scholarly journals Influences of Red Pepper Seed Powder on the Physicochemical Properties of a Meat Emulsion Model System

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeong-A Lee ◽  
Gye-Woong Kim ◽  
Hack-Youn Kim ◽  
Juhui Choe

Biomedicines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Feby Wijaya Pratiwi ◽  
Chien-Chung Peng ◽  
Si-Han Wu ◽  
Chiung Wen Kuo ◽  
Chung-Yuan Mou ◽  
...  

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have emerged as a prominent nanomedicine platform, especially for tumor-related nanocarrier systems. However, there is increasing concern about the ability of nanoparticles (NPs) to penetrate solid tumors, resulting in compromised antitumor efficacy. Because the physicochemical properties of NPs play a significant role in their penetration and accumulation in solid tumors, it is essential to systematically study their relationship in a model system. Here, we report a multihierarchical assessment of the accumulation and penetration of fluorescence-labeled MSNs with nine different physicochemical properties in tumor spheroids using two-photon microscopy. Our results indicated that individual physicochemical parameters separately could not define the MSNs’ ability to accumulate in a deeper tumor region; their features are entangled. We observed that the MSNs’ stability determined their success in reaching the hypoxia region. Moreover, the change in the MSNs’ penetration behavior postprotein crowning was associated with both the original properties of NPs and proteins on their surfaces.



2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (01) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hwa-Jin Kim ◽  
Mi-Kyoung You ◽  
Ziyun Wang ◽  
Hyeon-A Kim

Obesity is the main risk factor for metabolic syndromes and there has been an upsurge in demand for effective therapeutic strategies. This study investigated the effect of red pepper seed water extract (RPS) on the process of differentiation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. RPS treatment significantly suppressed cellular lipid accumulation and reduced the expression of adipocytes-associated proteins, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-[Formula: see text] (PPAR-[Formula: see text]), CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins [Formula: see text] (C/EBP [Formula: see text]), sterol regulatory element binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c), as well as fatty acid synthase (FAS), and fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4). The inhibitory effect of RPS on differentiation was mainly through the modulation of the C/EBP [Formula: see text] and C/EBP [Formula: see text] expression at the early phase of differentiation. Moreover, at the early phase of differentiation, RPS markedly increased the phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). Such enhancing effect of RPS was abolished in the presence of compound C. Our results suggest that activation of AMPK at early stage of adipogenesis is involved in the anti-adipogenesis effect of RPS.



2020 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 104943
Author(s):  
Hua-Min Liu ◽  
Yong-Gang Yao ◽  
Yu-Xiang Ma ◽  
Xue-De Wang




2019 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinyu Zhao ◽  
Qin Hou ◽  
Songmin Cao ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Guanghong Zhou ◽  
...  




2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengzhang Wang ◽  
Yan Ma ◽  
Yongtao Wang ◽  
Liang Zhao ◽  
Xiaojun Liao

Abstract: Pepper seed is one by-product in pepper processing, rich in protein, fat, and fiber, which is a new plant-based protein source. In this paper, the physicochemical and functional properties...



2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zakaria Hossain ◽  
Md Masud Alam ◽  
Md Faruq Bin Hossain ◽  
MSH Sarker ◽  
Md Abdul Awal ◽  
...  

A cabinet type solar dryer was designed and fabricated over a collector and dryer area of 4.00 m2 and 7.5 m2 respectively for the geographical condition of Bangladesh. Red pepper was used to test the performance of the dryer. The upper tray and lower tray pepper drying needed 36 and 41 h to reduce moisture from 73% (wet basis) to 10% (wet basis) respectively and found 9 kg dried pepper from 30 kg fresh red ripe pepper. In contrast, open sun drying needed 85 h to reduce moisture from 73% (wet basis) to 11% (wet basis) and produced 2.43 kg dried pepper from 8 kg red ripe pepper. The average global radiation was about 133 W/m2 while the flux incidence and flux absorbed on collector was about 128 W/m2 and 103 W/m2 respectively. The average collector and dryer efficiency was about 48% and 34% respectively. The average exergy efficiency was obtained 63%. The average rate of top, bottom and side collector loss was 37 W/m2, 20 W/m2 and 3 W/m2 respectively. The upper tray, lower tray and open sun pepper seed germination was 76%, 81% and 85% respectively (P≥0.01). The redness value of lower tray pepper (a*=27.1) was higher followed by upper tray (a*=24.7) and open sun pepper powder (a*=21.1), which means direct exposure of sunlight diminishes the quality of pepper colour. The redness value of fabricated solar drying was significantly (P≤0.01) higher than that of open sun drying.



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