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TREATING WATER WITH CHLORINE AT POINT-OF-USE TO IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND REDUCE CHILD DIARRHEA IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS

Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

We conducted a systematic review of all studies that measured diarrheal health impacts in children and the impact on water quality of point-of-use chlorine drinking water treatment. Twenty-one...

Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Campylobacter Species and the Withdrawal of Fluoroquinolones from Use in Poultry: A Public Health Success Story

Jennifer Nelson, Tom Chiller, John H. Powers +1

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Campylobacter species cause 1.4 million infections each year in the United States. Fluoroquinolones (e.g., ciprofloxacin) are commonly used in adults with Campylobacter infection and other...

Hydrothermal treatments of rice starch for improvement of rice noodle quality

R. Hormdok, Athapol Noomhorm

LWT

Secondary Prevention of Venous Thromboembolic Events in Patients With Active Cancer: Enoxaparin Alone Versus Initial Enoxaparin Followed by Warfarin for a 180-Day Period

Steven R. Deitcher, Craig M. Kessler, Geno J. Merli +3

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

This study evaluated enoxaparin alone versus initial enoxaparin followed by warfarin in secondary prevention of venous thromboembolic events in adults with active malignancy. Cancer patients (n =...

The vitamin K cycle

Darrel W. Stafford

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Metallomics as integrated biometal science

Hiroki Haraguchi

Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

In this paper, “metallomics” is proposed as a new scientific field in order to integrate the research fields related to biometals. Metallomics should be a scientific field in symbiosis with genomics...

Composition of corn and distillers dried grains with solubles from dry grind ethanol processing

R.L. Belyea

Bioresource Technology

Human exposure and internal dose assessments of acrylamide in food

Erik Dybing, P.B. Farmer, Melvin E. Andersen +12

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Effects of subclinical infection on plasma retinol concentrations and assessment of prevalence of vitamin A deficiency: meta-analysis

DI Thurnham, GP McCabe, CA Northrop-Clewes +1

The Lancet

Plant phenolics as cross-linkers of gelatin gels and gelatin-based coacervates for use as food ingredients

George Strauss, Suzanne Gibson

Food Hydrocolloids

Oxidative stress as a pathogenic factor in inflammatory bowel disease — radicals or ridiculous?

Laurens Kruidenier, Hein W. Verspaget

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Virtually all inflammatory mediators investigated to date seem to be dysregulated in the inflamed intestinal mucosa of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. However, which of these are actually...

Aspects of the Physical Chemistry of Starch

Roger Parker, Stephen G. Ring

Journal of Cereal Science

On the evidence for partial N-movement in the Romance DP

Guglielmo Cinque

Cambridge University Press eBooks

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Gelation of gellan gum

Hans Grasdalen, Olav Smidsrød

Carbohydrate Polymers

Statistical considerations in the estimation of enzyme kinetic parameters by the direct linear plot and other methods

Athel Cornish‐Bowden, Robert Eisenthal

Biochemical Journal

The statistical implications of the direct linear plot for enzyme kinetic data, described in the preceding paper (Eisenthal & Cornish-Bowden, 1974), are discussed for the case of the Michaelis-Menten...

Clinical manifestations of ascorbic acid deficiency in man

Robert E. Hodges, James Hood, John E. Canham +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

Pablo Librado, Naveed Khan, Antoine Fages +27

Nature

Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare¹. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated...

Role of Minerals and Trace Elements in Diabetes and Insulin Resistance

Pallavi Dubey, Vikram Thakur, Munmun Chattopadhyay

Nutrients

Minerals and trace elements are micronutrients that are essential to the human body but present only in traceable amounts. Nonetheless, they exhibit well-defined biochemical functions. Deficiencies...

Spray-drying of fruit and vegetable juices: Effect of drying conditions on the product yield and physical properties

İsmail Tontul, Ayhan Topuz

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Very long-chain<i>n</i>-3 fatty acids and human health: fact, fiction and the future

Philip C. Calder

Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

EPA and DHA appear to be the most important n-3 fatty acids, but roles for n-3 docosapentaenoic acid are now also emerging. Intakes of EPA and DHA are usually low, typically below those recommended....

ω-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Coronary Heart Disease

Liana C. Del Gobbo, Fumiaki Imamura, Stella Aslibekyan +27

JAMA Internal Medicine

On the basis of available studies of free-living populations globally, biomarker concentrations of seafood and plant-derived ω-3 fatty acids are associated with a modestly lower incidence of fatal...

An imbalance between specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators and pro-inflammatory leukotrienes promotes instability of atherosclerotic plaques

Gabrielle Fredman, Jason Hellmann, Jonathan D. Proto +9

Nature Communications

Chronic unresolved inflammation plays a causal role in the development of advanced atherosclerosis, but the mechanisms that prevent resolution in atherosclerosis remain unclear. Here, we use targeted...

Glutamate: a truly functional amino acid

John T. Brosnan, Margaret E. Brosnan

Amino Acids

Zinc: an essential but elusive nutrient

Janet C. King

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

A Gustotopic Map of Taste Qualities in the Mammalian Brain

Xiaoke Chen, Mariano I. Gabitto, Yueqing Peng +2

Science

The taste system is one of our fundamental senses, responsible for detecting and responding to sweet, bitter, umami, salty, and sour stimuli. In the tongue, the five basic tastes are mediated by...

A review on recent research results (2008–2010) on essential oils as antimicrobials and antifungals. A review.

Gudrun Lang, Gerhard Buchbauer

Flavour and Fragrance Journal

ABSTRACT The antimicrobial activity of essential oils is discussed in this review taking in account studies which were published in the period of time from 2008 until September 2010. Furthermore, the...

Nutritive value and chemical composition of pseudocereals as gluten-free ingredients

Laura Alvarez‐Jubete, Elke K. Arendt, Eimear Gallagher

International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

The only treatment available for patients with coeliac disease is a lifelong elimination of food products containing gluten. The gluten-free products currently available in the market are considered...

Flavonoids and other phenolic compounds in Andean indigenous grains: Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), kañiwa (Chenopodium pallidicaule) and kiwicha (Amaranthus caudatus)

Ritva Repo‐Carrasco‐Valencia, Jarkko Hellström, Juha‐Matti Pihlava +1

Food Chemistry

Glycemic index and glycemic load: measurement issues and their effect on diet–disease relationships

Bernard J. Venn, Tim Green

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The health effects of dietary unsaturated fatty acids

J. Lunn, Hannah Theobald

Nutrition Bulletin

Summary Introduction What are unsaturated fatty acids? Unsaturated fatty acids in the UK diet Unsaturated fatty acids in health and disease Unsaturated fatty acids and public health Conclusions...

In vitro evaluation of antibacterial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil and methanol extract of endemic Zataria multiflora Boiss

Fariba Sharififar, Mohammad Hassan Moshafi, Shahla Mansouri +2

Food Control

Randomized placebo‐controlled trial assessing the effect of bifidobacteria‐fermented milk on active ulcerative colitis

Kimitoshi Kato, Shigeaki Mizuno, Yoshinori Umesaki +8

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Supplementation with this bifidobacteria-fermented milk product is safe and more effective than conventional treatment alone, suggesting possible beneficial effects in managing active ulcerative...

<i>Salmonella typhimurium</i> Persists within Macrophages in the Mesenteric Lymph Nodes of Chronically Infected <i>Nramp1</i> + <i>/</i> + Mice and Can Be Reactivated by IFNγ Neutralization

Denise M. Monack, Donna M. Bouley, Stanley Falkow

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Host-adapted strains of Salmonella are capable of establishing a persistent infection in their host often in the absence of clinical disease. The mouse model of Salmonella infection has primarily...

Shelf Life and Safety Concerns of Bakery Products—A Review

James P. Smith, Daphne Phillips Daifas, Wassim El-Khoury +2

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Bakery products are an important part of a balanced diet and, today, a wide variety of such products can be found on supermarket shelves. This includes unsweetened goods (bread, rolls, buns,...

Decreased antioxidant enzymes and membrane essential polyunsaturated fatty acids in schizophrenic and bipolar mood disorder patients

P. K. Ranjekar, Ashwini Hinge, Mahabaleshwar V. Hegde +6

Psychiatry Research

Molecular methods for the assessment of bacterial viability

Jacquie T. Keer, L. Birch

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Red wine astringency: a review

Richard Gawel

Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research

The chemical and physical basis for red wine astringency is reviewed. Models describing the physiological foundation of astringency are presented and compared. The phenolic and other red wine...

A National Outbreak of<i>Salmonella enteritidis</i>Infections from Ice Cream

Thomas W. Hennessy, Craig W. Hedberg, Laurence Slutsker +8

New England Journal of Medicine

This nationwide outbreak of salmonellosis was most likely the result of contamination of pasteurized ice cream premix during transport in tanker trailers that had previously carried nonpasteurized...

Cloned transcription factor MTF-1 activates the mouse metallothionein I promoter.

Freddy Radtke, Rainer Heuchel, Oleg Georgiev +4

The EMBO Journal

Nutritional outcome and pneumonia in critical care patients randomized to gastric versus jejunal tube feedings

Marisa A. Montecalvo, Kathleen A. Steger, Harrison W. Farber +8

Critical Care Medicine

Patients fed by jejunal tube received a significantly higher proportion of their daily goal caloric intake, had a significantly greater increase in serum prealbumin concentrations, and had a lower...

Hemorrhagic Shock Induces Bacterial Translocation from the Gut

John W. Baker, Edwin A. Deitch, M A LI +2

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

Sepsis and multiple organ failure are common after hemorrhagic shock. The goal of the current experiments was to determine whether hemorrhagic shock would promote the translocation of bacteria from...

The protection by ascorbate and glutathione against microsomal lipid peroxidation is dependent on vitamin E

Heribert Wefers, Helmut Sies

European Journal of Biochemistry

Lipid peroxidation of rat liver microsomal fractions was monitored by its low-level chemiluminescence in preparations from controls and vitamin-E-deficient animals. Measurements were made (a) of the...

Prevention of Typhoid Fever in Nepal with the VI Capsular Polysaccharide of<i>Salmonella Typhi</i>

I L Acharya, C. U. Lowe, Rita Thapa +10

New England Journal of Medicine

We conducted a pilot study followed by a large clinical trial in Nepal of the use of the capsular polysaccharide of Salmonella typhi (Vi) as a vaccine to prevent typhoid fever. In the pilot study,...

Effect of oral administration of highly purified eicosapentaenoic acid on platelet function, blood viscosity and red cell deformability in healthy human subjects

Takashi Terano, Aizan Hirai, Tomohito Hamazaki +4

Atherosclerosis

PONTIAC FEVER

Thomas H. Glick, Michael B. Gregg, Bernard A. Berman +3

American Journal of Epidemiology

In July 1968, an explosive epidemic of acute febrile illness occurred at a county health department facility in Pontiac, Michigan. Illness characterized principally by fever, headache, myalgia, and...

The Grain Amaranths and Their Relatives: A Revised Taxonomic and Geographic Survey

Jonathan D. Sauer

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Much new information on this species group has accumulated in the years since my initial survey was carried out in the graduate laboratory of the Henry Shaw School of Botany (Sauer, 1950a).Many...

[76] Colorimetric procedures for amino acids

Joseph R. Spies

Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

The Intertwined Relationship Between Malnutrition and Poverty

Faareha Siddiqui, Rehana A Salam, Zohra S Lassi +1

Frontiers in Public Health

Despite social and economic development, the burden of malnutrition across the globe remains unacceptably high. A vital relationship exists between nutritional status, human capital, and economic...

Protein Digestibility of Cereal Products

Iris J. Joye

Foods

Protein digestibility is currently a hot research topic and is of big interest to the food industry. Different scoring methods have been developed to describe protein quality. Cereal protein scores...