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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,476 Views
18 Pages

Dragon’s blood sap (DBS) obtained from the bark of Croton lechleri (Müll, Arg.) is a complex herbal remedy of pharmacological interest due to its high content in polyphenols, specifically proanthocyanidins. In this paper, electrospraying a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,805 Views
22 Pages

16 October 2024

This study explores the impact on the stability of drying and the encapsulation of a camu camu extract (CCX) using the non-thermal, high-throughput electrospraying assisted by pressurized gas (EAPG) technique. The dried and encapsulated products by t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
230 Views
38 Pages

24 December 2025

In this paper, we develop the extended proximal gradient algorithm with Nesterov’s second acceleration (EAPGs) for constrained difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems. EAPGs has two key links to existing methods: it extends APGs (for un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,134 Views
22 Pages

Chitosan Nanoparticles Entrapping Aqueous Psidium guajava L. Leaf Extracts: A Promising Approach for Topically Treating Disorders in Oral Mucosa

  • Renata Paula Coppini Almeida,
  • Samuel Leite Cardoso,
  • Seila Tolentino,
  • Artur Fiuza Borges Arantes,
  • Isabella Souza Mota,
  • Guilherme Martins Gelfuso,
  • Felipe Saldanha-Araujo,
  • Eliete Neves Silva Guerra,
  • Yanna Karla Medeiros Nobrega and
  • Pérola Oliveira Magalhães
  • + 3 authors

8 October 2025

Psidium guajava L. (Myrtaceae) is a neotropical species whose leaf extracts demonstrate efficacy against cutaneous and mucosal inflammation and ulceration. This study aimed to prepare and characterize aqueous extracts of P. guajava leaves (EAPG) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,512 Views
15 Pages

Cardioprotective Mechanisms of Interrupted Anesthetic Preconditioning with Sevoflurane in the Setting of Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Rats

  • Mihaela Roxana Popescu,
  • Bogdan Pavel,
  • Gheorghita Isvoranu,
  • Laura Cristina Ceafalan,
  • Anca Maria Panaitescu,
  • Ruxandra Irina Sava,
  • Adelina Vlad and
  • Leon Zagrean

29 January 2022

Background: Anesthetic preconditioning (AP) is known to mimic ischemic preconditioning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of an interrupted sevoflurane administration protocol on myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,209 Views
16 Pages

Room Temperature Nanoencapsulation of Bioactive Eicosapentaenoic Acid Rich Oil within Whey Protein Microparticles

  • Juan David Escobar-García,
  • Cristina Prieto,
  • Maria Pardo-Figuerez and
  • Jose M. Lagaron

25 February 2021

In this study, emulsion electrospraying assisted by pressurized gas (EAPG) has been performed for the first time to entrap ca. 760 nm droplets of the bioactive eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)-rich oil into whey protein concentrate (WPC) at room temperatu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,387 Views
18 Pages

6 February 2020

Long chain polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids (PUFAs), namely eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), are important functional ingredients due to their well-documented health benefits, but highly susceptible to oxidation. One of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,373 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2022

In this paper, the effect of protein purity in three different whey protein grades on the characteristics of algae oil encapsulates obtained via room-temperature electrospraying assisted by pressurized gas (EAPG) encapsulation process was studied. Th...