A review on the biological activities and the nutraceutical potential of chitooligosaccharides.

Chitooligosaccharides (CHOS) or chitosan oligosaccharides (COS) are oligomers mainly composed of d-glucosamine (GlcN) units and structured in a positively charged, basic, amino molecule obtained from the degradation of chitin/chitosan through physical, chemical, or enzymatic methods. CHOS display physicochemical properties attractive to applications from the food to the biomedical field, such as non-toxicity to humans, high water solubility, low viscosity, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. These properties also allow CHOS to exert important biological activities, for example, antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, antitumor, and hypocholesterolemic ones, besides to exhibit applications in food systems, technological, and nutraceutical potential.

Combining in silico and in vitro approaches for understanding the mechanism of action of the galactomannan extracted from Cassia grandis seeds against colorectal cancer.

This study aimed to investigate the antitumor activity of galactomannan extracted from Cassia grandis seeds (GCg) against colorectal cancer cells using both experimental and computational approaches. Galactomannan was extracted from C. grandis seeds and prepared into solutions with varying concentrations.

Nutritive Value and Degradation Kinetic Parameters of Three Plants for Feeding Schinz, In Vitro Evaluation.

This study aimed to evaluate the nutritive value of three feeds ( sp., sp., and sp.

Haff disease: overview and clinical features.

Haff disease was first described at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe. Almost a century later, thousands of cases have now been reported in different countries. In Brazil, most cases are observed in the Amazon region, and its associated factors remain to be fully understood.

Did I tell you something personal? The influence of the distinctive features on destination memory.

Several studies observed that a worse destination memory (i.e., capacity to remember to whom we said something) occurs when personal facts are shared, which was explained based on the internal attentional focus - the attentional focus is on the information and not on the recipient of the information.