The main purpose of this study was to characterize Freisa red wines from Piedmont (northern Italy) according their volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and elemental composition. Moreover, the authors investigated whether it possible distinguish among five different DOCs produced in on basis these chemical parameters. VOCs profile very similar, most abundant species detected were isoamyl alcohol, ...

The Front Cover shows the material flows in a circular plastics economy and highlights important role of catalysts its future implementation. For this purpose, we present zinc-based catalyst with newly developed hybrid guanidine ligand. In production renewable polyesters our is highly active towards ring-opening polymerization lactide at various reaction conditions, outperforming industrially u...

BACKGROUND Dietary long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) intake is an important risk factor for hepatic inflammation and hepatocarcinogenesis. An alternate route of dietary LCFA absorption has been suggested in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC). OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine this alternate route and to identify its mechanism. DESIGN Twenty healthy control subjects and 47 patients with LC-n = 23 w...

The suitability of Pseudomonas putida GPo1 for large-scale cultivation and production of poly(3-hydroxyoctanoate) (PHO) was investigated in this study. Three fed-batch cultivations of P. putida GPo1 at the 350- or 400-liter scale in a bioreactor with a capacity of 650 liters were done in mineral salts medium containing initially 20 mM sodium octanoate as the carbon source. The feeding solution ...

The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) is a model of cardiomyopathy characterized by a restricted use of exogenous long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) for energy production. The aims of the present study were to document the functional and metabolic response of the SHR heart under conditions of increased energy demand and the effects of a medium-chain fatty acid (MCFA; octanoate) supplementation in ...