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A review on Lactococcus lactis: from food to factory

Adelene Ai‐Lian Song, Lionel Lian Aun In, Swee‐Hua Erin Lim +1

Microbial Cell Factories

Lactococcus lactis has progressed a long way since its discovery and initial use in dairy product fermentation, to its present biotechnological applications in genetic engineering for the production...

Essential Oils of Oregano: Biological Activity beyond Their Antimicrobial Properties

Nayely Leyva‐López, Erick Paul Gutiérrez‐Grijalva, Gabriela Vázquez-Olivo +1

Molecules

Essential oils of oregano are widely recognized for their antimicrobial activity, as well as their antiviral and antifungal properties. Nevertheless, recent investigations have demonstrated that...

Absorption and metabolism of proanthocyanidins

Keqin Ou, Liwei Gu

Journal of Functional Foods

Anti-inflammatory mechanisms of bioactive milk proteins in the intestine of newborns

Dereck E. W. Chatterton, Duc Ninh Nguyen, Stine B. Bering +1

The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology

Laboratory evolution of copper tolerant yeast strains

Giusy Manuela Adamo, Stefania Brocca, Simone Passolunghi +2

Microbial Cell Factories

Abstract Background Yeast strains endowed with robustness towards copper and/or enriched in intracellular Cu might find application in biotechnology processes, among others in the production of...

Dietary poorly absorbed, short‐chain carbohydrates increase delivery of water and fermentable substrates to the proximal colon

Jacqueline S. Barrett, Richard B. Gearry, Jane G. Muir +6

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

These data support the hypothetical mechanism; FODMAPs increase delivery of water and fermentable substrates to the proximal colon.

ESPEN Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition: Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) in adult patients

Michael Staun, Loris Pironi, Federico Bozzetti +10

Clinical Nutrition

Molecular Basis of the Core Structure of Tight Junctions

Mikio Furuse

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The morphological feature of tight junctions (TJs) fits well with their functions. The core of TJs is a fibril-like proteinaceous structure within the lipid bilayer, the so-called TJ strands. TJ...

Donor breast milk versus infant formula for preterm infants: systematic review and meta-analysis

Catherine A Boyd, Maria Quigley, P Brocklehurst

Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal

Donor breast milk is associated with a lower risk of NEC and slower growth in the early postnatal period, but the quality of the evidence is limited. Further research is needed to confirm these...

Impact of the Mexican Program for Education, Health, and Nutrition (Progresa) on Rates of Growth and Anemia in Infants and Young Children

Juan Á. Rivera, Daniela Sotres‐Alvarez, Jean‐Pierre Habicht +2

JAMA

Progresa, a large-scale, incentive-based development program with a nutritional intervention, is associated with better growth and lower rates of anemia in low-income, rural infants and children in...

Functional Characterization of Two Type III Secretion Systems of <i>Vibrio parahaemolyticus</i>

Kwon-Sam Park, Takahiro Ono, Mitsuhiro Rokuda +4

Infection and Immunity

Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a gram-negative marine bacterium, is a worldwide cause of food-borne gastroenteritis. Recent genome sequencing of the clinical V. parahaemolyticus strain RIMD2210633...

Mammary physiology and milk secretion

James L. McManaman, Margaret Neville

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Extended Oral Anticoagulant Therapy after a First Episode of Pulmonary Embolism

Giancarlo Agnelli, Paolo Prandoni, Cecilia Becattini +10

Annals of Internal Medicine

Patients with pulmonary embolism have a substantial risk for recurrence after discontinuation of oral anticoagulation, regardless of treatment duration. Physicians should try to identify patients who...

Biochemical and Genetic Analyses of Yeast and Human High Affinity Copper Transporters Suggest a Conserved Mechanism for Copper Uptake

Sergi Puig, Jaekwon Lee, Miranda Lau +1

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The redox active metal copper is an essential cofactor in critical biological processes such as respiration, iron transport, oxidative stress protection, hormone production, and pigmentation. A...

Food safety risk

Ruth M.W. Yeung, Joe Morris

British Food Journal

Food safety has become a major issue of public concern, encouraging the UK Government and the food industry to take steps to rebuild consumer confidence. In this context, the paper draws on a review...

Crystallization Processes in Fats and Lipid Systems

Crystallization processes polymorphism and phase transitions of fatty acids and acylglycerols morphological connected net roughening transition theory - application to beta-2 crystals of...

Protein Storage Bodies and Vacuoles

Eliot M. Herman, Brian A. Larkins

The Plant Cell

Plants store proteins in embryo and vegetative cells to provide carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur resources for subsequent growth and development. The storage and mobilization cycles of amino acids that...

Glycaemic index as a determinant of serum HDL-cholesterol concentration

Gary Frost, AA Leeds, Caroline J Doré +3

The Lancet

Betaines and Related Osmoprotectants. Targets for Metabolic Engineering of Stress Resistance1

Scott D. McNeil, Michael L. Nuccio, Andrew D. Hanson

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Osmoprotectants (also termed compatible solutes) occur in all organisms from archaebacteria to higher plants and animals. They are highly soluble compounds that carry no net charge at physiological...

Mutation in AP-3 δ in the mocha Mouse Links Endosomal Transport to Storage Deficiency in Platelets, Melanosomes, and Synaptic Vesicles

Prameela Kantheti, Xiaoxi Qiao, María E. Díaz +8

Neuron

Influence of <i>Lactobacillus</i> spp. from an Inoculant and of <i>Weissella</i> and <i>Leuconostoc</i> spp. from Forage Crops on Silage Fermentation

Yimin Cai, Yoshimi Benno, M. Ogawa +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Lactobacillus spp. from an inoculant and Weissella and Leuconostoc spp. from forage crops were characterized, and their influence on silage fermentation was studied. Forty-two lactic acid-producing...

Food properties affecting the digestion and absorption of carbohydrates

Inger Björck, Yvonne Granfeldt, H Liljeberg +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Plant metallothioneins

Nigel J. Robinson, Andrew M. Tommey, Cheryl R. Kuske +1

Biochemical Journal

Research Article| October 01 1993 Plant metallothioneins N J Robinson; N J Robinson *Department of Biological Sciences, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, U.K. Search for other works by this...

Constitutive expression of the phoP regulon attenuates Salmonella virulence and survival within macrophages

Samuel I. Miller, John J. Mekalanos

Journal of Bacteriology

The phoP genetic locus is a two-component regulatory system (phoP-phoQ) that controls the expression of genes essential for Salmonella typhimurium virulence and survival within macrophages. Strains...

Summary of an International Workshop on Typhoid Fever

Robert Edelman, Myron M. Levine

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Summary of an International Workshop on Typhoid Fever Get access Robert Edelman, Robert Edelman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Myron M. Levine Myron...

The Requirement and Toxicity of Selenium in Rainbow Trout (Salmo Gairdneri)

J. W. Hilton, P. V. Hodson, S.J. Slinger

Journal of Nutrition

Metabolic detoxification of ammonia in tissues of higher plants

Curtis V. Givan

Phytochemistry

Nutritional and metabolic assessment of the hospitalized patient

G. Blackburn, Bruce R. Bistrian, B. Maini +2

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Comparison of Streptokinase and Heparin in Treatment of Isolated Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism

Graham Miller, George C. Sutton, I.H. Kerr +2

BMJ

Massive pulmonary embolism was confirmed by pulmonary arteriography in 23 patients. All were seen between 2 and 48 hours after the onset of embolism and none had pre-existing cardiorespiratory...

Amino-Acid Sequence of Sperm Whale Myoglobin

Allen B. Edmundson

Nature

Permeability characteristics of the human small intestine.

John S. Fordtran, F. C. Rector, Maynard F. Ewton +2

Journal of Clinical Investigation

This is the only avail- able estimate of intestinal pore size in any species. and no estimates at all are available for pore size at different levels of the small intestine.

Cuproptosis: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying copper-induced cell death

Paul A. Cobine, Donita C. Brady

Molecular Cell

Attention should be paid to venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the management of COVID-19

Tao Wang, Ruchong Chen, Chunli Liu +7

The Lancet Haematology

Cholera

John D. Clemens, G. Balakrish Nair, Tahmeed Ahmed +2

The Lancet

Effect of a community-led sanitation intervention on child diarrhoea and child growth in rural Mali: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Amy J. Pickering, Habiba Djebbari, Carolina López +2

The Lancet Global Health

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Novel Techniques in Sensory Characterization and Consumer Profiling

Paula Varela, Gaston Ares

Sensory characterization is one of the most powerful, sophisticated, and extensively applied tools in sensory science. Descriptive analysis with trained assessors has been traditionally used for...

Effect of Convective and Vacuum–Microwave Drying on the Bioactive Compounds, Color, and Antioxidant Capacity of Sour Cherries

Aneta Wojdyło, Adam Figiel, Krzysztof Lech +2

Food and Bioprocess Technology

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of microwave power during the vacuum–microwave drying (VMD) on sour cherries in terms of drying kinetics, including the temperature profile of dried...

Home fortification of foods with multiple micronutrient powders for health and nutrition in children under two years of age

Luz María De‐Regil, Parminder S. Suchdev, Gunn Elisabeth Vist +2

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Home fortification of foods with MNP is an effective intervention for reducing anaemia and iron deficiency in children younger than two years of age. Providing MNP is better than providing no...

Breast-<i>v.</i>formula-feeding: impacts on the digestive tract and immediate and long-term health effects

Isabelle Le Huërou‐Luron, Sophie Blat, Gaëlle Boudry

Nutrition Research Reviews

The health benefits of breast-feeding have been recognised for a long time. In particular, breast-feeding is associated with lower incidence of necrotising enterocolitis and diarrhoea during the...

Antioxidants: Molecules, medicines, and myths

John M.C. Gutteridge, Barry Halliwell

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Ante- and postnatal risk factors of venous thrombosis: a hospital-based case–control study

Anne Flem Jacobsen, Finn Egil Skjeldestad, Per Morten Sandset

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

ESPEN Guidelines on Enteral Nutrition: Gastroenterology

Herbert Lochs, C.H.C. Dejong, Folke Hammarqvist +10

Clinical Nutrition

Dose-related effects of eicosapentaenoic acid on innate immune function in healthy humans: a comparison of young and older men

Dinka Rees, Elizabeth A. Miles, Tapati Banerjee +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The Roles of Bacteria and TLR4 in Rat and Murine Models of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Tamás Jilling, Dyan Simon, Jing Lü +7

The Journal of Immunology

Bacteria are thought to contribute to the pathogenesis of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), but it is unknown whether their interaction with the epithelium can participate in the initiation of mucosal...

Trace Mineral Bioavailability in Ruminants

J. W. Spears

Journal of Nutrition

An optimised method to determine the degree of acetylation of chitin and chitosan by FTIR spectroscopy

M.L. Duarte, Marystela Ferreira, M.R. Marvão +1

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

The role of polyunsaturated fatty acids in restoring the aging neuronal membrane

Shlomo Yehuda, Sharon Rabinovitz, R LCARASSO +1

Neurobiology of Aging

The copper transporter CTR1 provides an essential function in mammalian embryonic development

Yien–Ming Kuo, Bing Bing Zhou, Dominique Cosco +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Copper serves as an essential cofactor for a variety of proteins in all living organisms. Previously, we described a human gene (CTR1;SLC31A1) that encodes a high-affinity copper-uptake protein and...