Research Library

Ethanolamine utilization in Salmonella typhimurium: nucleotide sequence, protein expression, and mutational analysis of the cchA cchB eutE eutJ eutG eutH gene cluster

Igor Stojiljković, Andreas J. Bäumler, Fred Heffron

Journal of Bacteriology

A fragment of the Salmonella typhimurium ethanolamine utilization operon was cloned and characterized. The 6.3-kb nucleotide sequence encoded six complete open reading frames, termed cchA, cchB,...

Topical vitamin C protects porcine skin from ultraviolet radiation-induced damage

Douglas Darr, S. COMBS, Stanley M. Dunston +2

British Journal of Dermatology

Ultraviolet radiation damage to the skin is due, in part, to the generation of reactive oxygen species. Vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) functions as a biological co-factor and antioxidant due to its...

Copper, Zinc, Manganese, and Magnesium Status and Complications of Diabetes Mellitus

R.M. Walter, Janet Y. Uriu‐Hare, Katherine L. Olin +4

Diabetes Care

Diabetes can alter copper, zinc, magnesium, and lipid peroxidation status. Perturbations in mineral metabolism are more pronounced in diabetic populations with specific complications. It is not known...

Survival and growth characteristics of Escherichia coli associated with hemorrhagic colitis

Michael P. Doyle, Jean L. Schoeni

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef was more sensitive to heat than salmonellae, but survived for 9 months at -20 degrees C with little change in number. The organisms grew well in Trypticase soy...

Nutritional status in a healthy elderly population: vitamin C

Garry Pj, JS Goodwin, W. C. Hunt +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Paraprobiotics and Postbiotics of Probiotic Lactobacilli, Their Positive Effects on the Host and Action Mechanisms: A Review

Tsegay Teame, Anran Wang, Mingxu Xie +7

Frontiers in Nutrition

<i>Lactobacilli</i> comprise an important group of probiotics for both human and animals. The emerging concern regarding safety problems associated with live microbial cells is enhancing the interest...

Guidance on the use of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern approach in food safety assessment

Simon J. More, Vasileios Bampidis, Diane Benford +20

EFSA Journal

The Scientific Committee confirms that the Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) is a pragmatic screening and prioritisation tool for use in food safety assessment. This Guidance provides clear...

FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration

Damion Dooley, Emma Griffiths, Gurinder S. Gosal +6

npj Science of Food

The construction of high capacity data sharing networks to support increasing government and commercial data exchange has highlighted a key roadblock: the content of existing Internet-connected...

The Application of Medicinal Plants in Traditional and Modern Medicine: A Review of &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Thymus vulgaris&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;

Saleh Hosseinzadeh, Azizollah Jafarikukhdan, Ahmadreza Hosseini +1

International Journal of Clinical Medicine

Medicinal plants have played an essential role in the development of human culture. Medicinal plants are resources of traditional medicines and many of the modern medicines are produced indirectly...

Food, eating behavior, and culture in Chinese society

Guansheng Ma

Journal of Ethnic Foods

Humans need to obtain nutrients from foods in order to survive and be healthy. The requirements of energy and nutrients are different due to differences in race, age, sex, and physical activity...

Sources, isolation, characterisation and evaluation of probiotics

Luis Fontana, Miriam Bermúdez-Brito, Julio Plaza‐Díaz +2

British Journal Of Nutrition

According to the FAO and the WHO, probiotics are 'live microorganisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host'. The strains most frequently used as...

Current concepts and prospects of herbal nutraceutical: A review

ShahidH Ansari, Baby Chauhan, Gopal Kumar +1

Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical Technology amp Research

Nutraceuticals are food or part of food that provides medical or health benefits including the prevention and/or treatment of a disease. Nutraceutical has advantage over the medicine because they...

Effects of zinc supplementation on diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Ranil Jayawardena, Priyanga Ranasinghe, Priyadarshani Galappatthy +3

Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome

The number of people with diabetes and pre-diabetes are exponentially increasing. Studies on humans have shown the beneficial effects of Zinc supplementation in patients with diabetes. The present...

The taste of heavy metals: Gene regulation by MTF-1

Viola Günther, Uschi Lindert, Walter Schaffner

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research

α-Linolenic acid and risk of cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

An Pan, Mu Chen, Rajiv Chowdhury +5

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Studying the influence of package shape and colour on consumer expectations of milk desserts using word association and conjoint analysis

Gastón Ares, Rosires Deliza

Food Quality and Preference

A Review of the Application and Pharmacological Properties of <i>α</i>‐Bisabolol and <i>α</i>‐Bisabolol‐Rich Oils

Guy Kamatou, Alvaro Viljoen

Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society

Abstract α ‐Bisabolol is a naturally occurring sesquiterpene alcohol which was first isolated from Matricaria chamomilla (Asteraceae) in the twentieth century and has since been identified in other...

Colloidal stability and interactions of milk-protein-stabilized emulsions in an artificial saliva

Anwesha Sarkar, Kelvin K.T. Goh, Harjinder Singh

Food Hydrocolloids

Effects of Hofmeister Anions on the Phase Transition Temperature of Elastin-like Polypeptides

Younhee Cho, Yanjie Zhang, Trine Christensen +3

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

The modulation of the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of two elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) was investigated in the presence of 11 sodium salts that span the Hofmeister series for...

The role of expectancy in sensory and hedonic evaluation: The case of smoked salmon ice-cream

Martin R. Yeomans, Lucy Chambers, Heston Blumenthal +1

Food Quality and Preference

Proposed Model: Mechanisms of Immunomodulation Induced by Probiotic Bacteria

Carolina Maldonado Galdeano, Alejandra de Moreno de LeBlanc, Gabriel Vinderola +2

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

The mammalian microbiota comprises several hundred different bacterial species, many of which have a beneficial effect on the host. For example, they are involved in preventing colonization of the...

Towards understanding molecular modes of probiotic action

Maria L. Marco, Sonia Pavan, Michiel Kleerebezem

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in type 2 diabetes: A review

Joyce A. Nettleton, Robert I. Katz

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Getting better with bifidobacteria

Sinead C. Leahy, Desmond G. Higgins, Gerald F. Fitzgerald +1

Journal of Applied Microbiology

... The last 20 years has seen a tremendous increase in commercial and consequent scientific interest in members of the genus Bifidobacterium. Bifidobacteria are Gram‐positive procaryotes that...

Randomized clinical trial of postoperative fondaparinux <i>versus</i> perioperative dalteparin for prevention of venous thromboembolism in high-risk abdominal surgery

Giancarlo Agnelli, David Bergqvist, Alexander T. Cohen +2

British journal of surgery

Postoperative fondaparinux was at least as effective as perioperative dalteparin in patients undergoing high-risk abdominal surgery.

Flagella and Chemotaxis Are Required for Efficient Induction of<i>Salmonella enterica</i>Serovar Typhimurium Colitis in Streptomycin-Pretreated Mice

Bärbel Stecher, Siegfried Hapfelmeier, Catherine E. Muller +3

Infection and Immunity

Salmonella enterica subspecies 1 serovar Typhimurium is a common cause of gastrointestinal infections. The host's innate immune system and a complex set of Salmonella virulence factors are thought to...

Colonization and Immunomodulation by <i>Lactobacillus reuteri</i> ATCC 55730 in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract

Nana Valeur, Peter A. Engel, Noris Carbajal +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC 55730 is a probiotic (health-promoting) bacterium widely used as a dietary supplement. This study was designed to examine local colonization of the human gastrointestinal...

The cultivation of Castanea sativa (Mill.) in Europe, from its origin to its diffusion on a continental scale

Marco Conedera, Patrik Krebs, Willy Tinner +2

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of antimicrobial resistance in German Escherichia coli isolates from cattle, swine and poultry

Beatriz Guerra

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

The study gives baseline information on the magnitude of the resistance problem and its genetic background in contemporary German E. coli from food-producing animals.

Oligonucleotide Probes That Detect Quantitatively Significant Groups of Butyrate-Producing Bacteria in Human Feces

Georgina L. Hold, Andreas Schwiertz, Rustam Aminov +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes were designed for butyrate-producing bacteria from human feces. Three new cluster-specific probes detected bacteria related to Roseburia intestinalis,...

Effects of fermentation temperature on the strain population of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

María-Jesús Torija

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Lactic acid bacteria and yeasts in kefir grains and kefir made from them

Е. Симова, Дора Бешкова, Angel Angelov +3

Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

In an investigation of the changes in the microflora along the pathway: kefir grains (A)-->kefir made from kefir grains (B)-->kefir made from kefir as inoculum (C), the following species of lactic...

Mechanisms of Action of Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Evidence and Speculation

Michael W. Pariza, Yeonhwa Park, Mark E. Cook

Proceedings of The Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) has been shown to inhibit carcinogenesis and atherosclerosis, enhance immunologic function while protecting against the catabolic effects of immune stimulation, affect...

Transcriptional Activation of an Escherichia coliCopper Efflux Regulon by the Chromosomal MerR Homologue, CueR

F. Wayne Outten, Caryn E. Outten, Jeremy A. Hale +1

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Because copper ions are both essential cofactors and cytotoxic agents, the net accumulation of this element in a cell must be carefully balanced. Depending upon the cellular copper status, copper...

Nuts and their bioactive constituents: effects on serum lipids and other factors that affect disease risk

Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, Shaomei Yu-Poth, Joan Sabaté +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

EFFECT OF DRYING METHOD ON SHRINKAGE AND POROSITY

Magdalini Krokida, Z.B. Maroulis

Drying Technology

ABSTRACT The effect of drying method on bulk density, particle density, specific volume and porosity of banana, apple, carrot and potato at various moisture contents was investigated, using a large...

Survival of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidum in commercial yoghurt during refrigerated storage

Nagendra P. Shah, W.E.V. Lankaputhra, Margaret L. Britz +1

International Dairy Journal

Evaluation of some essential oils for their toxicity against fungi causing deterioration of stored food commodities

Ajay Kumar Mishra, Nawal Kishore Dubey

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

During screening of essential oils for their antifungal activities against Aspergillus flavus, the essential oil of Cymbopogon citratus was found to exhibit fungitoxicity. The MIC of the oil was...

Oxidative metal release from metallothionein via zinc-thiol/disulfide interchange.

Wolfgang Maret

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mammalian metallothionein has been postulated to play a pivotal role in cellular zinc distribution. All seven of its metal atoms are bound with high thermodynamic stability in two clusters buried...

Studies on Hg(II)-induced H2O2 formation and oxidative stress in vivo and in vitro in rat kidney mitochondria

Bert‐Ove Lund, Dennis M. Miller, James S. Woods

Biochemical Pharmacology

Campylobacter jejuni. Current status and future trends

D. À. A. Mossel

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Characterization of leucocin A-UAL 187 and cloning of the bacteriocin gene from Leuconostoc gelidum

John W. Hastings, M. Sailer, K Johnson +3

Journal of Bacteriology

Leucocin A-UAL 187 is a bacteriocin produced by Leuconostoc gelidum UAL 187, a lactic acid bacterium isolated from vacuum-packaged meat. The bacteriocin was purified by ammonium sulfate or acid (pH...

Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Structure of a Freshwater Food Web

Philip H. Warren

Oikos

Functional Properties of Raw and Heat Processed Winged Bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) Flour

K. Narayana, M.S. NARASINGA RAO

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT Nitrogen solubility, emulsification capacity, foam capacity, fat and water absorption capacity of raw and heat‐processed winged bean flour were compared with those of raw soy flour, both as...

Oat-bran intake selectively lowers serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations of hypercholesterolemic men

R. W. Kirby, James W. Anderson, Beverly Sieling +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Triple helix of a <i>schizophyllum commune</i> polysaccharide in aqueous solution

Takashi Norisuye, Toshio Yanaki, Hiroshi Fujita

Journal of Polymer Science Polymer Physics Edition

Abstract From sedimentation equilibrium, light scattering, and viscosity measurements on a series of native and sonicated samples of schizophyllan, and extracellular β‐1,3‐ D ‐glucan, the following...

Comparison of the chemical properties of selenocysteine and selenocystine with their sulfur analogs

R.E. Huber, Richard S. Criddle

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The International Journal of Medical Microbiology (IJOMM) is an open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication committed to acquiring knowledge about comprehending the intricate...

2020 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on Management of Bleeding in Patients on Oral Anticoagulants

Gordon F. Tomaselli, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Adam Cuker +13

Journal of the American College of Cardiology