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Effect of Boiling and Storing on Cycasin Content of Cycas circinalis L.

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RECENTLY we described a quantitative chromatographic method1, using the extraction procedure by Riggs and Korsch2, for the specific estimation of cycasin in the kernel of Cycas circinalis. Matsumoto and Strong3 have reported a chromotropic acid method which can be used for indirectly assessing cycasin from the quantity of formaldehyde liberated. Hydrolysis of cycasin by acid4 or by its emulsin5 is known to yield methano1, formaldehyde and nitrogen.

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  1. Indian Council of Medical Research, Neuropathology Unit, Post-Graduate Research Laboratories, J. J. Group of Hospitals, Bombay, 8

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DASTUR, D., PALEKAR, R. Effect of Boiling and Storing on Cycasin Content of Cycas circinalis L.. Nature 210, 841–843 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210841b0

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