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MAP: microwave-assisted extraction of cockroaches
Varoujan A Yaylayan1, J R Jocelyn Paré, Gisele Matni
1Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada.
Natural Product Letters
|May 7, 2002
Abstract:
A Microwave-Assisted Process (MAP is a Trade-Mark of Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister of the Environment) solvent extraction procedure was used in conjunction with GC-MS analysis to investigate the chemical composition of dried and live cockroaches. The main components extracted were classified into four groups: sterols. fatty acids and their esters, long chain alkanes and fused aromatic hydrocarbons.