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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is extraordinarily sensitive to killing by a vitamin C-induced Fenton reaction

Catherine Vilchèze, Travis Hartman, Brian Weinrick +1

Nature Communications

Reduction of Matrix Effects in Liquid Chromatography–Electrospray Ionization–Mass Spectrometry by Dilution of the Sample Extracts: How Much Dilution is Needed?

Helen Stahnke, Stefan Kittlaus, Günther Kempe +1

Analytical Chemistry

In this study, the relationship between matrix concentration and suppression of electrospray ionization (matrix effects) was investigated. Ion suppression of pesticides present in QuEChERS extracts...

Selenium: a double-edged sword for defense and offence in cancer

Jela Brozmanová, Dominika Mániková, Viera Vlčková +1

Archives of Toxicology

Clinical prediction rules for pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Elisa Ceriani, Christophe Combescure, Grégoire Le Gal +5

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Food as a form of Destination Identity: A Tourism Destination Brand Perspective

Yi‐Chin Lin, Thomas E. Pearson, Liping A. Cai

Tourism and Hospitality Research

The study investigated the identity of food in relation to Taiwan as a tourism destination. Tourism brochures and destination websites were assessed. Thereafter, a comparison on the identity of food...

Simplification of the Revised Geneva Score for Assessing Clinical Probability of Pulmonary Embolism

Frederikus A. Klok, I.C.M. Mos, Mathilde Nijkeuter +4

Archives of Internal Medicine

This study suggests that simplification of the revised Geneva score does not lead to a decrease in diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility, which should be confirmed in a prospective study.

Intracellular zinc homeostasis and zinc signaling

Masaaki Murakami, Toshio Hirano

Cancer Science

Zinc (Zn) is an essential heavy metal that is incorporated into a number of human Zn metalloproteins. Zn plays important roles in nucleic acid metabolism, cell replication, and tissue repair and...

Characterization and modeling of the A- and B-granule starches of wheat, triticale, and barley

Zihua Ao, Jay‐lin Jane

Carbohydrate Polymers

CsoR is a novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis copper-sensing transcriptional regulator

Tong Liu, Arati Ramesh, Zhen Ma +6

Nature Chemical Biology

Selective Removal of DNA from Dead Cells of Mixed Bacterial Communities by Use of Ethidium Monoazide

Andreas Nocker, Anne K. Camper

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The distinction between viable and dead bacterial cells poses a major challenge in microbial diagnostics. Due to the persistence of DNA in the environment after cells have lost viability, DNA-based...

A Once-Daily, Oral, Direct Factor Xa Inhibitor, Rivaroxaban (BAY 59-7939), for Thromboprophylaxis After Total Hip Replacement

Bengt I. Eriksson, Lars C. Borris, Ola E. Dahl +7

Circulation

Rivaroxaban showed efficacy and safety similar to enoxaparin for thromboprophylaxis after total hip replacement, with the convenience of once-daily oral dosing and without the need for coagulation...

Nutrition knowledge and consumer use of nutritional food labels

Andreas C. Drichoutis

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Factors affecting nutritional food label use in Greece are examined using primary data collected from personal interviews with consumers shopping at supermarkets in Athens. The econometric approach...

The study of gastronomy and its relevance to hospitality education and training

Barbara Santich

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Windowed cross-correlation and peak picking for the analysis of variability in the association between behavioral time series.

Steven M. Boker, Jennifer L. Rotondo, Minquan Xu +1

Psychological Methods

Cross-correlation and most other longitudinal analyses assume that the association between 2 variables is stationary. Thus, a sample of occasions of measurement is expected to be representative of...

Methods for disruption of microbial cells for potential use in the dairy industry—a review

J. Geciova, D. Bury, Paul Jelen

International Dairy Journal

Advances in dehydration of foods

Humberto Vega-Mercado, M. Marcela Góngora-Nieto, Gustavo V. Barbosa‐Cánovas

Journal of Food Engineering

Homopolysaccharides from lactic acid bacteria

Pierre Monsan, Sophie Bozonnet, Cécile Albenne +3

International Dairy Journal

Selenium in Biology: Facts and Medical Perspectives

Josef Köhrle, Regina Brigelius‐Flohé, August Böck +3

Biological Chemistry

Several decades after the discovery of selenium as an essential trace element in vertebrates approximately 20 eukaryotic and more than 15 prokaryotic selenoproteins containing the 21st proteinogenic...

Crystal structure of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli intimin–receptor complex

Yu Luo, Elizabeth A. Frey, Richard A. Pfuetzner +5

Nature

On the origins of wine yeast

Robert Mortimer, Mario Polsinelli

Research in Microbiology

Early embryonic lethality caused by targeted disruption of the mouse selenocysteine tRNA gene ( <i>Trsp</i> )

Michael R. Bösl, Kazuaki Takaku, Masanobu Oshima +2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Selenoprotein biosynthesis is mediated by tRNASec, which inserts selenocysteine at UGA codons in a complex, context-specific manner. This opal suppressor serves in the conversion of serine to...

Upper-Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis

Paolo Prandoni

Archives of Internal Medicine

<h3>Background:</h3> Little is known about the clinical, diagnostic, and prognostic aspects of upper-extremity deep vein thrombosis (UEDVT). <h3>Objectives:</h3> To identify the clinical and...

A randomized trial of visual attention of preterm infants fed docosahexaenoic acid until two months

Susan E. Carlson, Susan H. Werkman

Lipids

This randomized, double-blind trial tested the hypothesis that the addition of 0.2% docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n-3) from marine oil to commercially-available preterm and term formulas with > or =...

Urinary Tract Infections in Females

C. M. Kunin

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Journal Article Urinary Tract Infections in Females Get access Calvin M. Kunin Calvin M. Kunin From the Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio Stale University, Columbus, Ohio Reprints or...

Composition and antimicrobial properties of essential oils of four Mediterranean Lamiaceae

L. Panizzi, Guido Flamini, Pier Luigi Cioni +1

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

P pili in uropathogenic E. coli are composite fibres with distinct fibrillar adhesive tips

Meta Kuehn, John E. Heuser, Staffan Normark +1

Nature

Cloning, expression, and nucleotide sequence of genes involved in production of pediocin PA-1, and bacteriocin from Pediococcus acidilactici PAC1.0

Joey D. Marugg, Carlos F. Gonzalez, Blair S. Kunka +6

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The production of pediocin PA-1, a small heat-stable bacteriocin, is associated with the presence of the 9.4-kbp plasmid pSRQ11 in Pediococcus acidilactici PAC1.0. It was shown by subcloning of...

Dietary polyunsaturated fats of the W-6 and W-3 series reduce postprandial lipoprotein levels. Chronic and acute effects of fat saturation on postprandial lipoprotein metabolism.

Moshe Weintraub, Rudolf Zechner, Andrew J. Brown +2

Journal of Clinical Investigation

The chronic and acute effects of different types of dietary fat on postprandial lipoprotein metabolism were studied in eight normolipidemic subjects. Each person was placed for 25 d on each of three...

Crystal structure of the trigonal form of bovine beta-lactoglobulin and of its complex with retinol at 2.5 Å resolution

Hugo L. Monaco, Giuseppe Zanotti, Paola Spadon +3

Journal of Molecular Biology

Role of Iron in Microbe-Host Interactions

Richard A. Finkelstein, Carmen V. Sciortino, Mark A. McIntosh

Clinical Infectious Diseases

The ability of microorganisms that would like to live in or on mammalian hosts to acquire iron is a critical determinant of the host-parasite interaction. Despite the abundance of iron, its...

Dietary fiber in health and disease

General Pharmacology The Vascular System

Functional properties of proteins: Possible relationships between structure and function in foams

J.E. Kinsella

Food Chemistry

Haemolysin contributes to virulence of extra-intestinal E. coli infections

Rod A. Welch, E. Patchen Dellinger, Barbara H. Minshew +1

Nature

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of tocopherol in plasma and cellular elements of the blood.

L J Hatam, Herbert J. Kayden

Journal of Lipid Research

A rapid sensitive, and reproducible procedure is described for the analysis of alpha-tocopherol in blood cells and plasma using high-performance liquid chromatography and fluorometric detection. The...

THE GASTROINTESTINAL EPITHELIUM AND ITS AUTOCHTHONOUS BACTERIAL FLORA

Dwayne C. Savage, René Dubos, Russell W. Schaedler

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Colonization of the gastrointestinal tract by bacteria of the normal flora was followed by bacteriological and special histological techniques in mice from several colonies. These histological...

Purification and properties of an acidic protein from chromaffin granules of bovine adrenal medulla

A. David Smith, Hans Winkler

Biochemical Journal

1. A soluble protein has been purified from an aqueous extract of bovine adrenal chromaffin granules by chromatography on Sephadex G-200. This protein comprises 25% of the total protein of the...

Virulence Factors of Enteric Pathogenic Escherichia coli: A Review

Babak Pakbin, Wolfram Manuel Brück, John W. A. Rossen

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

<i>Escherichia coli</i> are remarkably versatile microorganisms and important members of the normal intestinal microbiota of humans and animals. This harmless commensal organism can acquire a mixture...

Selenium nanoparticles: a review on synthesis and biomedical applications

Neha Bisht, Priyanka Phalswal, Pawan K. Khanna

Materials Advances

Selenium is a trace and essential micronutrient for the health of humans, animals, and microorganisms.

The Potato of the Future: Opportunities and Challenges in Sustainable Agri-food Systems

A. Devaux, Jean‐Pierre Goffart, Peter Kromann +3

Potato Research

In the coming decades, feeding the expanded global population nutritiously and sustainably will require substantial improvements to the global food system worldwide. The main challenge will be how to...

Mitochondrial copper depletion suppresses triple-negative breast cancer in mice

Liyang Cui, Arvin M. Gouw, Edward L. LaGory +23

Nature Biotechnology

Food tourism value: Investigating the factors that influence tourists to revisit

Alireza Rousta, Dariyoush Jamshidi

Journal Of Vacation Marketing

Food consumption is an important notion in the hospitality literature. Although its role in gaining visitors’ satisfactory travel experience and in affecting tourists’ experiences of a destination is...

Guidance for the practical management of the direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in VTE treatment

Allison Burnett, Charles E. Mahan, Sara R. Vazquez +3

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious medical condition associated with significant morbidity and mortality, and an incidence that is expected to double in the next forty years. The advent of...

Using the infrastructure of a conditional cash transfer program to deliver a scalable integrated early child development program in Colombia: cluster randomized controlled trial

Orazio Attanasio, Carles Fernández, Emla Fitzsimons +3

BMJ

Using the infrastructure of a national welfare program we implemented the integrated early child development intervention on a large scale and showed its potential for improving children's cognitive...

Breast milk, microbiota, and intestinal immune homeostasis

W. Allan Walker, Rajashri Shuba Iyengar

Pediatric Research

Controlled food protein aggregation for new functionality

Taco Nicolaï, Dominique Durand

Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science

Biosynthesis of betalains: yellow and violet plant pigments

Fernando Gandía‐Herrero, Francisco Garcı́a-Carmona

Trends in Plant Science

Osteocalcin: Skeletal and extra‐skeletal effects

Anna Neve, Addolorata Corrado, Francesco Paolo Cantatore

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Osteocalcin (OC) is a non-collagenous, vitamin K-dependent protein secreted in the late stage of osteoblasts differentiation. The presence of the three residues of γ-carbossiglutamatic acid, specific...

Discovery of human zinc deficiency: 50 years later

Ananda S. Prasad

Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology