despite the numerous health effects of the dietary fibers, the amount of the fiber in the diet is generally lower than the recommended value. therefore, increasing the fiber content of the foods particularly those of high consumption can compensate for the shortage of the fiber in the diet. however, it seems a difficult task since increasing the fiber content can have adverse effects on product...

In the last decades, few mechanistically novel therapeutic agents have been developed to treat mental and neurodegenerative disorders. Numerous studies suggest that targeting BDNF and its TrkB receptor could be a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of brain disorders. However, the development of potent small ligands for the TrkB receptor has proven to be difficult. By using a pepti...

Lactoferrin (Lf) is an iron-binding multi-functional glycoprotein which has numerous physiological functions such as iron transportation, anti-microbial activity and immune response. In this study, different in silico approaches were exploited to investigate Lf protein properties in a number of mammalian species. Results showed that the iron-binding site, DNA and RNA-binding sites, signal pepti...

native fish gelatin has some disadvantages such as high hydrophilic, and solubility in cold water. mixing with other biopolymers and crosslinking by sugars may improve functional properties of fish gelatin. so in this research, the effects of ribose were investigated on moisture sorption isotherm, solubility in water, and mechanical properties of cold water fish gelatin (cwfg) films. ribose sug...

The one-third paradigm of PBE0 density functional, PBE0-1/3, has shown to be a successful method for various properties. In this paper, the applicability of PBE0-1/3 is put into broader perspective for transition metals chemistry. As a comparative study, the performance of PBE0 and PBE0-1/3 has been assessed for geometries and vibrational frequencies of some transition metal hydrides and transi...