Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) has emerged as a novel non-thermal process technology for inactivating microorganisms due to its low cost, safety, and efficiency. This study aimed to investigate the antimicrobial effect of VK-mediated PDI against Pseudomonas fluorescens (P. fluorescens) and to assess its impact on the quality of the blunt bream contaminated with P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study was designed to obtain the maximum extraction yield of peanut shell (PS) polyphenols using a novel carbon dioxide nanobubbles (CO-NBs) assisted ultrasonic extraction method. CO-NBs were generated in distilled water with a self-developed high-pressure nano-jet homogenization method and characterized by size, zeta potential and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The obtained nanobubble's mean size and zeta potential were 229.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of rosmarinic acid (RA) and kaempferol (KMP) on the pro-oxidant capacity of grass carp hemoglobin (Hb) and their interaction mechanisms were explored. Results revealed that in the 0.05-0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel smart film MP/BNC/ACN for real-time monitoring of fish freshness was developed using myofibrillar protein (MP) and bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) as film raw materials and anthocyanin (Lycium ruthenicum, ACN) as an indicator. Firstly, the film containing 1 % ACN (MP/BNC/ACN1) was found to have a moderate thickness (0.44 ± 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCallicarpa nudiflora Hook (C. nudiflora) is an anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and hemostatic ethnomedicine. To date, little has been reported regarding the activity of C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPleurocidin is an antimicrobial peptide derived from the mucous membranes of the skin or intestinal secretions of Pseudopleuronectes americanus that has antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities. Ulcerative colitis is recognized as a widespread human disease that may be influenced by environmental and genetic factors. Evidence emphasizes the critical role of the gut microbiota in UC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAbaecin is a natural antimicrobial peptide (AMP) rich in proline from bees. It is an important part of the innate humoral immunity of bees and has broad-spectrum antibacterial ability. This study aimed to determine the effect of Abaecin on dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) -induced ulcerative colitis (UC) in mice and to explore its related mechanisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study employs sensory evaluation, headspace gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS), and headspace solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) techniques to investigate the effect of different pretreatment of fresh silver carp mince (running water rinsing 0, 1, or 2 times) and commercially frozen surimi on the odor characteristics of fish noodles. The free choice profiling (FCP) and check all that apply (CATA) sensory analysis methods were utilized to identify 10 characteristic descriptors, which include "grass, fish fragrance, unpleasant fishy, fatty, roast, ammonia, caramel, warmed-over, earthy, and mushroomy". HS-GC-IMS and HS-SPME-GC-MS detected 80 and 37 volatile compounds (VCs) in fish noodles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of covalent and non-covalent interactions between myofibrillar protein (MP) and cyanidin-3-O-glucoside (C3G) on protein structure, binding sites, and digestion properties. Four methods of inducing covalent cross-linking were used in the preparation of MP-C3G conjugates, including tyrosinase-catalyzed oxidation, alkaline pH shift treatment, free radical grafting, and ultrasonic treatment. A comparison was made between MP-C3G conjugates and complexes, and the analysis included sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), C3G binding ratio, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), protein side-chain amino acids, circular dichroism spectroscopy, three-dimensional fluorescence, particle size, and in vitro simulated digestion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBased on cylindrical photonic crystals in one dimension, a multi-scale sensor device with a logic operation is being proposed. At the same time, it can satisfy the functions of refractive index (RI) and magnetic field detection. Under the modulation of an external magnetic field, sharp absorption peaks (APs) are obtained in the terahertz (THz) range.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Biochem Biotechnol
December 2023
Riemerella anatipestifer (RA) is one of the most harmful bacterial pathogens in waterfowl and causes enormous economic loss worldwide. Due to weak cross-immunity protection against different serotypes of RA, inactivated and attenuated vaccines are only effective for RA of specific serotypes. In this paper, outer membrane protein YaeT in RA was analyzed through bioinformatics, in vivo, and in vitro assays.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVitamin D (VD) is an indispensable micronutrient in livestock and poultry feed. Its function in antioxidant stress has been reported. We investigate whether the addition of different concentrations of VD to the diet affects the production performance, slaughter performance, meat quality, organ index, and gut injury on the diquat (DQ)-induced model of oxidative stress in Wenchang chickens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the emergence of COVID-19, social distancing detection is a crucial technique for epidemic prevention and control. However, the current mainstream detection technology cannot obtain accurate social distance in real-time. To address this problem, this paper presents a first study on smartphone-based social distance detection technology based on near-ultrasonic signals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo investigate the cross-linking degree on the in vitro gastrointestinal digestion and absorption properties of surimi gel, three types of surimi gels with low, moderate, and high cross-linking degrees were prepared, and then in vitro digestion models (static and dynamic) and a Caco-2 cell monolayer model combined with LC-MS/MS were used to do peptidomic analysis of digestive and absorbed juices. The results showed that an increase in cross-linking degree promoted the release of peptides after gastrointestinal digestion. These peptides originated from the myosin head and rod, the rod was the main digestion region.
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February 2022
Vitamin D, as an indispensable and fat-soluble micronutrient, plays an important role in the health of humans and animals. At present, studies are focusing on the calcium absorption and immunoregulation function of vitamin D; this study was aimed at exploring the antioxidative stress ability of vitamin D on diquat-induced intestinal dysfunction of ICR mice and the underlying mechanism. The results showed that oral gavage of vitamin D daily significantly improved the body weight gain and immune organ index and significantly reverted the abnormal changes of ALT, AST, SOD, GSH-Px, T-AOC, and MDA in the serum and jejunum induced by diquat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurimi gels with different cross-linking degrees (18.52%, 34.67%, 62.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOzone is used to in surimi production and affects the conformation of myosin and gelling properties. Amino acid analysis, SDS-PAGE, in-gel trypsin hydrolysis and LC-MS/MS were used to investigate the effect of the ozone treatment time on the oxidation principle of amino acids to identify the oxidation site and oxidation mechanism of myosin with different oxidation degrees. The results showed that the order of ozonation of amino acids from easy to difficult was tyrosine > cysteine > histidine > proline.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of green tea extract (GTE) at acidic and alkaline pH (pH 3 and 11, respectively) on the physico-mechanical, thermal, and water transmission properties of silver carp surimi-based edible films were investigated. Incorporation of GTE significantly ( < 0.05) reduced elongation at break (EAB) but improved tensile strength (TS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompared with the status of bio-nanopores, there are still several challenges that need to be overcome before solid-state nanopores can be applied in commercial DNA sequencing. Low spatial and low temporal resolution are the two major challenges. Owing to restrictions on nanopore length and the solid-state nanopores' surface properties, there is still room for improving the spatial resolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of salts on the gelatinization and retrogradation of maize and waxy maize starch. Experimental results showed that the salting-out or structure-making ions, such as F(-) and SO4(2-), decreased the swelling power, solubility and transparency of both starches, but increased the gelatinization temperature, enthalpy, and syneresis, due to the tendency of these ions to protect the hydrogen bond links among starch molecules. On the other hand, the salting-in or structure-breaking ions, such as I(-) and SCN(-), exhibited the opposite effects.
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