The purpose of this research was to test the hypothesis that starch-entrapped microspheres would produce favourable fermentation profiles and microbial shifts during in vitro fermentation with the faecal microbiota from patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In vitro fermentation was carried out using a validated, dynamic, computer-controlled model of the human colon (Toegepast Natuurw...

Phage therapy has been a centre of attraction for biomedical scientists to treat infections caused by drug resistant strains. However, ability of phage to act only on extracellular bacteria and probability of interference by anti-phage antibodies in vivo is considered as a important limitation of bacteriophage therapy. To overcome these hurdles, liposome were used as delivery vehicle for phage ...

Liposome-entrapped streptomycin (SM) was compared with free SM for therapeutic efficacy against experimental salmonellosis in mice. All of the mice infected with the virulent strain of Salmonella enteritidis 116-54 died between days 5 and 7, and a dose of 20 mg of free SM per kg administered 24 h after the bacterial inoculation did not prolong the survival. In contrast, the same dose of SM entr...

In order to determine whether the enhanced specific antibody productivity (qMAb) of calcium alginate-entrapped hybridoma is cell line-specific, calcium alginate-entrapped hybridomas (4A2 and DB9G8) were cultivated under the condition where we had previously observed significantly enhanced qMAb of calcium alginate-entrapped S3H5/gamma 2bA2 hybridoma. Unlike S3H5/gamma 2bA2 hybridoma, neither 4A2...

[1] During reactive fluid flow in saturated fractures, the relative rates of dissolved mineral transport and local reactions strongly influence local aperture alterations and the resulting changes in fracture permeability (or transmissivity). In the presence of an entrapped residual nonaqueous phase (e.g., CO2 or oil), the spatial distribution of the entrapped phase will influence flow and tran...

Aim: We investigated the application of fluorescein (FL)-entrapped magnetosomes, in other words, silica-coated iron oxide nanoparticles entrapped within niosomes (SIO/NIO), magnetically assisted photodynamic therapy (PDT) vitro. Methods: Panc-1 cells were treated with and without external magnetic guidance, irradiated blue light. Results & conclusion: Upon photoactivation, FL-entrapped magn...

A case is presented of a patient whose lip became entrapped onto his orthodontic bracket following a blow to his face during a contact sport. The entrapped mucosa had to be released surgically.

A Bacillus sp. which is capable of degrading dimethylphthalate (DMP) was immobilized in calcium alginate and polyurethane foam for efficient and long term degradation of DMP. Freely suspended cells (10(12) cfu ml-1) degraded a maximum of 20 mM DMP. Whereas, alginate-(10(12)cfu g-1 beads) and polyurethane foam-entrapped (0.34 x 10(6-9) cfu g-1 foam cubes) cells degraded a maximum of 40 mM DMP wi...