Research Library

Coding of Sweet, Bitter, and Umami Tastes

Yifeng Zhang, Mark A. Hoon, Jayaram Chandrashekar +5

Cell

Hydrocolloids as thickening and gelling agents in food: a critical review

Saha Dipjyoti, Suvendu Bhattacharya

Journal of Food Science and Technology

Malnutrition and health in developing countries

Olaf Müller

Canadian Medical Association Journal

Malnutrition, with its 2 constituents of protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, continues to be a major health burden in developing countries. It is globally the most important...

The microbiology of butyrate formation in the human colon

Susan E. Pryde, Sylvia H. Duncan, Georgina L. Hold +2

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Butyrate arising from microbial fermentation is important for the energy metabolism and normal development of colonic epithelial cells and has a mainly protective role in relation to colonic disease....

Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture

Waldo E. Haisley, Marvin Harris

Leonardo

Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his...

Functional properties of soy proteins

John Kinsella

Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society

Abstract Soy protein ingredients must possess appropriate functional properties for food applications and consumer acceptability. these are the intrinsic physicochemical characteristics which affect...

The cortical projections of the mediodorsal nucleus and adjacent thalamic nuclei in the rat

J. E. Krettek, Joseph L. Price

The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Abstract The mediodorsal nucleus of the rat thalamus has been divided into medial, central and lateral segments on the basis of its structure and axonal connections, and these segments have been...

Studies on the Antioxidant Activity of Pomegranate (<i>Punica</i> <i>granatum</i>) Peel and Seed Extracts Using in Vitro Models

Ravindra Pal Singh, Kotamballi N. Chidambara Murthy, G.K. Jayaprakasha

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Antioxidant-rich fractions were extracted from pomegranate (Punica granatum) peels and seeds using ethyl acetate, methanol, and water. The extracts were screened for their potential as antioxidants...

Extended Virulence Genotypes of<i>Escherichia coli</i>Strains from Patients with Urosepsis in Relation to Phylogeny and Host Compromise

James R. Johnson, Adam L. Stell

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Among 75 urosepsis isolates of Escherichia coli, 29 virulence factor (VF) genes were detected by use of a novel polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. Compared with probe hybridization, the PCR...

Hydrocolloids as emulsifiers and emulsion stabilizers

Eric Dickinson

Food Hydrocolloids

Projected Effect of Dietary Salt Reductions on Future Cardiovascular Disease

Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, Glenn M. Chertow, Pamela G. Coxson +4

New England Journal of Medicine

Modest reductions in dietary salt could substantially reduce cardiovascular events and medical costs and should be a public health target.

Plant Aquaporins: Membrane Channels with Multiple Integrated Functions

Christophe Maurel, Lionel Verdoucq, Doan‐Trung Luu +1

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Aquaporins are channel proteins present in the plasma and intracellular membranes of plant cells, where they facilitate the transport of water and/or small neutral solutes (urea, boric acid, silicic...

Epidemiology of<i>Escherichia coli</i>O157:H7 Outbreaks, United States, 1982–2002

Josefa M. Rangel, P.H. Sparling, Collen Crowe +2

Emerging infectious diseases

Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses in the United States annually. We reviewed E. coli O157 outbreaks reported to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better understand...

Traceability in a food supply chain: Safety and quality perspectives

Myo Min Aung, Yoon‐Seok Chang

Food Control

High incidence of venous thromboembolic events in anticoagulated severe COVID‐19 patients

Jean‐François Llitjos, Maxime Leclerc, Camille Chochois +4

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Antithrombotic Therapy for Venous Thromboembolic Disease

Harry R. Büller, Giancarlo Agnelli, Russel Hull +3

CHEST Journal

<i>Acanthamoeba</i>spp. as Agents of Disease in Humans

Francine Marciano‐Cabral, Guy A. Cabral

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Acanthamoeba spp. are free-living amebae that inhabit a variety of air, soil, and water environments. However, these amebae can also act as opportunistic as well as nonopportunistic pathogens. They...

Bacteriocins: Evolution, Ecology, and Application

Margaret A. Riley, John E. Wertz

Annual Review of Microbiology

Microbes produce an extraordinary array of microbial defense systems. These include classical antibiotics, metabolic by-products, lytic agents, numerous types of protein exotoxins, and bacteriocins....

Resolvins in inflammation: emergence of the pro-resolving superfamily of mediators

Charles N. Serhan, Bruce D. Levy

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Countless times each day, the acute inflammatory response protects us from invading microbes, injuries, and insults from within, as in surgery-induced tissue injury. These challenges go unnoticed...

Maintaining remission of ulcerative colitis with the probiotic <i>Escherichia coli</i> Nissle 1917 is as effective as with standard mesalazine

Wolfgang Kruis, P Frič, J Pokrotnieks +9

Gut

The probiotic drug E coli Nissle 1917 shows efficacy and safety in maintaining remission equivalent to the gold standard mesalazine in patients with ulcerative colitis. The effectiveness of probiotic...

Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk

Work Group on Breastfeeding

PEDIATRICS

This policy statement on breastfeeding replaces the previous policy statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics, reflecting the considerable advances that have occurred in recent years in the...

Essential Oils’ Chemical Characterization and Investigation of Some Biological Activities: A Critical Review

Wissal Dhifi, Sana Bellili, Sabrine Jazi +2

Medicines

This review covers literature data summarizing, on one hand, the chemistry of essential oils and, on the other hand, their most important activities. Essential oils, which are complex mixtures of...

Food, self and identity

Claude Fischler

Social Science Information

Food is central to our sense of identity. The way any given human group eats helps it assert its diversity, hierarchy and organisation, but also, at the same time, both its oneness and the otherness...

Metalloproteins and metal sensing

Kevin J. Waldron, Julian C. Rutherford, Dianne Ford +1

Nature

Chlorogenic acids and other cinnamates - nature, occurrence and dietary burden

Michael N. Clifford

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

This review defines the range of forms in which cinnamates (p-coumarates, caffeates, ferulates and sinapates) occur in foods and beverages subdividing them into (i) the classic chlorogenic acids and...

Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use

Matti Kummu, Hans de Moel, Miina Porkka +3

The Science of The Total Environment

Reducing food losses and waste is considered to be one of the most promising measures to improve food security in the coming decades. Food losses also affect our use of resources, such as freshwater,...

Recent advances in understanding the antibacterial properties of flavonoids

T.P. Tim Cushnie, Andrew J. Lamb

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Virulence factors in Escherichia coli urinary tract infection

James R. Johnson

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli are characterized by the expression of distinctive bacterial properties, products, or structures referred to as virulence factors because they help the...

Evidence-Based Management of Anticoagulant Therapy

Anne Holbrook, Sam Schulman, Daniel M. Witt +7

CHEST Journal

Reporting standards in venous disease: An update

John M. Porter, Gregory L. Moneta

Journal of Vascular Surgery

The effect of developmental and environmental factors on secondary metabolites in medicinal plants

Yanqun Li, Dexin Kong, Ying Fu +2

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Secondary metabolites (SMs) of medicinal plants are the material basis of their clinically curative effects. They are also important indicators for evaluating the quality of medicinal materials....

Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values for fats, including saturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, and cholesterol

EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition, and Allergies (NDA)

EFSA Journal

n-3 fatty acids and serum lipoproteins: human studies

WS Harris

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI

AnneH.C. Uttley, C.H. Collins, Jay Naidoo +1

The Lancet

Escherichia coli that Cause Diarrhea: Enterotoxigenic, Enteropathogenic, Enteroinvasive, Enterohemorrhagic, and Enteroadherent

Myron M. Levine

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

There are four major categories of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli: enterotoxigenic (a major cause of travelers' diarrhea and infant diarrhea in less-developed countries), enteroinvasive (a cause of...

Pharmaceutical and therapeutic Potentials of essential oils and their individual volatile constituents: a review

Amr E. Edris

Phytotherapy Research

Essential oils and their volatile constituents are used widely to prevent and treat human disease. The possible role and mode of action of these natural products is discussed with regard to the...

Effect of lower sodium intake on health: systematic review and meta-analyses

Nancy Aburto, A. Ziolkovska, Lee Hooper +3

BMJ

High quality evidence in non-acutely ill adults shows that reduced sodium intake reduces blood pressure and has no adverse effect on blood lipids, catecholamine levels, or renal function, and...

Derivation and Validation of a Prognostic Model for Pulmonary Embolism

Drahomir Aujesky, D. Scott Obrosky, Roslyn A. Stone +5

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Our rule accurately classifies patients with pulmonary embolism into classes of increasing risk of mortality and other adverse medical outcomes. Further validation of the rule is important before its...

Breast milk and subsequent intelligence quotient in children born preterm

Alan Lucas, Ruth Morley, Tim Cole +2

The Lancet

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Wilson’s disease

European Association for the Study of the Liver

Journal of Hepatology

Glutathione Peroxidase-1 in Health and Disease: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities

Edith Lubos, Joseph Loscalzo, Diane E. Handy

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Reactive oxygen species, such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, are generated in all cells by mitochondrial and enzymatic sources. Left unchecked, these reactive species can cause oxidative damage...

Cholera

James B. Kaper, J. Glenn Morris, M. M. Levine

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Despite more than a century of study, cholera still presents challenges and surprises to us. Throughout most of the 20th century, cholera was caused by Vibrio cholerae of the O1 serogroup and the...

A genetic locus of enterocyte effacement conserved among diverse enterobacterial pathogens.

T K McDaniel, Karen G. Jarvis, Michael S. Donnenberg +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7 are intestinal pathogens that profoundly damage the microvilli and subapical cytoskeleton of epithelial cells. Here we...

Probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics- a review

Kavita Pandey, Suresh R Naik, Babu V. Vakil

Journal of Food Science and Technology

A status review on the medicinal properties of essential oils

Jayant S. Raut, Sankunny Mohan Karuppayil

Industrial Crops and Products

Legionnaires' Disease

Joseph E. McDade, Charles C. Shepard, David W. Fraser +3

New England Journal of Medicine

To identify the etiologic agent of Legionnaire's disease, we examined patients' serum and tissue specimens in a search for toxins, bacteria, fungi, chlamydiae, rickettsiae and viruses. From the lungs...

Comparison of Fondaparinux and Enoxaparin in Acute Coronary Syndromes

The Fifth Organization to Assess Strategies in Acute Ischemic Syndromes Investigators

New England Journal of Medicine

Fondaparinux is similar to enoxaparin in reducing the risk of ischemic events at nine days, but it substantially reduces major bleeding and improves long term mortality and morbidity....