Cite this article: Besson V, Yapo BM, Koffi K (2013) Cinnamon Apple Pomace Pectins: Physicochemical Characteristics and Gel-Forming Properties. J Hum Nutr Food Sci 1(3): 1019. *Corresponding author Beda Marcel Yapo, Subunit of Pedagogy in Biochemistry and Microbiology, Unit of Training and Research in Agroforestry, University of Jean Lourougon Guédé, BP 150 Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire; Tel: +225 48 73...

Polymer vesicles, or polymersomes, are being widely explored as synthetic analogs of lipid vesicles based on their stability, robustness, barrier properties, chemical versatility and tunable physical characteristics. Typical methods used to prepare giant-sized (> 4 µm) vesicles, however, are both time and labor intensive, yielding low numbers of intact polymersomes. Here, we present for the fir...

Gel-forming mucins, the primary macromolecular components of airway mucus, facilitate airway clearance by mucociliary transport. In cystic fibrosis (CF) altered mucus properties impair mucociliary transport. Airways primarily secrete two closely related gel-forming mucins, MUC5B and MUC5AC. However, their morphologic structures and associations in airways that contain abundant submucosal glands...

Mucus secretions form a protective barrier in the mucosa of the auditory, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and urogenital systems, and the conjunctiva in the eyes. A family of glycoproteins known as gel forming mucins is the major component of the mucus. Gel-forming mucins are among the largest and most complex proteins known. Their polypeptide chains comprise thousands of amino acid residues org...

to leave a phenol-insoluble mucoid. This contains a substance with the characteristics of a mucopolysaccharide-protein complex. 5. The water-soluble mucoids contain a complex which is formed by interaction between the phenolinsoluble mucoids and a water-soluble protein of the cornea. 6. The acid mucopolysaccharide can be prepared free from protein by incubation with trypsin. Galactose, glucosam...

In this work, a steroidal gelator containing an imine bond was synthesized, and its gelation behavior as well as a sensitivity of its gels towards acids was investigated. It was shown that the gels were acid-responsive, and that the gelator molecules could be prepared either by a conventional synthesis or directly in situ during the gel forming process. The gels prepared by both methods were st...

A synergistic approach is described to engineer supramolecular hybrid materials based on metal-organic frameworks, encompassing HKUST-1 nanoparticles formed in situ, coexisting with an electrically conducting gel fiber network. Following findings were made: (a) multistimuli-responsive structural transformation via reversible sol-gel switching, and (b) radical conversion of a soft hybrid gel int...

We report a combined x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and rheometry study of moderately concentrated suspensions of silica colloids that form a gel on cooling. During gel formation, the suspensions acquire a shear modulus that increases with time, while the thermal motion of the colloids becomes localized over an increasingly restricted range. The nanometer-scale localization length charac...

Gel-forming mucins are macromolecules produced by goblet cells and responsible for the mucus gel formation. Changes in goblet cell density and in gel-forming mucin production have emerged as sensitive indicators for mucosal diseases. A Muc5b-GFP tagged reporter mouse was used to assess Muc5b production in mouse tissues by immunofluorescence microscopy and fluorescent activity using stereromicro...