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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...

Necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants: Biodemographic and clinical correlates

Ricardo Uauy, Avroy A. Fanaroff, Sheldon B. Korones +3

The Journal of Pediatrics

The Kenyan Luo migration study: observations on the initiation of a rise in blood pressure.

Neil R Poulter, Kay‐Tee Khaw, Bill Hopwood +4

BMJ

Urinary sodium:potassium ratio, pulse rate, and weight are important predictors of increased blood pressure among migrants from a low blood pressure community and may also be implicated in the...

Role of Free Amino Acids and Peptides in Food Taste

Hiromichi Kato, Mee Ra Rhue, Toshihide Nishimura

ACS symposium series

Free amino acids and/or some peptides have some sweetness, bitterness, sourness, saltiness and umami, and are very important as taste substances in foods. In this paper, we discuss 1)some tastes of...

Functional properties of food macromolecules

Brian McKenna

Journal of Food Engineering

Effects of Various Heat Treatments on Structure and Solubility of Whey Proteins

J.N. deWit, G. Klarenbeek

Journal of Dairy Science

Structure and solubility of whey proteins are interrelated and affected by commonly used heat treatments. The relation between these characteristics, however, varies with the nature of the protein...

Interaction of cholera toxin and membrane GM1 ganglioside of small intestine.

Jan Holmgren, Ivar Lönnroth, J Månsson +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Ganglioside GM1 was isolated from the small intestinal mucosa of man, pig, and beef and amounted to 0.1, 2.0, and 43 nmol per g fresh weight, respectively. These differences in GM1 content were...

Equine Hepatic and Renal Metallothioneins

Jeremias H.R. Kägi, S. Himmelhoch, P.D. Whanger +2

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Abstract An improved, simplified, and greatly shortened isolation procedure for metallothionein from tissue extracts using gel filtration (Sephadex G-50) and DEAE-cellulose chromatography is...

A new method for the determination of inulin in plasma and urine

Antonín Heyrovský

Clinica Chimica Acta

Protein Gels

John D. Ferry

Advances in protein chemistry

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición

Impact of the Natural Compound Urolithin A on Health, Disease, and Aging

Davide D’Amico, Pénélope A. Andreux, Pamela Valdés +3

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Urolithin A (UA) is a natural compound produced by gut bacteria from ingested ellagitannins (ETs) and ellagic acid (EA), complex polyphenols abundant in foods such as pomegranate, berries, and nuts....

Bacterial cGAS-like enzymes synthesize diverse nucleotide signals

Aaron T. Whiteley, James B. Eaglesham, Carina C. de Oliveira Mann +8

Nature

Use of EFSA Pesticide Residue Intake Model (EFSA PRIMo revision 3)

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Alba Brancato, Daniela Brocca +14

EFSA Journal

Since 2007, the EFSA PRIMo (Pesticide Residue Intake Model), an Excel-based calculation spreadsheet, is the standard tool used at EU level to perform the dietary risk assessment for pesticide...

Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children

Marzia Lazzerini, Humphrey Wanzira

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

In areas where the prevalence of zinc deficiency or the prevalence of malnutrition is high, zinc may be of benefit in children aged six months or more. The current evidence does not support the use...

Antioxidant therapy for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: Does it work?

Fabiana Andréa Moura, Kívia Queiroz de Andrade, Juliana Célia Farias dos Santos +2

Redox Biology

Oxidative stress (OS) is considered as one of the etiologic factors involved in several signals and symptoms of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) that include diarrhea, toxic megacolon and abdominal...

Taxonomic evaluation of the genus Enterobacter based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA): Proposal to reclassify E. nimipressuralis and E. amnigenus into Lelliottia gen. nov. as Lelliottia nimipressuralis comb. nov. and Lelliottia amnigena comb. nov., respectively, E. gergoviae and E. pyrinus into Pluralibacter gen. nov. as Pluralibacter gergoviae comb. nov. and Pluralibacter pyrinus comb. nov., respectively, E. cowanii, E. radicincitans, E. oryzae and E. arachidis into Kosakonia gen. nov. as Kosakonia cowanii comb. nov., Kosakonia radicincitans comb. nov., Kosakonia oryzae comb. nov. and Kosakonia arachidis comb. nov., respectively, and E. turicensis, E. helveticus and E. pulveris into Cronobacter as Cronobacter zurichensis nom. nov., Cronobacter helveticus comb. nov. and Cronobacter pulveris comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genera Enterobacter and Cronobacter

Carrie Brady, Ilse Cleenwerck, Stephanus N. Venter +2

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

A modified Khorana risk assessment score for venous thromboembolism in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: the Protecht score

Melina Verso, Giancarlo Agnelli, Sandro Barni +2

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Comparative study of physicochemical, functional, antinutritional and pasting properties of taro (Colocasia esculenta), rice (Oryza sativa) flour, pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) flour and their blends

Pragati Kaushal, Vivek Kumar, Harish Sharma

LWT

Provision of protein and energy in relation to measured requirements in intensive care patients

Matilde J. Allingstrup, N. Esmailzadeh, Anne Wilkens Knudsen +5

Clinical Nutrition

Spray Drying Technique. I: Hardware and Process Parameters

Krzysztof Cal, Krzysztof Sołłohub

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Metals and apoptosis: Recent developments

Rana Sv

Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

Effect of acetylation on the properties of corn starch

Hui Chi, Kun Xu, Xiuli Wu +5

Food Chemistry

Safety assessment of dairy microorganisms: The Lactobacillus genus

Marion Bernardeau, Jean‐Paul Vernoux, Ségolène Henri-Dubernet +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Prebiotic Galactooligosaccharides Reduce Adherence of Enteropathogenic<i>Escherichia coli</i>to Tissue Culture Cells

Kari Shoaf, George L. Mulvey, Glen D. Armstrong +1

Infection and Immunity

Prebiotic oligosaccharides are thought to provide beneficial effects in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and animals by stimulating growth of selected members of the intestinal microflora....

Attenuation by Metallothionein of Early Cardiac Cell Death via Suppression of Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress Results in a Prevention of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

Lu Cai, Yuehui Wang, Guihua Zhou +4

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

<i>Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis</i>: microbiology, biochemical properties, pathogenesis and molecular studies of virulence

Fernanda Alves Dorella, Luis G. C. Pacheco, Sérgio C. Oliveira +2

Veterinary Research

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the etiological agent of caseous lymphadenitis (CLA), a common disease in small ruminant populations throughout the world. Once established, this disease is...

Characterizing the APEC pathotype

Kylie E. Rodriguez-Siek, Catherine W. Giddings, Curt Doetkott +2

Veterinary Research

The purpose of this study was to compare avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) isolates to fecal isolates of apparently healthy poultry (avian fecal E. coli or AFEC) by their possession of various...

Protective effects of zinc on lipid peroxidation, antioxidant enzymes and hepatic histoarchitecture in chlorpyrifos-induced toxicity

Ajay Goel, Vijayta Dani, D. K. Dhawan

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Poor validity of residual volumes as a marker for risk of aspiration in critically ill patients*

Stephen A. McClave, James K. Lukan, James A. Stefater +5

Critical Care Medicine

Blue food coloring should not be used as a clinical monitor. Converting nasogastric tubes to percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes may be a successful strategy to reduce the risk of aspiration....

Expression of sweet taste receptors of the T1R family in the intestinal tract and enteroendocrine cells

Jane Dyer, Kieron S. H. Salmon, Lea Zibrik +1

Biochemical Society Transactions

The composition of the intestinal luminal content varies considerably with diet. It is important therefore that the intestinal epithelium senses and responds to these significant changes and...

Review of xanthan gum production from unmodified starches by Xanthomonas comprestris sp.

S. Rosalam, R. England

Enzyme and Microbial Technology

Functional Analysis of Putative Adhesion Factors in <i>Lactobacillus acidophilus</i> NCFM

B. Logan Buck, Eric Altermann, Tina Svingerud +1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Lactobacilli are major inhabitants of the normal microflora of the gastrointestinal tract, and some select species have been used extensively as probiotic cultures. One potentially important property...

Screening of the antioxidant potentials of six Salvia species from Turkey

Bektaş Tepe, Münevver Sökmen, H. Aşkın Akpulat +1

Food Chemistry

Modulation of the microbial ecology of the human colon by probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics to enhance human health: An overview of enabling science and potential applications

Robert A. Rastall, Glenn R. Gibson, Harsharnjit S. Gill +6

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

The application of probiotics and prebiotics to the manipulation of the microbial ecology of the human colon has recently seen many scientific advances. The sequencing of probiotic genomes is...

Antioxidant potential of mint (Mentha spicata L.) in radiation-processed lamb meat

Sweetie R. Kanatt, Ramesh Chander, Arun Sharma

Food Chemistry

Upper-Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis

Hylton V. Joffe, Nils Kucher, Victor F. Tapson +1

Circulation

UEDVT risk factors differ from the conventional risk factors for lower-extremity DVT. Our findings identify deficiencies in our current understanding and the prophylaxis of UEDVT and generate...

Seasonal Abundance of Total and Pathogenic <i>Vibrio parahaemolyticus</i> in Alabama Oysters

Angelo DePaola, Jessica L. Nordstrom, John C. Bowers +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Recent Vibrio parahaemolyticus outbreaks associated with consumption of raw shellfish in the United States focused attention on the occurrence of this organism in shellfish. From March 1999 through...

Chemistry of the Caseins

Harold E. Swaisgood

Salmonella surveillance: a global survey of public health serotyping

Hallgeir Herikstad, Yasmine Motarjemi, R. V. TAUXE

Epidemiology and Infection

To better understand the global epidemiology of salmonellosis and the national surveillance programmes used for salmonella infections in humans, we conducted a global survey of the 191 WHO Member...

Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) provides secondary gene annotation using the Gene Ontology (GO)

Selina S. Dwight

Nucleic Acids Research

The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) resources, ranging from genetic and physical maps to genome-wide analysis tools, reflect the scientific progress in identifying genes and their functions over...

Dose Response of Almonds on Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors: Blood Lipids, Oxidized Low-Density Lipoproteins, Lipoprotein(a), Homocysteine, and Pulmonary Nitric Oxide

David J.A. Jenkins, Cyril W.C. Kendall, Augustine Marchie +8

Circulation

Almonds used as snacks in the diets of hyperlipidemic subjects significantly reduce coronary heart disease risk factors, probably in part because of the nonfat (protein and fiber) and monounsaturated...

Cancer and the prothrombotic state

Gregory Y.H. Lip, Bernard SP Chin, Andrew D. Blann

The Lancet Oncology

Bioactive Factors in Human Milk

Margit Hamosh

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Evaluation of extracts of the root of Landolphia owerrience for antibacterial activity

Malachy Ifeanyi Okeke, Christian Ukwuoma Iroegbu, Ekenedirichukwu Eze +2

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

A<i>Salmonella</i>inositol polyphosphatase acts in conjunction with other bacterial effectors to promote host cell actin cytoskeleton rearrangements and bacterial internalization

Daoguo Zhou, Limei Chen, Lorraine D. Hernandez +2

Molecular Microbiology

A central feature of Salmonella pathogenicity is the bacterium's ability to enter into non-phagocytic cells. Bacterial internalization is the consequence of cellular responses characterized by Cdc42-...

Induction of Neuronal Apoptosis by Thiol Oxidation

Elias Aizenman, Amy K. Stout, Karen A. Hartnett +3

Journal of Neurochemistry

The membrane-permeant oxidizing agent 2,2'-dithiodipyridine (DTDP) can induce Zn(2+) release from metalloproteins in cell-free systems. Here, we report that brief exposure to DTDP triggers apoptotic...

Dissimilatory Amino Acid Metabolism in Human Colonic Bacteria

E. A. Smith, G.T. Macfarlane

Anaerobe

ASSESSMENT of A SEMI‐EMPIRICAL FOUR PARAMETER GENERAL MODEL FOR SIGMOID MOISTURE SORPTION ISOTHERMS¹

Micha Peleg

Journal of Food Process Engineering

ABSTRACT Published sigmoid moisture sorption isotherms (0 &lt; a w &lt; ∼ 0.9) were fitted by the four parameter models m = k 1 a w n1 + k 2 a w n2 where m is the moisture contents (dry basis), a w...