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Essential oils represent an alternative for treating microbial infections because they are natural vegetal compounds with lower or no side effects for the host compared with artificially synthetized antimicrobial compounds, representing one of the ecological anti-infectious strategies.
This suggests that despite the relative minimal diffusion due to the inclusion of the essential oil in the nanoparticles layer, the vegetal compounds may be exerting a metabolic interference in biofilm.
Vegetal compounds per se did not significantly modify glucose-stimulated insulin release.
Studies are in progress in our laboratory to establish which steps in cytokine-mediated signalling cascades in β-cells are specifically targeted by these vegetal compounds.
Cytokine-induced NO production from cultured islets, evaluated by nitrites measurement in the medium, was significantly reduced in the presence of the vegetal compounds.
In human islets, similar results were obtained, being the vegetal compounds able to significantly reduce (p < 0.05) the cytokine-induced increment of nitrites in the medium, although no dose-dependent effect was observed.
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Let's consider the case of methoxypyrazine, those vegetal, green pepper aroma compounds.
Tannins are mostly vegetal water-soluble polyphenolic compounds with molecular weight ranged between 500 and some thousand Daltons.
TPA – ear model is useful for the screening of new topical anti-inflammatory compounds and vegetal extracts.
As with other bioactive substances in plants, research is still ongoing to develop suitable techniques to extract these compounds from vegetal tissues.
Essential vegetal oils are natural compounds that have proved to be highly efficient as antimicrobial agents, demonstrating significant anti-adherence and anti-biofilm properties [17, 18].
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