Sangeeta Khare

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of guidelines for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macro-autophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: An international group of experts in the field of epithelial barriers was convened from academia, industry and regulatory bodies to present both the current state of the art of non-animal models of the skin, intestinal and pulmonary barriers and to discuss future directions for both the development of new models and the refinement of existing test methods.

TL;DR: Small-size AgNP have significant effects on intestinal permeability in an in vitro model of the human gastrointestinal epithelium, which has the potential to compromise the integrity of the intestinal epithelia and this disruption of barrier function could have health consequences for the gastrointestinal tract.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the antiviral effects of AgNPs are both size and dose dependent, thus potential applications ofAgNPs as antiviral agents to prevent contamination of foodborne viruses need to consider size and doses effects.