scholarly journals Comparison of Natural Dyes from Telang Flower Extracts (Clitoria ternatea L) as a Substitute for Methylen Blue in Diff Quik Painting

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Nurita Azka ◽  
Andita Ayu Mandasari ◽  
Setyo Dwi Santoso

Telang flower (Clitorea ternatea L) is a type of vine that grows wild in rice fields and has been widely used as food coloring. Telang flowers contain several active compounds, which is anthocyanin gives a blue color. This research was conducted with the aim of knowing the telang flower extract as a natural dye to substitute methylenen blue in diff quik painting. The analysis samples used were oral mucosal ephithelial cells which were taken by scraping the oral mucosa using cytobrush. Dried and mashed telang flower was then dissolved with distilled water (1:5) to make an extracts before the trial process of the samples. The results showed that the epithelial cells stained with methylene blue were better than telang flower extract. The immersion time of 15 minutes gave different colors to the cell nucleus and cytoplasm compared to 2 minutes and 5 minutes of immersion.

Author(s):  
H.A. Cohen ◽  
W. Chiu ◽  
J. Hosoda

GP 32 (molecular weight 35000) is a T4 bacteriophage protein that destabilizes the DNA helix. The fragment GP32*I (77% of the total weight), which destabilizes helices better than does the parent molecule, crystallizes as platelets thin enough for electron diffraction and electron imaging. In this paper we discuss the structure of this protein as revealed in images reconstructed from stained and unstained crystals.Crystals were prepared as previously described. Crystals for electron microscopy were pelleted from the buffer suspension, washed in distilled water, and resuspended in 1% glucose. Two lambda droplets were placed on grids over freshly evaporated carbon, allowed to sit for five minutes, and then were drained. Stained crystals were prepared the same way, except that prior to draining the droplet, two lambda of aqueous 1% uranyl acetate solution were applied for 20 seconds. Micrographs were produced using less than 2 e/Å2 for unstained crystals or less than 8 e/Å2 for stained crystals.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (15) ◽  
pp. 4539
Author(s):  
Nguyen Minh Thuy ◽  
Vo Minh ◽  
Tran Ben ◽  
My Tuyen Thi Nguyen ◽  
Ho Ha ◽  
...  

Butterfly pea flower have great sensory attraction, but they have not yet been used widely in Vietnam. Extracts of butterfly pea flowers can be used conveniently as a natural blue colorant for food products. In this study, the identification of anthocyanin compounds in butterfly pea flowers was performed by UPLC coupled with a UV and Mass spectrometer instrument. Positive and negative ion electrospray MS/MS chromatograms and spectra of the anthocyanin compounds were determined. By analyzing the chromatograms and spectra for each ion, five anthocyanins were identified in the butterfly pea flower extract; these were delphinidin-3-(6”‐p-coumaroyl)-rutinoside, cyanidin 3-(6”-p-coumaroyl)-rutinoside, delphinidin-3-(p-coumaroyl) glucose in both cis- and trans- isomers, cyanidin-3-(p-coumaroyl-glucoside) and delphinidin-3-pyranoside. Additionally, based on their intensity, it was determined that cyanidin-3-(p-coumaroyl-glucoside) was the most abundant anthocyanin, followed by cyanidin 3-(6”-p-coumaroyl)-rutinoside, delphinidin-3-(p-coumaroyl-glucoside), delphinidin-3-(6”-p-coumaroyl)-rutinoside and delphinidin-3-pyranoside. In this study, cyanidin derivatives were discovered in butterfly pea flower extract, where these compounds had not been detected in previous studies.


1980 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Irwin ◽  
R. R. Demers ◽  
M. R. Pratter ◽  
A. D. Erickson ◽  
R. Farrugia ◽  
...  

1926 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-385
Author(s):  
B. L. Mazur

Long before the discovery of the pathogen tbc, botanists used a double color: they stained their preparations with an alkaline or alcoholic solution of methylene blue, and then again with an aqueous solution of Vesuvine. He was also aware of the fact that sometimes, with such a double stain, some parts of the preparation from the plant parenchyma lose their blue color and are colored in the color of Vesuvine.


1994 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 1480-1491 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Bongard ◽  
G. S. Krenz ◽  
J. H. Linehan ◽  
D. L. Roerig ◽  
M. P. Merker ◽  
...  

We studied the disposition of methylene blue added to the perfusate passing through isolated perfused rabbit lungs. Experiments were carried out in a recirculating or single-pass mode, the latter with either a steady infusion or bolus injection of the dye in its blue oxidized form (MB+) or in its colorless reduced leukomethylene blue form (MBH). The recirculation experiments revealed that the dye was taken up by the lungs and that a substantial fraction (approximately 16%) of the MB+ entering the pulmonary artery was reduced before it emerged from the pulmonary veins. Sequestration of the dye by the lungs was a relatively slow process, and the blue color of the lungs at a time when there was little dye left in the perfusate suggests that much of the sequestered dye was in the oxidized form. The results from the single-pass bolus and steady infusion experiments suggest that MBH diffuses rapidly between perfusate and tissue and that it is more soluble in the tissue than in the perfusates used in the study. In this context, the concept of “solubility” includes the impact of the rapidly equilibrating associations of the dye with the perfusate albumin and tissue components. The observed characteristics of the disposition of the methylene blue within the lungs and the rapid rate of its reduction on passage through the lungs suggest that it may be useful to evaluate the possibility that changes in reduction, uptake, and/or sequestration rates may reflect alterations in the metabolic function of the lungs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Armelia Sari Widyarman ◽  
Stephani Sumadi ◽  
Tri Putriany Agustin

  Introduction: Clitoria ternatea flower contains flavonoid such as anthocyanin that gives the blue color to its flower and has antimicrobial activity.   Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of flower juice of Clitoria ternatea against Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilm viability in vitro.   Methods: This study was experimental laboratory research using biofilm assay method. P. gingivalis was cultured in BHI broth in 37°C for 24h under anaerobic condition. Fresh flowers of Clitoria ternatea were extracted using mortar and pestle and diluted into 6 different concentrations: 100%, 50%, 25%, 12.5%, 6.25%, and 3.125% with phosphate buffer saline (PBS). Chlorhexidine (0.2%) was used as positive control and biofilm without treatment as negative control. The flower juice was distributed into 96 well-plates that contained biofilm of P. gingivalis and incubated for 1h, 3h, 6h, and 24h in 37°C, anaerobic atmosphere. Biofilm was measured using crystal violet dye with microplate reader (490 nm). Data were statistically analysed using one-way ANOVA test and Post Hoc test with p<0.05 was set as significant different.   Result: Result showed that Clitoria ternatea flower juice significantly reduced the Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilm viability in all concentration and all incubation time. The most effective concentration to inhibit Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilm was 100% in 1h incubation time which biofilm was diminished (Optical Density=0.00). One way ANOVA test and Post Hoc test showed a significant biofilm reduction in all concentration and all incubation time after treatment with the flower juice compared to control (p<0.05).   Conclusion: Clitoria ternatea flower juice has antibiofilm effect against Porphyromonas gingivalis. This result showed this flower juice may be useful for combating periodontal pathogens. However, further studies using other bacteria are still needed to confirm this result.


1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1547-1551 ◽  
Author(s):  
J P Phanucharas ◽  
G L Gorby

This study compared the abilities of ciprofloxacin and cefixime to kill intracellular Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a human fallopian tube organ culture assay. When invasion was inhibited by cytochalasin D, 0.996% of the tissue-associated gonococci survived ciprofloxacin exposure compared to 1.70% of gonococci exposed to cefixime (95% confidence interval for the ratio of the means, 0.267 to 1.30), indicating that the two antibiotics did not significantly differ in the ability to kill extracellular attached organisms. In the absence of cytochalasin D, 1.63% survived ciprofloxacin exposure while 9.76% survived cefixime treatment (95% confidence interval for the ratio of the means, 0.067 to 0.418). These results suggest that ciprofloxacin penetrated epithelial cells and killed intracellular gonococci better than did cefixime. Thus, at concentrations achievable in serum, ciprofloxacin was more effective in total gonococcal killing than cefixime in this human fallopian tube organ culture model.


Plant Disease ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (12) ◽  
pp. 1416-1424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Themis J. Michailides ◽  
David P. Morgan

In eight commercial prune (Prunus domestica cv. French) orchards, 43 to 69% of brown rot (caused by Monilinia fructicola or M. laxa) infections occurred in clustered fruit as opposed to solitary fruit. Fruit-to-fruit contact surfaces had cracked and thin cuticles and larger microcracks (up to 2,255 μm in length) surrounding the lenticels than those of non-contact surfaces (cracks up to 351 μm in length). Furthermore, fruit-to-fruit contact surfaces retained greater proportions of methylene blue, indicating absence of epicuticular wax, than the non-contact surfaces. Carbohydrate content of exudates in water placed on fruit-to-fruit contact surfaces was 15 and 22 mg/ml, while those of non-contact surfaces were 13 and 19 mg/ml after 15 and 28 h, respectively. Conidia of M. fructicola germinated faster and at higher rates, and the incidence of infection was significantly higher on fruit-to-fruit contact than on non-contact surfaces. Densities of fungal CFU were greater (27 to 98 CFU/cm2) on fruit-to-fruit contact compared to those of non-contact surfaces (7 to 29 CFU/cm2). In four experiments, after spraying to runoff with distilled water, surfaces of solitary fruit dried after 7 to 8 h at 23 ± 1°C compared to 12 to 14 h for groups of 5 to 6 fruit. After spraying the same mature fruit with 1.2 × 105 conidia/ml of M. fructicola and incubating at 24°C and >97% relative humidity, 26 to 70% and 38 to 100% of fruit placed in groups of 5 to 6 were infected after 3 days and 5 days, respectively, whereas only 2 to 13% and 21 to 65% of solitary fruit became infected. These results suggest that fruit-to-fruit contact surfaces predispose prune fruit to infection by M. fructicola, and that it might be possible to reduce fruit losses from brown rot in prune orchards by thinning fruit to reduce fruit clustering, applying early summer fungicide sprays before fruit contact occurs, and ultimately, by selection for non-clustering cultivars in prune breeding programs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 749 ◽  
pp. 206-210
Author(s):  
Pongsaton Amornpitoksuk ◽  
Sumetha Suwanboon

Heterostructure of Ag/ZnO was synthesized by a reduction of Tollen’s reagent on ZnO powders. The photocatalytic activity of Ag/ZnO was investigated through the degradation of three different dye solutions (methylene blue, rhodamine B and reactive orange 16) under visible light using the fluorescent lamps with a 420 nm longpass filter. The efficiencies of dye degradations for all three dyes by Ag/ZnO are better than that of pure ZnO. Furthermore, the parameters including photocatalyst loadings and initial pHs of dye solutions were also studied. The photocatalytic degradations for all three dyes were increased with the increasing of catalyst loadings. The effect of pHs on photocatalytic activity of Ag/ZnO can be explained by the interaction between the charge on the surface of photocatalyst and the charge of dye ions.


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