Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a widely-spread mycotoxin all over the world causing major health
risks. The focus of the present review is on the molecular and cellular interactions of OTA. In …

Antioxidant activities of three selected Micromeria species growing in Croatia (M. croatica, M.
juliana and M. thymifolia) were evaluated using five different antioxidant assays, in …

Essential oils (EOs) are highly lipophilic, which makes the measurement of their biological
action difficult in an aqueous environment. We formulated a Pickering nanoemulsion of …

Objective To investigate the antioxidant activity, total phenolic and total tannin content of the
pericarp and the seed of Coffea benghalensis (C. benghalensis) and Coffea liberica …

Free essential oils and their active components have a low physiochemical stability and low
aqueous solubility which limit their applications as food preservatives and in packaging …

Albumin, the most abundant plasma protein is an approximately 67 kDa sized water-soluble
macromolecule. Since several drugs and xenobiotics circulate in the blood at least partially …

Medicinal plants are widely used in folk medicine but quite often their composition and
biological effects are hardly known. Our study aimed to analyze the composition, cytotoxicity, …

Resazurin (or Alamar Blue) is a poorly fluorescent dye. During the cellular reduction of
resazurin, its highly fluorescent product resorufin is formed. Resazurin assay is a commonly …

The aim of this study was to present morphological and functional evidence to evaluate
whether tear secretion is influenced by neuropeptides released from sensory nerve endings of …

Two types of early spring Hungarian honeys, purchased as rape (Brassica napus L.) and
ramson (Allium ursinum L.) honeys were identified and characterized. The 42 samples …