{"title":"Oral homeostasis, kill the microbiome or not?","authors":"Tomasz Kupka","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00174","url":null,"abstract":"The objective is to short review the current state of the art of dental antimicrobial agents in term of minimal invasive restorative dentistry. An outline of the most important aspects of dental antimicrobial agents was created, and a subsequent literature search for articles related was conducted. The current state of the art of antimicrobial agents includes a variety of species with broad ranges of properties. There is no agreement as to the choice of substances and concentration, however, there is a growing consensus regarding the need to use antimicrobial agents as additions into dental restorative materials’ compound in patients with high intensity of active caries disease.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80459478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Actinobacteria for sustainable agriculture","authors":"N. Yadav, Ajar Nath Yadav","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00172","url":null,"abstract":"Actinobacteria is a phylum and class of Gram-positive bacteria. The phylum Actinobacteria are classified into six classes namely Acidimicrobiia, Actinobacteria, Coriobacteriia, Nitriliruptoria, Rubrobacteria and Thermoleophilia. Members of phylum Actinobacteria are ubiquitous in nature. Actinobacteria can be utilized as biofertilizers for sustainable agriculture as they can enhance plant growth and soil health though different plant growth promoting attributes such as solubilization of phosphorus, potassium and zinc, production of Fe-chelating compounds, phytohormones hormones such indole acetic acids, cytokinin, and gibberellins as well as by biological nitrogen fixation. The Actinobacteria also plays an important role in mitigation of different abiotic stress conditions in plants. The members of phylum Actinobacteria such as Actinomyces, Arthrobacter, Bifidobacterium, Cellulomonas, Clavibacter, Corynebacterium, Frankia, Microbacterium, Micrococcus, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, Propionibacterium, Pseudonocardia, Rhodococcus, Sanguibacter and Streptomyces exhibited the multifarious plant growth promoting attributes and could be used as biofertilizers for crops growing under natural as well as under the abiotic stress conditions for plant growth and soil health for sustainable agriculture.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72872494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adsorption of tetracycline by a tailor- made adsorbent in aqueous system","authors":"Adelagun Ruth Olubukola Ajoke, Neelam Yadav, Ajar Nath Yadav","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00171","url":null,"abstract":"Tetracyclines are frequently used antibiotics for growth promotion and therapeutic pharmaceuticals both by humans and animal husbandry, and commonly encountered in municipal wastewater treatment plants and in the environment in their active form. This implies their continuous release into the environment may facilitate toxic effects both on humans and the environment including development of resistance strains, among others. This research was focused on the synthesis, characterisation and assessment of a tailor- made adsorbent: modified chitosan flakes, using several materials for the modification of chitosan to enhance its sorption properties thereby facilitating a higher percentage of TC removal from a synthetic pharmaceutical wastewater. TC adsorption onto the modified chitosan flakes was relatively fast (equilibrium time = 2h). Sorption studies revealed that TC removal by the adsorbent followed pseudo second order kinetics and Freundlich isotherm models. At higher TC input concentration, the amount of TC removed was also higher, this implied the sorption was concentration dependent. Insight into mechanism of sorption revealed cation exchange was an active means of interaction between the adsorbate and adsorbents moieties.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86679767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approach to knowledge of the microbial bioprospecting in Venezuela","authors":"Judith Pinero Bonilla","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00168","url":null,"abstract":"This exploratory research was based on the review of the proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Venezuelan Association for Science Advance (AsoVAC) between 2002 and 2017 about the investigations realized in native microorganisms with biotechnological potential. In this regard, the researchers from Venezuelan universities and scientific institutions have developed lines of research to address the subject on the biotechnological utilization of microorganisms. The results indicate that the University of Oriente has the biggest contribution with respect to the evaluation of the photosynthetic microorganisms for the aquaculture food production and the biotechnologically important metabolites production. On the other hand, non-photosynthetic microorganism investigations have been directed especially to study their applicability in agrobiotechnology as biofertilizers and biocontrol agents; likewise they are candidates for the bioremediation of polluted terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems by petroleum hydrocarbon, an area very investigated by researchers at the University of Zulia due to oil exploitation that takes place within its area. Another topic of interest that stands out is the study in thermophilic and psychrophilic bacteria by the researchers from the University of Carabobo and the University of Los Andes, respectively.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"392 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77763621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can biosensors and sensors operating in a complex matrix of local and international standards solve environmental quality problems of catchments?","authors":"C. Tafangenyasha","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00193","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims at throwing light on applications of biological rapid assessment tools in the monitoring of environmental quality in Runde River catchment with intensive commercial sugarcane production. Burdened with drudgery in wet laboratory techniques, biological sensors (biosensors) and sensors can integrate catchment data from rapid assessment techniques to networks or Internet of Things (IoT). This research examines the techniques presented by biosensors and sensors and provides the checkboxes for sustained catchment monitoring. With available recent evidence from surveys it turns out the Runde River may not be polluted but this may reflect the time the survey was undertaken and suggestions made for routine checks","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82403132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diana Carolina Murcia Alarcon, Eliana Ximena Urbano Caceres, A. Becerra
{"title":"Mycotoxins in foods that cause damage to humans","authors":"Diana Carolina Murcia Alarcon, Eliana Ximena Urbano Caceres, A. Becerra","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00202","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Mycotoxins are toxic substances from the metabolism of RESULTING fungi Aspergillus flavus: such as, Aspergillus Penicillium, Aspergillus ochraceus, Penecillum expansum and Fusarium graminearum. There are four Important mycotoxins: aflatoxins, Ochratoxin A, patulin and deoxynivalenol being responsible for the contamination of food for human consumption. Methods: The research was Carried out and selected based on inclusion criteria, articles and publications related to mycotoxins, food, toxicity, Mechanisms of action and analysis, published in Scielo, MEDLINE / PubMed, Google academic and Science Direct, to the total of 65 articles Were reviewed, but only 50 met the inclusion criteria above. Results: The presence of mycotoxins in food remains a public health problem; it is found because worldwide and causes serious pathology in humans and animals both. Conclusion: it is Necessary to continue advancing in the investigations related to the presence of mycotoxins in food for human consumption, especially regions tropical in, since the environmental conditions and the Characteristics of the food produced in These regions please At least theoretically, the development of These toxins, Which Represents a high risk to the health and food security of the Populations","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"180 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91157272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Viray Calixto, H. Benjamin, Adriatico Aileen, Pakhale Shital, Tawil Bill
{"title":"Effect of creatine and turmeric on muscle and non-muscle cells","authors":"Viray Calixto, H. Benjamin, Adriatico Aileen, Pakhale Shital, Tawil Bill","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00189","url":null,"abstract":"Creatine is important for energy storage and is widely used as a supplement to improve muscle strength. Turmeric is a potential therapeutic agent, and used in the management of oxidative, and inflammatory conditions. There has been an immense interest in creatine and turmeric research over the years and they have been extensively studied. However, there have been no studies available on their combined effect at the cellular level. The purpose of this study was to investigate the individual and combined effects of creatine and turmeric on muscle and non-muscle (fibroblast) cells. The differential effect was observed on both cell line in the presence of creatine alone and turmeric alone treatment. When creatine and turmeric were tested separately, creatine increases the proliferation rate of muscle cells and decreases proliferation rate of non-muscle cells at tested concentrations (3.25µg/mL, 32.5µg/mL, and 325µg/mL). On the other hand, turmeric increases the proliferation rate of non-muscle cells compared to muscle cells at tested concentrations (4.62µg/mL, 23.1µg/mL, and 46.2µg/mL). Non-muscle cells showed a decreased proliferation with creatine (325µg/mL) and increased proliferation with turmeric (46.2µg/mL) at maximum tested concentrations. Hence, for testing their combined effect on both cell lines higher concentrations (650µg/mL and 925µg/mL) were used. The combined concentrations of creatine and turmeric at 650µg/mL and 925µg/mL did not show a significant effect on muscle cells. However, the same concentrations increased the proliferation of non-muscle (fibroblast) cells compared to muscle cells. Although creatine alone or turmeric by itself was found to be more effective on the proliferation of non-muscle cells than combining both of them together. The results of this study suggest that creatine and turmeric supplementation together may not be beneficial for post-workout recovery. However, both of them together may be used in skin cosmetics formulation to improve skin cells.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76676676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kircher Eric, Lee Jeffrey, Wang He Choil, Tawil Bill
{"title":"The effect of natural sugar and sweeteners on normal and cancerous human fibroblasts","authors":"Kircher Eric, Lee Jeffrey, Wang He Choil, Tawil Bill","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00194","url":null,"abstract":"Non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) have seen increasingly common usage amongst foodstuffs in the westernized diet in the past few decades, including processed foods and flavored beverages. Recently, an increasing body of research has been evaluating the potential of NNS for alternative uses in healthcare and medicine. Some of these sweeteners, such as stevioside, have been implicated as being anti-hypertensive, anti-carcinogenic, and anti-inflammatory in several contexts. To examine the potential of NNS such as stevioside as an anti-carcinogenic agent, cellular behavior of HFF-1 human foreskin fibroblasts (ATCC SCRC-1041) & COLO-829 human melanoma fibroblasts (ATCC CRL-1974) was observed in the presence of sucrose, sucralose, and stevioside on collagen. This study examined the impact of NNS on initial adhesion, cellular proliferation, and integrin expression on healthy and cancerous fibroblast cell lines. The results indicate that 5 mg/mL stevioside caused more than 2-fold decrease in the initial adhesion of healthy cells but caused more than 4-fold increase in the initial adhesion of cancerous cells. In terms of proliferation, stevioside at 5 mg/mL caused a 13-fold decrease in cancer cell proliferation, proportional to concentration, but a 1.5-fold increase in proliferation for healthy cells.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85316457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juliana Granzotto de Vargas, R. Miecinikovsski, H. Theodoro, D. D. De Lorenzi, Omarwalid Noorzada, Karina Giane Mendes
{"title":"Prevalence of dyslipidemia among climacteric women","authors":"Juliana Granzotto de Vargas, R. Miecinikovsski, H. Theodoro, D. D. De Lorenzi, Omarwalid Noorzada, Karina Giane Mendes","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00203","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The climacteric phase implies metabolic and hormonal changes that might lead to adverse effects, such as dyslipidemia and cardiovascular risks. Objective: Determine factors associated with the prevalence of dyslipidemia among climacteric women treated in a reference clinic in southern Brazil. Method: Cross-sectional study with 550 women aged 40–65 years treated in a clinic specialized in climacteric therapies and gynecologic surgeries. A precoded and pretested standardized survey with questions about socioeconomic, demographic, behavioral and reproductive features was applied. Laboratory tests needed to define lipid profiles were the analysis of HDL cholesterol, total cholesterol, and triglycerides. Multivariate analysis (p<0.05) was used in the evaluation of data. Results: 550 climacteric women were evaluated. Elevated prevalence of dyslipidemia (83.8%) was found. The group presenting the largest number of dyslipidemic women was the group aged 56–65 years (92.5%). There was no significant association between the occurrence of dyslipidemia and menopausal state. Multivariate analysis revealed that dyslipidemias were 11% more prevalent in women aged 56–65 years (RP 1.11; CI95% 1.01 to 1.21 p=0.03) and 16% more frequent among women with three or more gestational periods (p=0.04). The prevalence of dyslipidemia was also higher among obese women than among the eutrophic ones, however, the significance level remained in a boundary zone (PR 1.12; CI95% 1.00 to 1.26 p=0.06). Conclusion: A higher prevalence of dyslipidemia was found among women with multiple pregnancies, something that may be linked to hormonal and metabolic issues, as well as dietary issues during pregnancy. The menopausal state was not associated with the occurrence of dyslipidemia in this study. Possibly, the aging process and its metabolic changes —more than the menopausal state itself— is the main factor associated with dyslipidemia during the climacteric years","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80189678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating entrance channel influences in the fusion of some heavy–ion systems","authors":"Asnake Girma, Amanuel Fessahatsion","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2019.06.00200","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamics of heavy-ion fusion reaction involved in the interaction of 12C,14N and 16O projectiles with,59Co, 51V,128Te and165Ho targets at≈3-8MeV/nucleon specific energies was studied. This study focus on the correlation between entrance channel properties and incomplete fusion reaction. The experimentally measured excitation functions of various reaction products populated by complete and/or incomplete fusions of 12C+59Co, 128Te,14N+128Teand 16O+ 51V, 165Hoprojectile-target systems available in the literature. Were compared and analyzed with the predicted excitation functions, using the statistical model code PACE4. For representative non-α-emitting channels, the experimentally measured excitation functions were, in general, found to be in good agreement with the theoretical predictions. However, for α-emitting channels in the present systems, the measured excitation functions were higher than the predictions of the theoretical model code, which may be credited to incomplete fusion reactions at these energies. An attempt was made to approximate the incomplete fusion fraction that explains the relative importance of incomplete fusion processes. The incomplete fusion fraction was found to be sensitive to the projectile energy and mass-asymmetry of the entrance channel","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81013462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}