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Toward A Symbiotic Perspective On Public Health: Recognizing The Ambivalence Of Microbes In The Anthropocene, S. Sariola, Scott F. Gilbert Jan 2020

Toward A Symbiotic Perspective On Public Health: Recognizing The Ambivalence Of Microbes In The Anthropocene, S. Sariola, Scott F. Gilbert

Biology Faculty Works

Microbes evolve in complex environments that are often fashioned, in part, by human desires. In a global perspective, public health has played major roles in structuring how microbes are perceived, cultivated, and destroyed. The germ theory of disease cast microbes as enemies of the body and the body politic. Antibiotics have altered microbial development by providing stringent natural selection on bacterial species, and this has led to the formation of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. Public health perspectives such as “Precision Public Health” and “One Health” have recently been proposed to further manage microbial populations. However, neither of these take into account …


Effect Of Enzymatic Hydrolysis On The Allergenic Capacity Of Shrimp Tropomyosin, Angela Silke May 2017

Effect Of Enzymatic Hydrolysis On The Allergenic Capacity Of Shrimp Tropomyosin, Angela Silke

Honors College

Food allergy is caused by allergenic proteins within food reacting negatively with IgE antibodies in the human body. Shrimp, part of the shellfish is one of the big eight allergenic foods that can cause anaphylaxis. This study is an attempt to investigate a method of reducing shrimp allergenicity using plant-based enzymes. Shrimp was marinated for 3, 6 or 16 hours in three enzyme solutions of 3% and 5% for Papain, Bromelain and 4% and 8% for Ficin. The effect of marination times with these concentrations on the allergenic proteins was tested using BCA Assay, Lowry Assay, Indirect ELISA and SDS-PAGE, …