ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Skin is the largest organ in the human body and serves as a barrier that protects the underlying tissue of the host from infection. Injury, however, destroys this protective barrier and provides a perfect ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research on probiotics has increased over the past years, which led to commercialization of a number of probiotic supplements and functional foods. In vitro assays such as tolerance to acid and bile, ...

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The conversion of cellulosic biomass into fuels and chemicals has the potential to positively impact the South African economy, but is reliant on the development of low-cost conversion technology. Perhaps ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Xylose is the second most abundant sugar present in plant biomass. Plant biomass is the only potential renewable and sustainable source of energy available to mankind at present, especially in the ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Yeast species differ remarkably in their ability to degrade extracellular dicarboxylic acids and to utilise them as their only source of carbon. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe effectively ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hemicellulose, consisting mainly of xylan, ranks after cellulose, as the most abundant group of renewable polysaccharides in agricultural biomass. Xylan is a complex polymer consisting of a β D 1,4 linked ...