Research Library

Psyllium as therapeutic and drug delivery agent

B. Singh

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Human milk fatty acid composition from nine countries varies most in DHA

Rebecca Yuhas, Kathryn Pramuk, Eric L. Lien

Lipids

Many published studies of breast milk FA composition are limited to populations from one or two countries. We aimed to examine the degree to which FA compositions vary across a number of diverse...

Magnesium metabolism in type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance

Mario Barbagallo, Ligia J. Domínguez

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volatile Components from Mango (<i>Mangifera indica</i>L.) Cultivars

Jorge A. Pino, Judith Mesa, Yamilie Muñoz +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The volatile components of 20 mango cultivars were investigated by means of simultaneous distillation-extraction, GC, and GC-MS. Three hundred and seventy-two compounds were identified, of which 180...

Oxygen‐induced maturation of SOD1: a key role for disulfide formation by the copper chaperone CCS

Yoshiaki Furukawa, Andrew S. Torres, Thomas V. O’Halloran

The EMBO Journal

Evaluation of analyte protectants to improve gas chromatographic analysis of pesticides

Michelangelo Anastassiades, Kateřina Maštovská, Steven J. Lehotay

Journal of Chromatography A

Lactobacillus plantarum 299V in the Treatment and Prevention of Spontaneous Colitis in Interleukin-10-Deficient Mice

Michael Schultz, Claudia Veltkamp, Levinus A. Dieleman +4

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Interleukin (IL)-10-deficient (IL-10-/-) mice develop colitis under specific pathogen-free (SPF) conditions and remain disease free if kept sterile (germ free [GF]). We used four different protocols...

Freeze–thaw stabilization of sweet potato starch gel by polysaccharide gums

Min Hyeock Lee, Min Hyeok Baek, D.S. Cha +2

Food Hydrocolloids

Placental Regulation of Fatty Acid Delivery and its Effect on Fetal Growth—A Review

Paul Haggarty

Placenta

Literature review—efficacy of various disinfectants against Legionella in water systems

B.R. Kim, James E. Anderson, Sherry A. Mueller +2

Water Research

Prognostic Factors in Medically Treated Patients With Chronic Pulmonary Embolism

Jerzy Lewczuk, Piotr Piszko, Jacek Jagas +4

CHEST Journal

Are Determinants of Rural and Urban Food Security and Nutritional Status Different? Some Insights from Mozambique

James Leo Garrett, Marie T. Ruel

World Development

Human Milk Feedings and Infection Among Very Low Birth Weight Infants

Mary Ann Hylander, Donna M. Strobino, Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy

PEDIATRICS

The incidence of any infection and sepsis/meningitis are significantly reduced in human milk-fed VLBW infants compared with exclusively formula-fed VLBW infants.

Conjugated linoleic acid modulates hepatic lipid composition in mice

Martha A. Belury, A Kempa-Steczko

Lipids

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a chemoprotective fatty acid that inhibits mammary, colon, forestomach, and skin carcinogenesis in experimental animals. We hypothesize that the ubiquitous...

Malnutrition, Poverty and Intellectual Development

Jessica Brown, Ernesto Pollitt

Scientific American

A yeast metal resistance protein similar to human cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and multidrug resistance-associated protein.

Mark S. Szczypka, John A. Wemmie, W. Scott Moye‐Rowley +1

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Members of the ATP binding cassette (ABC) protein superfamily transport a variety of substances across biological membranes, including drugs, ions, and peptides. The yeast cadmium factor (YCF1) gene...

Clonal relationships among Escherichia coli strains that cause hemorrhagic colitis and infantile diarrhea

Thomas S. Whittam, Marie L. Wolfe, I K Wachsmuth +3

Infection and Immunity

The genetic relationships among 1,300 isolates of Escherichia coli representing 16 serotypes associated with enteric disease, including O157:H7 strains recovered from patients with hemorrhagic...

Steric exclusion is the principal source of the preferential hydration of proteins in the presence of polyethylene glycols

Rajiv Bhat, Serge N. Timasheff

Protein Science

The preferential interactions of bovine serum albumin, lysozyme, chymotrypsinogen, ribonuclease A, and beta-lactoglobulin with polyethylene glycols (PEGs) of molecular weight 200-6,000 have been...

Efficacy of vitamin A in reducing preschool child mortality in Nepal

Keith P. West, Joanne Katz, S. C. LeClerq +7

The Lancet

Community trials of the efficacy of vitamin A supplementation in reducing preschool childhood mortality have produced conflicting results. To resolve the question, a randomised, double-masked,...

Selenoprotein synthesis: an expansion of the genetic code

August Bo ̈ck, Karl Forchhammer, Johann Heider +1

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Direct evidence that the FimH protein is the mannose-specific adhesin of Escherichia coli type 1 fimbriae

Karen A. Krogfelt, Hans Bergmans, Per Klemm

Infection and Immunity

Type 1 fimbriae of Escherichia coli are surface organelles which mediate binding to D-mannose-containing structures. By direct binding of FimH to D-mannose attached to a carrier protein, we...

RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF RECOMBINANT TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR VERSUS UROKINASE IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLISM

SamuelZ. Goldhaber, John A. Heit, G.V.R.K. Sharma +15

The Lancet

Ascending, unobstructed urinary tract infection in mice caused by pyelonephritogenic Escherichia coli of human origin

Lars Hagberg, I Engberg, Rolf Freter +3

Infection and Immunity

A model for ascending unobstructed urinary tract infection was developed in mice to study the pathogenesis of urinary tract infection induced by Escherichia coli associated with urinary tract...

Aspirated Nasogastric Feeding Solution Detected by Glucose Strips

Richard H. Winterbauer, RONALD B. DURNING, EDWARD BARRON +1

Annals of Internal Medicine

Brief Reports1 July 1981Aspirated Nasogastric Feeding Solution Detected by Glucose StripsRICHARD H. WINTERBAUER, M.D., RONALD B. DURNING Jr., M.D., EDWARD BARRON, Ph.D., MARY C. McFADDEN, M.S.,...

Structural analysis of hydrated egg lecithin and cholesterol bilayers II. Neutron diffraction

D.L. Worcester, Nicholas P. Franks

Journal of Molecular Biology

ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES OF THE DYING-BACK PROCESS

Herbert H. Schaumburg, Henryk M. Wı́sniewski, Peter S. Spencer

Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology

The spatio-temporal pattern of distal peripheral nerve, sensory and motor nerve terminal, degeneration in experimental acrylamide neuropathy has been examined. Tissue was sampled from limbs of cats...

Selenium: Geobotany, Biochemistry, Toxicity and Nutrition.

Robert M. Thornton, I. Rosenfeld, O. A. Beath

Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club

Improved method for the preparation of crystalline β-lactoglobulin and α-lactalbumin from cow's milk

R. Aschaffenburg, Joel A. Drewry

Biochemical Journal

Research Article| February 01 1957 Improved method for the preparation of crystalline β-lactoglobulin and α-lactalbumin from cow's milk R. Aschaffenburg; R. Aschaffenburg 1Chemistry Department,...

An Improvement in Experimental Method for Investigation of Vitamin G

Jimmy Page

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Several investigators have reported that coprophagy may be a disturbing factor in vitamin B studies. In our own laboratory we have not encountered any serious difficulty with coprophagy in our...

Novel Approaches in the Valorization of Agricultural Wastes and Their Applications

Esra Çapanoğlu, Elifsu Nemli, Francisco A. Tómas‐Barberán

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Worldwide, a huge amount of agricultural food wastes and byproducts containing valuable bioactive compounds are generated, especially throughout the entire supply chain. Minimizing food wastes and...

International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values 2021: a systematic review

Fiona Atkinson, Jennie Brand‐Miller, Kaye Foster‐Powell +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Trace Elements in Human Nutrition (II) – An Update

Mehri Aliasgharpour

International Journal of Preventive Medicine

The dietary requirement for an essential trace element is an intake level which meets a specified criterion for adequacy and thereby minimizes risk of nutrient deficiency or excess. Disturbances in...

COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation strategies: implications for maternal and child health and nutrition

Nadia Akseer, Goutham Kandru, Emily C Keats +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to ravage health and economic metrics globally, including progress in maternal and child nutrition. Although there has been focus on rising rates of...

Incidence of asymptomatic deep vein thrombosis in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and elevated D-dimer levels

Pablo Demelo‐Rodríguez, Eva Cervilla‐Muñoz, Lucía Ordieres‐Ortega +10

Thrombosis Research

Animal source foods: Sustainability problem or malnutrition and sustainability solution? Perspective matters

A.T. Adesogan, Arie H. Havelaar, Sarah McKune +2

Global Food Security

Globally, two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, 151 million children under five suffer from stunting, and millions more have impaired cognitive development related to poor...

The burden of child and maternal malnutrition and trends in its indicators in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2017

Soumya Swaminathan, Hemalatha Rajkumar, Anamika Pandey +27

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Indian Council of Medical Research, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 1 (SPI-1) and Its Complex Regulatory Network

Lixin Lou, Peng Zhang, Rongli Piao +1

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

<i>Salmonella</i> species can infect a diverse range of birds, reptiles, and mammals, including humans. The type III protein secretion system (T3SS) encoded by <i>Salmonella</i> pathogenicity island...

Drought stress enhances nutritional and bioactive compounds, phenolic acids and antioxidant capacity of Amaranthus leafy vegetable

Umakanta Sarker, Shinya Oba

BMC Plant Biology

In A. tricolor, drought stress enhanced the quantitative and qualitative improvement of nutritional and bioactive compounds, phenolic acids, flavonoids and antioxidants. Hence, farmers of semi-arid...

Development of botanicals to combat antibiotic resistance

Pooja Gupta, Tannaz J. Birdi

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

The discovery of antibiotics in the previous century lead to reduction in mortality and morbidity due to infectious diseases but their inappropriate and irrational use has resulted in emergence of...

Nanotechnology Approaches for Increasing Nutrient Bioavailability

Seid Mahdi Jafari, David Julian McClements

Advances in food and nutrition research

Anti-inflammatory potential of ellagic acid, gallic acid and punicalagin A&amp;B isolated from Punica granatum

Lamees A. BenSaad, KH Kim, Chin Chew Quah +2

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

The results indicate that ellagic acid, gallic acid and punicalagin may be the compounds responsible for the anti-inflammatory potential of P. granatum.

Re-evaluation of the mechanisms of dietary fibre and implications for macronutrient bioaccessibility, digestion and postprandial metabolism

Myriam M.-L. Grundy, Cathrina H. Edwards, Alan R. Mackie +3

British Journal Of Nutrition

The positive effects of dietary fibre on health are now widely recognised; however, our understanding of the mechanisms involved in producing such benefits remains unclear. There are even...

Venous thrombosis

Alisa S. Wolberg, Frits R. Rosendaal, Jeffrey I. Weitz +4

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

High salt recruits aversive taste pathways

Yuki Oka, Matthew Butnaru, Lars von Buchholtz +2

Nature

Selenium reduces cadmium uptake and mitigates cadmium toxicity in rice

Lin Li, Weihui Zhou, Huaxin Dai +3

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism

Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Menkes disease

Zeynep Tümer, Lisbeth Birk Møller

European Journal of Human Genetics

Is the in vitro antioxidant potential of whole-grain cereals and cereal products well reflected in vivo?

Anthony Fardet, Edmond Rock, Christian Rémésy

Journal of Cereal Science

The bacterial type VI secretion machine: yet another player for protein transport across membranes

Alain Filloux, Abderrahman Hachani, Sophie Bleves

Microbiology

Several secretion systems have evolved that are widespread among Gram-negative bacteria. Recently, a new secretion system was recognized, which is named the type VI secretion system (T6SS). The T6SS...

D‐Dimer for venous thromboembolism diagnosis: 20 years later

Marc Righini, Arnaud Perrier, Philippe de Moerloose +1

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis