Mushrooms have been known for their nutritional and culinary values and used as medicines and tonics by humans for ages. In modern terms, they can be considered as functional foods which can provide health benefits beyond the traditional nutrients. There are monographs that cover the medicinal and healing properties of some individual traditional mushrooms. There has been a recent upsurge of in...

A relatively noncytopathic virus, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV),1 prevents the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in nonobese insulin-dependent diabetes (NOD) mice (1, 2). Typically, >90% of NOD female mice, by 9 mo of age, develop hyperglycemia, hypoinsulinemia, and lymphocytic infiltrates in the islets of Langerhans, with a cell destruction . However, their ...

conventional transdermal drug delivery systems (tdds) have been designed for drug delivery through the skin. these systems use the permeability property of stratum corneum, the outermost surface layer of the skin. applying polymeric micro and nanofibers in drug delivery has recently attracted great attention and the electrospinning technique is the preferred method for polymeric micro-nanofiber...