Micronutrients, including minerals and vitamins, are indispensable to DNA metabolic pathways and thus are as important for life as macronutrients. Without the proper nutrients, genomic instability compromises homeostasis, leading to chronic diseases and certain types of cancer. Cell-culture media try to mimic the in vivo environment, providing in vitro models used to infer cells' responses to different stimuli. This review summarizes and discusses studies of cell-culture supplementation with micronutrients that can increase cell viability and genomic stability, with a particular focus on previous in vitro experiments. In these studies, the cell-culture media include certain vitamins and minerals at concentrations not equal to the physiological levels. In many common culture media, the sole source of micronutrients is fetal bovine serum (FBS), which contributes to only 5–10% of the media composition. Minimal attention has been dedicated to FBS composition, micronutrients in cell cultures as a whole, or the influence of micronutrients on the viability and genetics of cultured cells. Further studies better evaluating micronutrients' roles at a molecular level and influence on the genomic stability of cells are still needed.

Oil ofFevillea trilobata has the composition palmitic acid 31%, stearic acid 12%, oleic acid 11%, linoleic acid 7%,cis,trans,cis 9,11,13‐octadecatrienoic acid 30% andcis,trans,trans‐9,11,13‐octadecatrienoic acid 9%. The oil was analyzed and components identified by13C NMR spectroscopy; the composition was also confirmed by conventional methods. Assignment of13C NMR signals of conjugated trienoic acids is discussed and it is shown that mixtures of isomeric conjugated acids can be analyzed by this method.

O uso de cromatografia sob pressão ("flash chromatography") utilizando-se coluna de gel de sílica impregnada com hidróxido de potássio levou ao fracionamento dos constituintes químicos de Copaifera cearensis Huber ex Ducke. A fração ácida, após esterificação com diazometano, foi analisada por cromatografia gasosa de alta resolução acoplada à espectrometria de massas ou à espectrometria no infravermelho, possibilitando a identificação de onze diterpenos ácidos. Fracionamentos adicionais da fração ácida por cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência em fase reversa levaram ao isolamento de diversos ácidos diterpênicos e de um sesquiterpênico que foram identificados através de seus dados espectroscópicos. A análise da sílica impregnada com hidróxido de potássio mostrou que, além da deposição do hidróxido na superfície da sílica, ocorreu troca iônica com formação de resíduos Si-OK.Various acid diterpenes of Copaifera cearensis Huber ex Ducke were isolated from the crude extract by flash Silica Gel/Potassium Hydroxide Chromatography. The main components were identified by GC-MS analyses. Further fractionation by reversed phase (RP) semi-preparative HPLC allowed isolation and identification of minor components and provided additional spectral data of those compounds. It was possible to detect the presence of eleven acid diterpenes in addition to a sesquiterpene acid. In addition to potassium hydroxide deposition on the silica surface, the presence of Si-OK residues, resulting from a cation exchange process, was established.