Research Library

Relationship between food waste, diet quality, and environmental sustainability

Zach Conrad, Meredith T. Niles, Deborah A. Neher +3

PLoS ONE

Improving diet quality while simultaneously reducing environmental impact is a critical focus globally. Metrics linking diet quality and sustainability have typically focused on a limited suite of...

Thrombolysis for acute deep vein thrombosis

Lea C. Watson, Cathryn Broderick, Matthew P. Armon

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Thrombolysis increases the patency of veins and reduces the incidence of PTS following proximal DVT by a third. Evidence suggests that systemic administration and CDT have similar effectiveness....

Evaluation of Patients With Suspected Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Best Practice Advice From the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians

Ali S. Raja, Jeffrey O. Greenberg, Amir Qaseem +3

Annals of Internal Medicine

Clinicians should obtain imaging with CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) in patients with high pretest probability of PE. Clinicians should reserve ventilation-perfusion scans for patients who have a...

Revised reference values for selenium intake

Anna P. Kipp, Daniela Strohm, R. Brigelius‐Flohé +4

Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

The German, Austrian and Swiss nutrition societies are the joint editors of the 'reference values for nutrient intake'. They have revised the reference values for the intake of selenium and published...

E. coli as an All-Rounder: The Thin Line Between Commensalism and Pathogenicity

Andreas Leimbach, Jörg Hacker, Ulrich Dobrindt

Current topics in microbiology and immunology

Functionality of Milk Powders and Milk‐Based Powders for End Use Applications—A Review

Anup Sharma, Atanu Jana, Rupesh S. Chavan

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Abstract: Newer variants of milk powders and milk‐based powders are being produced are looking for prospective end users. Powders possess physical and functional properties that are of significance...

Supramolecular structure of A- and B-type granules of wheat starch

Binjia Zhang, Xiaoxi Li, Jia Liu +2

Food Hydrocolloids

Importance of lactic acid bacteria in Asian fermented foods

Sook Jong Rhee, Jang‐Eun Lee, Cherl‐Ho Lee

Microbial Cell Factories

Lactic acid bacteria play important roles in various fermented foods in Asia. Besides being the main component in kimchi and other fermented foods, they are used to preserve edible food materials...

Microencapsulation Technology and Applications

Rama Dubey

Defence Science Journal

Microencapsulation technology allows a compound to be encapsulated inside a tiny sphere known as microsphere/microcapsule, having an average diameter as small as 1 mm to several hundred micro meters....

Beneficial effects of potassium on human health

Feng J. He, Graham A. MacGregor

Physiologia Plantarum

Until recently, humans consumed a diet high in potassium. However, with the increasing consumption of processed food, which has potassium removed, combined with a reduction in the consumption of...

Potato biology and biotechnology: advances and perspectives

Dick Vreugdenhil, John E. Bradshaw, Christiane Gebhardt +4

Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling

Idraparinux versus Standard Therapy for Venous Thromboembolic Disease

The van Gogh Investigators

New England Journal of Medicine

In patients with deep venous thrombosis, once-weekly subcutaneous idraparinux for 3 or 6 months had an efficacy similar to that of heparin plus a vitamin K antagonist. However, in patients with...

Effect of acidification on the activity of probiotics in yoghurt during cold storage

O.N. Donkor, A. Henriksson, Todor Vasiljevic +1

International Dairy Journal

Probiotics and human health: a clinical perspective

H.S. Gill, Francisco Guarner

Postgraduate Medical Journal

There is unequivocal evidence that administration of probiotics could be effective in the treatment of acute infectious diarrhoea in children and the prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhoea and...

Review of Reaction Mechanisms of Oxygen and Proposed Intermediate Reduction Products in Wine: Central Role of Iron and Copper

John C. Danilewicz

American Journal of Enology and Viticulture

The chemical, biochemical, and enological literature has been broadly surveyed to identify the reaction mechanisms of oxygen and of its intermediate reduction products that should apply to wine. The...

Customer value and autoethnography: subjective personal introspection and the meanings of a photograph collection

Morris B. Holbrook

Journal of Business Research

Changes in Child Survival Are Strongly Associated with Changes in Malnutrition in Developing Countries

David Pelletier, Edward A. Frongillo

Journal of Nutrition

Effects of purified eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids on glycemic control, blood pressure, and serum lipids in type 2 diabetic patients with treated hypertension,,

Richard Woodman, Trevor A. Mori, Valerie Burke +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Neutrophil elastase targets virulence factors of enterobacteria

Yvette Weinrauch, Doreen Drujan, Steven D. Shapiro +2

Nature

Translocated EspF protein from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli disrupts host intestinal barrier function

Barry P. McNamara, Athanasia Koutsouris, Colin B. O’Connell +3

Journal of Clinical Investigation

The mechanisms by which enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), an important cause of diarrhea among infants in developing countries, induce symptoms are not defined. EPEC have a type III secretion...

Induction and Activation by Zinc of NADPH Oxidase in Cultured Cortical Neurons and Astrocytes

Kyung‐Min Noh, Jae‐Young Koh

Journal of Neuroscience

Zinc overload may be a key mechanism of neuronal death in acute brain injury. We have demonstrated previously that zinc overload neurotoxicity involves protein kinase C (PKC)-dependent rises in...

Cholesterol-lowering effects of psyllium intake adjunctive to diet therapy in men and women with hypercholesterolemia: meta-analysis of 8 controlled trials

James William Anderson, Lisa D Allgood, Ann M. Lawrence +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Mini Review: Structure, Biological and Technological Functions of Lipid Transfer Proteins and Indolines, the Major Lipid Binding Proteins from Cereal Kernels

Jean‐Paul Douliez, Thierry Michon, Khalil Elmorjani +1

Journal of Cereal Science

Anti-oxidant status and lipid peroxidation in patients with essential hypertension

Carla Russo, Oliviero Olivieri, Domenico Girelli +4

Journal of Hypertension

Essential hypertension is associated with greater than normal lipoperoxidation and an imbalance in anti-oxidant status, suggesting that oxidative stress is important in the pathogenesis of essential...

Changes in structure, density and porosity of potato during dehydration

N. Wang, J.G. Brennan

Journal of Food Engineering

Immunoassay for quantifying type I collagen degradation products in urine evaluated

M. Bonde, Per Qvist, Christian Fledelius +2

Clinical Chemistry

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measuring type I collagen degradation products in urine < 3 h was evaluated. The measuring range was 0.5-10.5 mg/L with a detection limit of 0.2 mg/L....

Health for all children.

D M Hall

Archives of Disease in Childhood

1. Health for all children 2. Health promotion focus on parents 3. Promoting child development 4. Child health promotion - opportunities for primary prevention 5. Health promotion and health care for...

On the Foundations of Statistical Inference

Allan Birnbaum

Springer series in statistics

Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7 as affected by pH or sodium chloride and in fermented, dry sausage

Kathleen A. Glass, Jodi Loeffelholz, James Ford +1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The influence of pH adjusted with lactic acid or HCl or sodium chloride concentration on survival or growth of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Trypticase soy broth (TSB) was determined. Studies also...

Intestinal permeability, mucosal injury, and growth faltering in Gambian infants

P. G. Lunn, C. A. Northrop‐Clewes, Robert Downes

The Lancet

A Sensitive and Specific DNA Probe to Identify Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli, a Recently Discovered Diarrheal Pathogen

B. Baudry, Stephen J. Savarino, Pablo Vial +2

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

The epidemiologic significance of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) as a diarrheal pathogen has only recently come under study. Although EAggEC has been associated with persistent diarrhea...

Nutritional improvement of cereals by fermentation

J. K. Chavan, S. S. Kadam, Larry R. Beuchat

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Cereal grains form a major source of dietary nutrients for all people, particularly those in the developing countries. However, compared with animal foods, nutritional quality of cereal grains is...

Reporting standards in venous disease

John M. Porter, Robert B. Rutherford, G. Patrick Clagett +6

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Antioxidative activities of browning products of glucosamine fractionated by organic solvent and thin-layer chromatography.

Makoto Oyaizu

NIPPON SHOKUHIN KOGYO GAKKAISHI

遊離グルコサミンを粉末型,水溶型,無水型で加熱褐変させた試料,あるいはBGAをエタノール及びメタノールで分別した褐変物質,あるいは,TLC分画した画分の抗酸化性ならびにその性状について測定した結果は,次のとおりである. (1) もっとも強い抗酸化性を90℃, 1時間加熱褐変した粉末型のType Gで認めた.(2)...

Cell killing and DNA damage by hydrogen peroxide are mediated by intracellular iron

A C Mello Filho, Maria E. Hoffmann, R. Meneghini

Biochemical Journal

Phenanthroline, a strong iron chelator, prevents both the formation of DNA single-strand breaks and the killing of mouse cells produced by H2O2. These results, taken together with our previous...

Preferential interactions of proteins with solvent components in aqueous amino acid solutions

Tsutomu Arakawa, Serge N. Timasheff

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Shrinkage, Porosity and Bulk Density of Foodstuffs at Changing Moisture Contents

J.E. Lozano, Enrique Rotstein, M.J. Urbicain

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT Dependable data on bulk density, volumetric shrinkage due to water loss and porosity are needed to model processes such as drying, packaging and storing. Experimental data are presented for...

Lactoferrin enhances hydroxyl radical production by human neutrophils, neutrophil particulate fractions, and an enzymatic generating system.

Daniel R. Ambruso, R B Johnston

Journal of Clinical Investigation

During phagocytosis, neutrophils take oxygen from the surrounding medium and convert it to superoxide anion (O2-) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Hydroxyl radical (.OH), a particularly potent oxidant,...

Recent advances in the biochemistry of cereals

Phytochemistry

Notes on Factorial Invariance

William Meredith

Psychometrika

Lawley's selection theorem is applied to subpopulations derived from a parent in which the classical factor model holds for a specified set of variables. The results show that there exists an...

Body Temperature of the Camel and Its Relation to Water Economy

Knut Schmidt‐Nielsen, Bodil Schmidt‐Nielsen, S. Jarnum +1

American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content

The rectal temperature of normal healthy camels at rest may vary from about 34°C to more than 40°C. Diurnal variations in the winter are usually in the order of 2°C. In summer the diurnal variations...

An Analysis of Variance for Paired Comparisons

Henry Scheffé

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Abstract In a paired comparison test of m brands of a product each of the ½m(m – 1) pairs is presented to 2r judges: to r in one order, and to r in the other. An analysis of variance is developed for...

The Role of Selenium in Pathologies: An Updated Review

Giulia Barchielli, Antonella Capperucci, Damiano Tanini

Antioxidants

Selenium is an essential microelement required for a number of biological functions. Selenium-and more specifically the amino acid selenocysteine-is present in at least 25 human selenoproteins...

The European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2017/2018

European Food Safety Authority

EFSA Journal

Data on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food are collected annually by the EU Member States (MSs), jointly analysed by EFSA and ECDC and...

Public health risks related to food safety issues in the food market: a systematic literature review

Zemichael Gizaw

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

This systematic literature review identified common food safety-related public health risks in the food market. The results imply that the local and international food marketing continues to have...

New insight into umami receptor, umami/umami-enhancing peptides and their derivatives: A review

Jianan Zhang, Dongxiao Sun‐Waterhouse, Guowan Su +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Energy-Dense versus Routine Enteral Nutrition in the Critically Ill

The TARGET Investigators

New England Journal of Medicine

In patients undergoing mechanical ventilation, the rate of survival at 90 days associated with the use of an energy-dense formulation for enteral delivery of nutrition was not higher than that with...

The impact of sanitation on infectious disease and nutritional status: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Matthew C. Freeman, Joshua V. Garn, Gloria D. Sclar +9

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

This review confirms positive impacts of sanitation on aspects of health. Evidence gaps remain and point to the need for research that rigorously describes sanitation implementation and type of...

Functional and therapeutic potential of inulin: A comprehensive review

Waqas Ahmed, Summer Rashid

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Inulin as a heterogeneous blend of fructose polymers is diversely found in nature primarily as storage carbohydrates in plants. Besides, inulin is believed to induce certain techno-functional and...