Functional textiles for atopic dermatitis: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
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Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a relapsing inflammatory skin disease with a considerable social and economic burden. Functional textiles may have antimicrobial and antipruritic properties and have been used as complementary treatment in AD. We aimed to assess their effectiveness and safety in this setting. We carried out a systematic review of three large biomedical databases. GRADE approach was used to rate the levels of evidence and grade of recommendation. Meta‐analyses of comparable studies were carried out. Thirteen studies (eight randomized controlled trials and five observational studies) met the eligibility c...
Source: Pediatric Allergy and Immunology - August 27, 2013 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Cristina Lopes, Diana Silva, Luís Delgado, Osvaldo Correia, André Moreira Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Green manure plants for remediation of soils polluted by metals and metalloids: Ecotoxicity and human bioavailability assessment.
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Borage, white mustard and phacelia, green manure plants currently used in agriculture to improve soil properties were cultivated for 10wk on various polluted soils with metal(loid) concentrations representative of urban brownfields or polluted kitchen gardens. Metal(loid) bioavailability and ecotoxicity were measured in relation to soil characteristics before and after treatment. All the plants efficiently grow on the various polluted soils. But borage and mustard only are able to modify the soil characteristics and metal(loid) impact: soil respiration increased while ecotoxicity, bioaccessible le...
Source: Chemosphere - August 19, 2013 Category: Chemistry Authors: Foucault Y, Lévêque T, Xiong T, Schreck E, Austruy A, Shahid M, Dumat C Tags: Chemosphere Source Type: research
Fuel properties of methyl esters of borage and black currant oils containing methyl γ‐linolenate
In this work, the methyl esters of two oils enriched in γ‐linolenic acid (6Z,9Z,12Z‐octadecatrienoic acid) were prepared under the aspect of evaluating their properties, including potential fuel properties. One oil is black currant oil in which γ‐linolenic and α‐linolenic (9Z,12Z,15Z‐octadecatrienoic acid) are relatively evenly distributed, and the other oil is borage oil which mainly contains γ‐linolenic acid as C18:3 species. The fatty acid profiles of both oils confirm literature results. The cetane number (CN) of neat methyl γ‐linolenate was also determined for the first time as 29.2, which is slight...
Source: European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology - June 10, 2013 Category: Lipidology Authors: Gerhard Knothe Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Development of botanical and fish oil standard reference materials for fatty acids.
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As part of a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements and the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed Standard Reference Material (SRM) 3274 Botanical Oils Containing Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids and SRM 3275 Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids in Fish Oil. SRM 3274 consists of one ampoule of each of four seed oils (3274-1 Borage (Borago officinalis), 3274-2 Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis), 3274-3 Flax (Linium usitatissimum), and 3274-4 Perilla (Perilla f...
Source: Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry - February 1, 2013 Category: Chemistry Authors: Schantz MM, Sander LC, Sharpless KE, Wise SA, Yen JH, Nguyenpho A, Betz JM Tags: Anal Bioanal Chem Source Type: research
