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Outer membrane of Salmonella typhimurium: chemical analysis and freeze-fracture studies with lipopolysaccharide mutants

J Smit, Y Kamio, Hiroshi Nikaido

Journal of Bacteriology

The outer membrane layer of the cell wall was isolated from wild-type Salmonella typhimurium LT2 as well as from its mutants producing lipopolysaccharides with shorter saccharide chains. Chemical...

Ultrasound‐assisted extraction and modification of plant‐based proteins: Impact on physicochemical, functional, and nutritional properties

Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Buddhi Lamsal

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Ultrasonication is a green technology that has recently received an enormous research attention for extraction of plant-based proteins and tailoring the functionalities of these ingredients....

Animal Sourced Foods and Child Stunting

Derek Headey, Kalle Hirvonen, John Hoddinott

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Stunting affects 160 million pre-school children globally with adverse life-long consequences. While work within nutritional science suggests that stunting in early childhood is associated with low...

Type IV secretion in Gram‐negative and Gram‐positive bacteria

Elisabeth Grohmann, Peter J. Christie, Gabriel Waksman +1

Molecular Microbiology

Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are versatile multiprotein nanomachines spanning the entire cell envelope in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. They play important roles through the...

The impact of maternal iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia on child’s health

Noran M. Abu-Ouf, Mohammed M. Jan

Saudi Medical Journal

Iron deficiency anemia is extremely common, particularly in the developing world, reaching a state of global epidemic. Iron deficiency during pregnancy is one of the leading causes of anemia in...

Antibiotic Exposure in Infancy and Risk of Being Overweight in the First 24 Months of Life

Antti Saari, Lauri J. Virta, Ulla Sankilampi +2

PEDIATRICS

Antibiotic exposure before 6 months of age, or repeatedly during infancy, was associated with increased body mass in healthy children. Such effects may play a role in the worldwide childhood obesity...

Discovering probiotic microorganisms: in vitro, in vivo, genetic and omics approaches

Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Γεωργία Ζουμποπούλου, Benoit Foligné +4

Frontiers in Microbiology

Over the past decades the food industry has been revolutionized toward the production of functional foods due to an increasing awareness of the consumers on the positive role of food in wellbeing and...

Plants belonging to the genus Thymus as antibacterial agents: From farm to pharmacy

Seyed Mohammad Nabavi, Anna Marchese, Morteza Izadi +3

Food Chemistry

Spray-Drying Microencapsulation of Anthocyanins by Natural Biopolymers: A Review

Sahar Akhavan Mahdavi, Seid Mahdi Jafari, Mohammad Ghorbani +1

Drying Technology

There has been an increased interest in the development of food colorants from natural sources as alternatives to synthetic dyes because of both legislative actions and consumer concerns....

A Type VI Secretion-Related Pathway in Bacteroidetes Mediates Interbacterial Antagonism

Alistair B. Russell, Aaron G. Wexler, Brittany N. Harding +12

Cell Host & Microbe

Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of Risk and Risk Management for Water-Related Infectious Disease

Lorna Fewtrell

Water Intelligence Online

The quality of water, whether it is used for drinking, irrigation or recreational purposes, is significant for health in both developing and developed countries worldwide. In responding to this...

Selenium-Induced Up-Regulation of the Antioxidant Defense and Methylglyoxal Detoxification System Reduces Salinity-Induced Damage in Rapeseed Seedlings

Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Masayuki Fujita

Biological Trace Element Research

Beta casein-micelle as a nano vehicle for solubility enhancement of curcumin; food industry application

Mansoore Esmaili, Seyed Mahmood Ghaffari, Zeinab Moosavi-Movahedi +7

LWT

Plant-Based Antimicrobial Studies – Methods and Approaches to Study the Interaction between Natural Products

Sandy van Vuuren, Alvaro Viljoen

Planta Medica

The therapeutic value of synergistic interactions has been known since antiquity, and many different cultural healing systems still rely on this principle in the belief that combination therapy may...

Risk of pulmonary embolism in patients with autoimmune disorders: a nationwide follow-up study from Sweden

Bengt Zöller, Xinjun Li, Jan Sundquist +1

The Lancet

Melamine Toxicity and the Kidney

Anthony K.C. Hau, Tze Hoi Kwan, PHILIP KAM‐TAO LI

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

The toxicity of melamine caught the attention of physicians as a result of a recent spate of renal injury after exposure to melamine-tainted milk in China. Melamine is an organic nitrogenous compound...

The Taste of Carbonation

Jayaram Chandrashekar, David A. Yarmolinsky, Lars von Buchholtz +4

Science

Carbonated beverages are commonly available and immensely popular, but little is known about the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the perception of carbonation in the mouth. In mammals,...

Regulation of Mitochondrial Iron Import through Differential Turnover of Mitoferrin 1 and Mitoferrin 2

Prasad N. Paradkar, Kimberley B. Zumbrennen, Barry H. Paw +2

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Mitoferrin 1 and mitoferrin 2 are homologous members of the mitochondrial solute carrier family. Mitoferrin 1 is required for mitochondrial iron delivery in developing erythrocytes. Here we show that...

Complexation between milk proteins and polysaccharides via electrostatic interaction: principles and applications – a review

Aiqian Ye

International Journal of Food Science & Technology

Summary This article details recent research conducted on the complexation between milk proteins and polysaccharides and the properties of the complexes, and the application of such relationships to...

The Genome Sequence of Avian Pathogenic<i>Escherichia coli</i>Strain O1:K1:H7 Shares Strong Similarities with Human Extraintestinal Pathogenic<i>E. coli</i>Genomes

Timothy J. Johnson, Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Yvonne Wannemuehler +7

Journal of Bacteriology

Escherichia coli strains that cause disease outside the intestine are known as extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) and include human uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) and avian pathogenic E. coli...

Chemotherapy-induced thrombosis

Tufia C. Haddad, Edward Greeno

Thrombosis Research

The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization

Elinor Ochs, Merav Shohet

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

Two anthropologists treat mealtimes as cultural sites for socializing children into commensality, communicative expectations, and the symbolic, moral, and sentimental meanings of food and eating....

Antifungal activity of thyme, summer savory and clove essential oils against Aspergillus flavus in liquid medium and tomato paste

Maryam Omidbeygi, Mohsen Barzegar, Zohreh Hamidi +1

Food Control

Design of hot air drying for better foods

Piotr P. Lewicki

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Screening for <i>Bacillus</i> Isolates in the Broiler Gastrointestinal Tract

Teresa M. Barbosa, Cláudia R. Serra, Roberto M. La Ragione +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Spores from a number of different Bacillus species are currently being used as human and animal probiotics, although their mechanisms of action remain poorly understood. Here we describe the...

ReviewPart of the Series: From Dietary Antioxidants to Regulators in Cellular Signalling and Gene ExpressionReview: When is an antioxidant not an antioxidant? A review of novel actions and reactions of vitamin C

Tiago L. Duarte, John Lunec

Free Radical Research

Vitamin C (or ascorbic acid) is regarded as the most important water-soluble antioxidant in human plasma and mammalian cells which have mechanisms to recycle and accumulate it against a concentration...

Neonatal short bowel syndrome: population-based estimates of incidence and mortality rates

Paul W. Wales, Nicole de Silva, Jae Kim +3

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Antioxidant Properties of Bran Extracts from “Akron” Wheat Grown at Different Locations

Liangli Yu, Jonathan Perret, Mary Harris +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Bran extracts of Akron wheat grown at four nonirrigated and one irrigated testing locations were examined and compared for their free radical scavenging properties against the...

Micronutrient Malnutrition, Infection, and Immunity: an Overview

Padbidri Bhaskaram

Nutrition Reviews

Micronutrient deficiencies and infectious diseases often coexist and exhibit complex interactions leading to the vicious cycle of malnutrition and infections among underprivileged populations of the...

Technological functionality of inulin and oligofructose

A. Franck

British Journal Of Nutrition

Inulin and oligofructose are functional food ingredients which offer a unique combination of nutritional properties and important technological benefits. They are found in many vegetables and fruits...

Identification of a new copper metabolism gene by positional cloning in a purebred dog population

Bart van de Sluis

Human Molecular Genetics

Domesticated animal species such as dogs and cats, with their many different characteristics and breed-specific diseases, and their close relationship and shared environment with humans, are a...

Donor human milk versus formula for preventing necrotising enterocolitis in preterm infants: systematic review

William McGuire, M Y Anthony

Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal

It may be appropriate to consider further larger trials to compare growth, development, and the incidence of adverse outcomes, including NEC, in preterm infants who receive donor human milk versus...

The flagella of enteropathogenic<i>Escherichia coli</i>mediate adherence to epithelial cells

Jorge A. Girón, Alfredo G. Torres, Enrique Freer +1

Molecular Microbiology

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) utilizes a type III protein secretion system to target effector molecules into the host cell leading to effacement of the intestinal mucosa. This secretion...

Synaptically released zinc: Physiological functions and pathological effects

Christopher J. Frederickson, Ashley I. Bush

BioMetals

Pesticide Residues in Grapes, Wine, and Their Processing Products

Paolo Cabras, Alberto Angioni

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

In this review the results obtained in the 1990s from research on the behavior of pesticide residues on grapes, from treatment to harvest, and their fate in drying, wine-making, and alcoholic...

Workshop on the Essentiality of and Recommended Dietary Intakes for Omega-6 and Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Artemis P. Simopoulos, Alexander Leaf, Norman Salem

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

The Workshop on the Essentiality of and Recommended Dietary Intakes (RDIs) for Omega-6 and Omega-3 Fatty Acids was held at The Cloisters, National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, ...

Isolation and biochemical characterization of organelles from the yeast, <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>

Erwin Zinser, Günther Daum

Yeast

Triticum aestivum puroindolines, two basic cystine-rich seed proteins: cDNA sequence analysis and developmental gene expression

Marie-Fran�oise Gautier, Marie-Elisabeth Aleman, Anne Guirao +2

Plant Molecular Biology

Antimicrobial Activity of Lactic Acid Bacteria Against Listeria monocytogenes

Linda J. Harris, M.A. Daeschel, Michael E. Stiles +1

Journal of Food Protection

Influence of time, temperature, moisture, ingredients, and processing conditions on starch gelatinization

Daryl Lund, Klaus Lorenz

C R C Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Starch gelatinization phenomena is extremely important in many food systems. This review focuses on factors affecting gelatinization characteristics of starch. Important variables which must be...

SELENIUM: TOXICITY AND TOLERANCE IN HIGHER PLANTS

Terence A. Brown, Alex Shrift

Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Summary 1. Different plant species show considerable variation in their selenium content. Primary indicators, also termed selenium accumulators, many of which are members of the genus Astragalus ,...

Translocatable elements in procaryotes

Nancy Kleckner

Cell

The role of ceruloplasmin in iron metabolism

H. P. Roeser, G. R. Lee, Sergio Nacht +1

Journal of Clinical Investigation

The importance of ceruloplasmin in iron metabolism was studied in swine made hypoceruloplasminemic by copper deprivation. When the plasma ceruloplasmin level fell below 1% of normal, cell-to-plasma...

Textbook of Pollen Analysis.

Judith Turner, Knut Fægri, John B. Iverson

Journal of Applied Ecology

Selenium Deficiency Is Associated with Mortality Risk from COVID-19

Arash Moghaddam, Raban Heller, Qian Sun +10

Nutrients

SARS-CoV-2 infections underlie the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and are causative for a high death toll particularly among elderly subjects and those with comorbidities. Selenium...

Conjugated Linoleic Acid Effects on Cancer, Obesity, and Atherosclerosis: A Review of Pre-Clinical and Human Trials with Current Perspectives

Laura den Hartigh

Nutrients

Obesity and its comorbidities, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, are straining our healthcare system, necessitating the development of novel strategies for weight loss. Lifestyle...

Vitamin D alleviates lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury via regulation of the renin-angiotensin system

Jun Xu, Jialai Yang, Jian Chen +3

Molecular Medicine Reports

Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are the clinical manifestations of severe lung damage and respiratory failure. ALI and ARDS result are associated with high...

High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction

Bárbara Goettsch, Craig Hilton‐Taylor, Gabriela Cruz-Piñón +27

Nature Plants