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SeqSero2: Rapid and Improved <i>Salmonella</i> Serotype Determination Using Whole-Genome Sequencing Data

Shaokang Zhang, Henk C. den Bakker, Shaoting Li +6

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

SeqSero, launched in 2015, is a software tool for <i>Salmonella</i> serotype determination from whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data. Despite its routine use in public health and food safety...

Impact of Childhood Malnutrition on Host Defense and Infection

Marwa K. Ibrahim, Mara Zambruni, Christopher L. Melby +1

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

The global impact of childhood malnutrition is staggering. The synergism between malnutrition and infection contributes substantially to childhood morbidity and mortality. Anthropometric indicators...

Effects of a parenting intervention to address maternal psychological wellbeing and child development and growth in rural Uganda: a community-based, cluster-randomised trial

Daisy R. Singla, Elias Kumbakumba, Frances E. Aboud

The Lancet Global Health

Plan Uganda via Plan Finland (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Plan Australia (Australian Aid).

Effects of enzymatic hydrolysis on conformational and functional properties of chickpea protein isolate

Abir Mokni Ghribi, Ines Maklouf Gafsi, Assaâd Sila +5

Food Chemistry

Formula versus donor breast milk for feeding preterm or low birth weight infants

Maria Quigley, William McGuire

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

In preterm and low birth weight infants, feeding with formula compared with donor breast milk results in a higher rate of short-term growth but also a higher risk of developing necrotising...

Sodium-to-Potassium Ratio and Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Related Factors

Vanessa Pérez, Ellen T. Chang

Advances in Nutrition

The potential cost-effectiveness and feasibility of dietary interventions aimed at reducing hypertension risk are of considerable interest and significance in public health. In particular, the...

Evaluation of Non-Saccharomyces Yeasts for the Reduction of Alcohol Content in Wine

Ángela Contreras, C. Hidalgo, Paul A. Henschke +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Over recent decades, the average ethanol concentration of wine has increased, largely due to consumer preference for wine styles associated with increased grape maturity; sugar content increases with...

In vitro antibacterial and antioxidant properties of chitosan edible films incorporated with Thymus moroderi or Thymus piperella essential oils

Y. Ruiz‐Navajas, Manuel Viuda‐Martos, Esther Sendra +2

Food Control

Total phenolic contents and antioxidant activities of pomegranate peel, seed, leaf and flower

Walid Elfalleh

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a nutrient dense food rich in beneficial phytochemicals. The aim of this study is to investigate and to determine antioxidant contents from local and highly...

Oral exposure to polystyrene nanoparticles affects iron absorption

Gretchen J. Mahler, Mandy B. Esch, Elad Tako +4

Nature Nanotechnology

Removal of cholesterol by lactobacilli via incorporation and conversion to coprostanol

Huey‐Shi Lye, Gulam Rusul, Min‐Tze Liong

Journal of Dairy Science

Fifteen strains of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium were screened based on their ability to adhere to hydrocarbons via the determination of cellular hydrophobicity. Lactobacillus acidophilus ATCC...

Human mucosal in vivo transcriptome responses to three lactobacilli indicate how probiotics may modulate human cellular pathways

Peter van Baarlen, Freddy J. Troost, Cindy van der Meer +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Probiotic bacteria, specific representatives of bacterial species that are a common part of the human microbiota, are proposed to deliver health benefits to the consumer by modulation of intestinal...

Potential of an age adjusted D-dimer cut-off value to improve the exclusion of pulmonary embolism in older patients: a retrospective analysis of three large cohorts

Renée A. Douma, Grégoire Le Gal, Maaike Söhne +7

BMJ

The age adjusted D-dimer cut-off point, combined with clinical probability, greatly increased the proportion of older patients in whom pulmonary embolism could be safely excluded.

Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Genome Analysis of Enteropathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> O127:H6 Strain E2348/69

Atsushi Iguchi, Nicholas R. Thomson, Yoshitoshi Ogura +14

Journal of Bacteriology

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) was the first pathovar of E. coli to be implicated in human disease; however, no EPEC strain has been fully sequenced until now. Strain E2348/69 (serotype...

Essential oil composition, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of Satureja cuneifolia Ten.

Feyza Oke, Belma Aslım, Şahlan Öztürk +1

Food Chemistry

Effect of osmotic dehydration and ultrasound pre-treatment on cell structure: Melon dehydration

Fabiano A.N. Fernandes, Maria Izabel Gallão, Suelí Rodrigues

LWT

Extraintestinal Pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i>

James L. Smith, Pina M. Fratamico, Nereus W. Gunther

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) possesses virulence traits that allow it to invade, colonize, and induce disease in bodily sites outside of the gastrointestinal tract. Human...

Biochemical activities of Iranian Mentha piperita L. and Myrtus communis L. essential oils

Davod Yadegarinia, Latif Gachkar, Mohammad Rezaei +3

Phytochemistry

Probiotic‐induced suppression of allergic sensitization and airway inflammation is associated with an increase of T regulatory‐dependent mechanisms in a murine model of asthma

Wojciech Feleszko, Joanna Jaworska, R.-D. Rha +7

Clinical & Experimental Allergy

Neonatal application of probiotic bacteria inhibits subsequent allergic sensitization and airway disease in a murine model of asthma by induction of T regulatory cells associated with increased...

Probiotics: facts and myths

Abiola Senok, Abdulrahman Y. Ismaeel, Giuseppe Botta

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Microbes, immunoregulation, and the gut: Figure 1

G.A.W. Rook, L R Brunet

Gut

Two distinct, but rapidly converging, areas of research (the hygiene hypothesis and the study of probiotic/prebiotic effects) have emphasised the need to understand, and ultimately to manipulate, our...

Development of a cactus-mucilage edible coating (Opuntia ficus indica) and its application to extend strawberry (Fragaria ananassa) shelf-life

V. Del‐Valle, Pilar Hernández‐Muñoz, Abél Guarda +1

Food Chemistry

Serotypes, Virulence Genes, and Intimin Types ofShiga Toxin (Verotoxin)-Producing<i>Escherichia coli</i>Isolatesfrom Cattle in Spain and Identification of a New Intimin VariantGene(<i>eae-</i>ξ)

Miguel Blanco, Jesús E. Blanco, Jesús E. Blanco +7

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

A total of 514 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) isolates from diarrheic and healthy cattle in Spain were characterized in this study. PCR showed that 101 (20%) isolates carried stx(1)...

Reasons behind consumers’ functional food choices

Nina Urala, Liisa Lähteenmäki

Nutrition & Food Science

The aim of this study was to examine what reasons consumers give for either choosing or not choosing functional foods. Laddering interviews were used to find out how consumers described their reasons...

Effects of overrun on structural and physical characteristics of ice cream

Rosalina P. Sofjan, Richard W. Hartel

International Dairy Journal

Cross‐Linked Resistant Starch: Preparation and Properties

Kyoung-Jin Woo, Paul A. Seib

Cereal Chemistry

ABSTRACT Resistant starches (RS) were prepared by phosphorylation of wheat, waxy wheat, corn, waxy corn, high‐amylose corn, oat, rice, tapioca, mung bean, banana, and potato starches in aqueous...

Molecular Genetic Identification of a Candidate Receptor Gene for Sweet Taste

Michinori Kitagawa, Yuko Kusakabe, Hirohito Miura +2

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

High-dose Irradiation: Wholesomeness of Food Irradiated with Doses above 10 kGy.

Niels Skovgaard

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Renal magnesium handling: New insights in understanding old problems

Gary A. Quamme

Kidney International

Sources of Variation for Starch Gelatinization, Pasting, and Gelation Properties in Wheat

Ming Zeng, Craig F. Morris, I.L. Batey +1

Cereal Chemistry

ABSTRACT The starch of wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) flour affects food product quality due to the temperature‐dependent interactions of starch with water during gelatinization, pasting, and...

Phase and glass transition behaviour of concentrated barley starch-glycerol-water mixtures, a model for thermoplastic starch

Pirkko Forssell, Jaana Mikkilä, G. K. Moates +1

Carbohydrate Polymers

Colon as a digestive organ in patients with short bowel

I. Nordgaard, B.S. Hansen, Preben Bo Mortensen

The Lancet

Wilson disease and Menkes disease: new handles on heavy-metal transport

Peter C. Bull, Diane W. Cox

Trends in Genetics

Cell type-dependent variations in the subcellular distribution of alpha-mannosidase I and II

Angel Velasco, L C Hendricks, KW Moremen +3

The Journal of Cell Biology

alpha-mannosidases I and II (Man I and II) are resident enzymes of the Golgi complex involved in oligosaccharide processing during N-linked glycoprotein biosynthesis that are widely considered to be...

Rapid and specific detection of the pap, afa, and sfa adhesin-encoding operons in uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains by polymerase chain reaction

C. Le Bouguénec, M. Archambaud, A Labigne

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Adhesin-encoding operons (pap, sfa/foc, and afa) have been shown to be prevalent in Escherichia coli strains associated with urinary tract infections. A quick and sensitive assay to identify these...

Effects of diets rich in monounsaturated fatty acids on plasma lipoproteins—the Jerusalem Nutrition Study: high MUFAs vs high PUFAs

EM Berry, S Eisenberg, D. Haratz +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The role of glutamine in maintaining a healthy gut and supporting the metabolic response to injury and infection

Wiley W. Souba, V. Suzanne Klimberg, Donald A. Plumley +4

Journal of Surgical Research

Dietary effects on brain fatty acid composition: the reversibility of n-3 fatty acid deficiency and turnover of docosahexaenoic acid in the brain, erythrocytes, and plasma of rhesus monkeys.

W E Connor, Martha Neuringer, DS Lin

Journal of Lipid Research

Rhesus monkeys given pre- and postnatal diets deficient in n-3 essential fatty acids develop low levels of docosahexaenoic acid (22:6 n-3, DHA) in the cerebral cortex and retina and impaired visual...

Molecular characterization of a fimbrial adhesin, F1845, mediating diffuse adherence of diarrhea-associated Escherichia coli to HEp-2 cells

S S Bilge, Carla R. Clausen, W. Lau +1

Journal of Bacteriology

A fimbrial adhesin, designated F1845, was found to be responsible for the diffuse HEp-2 cell adherence of a diarrheal Escherichia coli isolate. The genetic determinant of F1845 was cloned, and the...

Serum thymulin in human zinc deficiency.

Ananda S. Prasad, S Meftah, J. M. Abdallah +4

Journal of Clinical Investigation

The activity of thymulin (a thymic hormone) is dependent on the presence of zinc in the molecule. We assayed serum thymulin activity in three models of mildly zinc-deficient (ZD) human subjects...

Proteins damaged by oxygen radicals are rapidly degraded in extracts of red blood cells.

Kelvin J.A. Davies, Alfred L. Goldberg

Journal of Biological Chemistry

We have suggested that red blood cell proteolytic systems can degrade oxidatively damaged proteins, and that both damage and degradation are independent of lipid peroxidation (Davies, K. J. A., and...

Free Radicals in the Pathogenesis of Kwashiorkor

Michael Golden, D. Dan Ramdath

Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

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Free radicals in liver injury

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

On Hypothesis Testing in Ecology and Evolution

James Quinn, Arthur E. Dunham

The American Naturalist

Theories of causality in ecology and evolution rarely lend themselves to analysis by the formal method of "hypothesis testing" envisioned by champions of a "strong inference" model of scientific...

Selenium Biochemistry

Thressa C. Stadtman

Science

The toxicity of selenium to animals and plants has been known and extensively documented since the 1930's, but it is only during the past 15 years that selenium has also been shown to be an essential...

Lactoferrin and transferrin: A comparative study

Philip Aisen, Adela Leibman

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure

INFLUENCE OF TRACE AMOUNTS OF FATTY ACIDS ON THE GROWTH OF MICROORGANISMS

C. Nieman

Bacteriological Reviews

Pyridine Nucleotide-Nitrate Reductase from Extracts of Higher Plants

Harold J. Evans, Alvin Nason

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A NEW PROCEDURE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE FINE STRUCTURE OF POLYSACCHARIDES

M. Abdel‐Akher, J. K. Hamilton, Rex Montgomery +1

Journal of the American Chemical Society

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTA NEW PROCEDURE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE FINE STRUCTURE OF POLYSACCHARIDESM. Abdel-Akher, J. K. Hamilton, R. Montgomery, and F. SmithCite this: J. Am....

Studies on the diencephalon of carnivora part I. The nuclear configuration of the thalamus, epithalamus, and hypothalamus of the dog and cat

David McKenzie Rioch

The Journal of Comparative Neurology

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