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Antibacterial and antiplaque efficacy of a lactoperoxidase-thiocyanate-hydrogen-peroxide-system-containing lozenge
BackgroundAntimicrobial agents are considered valuable adjuncts to mechanical methods of plaque control. However, their long-term use can be limited...
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Safety and Beneficial Properties of Bacteriocinogenic Lactococcus lactis and Pediococcus pentosaceus Strains, and Their Effect Versus Oral Cavity Related and Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens
Pediococcus pentosaceus 732, Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis 431, and Lactococcus lactis 808, bacteriocinogenic strains previously isolated from...
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Extraction and Chemotypic Standardization of Plant Essential Oils with Special Reference to Phytochemical Genomics
Essential oils are the mixture of volatile ingredients and have been utilized extensively since antiquity. Regarding its bioactivity as an... -
Fungal Polysaccharides as Biosurfactants and Bioemulsifiers
Fungi play a substantial role in tackling major challenges in the world. Applications of fungal processes and materials is directly related to the... -
Edible and Oral Thin Films: Formulation, Properties, Functions, and Application in Food Packaging and Pharmaceutical Industry
Edible and oral films are the directly consumable materials in the form of food packaging or a drug dosage. The edible oral films are developed using... -
Evaluation of antimicrobial and cytotoxic effects of Echinacea and Arctium extracts and Zataria essential oil
Dental caries and oral infections have become a widespread issue in the modern world. This study aimed to investigate the antibacterial, antifungal,...
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Bactericidal activity of Myrrh extracts and two dosage forms against standard bacterial strains and multidrug-resistant clinical isolates with GC/MS profiling
Myrrh is the resinous exudate obtained by the incision in Commiphora molmol trees (Family Burseraceae). The bactericidal activity of its hexane...
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Morita–Baylis–Hillman adducts derived from thymol: synthesis, in silico studies and biological activity against Giardia lamblia
Giardiasis is a neglected disease, and there is a need for new molecules with less side effects and better activity against resistant strains. This...
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Transcriptome analysis provides genome annotation and expression profiles in the central nervous system of Lymnaea stagnalis at different ages
BackgroundThe pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis ( L. stagnalis ), has served as a valuable model organism for neurobiology studies due to its simple and...
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Ophthalmology of Invertebrates
Invertebrates are an expansive and diverse group of animals that account for over 95% of the living animal species on Earth. In addition to... -
Biofilm viability checker: An open-source tool for automated biofilm viability analysis from confocal microscopy images
Quantifying biofilm formation on surfaces is challenging because traditional microbiological methods, such as total colony-forming units (CFUs),...
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Improving the Vase Life of Cut Mokara Red Orchid Flower Using Leaf Extracts with Silver Nanoparticles
The major causes of vase life reduction in cut flowers are the microbial proliferation in vase solution and consequently vascular occlusion...
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Essential Oils
The essential oils (EOs) have been used in humans and animals for several millennia, as they represent an important part of folk medicine for their... -
The current status of Aureobasidium pullulans in biotechnology
Different strains of the saprophytic yeast-like fungus Aureobasidium pullulans (Ascomycota: Dothideales) exhibit different biochemical...
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Biofilm Control Strategies in Dental Health
The human oral microbiota is one of the most diverse biofilms colonizing the human body consisting of over 700 individual taxa. Two of the most... -
Antimicrobial activities of stearidonic and gamma-linolenic acids from the green seaweed Enteromorpha linza against several oral pathogenic bacteria
BackgroundWe found that the edible green seaweed Enteromorpha linza displayed potent antimicrobial activity against Prevotella intermedia and Porphyro...
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Insulin and Memory in Lymnaea
The pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis , is capable of learning conditioned taste aversion (CTA) and consolidating this CTA into long-term memory (LTM)....
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Comparative Effect of Chlorhexidine and Some Mouthrinses on Bacterial Biofilm Formation on Titanium Surface
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX) and commonly used mouthrinses to single- and...
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Biosynthesis of Pullulan and Its Applications in Food and Pharmaceutical Industry
Pullulan is a water-soluble polysaccharide produced by yeast-like fungus Aureobasidium pullulans. It is a regularly repeating copolymer with the... -
Transcriptome analysis of the central nervous system of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis
BackgroundThe freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis ( L. stagnalis ) has served as a successful model for studies in the field of Neuroscience. However,...