The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential cranberry extract as a valuable antibiofilm additive chitosan-based films intended for food packaging applications. Two types differing in plasticizers content (PEG alone or PEG and glycerol) were prepared by casting methodology. Cranberry-extracts proven be suitable presenting antioxidant (i.e. DPPH scavenging ability) antimicrobial ac...

Infecções do trato urinário (ITUs) são cada vez mais frequentes e se tornaram um problema de saúde pública atualmente, que acarreta gastos enormes , risco da automedicação recorrência em casos específicos ou não devido ao tratamento inadequado. Além disso, a procura por alternativas consiga reduzir o uso antibioticoterapia consequentemente os efeitos adversos acompanha esta opção terapêutica ve...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common complication among patients with hip fractures. Receiving an indwelling urinary catheter is a risk factor for developing UTIs. Treatment of symptomatic UTIs with antibiotics is expensive and can result in the development of antimicrobial resistance. Cranberries are thought to prevent UTI. There is no previous research on this potential effect...

Because previous studies have shown that a high molecular mass constituent of cranberry juice inhibited adhesion of Escherichia coli to epithelial cells and coaggregation of oral bacteria, we have examined its effect on the adhesion of Helicobacter pylori to immobilized human mucus and to erythrocytes. We employed three strains of H. pylori all of which bound to the mucus and agglutinated human...

Seed flours from black raspberry, red raspberry, blueberry, cranberry, pinot noir grape, and chardonnay grape were examined for their total fat content, fatty acid composition, total phenolic content (TPC), total anthocyanin content (TAC), radical scavenging capacities against the peroxyl (ORAC) and stable DPPH radicals, chelating capacity against Fe(2+), and antiproliferative activities using ...

For the second time this year, I have had a bout of what I think might be a u-tract infection, but I'm not sure if that's what it is. For about a week now I have had the urgency to urinate hundreds of times throughout the day, and could easily urinate every five minutes without problem. The bothersome thing is that, although I'm not incontinent, it is dripping a little and is therefore very unp...

Cranberry crude extracts, in various vehicles, have shown inhibitory effects on the formation of oral biofilms in vitro. The presence of proanthocyanidins (PAC) in cranberry extracts has been linked to biological activities against specific virulence attributes of Streptococcus mutans, e.g. the inhibition of glucosyltransferase (Gtf) activity. The aim of the present study was to determine the i...

in this study, we investigated the effects of osmotic process with or without ultrasound on solid gain (sg) and water loss (wl) of cranberries. response surface methodology was used to model and determine the optimum processing conditions for wl and sg during osmotic dehydration of samples. sucrose (40-60%) and salt (0-8%) concentrations, temperature (30-50°c) and frequency of ultrasound (0-130...