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Estimation of Life Times and Diffusion Distances of Radicals Involved in X-Ray-Induced DNA Strand Breaks or Killing of Mammalian Cells

R. Roots, Shigefumi Okada

Radiation Research

Ruth Roots, Shigefumi Okada, Estimation of Life Times and Diffusion Distances of Radicals Involved in X-Ray-Induced DNA Strand Breaks or Killing of Mammalian Cells, Radiation Research, Vol. 64, No. 2...

Evidence of the Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Probiotics and Synbiotics in Intestinal Chronic Diseases

Julio Plaza‐Díaz, Francisco Javier Ruiz‐Ojeda, Laura María Vilchez-Padial +1

Nutrients

Probiotics and synbiotics are used to treat chronic diseases, principally due to their role in immune system modulation and the anti-inflammatory response. The present study reviewed the effects of...

Selenium deficiency risk predicted to increase under future climate change

Gerrad D. Jones, Boris Droz, Peter Greve +6

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Deficiencies of micronutrients, including essential trace elements, affect up to 3 billion people worldwide. The dietary availability of trace elements is determined largely by their soil...

The Global Expansion of Quinoa: Trends and Limits

Didier Bazile, Sven‐Erik Jacobsen, Alexis Verniau

Frontiers in Plant Science

Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) was first domesticated in Andean countries over 7000 years ago. Following the Spanish conquest, quinoa was rejected as "Indian food." After centuries of neglect,...

The Science of Fatty Acids and Inflammation

Kevin L. Fritsche

Advances in Nutrition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

A. Wennberg

Elsevier eBooks

Scientific Opinion on<i>Campylobacter</i>in broiler meat production: control options and performance objectives and/or targets at different stages of the food chain

EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)

EFSA Journal

Estimating the reproductive numbers for the 2008–2009 cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe

Zindoga Mukandavire, Shu Liao, Jin Wang +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Cholera remains an important global cause of morbidity and mortality, capable of causing periodic epidemic disease. Beginning in August 2008, a major cholera epidemic occurred in Zimbabwe, with...

Nut Consumption and Blood Lipid Levels

Joan Sabaté

Archives of Internal Medicine

Nut consumption improves blood lipid levels in a dose-related manner, particularly among subjects with higher LDL-C or with lower BMI.

Immune modulation by parenteral lipid emulsions

Geert Wanten, Philip C. Calder

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Antimicrobial activity of the essential oil from Lippia sidoides, carvacrol and thymol against oral pathogens

Marco Antônio Botelho, N Nogueira, Gisele Medeiros Bastos +7

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Dental caries and periodontal disease are associated with oral pathogens. Several plant derivatives have been evaluated with respect to their antimicrobial effects against such pathogenic...

Kefir ? a complex probiotic

Edward R. Farnworth

Food Science & Technology Bulletin Functional Foods

Kefir is a fermented milk drink produced by the actions of bacteria and yeasts contained in kefir grains, and is reported to have a unique taste and unique properties. During fermentation, peptides...

Oral Magnesium Supplementation Improves Insulin Sensitivity and Metabolic Control in Type 2 Diabetic Subjects

Martha Rodríguez-Morán, Fernando Guerrero‐Romero

Diabetes Care

Oral supplementation with MgCl(2) solution restores serum magnesium levels, improving insulin sensitivity and metabolic control in type 2 diabetic patients with decreased serum magnesium levels.

Subcritical Water Extraction of Antioxidant Compounds from Rosemary Plants

Elena Ibáñez, Alena Kubátová, Francisco J. Señoráns +3

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Subcritical water extraction at several temperatures ranging from 25 to 200 degrees C has been studied to selectively extract antioxidant compounds from rosemary leaves. An exhaustive...

Changing Epidemiology of Infections in Patients with Neutropenia and Cancer: Emphasis on Gram-Positive and Resistant Bacteria

Stephen H. Zinner

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Over the past 3 decades, considerable changes have occurred in the types of bacteria causing infection in febrile patients with neutropenia and cancer. Twenty years ago, gram-negative bacteria caused...

Role of lipid‐bound peptidoglycan precursors in the formation of pores by nisin, epidermin and other lantibiotics

Heike Brötz, Michaele Josten, Imke Wiedemann +4

Molecular Microbiology

It is generally assumed that type A lantibiotics primarily kill bacteria by permeabilization of the cytoplasmic membrane. As previous studies had demonstrated that nisin interacts with the...

Clustering and Classification.

Phipps Arabie, Lawrence J. Hubert, G. De Soete

Biometrics

At a moderately advanced level, this book seeks to cover the areas of clustering and related methods of data analysis where major advances are being made. Topics include: hierarchical clustering,...

Glycopeptide resistance in enterococci

Michel Arthur, Peter Reynolds, Patrice Courvalin

Trends in Microbiology

Taxonomic studies on some leuconostoc‐like organisms from fermented sausages: description of a new genus <i>Weissella</i> for the <i>Leuconostoc paramesenteroides</i> group of species

Matthew Collins, John Samelis, J. Metaxopoulos +1

Journal of Applied Bacteriology

Taxonomic studies were performed on some unknown Leuconostoc-like organisms from fermented Greek sausage. Comparative 16S rRNA sequence analysis showed the unidentified organisms represent a new line...

Effect of Eicosapentaenoic and Docosahexaenoic Acids on Blood Pressure in Hypertension

Kaare Harald Bønaa, Kristian S. Bjerve, Bjørn Straume +2

New England Journal of Medicine

Studies of whether polyunsaturated fatty acids in fish oil--in particular, eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids--lower blood pressure have varied in design and results. We conducted a...

NUTRIENT SOURCES IN THE AMERICAN DIET: QUANTITATIVE DATA FROM THE NHANES II SURVEY

Gladys Block, Connie Dresser, Anne M. Hartman +1

American Journal of Epidemiology

Dietary data from 11,658 adult respondents in the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used to provide quantitative information regarding the contribution of specific foods to...

Structure-function relationships of food proteins: with an emphasis on the importance of protein hydrophobicity

Shuryo Nakai

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTStructure-function relationships of food proteins: with an emphasis on the importance of protein hydrophobicityShuryo NakaiCite this: J. Agric. Food Chem....

Analysis of Categorical Data: Dual Scaling and Its Applications

D. V. Gokhale, S. Nishisato

Technometrics

Zein and zein -based nano-materials for food and nutrition applications: A review

Mohammad Reza Kasaai

Trends in Food Science & Technology

The Microbiota and Health Promoting Characteristics of the Fermented Beverage Kefir

Benjamin C. T. Bourrie, Benjamin P. Willing, Paul D. Cotter

Frontiers in Microbiology

Kefir is a complex fermented dairy product created through the symbiotic fermentation of milk by lactic acid bacteria and yeasts contained within an exopolysaccharide and protein complex called a...

Measurement of Reactive Oxygen Species, Reactive Nitrogen Species, and Redox-Dependent Signaling in the Cardiovascular System

Kathy K. Griendling, Rhian M. Touyz, Jay L. Zweíer +5

Circulation Research

Reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species are biological molecules that play important roles in cardiovascular physiology and contribute to disease initiation, progression, and severity....

Living in the matrix: assembly and control of Vibrio cholerae biofilms

Jennifer K. Teschler, David Zamorano‐Sánchez, Andrew S. Utada +4

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Fermented beverages with health-promoting potential: Past and future perspectives

Alan J. Marsh, Colin Hill, R. Paul Ross +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Essential Oils, A New Horizon in Combating Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance

Polly Soo Xi Yap, Beow Chin Yiap, Ping Hu +1

The Open Microbiology Journal

For many years, the battle between humans and the multitudes of infection and disease causing pathogens continues. Emerging at the battlefield as some of the most significant challenges to human...

A new technique for spray drying orange juice concentrate

Athanasia M. Goula, Konstantinos G. Adamopoulos

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by multidetector CT alone or combined with venous ultrasonography of the leg: a randomised non-inferiority trial

Marc Righini, Grégoire Le Gal, Drahomir Aujesky +15

The Lancet

Essential Fatty Acids - A Review

Undurti N. Das

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Essential fatty acids (EFAs): cis-linoleic acid (LA) and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) are essential for humans and their deficiency is rare in humans due to their easy availability in diet. EFAs are...

M<scp>ECHANISM AND</scp> R<scp>EGULATION OF</scp> S<scp>ELENOPROTEIN</scp> S<scp>YNTHESIS</scp>

Donna M. Driscoll, Paul R. Copeland

Annual Review of Nutrition

Selenium is an essential trace element that is incorporated into proteins as selenocysteine (Sec), the twenty-first amino acid. Sec is encoded by a UGA codon in the selenoprotein mRNA. The decoding...

Comparative study of aromatic compounds in two young white wines subjected to pre-fermentative cryomaceration

Rafael A. Peinado, Juan Moreno, Juan Moreno +4

Food Chemistry

Human milk oligosaccharides are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis in the upper gastrointestinal tract

Meike B Engfer, Bernd Stahl, Berndt Finke +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Bacterial DNA causes septic shock

Tim Sparwasser, Thomas Miethke, Grayson B. Lipford +4

Nature

Acid adaptation induces cross-protection against environmental stresses in Salmonella typhimurium

Gregory Leyer, Eric A. Johnson

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The relationship of acid adaptation to tolerance of other environmental stresses was examined in Salmonella typhimurium. S. typhimurium was adapted to acid by exposing the cells to mildly acidic...

Shiga Toxin: Biochemistry, Genetics, Mode of Action, and Role in Pathogenesis

Alison D. O’Brien, Vernon L. Tesh, Arthur Donohue‐Rolfe +5

Current topics in microbiology and immunology

Antiatherogenic effect of captopril in the Watanabe heritable hyperlipidemic rabbit.

Aram V. Chobanian, Christian C. Haudenschild, Cynthia J. Nickerson +1

Hypertension

The effects of 9 months of orally administered captopril (25-50 mg/kg body wt/day) on aortic atherosclerosis was examined in normotensive Watanabe heritable hyperlipidemic rabbits. Captopril caused a...

The Geometric Interpretation of Correspondence Analysis

Michael Greenacre, Trevor Hastie

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Abstract Correspondence analysis is an exploratory multivariate technique that converts a data matrix into a particular type of graphical display in which the rows and columns are depicted as points....

How sensory properties of foods affect human feeding behavior

Barbara J. Rolls, E. A. Rowe, Edmund T. Rolls

Physiology & Behavior

Fluctuations in the year classes of important food fishes

Jan Hjort

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Effects of flexibility and surface hydrophobicity on emulsifying properties: Ultrasound-treated soybean protein isolate

Shizhang Yan, Jingwen Xu, Shuang Zhang +1

LWT

Probiotic Gastrointestinal Transit and Colonization After Oral Administration: A Long Journey

Shengyi Han, Yanmeng Lu, Jiaojiao Xie +9

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Orally administered probiotics encounter various challenges on their journey through the mouth, stomach, intestine and colon. The health benefits of probiotics are diminished mainly due to the...

Selenium intake, status, and health: a complex relationship

Margaret P. Rayman

HORMONES

Both selenium (Se) deficiency and excess are found in natural locations throughout the world, though Se excess can also be caused by supplementation with Se. Both have been associated with adverse...

Baijiu (白酒), Chinese liquor: History, classification and manufacture

Xiaowei Zheng, Bei‐Zhong Han

Journal of Ethnic Foods

Baijiu (白酒) is a traditional fermented alcoholic drink originating in China, which is typically obtained by natural fermentation. It has a high reputation and constitutes an important part of Chinese...

Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology

Choice Reviews Online