Phenolic compound in beans as protection against mycotoxins

Social Resilience as a Protection Against COVID-19 Outbreak

Disasters whether natural or man-made occur from time to time and are accompanied by financial and human casualties. Their harmful effects are sometimes immense mostly on the poor, the illiterate, and marginalized people. This condition may be worsened when the governments have no financial support for the poor to save their lives.

Antimutagenic effects of natural phenolic compounds in beans.

Polyphenols in fruits, vegetables (e.g., flavonols like quercetin) and tea (e.g., catechins such as epigallocatechin gallate) are good antioxidants with antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic properties. In the present study, the Salmonella typhimurium tester strain YG1024 was used in the plate-incorporation test to examine the antimutagenic effect of phenolic compounds, extracted from common beans...

Building practical strategies against mycotoxins

Purified interferon as protection against rhinovirus infection.

In a double-blind placebo-controlled study a preparation of human leucocyte interferon purified by affinity chromatography using a monoclonal antibody and applied by repeated nasal sprays reduced the incidence and severity of colds in volunteers challenged with human rhinovirus 9. Although interferon itself caused some symptoms, these were minor compared with the clinical colds. Interferon acti...

Vitamin C as Protection Against Radiation Exposure

e nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, in March 2011 led to drastic mechanistic measures (e.g., evacuation, decontamination showers of clothing, and use of protective clothing by rescue workers) to protect the population against imminent and future radiation exposure. Besides mechanistic measures, no orthomolecular protection measures other than iodine supplementation were taken, although scie...