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Application of microencapsulated essential oils in cosmetic and personal healthcare products – a review

Isabel Teixeira Carvalho, Berta N. Estevinho, Lúcia Santos

International Journal of Cosmetic Science

Nowadays, the consumers around the world are increasingly focused on health and beauty. The renewed consumer interest in natural cosmetic products creates the demand for new products and reformulated...

Microbiological, technological and therapeutic properties of kefir: a natural probiotic beverage

Analy Machado de Oliveira Leite, Marco Antônio Lemos Miguel, Raquel S. Peixoto +3

Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Kefir is a fermented milk beverage produced by the action of bacteria and yeasts that exist in symbiotic association in kefir grains. The artisanal production of the kefir is based on the tradition...

(n-3) Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Health: Are Effects of EPA and DHA Shared or Complementary?

Dariush Mozaffarian, Jason Wu

Journal of Nutrition

Drinking Water Salinity and Maternal Health in Coastal Bangladesh: Implications of Climate Change

Aneire Khan, Andrew Ireson, Sari Kovats +4

Environmental Health Perspectives

Background: Drinking water from natural sources in coastal Bangladesh has become contaminated by varying degrees of salinity due to saltwater intrusion from rising sea levels, cyclone and storm...

Deep-Vein Thrombosis of the Upper Extremities

Nils Kucher

New England Journal of Medicine

This article reviews usual strategies for treating thrombosis of the upper extremities, including anticoagulation therapy and thrombolysis. The use of catheters and surgical interventions in...

Total phenolic and total flavonoid content, antioxidant activity and sensory evaluation of pseudocereal breads

Joanna Chłopicka, Paweł Paśko, Shela Gorinstein +2

LWT

Composition, antimicrobial activity and in vitro cytotoxicity of essential oil from Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume (Lauraceae)

Mehmet Burçin Ünlü, Emel Ergene, Gülhan Vardar Ünlü +2

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Sodium Caseinate Stabilized Zein Colloidal Particles

Ashok R. Patel, Elisabeth C. M. Bouwens, Krassimir P. Velikov

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The present work deals with the preparation and stabilization of zein colloidal particles using sodium caseinate as electrosteric stabilizer. Colloidal particles with well-defined size range (120-150...

Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries

Ellen Van de Poel

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Objective The objectives of this study were to report on socioeconomic inequality in childhood malnutrition in the developing world, to provide evidence for an association between socioeconomic...

Chemical composition, antioxidant and antibacterial activities of the essential oils isolated from Tunisian Thymus capitatus Hoff. et Link.

S Bounatirou, Samira Smiti, Marta Miguel +7

Food Chemistry

<i>Carnobacterium:</i>positive and negative effects in the environment and in foods

Jørgen J. Leisner, Birgit Groth Laursen, Hervé Prévost +2

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

The genus Carnobacterium contains nine species, but only C. divergens and C. maltaromaticum are frequently isolated from natural environments and foods. They are tolerant to freezing/thawing and high...

Benefits and risks of fish consumption

José L. Domingo, Ana Bocio, Gemma Falcó +1

Toxicology

Alginate as a Source of Dietary Fiber

Iain A. Brownlee, Adrian Allen, Jeffrey P. Pearson +4

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Alginate, an algal polysaccharide, is widely used in the food industry as a stabilizer, or as a thickening or emulsifying agent. As an indigestible polysaccharide, alginate may also be viewed as a...

Nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus Salmonella

Brian J. Tindall, Patrick A. D. Grimont, George M Garrity +1

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

The nomenclature of the genus Salmonella has reached an unsatisfactory state of affairs, with two systems of nomenclature in circulation. One system, proposed in the 1980s by Le Minor and Popoff, has...

Microspheres of corn protein, zein, for an ivermectin drug delivery system

Xinming Liu, Qingshen Sun, Hua‐Jie Wang +2

Biomaterials

Characterization of lactic acid bacteria isolated from a Greek dry-fermented sausage in respect of their technological and probiotic properties

E. Papamanoli, N. Tzanetakis, E. Litopoulou‐Tzanetaki +1

Meat Science

Zinc inhibition of cellular energy production: implications for mitochondria and neurodegeneration

Kirk E. Dineley, Tatyana V. Votyakova, Ian J. Reynolds

Journal of Neurochemistry

An increasing body of evidence suggests that high intracellular free zinc promotes neuronal death by inhibiting cellular energy production. A number of targets have been postulated, including...

Cognitive decline and fatty acid composition of erythrocyte membranes—The EVA Study

Barbara Heude, Pierre Ducimetière, Claudine Berr

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Mutations of the Selenoprotein N Gene, Which Is Implicated in Rigid Spine Muscular Dystrophy, Cause the Classical Phenotype of Multiminicore Disease: Reassessing the Nosology of Early-Onset Myopathies

Ana Ferreiro, Susana Quijano-Roy, Claire Pichereau +15

The American Journal of Human Genetics

Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activity of the Essential Oil and Methanol Extracts of <i>Thymus pectinatus</i> Fisch. et Mey. Var. <i>pectinatus </i>(Lamiaceae)

Gülhan Vardar‐Ünlü, Ferda Candan, Atalay Sökmen +5

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The essential oil, obtained by using a Clevenger distillation apparatus, and water-soluble (polar) and water-insoluble (nonpolar) subfractions of the methanol extract of Thymus pectinatus Fisch. et...

A Salmonella virulence protein that inhibits cellular trafficking

Kei‐ichi Uchiya, M. Alejandro Barbieri, Kouichi Funato +3

The EMBO Journal

Oligofructose stimulates calcium absorption in adolescents

Ellen G. H. M. van den Heuvel, Theo Muys, W. van Dokkum +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Review of cocoa butter and alternative fats for use in chocolate—Part A. Compositional data

Markus Lipp, E. Anklam

Food Chemistry

<i>Legionella pneumophila</i> DotA protein is required for early phagosome trafficking decisions that occur within minutes of bacterial uptake

Craig R. Roy, Karen H. Berger, Ralph R. Isberg

Molecular Microbiology

Numerous intracellular bacterial pathogens modulate the nature of the membrane-bound compartment in which they reside, although little is known about the molecular basis for this control. Legionella...

Colloidal aspects of ice cream—A review

H. Douglas Goff

International Dairy Journal

Rapid identification by PCR of the genus Campylobacter and of five Campylobacter species enteropathogenic for man and animals

Dennis Linton, Robert J. Owen, John R. Stanley

Research in Microbiology

HOW <i>SALMONELLA</i> SURVIVE AGAINST THE ODDS

John W. Foster, Michael Spector

Annual Review of Microbiology

The enteric pathogen Salmonella typhimurium faces daunting odds during its voyages in the natural environment and through an infected host. It must manage stresses ranging from feast to famine, acid...

The secretion of the Shigella flexneri Ipa invasins is activated by epithelial cells and controlled by IpaB and IpaD.

Robert Ménard, Philippe Sansonetti, Claude Parsot

The EMBO Journal

von Willebrand factor in plasma: a novel risk factor for recurrent myocardial infarction and death.

Jan‐Håkan Jansson, Tobias Nilsson, O. Johnson

Heart

A high concentration of von Willebrand factor was a novel index of increased risk for reinfarction and mortality in survivors of myocardial infarction.

Factors affecting retention in spray-drying microencapsulation of volatile materials

Moshe Rosenberg, I. J. KOPELMAN, Yeshayahu Talmon

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTFactors affecting retention in spray-drying microencapsulation of volatile materialsM. Rosenberg, I. J. Kopelman, and Y. TalmonCite this: J. Agric. Food...

Selenate Reduction to Elemental Selenium by Anaerobic Bacteria in Sediments and Culture: Biogeochemical Significance of a Novel, Sulfate-Independent Respiration

Ronald S. Oremland, James T. Hollibaugh, Ann S. Maest +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Interstitial water profiles of SeO(4), SeO(3), SO(4), and Cl in anoxic sediments indicated removal of the seleno-oxyanions by a near-surface process unrelated to sulfate reduction. In sediment slurry...

The Effect of Solutes on the Gelatinization Temperature Range of Potato Starch

I. D. Evans, Derek R. Haisman

Starch - Stärke

Abstract The gelatinization behaviour of potato starch in an excess of water or solutions of sugars, other organic hydroxy compounds, or various inorganic salts was studied. The distribution of water...

[1] Extraction of tissue lipids with a solvent of low toxicity

Norman S. Radin

Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

Heterogeneity of serum low density lipoproteins in normal human subjects.

Mengyuan Shen, R.M. Krauss, F. T. Lindgren +1

Journal of Lipid Research

Equilibrium density gradient ultracentrifugation of serum low density lipoprotein (LDL) from twelve healthy human subjects was used to separate six subfractions with mean density ranging from 1.0268...

Multivariate Correlation Models with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Variables

Ingram Olkin, R. F. Tate

The Annals of Mathematical Statistics

A model which frequently arises from experimentation in psychology is one which contains both discrete and continuous variables. The concern in such a model may be with finding measures of...

Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism

S. Sevitt

Journal of the American Medical Association

There is an urgent need for monographs on thrombosis and embolism since the subject has widespread interest. The methods of early diagnosis have been stressed in this treatise and the merits of...

Lactose drives <i>Enterococcus</i> expansion to promote graft-versus-host disease

Christoph K. Stein‐Thoeringer, Katherine Nichols, Amina Lazrak +27

Science

Disruption of intestinal microbial communities appears to underlie many human illnesses, but the mechanisms that promote this dysbiosis and its adverse consequences are poorly understood. In patients...

Experiential value in branding food tourism

Chen‐Tsang Tsai, Yao‐Chin Wang

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management

Comprehensive Profiling of Plasma Fatty Acid Concentrations in Young Healthy Canadian Adults

Salma A. Abdelmagid, Shannon Clarke, Daiva E. Nielsen +4

PLoS ONE

Circulating fatty acids (FA) are associated with a multitude of chronic diseases. However, a major gap in establishing such relationships is the lack of accepted fatty acid reference ranges...

pH-dependent emulsifying properties of pea [Pisum sativum (L.)] proteins

Hanni Liang, Chuan‐He Tang

Food Hydrocolloids

Functions of the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2) type III secretion system effectors

R. C. S. Figueira, David W. Holden

Microbiology

Salmonella enterica serovars cause severe disease in humans, such as gastroenteritis and typhoid fever. The bacteria are able to invade and replicate within host cells, including epithelial cells and...

Anti-inflammatory capacity of selected lactobacilli in experimental colitis is driven by NOD2-mediated recognition of a specific peptidoglycan-derived muropeptide

Elise Macho Fernandez, V. Valenti, Christoph Rockel +4

Gut

The results indicated that PGN and derived muropeptides are active compounds in probiotic functionality and might represent a useful therapeutic strategy in IBD.

Plant volatiles: Production, function and pharmacology

Massimo E. Maffei, Jürg Gertsch, Giovanni Appendino

Natural Product Reports

Plant volatiles typically occur as a complex mixture of low-molecular weight lipophilic compounds derived from different biosynthetic pathways, and are seemingly produced as part of a defense...

The Association Between Dietary Sodium Intake, ESRD, and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

Merlin C. Thomas, John L. Moran, Carol Forsblom +9

Diabetes Care

In patients with type 1 diabetes, sodium was independently associated with all-cause mortality and ESRD. Although we have not demonstrated causality, these findings support the calls for caution...

Microencapsulation of sweet orange oil by complex coacervation with soybean protein isolate/gum Arabic

Xiao Jun-xia, Haiyan Yu, Jian Yang

Food Chemistry

Genome analysis of <i>Bifidobacterium bifidum</i> PRL2010 reveals metabolic pathways for host-derived glycan foraging

Francesca Turroni, Francesca Bottacini, Elena Foroni +17

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The human intestine is densely populated by a microbial consortium whose metabolic activities are influenced by, among others, bifidobacteria. However, the genetic basis of adaptation of...

Physical Properties of Rice Bran Wax in Bulk and Organogels

Lakmali Samuditha K. Dassanayake, Dharma R. Kodali, Saneyoshi Ueno +1

Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society

Abstract Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), optical microscopy, and X‐ray diffraction (XRD) were used to examine the thermal behavior, crystal structure, and crystal morphology of rice bran wax...

Ice-cream as a probiotic food carrier

Adriano G. Cruz, Adriane Elisabete Costa Antunes, Ana Lúcia Orlandini Pilleggi de Sousa +2

Food Research International

Intestinal Microbial Ecology in Premature Infants Assessed with Non–Culture-Based Techniques

Maka Mshvildadze, Josef Neu, Jonathan J. Shuster +3

The Journal of Pediatrics

Meta-analysis of clinical trials of probiotics for prevention and treatment of pediatric atopic dermatitis

Joo-Hee Lee, David Seto, Leonard Bielory

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology