abstract: this study was aimed at probiotication of tomato and carrot juices using lactobacillus plantarum, lb. fermentum, lb. casei, lysinibacillus sphaericus and saccharomyces boulardii. to enhance the stability, the probiotic cultures were micro-encapsulated using alginate coated chitosan beads. tomato and carrot juice samples were pasteurized for 20 min at 63 °c. lb. fermentum, lb. plantara...

ABSTARCT Encapsulation is a process of enclosing the substances within an inert material which protects from environment as well as control drug release. Recently, two type of encapsulation has been performed in several research. Nanoencapsulation is the coating of various substances within another material at sizes on the nano scale. Microencapsulation is similar to nanoencapsulation aside fro...

Micro flow focusing devices (mFFD) have emerged as a powerful tool for cell encapsulation and the formation of micro-emulsions. In the frame of live cell encapsulation, a micro-FFD using alginate solutions for the capsule and powered by highly controllable pressure pumps has been developed. This work deals with the different aspects of the problem: the rheology of alginate solutions, the flow r...

Biomedical micro-electromechanical systems (bioMEMS) and other biochips usually have exposed chip surfaces that interface with fluids containing biological elements. These chips require postprocessing for fluidic encapsulation to confine the spreading of fluids during experiments. An effective fluidic encapsulation protocol is reported here that simplifies this encapsulation procedure. The prot...

Undesirable taste is one of several important formulation problems that are encountered with certain drugs. The problem of bitter and obnoxious taste of is a challenge to the pharmacist in the present scenario. Several oral pharmaceuticals and bulking agents have unpleasant, bitter-tasting components. The desire of improved palatability in these products has prompted the development of numerous...

Microencapsulated dosage forms represent effective new therapeutic platforms. This special issue will cover the different interests of microencapsulation as a means to control or modify the release of drug substances from drug delivery systems. To overcome the drug stability problem, since clinical efficacies have been reported to be improved by the encapsulation of pharmaceuticals, the bioavai...

A nanoporous immunoisolative case/capsule that encases/encapsulates insulin-secreting cells vastly expands the source of therapeutic cells available for grafting in people with diabetes, including cells from animal sources, stem cells, and genetically engineered cells. These encapsulated cellular grafts potentially provide an endogenous, renewable, and long-term source of insulin without the ne...