Biocompatible Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Nanocapsules Enhance the Bioavailability, Antibacterial, and Immunomodulatory Activities of Curcumin.

Curcumin (Cur), the primary curcuminoid found in L., has garnered significant attention for its potential anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. However, its hydrophobic nature significantly limits its bioavailability.

Oral Health and Nutraceutical Agents.

Oral health is essential for both overall health and quality of life. The mouth is a window into the body's health, and nutrition can strongly impact the state of general and oral health. A healthy diet involves the synergistic effect of various nutraceutical agents, potentially capable of conferring protective actions against some inflammatory and chronic-degenerative disorders.

Establishment of a Biorepository for Down Syndrome: Experience of the Inter-Institutional Multidisciplinary BioBank - BioBIM.

Background: Down syndrome, or Trisomy 21, is the leading genetic cause of cognitive disability in children and is associated with a high risk of several comorbidities, particularly congenital heart defects, early onset Alzheimer's disease, leukaemia, and autoimmune disorders.

Objective: This study describes the design, methods, and operational procedures employed to establish a biobank dedicated to Down syndrome that can support research projects investigating the effects of various genetic and environmental factors on this complex disease.

Methods: Blood was collected from all recruited subjects, processed, aliquoted and immediately frozen at -80 °C in the Interinstitutional Multidisciplinary BioBank (BioBIM) facilities.

Subleading power corrections for event shape variables in annihilation.

We consider subleading power corrections to event shape variables in collisions at the first order in the QCD coupling . We start from the jettiness variable and the resolution variable for the jet clustering algorithm and we analytically compute the corresponding cumulative cross section. We investigate the origin of the different power suppressed contributions in the two-jet limit and trace it back to their different coverage of the phase space.