RATIONALE Recent research suggests that chewing gum may increase alertness and lead to changes in cognitive performance. The present study examined effects of chewing gum on these functions within the context of a single study. OBJECTIVES This study had four main aims. The first was to examine whether chewing gum improved learning and memory of information in a story. The second aim was to de...

Mastic gum is a viscous light-green liquid obtained from the bark of Pistacia lentiscus var. chia. which belongs to the Anacardiaceae family. The gum has been fractionated to investigate the antimicrobial activity of the whole gum and its fractions against various strains of Helicobacter pylori. The polymeric gum fraction was separated from the essential oil and the resin (trunk exudates withou...

Recent research examined the effects of chewing gum on attention and reported a significant interaction of gum chewing with time. Using a crossover within-subject design, the present study examined the effect of gum chewing on sustained attention in healthy adults over a period of 30 min. The results revealed a significant main effect of time and a significant interaction between gum chewing an...

Anthony B. Zwil, Sam Forjuoh2, Shiva Murugusampillay3, Wilson Odero1y4 and Charlotte Wattsly ‘Health Policy Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Injury Research and Control, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; 3Department of p E zdemiology and Disease Control, ...

The present study describes a novel and simple vaccination strategy that involve culturing of M. tuberculosis in the macrophage cells. Isolation of phagosome from macrophage (cell line J774) infected with M. tuberculosis (H37) and M. bovis (BCG) at early and late phase of infection was done ensuing the identification and characterization of these phagosome. In vitro study of apoptosis induced b...

Changes in blood glucose are hypothesized to influence cognitive performance and these changes can be affected by certain nutrients. This double-blind 4-period cross-over study evaluated the effects of a slow-release modified sucrose (isomaltulose) in combination with a high concentration of lactose on cognitive performance of 5-6 year old children. Thirty children received a standard growing u...

Sugarless chewing gum is a frequently used stimulant to collect saliva samples for hormone analyses. This study tested the effect of sugarless chewing gum on cortisol, testosterone, and progesterone concentrations measured in saliva samples collected from 8 individuals at different times of the day (morning, evening) and under different collection conditions (gum, no gum) as well as in a saliva...

Xanthan gum is a high molecular weight substance with potential in improving emulsions properties. The formulation composition was selected on Tween 80 ternary phase diagram and was modified by the addition of xanthan gum at different concentrations (0.0% – 1.0%). The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of xanthan gum on physicochemical and rheological properties of rice br...

ferula galbaniflua boiss is one of the natural plants of iran that its exudates, barijeh gum, can be used in food industry. the present study explored the properties of a new gum extracted from tubers of ferula galbaniflua. for this purpose, barijeh gum was extracted from crude exudates by alcoholic extraction with 90% ethanol. the purity of gum was relatively high, and it composed mostly of sa...