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Fish oils with a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are gaining increasing interest in the food and nutraceutical industry, due to their important functional properties for human beings- health improvement. The most important PUFAs have at least two double bonds placed on the carbon chain. These include ?-linolenic acid (ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahaxaneoic acid (DHA). Microencapsulation is a technique used to protect the bioactive compounds from oxidative damage, to ensure their ...

The ultimate goal of this study is to obtain antimicrobial textiles, useful in various skin infections with different bacterial strains, due to the unique properties of contained essential oils, such as: antimicrobial and antiinflamatory effects. Four different matrices of biologic active systems in forms of stable emulsions were used in this study, namely: bee wax ? essential oil, chitosan ? agar ? essential oil, xanthan gum ? essential oil, xanthan gum ? gelatin ? essential oil and four different types of essent...