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Tetraclinis articulata is a medicinal plant distributed from northwestern Africa to southwestern Europe. This article reports previous investigations on T. articulata regarding its taxonomy, botanical description, geographical distribution, traditional use, phytochemistry, biological effects, toxicology, nutritional value, and economic interest. The search of data was based on several scientific databases such as Scopus, Wiley Online, Web of Science, Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, SciFinder, and SpringerLink. Indeed, several biological activities were reported for T. articulata extracts and EOs, including antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, anticorrosion, cytotoxic, insecticidal, leishmanicidal, larvicidal, anti-inflammatory, antidiarrheal, vasorelaxant, and protective activities. Moreover, some toxicological reports indicated that T. articulata does not present any toxicity. However, other investigations regarding the toxicity, the pharmacokinetic and the pharmacodynamics of T. articulata and its major bioactive compounds are required to validate its pharmacological use. T. articulata also contains some nutritional elements such as mineral compounds, sugar and proteins which could indicate its potential use in the nutraceutical field. All these properties to T. articulata attributed a major economic interest which is used actually in the manufacture of luxury varnishes, pharmaceutical products and in other industrial uses, it is also used in powder form to prepare the surface of certain paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amylase (E.C.3.2.1.1) is one of the most important enzymes, of great significance for biotechnology. With the increasing number of studies of amylases, it is urgent to comprehensively gasp the future research trend of amylase, which promotes research and applications of amylase. Besides, the understand the past, present and future of amylase research helps scientists to further pursuit frontier of amylase research in global scale. Therefore, we used data-driven analysis method to present the hot points and further trends of amylase, which obtains data from Web of Science database. We comparatively analyzed the research hot points of amylases from several scales: Publication trends, Disciplinary trends, Interdisciplinary research tendency, and Collaborations trends. The results show that the research of amylase has good continuity on research contents, containing applications of amylases, the catalytic models of amylases, and the amylase-related nutrition and metabolism. Amylase research in terms of "Nutrition & dietetics" and "Agriculture" fields may be the further new disciplinary trends. Additionally, the intensive collaboration of amylases focuses on structural function, chemical, and physical properties of amylase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Edible coatings and films are very promising and are one of the most analyzed strategies for maintenance of the quality of foods and improving their shelf life. They provide an effective approach to mitigate adverse environmental concerns arising from the use of petroleum-derived packaging by replacing them with edible or biodegradable food packaging substances. Lipids are widely used in edible coatings and films for protecting many food products. This document is a comprehensive review describing the importance of lipids in edible coating and film formulations. A detailed account of lipid and lipid-containing edible coatings and films is presented. We also surveyed the trends in the literature related to this work, using data from SciFinder and Scopus scientific databases. The findings infer that lipids are becoming a hotspot and important substance in the study of edible coatings or films. This review further covers the application of lipid-containing coatings and films to various types of foods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To investigate in the literature the current knowledge about the effects of parenteral nutrition supplemented with glutamine in surgical patients. This is a review, carried out by searching for original articles, published in the last five years, in English and Portuguese, indexed in the PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases. 92 articles were retrieved, of which 10.8% (n = 10) were included in this review, for full text reading. It was observed that of the studies compiled, 80% (n = 8) demonstrated improvement in the number of surgical patients in response to glutamine supplementation associated with Parenteral Nutrition Therapy (PNT). Only two studies observed an increase in plasma glutamine levels after the supplementation period. 10% (n = 1) of the findings pointed to a greater effectiveness of supplementation of combined immunomodulators (polyunsaturated fatty acids and glutamine), in surgical patients aged 40 to 68 years, and that 20% (n = 2) of the studies did not indicate relevant results. The findings raised suggest that glutamine supplementation seems to have positive effects on the clinical and metabolic condition of patients in the postoperative period, with emphasis on reducing the occurrence of complications and the time of PNT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]