Zinc deficiency is a global nutritional disorder affecting majority of healthy people rather than those suffering from chronic diseases, affects about one third of people around the world and thereby causing clinical manifestations. This work represents new modality to increase the intestinal absorptivity and bioavailability of zinc from the diet by replacing traditional bulk form by zinc nanop...

The potential of near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) with remote reflectance fiber-optic probes for determining the mineral composition of propolis was evaluated. This technology allows direct measurements without prior sample treatment. Ninety one samples of propolis were collected in Chile (Bio-Bio region) and Spain (Castilla-León and Galicia regions). The minerals measured were aluminum, calciu...

Jarosite, beudantite and alunite are members of the supergroup. Minerals like those have been detected in different environments on Earth. These jarosite-type compounds common acid rock drainage sulfate soils, resulting from weathering sulfide ores; they also present bioleaching systems because found cultures iron-oxidizing microorganisms. Jarosite is generated hydrometallurgical circuits, main...

Background and Objective: Nanoparticles have been introduced as novel antimicrobial agents because of their properties that are different from their bulk properties. Present study was aimed to investigate antimicrobial activity of silver nitrate and zinc oxide nanoparticles against three main bacteria responsible for nosocomial infections, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii. Materials a...

Twenty-one minerals are considered to be nutritionally essential, or probably essential, to the animal. Depending on the quantities required by the animal, they can be grouped into major minerals and trace (minor) elements. Of the major minerals the most important are calcium, phosphorus, sodium, chlorine, potassium, sulphur and magnesium. The important trace elements are copper, cobalt, iron, ...

Objective(s): Since microbial contamination can reduce the shelf life of the foodstuff and there is a potential for the growth of some pathogen microorganisms, films containing antimicrobial agents were produced, which are also biodegradable. In this study, the effect of 1, 3 and 5% nano-zinc oxide on antimicrobial properties and permeability of poly lactic acid film was invest...

Recent research has discovered childhood mental retardation is related to the presence in the body of above-normal levels of certain mineral elements, especially lead and cadmium. This study investigated the relationships between mineral elements and mild and borderline mental retardation and determined which minerals, if any, separated a group of mentally retarded children from a nonretarded c...