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Encapsulation is currently considered as one the most valuable methods for preserving aromatic compounds or hiding odors, enhancing their thermal and oxidative stability, and expanding their food applications. Indeed, this current article was aimed to provide an overview regarding the encapsulation of plant bioactive compounds and the spray-drying and extrusion processes with a focused discussion regarding the encountered challenges for meat and meat product preservation. Furthermore, different ranges of carbohydrates as wall materials (carriers) besides the process conditions' effects on the encapsulation effectiveness and the particle size of the encapsulated bioactive compounds have been discussed. The encapsulation of these compounds ameliorates the quality of the stored meat products by further delaying in microflora growth and lipid/protein oxidation. Therefore, the innovative technologies for plant active compounds encapsulation offer a prospective alternative for natural preservation development in the meat industry.

Growing evidence supports the efficacy of multicomponent, explicit, phonics-based reading instruction for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). However, little is known about the implementation of such instruction.

The purpose of this observation study was to describe the content and quality of reading instruction provided to kindergarten through third grade students with IDD in self-contained classrooms.

Researchers observed seven special education teachers and their seventeen students, examined teacher perspectives via survey and interview, and reviewed student Individualized Education Programs. Researchers coded 2,901 minutes of instruction for content, grouping, materials, instructional quality, engagement, and time spent reading connected text, using a tool adapted for the IDD population.

Observed instructional content focused on phonics/word study, followed by vocabulary and comprehension, then other areas. Within the already small classes, instruction was generally delivered individually or in small groups. Instructional quality and engagement varied by activity.

Study findings suggest a need for greater systematic investigation of content and methods pertaining to reading instruction for students with IDD, instructional quality and engagement, and connections to student outcomes.

Study findings suggest a need for greater systematic investigation of content and methods pertaining to reading instruction for students with IDD, instructional quality and engagement, and connections to student outcomes.Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a significant liver disease without approved therapy, lacking human NAFLD models to aid drug development. Existing models are either under-performing or too complex to allow robust drug screening. Here we have developed a 100-well drug testing platform with improved HepaRG organoids formed with uniform size distribution, and differentiated in situ in a perfusion microfluidic device, SteatoChip, to recapitulate major NAFLD features. Compared with the pre-differentiated spheroids, the in situ differentiated HepaRG organoids with perfusion experience well-controlled chemical and mechanical microenvironment, and 3D cellular niche, to exhibit enhanced hepatic differentiation (albumin+ cells ratio 66.2% in situ perfusion vs 46.1% pre-differentiation), enriched and uniform hepatocyte distribution in organoids, higher level of hepatocyte functions (5.2 folds in albumin secretion and 7.6 folds in urea synthesis), enhanced cell polarity and bile canaliculi structures. When induced with free fatty acid (FFA), cells exhibit significantly higher level of lipid accumulation (6.6 folds for in situ perfusion vs 4.4 folds for pre-differentiation), altered glucose regulation and reduced Akt phosphorylation in the organoids. SteatoChip detects reduction of steatosis when cells are incubated with three different anti-steatosis compounds, 78.5% by metformin hydrochloride, 71.3% by pioglitazone hydrochloride and 66.6% by obeticholic acid, versus the control FFA-free media (38% reduction). The precision microenvironment control in SteatoChip enables improved formation, differentiation, and function of HepaRG organoids to serve as a scalable and sensitive drug testing platform, to potentially accelerate the NAFLD drug development.Early antitumor therapy is an important determinant of survival in patients with cancer. Utilization of specific pathological states, such as hypoxia, greatly promotes the development of intelligent drug delivery systems (DDSs) for targeted antitumor therapy. However, a slight decrease in oxygen levels in early-stage tumors is not sufficient to trigger hypoxia-responsive drug release. Nitroreductase (NTR) is overexpressed in bioreductive hypoxic cancers, and its expression level has been verified to be directly related to hypoxic status. Herein, using glucose oxidase (GOx) as an O2-consuming agent to exacerbate hypoxia, a cascade strategy of GOx-induced overexpression of NTR and amplified NTR-catalyzed release was proposed for early antitumor therapy. Briefly, NTR-sensitive p-nitrobenzyl chloroformate (PNZ-Cl) was adopted to conjugate with the polysaccharide chitosan (CS) and self-assemble into CS-PNZ-Cl micelles. These polymer micelles possess the dual abilities to specifically immobilize GOx and load mitoxantrone (MIT) to form the NTR-responsive nanocascade reactor GOx/MIT@CS-PNZ-Cl. First, as a "key", tumor hypoxia triggers the initial release of GOx, which serves as the O2-consuming agent when catalyzing its reaction with glucose, which is accompanied by H2O2 production. Depleted oxygen levels facilitate the expression of NTR, which in turn amplifies the capacity of the nanocascade reactor to decompose into secondary micelles for enhanced intratumoral permeation. selleck chemicals llc GOx-inspired NTR amplification further elicits MIT release, realizing a synergistic "domino effect" cascade. In addition, upregulated H2O2 has been shown to effectively reverse GSH-mediated MIT resistance, reaching the superior tumor inhibition rate of 93.08%. This GOx-based NTR-responsive nanocascade reactor provides amplification of the bioreductive hypoxic tumor microenvironment for early antitumor therapy.