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ESPGHAN and ESPEN Guidelines Paediatric Parenteral Nutrition ‐ Annex: List of Products

Berthold Koletzko, Olivier Goulet, J.N. Hunt +6

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

BACKGROUNDThese Guidelines for Paediatric Parenteral Nutrition have been developed as a mutual project of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN;...

Effect of Dietary Selenium on Erythrocyte and Liver Glutathione Peroxidase in the Rat

Dean G. Hafeman, Roger A. Sunde, W. G. Hoekstra

Journal of Nutrition

Calcium antagonism and calcium entry blockade.

T. Godfraind, Ryan Miller, M Wibo

Pharmacological Reviews

National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis

Hannah Blencowe, Julia Krasevec, Mercedes de Onís +11

The Lancet Global Health

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and WHO.

Essential Oils in Combination and Their Antimicrobial Properties

Imaël Henri Nestor Bassolé, H. Rodolfo Juliani

Molecules

Essential oils (EOs) have been long recognized for their antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, insecticidal and antioxidant properties. They are widely used in medicine and the food industry for...

Shigella flexneri induces apoptosis in infected macrophages

Arturo Zychlinsky, M.C. Prévost, Philippe Sansonetti

Nature

Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats

National Research Council

National Academies Press eBooks

Connecting copper and cancer: from transition metal signalling to metalloplasia

Eva J. Ge, Ashley I. Bush, Angela Casini +21

Nature reviews. Cancer

Stability of Essential Oils: A Review

Claudia Turek, Florian C. Stintzing

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Abstract In recent years, consumers have developed an ever‐increasing interest in natural products as alternatives for artificial additives or pharmacologically relevant agents. Among them, essential...

Biochemical pathways for the production of flavour compounds in cheeses during ripening: A review

Paul L.H. McSweeney, Maria J. Sousa

Le Lait

The principal pathways for the formation of flavour compounds in cheese (glycolysis, lipolysis and proteolysis) are reviewed. Depending on variety, microflora and ripening conditions, lactate may be...

Value of assessment of pretest probability of deep-vein thrombosis in clinical management

Philip S. Wells, David R. Anderson, Janis Bormanis +6

The Lancet

Biochemistry of metallothionein

Jeremias H.R. Kägi, Andreas Schaeffer

Biochemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTBiochemistry of metallothioneinJeremias H. R. Kaegi and Andreas SchaefferCite this: Biochemistry 1988, 27, 23, 8509–8515Publication Date (Print):November...

Secretory IgA's complex roles in immunity and mucosal homeostasis in the gut

Nicholas J. Mantis, Nicolas Rol, Blaise Corthésy

Mucosal Immunology

Probiotics: Growth-Promoting Factors Produced by Microorganisms

Daniel M. Lilly, Rosalie H. Stillwell

Science

Several species of protozoa, during their logarithmic phases of growth, produce substances that prolong the logarithmic phase in other species. The effect is not as striking as the inhibition of...

Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene for selected adverse health outcomes: An updated analysis with a focus on low- and middle-income countries

Annette Prüss‐Üstün, Jennyfer Wolf, Jamie Bartram +7

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

Despite recent declines in attributable mortality, inadequate WASH remains an important determinant of global disease burden, especially among young children. These estimates contribute to global...

Campylobacter jejuni Infections: Update on Emerging Issues and Trends

David W. K. Acheson, Ban Mishu Allos

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Infection with Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most common causes of gastroenteritis worldwide; it occurs more frequently than do infections caused by Salmonella species, Shigella species, or...

Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amoebae:<i>Acanthamoeba</i>spp.,<i>Balamuthia mandrillaris</i>,<i>Naegleria fowleri</i>, and<i>Sappinia diploidea</i>

Govinda S. Visvesvara, Hércules Moura, Frederick L. Schuster

FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology

Among the many genera of free-living amoebae that exist in nature, members of only four genera have an association with human disease: Acanthamoeba spp., Balamuthia mandrillaris, Naegleria fowleri...

Biodiversity of Vibrios

Fabiano L. Thompson, Tetsuya Iida, Jean Swings

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Vibrios are ubiquitous and abundant in the aquatic environment. A high abundance of vibrios is also detected in tissues and/or organs of various marine algae and animals, e.g., abalones, bivalves,...

Comparative evaluation of 11 essential oils of different origin as functional antioxidants, antiradicals and antimicrobials in foods

Gianni Sacchetti, Silvia Maietti, Mariavittoria Muzzoli +4

Food Chemistry

Forage Cell Wall Structure and Digestibility

ASSA, CSSA and SSSA

Antimicrobial and phytochemical studies on 45 Indian medicinal plants against multi-drug resistant human pathogens

Iqbal Ahmad, Arina Z. Beg

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Antagonistic activities of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria against microbial pathogens

Alain L. Servin

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

The gastrointestinal tract is a complex ecosystem that associates a resident microbiota and cells of various phenotypes lining the epithelial wall expressing complex metabolic activities. The...

Assay of intestinal disaccharidases

Arne Dahlqvist

Analytical Biochemistry

CENSUS AND CONSENSUS IN BACTERIAL ECOSYSTEMS: The LuxR-LuxI Family of Quorum-Sensing Transcriptional Regulators

Clay Fuqua, Stephen C. Winans, E. Peter Greenberg

Annual Review of Microbiology

The importance of accurate demographic information is reflected in the United States Constitution, Article 1, which provides for a decennial census of this country's human population. Bacteria also...

A risk assessment model for the identification of hospitalized medical patients at risk for venous thromboembolism: the Padua Prediction Score

Sofia Barbar, Franco Noventa, Valeria Rossetto +7

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Detection and Characterization of Shiga Toxigenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> by Using Multiplex PCR Assays for <i>stx</i> ₁ , <i>stx</i> ₂ , <i>eaeA</i> , Enterohemorrhagic <i>E. coli hlyA</i> , <i>rfb</i> _O111 , and <i>rfb</i> _O157

Adrienne W. Paton, James C. Paton

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) comprises a diverse group of organisms capable of causing severe gastrointestinal disease in humans. Within the STEC family, certain strains appear to be of...

Measurement of catalase activity in tissue extracts

Gerald Cohen, Dorothy Dembiec, Judith Marcus

Analytical Biochemistry

Effects on Coronary Heart Disease of Increasing Polyunsaturated Fat in Place of Saturated Fat: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Dariush Mozaffarian, Renata Micha, Sarah Wallace

PLoS Medicine

These findings provide evidence that consuming PUFA in place of SFA reduces CHD events in RCTs. This suggests that rather than trying to lower PUFA consumption, a shift toward greater population PUFA...

Global Sodium Consumption and Death from Cardiovascular Causes

Dariush Mozaffarian, Saman Fahimi, Gitanjali Singh +7

New England Journal of Medicine

In this modeling study, 1.65 million deaths from cardiovascular causes that occurred in 2010 were attributed to sodium consumption above a reference level of 2.0 g per day. (Funded by the Bill and...

Sodium Reduction and Weight Loss in the Treatment of Hypertension in Older Persons

Paul K. Whelton, Lawrence J. Appel, Mark A. Espeland +8

JAMA

Reduced sodium intake and weight loss constitute a feasible, effective, and safe nonpharmacologic therapy of hypertension in older persons.

Plants send small RNAs in extracellular vesicles to fungal pathogen to silence virulence genes

Qiang Cai, Lulu Qiao, Ming Wang +5

Science

Some pathogens and pests deliver small RNAs (sRNAs) into host cells to suppress host immunity. Conversely, hosts also transfer sRNAs into pathogens and pests to inhibit their virulence. Although sRNA...

Simultaneous Identification of Bacterial Virulence Genes by Negative Selection

Michael Hensel, Jacqueline E. Shea, Colin Gleeson +3

Science

An insertional mutagenesis system that uses transposons carrying unique DNA sequence tags was developed for the isolation of bacterial virulence genes. The tags from a mixed population of bacterial...

The ecology, epidemiology and virulence of Enterococcus

Katie Fisher, Camryn L. Phillips

Microbiology

Enterococci are Gram-positive, catalase-negative, non-spore-forming, facultative anaerobic bacteria, which usually inhabit the alimentary tract of humans in addition to being isolated from...

The Bacterial Etiology of Destructive Periodontal Disease: Current Concepts

S. S. Socransky, Anne D. Haffajee

Journal of Periodontology

The interpretation of diagnostic tests for the detection of subgingival bacterial species is dependent on knowledge of the microbial etiology of destructive periodontal diseases. Specific etiologic...

Molecular mechanisms of Escherichia coli pathogenicity

Matthew A. Croxen, B. Brett Finlay

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Dietary sources of conjugated dienoic isomers of linoleic acid, a newly recognized class of anticarcinogens

S.F. Chin, Wu Liu, J. M Storkson +2

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

A rapid gas chromatographic method for the determination of poly-?-hydroxybutyric acid in microbial biomass

G. Braunegg, B. Sonnleitner, R. M. Lafferty

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Bacteriocin-based strategies for food biopreservation

Antonio Gálvez, Hikmate Abriouel, Rosario Lucas López +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

A Comparison of Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin Administered Primarily at Home with Unfractionated Heparin Administered in the Hospital for Proximal Deep-Vein Thrombosis

Mark Levine, Michael Gent, Jack Hirsh +16

New England Journal of Medicine

Low-molecular-weight heparin can be used safely and effectively to treat patients with proximal deep-vein thrombosis at home.

Carcinogenic metal compounds: recent insight into molecular and cellular mechanisms

Detmar Beyersmann, A. Hartwig

Archives of Toxicology

Theory and Applications of Correspondence Analysis

R. T. Clarke, Michael J. Greenacre

Journal of Animal Ecology

The use of sacs of everted small intestine for the study of the transference of substances from the mucosal to the serosal surface

Tony Wilson, G. Wiseman

The Journal of Physiology

Human development report, 2006: beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis

Choice Reviews Online

Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but...

Organised Genome Dynamics in the Escherichia coli Species Results in Highly Diverse Adaptive Paths

Marie Touchon, Claire Hoede, Olivier Tenaillon +27

PLoS Genetics

The Escherichia coli species represents one of the best-studied model organisms, but also encompasses a variety of commensal and pathogenic strains that diversify by high rates of genetic change. We...

Recent Developments in Microencapsulation of Food Ingredients

Kashappa Goud H. Desai, Hyun Jin Park

Drying Technology

ABSTRACT Microencapsulation involves the incorporation of food ingredients, enzymes, cells, or other materials in small capsules. Microcapsules offer food processors a means with which to protect...

Omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids: Dietary sources, metabolism, and significance — A review

Ramesh Kumar Saini, Young‐Soo Keum

Life Sciences

Flavour encapsulation and controlled release – a review

Atmane Madene, Muriel Jacquot, Joël Scher +1

International Journal of Food Science & Technology

Summary Flavours can be among the most valuable ingredients in any food formula. Even small amounts of some aroma substance can be expensive, and because they are usually delicate and volatile,...

Salt intakes around the world: implications for public health

Ian Brown, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Vanessa Candeias +1

International Journal of Epidemiology

Unfavourably high sodium intakes remain prevalent around the world. Sources of dietary sodium vary largely worldwide. If policies for salt reduction at the population level are to be effective,...