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This Special Issue explored different topics concerning recent progress in the synthesis and characterization of suitable innovative macromolecular systems, proposed as carriers of specific antimicrobial molecules, to be employed in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. Many infectious diseases are induced by omnipresent micro-organisms, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and algae, and, consequently, are very common, accounting for a significant share of the global disease burden. Unfortunately, antimicrobial resistance, adverse effects, and the high cost of antimicrobials are crucial health challenges worldwide. One of the common efforts in addressing this issue lies in improving the existing antimicrobial delivery systems. In this regard, nanoparticles as well as three-dimensional hydrophilic systems represent valuable tools able to ensure excellent performances. Biocompatible polymeric particles, entrapping these bioactive molecules, are capable of releasing them over a desired period of time, thereby decreasing the frequency of their administration. At the same time, these systems are able to protect antimicrobial drugs from degradation, enhancing their bioavailability. This Special Issue serves to highlight and capture the contemporary progress recorded in this field.

Research & information: general --- film nanocomposite --- essential oil --- supercritical CO2 --- long-term package --- hybrid nanoparticles --- biocompatible polymer --- antimicrobial amphiphiles --- dynamic light scattering --- scanning electron microscopy --- cell viability from counting of colony-forming unities --- antimicrobial activity of nanoparticles --- Escherichia coli --- Staphylococcus aureus --- Candida albicans --- hydrogel --- polyvinyl alcohol --- aliphatic dicarboxylic acids --- sustained release --- linezolid --- equilibrium swelling ratio --- accumulative release --- thermogravimetric analysis --- gram-negative bacteria --- multidrug resistance --- polymer therapeutics --- colistin --- polymyxin B --- nanoliposomes --- MDR-Bacteria --- chitosan --- nanotechnologies --- plant extracts --- agro-food-wastes --- antimicrobial agents --- polymeric nanocarriers --- mixed polymeric micelles --- drug delivery --- antibiotics --- Pluronic F127 --- antimicrobial agent --- polymeric nanomaterial --- self-assembly --- antimicrobial peptide --- silver nanoparticle --- anti-biofilm --- wound healing --- bromelain --- nisin --- bioactivity --- biomedicine --- carrier --- n/a

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This Special Issue explored different topics concerning recent progress in the synthesis and characterization of suitable innovative macromolecular systems, proposed as carriers of specific antimicrobial molecules, to be employed in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. Many infectious diseases are induced by omnipresent micro-organisms, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and algae, and, consequently, are very common, accounting for a significant share of the global disease burden. Unfortunately, antimicrobial resistance, adverse effects, and the high cost of antimicrobials are crucial health challenges worldwide. One of the common efforts in addressing this issue lies in improving the existing antimicrobial delivery systems. In this regard, nanoparticles as well as three-dimensional hydrophilic systems represent valuable tools able to ensure excellent performances. Biocompatible polymeric particles, entrapping these bioactive molecules, are capable of releasing them over a desired period of time, thereby decreasing the frequency of their administration. At the same time, these systems are able to protect antimicrobial drugs from degradation, enhancing their bioavailability. This Special Issue serves to highlight and capture the contemporary progress recorded in this field.

film nanocomposite --- essential oil --- supercritical CO2 --- long-term package --- hybrid nanoparticles --- biocompatible polymer --- antimicrobial amphiphiles --- dynamic light scattering --- scanning electron microscopy --- cell viability from counting of colony-forming unities --- antimicrobial activity of nanoparticles --- Escherichia coli --- Staphylococcus aureus --- Candida albicans --- hydrogel --- polyvinyl alcohol --- aliphatic dicarboxylic acids --- sustained release --- linezolid --- equilibrium swelling ratio --- accumulative release --- thermogravimetric analysis --- gram-negative bacteria --- multidrug resistance --- polymer therapeutics --- colistin --- polymyxin B --- nanoliposomes --- MDR-Bacteria --- chitosan --- nanotechnologies --- plant extracts --- agro-food-wastes --- antimicrobial agents --- polymeric nanocarriers --- mixed polymeric micelles --- drug delivery --- antibiotics --- Pluronic F127 --- antimicrobial agent --- polymeric nanomaterial --- self-assembly --- antimicrobial peptide --- silver nanoparticle --- anti-biofilm --- wound healing --- bromelain --- nisin --- bioactivity --- biomedicine --- carrier --- n/a

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Burn injuries are still one of the most common and devastating injuries in human and the treatment of major burns remains a major challenge for physicians worldwide. Modern burn care involves many components from initial first aid, burn size and burn depth assessment, fluid resuscitation, wound care, excision and grafting/ coverage, infection control and nutritional support. Progress in each of these areas has contributed significantly to the overall enhanced survival of burn victims of the past decades. Most major advances in burn care occurred in the past 50 years, spurred on by wars and great fires. The use of systemic antibiotics and topical antiinfective agents greatly reduced sepsis related mortality. This along with the improvement of new surgical and skin grafting techniques allowed the earlier excision and coverage of deep burns which resulted in greatly improved survival rates and better functional and aesthetic outcome. In this book we look back at how the treatment of burns has evolved over the past decades and hundreds of years. The advancement of burn care has been closely associated with our deeper understanding of its pathophysiology; we have now come to understand the impact that burn injuries have in the multiple fields of current medical science i.e. in metabolism and circulation, electrolyte balance and nutrition, immunology and infection, inflammation, pulmonary function and wound healing.

Public health & preventive medicine --- burn --- care --- antiquity --- phytotherapy --- ancient medicine --- burn therapy --- enzymatic debridement --- bromelain --- NexoBrid™ --- hyperbaric oxygenation --- history --- review --- burn injury --- donor area --- wounds --- polylactide --- lactormone --- oxidative stress reduction --- analgesia --- stabilization --- reduced infection --- fluid management --- resuscitation volume --- transpulmonary thermodilution --- ultrasound --- burn resuscitation --- burn care --- allotransplantation --- skin transplantation --- skin graft --- skin substitute --- immuno-compatible skin grafts --- burn size assessment --- three-dimensional --- estimation accuracy --- medical documentation --- consequences of inaccurate assessment --- skin grafting --- skin substitutes --- burns --- autograft --- dermatome --- mesh --- split-thickness --- xenograft --- CEA --- CSS --- Spray-on-Skin --- ReCell --- burn history --- burn advancement --- burn research --- carbon monoxide --- CO intoxication --- COHb --- inhalation injury --- dressing changes --- epidermal skin substitute --- grafting --- healing time --- infection rate --- partial thickness burns --- porcine xenograft --- resorbable --- suprathel --- synthetic --- workload --- n/a

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Burn injuries are still one of the most common and devastating injuries in human and the treatment of major burns remains a major challenge for physicians worldwide. Modern burn care involves many components from initial first aid, burn size and burn depth assessment, fluid resuscitation, wound care, excision and grafting/ coverage, infection control and nutritional support. Progress in each of these areas has contributed significantly to the overall enhanced survival of burn victims of the past decades. Most major advances in burn care occurred in the past 50 years, spurred on by wars and great fires. The use of systemic antibiotics and topical antiinfective agents greatly reduced sepsis related mortality. This along with the improvement of new surgical and skin grafting techniques allowed the earlier excision and coverage of deep burns which resulted in greatly improved survival rates and better functional and aesthetic outcome. In this book we look back at how the treatment of burns has evolved over the past decades and hundreds of years. The advancement of burn care has been closely associated with our deeper understanding of its pathophysiology; we have now come to understand the impact that burn injuries have in the multiple fields of current medical science i.e. in metabolism and circulation, electrolyte balance and nutrition, immunology and infection, inflammation, pulmonary function and wound healing.

burn --- care --- antiquity --- phytotherapy --- ancient medicine --- burn therapy --- enzymatic debridement --- bromelain --- NexoBrid™ --- hyperbaric oxygenation --- history --- review --- burn injury --- donor area --- wounds --- polylactide --- lactormone --- oxidative stress reduction --- analgesia --- stabilization --- reduced infection --- fluid management --- resuscitation volume --- transpulmonary thermodilution --- ultrasound --- burn resuscitation --- burn care --- allotransplantation --- skin transplantation --- skin graft --- skin substitute --- immuno-compatible skin grafts --- burn size assessment --- three-dimensional --- estimation accuracy --- medical documentation --- consequences of inaccurate assessment --- skin grafting --- skin substitutes --- burns --- autograft --- dermatome --- mesh --- split-thickness --- xenograft --- CEA --- CSS --- Spray-on-Skin --- ReCell --- burn history --- burn advancement --- burn research --- carbon monoxide --- CO intoxication --- COHb --- inhalation injury --- dressing changes --- epidermal skin substitute --- grafting --- healing time --- infection rate --- partial thickness burns --- porcine xenograft --- resorbable --- suprathel --- synthetic --- workload --- n/a

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Processing and storage can cause changes and interactions in food components that have effects on nutritional value, organoleptic characteristics or even food safety. This book includes 19 research works showing important and interesting advances, as well as new approaches, in this research topic. Four articles are dedicated to studying the effect of canning conditions (filling media and some ingredients) on the diverse parameters of quality for fish and pet foods. Three articles are devoted to studying the effects of dehydration (pre-treatments and drying procedures). One article is dedicated to monitoring the elaboration of a fermented and dehydrated product (sausage) using a portable NIRS device. The ninth article of this book studies the effect of low-dose electron beam irradiation on cooking quality, moisture migration, and thermodynamics, as well as the digestion properties of the isolated starches in newly harvested and dried rice. The next contribution studies the use of different preservatives to avoid the formation of undesirable volatile organic compounds in stracciatella cheese. Another article examines the impact of source material, kibble size, temperature, and duration on the efficiency of the aqueous extraction of sugars and phenolics from carob kibbles by conventional heat-assisted (HAE) and ultrasound-assisted (UAE) methods. In two articles, marinating with different extracts, alone or combined with other seasoning/conditioning methods, was essayed to tenderize beef or to improve the sensory quality of chicken leg and breast meat. The effect of various cooking methods on the quality, structure, pasting, water distribution and protein oxidation of fish and meat-based snacks is studied in the fourteenth article. The last five articles are dedicated to the study of the effects of storage on several foods (olive oil, blueberry, beetroot and Atlantic mackerel).

Research & information: general --- Electron Beam Irradiation --- rice --- moisture --- physicochemical properties --- rabbiteye blueberry --- postharvest storage --- firmness --- aroma compounds --- off-odor --- dry-fermented sausages --- near infrared spectroscopy --- portable device --- PLS-DA --- Scomber colias --- prior chilling --- Fucus spiralis --- packaging medium --- canning --- lipid damage --- colour --- trimethylamine --- quality --- carob kibbles --- carob juice --- aqueous extraction --- sugars --- phenolics --- free amino acids --- biogenic amines --- filling medium --- European eels --- stracciatella cheese --- volatile organic compounds --- sensory characteristics --- natural preservatives --- cheese storage --- pineapple by-products --- hydrostatic pressure --- bromelain --- enzyme activity --- marinade --- meat --- texture --- water status and distribution --- microstructure --- secondary structure of protein --- Atlantic mackerel --- saffron quality --- secondary metabolites --- drying --- high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection (HPLC-DAD) --- spectrophotometry --- canned eels --- olive oil --- sunflower oil --- oxidation --- antioxidants --- total phenols --- vitamin E --- fresh wet noodles --- humidity-controlled dehydration --- microorganisms --- shelf-life --- noodle quality --- “Rocha” pear --- ultrasound --- microwave --- quality characteristics --- empirical models --- beetroot --- organic farming --- storage --- bioactive compounds --- betalain --- nitrate --- sugar --- phenolic compounds --- total dry matter --- chicken meat --- sensory evaluation --- superheated steam --- marination --- hot smoking --- storage effect --- extra virgin olive oil --- phenols --- sterols --- tocopherols --- temperature --- argon --- freeze-thaw cycles --- anthocyanins --- gas chromatography-mass spectrometry --- aroma profiles --- hot-air drying --- blueberry --- cooking methods --- fish meat snacks --- LF-NMR --- SEM --- protein oxidation --- expressible moisture --- gel --- gum --- heat penetration --- thermally processed --- wet pet food --- n/a --- "Rocha" pear