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Ellagic Acid Metabolism by Human Gut Microbiota: Consistent Observation of Three Urolithin Phenotypes in Intervention Trials, Independent of Food Source, Age, and Health Status

Francisco A. Tómas‐Barberán, Rocío Garcı́a-Villalba, Antonio González‐Sarrías +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Three phenotypes for urolithin production after ellagitannin and ellagic acid intake are consistently observed in different human intervention trials. Subjects can be stratified into three...

Chemical composition, antimicrobial, antioxidant and antitumor activity of Thymus serpyllum L., Thymus algeriensis Boiss. and Reut and Thymus vulgaris L. essential oils

Miloš Nikolić, Jasmina Glamočlija, Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira +6

Industrial Crops and Products

Trends in mild, moderate, and severe stunting and underweight, and progress towards MDG 1 in 141 developing countries: a systematic analysis of population representative data

Gretchen A Stevens, Mariel M. Finucane, Christopher Paciorek +4

The Lancet

Salt reduction lowers cardiovascular risk: meta-analysis of outcome trials

Feng J. He, Graham A. MacGregor

The Lancet

Wilson's Disease

James Dooley, Aftab Ala

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Physiological copper metabolism Molecular pathogenesis Molecular genetics Clinical manifestations Hepatic disease Neurological and...

Fondaparinux for the Treatment of Superficial-Vein Thrombosis in the Legs

Hervé Decousus, P. Prandoni, Patrick Mismetti +8

New England Journal of Medicine

Fondaparinux at a dose of 2.5 mg once a day for 45 days was effective in the treatment of patients with acute, symptomatic superficial-vein thrombosis of the legs and did not have serious side...

Differential NF-κB pathways induction by <i>Lactobacillus plantarum</i> in the duodenum of healthy humans correlating with immune tolerance

Peter van Baarlen, Freddy J. Troost, Saskia van Hemert +6

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

How do we acquire immune tolerance against food microorganisms and commensal bacteria that constitute the intestinal microbiota? We investigated this by stimulating the immune system of adults with...

Characterization of Starch by Size-Exclusion Chromatography: The Limitations Imposed by Shear Scission

Richard A. Cave, Shane A. Seabrook, Michael J. Gidley +1

Biomacromolecules

Shear degradation is examined in size-exclusion chromatography (SEC, or GPC) of native starch in an eluent system (dimethylsulfoxide and LiBr) in which the starch is completely dissolved. Changes in...

FAO Technical Meeting on Prebiotics

Maya Piñeiro, Nils‐Georg Asp, Gregor Reid +4

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Recognizing the possible beneficial effect of prebiotics in food, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened a Technical meeting to start work on the evaluation of the...

Characterization of citric acid/glycerol co-plasticized thermoplastic starch prepared by melt blending

Rui Shi, Zizheng Zhang, Quanyong Liu +4

Carbohydrate Polymers

Molecular pathogenesis of Wilson and Menkes disease: correlation of mutations with molecular defects and disease phenotypes

P. de Bie, Patricia Müller, Cisca Wijmenga +1

Journal of Medical Genetics

The trace metal copper is essential for a variety of biological processes, but extremely toxic when present in excessive amounts. Therefore, concentrations of this metal in the body are kept under...

Worlds of food: place, power, and provenance in the food chain

Choice Reviews Online

Introduction 1. Networks, Conventions, and Regions: Theorizing 'Worlds of Food' 2. The Regulatory World of Agri-food: Politics, Power, and Conventions 3. Geographies of Agri-food 4. Localized Quality...

Matrix solid phase dispersion (MSPD)

Steven A. Barker

Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods

Antibiotic Resistances of Starter and Probiotic Strains of Lactic Acid Bacteria

Anja Hummel, Christian Hertel, Wilhelm H. Holzapfel +1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The antibiotic resistances of 45 lactic acid bacteria strains belonging to the genera Lactobacillus, Streptococcus, Lactococcus, Pediococcus, and Leuconostoc were investigated. The objective was to...

Chemical Composition, Seasonal Variability, and Antifungal Activity of <i>Lavandula stoechas</i> L. ssp. <i>stoechas</i> Essential Oils from Stem/Leaves and Flowers

Alberto Angioni, Andrea Barra, Valentina Coroneo +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Essential oils from the stems/leaves (L) and flowers (F) of Lavandula stoechas L. ssp. stoechas growing wild in southern Sardinia (Italy) were extracted by hydrodistillation and analyzed by gas...

Updated Knowledge About the Presence of Phenolic Compounds in Wine

Marı́a Monagas, Begoña Bartolomé, Carmen Gómez‐Cordovés

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Phenolic compounds are partly responsible for the color, astringency, and bitterness of wine, as well as for numerous physiological properties associated with wine consumption. Mass spectrometry has...

<i>Campylobacter</i>

John E. Moore, Deborah Corcoran, James Dooley +13

Veterinary Research

Species within the genus, Campylobacter, have emerged over the last three decades as significant clinical pathogens, particularly of human public health concern, where the majority of acute bacterial...

Determination of vitamin C in tropical fruits: A comparative evaluation of methods

Y. Camacho Hernández, M. Lobo, Mónica González

Food Chemistry

The effect of temperature on food poisoning: a time-series analysis of salmonellosis in ten European countries

Sari Kovats, Sally Edwards, Shakoor Hajat +3

Epidemiology and Infection

We investigated the relationship between environmental temperature and reported Salmonella infections in 10 European populations. Poisson regression adapted for time-series data was used to estimate...

Potential of Acrylamide Formation, Sugars, and Free Asparagine in Potatoes:  A Comparison of Cultivars and Farming Systems

Thomas M. Amrein, Sandra Bachmann, Anja Noti +8

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Glucose, fructose, sucrose, free asparagine, and free glutamine were analyzed in 74 potato samples from 17 potato cultivars grown in 2002 at various locations in Switzerland and different farming...

Inulin and Oligofructose as Dietary Fiber: A Review of the Evidence

Gary Flamm, Walter H. Glinsmann, David Kritchevsky +2

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

This critical review article examines the composition and source of inulin and oligofructose, the physiological effects of their consumption, and how these materials relate to the concept of dietary...

Zinc transporters that regulate vacuolar zinc storage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Colin W. MacDiarmid

The EMBO Journal

Rapid genomic evolution of a non-virulent Coxsackievirus B3 in selenium-deficient mice results in selection of identical virulent isolates

Melinda A. Beck, Qing Shi, Virginia C. Morris +1

Nature Medicine

Polyphenols, astringency and proline-rich proteins

Genevieve Luck, Hua Liao, Nicola J. MURRAY +5

Phytochemistry

Clonal nature of Salmonella typhi and its genetic relatedness to other salmonellae as shown by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, and proposal of Salmonella bongori comb. nov

M. W. Reeves, G M Evins, A A Heiba +2

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Crude cell extracts of 26 isolates of Salmonella serotype typhi (S. typhi) and 48 other Salmonella isolates representing 28 serotypes and seven DNA hybridization subgroups were analyzed for...

Colonization of gastrointestinal tracts of chicks by Campylobacter jejuni

J T Beery, M B Hugdahl, Michael P. Doyle

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Bacterial enumeration and histologic examination of organs and tissues of 8-day-old chicks 7 days after peroral inoculation with Campylobacter jejuni revealed that the organism colonized primarily...

Effect of dietary alpha-linolenate/linoleate balance on brain lipid compositions and learning ability of rats.

Naohiro Yamamoto, Masaki Saitoh, Akihiro Moriuchi +2

Journal of Lipid Research

Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive control, Wistar/Kyoto (WKY) rats through two generations were fed a semipurified diet supplemented either with safflower oil (rich in linoleate)...

The Reproducibility and Constancy of the Platelet Count

George Brecher, Marvin A. Schneiderman, E. P. Cronkite

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Journal Article The Reproducibility and Constancy of the Platelet Count Get access George Brecher, M.D., George Brecher, M.D. National Institute for Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and the National...

DIGESTIBILITY OF RAW CORN, POTATO, AND WHEAT STARCHES

C. F. Langworthy, Harry J. Deuel

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Early and Long-term Consequences of Nutritional Stunting: From Childhood to Adulthood.

Vincenzo De Sanctis, Ashraf Soliman, Nada Alaaraj +3

PubMed

Linear growth failure (stunting) in childhood is the most prevalent form of undernutrition globally. The debate continues as to whether children who become stunted before age 24 months can catch up...

Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to investigate the effect of enteropathogen infections on linear growth in children in low-resource settings: longitudinal analysis of results from the MAL-ED cohort study

Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade, Jie Liu, James A Platts-Mills +27

The Lancet Global Health

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

A Survey of Modulation of Gut Microbiota by Dietary Polyphenols

Montserrat Dueñas, Irene Muñoz‐González, Carolina Cueva +5

BioMed Research International

Dietary polyphenols present in a broad range of plant foods have been related to beneficial health effects. This review aims to update the current information about the modulation of the gut...

Cell wall structure and function in lactic acid bacteria

Marie‐Pierre Chapot‐Chartier, Saulius Kulakauskas

Microbial Cell Factories

The cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria is a complex assemblage of glycopolymers and proteins. It consists of a thick peptidoglycan sacculus that surrounds the cytoplasmic membrane and that is...

²³ Na Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Determined Tissue Sodium in Healthy Subjects and Hypertensive Patients

Christoph Kopp, Peter Linz, Anke Dahlmann +9

Hypertension

High dietary salt intake is associated with hypertension; the prevalence of salt-sensitive hypertension increases with age. We hypothesized that tissue Na(+) might accumulate in hypertensive patients...

Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease associated with Campylobacter jejuni

Bruno Mesnard, Bénédicte De Vroey, Vincent Maunoury +1

Digestive and Liver Disease

The Genera Lactobacillus and Carnobacterium

SpringerReference

Risks of Copper and Iron Toxicity during Aging in Humans

George J. Brewer

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Copper and iron are essential but also toxic metals. Their essentiality is known, but their toxicity, except for the genetic overload diseases, Wilson's disease and hemochromatosis, is not so well...

Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Probiotics for Primary Prevention: No Clinical Effects of <i>Lactobacillus</i> GG Supplementation

Matthias Kopp, Isabell Hennemuth, Andrea Heinzmann +1

PEDIATRICS

Supplementation with Lactobacillus GG during pregnancy and early infancy neither reduced the incidence of atopic dermatitis nor altered the severity of atopic dermatitis in affected children but was...

Ultrasound-assisted extraction of oil from flaxseed

Zhenshan Zhang, Lijun Wang, Dong Li +3

Separation and Purification Technology

Oxidation of Wine Phenolics: A Critical Evaluation and Hypotheses

Andrew L. Waterhouse, V. Felipe Laurie

American Journal of Enology and Viticulture

Oxidation reactions involving phenolics might change the chemical and sensory profile of wines. While oxidation is a long-standing problem in winemaking, a definitive understanding of its chemical...

Function and Characterization of Starch Synthase I Using Mutants in Rice

Naoko Fujita, Mayumi Yoshida, Noriko Asakura +4

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Four starch synthase I (SSI)-deficient rice (Oryza sativa) mutant lines were generated using retrotransposon Tos17 insertion. The mutants exhibited different levels of SSI activities and produced...

The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism in the Community: Implications for Prevention and Management

John A. Heit

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

Collection and analysis of perceived product inter-distances using multiple factor analysis: Application to the study of 10 white wines from the Loire Valley

Jérôme Pagès

Food Quality and Preference

Elevated stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 expression in skeletal muscle contributes to abnormal fatty acid partitioning in obese humans

Matthew W. Hulver, Jason R. Berggren, Michael J. Carper +8

Cell Metabolism

Factors determining the physical properties of protein foams

E. Allen Foegeding, P.J. Luck, Jack Davis

Food Hydrocolloids

Thin layer drying of red pepper

Ebru Kavak Akpınar, Yaşar Bíçer, Cengiz Yıldız

Journal of Food Engineering

Salmonella typhi, the causative agent of typhoid fever, is approximately 50,000 years old

Claire Kidgell, Ulrike Reichard, John Wain +4

Infection Genetics and Evolution

Short-term consumption of probiotic-containing cheese and its effect on dental caries risk factors

Aila J. Ahola, H. Yli‐Knuuttila, Tarja Suomalainen +4

Archives of Oral Biology

In vitro adherence properties of Lactobacillus rhamnosus DR20 and Bifidobacterium lactis DR10 strains and their antagonistic activity against an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Pramod K. Gopal, Jaya Prasad, John Smart +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology