Dysphagia is the medical term for difficulty swallowing. Thickened liquids are often used in the management of dysphagia to improve bolus control and to help prevent aspiration. A range of starches and gums has historically been used to thicken liquids. Although thickened liquids improve swallow safety, they appear to have a great potential for unintended physiological consequences. Initial con...

Insect repellent DEET and sunscreen ingredient oxybenzone play an essential role in minimizing vector-borne diseases and skin cancers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of emulsion type, addition of thickening agent and droplet size in three emulsion-based lotions on percutaneous permeation of DEET and oxybenzone using in vitro diffusion experiments, in order to minimize ...

The patient was a 43-year-old male who had been diagnosed with Alport syndrome and dialytic chronic kidney disease in 1998. In November 2006, he was admitted to the hospital due to septic shock secondary to a hemodialysis catheter infection that developed into a femoral prosthesis infection. One month later, the patient underwent two MRI scans as preparation for the surgical prosthesis substitu...

[1] Two of the most popular mechanisms for thickening the crust beneath the Tibetan Plateau are (1) pure shear with faulting and folding in the upper crust and horizontal shortening below and (2) flow of lower or middle crust without significant shortening of the upper crust. To help discriminate between the relative contributions of these two mechanisms, well-constrained estimates of upper cru...

introdouction: cone-beam computed tomography (cbct) scanning is a technological innovation developed in recent years with potential use in oral surgery and many other dental procedures. the aim of this study is to determine the maxillary sinus mucosal thickening in the maxillary premolar-molar area using the cbct technique. materials and methods: in this retrospective study, a total of 105 case...

Fruit peels are a rich source of many substances, such as pectin. Extraction natural thickening agent (pectin) from fruit waste (orange and pomegranate peels) is an environmentally friendly alternative to commercial thickeners cheap for use in the printing synthetic fabrics, especially polyester polyacrylic fabrics. Hexamine was used treat extracted pectin make it appropriate alkali medium cott...

Cereal β-glucan is a type of valuable dietary fiber that mainly exists in the aleurone, subaleurone, and endosperm some cereal grains. β-Glucan acknowledged as functional food ingredient owing to its multiple health benefits, including prevention diabetes, reduction incidence cardiovascular disease, antitumor effects, antioxidant activities, immunostimulation. It well documented cellulose synth...