Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Klaus Krämer

Oliver Hasselwander

Kai-Uwe Baldenius

Alfred Oftring

Wilhelm Rademacher

Hartwig Schröder

Rainer Stürmer

Martin Jochen Klatt

Loni Schweikert

Ludwig Völkel

Peter Paul Hoppe

Wolfgang Hähnlein

Karin Schein

Ulrike Sindel

Uwe Oberfrank

Jürgen Schweden

The invention relates to a method of increasing the flavonoid content of plants by treating the plants with the growth-regulating acylcyclohexadiones according to formula (I).

Method of increasing the content of flavonoids and phenolic substances substances inplants

Crystalline ascorbate, in particular choline ascorbate in the form of crystals free from water of crystallization, processes for its preparation, and its used are described.

Crystalline choline ascorbate

Food, feed or drug preparations are described that contain conjugated trans/cis-octadecatrienoic acid, and processes are described for their production. Inventive preparations preferably comprise calendic acid. The invention also relates to the use of the preparations to reduce food intake in humans and animals and to improve food utilization.

Preparation for improved dietary utilisation

A description is given of the use of at least one compound of the formula Iwhere

Tocotrienolquinone cyclization product with an anti-hypercholesterol effect

Compositions are proposed which comprise folic acid in combination with 5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid, and also compositions which comprise folic acid, 5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid and/or 5-methyltetrahydrofolylpolyglutamate and also comprise a dietary component and/or a nutrient preparation, and their use is also proposed.

Compositions containing folic acid and reduced folate

The use of &#x3b1;-lipoic acid or &#x3b1;-dihydrolipoic acid for increasing the bioavailability of mineral salts, the use of &#x3b1;-lipoic acid or &#x3b1;-dihydrolipoic acid in combination with metal salts, in particular the use of metal &#x3b1;-lipoates, metal &#x3b1;-dihydrolipoates or metal-&#x3b1;-lipoic acid complexes, in particular in mineral preparations or drugs and the metal &#x3b1;-lipoates, metal &#x3b1;-dihydrolipoates or metal-&#x3b1;-lipoic acid complexes themselves are described.

Use of lipoic acid for improving the bioavailability of mineral salts

A recorded image frame is distorted on the printing plate when image information or image data from a computer is recorded in the form of band strips, with a plurality of image elements dotted on each widthwise dotted line of the band, on a printing plate wound over a drum. The present invention permits an undistorted recording on the printing plate by an arrangement which includes a printing plate wound around a drum in the form of a right circular cylinder, an exposing assembly to record image information in the form of a band strip on the printing plate by means of light beam, a moving mechanism to move the exposing assembly in relation to the drum in the direction of the drum axis--by one band width per revolution of the drum--and a circuit to generate and incline distortion offsetting signal in a sawtoothed pattern having the cycle synchronized with that of the rotation of the drum with the initial writing position on the band as starting point. Under this arrangement, this incline distortion offsetting signal is applied to the exposing assembly to gradually move the light beam in the direction opposite to the moving direction of moving mechanism--by one band width per revolution of the drum. This process is repeated until the whole printing image is recorded.

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Landau, Germany

Klaus Krämer