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A review on indirect type solar dryers for agricultural crops – Dryer setup, its performance, energy storage and important highlights

Abhay Lingayat, V. P. Chandramohan, V. R. K. Raju +1

Applied Energy

Two Lines: A Valid Alternative to the Invalid Testing of U-Shaped Relationships With Quadratic Regressions

Uri Simonsohn

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Many psychological theories predict U-shaped relationships: The effect of x is positive for low values of x, but negative for high values, or vice versa. Despite implying merely a change of sign,...

An Overview on the Anti‐inflammatory Potential and Antioxidant Profile of Eugenol

Joice Nascimento Barboza, Carlos da Silva Maia Bezerra Filho, Renan O. Silva +2

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

The bioactive compounds found in foods and medicinal plants are attractive molecules for the development of new drugs with action against several diseases, such as those associated with inflammatory...

Microwave-assisted food processing technologies for enhancing product quality and process efficiency: A review of recent developments

Flora-Glad Chizoba Ekezie, Da‐Wen Sun, Zhang Han +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng: Botanical, Phytochemical, Pharmacological and Nutritional Significance

Greetha Arumugam, Mallappa Kumara Swamy, Uma Rani Sinniah

Molecules

Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng. is a perennial herb belonging to the family Lamiaceae which occurs naturally throughout the tropics and warm regions of Africa, Asia and Australia. This herb...

Donor Human Milk for the High-Risk Infant: Preparation, Safety, and Usage Options in the United States

SECTION ON BREASTFEEDING, Stephen R. Daniels, Mark R. Corkins +21

PEDIATRICS

The use of donor human milk is increasing for high-risk infants, primarily for infants born weighing <1500 g or those who have severe intestinal disorders. Pasteurized donor milk may be considered in...

Hypomagnesemia in Type 2 Diabetes: A Vicious Circle?

Lisanne M. M. Gommers, Joost G.J. Hoenderop, René J.M. Bindels +1

Diabetes

Over the past decades, hypomagnesemia (serum Mg(2+) <0.7 mmol/L) has been strongly associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Patients with hypomagnesemia show a more rapid disease progression...

A review of the impact of preparation and cooking on the nutritional quality of vegetables and legumes

Adriana Diaz Toni Fabbri, Guy A. Crosby

International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science

Vegetables and legumes represent one of the most important components of the human diet. Being informed about their characteristics can improve the health benefits, helping to reduce the risk of...

Fecal Markers of Intestinal Inflammation and Permeability Associated with the Subsequent Acquisition of Linear Growth Deficits in Infants

Margaret Kosek, Rashidul Haque, Aldo Â. M. Lima +22

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Enteric infections are associated with linear growth failure in children. To quantify the association between intestinal inflammation and linear growth failure three commercially available...

Solvent Retention Capacity (SRC) Testing of Wheat Flour: Principles and Value in Predicting Flour Functionality in Different Wheat‐Based Food Processes and in Wheat Breeding—A Review

Meera Kweon, Louise Slade, Harry Levine

Cereal Chemistry

ABSTRACT Solvent retention capacity (SRC) technology, its history, principles, and applications are reviewed. Originally, SRC testing was created and developed for evaluating soft wheat flour...

Clinical Decision Rules for Excluding Pulmonary Embolism: A Meta-analysis

Wim A M Lucassen, Geert-Jan Geersing, Petra Erkens +4

Annals of Internal Medicine

Clinical decision rules and gestalt can safely exclude PE when combined with sensitive d-dimer testing. The authors recommend standardized rules because gestalt has lower specificity, but the choice...

TRPM7-Mediated Ca ²⁺ Signals Confer Fibrogenesis in Human Atrial Fibrillation

Jianyang Du, Jia Xie, Zheng Zhang +5

Circulation Research

Our results establish that TRPM7 is the major Ca(2+)-permeable channel in human atrial fibroblasts and likely plays an essential role in TGF-beta1-elicited fibrogenesis in human AF.

Food management in tourism: Reducing tourism’s carbon ‘foodprint’

Stefan Gössling, Brian Garrod, Carlo Aall +2

Tourism Management

Functional Significance of Zinc-Related Signaling Pathways in Immune Cells

Hajo Haase, Lothar Rink

Annual Review of Nutrition

Recent years have brought a paradigm shift for the role of the essential trace element zinc in immunity. Although its function as a structural component of many enzymes has been known for decades,...

Mitochondrial glutathione peroxidase 4 disruption causes male infertility

Manuela Schneider, Heidi Förster, Auke Boersma +13

The FASEB Journal

Selenium is linked to male fertility. Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPx4), first described as an antioxidant enzyme, is the predominant selenoenzyme in testis and has been suspected of being vital for...

Screening for Antiviral Activities of Isolated Compounds from Essential Oils

Akram Astani, Jürgen Reichling, Paul Schnitzler

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Essential oil of star anise as well as phenylpropanoids and sesquiterpenes, for example, trans-anethole, eugenol, β-eudesmol, farnesol, β-caryophyllene and β-caryophyllene oxide, which are present in...

Evaluation of oregano essential oil (Origanum heracleoticum L.) on growth, antioxidant effect and resistance against Aeromonas hydrophila in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)

Zonglin Zheng, Justin Y.W. Tan, H.Y. Liu +3

Aquaculture

The Safety of Probiotics

David R. Snydman

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Probiotics are generally defined as microorganisms that, when consumed, generally confer a health benefit on humans. There is considerable interest in probiotics for a variety of medical conditions,...

Screening Non-colored Phenolics in Red Wines using Liquid Chromatography/Ultraviolet and Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry Libraries

Jianping Sun, Feng Liang, Bin Yan +2

Molecules

Liquid chromatography/ultraviolet (LC/UV) and mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (MS/MS) libraries containing 39 phenolic compounds were established by coupling a LC and an ion trap MS with an...

Culturable Psychrotrophic Bacterial Communities in Raw Milk and Their Proteolytic and Lipolytic Traits

Elionora Hantsis-Zacharov, Malka Halpern

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

During cold storage after milk collection, psychrotrophic bacterial populations dominate the microflora, and their extracellular enzymes, mainly proteases and lipases, contribute to the spoilage of...

AtATM3 Is Involved in Heavy Metal Resistance in Arabidopsis

Doyoung Kim, Lucien Bovet, Sergeï Kushnir +3

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

AtATM3, an ATP-binding cassette transporter of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), is a mitochondrial protein involved in the biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters and iron homeostasis in plants. Our...

Bioactivity of β-lactoglobulin and α-lactalbumin—Technological implications for processing

Dereck E. W. Chatterton, Geoffrey W. Smithers, Peter Roupas +1

International Dairy Journal

Models for Sorption Isotherms for Foods: A Review

Santanu Basu, U. S. Shivhare, Arun S. Mujumdar

Drying Technology

This article presents basic concepts related to the thermodynamics of sorption of water and measurement of sorption isotherm for food materials. A comprehensive review of the widely used sorption...

Quantitative Real-Time PCR Analysis of Fecal<i>Lactobacillus</i>Species in Infants Receiving a Prebiotic Infant Formula

Monique Haarman, Jan Knol

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The developing intestinal microbiota of breast-fed infants is considered to play an important role in the priming of the infants' mucosal and systemic immunity. Generally, Bifidobacterium and...

CsrA and three redundant small RNAs regulate quorum sensing in <i>Vibrio cholerae</i>

Derrick H. Lenz, Melissa B. Miller, Jun Zhu +2

Molecular Microbiology

Bacteria communicate using a process called quorum sensing which involves production, secretion and detection of signalling molecules called autoinducers. Quorum sensing allows populations of...

Fundamental Food Microbiology

Bibek Ray

Just as the previous editions of this highly regarded text responded to the transitions of their time, the third edition reflects the current evolution of food microbiology and explores the most...

Copper homeostasis in<i>Enterococcus hirae</i>

Marc Solioz, Jivko Stoyanov

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Copper is an essential component of life because of its convenient redox potential of 200-800 mV when bound to protein. Extensive insight into copper homeostasis has only emerged in the last decade...

Microbes versus microbes: immune signals generated by probiotic lactobacilli and their role in protection against microbial pathogens

Martin L. Cross

FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology

Probiotic lactic acid bacteria can signal the immune system through innate cell surface pattern recognition receptors or via direct lymphoid cell activation. In some cases, this action has been shown...

Genome-Wide Analysis of the Stationary-Phase Sigma Factor (Sigma-H) Regulon of<i>Bacillus subtilis</i>

Robert A. Britton, Patrick Eichenberger, José Eduardo González‐Pastor +4

Journal of Bacteriology

Sigma-H is an alternative RNA polymerase sigma factor that directs the transcription of many genes that function at the transition from exponential growth to stationary phase in Bacillus subtilis....

Prevalence and numbers of Salmonella and Campylobacter spp. on raw, whole chickens in relation to sampling methods

F. Jørgensen, Richard A. Bailey, Scott David Williams +6

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Commensal Escherichia coli isolates are phylogenetically distributed among geographically distinct human populations

Patrick Duriez, Olivier Clermont, Stéphane Bonacorsi +5

Microbiology

An intraspecies phylogenetic grouping of 168 human commensal Escherichia coli strains isolated from the stools of three geographically distinct human populations (France, Croatia, Mali) was generated...

Dietary variety, energy regulation, and obesity.

Hollie A. Raynor, Leonard H. Epstein

Psychological Bulletin

Increased variety in the food supply may contribute to the development and maintenance of obesity. Thirty-nine studies examining dietary variety, energy intake, and body composition are reviewed....

Strain-dependent induction of cytokine profiles in the gut by orally administered Lactobacillus strains

C.B.M. Maassen, Conny van Holten-Neelen, F.R.M. Balk +5

Vaccine

From food structure to texture

Clare L. Wilkinson, Garmt Dijksterhuis, Mans Minekus

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Pasting properties of different wheat flour-hydrocolloid systems

J. A. Rojas, Cristina M. Rosell, C. Benedito de Barber

Food Hydrocolloids

Dietary modulation of the human gut microflora using prebiotics

Glenn R. Gibson

British Journal Of Nutrition

The human colonic flora has both beneficial and pathogenic potentials with respect to host health. There is now much interest in manipulation of the microbiota composition in order to improve the...

Hydroxyl Radical is the Major Causative Factor in Stress-Induced Gastric Ulceration

Dipak K. Das, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Mrinalini Bhattacharjee +1

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS

Josef Neu

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Trans Fatty Acids in Margarine

Seth R. Taylor

New England Journal of Medicine

Effects of age of introduction of complementary foods on infant breast milk intake, total energy intake, and growth: a randomised intervention study in Honduras

Roberta J. Cohen, Kenneth H. Brown, Kathryn G. Dewey +2

The Lancet

Poor plasma status of carotene and vitamin C is associated with higher mortality from ischemic heart disease and stroke Basel Prospective Study

K.F. Gey, Hannes B. St�helin, Monika Eichholzer

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Association of Escherichia coli HEp-2 adherence patterns with type and duration of diarrhoea

A. Cravioto, Angel Tello, Armando Navarro +4

The Lancet

Astrocytes, Not Neurons, Produce Docosahexaenoic Acid (22:6ω‐3) and Arachidonic Acid (20:4ω‐6)

Steven A. Moore, Elizabeth Yoder, Sean Murphy +2

Journal of Neurochemistry

Elongated, highly polyunsaturated derivatives of linoleic acid (18:2 omega-6) and linolenic acid (18:3 omega-3) accumulate in brain, but their sites of synthesis are not fully characterized. To...

New, extended biotyping scheme for Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, and "Campylobacter laridis"

H. Lior

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

A biotyping scheme using improved media and methods for the detection of hippurate hydrolysis, rapid H2S production, and DNA hydrolysis was applied to 1,826 cultures of Campylobacter jejuni,...

Structural and functional analysis of the human metallothionein-IA gene: Differential induction by metal ions and glucocorticoids

Robert I. Richards, Adriana Heguy, Michael Karin

Cell

Dietary enrichment with the polyunsaturated fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid prevents proteinuria and prolongs survival in NZB x NZW F1 mice.

James D. Prickett, Derrick R. Robinson, A D Steinberg

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Prostaglandins and related compounds are active mediators of inflammation, but data concerning their role in the pathogenesis of the glomerulonephritis of New Zealand Black x New Zealand White (NZB x...

A Compositional Study of Amaranth Grain

Robert R. Becker, E. L. Wheeler, K. Lorenz +4

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT The chemical composition of ten amaranth seed samples was determined. The saccharide content was determined using gas chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography. Sucrose was...

A Conspectus of Research on Copper Metabolism and Requirements of Man

Karl E. Mason

Journal of Nutrition

A Non-Parametric Equivalent of Williams' Test for Contrasting Increasing Dose Levels of a Treatment

Eryl A. C. Shirley

Biometrics

The toxicity of substances such as drugs, food additives, artificial foods aild pesticides ate usually assessed at some stage by animal experiments. Increasing doses of the substaLnce are given to...