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Mediterranean diet: The role of long-chain ω-3 fatty acids in fish; polyphenols in fruits, vegetables, cereals, coffee, tea, cacao and wine; probiotics and vitamins in prevention of stroke, age-related cognitive decline, and Alzheimer disease

Gustavo C. Román, Richard E. Jackson, Rajan Gadhia +2

Revue Neurologique

<i>Lactobacillus plantarum</i> with Functional Properties: An Approach to Increase Safety and Shelf-Life of Fermented Foods

Sudhanshu S. Behera, Ramesh C. Ray, Nevijo Zdolec

BioMed Research International

<i>Lactobacillus plantarum</i> (widespread member of the genus <i>Lactobacillus</i>) is one of the most studied species extensively used in food industry as probiotic microorganism and/or microbial...

Traditional and ethnobotanical dermatology practices in Romania and other Eastern European countries

Marilena Gîlcă, George‐Sorin Ţiplica, Carmen Sălăvăstru

Clinics in Dermatology

Extraction, physicochemical characteristics and functional properties of Mung bean protein

Mengxia Du, Jianhua Xie, Bin Gong +5

Food Hydrocolloids

Emulsifying properties of soy proteins: A critical review with emphasis on the role of conformational flexibility

Chuan‐He Tang

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Soy proteins as important food ingredients exhibit a great potential to be widely applied in food formulations, due to their good nutrition, functional properties and health effects. The knowledge...

Maternal fucosyltransferase 2 status affects the gut bifidobacterial communities of breastfed infants

Zachery T. Lewis, Sarah M. Totten, Jennifer T. Smilowitz +9

Microbiome

Infants fed by non-secretor mothers are delayed in the establishment of a bifidobacteria-laden microbiota. This delay may be due to difficulties in the infant acquiring a species of bifidobacteria...

Update on infections caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia with particular attention to resistance mechanisms and therapeutic options

Ya-Ting Chang, Chun-Yu Lin, Yen‐Hsu Chen +1

Frontiers in Microbiology

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a Gram-negative, biofilm-forming bacterium. Although generally regarded as an organism of low virulence, S. maltophilia is an emerging multi-drug resistant...

Role of omega-3 fatty acids in obesity, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular diseases: a review of the evidence

Silvia Lorente‐Cebrián, André Gustavo Vasconcelos Costa, Santiago Navas‐Carretero +3

Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry

Mutations in SLC30A10 Cause Parkinsonism and Dystonia with Hypermanganesemia, Polycythemia, and Chronic Liver Disease

Marialuisa Quadri, Antonio Federico, Tianna Zhao +16

The American Journal of Human Genetics

The Genus Corynebacterium and Other Medically Relevant Coryneform-Like Bacteria

Kathryn Bernard

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Catalase-positive Gram-positive bacilli, commonly called "diphtheroids" or "coryneform" bacteria were historically nearly always dismissed as contaminants when recovered from patients, but...

Acute Selenium Toxicity Associated With a Dietary Supplement

Jennifer MacFarquhar

Archives of Internal Medicine

Toxic concentrations of selenium in a liquid dietary supplement resulted in a widespread outbreak. Had the manufacturers been held to standards used in the pharmaceutical industry, it may have been...

Duration and magnitude of the postoperative risk of venous thromboembolism in middle aged women: prospective cohort study

Siân Sweetland, J. Green, Bette Liu +5

BMJ

The risk of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism after surgery is substantially increased in the first 12 postoperative weeks, and varies considerably by type of surgery. An estimated 1 in 140...

Food animal-associated Salmonella challenges: Pathogenicity and antimicrobial resistance1

Steven L. Foley, Aaron M. Lynne

Journal of Animal Science

Salmonellosis is a worldwide health problem; Salmonella infections are the second leading cause of bacterial foodborne illness in the United States. Approximately 95% of cases of human salmonellosis...

Environmental stress responses in <b><i>Lactobacillus</i></b>: A review

Maria De Angelis, Marco Gobbetti

PROTEOMICS

Environmental stress responses in Lactobacillus, which have been investigated mainly by proteomics approaches, are reviewed. The physiological and molecular mechanisms of responses to heat, cold,...

Docosahexaenoic acid promotes neurite growth in hippocampal neurons

Frances Calderón, Hee‐Yong Kim

Journal of Neurochemistry

Docosahexanoic acid (22:6n-3; DHA) deficiency during development is associated with impairment in learning and memory, suggesting an important role of DHA in neuronal development. Here we provide...

Infectious Outbreaks Associated with Bivalve Shellfish Consumption: A Worldwide Perspective

Israel Potasman, Alona Paz, Majed Odeh

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Outbreaks of shellfish-associated infection have been reported for more than a century. Since the early 1970s, the global consumption of shellfish has increased considerably--and with it, the reports...

Kinetics of product inhibition in alcohol fermentation

Setsuya Aiba, Munehito Shoda, M. Nagatani

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

The inhibitory effect of ethanol concentration p in a medium on the specific rates of growth mu and ethanol production nu of a specific strain of baker's yeast was studied in a chemostat, where...

Serum and Dietary Magnesium and the Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

W.H. Linda Kao, Aaron R. Folsom, F. Javier Nieto +3

Archives of Internal Medicine

Among white participants, low serum magnesium level is a strong, independent predictor of incident type 2 diabetes. That low dietary magnesium intake does not confer risk for type 2 diabetes implies...

Inhibition of <i>Vibrio anguillarum</i> by <i>Pseudomonas fluorescens</i> AH2, a Possible Probiotic Treatment of Fish

Lone Gram, Jette Melchiorsen, Bettina Spanggaard +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

To study the possible use of probiotics in fish farming, we evaluated the in vitro and in vivo antagonism of antibacterial strain Pseudomonas fluorescens strain AH2 against the fish-pathogenic...

Lipid peroxidation, antioxidant protection and aging

Lora E. Rikans, K. R. Hornbrook

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease

A New Treatment for Patients with Short-Bowel Syndrome Growth Hormone, Glutamine, and a Modified Diet

Theresa A. Byrne, Rebecca L. Persinger, Lorrie S. Young +2

Annals of Surgery

GH + GLN + DIET offers a potential method for providing cost-effective rehabilitation of surgical patients who have the short-bowel syndrome or other complex problems of the gastrointestinal tract....

Immune System Stimulation by Probiotics

Gabriela Perdigón, Susana Alvarez, M. Rachid +2

Journal of Dairy Science

The immune system consists of organs and several cell types. Antigen interaction with these cells induces a cellular immune response mediated by activated cells and a humoral immune response mediated...

Antioxidant Constituents in Sage (Salvia officinalis)

Marie Elisabeth Cuvelier, Claudette Berset, Hubert Richard

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

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Epidemiological Evidence of Relationships between Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

Therese A. Dolecek

Experimental Biology and Medicine

This evaluation of the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial database investigated the effects of dietary PUFA on disease outcomes that may relate to polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) biochemistry....

Reduced Mortality among Children in Southern India Receiving a Small Weekly Dose of Vitamin A

Laxmi Rahmathullah, Barbara A. Underwood, Ravilla D. Thulasiraj +4

New England Journal of Medicine

The regular provision of a supplement of vitamin A to children, at a level potentially obtainable from foods, in an area where vitamin A deficiency and under-nutrition are documented public health...

Identification of type I iodothyronine 5′-deiodinase as a selenoenzyme

D. Behne, Antonios Kyriakopoulos, H. Meinhold +1

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Purification and characterization of human plasma glutathione peroxidase: A selenoglycoprotein distinct from the known cellular enzyme

Kazuhiko Takahashi, Nelly E. Avissar, John C. Whitin +1

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Intepreting Consumer Mythology: A Structural Approach to Consumer Behavior

Sidney J. Levy

Journal of Marketing

Consumer behavior depth interviews are grouped with other kinds of story telling—fairy tales, novels, psychological test responses, and myths—as imaginative statements that can be qualitatively...

Infrared Spectra and Protein Conformations in Aqueous Solutions

H. Susi, Serge N. Timasheff, Linda Stevens

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Abstract Infrared absorption spectra of poly-l-lysine, poly-l-glutamic acid, β-lactoglobulin, myoglobin, and αs-casein in the region of absorption of the amide I band have been observed in H2O...

Fluidization and fluid-particle systems

Zenz, Frederick A., Othmer, Donald F. 1904-1995

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Techniques for Formulation of Nanoemulsion Drug Delivery System: A Review

Manish Kumar, Ram Singh Bishnoi, Ajay Kumar Shukla +1

Preventive Nutrition and Food Science

Nanoemulsion drug delivery systems are advanced modes for delivering and improving the bioavailability of hydrophobic drugs and the drug which have high first pass metabolism. The nanoemulsion can be...

Lactobacillus plantarum and Its Probiotic and Food Potentialities

Hamza Ait Seddik, Farida Bendali, Frédérique Gancel +3

Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Long Noncoding RNA Modulates Alternative Splicing Regulators in Arabidopsis

Florian Bardou, Federico Ariel, Craig G. Simpson +5

Developmental Cell

Pit Latrines and Their Impacts on Groundwater Quality: A Systematic Review

Jay P. Graham, Matthew L. Polizzotto

Environmental Health Perspectives

In order to improve environmental and human health, future research should examine a larger set of contextual variables, improve measurement approaches, and develop better criteria for siting pit...

Resolvin D1 and Its Precursor Docosahexaenoic Acid Promote Resolution of Adipose Tissue Inflammation by Eliciting Macrophage Polarization toward an M2-Like Phenotype

Esther Titos, Bibiana Rius, Ana González‐Périz +5

The Journal of Immunology

We recently demonstrated that ω-3-polyunsaturated fatty acids ameliorate obesity-induced adipose tissue inflammation and insulin resistance. In this study, we report novel mechanisms underlying...

Effect of evidence-based feeding guidelines on mortality of critically ill adults: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Gordon S. Doig, Fiona Simpson, Simon Finfer +4

PubMed

Using a multifaceted practice change strategy, ICUs successfully developed and introduced an evidence-based nutritional support guideline that promoted earlier feeding and greater nutritional...

The Evolution of Quorum Sensing in Bacterial Biofilms

Carey D. Nadell, João B. Xavier, Simon A. Levin +1

PLoS Biology

Bacteria have fascinating and diverse social lives. They display coordinated group behaviors regulated by quorum-sensing systems that detect the density of other bacteria around them. A key example...

Risk Factors and Short-term Mortality of Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosed in the Primary Care Setting in the United Kingdom

Consuelo Huerta

Archives of Internal Medicine

Overweight, varicose veins, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, fractures, surgery, and use of oral corticosteroids, oral contraceptives, and opposed hormone therapy were independent risk factors for...

The Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy

Jack Hirsh, Gordon Guyatt, Gregory W. Albers +1

CHEST Journal

Overview of mammalian zinc transporters

Taiho Kambe, Yuko Yamaguchi‐Iwai, R Sasaki +1

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Serial transverse enteroplasty (STEP): A novel bowel lengthening procedure

Heung Bae Kim, Dario O. Fauza, Jennifer J. Garza +3

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Taste Perception with Age: Generic or Specific Losses in Threshold Sensitivity to the Five Basic Tastes?

J. Mojet

Chemical Senses

Detection thresholds for NaCl, KCl, sucrose, aspartame, acetic acid, citric acid, caffeine, quinine HCl, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP) were assessed in 21 young (19-33...

Hypothesis: inappropriate colonization of the premature intestine can cause neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis

Erika C. Claud, W. Allan Walker

The FASEB Journal

Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a major cause of morbidity in preterm infants. We hypothesize that the intestinal injury in this disease is a consequence of synergy among three of the...

Quorum Sensing Is a Global Regulatory Mechanism in Enterohemorrhagic <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157:H7

Vanessa Sperandio, Alfredo G. Torres, Jorge A. Girón +1

Journal of Bacteriology

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is responsible for outbreaks of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic-uremic syndrome in many countries. EHEC virulence mechanisms include the production of...

Metallothionein Expression in Animals: A Physiological Perspective on Function

Steven R. Davis, Robert J. Cousins

Journal of Nutrition

Infections Associated with Eating Seed Sprouts: An International Concern

Peter J. Taormina, Larry R. Beuchat, Laurence Slutsker

Emerging infectious diseases

Recent outbreaks of Salmonella and Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections associated with raw seed sprouts have occurred in several countries. Subjective evaluations indicate that pathogens can exceed...