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Detection of Legionnaires disease bacteria by direct immunofluorescent staining

William B. Cherry, Bertie Pittman, P P Harris +4

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Antisera and fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugates prepared for five strains of the Legionnaires bacteria were tested in both homologous and heterologous staining reactions with 10 isolates of the...

Tonic Immobility: the Role of Fear and Predation

Gordon G. Gallup

The Psychological Record

Antioxidants and Cancer

Raymond J. Shamberger, S. Tytko, Charles E. Willis

Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal

The possible epidemiologic relationship between selenium occurrence and cancer mortality was studied in cities and states located in areas with different levels of selenium bioavailability....

Spread of antibiotic-resistant plasmids from chicken to chicken and from chicken to man

Stuart B. Levy, George Fitzgerald, Ann B. Macone

Nature

Effects of Intra-and Interindividual Variation on the Appropriate Use of Normal Ranges

Eugene K. Harris

Clinical Chemistry

Abstract Normal ranges based on the distribution of single samples from a large number of individuals reflect both intra- and interindividual variation. If the average ratio of these two sources of...

Polyphasic Taxonomy of the Genus<i>Vibrio:</i>Numerical Taxonomy of<i>Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus</i>, and Related<i>Vibrio</i>Species

Rita R. Colwell

Journal of Bacteriology

A set of 86 bacterial cultures, including 30 strains of Vibrio cholerae, 35 strains of V. parahaemolyticus, and 21 representative strains of Pseudomonas, Spirillum, Achromobacter, Arthrobacter, and...

Decrease in Net Stool Output in Cholera during Intestinal Perfusion with Glucose-Containing Solutions

Norbert Hirschhorn, Joseph L. Kinzie, David B. Sachar +4

New England Journal of Medicine

The rate of intestinal fluid loss was decreased significantly in eight patients with cholera when electrolyte solutions containing glucose were administered intragastrically or into the intestine for...

DISTRIBUTION OF METALS IN SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS OF RAT LIVER

Ralph E. Thiers, Bert L. Vallée

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The localization of various metabolic processes of cells in particulate and soluble intracellular components has been studied intensively (l-3).The effect of added metals on these processes has also...

Amylose and Amylopectin Content of Starches Determined by their Iodine Complex Formation¹

Francis Leslie Bates, Dexter French, R. E. Rundle

Journal of the American Chemical Society

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTAmylose and Amylopectin Content of Starches Determined by their Iodine Complex Formation1F. Leslie Bates, Dexter French, and R. E. RundleCite this: J. Am....

The Current Situation of Pea Protein and Its Application in the Food Industry

Parvathy Shanthakumar, Joanna Klepacka, Aarti Bains +3

Molecules

Pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i>) is an important source of nutritional components and is rich in protein, starch, and fiber. Pea protein is considered a high-quality protein and a functional ingredient in...

Molecular insights into probiotic mechanisms of action employed against intestinal pathogenic bacteria

Winschau F. van Zyl, Shelly M. Deane, Leon M. T. Dicks

Gut Microbes

Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, and in particular those caused by bacterial infections, are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Treatment is becoming increasingly difficult due to the...

Human campylobacteriosis: A public health concern of global importance

Aboi Igwaran, Anthony I. Okoh

Heliyon

<i>Campylobacter</i> species are among the leading cause of bacterial foodborne and waterborne infections. In addition, <i>Campylobacter</i> is one of the major causative agent of bacterial...

Stunting and severe stunting among children under-5 years in Nigeria: A multilevel analysis

Blessing Akombi-Inyang, Kingsley Agho, John Hall +3

BMC Pediatrics

In order to meet the post-2015 sustainable development goals, policy interventions to reduce stunting in Nigeria should focus on poverty alleviation as well as improving women's nutrition, child...

Management of Pulmonary Embolism

Stavros Konstantinides, Stefano Barco, Mareike Lankeit +1

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Veterinary Drug Residues in Food-animal Products: Its Risk Factors and Potential Effects on Public Health

Takele Beyene

Journal of Veterinary Science & Technology

The use of veterinary drugs in food-producing animals has the potential to generate residues in animal derived products (meat, milk, eggs and honey) and poses a health hazard to the consumer. There...

Structural characterization and functional evaluation of lactoferrin–polyphenol conjugates formed by free-radical graft copolymerization

Fuguo Liu, Cuixia Sun, Yang Wei +2

RSC Advances

Covalent modifications of lactoferrin with EGCG, chlorogenic acid and gallic acid were performed by adopting a free-radical grafting procedure in aqueous media and they affect both structural and...

Phenotypic Variation of Salmonella in Host Tissues Delays Eradication by Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Beatrice Claudi, Petra Spröte, Anna Chirkova +5

Cell

Antimicrobial activities of commercial essential oils and their components against food‐borne pathogens and food spoilage bacteria

Hasika Mith, Rémi Dure, Véronique Delcenserie +3

Food Science & Nutrition

This study was undertaken to determine the in vitro antimicrobial activities of 15 commercial essential oils and their main components in order to pre-select candidates for potential application in...

Typhoid fever

John Wain, René S. Hendriksen, Matthew Mikoleit +2

The Lancet

Bacteriocins of Lactic Acid Bacteria: Microbiology, Genetics and Applications

Luc De Vuyst, Erick Vandamme

Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)

As antibacterial compounds, bacteriocins have always lived in the shadow of those medically important, efficient and often broad-spectrum low-molecular­ mass antimicrobials, well known even to...

A Review on Agri-food Supply Chain Traceability by Means of RFID Technology

Corrado Costa, Francesca Antonucci, Federico Pallottino +3

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Understanding the Cholera Epidemic, Haiti

Renaud Piarroux

Emerging infectious diseases

After onset of a cholera epidemic in Haiti in mid-October 2010, a team of researchers from France and Haiti implemented field investigations and built a database of daily cases to facilitate...

The potential for underutilized crops to improve security of food production

Sean Mayes, Festo Massawe, P. G. Alderson +3

Journal of Experimental Botany

Staple crops face major challenges in the near future and a diversification away from over-reliance on staples will be important as part of the progress towards the goal of achieving security of food...

A review on the improvement of stevia [<i>Stevia rebaudiana</i>(Bertoni)]

Ashok Yadav, Sanjay Singh, D. Dhyani +1

Canadian Journal of Plant Science

Yadav, A. K., Singh, S., Dhyani, D. and Ahuja, P. S. 2011. A review on the improvement of Stevia [Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni)]. Can. J. Plant Sci. 91: 1–27. Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) is a...

Early Childhood Stimulation Benefits Adult Competence and Reduces Violent Behavior

Susan Walker, Susan M. Chang, Marcos Vera‐Hernández +1

PEDIATRICS

Early psychosocial intervention had wide-ranging benefits in adulthood that are likely to facilitate functioning in everyday life. The reductions in violent behavior are extremely important given the...

The influence of drying methods on the stabilization of fish oil microcapsules: Comparison of spray granulation, spray drying, and freeze drying

Sri Haryani Anwar, Benno Kunz

Journal of Food Engineering

Toward a unified approach to dose–response modeling in ecotoxicology

Christian Ritz

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

This study reviews dose-response models that are used in ecotoxicology. The focus lies on clarification of differences and similarities between models, and as a side effect, their different guises in...

Fish, docosahexaenoic acid and Alzheimer’s disease

Stephen C. Cunnane, Mélanie Plourde, Fabien Pifferi +3

Progress in Lipid Research

Signal transduction and information processing in mammalian taste buds

Stephen D. Roper

Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology

Antifungal activity of the essential oil of Thymus pulegioides on Candida, Aspergillus and dermatophyte species

Eugénia Pinto, Cidália Pina‐Vaz, Lı́gia Salgueiro +6

Journal of Medical Microbiology

The composition of the essential oil of Thymus pulegioides and its antifungal activity on Candida, Aspergillus and dermatophyte fungal strains were studied. Essential oil from the aerial parts of the...

Dietary intake of long-chain ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: contribution of meat sources

Peter R.C. Howe, Barbara J. Meyer, Sally J. Record +1

Nutrition

Pasting and rheological properties of native and anionic tapioca starches as modified by guar gum and xanthan gum

Montri Chaisawang, Manop Suphantharika

Food Hydrocolloids

Seed Galactomannans: An Overview

Manjoosha Srivastava, V. P. Kapoor

Chemistry & Biodiversity

Seed galactomannans are vegetable, heterogeneous polysaccharides widely distributed in nature. Generally, they possess (1-->4)-linked D-mannopyranose (Man) main chains to which are attached...

Specific Copper Transfer from the Cox17 Metallochaperone to Both Sco1 and Cox11 in the Assembly of Yeast Cytochrome c Oxidase

Yih‐Chern Horng, Paul A. Cobine, Andrew Maxfield +2

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The assembly of the copper sites in cytochrome c oxidase involves a series of accessory proteins, including Cox11, Cox17, and Sco1. The two mitochondrial inner membrane proteins Cox11 and Sco1 are...

Determination of the glycaemic index of foods: interlaboratory study

Thomas M.S. Wolever, H H Vorster, Inger Björck +9

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

D-Dimer Levels and Risk of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism

Sabine Eichinger

JAMA

Patients with a first spontaneous VTE and a D-dimer level of less than 250 ng/mL after withdrawal of oral anticoagulation have a low risk of VTE recurrence.

Cardiac Biomarkers for Risk Stratification of Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Nils Kucher, Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Circulation

Organic Acids and Phenolic Compounds in Pomegranates (Punica granatum L.) Grown in Turkey

Ender Sinan Poyrazoğlu

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

Diet and risk of dementia: Does fat matter?

Marianne J. Engelhart, Mirjam I. Geerlings, Annemieke Ruitenberg +4

Neurology

High intake of total, saturated, and trans fat and cholesterol and low intake of MUFA, PUFA, n-6 PUFA, and n-3 PUFA were not associated with increased risk of dementia or its subtypes.

Identification of a novel member of the T1R family of putative taste receptors

Eduardo Sainz, Julius N. Korley, James F. Battey +1

Journal of Neurochemistry

In the gustatory system, the recognition of sugars, amino acids and bitter-tasting compounds is the function of specialized G protein-coupled receptors. Recently, two members of novel subfamily of G...

Inulin and Oligofructose: Safe Intakes and Legal Status

Paul Coussement

Journal of Nutrition

Clinical, epidemiological, and microbiological features of Vibrio vulnificus biogroup 3 causing outbreaks of wound infection and bacteraemia in Israel

Naiel Bisharat, Vered Agmon, Renato Finkelstein +9

The Lancet

Casein sub-micelles: do they exist?

P. Walstra

International Dairy Journal

Antifungal activity of plant extracts against dermatophytes

Mohammed S. Ali-Shtayeh, Suheil I. Abu Ghdeib

Mycoses

The aqueous extracts (15 micrograms ml-1 medium) of 22 plants used in folkloric medicine in Palestine were investigated for their antifungal activity and minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs)...

Identification and molecular cloning of a gene encoding a fibronectin‐binding protein (CadF) from <i>Campylobacter jejuni</i>

Michael E. Konkel, Steve Garvis, Stephanie L. Tipton +2

Molecular Microbiology

Campylobacter jejuni, a Gram-negative bacterium, is a common cause of gastrointestinal disease. By analogy with other enteric pathogens such as Salmonella and Shigella, the ability of C. jejuni to...

Acidification of phagosomes containing Salmonella typhimurium in murine macrophages

Michelle Rathman, M D Sjaastad, Stanley Falkow

Infection and Immunity

Salmonella species are facultative intracellular pathogens. Following entry into mammalian host cells, they reside in membrane-bound vacuoles, resist killing, and replicate. In this work, we...

6 Copper Complexes Offer a Physiological Approach to Treatment of Chronic Diseases

John R. J. Sorenson

Progress in medicinal chemistry

Interferon gamma-activated human monocytes downregulate transferrin receptors and inhibit the intracellular multiplication of Legionella pneumophila by limiting the availability of iron.

Thomas F. Byrd, Marcus A. Horwitz

Journal of Clinical Investigation

We have investigated the role of iron in the intracellular biology of Legionella pneumophila in human monocytes and in the effector arm of cell-mediated immune defense against this intracellular...