Research Library

Antifungal activity of lemongrass (Cympopogon citratus L.) essential oil against key postharvest pathogens

Nikolaos Tzortzakis, C.D. Economakis

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

Bread baking – A review

Arpita Mondal, Ashis Datta

Journal of Food Engineering

Causes and Management of Intestinal Failure in Children

Olivier Goulet, Frank M. Ruemmele

Gastroenterology

Yeast Modulation of Wine Flavor

Jan H. Swiegers, Isak S. Pretorius

Advances in applied microbiology

Lactoferrin

Yasushi Suzuki, Verónica López, Bo Lönnerdal

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Consumption of (n-3) Fatty Acids Is Related to Plasma Biomarkers of Inflammation and Endothelial Activation in Women

Esther López‐García, Matthias B. Schulze, JoAnn E. Manson +5

Journal of Nutrition

Production of Cellulose and Curli Fimbriae by Members of the Family <i>Enterobacteriaceae</i> Isolated from the Human Gastrointestinal Tract

Xhavit Zogaj, Werner Bokranz, Manfred Nimtz +1

Infection and Immunity

Citrobacter spp., Enterobacter spp., and Klebsiella spp. isolated from the human gut were investigated for the biosynthesis of cellulose and curli fimbriae (csg). While Citrobacter spp. produced...

Vitamin K2 Regulation of Bone Homeostasis Is Mediated by the Steroid and Xenobiotic Receptor SXR

Michelle M. Tabb, Aixu Sun, Changcheng Zhou +9

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Vitamin K2 is a critical nutrient required for blood clotting that also plays an important role in bone formation. Vitamin K2 supplementation up-regulates the expression of bone markers, increases...

Probiotics for treating infectious diarrhoea

Stephen Allen, Brown J. Okoko, Elizabeth G Martinez +2

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Probiotics appear to be a useful adjunct to rehydration therapy in treating acute, infectious diarrhoea in adults and children. More research is needed to inform the use of particular probiotic...

Effect of Postthrombotic Syndrome on Health-Related Quality of Life After Deep Venous Thrombosis

Susan R. Kahn, Andrew Hirsch, Ian Shrier

Archives of Internal Medicine

Postthrombotic syndrome has a significant impact on disease-specific quality of life that may not be captured by generic quality-of-life measures. Patient-based quality-of-life measures correlated...

Rapid identification of Salmonella serovars in feces by specific detection of virulence genes, invA and spvC, by an enrichment broth culture-multiplex PCR combination assay

Cheng‐Hsun Chiu, Jonathan T. Ou

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

In order to make a rapid and definite diagnosis of Salmonella enteritis in children, an enrichment broth culture-multiplex PCR combination assay was devised to identify Salmonella serovars directly...

<b><i>Salmonella</i> spp. are cytotoxic for cultured macrophages</b>

Li-Mei Chen, Koné Kaniga, Jorge E. Galán

Molecular Microbiology

We have shown by a variety of microscopical and biochemical techniques that Salmonella spp. are cytotoxic for cultured J774A.1 and bone marrow-derived murine macrophages. The cytotoxicity is...

Growth of Legionella pneumophila in Acanthamoeba castellanii enhances invasion

Jeffrey D. Cirillo, Stanley Falkow, Lucy S. Tompkins

Infection and Immunity

Legionella pneumophila is considered to be a facultative intracellular parasite. Therefore, the ability of these bacteria to enter, i.e., invade, eukaryotic cells is expected to be a key pathogenic...

Low molecular weight heparin in prevention of perioperative thrombosis.

Alain Leizorovicz, M. Haugh, François Chapuis +2

BMJ

Low molecular weight heparins seem to have a higher benefit to risk ratio than unfractionated heparin in preventing perioperative thrombosis. However, it remains to be shown in a suitably powered...

Sodium and volume sensitivity of blood pressure. Age and pressure change over time.

Morris Weinberger, Naomi S. Fineberg

Hypertension

Salt sensitivity has been implicated in the age-related increase in blood pressure. We studied the reproducibility of a rapid method for assessing sodium sensitivity and resistance of blood pressure...

Adsorption of selenium by amorphous iron oxyhydroxide and manganese dioxide

Laurie S. Balistrieri, T.T. Chao

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Astringency and bitterness of selected phenolics in wine

Jane L Robichaud, Ann C. Noble

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Abstract Trained judges rated intensities of astringency and bitterness of four phenolic substances in white wine by scalar and time—intensity methods. According to scalar rating, astringency and...

Adaptive evolution in the stomach lysozymes of foregut fermenters

Caro-Beth Stewart, James W. Schilling, Allan C. Wilson

Nature

Formation and Occurrence of Flavor Compounds in Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverages

Lalli Nykänen

American Journal of Enology and Viticulture

The most probable mechanisms involved in the formation of carbonyl compounds, fusel alcohols, fatty acid esters, and free fatty acids by yeast in fermentation are discussed. Isopentyl alcohol,...

Separation, identification, and quantification of the major carotenoid and chlorophyll constituents in extracts of several green vegetables by liquid chromatography

Frederick Khachik, Gary R. Beecher, Noel F. Whittaker

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTSeparation, identification, and quantification of the major carotenoid and chlorophyll constituents in extracts of several green vegetables by liquid...

The mineral nutrition of livestock

J.K. Loosli

Animal Feed Science and Technology

High molecular weight complex in human plasma between vitamin K-dependent protein S and complement component C4b-binding protein.

Björn Dahlbäck, Johan Stenflo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Protein S, a recently described vitamin K-dependent plasma protein, is shown to exist in two forms in plasma--free protein and in complex with C4b-binding protein. C4b-binding protein is involved in...

Interactions Between Anthocyanins, Phenolic Compounds, and Acetaldehyde and Their Significance in Red Wines

C. F. Timberlake, P. Bridle

American Journal of Enology and Viticulture

Interactions between pure anthocyanins [malvidin (Mv) 3-glucoside, Mv 3,5-diglucoside, and Mv 3-p-coumarylglucoside-5-glucoside], phenolic compounds [ (-)-epicatechin, (+)-catechin,...

Lipoteichoic Acids: A New Class of Bacterial Antigen

A. J. Wicken, K. W. Knox

Science

ON THE HISTOCHEMICAL DEMONSTRATION OF GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATASE

M. Wachstein, E. Meisel

Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry

Comparison of Traditional and Novel Drying Techniques and Its Effect on Quality of Fruits, Vegetables and Aromatic Herbs

Ángel Calín‐Sánchez, Leontina Lipan, Marina Cano‐Lamadrid +4

Foods

Drying is known as the best method to preserve fruits, vegetables, and herbs, decreasing not only the raw material volume but also its weight. This results in cheaper transportation and increments...

Marine Omega‐3 Supplementation and Cardiovascular Disease: An Updated Meta‐Analysis of 13 Randomized Controlled Trials Involving 127 477 Participants

Yang Hu, Frank B. Hu, JoAnn E. Manson

Journal of the American Heart Association

Background Whether marine omega-3 supplementation is associated with reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains controversial. Methods and Results This meta-analysis included...

Rapid Visco Analyser (RVA) as a Tool for Measuring Starch-Related Physiochemical Properties in Cereals: a Review

Sandra Balet, Anina Guelpa, Glen Fox +1

Food Analytical Methods

The Role of Inflammation in Venous Thromboembolism

Brian R. Branchford, Shannon L. Carpenter

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and pulmonary embolism (PE), is becoming increasingly recognized as a cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatrics, particularly...

Thrombophilia Testing and Venous Thrombosis

Jean M. Connors

New England Journal of Medicine

Most patients with venous thromboembolism do not require thrombophilia testing, since the results will not affect management. Testing may be considered in younger patients with weak provoking...

Antimicrobial Resistance and the Alternative Resources with Special Emphasis on Plant-Based Antimicrobials—A Review

Harish Chandra, Parul Bishnoi, Archana Yadav +3

Plants

Indiscriminate and irrational use of antibiotics has created an unprecedented challenge for human civilization due to microbe's development of antimicrobial resistance. It is difficult to treat...

Food‐Grade Covalent Complexes and Their Application as Nutraceutical Delivery Systems: A Review

Fuguo Liu, Cuicui Ma, Yanxiang Gao +1

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Food proteins, polysaccharides, and polyphenols are 3 major food constituents with distinctly different functional attributes. Many proteins and polysaccharides are capable of stabilizing emulsions...

The Role of Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bifidobacteria in the Prevention and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Other Related Diseases: A Systematic Review of Randomized Human Clinical Trials

María José Sáez‐Lara, Carolina Gómez‐Llorente, Julio Plaza‐Díaz +1

BioMed Research International

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is a chronic inflammation of the small intestine and colon caused by a dysregulated immune response...

The sweetness and bitterness of childhood: Insights from basic research on taste preferences

Julie A. Mennella, Nuala Bobowski

Physiology & Behavior

Strategies to enhance venous thromboprophylaxis in hospitalized medical patients (SENTRY): a pilot cluster randomized trial

Menaka Pai, N Lloyd, Ji Cheng +6

Implementation Science

Hospitals allocated to our multicomponent intervention did not have a higher rate of medical inpatients appropriately managed for thromboprophylaxis than did hospitals that were not allocated to this...

Polyunsaturated fatty acid saturation by gut lactic acid bacteria affecting host lipid composition

Shigenobu Kishino, Michiki Takeuchi, Si-Bum Park +14

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In the representative gut bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum, we identified genes encoding the enzymes involved in a saturation metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids and revealed in detail the...

Impact of maternal education about complementary feeding and provision of complementary foods on child growth in developing countries

Aamer Imdad, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

BMC Public Health

Provision of appropriate complementary food, with or without nutritional education, and maternal nutritional counseling alone lead to significant increase in weight and height in children 6-24 months...

The casein micelle: Historical aspects, current concepts and significance

P. F. Fox, André Brodkorb

International Dairy Journal

Combining Results of Two GC Separations Partly Achieves Determination of All <i>cis</i> and <i>trans</i> 16:1, 18:1, 18:2 and 18:3 Except CLA Isomers of Milk Fat as Demonstrated Using Ag‐Ion SPE Fractionation

John K. G. Kramer, Marta Hernandez, Cristina Cruz‐Hernandez +2

Lipids

Milk fat is a complex mixture of geometric and positional isomers of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated, including short-, long- and branch-chain fatty acids (FAs). There has been partial success to...

Extraction of phenolics and essential oil from dried sage (Salvia officinalis) using ethanol–water mixtures

Nicola E. Durling, Owen J. Catchpole, John B. Grey +4

Food Chemistry

Lactoferrin

Edward N. Baker, Heather M. Baker

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Dps Protects Cells against Multiple Stresses during Stationary Phase

Sudha Nair, Steven E. Finkel

Journal of Bacteriology

Dps, the nonspecific DNA-binding protein from starved cells, is the most abundant protein in stationary-phase Escherichia coli. Dps homologs are found throughout the bacteria and in at least one...

Evaluation of the bioavailability and metabolism in the rat of punicalagin, an antioxidant polyphenol from pomegranate juice

Bego�a Cerd�, Rafaël Llorach, Jos� Joaqu�n Cer�n +2

European Journal of Nutrition

Drying kinetics of some vegetables

Magdalini Krokida, Vaios Τ. Karathanos, Z.B. Maroulis +1

Journal of Food Engineering

Consumer responses to an off-flavor in juice in the presence of specific health claims

Hely Tuorila, Armand V. Cardello

Food Quality and Preference

Weak acid adaptation: the stress response that confers yeasts with resistance to organic acid food preservatives

Peter W. Piper, Claudia Calderón, Kostas Hatzixanthis +1

Microbiology

Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the...

Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism

G. Patrick Clagett, Frederick A. Anderson, William Geerts +5

CHEST Journal

Fatty Acid and Lipid Chemistry

F. D. Gunstone

A Comparative Study of Different Methods of Yeast Strain Characterization

Amparo Querol, Eladio Barrio, Daniel Ramón

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Oat products and lipid lowering. A meta-analysis

C. M. Ripsin

JAMA

<h3>Objectives.</h3> —To test the a priori hypothesis that consumption of oats will lower the blood total cholesterol level and to assess modifiers and confounders of this association. <h3>Data...