cottonseed oil to the following concentrations: 0%, 2.5%, 5.0%, 10% and 20%. The vehicle control group contained subjects treated with 0 mg/kg of BnOH. The vehicle, matched in volume, was given as part of each dose–response study. Ten minutes after the BnOH injection, each subject was injected with 90 mg/kg PTZ i.p. Mice were then placed in a test chamber and monitored for convulsive seizure activity (see below) for 15 min. Mice were euthanized with CO2 followed by cervical dislocation immediately after the occurrence of tonic hindlimb extension or at the end of the observation period.
Hybrid polymeric microspheres for enhancing the encapsulation of phenylethyl resorcinol
Published in Journal of Microencapsulation, 2019
Sung-Hoon Jeon, Young-Guk Na, Hong-Ki Lee, Cheong-Weon Cho
The screening of oil for solubility PR was performed to prepare HPMSs. The amphiphilic PR resulted in the solubility of 4.05 ± 0.02 mg/g in DW. Screening of the oil was carried out with a group of natural oils, including oleic acid, linseed oil, cotton seed oil, and olive oil as well as a group of synthetic oils such as PeceolTM, LauroglycolTM 90 and CapryolTM 90 (Figure 1(A)). The solubility of PR ranged from 47.69 ± 2.57 mg/g to 231.95 ± 25.99 mg/g in natural oils and from 387.13 ± 16.4 mg/g to 618.30 ± 22.29 mg/g in synthetic oils, respectively. CapryolTM 90 showed the highest solubility of PR with 618.30 ± 22.29 mg/g. Based on these results, CapryolTM 90 was selected among oils for the preparation of HPMSs.