Research Library

The case for fruit quality: an interpretive review of consumer attitudes, and preferences for apples

F. Roger Harker, Anne Gunson, Sara R. Jaeger

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Necrotizing Enterocolitis Among Neonates in the United States

Scott O. Guthrie, Phillip V. Gordon, Victor J. Thomas +3

Journal of Perinatology

Low intracellular zinc induces oxidative DNA damage, disrupts p53, NFκB, and AP1 DNA binding, and affects DNA repair in a rat glioma cell line

Emily Ho, Bruce N. Ames

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Approximately 10% of the U.S. population ingests <50% of the current recommended daily allowance for zinc. We investigate the effect of zinc deficiency on DNA damage, expression of DNA-repair...

Effects of food gums on viscosities of starch suspensions during pasting

Xiaohong Shi

Carbohydrate Polymers

Indications for pediatric intestinal transplantation: A position paper of the American Society of Transplantation

Stuart S. Kaufman, James B. Atkinson, A. Bianchi +7

Pediatric Transplantation

Parenteral nutrition represents standard therapy for children with short bowel syndrome and other causes of intestinal failure. Most infants with short bowel syndrome eventually wean from parenteral...

Food Emulsions: Principles, Practice, and Techniques

Peter A. Williams

International Journal of Food Science & Technology

Bifidobacterium strains from resident infant human gastrointestinal microflora exert antimicrobial activity

Vanessa Liévin, I Peiffer, S Hudault +4

Gut

Several bifidobacterium strains from resident infant human gastrointestinal microflora exert antimicrobial activity, suggesting that they could participate in the "barrier effect" produced by the...

The role of seafood in bacterialfoodborne diseases

F. Feldhusen

Microbes and Infection

Overview of Zinc Absorption and Excretion in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract

Nancy F. Krebs

Journal of Nutrition

Periplasmic superoxide dismutase protects<i>Salmonella</i>from products of phagocyte NADPH-oxidase and nitric oxide synthase

Mary Ann De Groote, Urs A. Ochsner, Michael U. Shiloh +7

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Superoxide dismutase (SOD) catalyzes the conversion of superoxide radical to hydrogen peroxide. Periplasmic localization of bacterial Cu,Zn-SOD has suggested a role of this enzyme in defense against...

Fluorescence Analysis of the Labile Iron Pool of Mammalian Cells

Silvina Epsztejn, Or Kakhlon, Hava Glickstein +2

Analytical Biochemistry

Mucosal adjuvant effect of cholera toxin in mice results from induction of T helper 2 (Th2) cells and IL-4

Mariarosaria Marinaro, Herman F. Staats, Takachika Hiroi +9

The Journal of Immunology

Despite pathophysiologic effects including diarrhea, cholera toxin (CT) is a potent mucosal immunogen and adjuvant. We investigated the influence of CT on T helper (Th)-type 1 (Th1) and Th2...

Tyrosine phosphate hydrolysis of host proteins by an essential Yersinia virulence determinant.

James B. Bliska, Kun‐Liang Guan, Jack E. Dixon +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The plasmid-encoded YopH protein is a protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase; EC 3.1.3.48) that is essential for Yersinia virulence. We have investigated the molecular basis for the role of PTPase...

Detection of an Adherence Factor of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli with a DNA Probe

James P. Nataro, Mary M. Baldini, James B. Kaper +3

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

A DNA probe to detect genes conferring localized adherence of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) to Hep-2 cells was evaluated by using E. coli isolates from the stools of Peruvian infants with...

Increased bactericidal activity of dilute preparations of povidone-iodine solutions

Ruth L. Berkelman, B W Holland, Roger L. Anderson

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Recent confirmation of intrinsic bacterial contamination of 10% povidone-iodine solution has raised questions regarding the bactericidal mechanism of iodophors and the possibility for survival of...

Classification of the Legionnaires' Disease Bacterium: <i>Legionella pneumophila</i>, genus novum, species nova, of the Family Legionellaceae, familia nova

D J Brenner, ARNOLD G. STEIGERWALT, JOSEPH E. McDADE

Annals of Internal Medicine

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) relatedness was used to classify strains of the Legionnaires' disease (LD) bacterium. These DNA comparisons showed that all strains of the LD bacterium were members of the...

The gnotobiotic animal as a tool in the study of host microbial relationships

Helmut A. Gordon, L Pesti

Bacteriological Reviews

Human Zinc Deficiency, Endocrine Manifestations and Response to Treatment

Harold H. Sandstead, Ananda S. Prasad, Arthur R. Schulert +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Hydrocarbon constituents of the wax coatings of plant leaves: A taxonomic survey

G. Eglinton, A.G. González, Richard Hamilton +1

Phytochemistry

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEXOKINASE FROM YEAST AND ANIMAL TISSUES

Milton W. Slein, Gerty T. Cori, Carl F. Cori

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Spontaneous Cures in Rats reared upon a Diet devoid of Vitamin B and Antineurtic vitamin

Margaret Honora Roscoe

Journal of Hygiene

The Preceding paper by Fridericia and his co-workers on “A Transmissible Change in the Instestinal Content, enabling Rats to Grow and Thrive without vitamin B in the Food” deals with results so novel...

Effect of dose and duration of reduction in dietary sodium on blood pressure levels: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials

Liping Huang, Kathy Trieu, Sohei Yoshimura +9

BMJ

PROSPERO CRD42019140812.

Lipid nano scale cargos for the protection and delivery of food bioactive ingredients and nutraceuticals

Sahar Akhavan, Elham Assadpour, Iman Katouzian +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Changes in chemical interactions and protein conformation during heat-induced wheat gluten gel formation

Kaiqiang Wang, Shuizhong Luo, Xiyang Zhong +3

Food Chemistry

Fermented Foods as Experimentally Tractable Microbial Ecosystems

Benjamin E. Wolfe, Rachel J. Dutton

Cell

Locust bean gum: Processing, properties and food applications—A review

Sheweta Barak, Deepak Mudgil

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Shigella Isolates From the Global Enteric Multicenter Study Inform Vaccine Development

Sofie Livio, Nancy Strockbine, Sandra Panchalingam +27

Clinical Infectious Diseases

A broad-spectrum Shigella vaccine must protect against S. sonnei and 15 S. flexneri serotypes/subserotypes. A quadrivalent vaccine with O antigens from S. sonnei, S. flexneri 2a, S. flexneri 3a, and...

Wine and grape polyphenols — A chemical perspective

Jorge Garrido, Fernanda Borges

Food Research International

Essential oils as potential antimicrobial agents in meat and meat products: A review

Dinesh D. Jayasena, Cheorun Jo

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Effect of ultrasound treatment on particle size and molecular weight of whey proteins

Anet ­Režek ­Jambrak, Timothy J. Mason, Vesna Lelas +2

Journal of Food Engineering

Oxidation mechanisms occurring in wines

Carla Oliveira, A. C. Silva Ferreira, Víctor de Freitas +1

Food Research International

Vibrio parahaemolyticus cell biology and pathogenicity determinants

Christopher A. Broberg, Thomas Calder, Kim Orth

Microbes and Infection

Relationships of Natural Enemies and Non-Prey Foods

Jonathan G. Lundgren

Mechanisms of Venous Thrombosis and Resolution

Thomas W. Wakefield, Daniel D. Myers, Peter K. Henke

Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology

Venous thromboembolism is a significant health care problem in the US. In this review, the unique role of inflammation to the venous thrombotic process is emphasized as well as the potential role of...

Reactive oxygen species

Hülya Bayır

Critical Care Medicine

From the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the Children’s...

Protein Phosphorylation in Amyloplasts Regulates Starch Branching Enzyme Activity and Protein–Protein Interactions

Ian J. Tetlow, Robin Wait, Zhenxiao Lu +6

The Plant Cell

Protein phosphorylation in amyloplasts and chloroplasts of Triticum aestivum (wheat) was investigated after the incubation of intact plastids with gamma-(32)P-ATP. Among the soluble phosphoproteins...

Reduction of cholera in Bangladeshi villages by simple filtration

Rita R. Colwell, Anwar Huq, M. Sirajul Islam +9

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Based on results of ecological studies demonstrating that Vibrio cholerae, the etiological agent of epidemic cholera, is commensal to zooplankton, notably copepods, a simple filtration procedure was...

Anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of the leaf extracts and essential oil of Lavandula angustifolia Mill.

Valiollah Hajhashemi, Alireza Ghannadi, Badie Sharif

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

How Far Should Salt Intake Be Reduced?

Feng J. He, Graham A. MacGregor

Hypertension

The current public health recommendations are to reduce salt intake from 9 to 12 g/d to 5 to 6 g/d. However, these values are based on what is feasible rather than the maximum effect of salt...

Molecular bases of cellular iron toxicity12 1Guest Editor: Mario Comporti 2This article is part of a series of reviews on “Iron and Cellular Redox Status.” The full list of papers may be found on the homepage of the journal.

John W. Eaton, Mingwei Qian

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Phylogenetic Distribution of Extraintestinal Virulence‐Associated Traits in<i>Escherichia coli</i>

James R. Johnson, Parissa Delavari, Michael A. Kuskowski +1

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

The 72 member strains of the Escherichia coli Reference collection were assessed as to genotype for 31 putative extraintestinal virulence factor (VF) genes and DNA sequence for papA, the P fimbrial...

Dietary fat intake and prevention of cardiovascular disease: systematic review

Lee Hooper, Carolyn D Summerbell, Julian P T Higgins +5

BMJ

There is a small but potentially important reduction in cardiovascular risk with reduction or modification of dietary fat intake, seen particularly in trials of longer duration.

<i>Legionella Pneumophila</i>Pathogenesis: A Fateful Journey from Amoebae to Macrophages

Michele S. Swanson, Brian K. Hammer

Annual Review of Microbiology

Legionella pneumophila first commanded attention in 1976, when investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified it as the culprit in a massive outbreak of pneumonia that...

Seed potato technology

P.C. Struik, S.G. Wiersema

A Multistate, Foodborne Outbreak of Hepatitis A

Yvan Hutin, Vitali Pool, Elaine H. Cramer +9

New England Journal of Medicine

We describe a large outbreak of hepatitis A in Michigan that was associated with the consumption of frozen strawberries. We found apparently sporadic cases in other states that could be linked to the...

Selection and Characterisation of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium Strains for Use as Probiotics

Jaya Prasad, H. S. Gill, John Smart +1

International Dairy Journal

Discussion

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Capacity of Nine Thermostable DNA Polymerases To Mediate DNA Amplification in the Presence of PCR-Inhibiting Samples

Waleed Abu Al‐Soud, Peter Rådström

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

ABSTRACT The PCR is an extremely powerful method for detecting microorganisms. However, its full potential as a rapid detection method is limited by the inhibition of the thermostable DNA polymerase...

Enterocin B, a new bacteriocin from Enterococcus faecium T136 which can act synergistically with enterocin A

Pilar Casaus, Trine Nilsen, Luis M. Cintas +3

Microbiology

The strain Enterococcus faecium T136 produces two bacteriocins, enterocin A, a member of the pediocin family of bacteriocins, and a new bacteriocin termed enterocin B. The N-terminal amino acid...