Research Library

Factors affecting secondary metabolite production in plants: volatile components and essential oils

A. Cristina Figueiredo, José G. Barroso, Luís G. Pedro +1

Flavour and Fragrance Journal

Abstract The presence, yield and composition of secondary metabolites in plants, viz. the volatile components and those occurring in essential oils, can be affected in a number of ways, from their...

Mechanisms of Antibacterial Action of Three Monoterpenes

Domenico Trombetta, Francesco Castelli, Maria Grazia Sarpietro +6

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

In the present paper, we report the antimicrobial efficacy of three monoterpenes [linalyl acetate, (+)menthol, and thymol] against the gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and the...

Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Their Health Benefits

Fereidoon Shahidi, Priyatharini Ambigaipalan

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) include α-linolenic acid (ALA; 18:3 ω-3), stearidonic acid (SDA; 18:4 ω-3), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; 20:5 ω-3), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA; 22:5 ω-3),...

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Norman Terry, Adel Zayed, Mark P. de Souza +1

Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology

Plants vary considerably in their physiological response to selenium (Se). Some plant species growing on seleniferous soils are Se tolerant and accumulate very high concentrations of Se (Se...

Indigenous health part 1: determinants and disease patterns

Michael Gracey, Malcolm King

The Lancet

Early Protection Against Sudden Death by n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids After Myocardial Infarction

Roberto Marchioli, Federica Barzi, Elena Bomba +18

Circulation

The early effect of low-dose (1 g/d) n-3 PUFAs on total mortality and sudden death supports the hypothesis of an antiarrhythmic effect of this drug. Such a result is consistent with the wealth of...

<b>missMDA</b>: A Package for Handling Missing Values in Multivariate Data Analysis

Julie Josse, François Husson

Journal of Statistical Software

We present the R package missMDA which performs principal component methods on incomplete data sets, aiming to obtain scores, loadings and graphical representations despite missing values. Package...

Omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and inflammatory processes: nutrition or pharmacology?

Philip C. Calder

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are n-3 fatty acids found in oily fish and fish oil supplements. These fatty acids are able to inhibit partly a number of aspects of...

Vitamin C pharmacokinetics in healthy volunteers: evidence for a recommended dietary allowance.

Mark N. Levine, Cathy Conry‐Cantilena, Y Wang +8

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Determinants of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin C include the relationship between vitamin C dose and steady-state plasma concentration, bioavailability, urinary excretion, cell...

Metallothionein: the multipurpose protein

Peter Coyle, Jeffrey C. Philcox, Luke C. Carey +1

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds

Simón Silver

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Resistance to silver compounds as determined by bacterial plasmids and genes has been defined by molecular genetics. Silver resistance conferred by the Salmonella plasmid pMGH100 involves nine genes...

Comparison of an Oral Factor Xa Inhibitor With Low Molecular Weight Heparin in Patients With Cancer With Venous Thromboembolism: Results of a Randomized Trial (SELECT-D)

Annie Young, Andrea Marshall, Jenny Thirlwall +15

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Purpose Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is common in patients with cancer. Long-term daily subcutaneous low molecular weight heparin has been standard treatment for such patients. The purpose of this...

Obesity and Systemic Oxidative Stress

John F. Keaney, Martin G. Larson, Ramachandran S. Vasan +7

Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology

Smoking, diabetes, and body mass index were highly associated with systemic oxidative stress as determined by creatinine-indexed urinary 8-epi-PGF2alpha levels. The effect of body mass index was...

Pathogenicity Islands and the Evolution of Microbes

Jörg Hacker, James B. Kaper

Annual Review of Microbiology

▪ Abstract Virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria (adhesins, toxins, invasins, protein secretion systems, iron uptake systems, and others) may be encoded by particular regions of the prokaryotic...

Dietary Approaches to Prevent and Treat Hypertension

Lawrence J. Appel, Michael W. Brands, Stephen R. Daniels +3

Hypertension

A substantial body of evidence strongly supports the concept that multiple dietary factors affect blood pressure (BP). Well-established dietary modifications that lower BP are reduced salt intake,...

<i>Melaleuca alternifolia</i>(Tea Tree) Oil: a Review of Antimicrobial and Other Medicinal Properties

Christine Carson, Katherine A. Hammer, T. V. Riley

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Complementary and alternative medicines such as tea tree (melaleuca) oil have become increasingly popular in recent decades. This essential oil has been used for almost 100 years in Australia but is...

Rivaroxaban versus Enoxaparin for Thromboprophylaxis after Total Knee Arthroplasty

Michael R. Lassen, Walter Ageno, Lars C. Borris +5

New England Journal of Medicine

Rivaroxaban was superior to enoxaparin for thromboprophylaxis after total knee arthroplasty, with similar rates of bleeding. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00361894.)

Infection by verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli

Mohamed A. Karmali

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Verocytotoxin (VT)-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) are a newly recognized group of enteric pathogens which are increasingly being recognized as common causes of diarrhea in some geographic...

A NEW EXTRACTION METHOD FOR DETERMINING 2‐THIOBARBITURIC ACID VALUES OF PORK AND BEEF DURING STORAGE

V. C. Witte, G. F. Krause, Milton E. Bailey

Journal of Food Science

SUMMARY 2‐Thiobarbituric acid (TBA) values of raw pork were determined by distillation and extraction methods and those of raw beef were determined by the latter method during storage at 4° and...

Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm

Rita R. Colwell

Science

The origin of cholera has been elusive, even though scientific evidence clearly shows it is a waterborne disease. However, standard bacteriological procedures for isolation of the cholera vibrio from...

A Review of Micronutrients and the Immune System–Working in Harmony to Reduce the Risk of Infection

Adrian F. Gombart, Adeline Pierre, Silvia Maggini

Nutrients

Immune support by micronutrients is historically based on vitamin C deficiency and supplementation in scurvy in early times. It has since been established that the complex, integrated immune system...

Nanoemulsion: Concepts, development and applications in drug delivery

Yuvraj Singh, Jaya Gopal Meher, Kavit Raval +4

Journal of Controlled Release

Updated Global Burden of Cholera in Endemic Countries

Mohammad Ali, Allyson R. Nelson, Anna Lena Lopez +1

PLoS neglected tropical diseases

The global burden of cholera remains high. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for the majority of this burden. Our findings can inform programmatic decision-making for cholera control.

Complete genome sequence of a multiple drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi CT18

Julian Parkhill, Gordon Dougan, Keith James +27

Nature

Persistent gut microbiota immaturity in malnourished Bangladeshi children

Sathish Subramanian, Sayeeda Huq, Tanya Yatsunenko +14

Nature

Diagnosis and treatment of Wilson disease: An update

Eve A. Roberts, Michael L. Schilsky

Hepatology

Trace elements in human physiology and pathology: zinc and metallothioneins

Haïm Tapiero, Kenneth D. Tew

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Structural and mechanical properties of biopolymer gels

Allan Clark, Simon B. Ross‐Murphy

Advances in polymer science

Food waste matters - A systematic review of household food waste practices and their policy implications

Karin Schanes, Karin Dobernig, Burcu Gözet

Journal of Cleaner Production

In recent years, food waste has received growing interest from local, national and European policymakers, international organisations, NGOs as well as academics from various disciplinary fields....

Omega-3 fatty acids and inflammatory processes: from molecules to man

Philip C. Calder

Biochemical Society Transactions

Inappropriate, excessive or uncontrolled inflammation contributes to a range of human diseases. Inflammation involves a multitude of cell types, chemical mediators and interactions. The present...

Fatty acid composition of adipose tissue and blood in humans and its use as a biomarker of dietary intake

Leanne Hodson, C. Murray Skeaff, Barbara A. Fielding

Progress in Lipid Research

Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism and Its Effect on Survival Among Patients With Common Cancers

Helen K. Chew, Theodore Wun, Danielle Harvey +2

Archives of Internal Medicine

The incidence of venous thromboembolism varied with cancer type and was highest among patients initially diagnosed with metastatic-stage disease. The incidence rate of thromboembolism decreased over...

The Antioxidant Properties of Zinc

Saul R. Powell

Journal of Nutrition

Punica granatum (pomegranate) and its potential for prevention and treatment of inflammation and cancer

Ephraim Philip Lansky, Robert A. Newman

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Efferent connections of the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area in the rat

Robert M. Beckstead, Valerie B. Domesick, Walle J. H. Nauta

Brain Research

Selenium in Human Health and Disease

Susan J. Fairweather‐Tait, Yongping Bao, Martin R. Broadley +4

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

This review covers current knowledge of selenium in the environment, dietary intakes, metabolism and status, functions in the body, thyroid hormone metabolism, antioxidant defense systems and...

Complete Genome Sequence of Enterohemorrhagic Eschelichia coli O157:H7 and Genomic Comparison with a Laboratory Strain K-12

Tetsuya Hayashi

DNA Research

Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a major food-borne infectious pathogen that causes diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and hemolytic uremic syndrome. Here we report the complete chromosome sequence of an...

Carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and incident type 2 diabetes in older women

Katie A. Meyer, Lawrence H. Kushi, David R. Jacobs +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Simplification of the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index for Prognostication in Patients With Acute Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolism

David Jiménez

Archives of Internal Medicine

The simplified PESI has similar prognostic accuracy and clinical utility and greater ease of use compared with the original PESI.

BACTERIAL HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE: New Surprises

Simón Silver, Le T. Phung

Annual Review of Microbiology

Bacterial plasmids encode resistance systems for toxic metal ions including Ag+, AsO2-, AsO4(3-), Cd2+, CO2+, CrO4(2-), Cu2+, Hg2+, Ni2+, Pb2+, Sb3+, TeO3(2-), Tl+, and Zn2+. In addition to...

Ellipsometry as a tool to study the adsorption behavior of synthetic and biopolymers at the air–water interface

J.A De Feijter, J. Benjamins, Fred Veer

Biopolymers

Abstract The application of ellipsometry of the study of the adsorption behavior of proteins and synthetic macromolecules at the air‐water interface has been investigated. It is shown that for...

Mechanisms of Action of Probiotics

Julio Plaza‐Díaz, Francisco Javier Ruiz‐Ojeda, Mercedes Gil‐Campos +1

Advances in Nutrition

Osteocalcin and matrix Gla protein: vitamin K-dependent proteins in bone

Peter V. Hauschka, Jane B. Lian, David E.C. Cole +1

Physiological Reviews

Gut inflammation provides a respiratory electron acceptor for Salmonella

Sebastian Winter, Parameth Thiennimitr, Maria G. Winter +9

Nature

Health-Promoting Components of Fruits and Vegetables in the Diet

Rui Hai Liu

Advances in Nutrition