Peptides and proteins remain poorly bioavailable upon oral administration. One of the most
promising strategies to improve their oral delivery relies on their association with colloidal …

Incorporation of bioactive compounds–such as vitamins, probiotics, bioactive peptides, and
antioxidants etc.–into food systems provide a simple way to develop novel functional foods …

Since the publication of the first edition, important developments have emerged in modern
mushroom biology and world mushroom production and products. The relationship of …

Lectins are proteins with diverse molecular structures that share the ability to recognize and
bind specifically and reversibly to carbohydrate structures without changing the …

Lectins are proteins with a high degree of stereospecificity to recognize various sugar
structures and form reversible linkages upon interaction with glyco-conjugate complexes …

Mucoadhesion, the state in which two materials, amongst which one is biological in nature,
adhere to each other for extended periods of time with the help of interfacial forces, provides …

As the field of biotechnology has advanced, oral protein delivery has also made significant
progress. Oral delivery is the most common method of drug administration with high levels of …

The oral route constitutes the preferred route for drug delivery. However, numerous drugs
remain poorly available when administered by this route. In order to circumvent this problem …

The basal position of fish in vertebrate phylogeny makes them very attractive for genomic
and functional comparative immunity studies. Adaptive immunity arose early in vertebrate …

The legume lectins are a large family of homologous carbohydrate binding proteins that are
found mainly in the seeds of most legume plants. Despite their strong similarity on the level …