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PubMed2004

Non-covalent interaction between procyanidins and apple cell wall material: Part I. Effect of some environmental parameters.

The adsorption of procyanidins on cell wall material were quantified by bringing into contact a solution of procyanidins and a suspension of cell wall material. The influence of structural features such as degree of polymerisation (DP) and percentage of galloylation (% gall), and of physico-chemical parameters such as pH, ionic strength, temperature and presence of ethanol were investigated. The amount of procyanidins bound to the cell wall increased with the DP, the % gall, and the proportion of (+)-catechin, the last indicating an effect of the stereochemistry of the flavan-3-ols. Complex formation between procyanidins and cell wall material was not affected by pH in the range 2.2-7 but it was decreased by urea, dioxane and ethanol. Adsorption increased with increasing ionic strength and decreased with increasing temperature. This indicated that the bonds which governed the interaction between procyanidins and cell wall material were weak energy bonds of the type hydrogen bond and hydrophobic interaction.

Adsorption↗
PubMed2005

Non-covalent interaction between procyanidins and apple cell wall material. Part III: Study on model polysaccharides.

The adsorption of condensed tannins (procyanidins) of varying degrees of polymerisation and percentage of galloylation on solid polysaccharides substrates was quantified using the Langmuir isotherms formulation. Pectins and xyloglucans, which are soluble polysaccharides, were first cross-linked by, respectively, dibromopropane and epichlorohydrin to obtain insoluble covalent gels. Cellulose and starch, being insoluble in the buffer solution at room temperature, were used as bought. Apparent affinity constants obtained for the pure polysaccharides were as follows: pectin>>xyloglucan>starch>cellulose. The apparent affinity constants increased with the molecular weight of the procyanidins, except with cellulose. Higher affinities were obtained with pectin, a polysaccharide having the ability to develop a gel-like network, forming hydrophobic pockets able to encapsulate procyanidins. Filamentous and globular polysaccharides, like cellulose and xyloglucan, bound procyanidins weakly. Higher apparent saturation levels were obtained for cellulose and xyloglucans, the arrangement of which would favour cooperativity and stacking. Pectin had lower saturation levels probably due to a steric hindrance effect.

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PubMed2005

Upsetting the apple cart: a community anticoagulation clinic survey of life event factors that undermine safe therapy.

Anticoagulation therapy is a life-enhancing therapy for patients who are at risk for embolic events secondary to atrial fibrillation, valve replacement, and other comorbidities. Clinicians are motivated to decrease the amount of time that patients are either under- or over-anticoagulated, common conditions that decrease patient safety at either extreme. The primary purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship between personal life event factors as measured by Norbeck's Life Events Questionnaire, core demographics such as age and income, and anticoagulation regulation. Although many factors affect anticoagulation therapy, the precise impact of life events, positive or negative, is unknown. The salient findings of this study (n = 202) showed a small, though statistically significant, inverse relationship (r = -0.184, P < .01) between negative life events and decreased time within therapeutic international normalized ratio. Total Life Event scores showed a statistically significant inverse relationship (r = -0.159, P < .05) to international normalized ratio time within therapeutic level. Lower income was inversely associated with higher negative Life Event scores (r = -0.192, P < .01). The findings demonstrate the need for strategies that address the potential impact of life events in conjunction with coexisting screening measures used in anticoagulation clinics. Implications for this study are limited by lack of methodology documenting concurrent social support factors and limitations of the research tool to reflect life event issues specific to outpatient seniors.

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PubMed2026

Corrigendum to "Whole genome-based reclassification of the genus Metabacillus: Proposal for five novel genera, Chryseobacillus gen. nov., Cohnibacillus gen. nov., Salimetabacillus gen. nov., Pantoeobacillus gen. nov., and Lutimetabacillus gen. nov. and the description of one novel bacterial species, Chryseobacillus diguaensis sp. nov. isolated from soil in the Digua reservoir" [Systemat. Appl. Microbiol. 49 (2026) 126734].

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PubMed2001

Comparing apples and oranges--model-based assessment of different tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis control strategies.

The current control strategies for tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis in cattle (trypanocidal drugs, tsetse control and trypanotolerant cattle) are briefly reviewed and their adoption rates in different geographic regions of sub-Saharan Africa are presented. The impact of these control strategies and the potential use of vaccines, should they be developed, on trypanosomosis transmission were compared using a mathematical model. The relative trypanosomosis prevalence compared with no control was estimated across a range of control coverages (from none to complete control coverage) by varying the change in specific model parameters influenced by individual control measures. Based on this comparison, the relative rankings of the effect of control strategies on reducing disease prevalence were: vector control, vaccination, and drug use, in that order. In this model, trypanotolerance was assumed to decrease disease prevalence, but not to influence transmission. Differences in the predicted impact of control measures on the transmission of human sleeping sickness are discussed. Finally, the role of transmission model outputs as inputs for economic models to guide investment decisions for trypanosomosis control is emphasised.

Africa South of the Sahara↗
PubMed2001

Enantiomeric purity determination of malic acid in apple juices by multi-beam circular dichroism detection.

A multi-beam circular dichroism (CD) detector which is easily constructed by inserting inexpensive optics into a conventional photo-diode array detector has an advantage of simultaneous detection of the absorbance and CD. The enantiomeric purity determination of malic acid in beverages was performed by this detection system. Malic acid when complexed with Cu(II) was found to have an absorbance maximum at around 750 nm. The L-malic acid-Cu(II) complex showed a positive Cotton effect in its absorbance band and its anisotropy factor (delta epsilon/epsilon) was relatively large at about 1/170. This complex was retained on a reversed-phase column with the addition of racemic 2-hydroxy-3-methylbutyric acid to the mobile phase as the ligand. A plot of the relative peak areas between the CD and the absorption (delta abs/abs) versus optical purity showed good linearity with a correlation coefficient of 0.999, and the precision expressed as the relative standard deviation of the errors from the regression line was +/-2.7% (2sigma). The accuracy of the proposed method was assessed by capillary electrophoresis. Eight commercially available juice products were analyzed using this method. Five of them were thought to be adulterated with synthetic malic acid.

Beverages↗