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ECDC/EFSA/EMA second joint report on the integrated analysis of the consumption of antimicrobial agents and occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from humans and food‐producing animals

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), European Medicines Agency (EMA)

EFSA Journal

The second ECDC/EFSA/EMA joint report on the integrated analysis of antimicrobial consumption (AMC) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria from humans and food-producing animals addressed...

Progress of potato staple food research and industry development in China

Hong Zhang, Fen Xu, Yu Wu +2

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

Potato is the largest non-cereal food crop worldwide and ranked as the world's fourth most important food crop after rice, wheat, and maize. Potato is a vital food-security crop and substitute for...

Biological, medicinal and toxicological significance of <i>Eucalyptus</i> leaf essential oil: a review

Ashok Kumar Dhakad, Vijay Vardhan Pandey, Sobia Beg +2

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

The genus Eucalyptus L'Heritier comprises about 900 species, of which more than 300 species contain volatile essential oil in their leaves. About 20 species, within these, have a high content of...

Role of food processing in food and nutrition security

Mary Ann Augustin, Malcolm Riley, Regine Stockmann +8

Trends in Food Science & Technology

GAME9 regulates the biosynthesis of steroidal alkaloids and upstream isoprenoids in the plant mevalonate pathway

Pablo D. Cárdenas, Prashant D. Sonawane, Jacob Pollier +11

Nature Communications

Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) are cholesterol-derived molecules produced by solanaceous species. They contribute to pathogen defence but are toxic to humans and considered as anti-nutritional...

Dietary Sodium and Health

William B. Farquhar, David G. Edwards, Claudine Jurkovitz +1

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Relationship between Secondary Structure and Surface Hydrophobicity of Soybean Protein Isolate Subjected to Heat Treatment

Zhongjiang Wang, Yang Li, Lianzhou Jiang +2

Journal of Chemistry

This study investigated relationship between secondary structure and surface hydrophobicity of soy protein isolate (SPI) subjected to a thermal treatment at 70~90°C. Heat denaturation increased the...

Diagnostic accuracy of conventional or age adjusted D-dimer cut-off values in older patients with suspected venous thromboembolism: systematic review and meta-analysis

Henk J. Schouten, Geert‐Jan Geersing, Huiberdina L. Koek +6

BMJ

The application of age adjusted cut-off values for D-dimer tests substantially increases specificity without modifying sensitivity, thereby improving the clinical utility of D-dimer testing in...

Physiology and Pharmacology of the Enteroendocrine Hormone Glucagon-Like Peptide-2

Daniel J. Drucker, Bernardo Yusta

Annual Review of Physiology

Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) is a 33-amino-acid proglucagon-derived peptide secreted from enteroendocrine L cells. GLP-2 circulates at low basal levels in the fasting period, and plasma levels...

Zinc Sequestration by the Neutrophil Protein Calprotectin Enhances Salmonella Growth in the Inflamed Gut

Janet Z. Liu, Stefan Jellbauer, Adam J. Poe +14

Cell Host & Microbe

The impact of probiotics and prebiotics on the immune system

Todd R. Klaenhammer, Michiel Kleerebezem, Matthias Kopp +1

Nature reviews. Immunology

Melamine and the Global Implications of Food Contamination

Julie R. Ingelfinger

New England Journal of Medicine

More than 294,000 children in China have reportedly been affected by melamine contamination of tainted infant formula. Dr. Julie Ingelfinger writes that the contaminated formula was taken off the...

Edible alginate-based coating as carrier of antimicrobials to improve shelf-life and safety of fresh-cut melon

Rosa M. Raybaudi‐Massilia, Jonathan Mosqueda‐Melgar, Olga Martı́n-Belloso

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy

Sarah Franklin

London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)

While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond...

Dominated Consumer Acculturation: The Social Construction of Poor Migrant Women's Consumer Identity Projects in a Turkish Squatter

Tuba Üstüner, Douglas B. Holt

Journal of Consumer Research

We conduct an ethnographic case study of poor migrant women living in a Turkish squatter to explore how consumer acculturation operates in this important context. Poor migrants have no choice but to...

Cardiovascular benefits of omega-3 fatty acids

C. Vonschacky, W HARRIS

Cardiovascular Research

Cardiac societies recommend the intake of 1 g/day of the two omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) for cardiovascular disease prevention, treatment after a...

Resolvin D Series and Protectin D1 Mitigate Acute Kidney Injury

Jeremy S. Duffield, Song Hong, Vishal S. Vaidya +4

The Journal of Immunology

Omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid is converted to potent resolvins (Rv) and protectin D1 (PD1), two newly identified families of natural mediators of resolution of inflammation. We report that,...

Biofilm formation and phenotypic variation enhance predation-driven persistence of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i>

Carsten Matz, Diane McDougald, Ana María Moreno +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Persistence of the opportunistic bacterial pathogen Vibrio cholerae in aquatic environments is the principal cause for seasonal occurrence of cholera epidemics. This causality has been explained by...

Differentiate to thrive: lessons from the <i>Legionella pneumophila</i> life cycle

Ari B. Molofsky, Michele S. Swanson

Molecular Microbiology

When confronted by disparate environments, microbes routinely alter their physiology to tolerate or exploit local conditions. But some circumstances require more drastic remodelling of the bacterial...

Human Cortical Responses to Water in the Mouth, and the Effects of Thirst

Ivan E. de Araújo, Morten L. Kringelbach, Edmund T. Rolls +1

Journal of Neurophysiology

In an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in humans it was shown, first, that water produces activations in cortical taste areas (in particular the frontal...

Taste and mouth-feel properties of different types of tannin-like polyphenolic compounds and anthocyanins in wine

Stéphane Vidal, I. Leigh Francis, Ann C. Noble +3

Analytica Chimica Acta

Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenicity

James W. Wilson, Michael J. Schurr, Carly L. LeBlanc +3

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Pathogenic bacteria utilise a number of mechanisms to cause disease in human hosts. Bacterial pathogens express a wide range of molecules that bind host cell targets to facilitate a variety of...

Mode of action of modified and unmodified bacteriocins from Gram-positive bacteria

Yann Héchard, Hans-Georg Sahl

Biochimie

Supplementation with vitamin C and N-acetyl-cysteine increases oxidative stress in humans after an acute muscle injury induced by eccentric exercise

April C. Childs, Chelsea Jacobs, Thomas W. Kaminski +2

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

STICKINESS IN FOODS: A REVIEW OF MECHANISMS AND TEST METHODS

Benu Adhikari, Tony Howes, Bhesh Bhandari +1

International Journal of Food Properties

Problems associated with the stickiness of food in processing and storage practices along with its causative factors are outlined. Fundamental mechanisms that explain why and how food products become...

Why do categories affect stimulus judgment?

Janellen Huttenlocher, Larry V. Hedges, Jack L. Vevea

Journal of Experimental Psychology General

The authors tested a model of category effects on stimulus judgment. The model holds that the goal of stimulus judgment is to achieve high accuracy. For this reason, people place inexactly...

Treatment of hypertension with ascorbic acid

StephenJ Duffy, Noyan Gokce, Monika Holbrook +4

The Lancet

In a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study we showed that treatment of hypertensive patients with ascorbic acid lowers blood pressure. Further studies of ascorbic acid to treat...

Culture Swapping: Consumption and the Ethnogenesis of Middle‐Class Haitian Immigrants

Laura R. Oswald

Journal of Consumer Research

By means of an ethnographic study of a Haitian family in the midwestern United States, this article demonstrates how ethnic consumers "culture swap," using goods to move between one cultural identity...

Microsatellites and a single-nucleotide polymorphism differentiate apparentamylose classes in an extended pedigree of US rice germ plasm

N. M. Ayres, Anna M. McClung, P Larkin +3

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Evaluation of the Character Impact Odorants in Fresh Strawberry Juice by Quantitative Measurements and Sensory Studies on Model Mixtures

Peter Schieberle, Thomas Hofmann

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Twelve odorants, previously identified with high flavor dilution (FD) factors, were quantified in a fresh strawberry juice by using stable isotope dilution assays. Calculation of odor activity values...

Distribution of descending projections from primary auditory neocortex to inferior colliculus mimics the topography of intracollicular projections

Enrique Salda�a, Marcus Antônio Rossi Feliciano, Enrico Mugnaini

The Journal of Comparative Neurology

To ascertain whether the auditory neocortex also innervates the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (CNIC) and not only its dorsal (DCIC) and external (ECIC) cortices, the anterograde tracers...

Selenium-77 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

H. Duddeck

Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Construction of an ASD+ Expression-Cloning Vector: Stable Maintenance and High Level Expression of Cloned Genes in a Salmonella Vaccine Strain

Koji Nakayama, Sandra M. Kelly, Roy Curtiss

Nature Biotechnology

Structural and conformational changes of β-lactoglobulin B: an infrared spectroscopic study of the effect of pH and temperature

H. L. Casal, Ulrich Köhler, Henry H. Mantsch

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Drug-Resistant <i>Salmonella</i> in the United States: an Epidemiologic Perspective

Mitchell L. Cohen, Robert V. Tauxe

Science

Salmonellosis poses a health problem of large proportions in the United States. Annually, it accounts for more than 40,000 reported cases, 500 deaths, and financial costs well in excess of $50...

Biochemistry of essential fatty acids

Howard Sprecher

Progress in Lipid Research

Protein Composition of the Outer Membrane of <i>Salmonella typhimurium</i> : Effect of Lipopolysaccharide Mutations

Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames, Elena N. Spudich, Hiroshi Nikaido

Journal of Bacteriology

The protein composition of the outer membrane of Salmonella typhimurium has been analyzed by electrophoresis on slabs of sodium dodecyl sulfate-acrylamide gel. This powerful technique allows very...

Lipid composition of subcellular particles of human blood platelets

Aaron J. Marcus, H L Ullman, Lenore B. Safier

Journal of Lipid Research

Human platelets can be fractionated into three main subcellular components: granules, membranes, and a soluble fraction. In this study we determined the phospholipid and neutral lipid content of the...

On the Interpretation of Discriminant Analysis

Donald G. Morrison

Journal of Marketing Research

Deterioration of Stored Grains by Fungi

Clyde M. Christensen, H. H. Kaufmann

Annual Review of Phytopathology

ACTIONS OF ANTIDROMIC PYRAMIDAL VOLLEYS ON SINGLE BETZ CELLS IN THE CAT

C. G. Phillips

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology and Cognate Medical Sciences

ACUTE COR PULMONALE RESULTING FROM PULMONARY EMBOLISM

Sylvester McGinn, Paul D. White

Journal of the American Medical Association

The immediate result of a high degree of occlusion of the pulmonary artery is sudden dilatation of the right ventricle and right auricle, which may best be termed acute cor pulmonale in contrast to...

Interactions between Medical Plant-Derived Bioactive Compounds: Focus on Antimicrobial Combination Effects

Natalia Vaou, Elisavet Stavropoulou, Chrysoula Voidarou +4

Antibiotics

It is accepted that the medicinal use of complex mixtures of plant-derived bioactive compounds is more effective than purified bioactive compounds due to beneficial combination interactions. However,...

Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antimycotoxigenic, and Antioxidant Activities of Essential Oils: An Updated Review

Ayşegül Mutlu-Ingök, Dilara Devecioğlu, Dilara Nur Dikmetaş +2

Molecules

The interest in using natural antimicrobials instead of chemical preservatives in food products has been increasing in recent years. In regard to this, essential oils-natural and liquid secondary...

Microbial Succession and Flavor Production in the Fermented Dairy Beverage Kefir

Aaron M. Walsh, Fiona Crispie, Kieran N. Kilcawley +4

mSystems

Kefir is a putatively health-promoting dairy beverage that is produced when a kefir grain, consisting of a consortium of microorganisms, is added to milk to initiate a natural fermentation. Here, a...

Pharmacology of Heparin and Related Drugs

Barbara Mulloy, John Hogwood, Elaine Gray +2

Pharmacological Reviews

<i>In Vitro</i> Models for Studying Secondary Plant Metabolite Digestion and Bioaccessibility

Marie Alminger, Anna-M. Aura, Torsten Bohn +8

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

There is an increased interest in secondary plant metabolites, such as polyphenols and carotenoids, due to their proposed health benefits. Much attention has focused on their bioavailability, a...