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Cereal grains for the food and beverage industries

Elke K. Arendt, Emanuele Zannini

Woodhead Publishing Limited eBooks

Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of fructo-oligosaccharides in active Crohn's disease

Jane Benjamin, Charlotte Hedin, A. Koutsoumpas +10

Gut

An adequately powered placebo-controlled trial of FOS showed no clinical benefit in patients with active Crohn's disease, despite impacting on DC function. ISRCTN50422530.

Elastic compression stockings for prevention of deep vein thrombosis

Ashwin Sachdeva, M. Nell Dalton, Sachiendra V Amaragiri +1

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

GCS are effective in diminishing the risk of DVT in hospitalised patients. Data examination also suggests that GCS on a background of another method of prophylaxis is more effective than GCS on its...

Venous thrombosis in the elderly: incidence, risk factors and risk groups

M.J. Engbers, Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg, Frits R. Rosendaal

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and human health outcomes

Philip C. Calder, Parveen Yaqoob

BioFactors

Current intakes of very long chain omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are low in most individuals living in Western countries. A good natural source of...

Concentrated oat β-glucan, a fermentable fiber, lowers serum cholesterol in hypercholesterolemic adults in a randomized controlled trial

Katie M. Queenan, Maria Stewart, Kristen N Smith +3

Nutrition Journal

Six grams concentrated oat beta-glucan per day for six weeks significantly reduced total and LDL cholesterol in subjects with elevated cholesterol, and the LDL cholesterol reduction was greater than...

Glutathione peroxidases and redox-regulated transcription factors

Regina Brigelius‐Flohé

Biological Chemistry

Analysis of the selenoproteome identified five glutathione peroxidases (GPxs) in mammals: cytosolic GPx (cGPx, GPx1), phospholipid hydroperoxide GPx (PHGPX, GPx4), plasma GPx (pGPX, GPx3),...

Vitamin K and the Prevention of Fractures

Sarah Cockayne, Joy Adamson, S. A. Lanham‐New +3

Archives of Internal Medicine

This systematic review suggests that supplementation with phytonadione and menaquinone-4 reduces bone loss. In the case of the latter, there is a strong effect on incident fractures among Japanese...

Oral behaviour of food hydrocolloids and emulsions. Part 1. Lubrication and deposition considerations

Mark E Malone, Ingrid Appelqvist, Ian T. Norton

Food Hydrocolloids

Enhancement of nisin, lysozyme, and monolaurin antimicrobial activities by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and lactoferrin

Jill K. Branen, P. Michael Davidson

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Dietary intake of acrylamide in Sweden

Kettil Svensson, Lilianne Abramsson, Wulf Becker +4

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Who We Are and How We Eat: A Qualitative Study of Identities in Food Choice

Carole A. Bisogni, Margaret Connors, Carol M. Devine +1

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Production of class II bacteriocins by lactic acid bacteria; an example of biological warfare and communication

Vincent G. H. Eijsink, Lars Axelsson, Dzung B. Diep +3

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Subsegmental Pulmonary Emboli: Improved Detection with Thin-Collimation Multi–Detector Row Spiral CT

U. Joseph Schoepf, N. Holzknecht, Thomas Helmberger +4

Radiology

For the diagnosis of subsegmental pulmonary emboli at multi-detector row CT, the use of 1-mm section widths results in substantially higher detection rates and greater agreement between different...

Mechanisms of the Antioxidant Activity of a High Molecular Weight Fraction of Whey

Lawrence M. Tong, Shigefumi Sasaki, David Julian McClements +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The antioxidant mechanisms of whey proteins in a Tween 20-stabilized salmon oil-in-water emulsion were investigated. The antioxidant activity of the high molecular weight (HMW) fraction of whey from...

Crystal structure of Rac1 in complex with the guanine nucleotide exchange region of Tiam1

David K. Worthylake, Kent L. Rossman, John Sondek

Nature

Rapid simultaneous lipid extraction and transesterification for fatty acid analyses

Juan Rodríguez‐Ruiz, El‐Hassan Belarbi, José Luis García Sánchez +1

Biotechnology Techniques

Ingredient Supplementation Effects on Viability of Probiotic Bacteria in Yogurt

R. I. Dave, Nagendra P. Shah

Journal of Dairy Science

The present investigation studied the effects of cysteine, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, acid casein hydrolysates, or tryptone on the viability of Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactobacillus...

Immune modulation of blood leukocytes in humans by lactic acid bacteria: criteria for strain selection

EJ Schiffrin, Dominique Brassart, AL Servin +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

A novel gene involved in zinc transport is deficient in the lethal milk mouse

Liping Huang, Jane Gitschier

Nature Genetics

Anti-inflammatory actions of the neuroimmunomodulator α-MSH

James M. Lipton, Anna Catania

Immunology Today

Plasma concentrations of cytokines, their soluble receptors, and antioxidant vitamins can predict the development of multiple organ failure in patients at risk

Emma Borrelli, Pascale Roux‐Lombard, Georges E. Grau +4

Critical Care Medicine

Our data suggest that there is a marked increase in anti-TNF activity and a decrease of antioxidant defense in patients at risk of developing multiple organ failure. The predictive value of plasma...

A Population-Based Serologic Survey of Immunity to Tetanus in the United States

Peter J. Gergen, Geraldine M. McQuillan, Michele Kiely +3

New England Journal of Medicine

Despite the fact that effective vaccines against tetanus have been available since the 1940s, many Americans do not have immunity to tetanus, and the rates are lowest among the elderly. There is an...

Large epidemic of cholera-like disease in Bangladesh caused by Vibrio cholerae 0139 synonym Bengal

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The Lancet

Human absorption of fish oil fatty acids as triacylglycerols, free acids, or ethyl esters

Larry D. Lawson, Bronwyn G. Hughes

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Compressibility of globular proteins in water at 25.degree.C

Kunihiko Gekko, Hajime Noguchi

The Journal of Physical Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTCompressibility of globular proteins in water at 25.degree.CKunihiko. Gekko and Hajime. NoguchiCite this: J. Phys. Chem. 1979, 83, 21, 2706–2714Publication...

Purification and properties of rat lung soluble glutathione peroxidase

Danny Chiu, Frederick H. Stults, Al L. Tappel

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Enzymology

Externally disposed plasma membrane proteins. I. Enzymatic iodination of mouse L cells.

A L Hubbard, Zanvil A. Cohn

The Journal of Cell Biology

The enzymatic iodination technique has been utilized in a study of the externally disposed membrane proteins of the mouse L cell. Iodination of cells in suspension results in lactoperoxidase-specific...

Effect of Streptomycin on Susceptibility of Intestinal Tract to Experimental Salmonella Infection.

Marjorie Bohnhoff, Barbara L. Drake, C. Phillip Miller

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Summary1. Preliminary treatment by mouth with a large dose (50 mg) of streptomycin increased the susceptibility of mice to infection following oral inoculation with a streptomycin-resistant strain of...

A Quantitative Method for Measuring Spontaneous Gastric Secretion in the Rat

Harry Shay, David C. H. Sun, Margot Gruenstein

Gastroenterology

The hypothalamus of the albino rat

Wendell J. S. Krieg

The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Dietary Fibre from Whole Grains and Their Benefits on Metabolic Health

Nirmala Prasadi V. P., Iris J. Joye

Nutrients

The consumption of whole grain products is often related to beneficial effects on consumer health. Dietary fibre is an important component present in whole grains and is believed to be (at least...

Recent trends on gellan gum blends with natural and synthetic polymers: A review

Khalid Mahmood Zia, Shazia Tabasum, Muhammad Faris Khan +4

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Chemical composition and health effects of Tartary buckwheat

Fan Zhu

Food Chemistry

Anti-Infective Activities of Lactobacillus Strains in the Human Intestinal Microbiota: from Probiotics to Gastrointestinal Anti-Infectious Biotherapeutic Agents

Vanessa Liévin‐Le Moal, Alain L. Servin

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

A vast and diverse array of microbial species displaying great phylogenic, genomic, and metabolic diversity have colonized the gastrointestinal tract. Resident microbes play a beneficial role by...

Early high protein intake is associated with low mortality and energy overfeeding with high mortality in non-septic mechanically ventilated critically ill patients

Peter J.M. Weijs, W.G. Looijaard, Albertus Beishuizen +2

Critical Care

In non-septic critically ill patients, early high protein intake was associated with lower mortality and early energy overfeeding with higher mortality. In septic patients early high protein intake...

Circulating and dietary magnesium and risk of cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies

Liana C. Del Gobbo, Fumiaki Imamura, Jason Wu +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Non-Graphical Solutions for Cattell’s Scree Test

Gilles Raîche, Theodore A. Walls, David Magis +2

Methodology

Most of the strategies that have been proposed to determine the number of components that account for the most variation in a principal components analysis of a correlation matrix rely on the...

Permissive underfeeding and intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled trial

Yaseen M. Arabi, Hani Tamim, Gousia S. Dhar +5

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Association of Marine Omega-3 Fatty Acid Levels With Telomeric Aging in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease

Ramin Farzaneh‐Far

JAMA

Among this cohort of patients with coronary artery disease, there was an inverse relationship between baseline blood levels of marine omega-3 fatty acids and the rate of telomere shortening over 5...

Glass Transition Temperature and Its Relevance in Food Processing

Yrjö H. Roos

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Amorphous, noncrystalline solids are typical of low water content and frozen foods. Solids in these foods, e.g., confectionary, dehydrated foods, cereal foods, and frozen foods, often form...

Early Flavor Learning and Its Impact on Later Feeding Behavior

Gary K. Beauchamp, Julie A. Mennella

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

In this review, we first outline the role and mechanisms of the chemical senses (taste, smell, and chemical irritation) in the perception of the flavor of a food or beverage. We then describe...

Legionella pneumophila proteins that regulate Rab1 membrane cycling

Alyssa Ingmundson, Anna Delprato, David G. Lambright +1

Nature

How to become a uropathogen: Comparative genomic analysis of extraintestinal pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> strains

Elżbieta Brzuszkiewicz, Holger Brüggemann, Heiko Liesegang +10

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) strain 536 (O6:K15:H31) is one of the model organisms of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC). To analyze this strain's genetic basis of urovirulence, we...

The love–hate relationship between bacterial polysaccharides and the host immune system

Sarkis K. Mazmanian, Dennis L. Kasper

Nature reviews. Immunology

Intracellular Copper Does Not Catalyze the Formation of Oxidative DNA Damage in <i>Escherichia coli</i>

Lee Macomber, Christopher Rensing, James A. Imlay

Journal of Bacteriology

Because copper catalyzes the conversion of H(2)O(2) to hydroxyl radicals in vitro, it has been proposed that oxidative DNA damage may be an important component of copper toxicity. Elimination of the...

The Effect of Expiration Dates and Perceived Risk on Purchasing Behavior in Grocery Store Perishable Categories

Michael Tsiros, Carrie M. Heilman

Journal of Marketing

In this article, the authors examine consumers’ behavior with respect to expiration dates for grocery store perishable products. A better understanding of such behavior can both guide efforts to...