Background: Residential wood combustion is now recognized as a major particle source in many developed countries, and the number of studies investigating the negative health effects associated with wood smoke exposure is currently increasing. The combustion appliances in use today provide highly variable combustion conditions resulting in large variations in the physicochemical characteristics ...

today, in parallel to growing in acceptance of functional products, various additives are used to improve the characteristics of functional food products. the coenzyme q 10 plays a vital role in cellular energy production. it also increases the body's immune system via its antioxidant activity. the aim of this study was to evaluate the addition of coenzyme q 10 on physicochemical properties of ...

margarine contains a higher level of unsaturated and trans-fatty acids (tfa) than butter. the aim of this study was to investigate the physicochemical properties of these products in iranian market during storage. physicochemical analyses included fatty acid composition, peroxide and anisidine values, slip melting point (smp), color, chlorophyll content, solid fat content (sfc) and texture anal...

this paper is the first multi-scale characterization of the fluidize-dried gum extracted from the fresh fruits of the plant abelmoschus esculentus. it describes the physical, thermal, sorptional and functional properties of this natural gum. elemental analysis, scanning electron microscopy (sem), particle size analysis, x-ray powder diffraction (xprd), thermo-gravimetric analysis (tga), differe...

Pure and calcium-doped silica and titanium dioxide thin films were prepared by the sol-gel method. Two different metallic substrates, i.e. stainless steel (316L) and titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V), were used for thin film deposition. Physicochemical properties and roughness of the thin films derived were investigated using the Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning electron microsco...

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are lately receiving significant attention as targets for antibacterial drug research. While many machine learning techniques are shown effective for AMP recognition, their utility for the rational design of novel AMP-based drugs in the wet laboratory is questionable. In this paper we seek to elucidate determinants of antimicrobial activity in a well-studied class ...

Transferon, a biotherapeutic agent that has been used for the past 2 decades for diseases with an inflammatory component, has been approved by regulatory authorities in Mexico (COFEPRIS) for the treatment of patients with herpes infection. The active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) of Transferon is based on polydispersion of peptides that have been extracted from lysed human leukocytes by a dia...