This study was conducted to evaluate the probiotic properties of Pediococcus pentosaceus OZF isolated from human breast milk. The results obtained so far suggest that the strain is resistant to low pH, bile salt, pepsin and pancreatin, so it could survive while passing through the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract and reveal its potential probiotic action on host organism. The strain was non-pathogenic (γ-hemolytic), produced anti-Listerial bacteriocin, exhibited a strong autoaggregating phenotype (85.71%) and demonstrated 6.26 and 12.99% coaggregation with Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium SL 1344 and Escherichia coli LMG 3083 (ETEC), respectively. The degree of adhesion of Ped. pentosaceus OZF to the human Caco-2 cell line was investigated and when compared to the adhesion of pathogenic strains tested, it was shown to inhibit the growth of human enterotoxigenic E. coli LMG 3083 (ETEC) and of Salm. Typhimurium SL 1344. Ped. pentosaceus OZF seems to adhere to human intestinal cells via mechanisms that involve different combinations of carbohydrate and lipid factors on the bacteria and eukaryotic cell surface. The percentage of adhesion to n-hexadecane was 34% showing that the surface was rather hydrophilic. Higher affinity displayed by Ped. pentosaceus OZF for chloroform demonstrates the basic property of a cell, which may be due to the presence of carboxylic groups on the cell surface.
Tissue
engineering and regenerative medicine have evolved into
a different concept, the so-called clinical tissue engineering. Within
this context, the synthesis of next-generation inorganic–organic
hybrid constructs without the use of chemical crosslinkers emerges
with a great potential for treating bone defects. Here, we propose
a sophisticated approach for synthesizing cost-effective boron (B)-
and silicon (Si)-incorporated collagen/hair keratin (B-Si-Col-HK)
cryogels with the help of sol–gel reactions. In this approach,
collagen and hair keratin were engaged with a B-Si network using tetraethyl
orthosilicate as a silica precursor, and the obtained cryogels were
characterized in depth with attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform
infrared spectroscopy, solid-state NMR, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric
analysis, porosity and swelling tests, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller
and Barrett–Joyner–Halenda analyses, frequency sweep
and temperature-dependent rheology, contact angle analysis, micromechanical
tests, and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray
analysis. In addition, the cell survival and osteogenic features of
the cryogels were evaluated by the MTS test, live/dead assay, immuno/histochemistry,
and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analyses. We
conclude that the B-Si-networked Col-HK cryogels having good mechanical
durability and osteoinductive features would have the potential bone
formation capability.
The main goal of this study was to develop an improved oral delivery system for Pediococcus pentosaceus OZF, a promising probiotic bacterium, and to assess its viability under simulated gastrointestinal (GI) tract model by comparing the efficiency of microbiological and molecular approaches. Encapsulation was carried out using extrusion method and as a result, encapsulation system including 0.75 % lactulose, 1.8 % sodium alginate, 0.1 M CaCl2, and 5 min gelling time was shown to have a significantly protective effect against pH 2.0 acid stress over 3 h. However, completely loss of viability was exhibited by free OZF cells under similar conditions. To provide an additional barrier for capsules, coating process was investigated using different biopolymers, and the survival rates of free and encapsulated OZF cells upon expose to simulated GI conditions were detected by conventional culture techniques and propidium monoazide-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PMA-qPCR) method. No significant differences between the biopolymers were detected, except the chitosan which leads totally 85 % protection and extra 25 % improvement in the survival of OZF cells compared to uncoated capsules. In conclusion, our findings indicated that chitosan-coated capsules provided an important protective effect on the viability of OZF cells against the GI system conditions encountered during the transit of food. In addition, this study was found successful in monitoring the viable OZF cells in capsules using PMA-qPCR method.
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