Research Library

Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Giancarlo Agnelli, Cecilia Becattini

New England Journal of Medicine

Pulmonary embolism should be suspected in all patients who present with new or worsening dyspnea, chest pain, or sustained hypotension without a clear alternative cause. This review focuses on the...

Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Biochemical, Nutritional and Epigenetic Properties

Paola Benatti, Gianfranco Peluso, Raffaella Nicolai +1

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) have effects on diverse physiological processes impacting normal health and chronic diseases, such as the regulation of plasma lipid levels, cardiovascular...

Wine Phenolics

Andrew L. Waterhouse

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Wine contains many phenolic substances, most of which originate in the grape berry. The phenolics have a number of important functions in wine, affecting the tastes of bitterness and astringency,...

Diphenyl Diselenide and Ascorbic Acid Changes Deposition of Selenium and Ascorbic Acid in Liver and Brain of Mice

Maria C. Jacques-Silva, Cristina W. Nogueira, Luis Carlos Broch +2

Pharmacology & Toxicology

Sodium selenite (Na2SeO3) is the selenium form used in the composition of dietary supplements, and diphenyl diselenide (PhSe)2 is an important intermediate in organic synthesis, which increases the...

Virulence Functions of Autotransporter Proteins

Ian R. Henderson, James P. Nataro

Infection and Immunity

Bacterial pathogens must execute a prodigious array of complex functions in order to survive, multiply, and disseminate within mammalian hosts. Virulence determinants are usually proteinaceous in...

Associations of serum and dietary magnesium with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, insulin, and carotid arterial wall thickness: The aric study

Jing Ma, Aaron R. Folsom, Sandra Melnick +5

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

A simple method of preparing plant samples for PCR

Hong Wang, Meiqing Qi, Adrian J. Cutler

Nucleic Acids Research

Peer reviewed: Yes

Salmonella typhimurium activates virulence gene transcription within acidified macrophage phagosomes.

Cristina Aranda, Joel A. Swanson, Wendy P. Loomis +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Survival of Salmonella typhimurium within macrophage phagosomes requires the coordinate expression of bacterial gene products. This report examines the contribution of phagosomal pH as a signal for...

Associations among Wine Grape Microbiome, Metabolome, and Fermentation Behavior Suggest Microbial Contribution to Regional Wine Characteristics

Nicholas A. Bokulich, Thomas S. Collins, Chad Masarweh +4

mBio

Wine production is a multi-billion-dollar global industry for which microbial control and wine chemical composition are crucial aspects of quality. Terroir is an important feature of consumer...

Guidance for diagnosis and treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation from harmonization of the recommendations from three guidelines

Hideo Wada, Jecko Thachil, Marcello Di Nisio +8

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Cross-contamination and recontamination by Salmonella in foods: A review

Elena Carrasco, Andrés Morales-Rueda, Rosa Marı́a Garcı́a-Gimeno

Food Research International

T Regulatory Lymphocytes Prevent Angiotensin II–Induced Hypertension and Vascular Injury

Tlili Barhoumi, Daniel Arthur Barata Kasal, Melissa W. Li +5

Hypertension

Angiotensin (Ang) II induces hypertension by mechanisms mediated in part by adaptive immunity and T effector lymphocytes. T regulatory lymphocytes (Tregs) suppress T effector lymphocytes. We...

Stevia (<i>Stevia rebaudiana</i>) a bio-sweetener: a review

Sudha Goyal, Samsher, Rajni Goyal

International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Studies revealed that Stevia has been used throughout the world since ancient times for various purposes; for example, as a sweetener and a medicine. We conducted a systematic literature review to...

Intestinal bacteria and ageing

Emma Woodmansey

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Advancements in science and medicine, as well as improved living standards, have led to a steady increase in life expectancy, and subsequently a rise in the elderly population. The intestinal...

Rheology of Fluid and Semisolid Foods

M.A. Rao

Food engineering series

Structure-Function Relationships of Glucansucrase and Fructansucrase Enzymes from Lactic Acid Bacteria

Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum, Slavko Kralj, Łukasz Ozimek +2

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) employ sucrase-type enzymes to convert sucrose into homopolysaccharides consisting of either glucosyl units (glucans) or fructosyl units (fructans). The enzymes involved...

Chaperone release and unfolding of substrates in type III secretion

Yukihiro Akeda, Jorge E. Galán

Nature

Food Processing Technology. Principles and Practice

Niels Skovgaard

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Antibacterial Activity of <i>Cuminum cyminum</i> L. and <i>Carum carvi </i>L. Essential Oils

Nicola Sante Iacobellis, Pietro Lo Cantore, Francesco Capasso +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Essential oils extracted by hydrodistillation from fruits of Cuminum cyminum L. and Carum carvi L. were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry (MS). The main components of C....

Legionella phagosomes intercept vesicular traffic from endoplasmic reticulum exit sites

Jonathan C. Kagan, Craig R. Roy

Nature Cell Biology

Copper

Donald G. Barceloux, Donald Barceloux

Journal of Toxicology Clinical Toxicology

Copper is an essential trace element, which is an important catalyst for heme synthesis and iron absorption. Following zinc and iron, copper is the third most abundant trace element in the body....

Antioxidant and eicosanoid enzyme inhibition properties of pomegranate seed oil and fermented juice flavonoids

Shay Schubert, Ephraim Philip Lansky, Ishak Neéman

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

A 1-year study of <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157 in cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry

P. A. Chapman, C. A. Siddons, A. T. CERDAN MALO +1

Epidemiology and Infection

Samples of rectal faeces were collected immediately after slaughter from 400 cattle each month for a 1-year period and from 1000 each of sheep, pigs and poultry over the same period. Samples were...

Identification of Character Impact Odorants of Different White Wine Varieties

H. Guth

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Application of gas chromatography/olfactometry (GC/O) to the analysis of extracts of Scheurebe and Gewürztraminer wines yielded 36 and 40 odor-active compounds, respectively. Ethyl 2-methylbutyrate,...

Efficacy of the Ryu nonstaining KOH technique for rapidly determining gram reactions of food-borne and waterborne bacteria and yeasts

Edmund M. Powers

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

A simple and rapid (< 60 s) nonstaining technique with 3% potassium hydroxide to determine Gram reactions was tested with 495 food-borne and waterborne bacteria and yeasts. In KOH, suspensions of...

Cancer and venous thromboembolism

Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Archives of Internal Medicine

Previous case reports, autopsy series, and another cohort study¹have demonstrated a clinically important and statistically significant association between occult cancer and pulmonary...

Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Basic Principles and Clinical Practice

Jerrold A. Clark

Critical Care Medicine

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Adjusted Subcutaneous Heparin versus Warfarin Sodium in the Long-Term Treatment of Venous Thrombosis

Russell D. Hull, Terry Delmore, Cedric Carter +5

New England Journal of Medicine

Previously, we compared fixed low doses of heparin with adjusted doses of warfarin for the long-term treatment of venous thrombosis; in that study low-dose heparin was ineffective in preventing...

Management of Heparin Therapy

Edwin W. Salzman, Daniel Deykin, Ruth Mayer Shapiro +1

New England Journal of Medicine

Among 100 consecutive patients receiving heparin in therapeutic dosage, major bleeding occurred in 21, and minor bleeding in 16. Two patients died from bleeding, and two had recurrent pulmonary...

Structure and function of the cell envelope of gram-negative bacteria

J. W. Costerton, JohnT. Ingram, K.-J. Cheng

Bacteriological Reviews

The Biology of Lactoferrin, an Iron-Binding Protein That Can Help Defend Against Viruses and Bacteria

Douglas B. Kell, Eugene L. Heyden, Etheresia Pretorius

Frontiers in Immunology

Lactoferrin is a nutrient classically found in mammalian milk. It binds iron and is transferred via a variety of receptors into and between cells, serum, bile, and cerebrospinal fluid. It has...

Implications of butyrate and its derivatives for gut health and animal production

Andrea Bedford, Joshua Gong

Animal nutrition

Butyrate is produced by microbial fermentation in the large intestine of humans and animals. It serves as not only a primary nutrient that provides energy to colonocytes, but also a cellular mediator...

Nisin as a Food Preservative: Part 1: Physicochemical Properties, Antimicrobial Activity, and Main Uses

Adem Gharsallaoui, Nadia Oulahal, Catherine Joly +1

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Nisin is a natural preservative for many food products. This bacteriocin is mainly used in dairy and meat products. Nisin inhibits pathogenic food borne bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes and...

Selenium compounds as therapeutic agents in cancer

Aristi P. Fernandes, Valentina Gandin

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects

Structure‐function relationships of starch components

Varatharajan Vamadevan, Eric Bertoft

Starch - Stärke

Abstract Starch continues to be an important renewable biopolymer in both the food and non‐food industries. Its properties, which vary depending on the plant source, stem directly from its structure....

Agri‐fresh produce supply chain management: a state‐of‐the‐art literature review

Manish Shukla, Sanjay Jharkharia

International Journal of Operations & Production Management

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a literature review of the fresh produce supply chain management (FSCM). FSCM includes the processes from the production to consumption of fresh...

Coordinated Regulation of Accessory Genetic Elements Produces Cyclic Di-Nucleotides for V. cholerae Virulence

Bryan W. Davies, Ryan W. Bogard, Travis S. Young +1

Cell

Fabrication of vitamin E-enriched nanoemulsions: Factors affecting particle size using spontaneous emulsification

Amir Hossein Saberi, Yuan Fang, David Julian McClements

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Blaming the consumer – once again: the social and material contexts of everyday food waste practices in some English households

David M. Evans

Critical Public Health

In public debates about the volume of food that is currently wasted by UK households, there exists a tendency to blame the consumer or individualise responsibilities for affecting change. Drawing on...

Physiology of Consumption of Human Milk Oligosaccharides by Infant Gut-associated Bifidobacteria

Sadaki Asakuma, Emi Hatakeyama, Tadasu Urashima +7

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The bifidogenic effect of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) has long been known, yet the precise mechanism underlying it remains unresolved. Recent studies show that some species/subspecies of...

Pathological aspects of lipid peroxidation

Anne Nègre‐Salvayre, Nathalie Augè, Victòria Ayala +22

Free Radical Research

Lipid peroxidation (LPO) product accumulation in human tissues is a major cause of tissular and cellular dysfunction that plays a major role in ageing and most age-related and oxidative...

Essentiality and Toxicity in Copper Health Risk Assessment: Overview, Update and Regulatory Considerations

Bonnie Stern

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health

Copper (Cu), an essential element required as a cofactor and/or structural component of numerous metalloenzymes, is uniquely positioned as a case study for issues associated with the essential metals...

Compositional, technological and nutritional aspects of dromedary camel milk

Omar A. Al haj, Hamad A. Al Kanhal

International Dairy Journal

Lactoferrin as a Natural Immune Modulator

Jeffrey K. Actor, Shen‐An Hwang, Marian L. Kruzel

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Lactoferrin, an iron-binding glycoprotein, is a cell-secreted mediator that bridges innate and adaptive immune function in mammals. It is a pleiotropic molecule that directly assists in the influence...

Vitamin C: update on physiology and pharmacology

J. Mandl, András Szarka, Gábor Bánhegyi

British Journal of Pharmacology

Although ascorbic acid is an important water-soluble antioxidant and enzyme cofactor in plants and animals, humans and some other species do not synthesize ascorbate due to the lack of the enzyme...

Cesarean Delivery May Affect the Early Biodiversity of Intestinal Bacteria1,

Giacomo Biasucci, Belinda Benenati, Lorenzo Morelli +2

Journal of Nutrition

Flavanol monomer-induced changes to the human faecal microflora

Xenofon Tzounis, Jelena Vulevic, Gunter Kuhnle +5

British Journal Of Nutrition

We have investigated the bacterial-dependent metabolism of ( - )-epicatechin and (+)-catechin using a pH-controlled, stirred, batch-culture fermentation system reflective of the distal region of the...

Slow Digestion Property of Native Cereal Starches

Genyi Zhang, Zihua Ao, Bruce R. Hamaker

Biomacromolecules

The slow digestion property of native cereal starches, represented by normal maize starch, was investigated. The in vitro Englyst test showed that 53.0% of the maize starch is slowly digestible...

Probiotic properties of human lactobacilli strains to be used in the gastrointestinal tract

M. Fernanda Fernández, S. Boris, Covadonga Barbés

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Two strains of Lactobacillus isolated from human vagina of healthy premenopausal women could be promising candidates to be used in the preparation of probiotic products and for their use as...