Research Library

Towards transparent valorization of food surplus, waste and loss: Clarifying definitions, food waste hierarchy, and role in the circular economy

Dominika Alexa Teigiserova, Lorie Hamelin, Marianne Thomsen

The Science of The Total Environment

Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of Spices

Qing Liu, Xiao Meng, Ya Li +3

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Infectious diseases caused by pathogens and food poisoning caused by spoilage microorganisms are threatening human health all over the world. The efficacies of some antimicrobial agents, which are...

Non-Cholera Vibrios: The Microbial Barometer of Climate Change

Craig Baker‐Austin, Joaquín Triñanes, Narjol González‐Escalona +1

Trends in Microbiology

Nutritional Aspects of Essential Trace Elements in Oral Health and Disease: An Extensive Review

Preeti Tomar Bhattacharya, Satya Ranjan Misra, Mohsina Hussain

Scientifica

Human body requires certain essential elements in small quantities and their absence or excess may result in severe malfunctioning of the body and even death in extreme cases because these essential...

Supplementation of Infant Formula With Probiotics and/or Prebiotics: A Systematic Review and Comment by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition

Christian Braegger, Anna Chmielewska, Tamás Decsi +9

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Infant formulae are increasingly supplemented with probiotics, prebiotics, or synbiotics despite uncertainties regarding their efficacy. The present article, developed by the Committee on Nutrition...

Factors at Admission Associated With Bleeding Risk in Medical Patients

Hervé Decousus, Victor F. Tapson, Jean‐François Bergmann +15

CHEST Journal

Maternal farm exposure modulates neonatal immune mechanisms through regulatory T cells

Bianca Schaub, Jing Liu, Sabine Höppler +6

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Food Reward in the Absence of Taste Receptor Signaling

Ivan E. de Araújo, Albino J. Oliveira‐Maia, Tatyana D. Sotnikova +4

Neuron

Medicinal plants used in Kırklareli Province (Turkey)

Şükran Kültür

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Genome dynamics and diversity of Shigella species, the etiologic agents of bacillary dysentery

Fan Yang

Nucleic Acids Research

The Shigella bacteria cause bacillary dysentery, which remains a significant threat to public health. The genus status and species classification appear no longer valid, as compelling evidence...

Mechanisms of Bactericidal Action of Cinnamaldehyde against <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> and of Eugenol against <i>L. monocytogenes</i> and <i>Lactobacillus sakei</i>

Alexander Gill, Richard A. Holley

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The spice oil components eugenol and cinnamaldehyde possess activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, but the mechanisms of action remain obscure. In broth media at 20 degrees...

Micronutrient Deficiencies and Cognitive Functioning

Maureen M. Black

Journal of Nutrition

Selenium in soil and endemic diseases in China

Jianghao Tan, Weiyan Zhu, Wuyi Wang +4

The Science of The Total Environment

Testing of antifungal natural products: methodologies, comparability of results and assay choice

Franz Hadaček, Harald Greger

Phytochemical Analysis

Antifungal testing of filamentous fungi generally suffers from incomparability of results. In order to illustrate this problem, the polyacetylene falcarindiol and the naphthoquinone juglone, two...

Fat crystals and emulsion stability — a review

Dérick Rousseau

Food Research International

Thalamoamygdaloid projections in the rat: A test of the amygdala's role in sensory processing

Blair H. Turner, Miles Herkenham

The Journal of Comparative Neurology

We used the autoradiographic tract-tracing method to define the amygdaloid projection fields after injecting 3H-amino acids into individual thalamic nuclei in the rat. The parvicellular division of...

A Broad-Spectrum Probe for Molecular Epidemiology of Bacteria: Ribosomal RNA

T L Stull, John J. LiPuma, Thomas D. Edlind

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

We investigated the use of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) as a probe for molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens. The chromosomal DNA of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas cepacia, and nontypable Haemophilus...

Amyloid protein SAA is associated with high density lipoprotein from human serum.

Earl P. Benditt, Nils Eriksen

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Human serums contain a protein antigenically related to protein AA, the principal protein of a major class of amyloid substance. The serum antigen, SAA, occurs mainly in a high molecular weight form,...

Studies on the mechanism of fatty acid synthesis

J. Ganguly

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

THE THIOBACILLI, 12

Wolf Vishniac, Melvin Santer

Bacteriological Reviews

Estimation of the Composition of Beef Carcasses and Cuts

O. G. Hankins, Paul E. Howe, Hankins, O. G. +1

Livestock Production/Industries, Production Economics

Antibacterial Effects of Flavonoids and Their Structure-Activity Relationship Study: A Comparative Interpretation

Nur Farisya Shamsudin, Qamar Uddin Ahmed, Syed Mahmood +6

Molecules

According to the latest report released by the World Health Organization, bacterial resistance to well-known and widely available antibacterial drugs has become a significant and severe global health...

Effects of microbiota-directed foods in gnotobiotic animals and undernourished children

Jeanette L. Gehrig, Siddarth Venkatesh, Hao-Wei Chang +27

Science

To examine the contributions of impaired gut microbial community development to childhood undernutrition, we combined metabolomic and proteomic analyses of plasma samples with metagenomic analyses of...

American Society of Hematology 2018 Guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: treatment of pediatric venous thromboembolism

Paul Monagle, Carlos A. Cuello‐García, Caitlin Augustine +19

Blood Advances

Although the panel offered many recommendations, additional research is required. Priorities include understanding the natural history of asymptomatic thrombosis, determining subgroup boundaries that...

Global trends in dietary micronutrient supplies and estimated prevalence of inadequate intakes

Ty Beal, Eric Massiot, Joanne E Arsenault +2

PLoS ONE

Understanding dietary patterns is vital to reducing the number of people experiencing hunger (about 795 million), micronutrient deficiencies (2 billion), and overweight or obesity (2.1 billion). We...

Stunting, Wasting and Underweight in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

Blessing Akombi-Inyang, Kingsley Agho, John Hall +3

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

<i>Introduction</i>: Child undernutrition is a major public health problem. One third of all undernourished children globally reside in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The aim of this study was to...

Sustaining healthy diets: The role of capture fisheries and aquaculture for improving nutrition in the post-2015 era

Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Patrick Webb +4

Food Policy

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda makes achieving food security and ending malnutrition a global priority. Within this framework, the importance of fisheries in local and global food...

Anticoagulation for the long-term treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

Elie A. Akl, Lara A Kahale, Maddalena Barba +6

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

For the long-term treatment of VTE in patients with cancer, LMWH compared with VKA reduces venous thromboembolic events but not mortality. The decision for a patient with cancer and VTE to start...

Green synthesis and characterization of selenium nanoparticles and its augmented cytotoxicity with doxorubicin on cancer cells

CH. Ramamurthy, K. S. Sampath, P. Arunkumar +4

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

Cytosolic zinc buffering and muffling: Their role in intracellular zinc homeostasis

Robert A. Colvin, William R. Holmes, Charles P. Fontaine +1

Metallomics

Our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of intracellular homeostatic control of zinc ions is now firmly grounded on experimental findings gleaned from the study of zinc proteomes and metallomes,...

Joint Effects of Sodium and Potassium Intake on Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease

Nancy R. Cook

Archives of Internal Medicine

A higher sodium to potassium excretion ratio is associated with increased risk of subsequent CVD, with an effect stronger than that of sodium or potassium alone.

Anthocyanins, total polyphenols and antioxidant activity in amaranth and quinoa seeds and sprouts during their growth

Paweł Paśko, H. Bartoń, Paweł Zagrodzki +3

Food Chemistry

Prognostic Role of Echocardiography Among Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism and a Systolic Arterial Pressure of 90 mm Hg or Higher

Nils Kucher, Elisa Rossi, Marisa De Rosa +1

Archives of Internal Medicine

Among patients with pulmonary embolism who present with a systolic arterial pressure greater than or equal to 90 mm Hg, echocardiographic RV hypokinesis is an independent predictor of early death.

Emerging Technologies for Food Processing

Elsevier eBooks

I<scp>nteraction of</scp> P<scp>lant</scp> P<scp>olyphenols with</scp> S<scp>alivary</scp> P<scp>roteins</scp>

Anders Bennick

Critical Reviews in Oral Biology & Medicine

Tannins are polyphenols that occur widespread in plant-based food. They are considered to be part of the plant defense system against environmental stressors. Tannins have a number of effects on...

Starch Synthesis in Potato Tubers Is Regulated by Post-Translational Redox Modification of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase

Axel Tiessen, Janneke Hendriks, Mark Stitt +4

The Plant Cell

Transcriptional and allosteric regulation of ADP-Glc pyrophosphorylase (AGPase) plays a major role in the regulation of starch synthesis. Analysis of the response after detachment of growing potato...

Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli : “The other bad E coli ”

James R. Johnson, Thomas A. Russo

Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine

Contribution by synaptic zinc to the gender-disparate plaque formation in human Swedish mutant APP transgenic mice

Joo‐Yong Lee, Toby B. Cole, Richard D. Palmiter +2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Endogenous metals may contribute to the accumulation of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease. To specifically examine the role of synaptic zinc in the plaque accumulation, Tg2576 (also called...

Quality assurance criteria for probiotic bacteria

Elina Tuomola, Ross Crittenden, M. J. Playne +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Induction, Regulation, Degradation, and Biological Significance of Mammalian Metallothioneins

Adrian T. Miles, Gabrielle Hawksworth, John Beattie +1

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

MTs are small cysteine-rich metal-binding proteins found in many species and, although there are differences between them, it is of note that they have a great deal of sequence and structural...

Randomised comparison of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and nasogastric tube feeding in patients with persisting neurological dysphagia.

R. H. R. Park, M. Allison, Jennifer M. Lang +5

BMJ

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube feeding is a safe and effective method of providing long term enteral nutrition to patients with neurological dysphagia and offers important advantages over...

The structure and interactions of starch with food constituents

Costas G. Βiliaderis

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

For most starch-containing foods, the physical and functional properties can be traced to characteristic molecular species being present, their interactions with each other, and modifications caused...

Phase Transitions of Mixtures of Amorphous Polysaccharides and Sugars

Yrjö H. Roos, Marcus Karel

Biotechnology Progress

Abstract Maltodextrins of varying molecular weights, maltose, and sucrose were used to study the effect of molecular weight, water plasticization, and composition on glass transition temperature ( T...

Current perspectives on the epidemiology and pathogenesis of clinically significant Vibrio spp

J. Michael Janda, C Powers, R G Bryant +1

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Recent taxonomic advances have now implicated several different Vibrio species as human pathogens. While the most common clinical presentation of Vibrio infection continues to be gastroenteritis, an...

Extracellular superoxide dismutase in human tissues and human cell lines.

Stefan L. Marklund

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Extracellular-superoxide dismutase is a tetrameric copper-containing glycoprotein that previously has been demonstrated to be the major superoxide dismutase of human extracellular fluids. The...

Manual of Clinical Immunology

A. Gottlieb

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

This manual is intended as a comprehensive guide to immunology as it relates to the clinical laboratory. Designed as a sequel and companion piece to the well-accepted Manual of Clinical Microbiology,...

Evolution and the Biosynthesis of Ascorbic Acid

Ipsita Chatterjee

Science

The ability to synthesize ascorbic acid is absent in the insects, invertebrates, and fishes. The biosynthetic capacity started in the kidney of amphibians, resided in the kidney of reptiles, became...

The Univalent Reduction of Oxygen by Reduced Flavins and Quinones

Hara P. Misra, Irwin Fridovich

Journal of Biological Chemistry

FMN and flavodoxin, when reduced by the action of ferredoxin-TPN+ oxidoreductase, have been shown to cause both univalent and divalent reductions of oxygen. Superoxide radicals, so generated, were...