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Guidelines for management of patients with a short bowel

Julie Nightingale, J M Woodward

Gut

1.1 Aim These guidelines aim to help clinicians manage patients who have had an intestinal resection that leaves a short length (about 2 m or less) of small bowel remaining.

Antioxidant and antiacetylcholinesterase activities of five plants used as Portuguese food spices

Ana T. Mata, C. Sofia Proença, Arlindo R. Ferreira +3

Food Chemistry

An increase in selenium intake improves immune function and poliovirus handling in adults with marginal selenium status

Caroline S. Broome, Francis McArdle, Janet A. M. Kyle +5

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The capacity of nondigestible carbohydrates to stimulate fecal bifidobacteria in healthy humans: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, dose-response relation study

Yoram Bouhnik, Laurent Raskine, Guy G. Simoneau +5

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Mokken Scale Analysis: Between the Guttman Scale and Parametric Item Response Theory

Wijbrandt H. van Schuur

Political Analysis

This article introduces a model of ordinal unidimensional measurement known as Mokken scale analysis. Mokken scaling is based on principles of Item Response Theory (IRT) that originated in the...

In Vitro Antibacterial, Antifungal, and Antioxidant Activities of the Essential Oil and Methanol Extracts of Herbal Parts and Callus Cultures of <i>Satureja hortensis</i> L.

Medine Güllüce, Münevver Sökmen, Dimitra Daferera +6

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The present study was designated to evaluate the antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil, obtained by using a Clevenger distillation apparatus, water soluble (polar) and water...

Cultivation of Pathogenic and Opportunistic Free-Living Amebas

Frederick L. Schuster

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Free-living amebas are widely distributed in soil and water, particularly members of the genera Acanthamoeba and NAEGLERIA: Since the early 1960s, they have been recognized as opportunistic human...

Structural basis for copper transfer by the metallochaperone for the Menkes/Wilson disease proteins.

Amy C. Rosenzweig, Amy K. Wernimont, David L. Huffman +2

Nature Structural Biology

Effects on birth weight and perinatal mortality of maternal dietary supplements in rural gambia: 5 year randomised controlled trial

S. M. CEESAY, AM Prentice, Tim Cole +4

BMJ

Prenatal dietary supplementation reduced retardation in intrauterine growth when effectively targeted at genuinely at-risk mothers. This was associated with a substantial reduction in the prevalence...

Proteolysis in cheese during ripening

Patrick F. Fox, Paul L.H. McSweeney

Food Reviews International

(1996). Proteolysis in cheese during ripening. Food Reviews International: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 457-509.

Maternal essential fatty acid patterns during normal pregnancy and their relationship to the neonatal essential fatty acid status

Monique D.M. Al, Adriana C van Houwelingen, Arnold D.M. Kester +3

British Journal Of Nutrition

Although essential fatty acids (EFA) and their longer chain, more unsaturated derivatives play a major role during pregnancy, hardly any information is available with respect to the course of the...

The prevalence of<i>Escherichia coli</i>O157.H7 in dairy and beef cattle in Washington State

Dale D. Hancock, Thomas E. Besser, Mark L. Kinsel +3

Epidemiology and Infection

Escherichia coli O157.H7 was found in 10 of 3570 (0.28%) faecal samples from dairy cattle in 5 of 60 herds (8.3%). Several tentative associations with manure handling and feeding management practices...

Detection of superoxide generated by endothelial cells.

Gerald M. Rosen, Bruce Α. Freeman

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Superoxide and lipid free-radical generation in cultured endothelial cells treated with menadione or nitrazepam were measured using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Superoxide was...

Cream and sugar: Human preferences for high-fat foods

Adam Drewnowski, M. R. C. Greenwood

Physiology & Behavior

Yogurt: Technology and Biochemistry

A. Y. Tamime, Hilton C. Deeth

Journal of Food Protection

Desulfuromonas acetoxidans gen. nov. and sp. nov., a new anaerobic, sulfur-reducing, acetate-oxidizing bacterium

Norbert Pfennig, Hanno Biebl

Archives of Microbiology

Esterase D: a new human polymorphism

D. A. HOPKINSON, Moacyr Antônio Mestriner, J A Cortner +1

Annals of Human Genetics

<i>In Silico</i> Genotyping of Escherichia coli Isolates for Extraintestinal Virulence Genes by Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing Data

Anna Maria Malberg Tetzschner, James R. Johnson, Brian Johnston +2

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Extraintestinal pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> (ExPEC) is the leading cause in humans of urinary tract infection and bacteremia. The previously published web tool VirulenceFinder...

The WASH Benefits and SHINE trials: interpretation of WASH intervention effects on linear growth and diarrhoea

Amy J. Pickering, Clair Null, Peter J. Winch +13

The Lancet Global Health

Child stunting is a global problem and is only modestly responsive to dietary interventions. Numerous observational studies have shown that water quality, sanitation, and handwashing (WASH) in a...

Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease

Asmaa Abdelhamid, Tracey Brown, Julii Brainard +9

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

BACKGROUND: Researchers have suggested that omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids from oily fish (long-chain omega-3 (LCn3), including eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)), as...

Electrospinning: A novel nano-encapsulation approach for bioactive compounds

Peng Wen, Min‐Hua Zong, Robert J. Linhardt +2

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Formation of starch in plant cells

Barbara Pfister, Samuel C. Zeeman

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Starch-rich crops form the basis of our nutrition, but plants have still to yield all their secrets as to how they make this vital substance. Great progress has been made by studying both crop and...

Nutritional and health benefits of pulses

Adriana N. Mudryj, Nancy Yu, Harold M. Aukema

Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism

Pulses (beans, peas, and lentils) have been consumed for at least 10 000 years and are among the most extensively used foods in the world. A wide variety of pulses can be grown globally, making them...

Beneficial phytochemicals in potato — a review

Rajarathnam Ezekiel, Narpinder Singh, Shagun Sharma +1

Food Research International

Oral dabigatran versus enoxaparin for thromboprophylaxis after primary total hip arthroplasty (RE-NOVATE II)

Ola Dahl, Michael H. Huo, Andreas Kurth +6

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

This trial compared the efficacy and safety of oral dabigatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor, versus subcutaneous enoxaparin for extended thromboprophylaxis in patients undergoing total hip...

Distinct ATOH1 and Neurog3 requirements define tuft cells as a new secretory cell type in the intestinal epithelium

François Gerbe, Johan H. van Es, Leila Makrini +9

The Journal of Cell Biology

The unique morphology of tuft cells was first revealed by electron microscopy analyses in several endoderm-derived epithelia. Here, we explore the relationship of these cells with the other cell...

Physical characterization of exopolysaccharide produced by Lactobacillus plantarum KF5 isolated from Tibet Kefir

Yanping Wang, Chao Li, Peng Liu +3

Carbohydrate Polymers

Thermal processing effects on the functional properties and microstructure of lentil, chickpea, and pea flours

Zhen Ma, Joyce I. Boye, Benjamin K. Simpson +3

Food Research International

Dietary reference intakes for DHA and EPA

Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, Jessica A. Grieger, Terry D. Etherton

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Immunomodulation by omega-3 fatty acids

Philip C. Calder

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Safety assessment of dairy microorganisms: The Enterococcus genus

Joëlle Ogier, Pascale Serror

International Journal of Food Microbiology

n−3 Fatty acids and cardiovascular disease

Jan L. Breslow

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The evaluation of food hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices of food handlers’ in food businesses in Turkey

Murat Baş, Azmi Şafak Ersun, Gökhan Kıvanç

Food Control

Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Part I

Samuel Z. Goldhaber, C. Gregory Elliott

Circulation

Information about reprints can be found online at: Reprints: document. Permissions and Rights Question and Answer this process is available in the click Request Permissions in the middle column of...

Diagnostic strategy for patients with suspected pulmonary embolism: a prospective multicentre outcome study

D. Musset, Florence Parent, Guy Meyer +13

The Lancet

The physiology of lactoferrin

Jeremy H. Brock

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

This paper reviews our current knowledge of the structure and function of the iron-binding protein lactoferrin. In particular, it attempts to relate the various proposed physiological functions of...

A Convenient Microdilution Method for Screening Natural Products Against Bacteria and Fungi

Joanna R. Zgoda, John R. Porter

Pharmaceutical Biology

Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus (methicillin-susceptible and -resistant strains) are some of the most common...

The Cambridge World History of Food

Kenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Conèe Ornelas

Food Service Technology

Probiotics: from myth to reality. Demonstration of functionality in animal models of disease and in human clinical trials

Colum Dunne, Lisa Murphy, Sarah Flynn +12

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Lactobacillus reuteri as a Therapeutic Agent in Acute Diarrhea in Young Children

Aino‐Vieno Shornikova, Ivàn A. Casas, Erika Isolauri +2

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Lactobacillus reuteri is effective as a therapeutic agent in acute rotavirus diarrhea in children. Further studies are warranted to confirm the present finding and to explore the full therapeutic...

Pulmonary embolism: prospective comparison of spiral CT with ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy.

John R. Mayo, Martine Rémy‐Jardin, N L Müller +5

Radiology

In cases of pulmonary embolism, sensitivity of spiral CT is greater than that of scintigraphy. Interobserver agreement is better with spiral CT.

The Natural history of inbreeding and outbreeding: theoretical and empirical perspectives

Choice Reviews Online

By how much does dietary salt reduction lower blood pressure? II--Analysis of observational data within populations.

Chris Frost, M R Law, Nicholas Wald

BMJ

The within population studies confirm our estimates from between population comparisons of the magnitude of the association between blood pressure and sodium intake.

EVIDENCE FOR AN INFECTIVE CAUSE OF CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA: COMPARISON OF A SCOTTISH NEW TOWN WITH NUCLEAR REPROCESSING SITES IN BRITAIN

Leo Kinlen

The Lancet

Characterization and purification of helveticin J and evidence for a chromosomally determined bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus helveticus 481

M C Joerger, Todd R. Klaenhammer

Journal of Bacteriology

Lactobacillus helveticus 481 produced an antimicrobial agent active against five closely related species. The sensitive indicators included L. helveticus 1846 and 1244, L. bulgaricus 1373 and 1489,...

The Effect of Food Preservatives on pH Homeostasis in Escherichia coli

CHRISTINE V. SALMOND, R.G. Kroll, Ian R. Booth

Microbiology

The effects of cinnamic, propionic, benzoic and sorbic acids on the growth and intracellular pH of Escherichia coli were investigated. The data suggest that the potency of weak acids as food...

Species, Tissue and Subcellular Distribution of Non Se-Dependent Glutathione Peroxidase Activity

Richard Lawrence, Raymond F. Burk

Journal of Nutrition

Total parenteral nutrition

Virginia H. Peden, C.L. Witzleben, M.A. Skelton

The Journal of Pediatrics

Mechanism of milk secretion

J. L. Linzell, M. Peaker

Physiological Reviews

Specialized pro-resolving mediator network: an update on production and actions

Nan Chiang, Charles N. Serhan

Essays in Biochemistry

Today, persistent and uncontrolled inflammation is appreciated to play a pivotal role in many diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic syndrome and many other...