Abstract: Humans cannot live without salt as it brings out the flavor in foods. It is also a fact that salt is present almost everywhere inside our body, where it is both a requirement and a nourishment for certain cellular activities. This paper focuses two areas of studies: the analysis of different food salts and their benefits in health. The samples salts are collected from different regions. The analysis part included solubility of food salts in water at various temperature, pH of food salts, conductivity of food salts, determination of the amount of Na+ ion, I- ion and Cl- ion, the moisture content of food salts. The results obtained from the antimicrobial properties, vitamin C content, fermentation of yeast, rehydration solution experiments confirmed the benefits of various food salts in human health.

• Publication Date: 21-Jul-2019
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-174-0-02
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Abstract: Organ donor shortage as well as an increasing demand for personalized medicine have opened up new avenues in tissue engineering. As 3D bioprinting may provide promising solutions, bioinks of different compositions are being developed to serve bioprinting needs. As for the development of suitable bioinks, certain challenges and limitations still exist including: The use of inorganic, unnatural or undefined natural materials, UV and chemical crosslinking for gelation, and fidelity of 3D structures. Self-assembling peptides boast an advantage of resembling human-like materials and activating instantaneous gelation. In this paper, ultrashort peptides are used for 3D bioprinting. The printed scaffolds are analyzed for structure fidelity, cell viability, and proliferation. The results are compared with commercial Biogelxâ„¢ peptide bioinks as a benchmark. Our custom-designed robotic 3D bioprinter is used and compared with the commercial Inkredible+ bioprinter. Our results prove the bioprinta

• Publication Date: 21-Jul-2019
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-174-0-03
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