Capillary forces are commonly employed to transport fluids in pump-free microfluidic platforms such as paper-based microfluidics. However, since paper is a porous material consisting of nonuniform cellulose fibers, it has ...

This study proposes short-term sublethal assays for the tropics using the fish Poecilia reticulata. Assays were evaluated under realistic exposure scenarios by simulating a runoff over an agricultural area sprayed with ...

The Zika virus (ZIKV) is an mosquito-borne transmitted by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which became a public health problem during the 2015/2016 outbreak in the Americas and mainly in Brazil, where it was related ...

The phytochemical study of the crude extract hexane, methanol and fractions (acid ether, basic ether and basic acetate) from the stem bark of E. crista-galli (Fabaceae) resulted in the isolation of four compounds: The ...

Tropical fruit residues consisting of seeds, peels and residual pulp generated as by-products of fruit processing industry were investigated for bioactive compounds, the in vitro antioxidant capacity as well as alpha-glucosidase ...

This work describes a TLC-coupled bioautographic assay suitable for the separation and detection of apple polyphenol oxidase (PPO) inhibitors from natural extracts. PPO was immobilised in agar containing L-DOPA as substrate ...

Melanoidins, a product of advanced browning reactions due to the thermal treatment of the diet, has been previously demonstrated to inhibit the activity of trypsins from mammalian origin, but no data exists in relation to ...