This experiment was designed to study the effects of high level of fats and its source in the diets on the toxic or carcinogenic effects of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) and ethynyl estradion (EE) on the lung of experimental rats. This experiment was done in 72 rats given NDMA and or EE and fed diets of normal fat level or 15 percent fats, consisted of 10 percent animal or vegetable fats. Rats …
Rhizome of Curcuma heyneana Val van Zyp is much used in traditional medicine and cosmetics. In this work GLC-MS analysis of volatile oil isolated from rhizome was conducted continuing the work performed before. The isolated volatile oil was fractionized in chromatographic colum of biocil a using sequentially hexane, methylene chloride, chloroform than methanol as eluents. The hexane and methy…
The study of the interaction between amoxycilline and polyethylene glycol (PEG) tween 80 (PT) solid dispersion had been carried out using the differential scanning calorymetrics (DSC) and infrared spectrophotometric methods. The bactericide effects of the selective solid dispersion, then, were observed using the diffusion methods, and the other certain compositions were undergone to the direct …
Increasing of agroindustries product is closely related to increasing the pesticide usage. Pesticide is a toxic substance for living organism including human being. Pesticides group of organophosphat and carbamat that have ability to interaction with cholinesterase are commonly used in Indonesia. The total blood concentration of cholinesterase could be used as one of biological marker for toxic…
To indentify whether truck drivers could pontentially be a HIV carrier, a study was done during July-August 1995 in Denpasar. This was a qualitative study which facus group discusion and indepth interview to truck drivers in two loading facilities. The study found that on the average a truck drivers conducted trips a mount with one trip took about 3-5 days. Usually they stop in several places t…
A study was conducted at mental hospital in Bengkulu, to evaluate alcalosis level among epileptic patients. Urine and serum pH from epileptic patients was compared with those of voluntary healthy group of people as a control group. The result showed that urine pH and serum pH epileptic patients is higher than those of control. This results is statistically significant (p less than 0.05 and p le…
The administration of fosinopril a new ACE inhibitor with a dose of 10-20 mg/day for 12 weeks reduce systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure significantly, without alternation of heart rate, lipid, carbohydrate and protein metabolisme, and electrolytes are also not distrubed. Side effects are minimal and well tolerated.
Fifty five kinds of crispies were drawn from 5 (five) municipialities of Jakarta markets. The crispies were examined for main ingredients and proximate composition. It was found that 21 samples contained mixture-flours of wheat and tapioca; 20 samples contain tapioca; 20 samples contain tapioca flour only; 9 samples contain wheat flour only; 2 samples contain mixture of soya and tapioca flours,…