Meat from pasture-fed cattle can have high contents of α-tocopherol and other anti-oxidants originating from naturally occurring compounds present in grasses. However, meat from pasture-fed cattle may have an increased demand for endogenous anti-oxidants because of its high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which in turn, may affect its colour and lipid stability. In the work described, w...

The aim of this work was to identify from a review current literature the effects lipids used in development Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (NLCs) on physicochemical properties resulting formulation. size solid lipid, affected by molecular weight and complexity structure, tends affect particle final formulation proportionally; higher more complex bigger NLCs. However, there is no straight correl...

Essential oils are complex blends of a variety of volatile molecules such as terpenoids, phenol-derived aromatic components, and aliphatic components having a strong interest in pharmaceutical, sanitary, cosmetic, agricultural, and food industries. Since the middle ages, essential oils have been widely used for bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical, insecticidal, and other medici...

PURPOSE To compare tear film metrics in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) and healthy controls and investigate the association between peripheral neuropathy and ocular surface quality. METHODS Dry eye symptoms were quantified in 53 patients with type 1 DM and 40 age-matched controls. Ocular examination included tear film lipid layer thickness grading, tear film stability and quantit...

Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is still a public health issue in many low-income and middle-income countries. Its management has changed with the development of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) that are energy-dense, lipid-based, micronutrient-enriched foods. The purpose present study was to define some aspects nutritional profile (in particular, lipid content, fatty acids profile, lipoph...

Lipid and protein oxidation decreases the shelf-life of foods and may result in formation of end-products potentially detrimental for health. Consumer pressure to decrease the use of synthetic phenolic antioxidants has encouraged identification of alternative compounds or extracts from natural sources. We have assessed whether inclusion of dried vegetable powders improves the oxidative stabilit...

Abstract Infectious and cancerous diseases are tedious to manage. The problem of drug resistance is often associated with anti-microbial anti-cancer agents one the most significant challenges that restrict their activity. Therefore, it necessary increase doses or combinations. However, introducing drugs in this way ineffective due poor solubility, low bioavailability, reduced stability, differe...

Ion channels incorporated into lipid bilayers can be used as chemical sensors; however, the lack of stability of these bilayers prevents their use in practical sensor devices. In this study, dendrimers were used to stabilize lipid membranes by making use of their high surface functionality and the capability of modifying that functionality. Silica surfaces were coated with submonolayers of dend...

The insolubility of lipids in detergents is a useful method for probing the structure of biological membranes. Insolubility in detergents like Triton X-100 is observed in lipid bilayers that exist in physical states in which lipid packing is tight. The Triton X-100-insoluble lipid fraction obtained after detergent extraction of eukaryotic cells is composed of detergent-insoluble membranes rich ...