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Bone loss caused by iron overload in a murine model: importance of oxidative stress

Jaime Tsay, Zheiwei Yang, F. Patrick Ross +9

Blood

Osteoporosis is a frequent problem in disorders characterized by iron overload, such as the thalassemias and hereditary hemochromatosis. The exact role of iron in the development of osteoporosis in...

Are all n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids created equal?

Breanne M. Anderson, David W.L.

Lipids in Health and Disease

N-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids have been shown to have potential beneficial effects for chronic diseases including cancer, insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)...

Nutritional Implications of Genetic Taste Variation: The Role of PROP Sensitivity and Other Taste Phenotypes

Beverly J. Tepper

Annual Review of Nutrition

Genetic sensitivity to the bitter taste of phenylthiocarbamide and 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) is a well-studied human trait. It has been hypothesized that this phenotype is a marker for individual...

Effect of Maltodextrin Addition during Spray Drying of Tomato Pulp in Dehumidified Air: II. Powder Properties

Athanasia M. Goula, Konstantinos G. Adamopoulos

Drying Technology

This work investigates the effect of maltodextrin addition on the main powder properties during spray drying of tomato pulp in dehumidified air. A pilot-scale spray dryer was employed for the...

Probiotics for prevention of necrotising enterocolitis in preterm neonates with very low birthweight: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

Girish Deshpande, Shripada Rao, Sanjay Patole

The Lancet

How Cognition Modulates Affective Responses to Taste and Flavor: Top-down Influences on the Orbitofrontal and Pregenual Cingulate Cortices

Fabian Grabenhorst, Edmund T. Rolls, Amy C. Bilderbeck

Cerebral Cortex

How cognition influences the affective brain representations of the taste and flavor of a food is important not only for understanding top-down influences in the brain, but also in relation to the...

Diagnostic Pathways in Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Recommendations of the PIOPED II Investigators

Paul D. Stein, Pamela K. Woodard, John G. Weg +12

Radiology

Abstract Purpose To formulate comprehensive recommendations for the diagnostic approach to patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, based on randomized trials. Methods Diagnostic management...

Direct Medical Costs of Venous Thromboembolism and Subsequent Hospital Readmission Rates: An Administrative Claims Analysis From 30 Managed Care Organizations

Alex C. Spyropoulos, Jay Lin

Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy

The economic burden of DVT and PE in direct medical cost is large, due not only to the initial hospitalization event, but also to the high rate of hospital readmission (5%-14%), over half of which...

Dissection of a type VI secretion system in <i>Edwardsiella tarda</i>

Jun Zheng, Ka Yin Leung

Molecular Microbiology

Bacterial pathogens use different protein secretion systems to deliver virulence factors. Recently, a novel secretion system was discovered in several Gram-negative bacterial pathogens, and was...

The microbiology of Ghanaian cocoa fermentations analysed using culture-dependent and culture-independent methods

Dennis Sandris Nielsen, O.D. Teniola, L. Ban-Koffi +3

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Solar and photocatalytic disinfection of protozoan, fungal and bacterial microbes in drinking water

James Lonnen, Simon Kilvington, S.C. Kehoe +2

Water Research

Color changes and acrylamide formation in fried potato slices

Franco Pedreschi, Pedro Moyano, K. Kaack +1

Food Research International

Venous Claudication in Iliofemoral Thrombosis

Konstantinos T. Delis, Dimitris Bountouroglou, Averil O. Mansfield

Annals of Surgery

A total of 43.6% of those with prior I-FDVT developed venous claudication compelling interruption of walking in 15.4%. Prior I-FDVT caused outflow impairment and a large residual venous volume and...

Zinc Deficiency, Infectious Disease and Mortality in the Developing World

Robert E. Black

Journal of Nutrition

Growth Faltering in Rural Gambian Infants Is Associated with Impaired Small Intestinal Barrier Function, Leading to Endotoxemia and Systemic Inflammation

David I. Campbell, Marinos Elia, P. G. Lunn

Journal of Nutrition

Role of Copper, Zinc, Selenium and Tellurium in the Cellular Defense against Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress

Lars‐Oliver Klotz, Klaus‐Dietrich Kröncke, Darius P. Buchczyk +1

Journal of Nutrition

Lactoferrin down-regulates the LPS-induced cytokine production in monocytic cells via NF-κB

Liliana Håversen, Bertil G. Ohlsson, Mirjana Hahn‐Zoric +2

Cellular Immunology

Protein adducts: quantitative and qualitative aspects of their formation, analysis and applications

Margareta Törnqvist, Charlotta Fred, Johanna Haglund +3

Journal of Chromatography B

Chemical and microbiological characterisation of kefir grains

Graciela L. Garrote, Analía G. Abraham, Graciela L. De Antoni

Journal of Dairy Research

Chemical and microbiological composition of four Argentinean kefir grains from different sources as well as characteristics of the corresponding fermented milk were studied. Kefir grains CIDCA AGK1,...

Microsatellite DNA in peach (<i>Prunus persica</i>L. Batsch) and its use in fingerprinting and testing the genetic origin of cultivars

R. Testolin, T. Marrazzo, Guido Cipriani +5

Genome

We isolated and sequenced 26 microsatellites from two genomic libraries of peach cultivar 'Redhaven', enriched for AC/GT and AG/CT repeats, respectively. For 17 of these microsatellites, it was...

Relating structure of fat crystal networks to mechanical properties

Suresh S. Narine, Alejandro G. Marangoni

Food Research International

The crystal structure of the L1 metallo-β-lactamase from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia at 1.7 å resolution 1 1Edited by K. Nagai

Jakir Hussain Ullah, Timothy R. Walsh, Ian A. Taylor +4

Journal of Molecular Biology

Vitamin E and Vitamin C Supplement Use and Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease

Martha Clare Morris, Laurel Beckett, Paul A. Scherr +4

Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders

Oxidative stress may play a role in neurologic disease. The present study examined the relation between use of vitamin E and vitamin C and incident Alzheimer disease in a prospective study of 633...

Textural, viscoelastic and mucoadhesive properties of pharmaceutical gels composed of cellulose polymers

David S. Jones, A. David Woolfson, Andrew F. Brown

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Characterization of the locus responsible for the bacteriocin production in Lactobacillus plantarum C11

Dzung B. Diep, Leiv Sigve Håvarstein, Ingolf F. Nes

Journal of Bacteriology

Lactobacillus plantarum C11 secretes a small cationic peptide, plantaricin A, that serves as induction signal for bacteriocin production as well as transcription of plnABCD. The plnABCD operon...

Minimally Processed Refrigerated Fruits &amp; Vegetables

Fermented foods — a world perspective

G. Campbell‐Platt

Food Research International

Establishing a Therapeutic Range for Heparin Therapy

Patrick Brill-Edwards, Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, Marilyn Johnston +1

Annals of Internal Medicine

A different dose of heparin would be required to produce an aPTT ratio of 1.5 times the control value, depending on the reagent used. Establishing a therapeutic range for aPTT results using protamine...

Effect of<i>Lactobacillus</i>GG Yoghurt in Prevention of Antibiotic Associated Diarrhoea

Simo Siitonen, Heikki Vapaatalo, Seppo Salminen +4

Annals of Medicine

The efficacy of Lactobacillus GG yoghurt in preventing erythromycin associated diarrhoea was studied. Sixteen healthy volunteers were given erythromycin acistrate 400 mg t.i.d for a week. The...

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Associated with Persistent Diarrhea in a Cohort of Rural Children in India

M. K. Bhan, Prateek Raj, Myron M. Levine +5

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

A cohort of 452 rural children was followed longitudinally for 13 mo to ascertain the role of HEp-2 cell adherent Escherichia coli and other pathogens in causing acute (less than or equal to 14 d)...

Isolation and characterization of homogeneous heat-labile enterotoxins with high specific activity from Escherichia coli cultures

John D. Clements, Richard A. Finkelstein

Infection and Immunity

The heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) has been isolated in homogeneous form with high specific activity from three sources: cell-free supernatant, NaCl extract, and whole-cell lysates of an...

Response of Man to Infection with Vibrio cholerae. I. Clinical, Serologic, and Bacteriologic Responses to a Known Inoculum

Richard A. Cash, Stanley Music, J. P. Libonati +3

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Journal Article Response of Man to Infection with Vibrio cholerae. I. Clinical, Serologic, and Bacteriologic Responses to a Known Inoculum Get access Richard A. Cash, Richard A. Cash From the...

NUTRITIONAL ECOLOGY OF MARINE ZOOPLANKTON

Tsutomu Ikeda

Memoirs of the Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University/Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University/Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University

In recent decades many potential serum biomarkers have been assessed in the diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Except cancer antigen 125 (CA125) and human epididymis protein 4 (HE4), none of them have been...

Recent developments on solid-state fermentation for production of microbial secondary metabolites: Challenges and solutions

Vinod Kumar, Vivek Ahluwalia, Saurabh Saran +3

Bioresource Technology

The Chemistry of Cereal Proteins

Lásztity Radomir

In the past decade, since the first edition was published, the study of cereal protein chemistry has grown and changed. New separation techniques have been introduced while the application of...

Zinc and immunity: An essential interrelation

Maria Maares, Hajo Haase

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Wheat starch production, structure, functionality and applications—a review

Khetan Shevkani, Narpinder Singh, Ritika Bajaj +1

International Journal of Food Science & Technology

Summary Starch is the main component of wheat having a number of food and industrial applications. Thousands of cultivars/varieties of different wheat types and species differing in starch...

Effects of tree nuts on blood lipids, apolipoproteins, and blood pressure: systematic review, meta-analysis, and dose-response of 61 controlled intervention trials

Liana C. Del Gobbo, Michael C. Falk, Robin Feldman +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Tutorial review on validation of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry methods: Part II

Anneli Kruve, Riin Rebane, Karin Kipper +5

Analytica Chimica Acta

Characterization of an exopolysaccharide produced by Lactobacillus plantarum YW11 isolated from Tibet Kefir

Ji Wang, Xiao Zhao, Zheng Tian +2

Carbohydrate Polymers

Host–Pathogen Interaction in Invasive Salmonellosis

Hanna K de Jong, Chris M. Parry, Tom van der Poll +1

PLoS Pathogens

Salmonella enterica infections result in diverse clinical manifestations. Typhoid fever, caused by S. enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi) and S. Paratyphi A, is a bacteremic illness but whose clinical...

Microbe–microbe interactions in mixed culture food fermentations

Eddy J. Smid, Christophe Lacroix

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

One Hundred Years of Vitamins—A Success Story of the Natural Sciences

Manfred Eggersdorfer, Dietmar Laudert, Ulla Létinois +4

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The discovery of vitamins as essential factors in the diet was a scientific breakthrough that changed the world. Diseases such as scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra were recognized to be curable...

Mechanical properties of ethylcellulose oleogels and their potential for saturated fat reduction in frankfurters

Alexander K. Zetzl, Alejandro G. Marangoni, Shai Barbut

Food & Function

Ethylcellulose has been recently shown to be an excellent organogelator for vegetable oils. The resulting gels maintain the fatty acid profile of the vegetable oil used, but posses a solid-like...

Innate and learned preferences for sweet taste during childhood

Alison K. Ventura, Julie A. Mennella

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care

An examination of the basic biology of sweet taste during childhood provides insight, as well as new perspectives, for how to modify children's preferences for and intakes of sweet foods to improve...

Risk assessment as a guide for the prevention of the many faces of venous thromboembolism

Joseph A. Caprini

The American Journal of Surgery

BOARD-INVITED REVIEW: Peptide absorption and utilization: Implications for animal nutrition and health

Elizabeth R. Gilbert, Eric A. Wong, K. E. Webb

Journal of Animal Science

Over the last 50 yr, the study of intestinal peptide transport has rapidly evolved into a field with exciting nutritional and biomedical applications. In this review, we describe from a historical...

Randomized comparison of 3 types of micronutrient supplements for home fortification of complementary foods in Ghana: effects on growth and motor development

Seth Adu‐Afarwuah, Anna Lartey, Kenneth H. Brown +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition