Preservation of freshly-cut lemon slices using alginate-based coating functionalized with antioxidant enzymatically hydrolyzed rice straw-hemicellulose.

Food coatings are efficient preservative measures, a crucially needed approach to meet hunger growth as well as food management. In the current study, the construction of an efficient coating using alginate polymer fortified with antioxidant rice straw-hemicellulose hydrolysate was examined. Rice straw hemicellulose fraction was extracted under thermal alkaline conditions with a recovery percentage of 15.

Acaricidal Efficacy of Thirty-Five Egyptian Plants Against the Camel Tick, Hyalomma Dromedarii.

Purpose: Alternative and affordable tick control strategies are crucial to control and prevent tick bites and tick-borne diseases.

Methods: In this study, we evaluated the acaricidal efficacy of 35 aqueous plant extracts (17%) against the camel tick, Hyalomma dromedarii.

Results: The phytochemical profile indicated the presence of various secondary substances.

Efficacy of dietary supplements of (Licorice) and maduramicin alone or in combination with infected chicks: A clinical study and molecular docking.

Background: Coccidiosis is one of the most economically significant poultry diseases worldwide, caused by the pathogenic species, and is characterized by decreased weight gain (WG) and failure to grow due to malabsorption, low feed conversion rate, bloody diarrhea, and dehydration.

Aim: This study investigated the effectiveness of licorice root extract (LRE) in controlling cecal coccidiosis to determine whether its combination with maduramicin could help alleviate the pathological, biochemical, and histopathological effects of cecal coccidiosis in Sasso broiler chicks.

Methods: A total of 125 one-day-old Sasso broiler chicks were categorized into five equal groups ( = 25), each consisting of five replicates ( per replicate).

Medical prospects of cryptosporidiosis control using biofabricated nanoparticles loaded with extracts by .

Background And Aim: Global efforts are continuing to develop preparations against cryptosporidiosis. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of biosynthesized loading oil extract on new zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs shorten to ZnNPs) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as alternative treatments for experimental infection in rats.

Materials And Methods: Oil extract was characterized by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, loaded by on ionic-based ZnO and NPs, and then characterized by transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction.

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Novel acaricidal and growth-regulating activity of Aloe vera and Rheum rhabarbarum extracts and their oil/water nanoemulsions against the camel tick, Hyalomma dromedarii.

Hyalomma dromedarii is an important tick species infesting livestock. This work evaluated the novel adulticidal, insect growth-regulating, and enzymatic efficacy of ethanol plant extracts of Aloe vera and Rheum rhabarbarum and their nanoemulsions against males and engorged females of the camel tick, H. dromedarii.

LC/HRESI-MS/MS screening, phytochemical characterization, and in vitro antioxidant and cytotoxic potential of Jatropha integerrima Jacq. extracts.

Avoiding the probable dangerous side effects of synthetic drugs, this study aims the identification of natural antioxidant and antitumor agents from J. integerrima leaf and floral extracts. A highly efficient and fast UPLC/ESI-qTOF-HRMS/MS screening has led to characterization of 30 flavonoids, i.

Prebiotic-mediated gastroprotective potentials of three bacterial levans through NF-κB-modulation and upregulation of systemic IL-17A.

This study aimed to investigate whether the gastroprotective effects of three types of bacterial levans are correlated with their prebiotic-associated anti-inflammatory/antioxidant potentials. Three levans designated as LevAE, LevP, and LevZ were prepared from bacterial honey isolates; purified, and characterized using TLC, NMR, and FTIR. The anti-inflammatory properties of levan preparations were assessed in LPS-stimulated RAW 264.

Antioxidant capacity and antitumor activity of the bioactive protein prepared from orange peel residues as a by-product using fungal protease.

Agricultural and industrial residues (AIR) are renewable biomass sources present in large quantities causing pollution. Converting AIR to eco-friendly products (bioactive materials) reduces their quantity and impact on the environment, in addition to reducing production costs. Therefore, orange peel (OP) protein degradation, antioxidant capacity, and antitumor activity were investigated using Aspergillus niger WA 2017 protease.

Acaricide resistance and novel photosensitizing approach as alternative acaricides against the camel tick, Hyalomma dromedarii.

The control of the camel tick, Hyalomma dromedarii is very crucial. This study evaluated the novel toxicity of photosensitizers and Phoxim insecticide against H. dromedarii males using the adult immersion tests.

Safe production of Aspergillus terreus xylanase from Ricinus communis: gene identification, molecular docking, characterization, production of xylooligosaccharides, and its biological activities.

Background: The production of industrial enzymes such as xylanase using sufficient cost-effective substrates from potent microorganisms is considered economically feasible. Studies have reported castor cake (Ricinus communis) as the most potent and inexpensive alternative carbon source for production of xylanase C by using Aspergillus terreus (A. terreus).

A local Talaromyces atroroseus TRP-NRC isolate: isolation, genetic improvement, and biotechnological approach combined with LC/HRESI-MS characterization, skin safety, and wool fabric dyeing ability of the produced red pigment mixture.

Background: During the last decade, enormous research efforts have been directed at identifying potent microorganisms as sustainable green cell factories for eco-friendly pigments. Talaromyces atroroseus has recently been shown to excrete large amounts of azaphilone mycotoxin-free red pigment mixture comprising some known coloring components together with many uncharacterized metabolites. In this study, a new Talaromyces atroroseus isolate was identified via sequencing of the fragment of the nuclear ribosomal gene cluster containing internal transcribed spacers and 5.

Investigation of 4-Hydrazinobenzoic Acid Derivatives for Their Antioxidant Activity: In Vitro Screening and DFT Study.

Hydrazinobenzoic acid derivatives with isothiocyanate, benzylidene, and acid anhydride core units (-) were previously synthesized and fully characterized. Targets - were investigated for their antioxidant activities using different in vitro assays such as 1,1-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging, 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonate) (ABTS), ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), and reducing power capability. All derivatives showed antioxidant properties in relation to the standard butylated hydroxylanisole (BHA).

Cardenolides and pentacyclic triterpenes isolated from leaves: their biological activities with molecular docking study.

Pentacyclic triterpenes and cardenolides were isolated from leaves. Their chemical structures were determined based on comprehensive 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy. Their MIC was determined against 12 microorganisms.

Physiochemical, kinetic and thermodynamic studies on Aspergillus wewitschiae MN056175 inulinase with extraction of prebiotic and antioxidant Cynara scolymus leaves fructo-oligosaccharides.

Utilization of agricultural wastes as cheap natural resources for production of bioactive products is currently attracting global attention. For this purpose, this study focused on isolation of Aspergillus wewitschiae MN056175 as promising producer of inulinase, then investigating physiochemical, kinetics and thermodynamics of the obtained inulinase, and its ability to extract bioactive fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) from Cynara scolymus leaves (artichoke leaves, AL). A.

Characterization of a new efficient low molecular weight Bacillus subtilis NRC levansucrase and its levan.

Screening of 18 bacterial honey isolates revealed that all the isolates were levansucrase producers. The most potent isolate that achieved the highest activity (45.66 U/ml) was identified as Bacillus subtilis NRC based on morphological examination and 16S rRNA.

Antioxidant activities and molecular docking of 2-thioxobenzo[g]quinazoline derivatives.

Background: Oxidative stress and related diseases resulting from the overproduction of free radicals can be counteracted by designing and developing novel antioxidative agents that can protect the human body against the damage caused by free radicals.

Methods: The present study evaluated the antioxidant activities of 15 derivatives of 2-thioxobenzo[g]quinazoline using three different assays: 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging, reducing power capability, and ferric reduction antioxidant power.

Results: Some benzoquinazolines had good activity and had the capacity to deplete DPPH and free radicals compared to a positive control butylated hydroxyl toluene (BHT).

Polyamines modulate growth, antioxidant activity, and genomic DNA in heavy metal-stressed wheat plant.

A pot experiment was performed to assess the useful effects of seed soaking or seedling foliar spray using 0.25 mM spermine (Spm), 0.50 mM spermidine (Spd), or 1 mM putrescine (Put) on heavy metal tolerance in wheat plants irrigated with water contaminated by cadmium (2 mM Cd in CdCl) or lead (2 mM Pb in PbCl).

Investigation the antioxidant activity of benzo[]triazoloquinazolines correlated with a DFT study.

Previously, a series of 2-phenoxy-benzo[]triazoloquinazolines were synthesized and fully characterized. The antioxidant activity of the target molecules - was evaluated using three different assays namely 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging, ferric reduction antioxidant power (FRAP) and reducing power capability (RPC). The results revealed that some benzotriazoloquinazolines showed good activity and have the capacity to scavenge free radicals.

Levansucrase optimization using solid state fermentation and levan biological activities studies.

Bacillus subtilis NRC1aza produced levansucrase under solid state fermentation using starch as support. A sequential optimization strategy, based on statistical experimental designs is employed to enhance enzyme productivity. First, a 2-level Plackett-Burman design was applied for bioprocess parameters screen that significantly increase levansucrase production.