Today, the usage of natural additives in food matrix has increased. Natural antimicrobial compounds include peptides, enzymes, bacteriocins, bacteriophages, plant extracts, essential oils, and fermented that can be used as alternatives to chemical antimicrobials. Plant extracts oils contain terpenes, flavonoids, aldehydes, phenolic cause antioxidant activity. The synergistic activity synthesize...

The autoimmune response that leads to destruction of pancreatic islet p-cells and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) has a genetic basis; however, environmental factors can exert profound modulating effects on the genetic predisposition to this autoimmune response. Recent studies in animal models for human IDDM, the genetically diabetes-prone NOD mouse and BB rat, have revealed that mic...