Sensory and textural parameters of yogurt are known to have an important impact on food quality and acceptability. The emphasis in this article is to summarize the rheological and textural parameters of yogurt. Viscosity, hardness, adhesiveness, cohesiveness, and springiness are considered the most important descriptors for the textural perception of yogurt. Factors affecting textural propertie...

Normal and transformed baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells attach to Falcon polystyrene with the same first order rate constant. The longer the cells are attached to the bottles, the more difficult they are to remove. Sulfhydryl (-SH) binding reagents inhibit both the attachment of BHK cells and the increase in adhesive strength of attached cells. Attached BHK cells bind fewer molecules of [1-(14)C...

Two peptides which have previously been shown to induce chemotactic motility in a number of tumor cells were tested for their ability to alter the adhesiveness of Walker Carcinosarcoma cells (A chemotactically-responsive rat tumor) and normal rat fibroblasts (which have previously been shown to be chemotactically nonresponsive). Adherence of the tumor cells to nylon fibers was increased in a do...

The effect of chronic administration of variable low doses of Aspirin was studied on platelet adhesiveness, platelet count, bleeding time and clotting time to find out as to how low the dose of aspirin needs to be in order to have an effective antiplatelet effect in patients who require such therapy. A statistically significant reduction in the platelet adhesiveness was observed in all the grou...