Antioxidant activity of propolis of various geographic origins

S Kumazawa, T Hamasaka, T Nakayama - Food chemistry, 2004 - Elsevier
… equation: AA =100 DR C − DR S DR C where AA is the antioxidant activity, DR C is the
degradation rate of the control (=ln(a/b)/60), DR S is the degradation rate in the presence of the …

Strategy by which nitrogen-fixing unicellular cyanobacteria grow photoautotrophically

A Mitsui, S Kumazawa, A Takahashi, H Ikemoto, S Cao… - Nature, 1986 - nature.com
Among nitrogen-fixing microorganisms, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria are unique in their
ability to carry out oxygen-evolving photosynthesis and oxygen-labile nitrogen fixation within …

Antioxidant activity and constituents of propolis collected in various areas of China

MR Ahn, S Kumazawa, Y Usui, J Nakamura… - Food Chemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
… equation AA = ( DR C - DR S ) / DR C × 100 where AA is the antioxidant activity, DR C is the
degradation rate of the control (=ln(a/b)/60), DR S is the degradation rate in the presence of …

Antioxidant activity of polyphenols in carob pods

S Kumazawa, M Taniguchi, Y Suzuki… - Journal of agricultural …, 2002 - ACS Publications
We extracted polyphenols from carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) pods, and evaluated the in vitro
antioxidant activity of the crude polyphenol fraction (CPP). The total polyphenol content in …

16.0% efficient thin-film CdS/CdTe solar cells

T Aramoto, S Kumazawa, H Higuchi… - Japanese Journal of …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
High efficiency cadmium sulfide (CdS)/cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells have been
developed using ultrathin CdS films having a thickness of 50 nm. CdS films deposited on indium …

Antioxidant activity and constituents of propolis collected in various areas of Korea

MR Ahn, S Kumazawa, T Hamasaka… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Propolis is a resinous substance collected by honeybees from various plant sources. The
composition of propolis depends on time, vegetation, and the area of collection. This study …

Direct evidence for the plant origin of Brazilian propolis by the observation of honeybee behavior and phytochemical analysis

S Kumazawa, M Yoneda, I Shibata… - Chemical and …, 2003 - jstage.jst.go.jp
To identify the plant origin of Brazilian propolis directly, we observed the behavior of honeybees
in Minas Gerais State of Brazil. Honeybee workers bit and chewed leaves of the plant, …

Covalent modification of proteins by green tea polyphenol (–)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate through autoxidation

…, T Tanaka, D Mizuno, R Yamaji, S Kumazawa… - Free Radical Biology …, 2008 - Elsevier
… the active-center Cys, we prepared S-carbamidomethylated GAPDH and a mutant in which
Ser … 6A, compared with native hrGAPDH, treatment of S-carbamidomethylated hrGAPDH with …

Affinity of polyphenols for lipid bilayers

T Nakayama, T Hashimoto, K Kajiya, S Kumazawa - Biofactors, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… Hara and S. Okada, Inactivation effect of tea leaf catechins on human type-A influenza
virus, Jpn. J. … Hashimoto, S. Kumazawa, F. Nanjo, Y. Hara and T. …

Propolis: Chemical constituents, plant origin, and possible role in the prevention and treatment of obesity and diabetes

T Tsuda, S Kumazawa - Journal of Agricultural and Food …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… Therefore, in propolis research, it is important to determine the plant origin(s) and the
consequent variation in chemical composition when comparing propolis samples from different …