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Pleuran (β-glucan from Pleurotus ostreatus ): an effective nutritional supplement against upper respiratory tract infections?Juraj Majtan
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Med Sport Sci 59:57-61. 2012..This review refers to using pleuran as a natural supplement that is able to protect endurance athletes against development of URTI...- Methylglyoxal-induced modifications of significant honeybee proteinous components in manuka honey: Possible therapeutic implicationsJuraj Majtan
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
Fitoterapia 83:671-7. 2012..We assume that MGO could also have negative effects on the structure and function of other proteins/peptides in manuka honey, including glucose oxidase, generating hydrogen peroxide... - Dimethyl sulfoxide attenuates TNF-α-induced production of MMP-9 in human keratinocytesJuraj Majtan
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
J Toxicol Environ Health A 74:1319-22. 2011..Therefore, DMSO may provide a good strategy to prevent TNF-α-induced proteolytic activity in cutaneous inflammatory reactions... 
[Apitherapy--the role of honey in the chronic wound healing process]J Majtan
Ustav Zoológie, Slovenská Akadémia Vied, Bratislava
Epidemiol Mikrobiol Imunol 58:137-40. 2009..Controlled clinical trials have shown honey to be effective in chronic wound healing and gave rise to medihoney. Nevertheless, further study is needed to confirm the efficacy and safety of honey in clinical practice...- Honeydew honey as a potent antibacterial agent in eradication of multi-drug resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolates from cancer patientsJuraj Majtan
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
Phytother Res 25:584-7. 2011..maltophilia isolates and was more efficient than manuka honey (UMF 15+). Honeydew honey with strong antibacterial activity could be used as a potential agent to eradicate multi-drug resistant clinical isolates... - Increasing trend of resistance to nalidixic acid and emerging ceftriaxone and ciprofloxacin resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in Slovakia, 2005 to 2009Juraj Majtan
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 68:86-8. 2010..In addition, 10 ceftriaxone-resistant and 3 ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium isolates were detected over the period of study... - Effect of honey and its major royal jelly protein 1 on cytokine and MMP-9 mRNA transcripts in human keratinocytesJuraj Majtan
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Exp Dermatol 19:e73-9. 2010..These data indisputably demonstrate that honey activates keratinocytes and support the findings that honey may accelerate wound healing process... - Induction of metalloproteinase 9 secretion from human keratinocytes by pleuran (beta-glucan from Pleurotus ostreatus)Juraj Majtan
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia
Z Naturforsch C 64:597-600. 2009..The results indicate that pleuran is a potent keratinocyte stimulator of proMMP-9 release, which implies its application in dermatological therapies... - Phenotypic and molecular characterization of human salmonella enterica serovar 4,[5],12:i:- isolates in SlovakiaViktor Majtan
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Limbova 14, 833 03 Bratislava, Slovakia
Curr Microbiol 63:491-5. 2011..enterica serovar 4,[5],12:i:- strains. In two isolates with R-type ASSuT, phage type NT and in one isolate with R-type ACROSSuSxTTTMPNA, phage type DT193 class 1 integrons were found encoding bla(PSE-1) and dfrA, aadA1, respectively... - Trends in phage types of Salmonella enterica serovars Enteritidis and Typhimurium isolated in Slovakia from 1995 to 2009Lubica Majtanova
National Reference Centre for Phage Typing of Salmonellae, Slovak Medical University, Limbova 14, 833 03, Bratislava, Slovakia
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 69:454-6. 2011..Among Salmonella Enteritidis in individual years, the most prevalent phage type (PT) was 8. The most predominant PTs of Salmonella Typhimurium were DT104 and U302... - Pleuran (β-glucan from Pleurotus ostreatus) supplementation, cellular immune response and respiratory tract infections in athletesKatarina Bergendiova
Pneumo Alergo Centrum, s r o, Uzbecka 16, 821 06, Bratislava, Slovakia
Eur J Appl Physiol 111:2033-40. 2011..These findings indicate that pleuran may serve as an effective nutritional supplement for athletes under heavy physical training. Additional research is needed to determine the mechanisms of pleuran function... - Honey prophylaxis reduces the risk of endophthalmitis during perioperative period of eye surgeryMartin Cernák
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Antolska 11, 851 07, Bratislava, Slovakia
Phytother Res 26:613-6. 2012..These results indicate that honey may act as a prophylactic agent of endophthalmitis; however, further studies are needed to characterize its ocular penetration properties...