Open sesame

Marsh M, Helenius A. Virus entry open sesame. Cell 2006 124(4) 729-40. 

This story - a version of the Open Sesame story from the Arabian One Thousand and One Nights -is in the Grimms collection of fairy-tales of 1812-15. 

Sainz, J, and Sata, M. (2008) Open sesame CXCR4 blockade recruits neutrophils into the plaque. Circulation Research, 102, 154—156. 

In our previous work we have developed the tool OpenSESAME (Simple but Extensive, Structured Availability Modeling Environment (Walter Schneeweiss 2005 Walter et al. 2008 Walter 2000)). In OpenSESAME, systems structures are specified using reliability block diagrams or fault trees. So called failure dependency diagrams (FDD) are used to describe failures with a common cause, failure propagation and so on. Furthermore, shared repair resources and non-zero fail-over times between redimdant components can be modeled with Open-SESAME. 

Sesame oil (also known as gingelly oil or til oil) is an organic oil of the plant Sesamum indicum grown mainly in India and China but also in Myanmar (Burma), Sudan, and Mexico. The sesame seeds are protected by a capsule, which does not burst open until the seeds are completely ripe. The ripening time tends to vary. For this reason, the farmers cut the plants by hand and place them together in an upright position to carry ont ripening for a few days. The seeds are only shaken out onto a cloth after all the capsules have opened. ... 

The advent of functional foods and nutraceuticals on the market has blurred the distinction between pharma and nutrition [1]. Obviously, the concept of foods promoting health is not new. In 400 b.c., Hippocrates already sentenced Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food [2], and in the countries of the far East, influenced by Chinese culture, foods such as glutinous rice, wheat, sesame, jujube, gingiber, or leek were included in Chinese medicine books for their traditional use for chronic diseases [3]. Nowadays, the development of functional foods is one of the most intensive areas of food product development worldwide, opening multiple challenges for countries with a vast biodiversity and historical use of plant extracts [4]. 

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