Eggplant Flour Addition in Cookie: Nutritional Enrichment Alternative for Children.

This research aimed to evaluate the effect of adding different levels of eggplant flour in cookie on the physicochemical and nutritional characteristics and to verify the sensory acceptability among children. Four eggplant flour cookie formulations were prepared: EF0 (or standard), EF2.5, EF5.

Endothelial injury in COVID-19 and septic patients.

Systemic inflammatory response, as observed in sepsis and severe COVID-19, may lead to endothelial damage. Therefore, we aim to compare the extent of endothelial injury and its relationship to inflammation in both diseases. We included patients diagnosed with sepsis (SEPSIS group, n = 21), mild COVID-19 (MILD group, n = 31), and severe COVID-19 (SEVERE group, n = 24).

Extension of Bacillus endospore gas dynamic heating studies to multiple species and test conditions.

Aims: Shock wave-induced damage to a variety of Bacillus endospore species is studied for a wide range of postshock temperatures and test times in oxidative and non-oxidative gas environments.

Methods And Results: Bacillus atrophaeus and Bacillus subtilis endospores are nebulized into an aqueous aerosol, loaded into the Stanford aerosol shock tube (SAST) and subjected to shock waves of controlled strength. Endospores experience uniform test temperatures between 500 and 1000 K and pressures ranging from 2 to 7 atm, for either a short test time (∼2·5 ms) or a relatively long test time (∼45 ms).

Repurposing FDA-approved drugs to combat drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.

Objective: The rising occurrence of drug-resistant pathogens accentuates the need to identify novel antibiotics. We wanted to identify new scaffolds for drug discovery by repurposing FDA-approved drugs against Acinetobacter baumannii, an emerging Gram-negative nosocomial drug-resistant pathogen.

Materials And Methods: In this study, we screened 1040 FDA-approved drugs against drug-susceptible A.

Bacillus endospore resistance to gas dynamic heating.

Aim: To develop a novel laboratory procedure for the study of shock wave-induced damage to Bacillus endospores.

Methods And Results: Bacillus atrophaeus endospores are nebulized into an aerosol, loaded into the stanford aerosol shock tube and subjected to shock waves of controlled strength. Endospores experience uniform test temperatures between 500 and 1000K and pressures ranging from 2 to 7atm, for a relatively short time (2-3ms).