To promote the quality of tempe (Soybean-bread), especially for its B12 content, a characteristic and identification study of bacterial isolater of vitamin B12 from tempe was evaluated. The procedure used is according to Bergey, the isolate was tested for its potency in liquid medium culture as well as in solid medium culture. Analysis of vitamin B12 was performed according to microbiologycal m…
Investigations showed that vitamin A deficiency clearly reduced host resistance against various infections. On the other hand, some infections like measles reduced serum vitamin A levels. In a previous study, we have demonstrated that vitamin A administration increased specific titers in rats serum, immunized against sheep red blood cells. In this paper, we report the influence of vitamin A adm…
Previous report showed that vitamin A increased rats specific anti-sheep red blood cells (SRBC) antibodies titres and maintained the levels for a relatively long period. In the following study, we observed the effects of vitamin A, administered orally, on the kinetics of 7 S and 19 S classes specific antibodies in rats. Twenty males Wistar rats were divided randomly into 4 groups of equal numbe…
A randomized, double blind, controlled field trial was carried out to evaluate the effect of 100.000 IU vitamin A supplement to loctating mothers on duration of free from acute respiratory infection among their infants. From 6 villages in rural-coastal Java, 382 mothers were randomly assigned as vitamin A group (172 mothers) and control group (210 mothers). The infants were followed-up weekly b…
Iron tablets administration proves to be able to improve maternal haemoglobin concentration. Iron tablet absorption can be optimitized by adding drugs which enhance iron absorption. A small scale study was conducted to compare the improvement of meternal haemoglobin concentration between a group of mothers which took iron tables only (group A), and another group (group B) that received iron tab…
Vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of blindnes, mobidity and mortality among young children throughout the developing world. In Indonesia high dose of vitamin A supplementation has already been done to children after six months old supplementation to neonates was not available yet. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of high dose vitamin A (50.00 IU) supplementation in neona…
Cursil is a phytopharmacal drug contains; 10 mg Curcuminoid from Curcuma domestica extraxtum sicc, 20 mg oleum xanthorrhizae from Curcuma xanthorrhiza extractum sicc. and 35 mg Silymarin from Silybium marianum extractum sicc., have been shown to exhibit significant anti-hepatotoxic actions and improved the liver function significant anti-hepatotoxic actions and improved the liver fuction tested…