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An Outbreak of Hepatitis A Associated with Green Onions

Catherine Dentinger, William A. Bower, Omana V. Nainan +6

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Forty-three cases of serologically confirmed hepatitis A occurred among individuals who ate at restaurant A in Ohio in 1998. Serum samples from all restaurant A employees who worked during the...

A Distinctive Class of Integron in the <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> Genome

Didier Mazel, Broderick Dychinco, Vera Webb +1

Science

The ability of bacteria to acquire and disseminate heterologous genes has been a major factor in the development of multiple drug resistance. A gene, intI4, was identified that encodes a previously...

Effects of Walnuts on Serum Lipid Levels and Blood Pressure in Normal Men

Joan Sabaté, Gary E. Fraser, Kenneth I. Burke +3

New England Journal of Medicine

Incorporating moderate quantities of walnuts into the recommended cholesterol-lowering diet while maintaining the intake of total dietary fat and calories decreases serum levels of total cholesterol...

Meat: A Natural Symbol.

Anne Murcott, Nick Fiddes

Man

PART ONE: Background 1. Food=Meat 2. A Brief History of Meat Eating 3. A Matter of Taste 4. More Than a Meal PART TWO: Meat is Muscle 5. Evolution and Elevation 6. The Power of Meat 7. The Barbarity...

Polyphasic Taxonomic Study of the Emended Genus Arcobacter with Arcobacter butzleri comb. nov. and Arcobacter skirrowii sp. nov., an Aerotolerant Bacterium Isolated from Veterinary Specimens

Peter Vandamme, Marc Vancanneyt, Bruno Pot +10

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

The relationships of 77 aerotolerant Arcobacter strains that were originally identified as Campylobacter cryaerophila (now Arcobacter cryaerophilus [P. Vandamme, E. Falsen, R. Rossau, B. Hoste, P....

Protein oxidation and proteolysis during aging and oxidative stress

Pamela Starke‐Reed, Cynthia N. Oliver

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Isolation of the human gene for bone gla protein utilizing mouse and rat cDNA clones.

Anthony Celeste, Vicki Rosen, Janet L. Buecker +3

The EMBO Journal

Platelet function, thromboxane formation and blood pressure control during supplementation of the Western diet with cod liver oil.

Reinhard Lorenz, Ulrich Spengler, Susan M. Fischer +2

Circulation

Epidemiologic and experimental data suggest an antiatherothrombotic potential of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Therefore, the Western diet, which supplies predominantly omega-6 polyunsaturated...

An Anthropological Analysis of Food-Getting Technology.

Barbara Bender, Wendell H. Oswalt, Gloria Mann +1

Man

Technology, material culture, and artifacts are unexciting words, yet the ideas for which they stand are of immeasurable importance in the lives of all peoples -- in the past, in the present, and...

Zinc deficiency and cellular oxidative stress: prognostic implications in cardiovascular diseases

Sangyong Choi, Xian Liu, Zui Pan

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Zinc is an essential nutrient for human health and has anti-oxidative stress and anti-inflammatory functions. The association between zinc deficiency and the development of cardiovascular diseases...

Improving the bioavailability of phenolic compounds by loading them within lipid-based nanocarriers

Afshin Faridi Esfanjani, Elham Assadpour, Seid Mahdi Jafari

Trends in Food Science & Technology

The fascinating facets of plant selenium accumulation – biochemistry, physiology, evolution and ecology

Michela Schiavon, Elizabeth A. H. Pilon‐Smits

New Phytologist

Contents 1582 I. 1582 II. 1583 III. 1588 IV. 1590 V. 1592 1592 References 1592 SUMMARY: The importance of selenium (Se) for medicine, industry and the environment is increasingly apparent. Se is...

Progress in solar dryers for drying various commodities

Mahesh Kumar, Sunil Kumar Sansaniwal, Pankaj Khatak

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Breeding and Domesticating Crops Adapted to Drought and Salinity: A New Paradigm for Increasing Food Production

Ana Fita, Adrián Rodríguez‐Burruezo, Monica Boşcaiu +2

Frontiers in Plant Science

World population is expected to reach 9.2 × 10(9) people by 2050. Feeding them will require a boost in crop productivity using innovative approaches. Current agricultural production is very dependent...

The type VI secretion system of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> fosters horizontal gene transfer

Sandrine Borgeaud, Lisa C. Metzger, Tiziana Scrignari +1

Science

Natural competence for transformation is a common mode of horizontal gene transfer and contributes to bacterial evolution. Transformation occurs through the uptake of external DNA and its integration...

X-ray diffraction, IR spectroscopy and thermal characterization of partially hydrolyzed guar gum

Deepak Mudgil, Sheweta Barak, B. S. Khatkar

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Antioxidant Activity and Phenolic Content of Betalain Extracts from Intact Plants and Hairy Root Cultures of the Red Beetroot Beta vulgaris cv. Detroit Dark Red

Vasil Georgiev, Jost Weber, Eva-Maria Kneschke +3

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Shelf life extension of lamb meat using thyme or oregano essential oils and modified atmosphere packaging

Ioannis K. Karabagias, Anastasia V. Badeka, Michael G. Kontominas

Meat Science

Browning development in bakery products – A review

Emmanuel Purlis

Journal of Food Engineering

Epidemiology and pathophysiology of cancer-associated thrombosis

Simon Noble, John Pasi

British Journal of Cancer

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common complication in patients with malignant disease. First recognised by Bouillard in 1823 and later described by Trousseau in 1844, multiple studies have since...

Vitamin losses: Retention during heat treatment and continual changes expressed by mathematical models

Emília Lešková, Jana Kubíková, Eva Kováčiková +3

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

Characterization of Aroma Compounds of Chinese “Wuliangye” and “Jiannanchun” Liquors by Aroma Extract Dilution Analysis

Wenlai Fan, Michael C. Qian

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Aroma compounds in Chinese "Wuliangye" liquor were identified by gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) after fractionation. A total of 132 odorants were detected by GC-O in Wuliangye liquor on...

Human-Milk Glycans That Inhibit Pathogen Binding Protect Breast-feeding Infants against Infectious Diarrhea

Ardythe L. Morrow, Guillermo M. Ruiz‐Palacios, Xi Jiang +1

Journal of Nutrition

Effect of Fish Oil on Heart Rate in Humans

Dariush Mozaffarian, Anouk Geelen, Ingeborg A. Brouwer +3

Circulation

In randomized controlled trials in humans, fish oil reduces HR, particularly in those with higher baseline HR or longer treatment duration. These findings provide firm evidence that fish oil...

Safe Practices for Parenteral Nutrition

Task Force for the Revision of Safe Practices for Parenteral Nutrition, Jay M. Mirtallo, Todd W. Canada +6

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Exposure to appetitive food stimuli markedly activates the human brain

Gene‐Jack Wang, Nora D. Volkow, Frank Telang +8

NeuroImage

Protein–protein crosslinking in food: methods, consequences, applications

Juliet A. Gerrard

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Differential cytokine expression in avian cells in response to invasion by Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella gallinarum The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AI982185 for chicken IL-6 cDNA and AJ250838 for the partial chicken IL-6 genomic sequence, respectively.

Pete Kaiser, Lisa Rothwell, Edouard E. Galyov +3

Microbiology

Salmonella enterica is a facultative intracellular pathogen that is capable of causing disease in a range of hosts. Although human salmonellosis is frequently associated with consumption of...

Caspase-1 Activation of IL-1β and IL-18 Are Essential for Shigella flexneri–Induced Inflammation

Philippe Sansonetti, Armelle Phalipon, Josette Arondel +5

Immunity

Characterization of barley starches of waxy, normal, and high amylose varieties

Yunxian Song, Jay‐lin Jane

Carbohydrate Polymers

A novel RNA binding protein, SBP2, is required for the translation of mammalian selenoprotein mRNAs

Paul R. Copeland, Julia E. Fletcher, Bradley A. Carlson +2

The EMBO Journal

Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death by Dietary Pure ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Dogs

George E. Billman, Jing X. Kang, Alexander Leaf

Circulation

These results indicate that purified omega-3 fatty acids can prevent ischemia-induced ventricular fibrillation in this dog model of sudden cardiac death.

Adhesion of some probiotic and dairy Lactobacillus strains to Caco-2 cell cultures

Elina Tuomola, Seppo Salminen

International Journal of Food Microbiology

The effect of consumption of milk fermented by Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota on the intestinal microflora and immune parameters in humans

Steven Spanhaak, R. Havenaar, G. Schaafsma

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

An application in cheddar cheese manufacture for a strain of Lactococcus lactis producing a novel broad-spectrum bacteriocin, lacticin 3147

M.P. Ryan, Mary C. Rea, Colin Hill +1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Lactococcus lactis DPC3147, a strain isolated from an Irish kefir grain, produces a bacteriocin with a broad spectrum of inhibition. The bacteriocin produced is heat stable, particularly at a low pH,...

Guidelines for the use of vitamins, trace elements, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus in infants and children receiving total parenteral nutrition: report of the Subcommittee on Pediatric Parenteral Nutrient Requirements from the Committee on Clinical Practice Issues of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition

HL Greene, K. Michael Hambidge, R. J. Schanler +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Lifestyle and Consumer Culture

Mike Featherstone

Theory Culture & Society

Drug-Resistant Salmonella from Animals Fed Antimicrobials

Scott D. Holmberg, Michael T. Osterholm, Kenneth A. Senger +1

New England Journal of Medicine

It has been difficult to document the postulated sequence of events that begins with the selection of drug-resistant organisms in animals fed subtherapeutic amounts of antimicrobials and ends with...

The Normal Microbial Flora

Philip A. Mackowiak

New England Journal of Medicine

CONTROVERSY has surrounded the role of the normal microbial flora in health since the early days of microbiology. Pasteur, for one, hypothesized that the normal flora was essential to life.1 Some...

Pigment distribution, light reflection and cell structure in petals

Q. O. N. Kay, H. S. Daoud, C. H. Stirton

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Petal structure and the distribution of pigments in petals were studied in relation to the functional anatomy of petals and the ways in which petals absorb and reflect light. We examined 201 species...

Experimental Human Scurvy

John H. Crandon, Charles C. Lund, D. B. Dill

New England Journal of Medicine

Effects of (+)-catechin on a rice bran protein oil-in-water emulsion: Droplet size, zeta-potential, emulsifying properties, and rheological behavior

Dan Li, Yue Zhao, Xu Wang +5

Food Hydrocolloids

Impact of drinking water, sanitation and handwashing with soap on childhood diarrhoeal disease: updated meta‐analysis and meta‐regression

Jennyfer Wolf, Paul Hunter, Matthew C. Freeman +8

Tropical Medicine & International Health

Although evidence is limited, results suggest that household connections of water supply and higher levels of community coverage for sanitation appear particularly impactful which is in line with...

Catalase, superoxide dismutase and ascorbate-glutathione cycle enzymes confer drought tolerance of Amaranthus tricolor

Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba

Scientific Reports

The study was performed to explore physiological, non-enzymatic and enzymatic detoxification pathways of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in tolerance of Amaranthus tricolor under drought stress. The...

Physiology, ecology and industrial applications of aroma formation in yeast

Maria C. Dzialo, Rahel Park, Jan Steensels +2

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Yeast cells are often employed in industrial fermentation processes for their ability to efficiently convert relatively high concentrations of sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide. Additionally,...

Diagnosis and management of acute deep vein thrombosis: a joint consensus document from the European Society of Cardiology working groups of aorta and peripheral vascular diseases and pulmonary circulation and right ventricular function

Lucia Mazzolai, Victor Aboyans, Walter Ageno +14

European Heart Journal

International audience

Impact of maternal diet on human milk composition and neurological development of infants

Sheila M. Innis

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Mixed biopolymers at interfaces: Competitive adsorption and multilayer structures

Eric Dickinson

Food Hydrocolloids

Structure and Regulation of the Type VI Secretion System

Julie M. Silverman, Yannick R. Brunet, Eric Cascalès +1

Annual Review of Microbiology

The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a complex and widespread gram-negative bacterial export pathway with the capacity to translocate protein effectors into a diversity of target cell types....

Effect of Isoniazid on Vitamin B6 Metabolism; Its Possible Significance in Producing Isoniazid Neuritis

Janet Biehl, Richard W. Vilter

Nutrition Reviews

Journal Article Effect of Isoniazid on Vitamin B6 Metabolism; Its Possible Significance in Producing Isoniazid Neuritis Get access J. Park Biehl, J. Park Biehl the Department of Internal Medicine....