Refractance Window Drying: A New Approach For Producing High-Quality Powdered Dairy Products.

Refractance window drying is an emerging technology that allows the development of new dried foods with an acceptable shelf life from products widely consumed in the world with high nutritional content and health benefits, such as Dairy products. The present study aimed to determine the effect of temperature and product thickness during Refractance window drying in a laboratory scale dryer on the physicochemical properties of whole bovine milk and commercial flavored yogurt, using an optimal design model. The drying temperature range was between 40°C and 80°C, while the evaluated thickness ranged from 1 to 3 mm.

Ruthenium(II) complexes containing PEGylated N-heterocyclic carbene ligands for tunning biocompatibility in the fight against cancer.

A synthetic procedure was designed for the preparation and characterization of Ag and Ru complexes containing NHC ligands functionalized with PEG fragments. Stability studies were conducted to gain insight of the species in water and other solvents like DMSO, or with reagents like imidazole as representative group for histidine amino acid. The presence of Cl atoms instead of H in the 4,5 positions of the N-heterocyclic carbene afforded higher water stability.

[Characteristics of Depressed Individuals with Hypertension and/ or Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Health Care in Santiago de Chile].

Unlabelled: Eighty percent of depressed patients in Primary Health Care (PHC) have a comorbidity. It is essential to contribute local evidence on the characteristics of patients with physical and psychiatric comorbidities to better address clinical practice.

Aim: To characterize depressed patients from the cardiovascular program (PCV) of eight family health centers (CESFAM) in two communes of the Metropolitan Region.

Globally Distributed Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associated With Invasive on Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos.

The presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is essential for the survival and establishment of most plant species in nature. The reproductive success of invasive plant species in a particular habitat could also depend on these AM fungi. , commonly known as quinine, is highly invasive on Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, but at the same time severely endangered in its native range on mainland Ecuador due to overexploitation in the past.

Regulated and adaptive in vivo insulin secretion from islets only containing β-cells.

Insulin-producing β-cells in pancreatic islets are regulated by systemic cues and, locally, by adjacent islet hormone-producing 'non-β-cells' (namely α-cells, δ-cells and γ-cells). Yet whether the non-β-cells are required for accurate insulin secretion is unclear. Here, we studied mice in which adult islets are exclusively composed of β-cells and human pseudoislets containing only primary β-cells.