Research Library

Bioactivities of Glycoalkaloids and Their Aglycones from Solanum Species

Sinéad E. Milner, Nigel P. Brunton, Peter Wyn Jones +3

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Potatoes, tomatoes, and aubergines are all species of the Solanum genus and contain a vast array of secondary metabolites including calystegine alkaloids, phenolic compounds, lectins, and...

Oxygen toxicity: chemistry and biology of reactive oxygen species

Giuseppe Buonocore, Serafina Perrone, Maria Luisa Tataranno

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Motility and Chemotaxis in <i>Campylobacter</i> and <i>Helicobacter</i>

Paphavee Lertsethtakarn, Karen M. Ottemann, David R. Hendrixson

Annual Review of Microbiology

Flagellar motility of Campylobacter jejuni and Helicobacter pylori influences host colonization by promoting migration through viscous milieus such as gastrointestinal mucus. This review explores...

Matrix effects in pesticide multi-residue analysis by liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry

Anneli Kruve, Allan Künnapas, Koit Herodes +1

Journal of Chromatography A

Antimicrobial activity and chemical composition of Mentha pulegium L. essential oil

Mohaddese Mahboubi, Ghasem Haghi

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone and Related Tripeptides: Biochemistry, Antiinflammatory and Protective Effects in Vitro and in Vivo, and Future Perspectives for the Treatment of Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases

Thomas Brzoska, Thomas A. Luger, Christian Maaser +2

Endocrine Reviews

Alpha-MSH is a tridecapeptide derived from proopiomelanocortin. Many studies over the last few years have provided evidence that alpha-MSH has potent protective and antiinflammatory effects. These...

Dietary Diversity Is a Good Predictor of the Micronutrient Density of the Diet of 6- to 23-Month-Old Children in Madagascar3

Mourad Moursi, Mary Arimond, Kathryn G. Dewey +3

Journal of Nutrition

Salt Intake Is Related to Soft Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents

Feng J. He, Naomi M. Marrero, Graham A. MacGregor

Hypertension

Dietary salt is a major determinant of fluid intake in adults; however, little is known about this relationship in children. Sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption is related to childhood obesity,...

Effects of EPA on coronary artery disease in hypercholesterolemic patients with multiple risk factors: Sub-analysis of primary prevention cases from the Japan EPA Lipid Intervention Study (JELIS)

Yasushi Saitō, Mitsuhiro Yokoyama, Hideki Origasa +13

Atherosclerosis

The taxonomy of Enterobacter sakazakii: proposal of a new genus Cronobacter gen. nov. and descriptions of Cronobacter sakazakii comb. nov. Cronobacter sakazakii subsp. sakazakii, comb. nov., Cronobacter sakazakii subsp. malonaticus subsp. nov., Cronobacter turicensis sp. nov., Cronobacter muytjensii sp. nov., Cronobacter dublinensis sp. nov. and Cronobacter genomospecies 1

Carol Iversen, Angelika Lehner, Niall Mullane +6

BMC Evolutionary Biology

This study clarifies the taxonomy of E. sakazakii and proposes a reclassification of these organisms.

Fermentation behaviour and metabolic interactions of multistarter wine yeast fermentations

Maurizio Ciani, Luca Beco, Francesca Comitini

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Evaluation of Chenopodium ambrosioides oil as a potential source of antifungal, antiaflatoxigenic and antioxidant activity

Rajiv Kumar, Anoop Kumar Mishra, Nawal Kishore Dubey +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Maternal Lipid Metabolism and Placental Lipid Transfer

Emílio Herrera, E. Amusquivar, Iliana López‐Soldado +1

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

During early pregnancy, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) may accumulate in maternal fat depots and become available for placental transfer during late pregnancy, when the fetal growth...

Human Milk Oligosaccharides Inhibit the Adhesion to Caco-2 Cells of Diarrheal Pathogens: Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae, and Salmonella fyris

Giovanni V. Coppa, Lucia Zampini, Tiziana Galeazzi +4

Pediatric Research

Determination of suitable thin layer drying curve model for some vegetables and fruits

Ebru Kavak Akpınar

Journal of Food Engineering

Critical Factors Influencing the Occurrence of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> in the Environment of Bangladesh

Anwar Huq, R. Bradley Sack, Azhar Nizam +10

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The occurrence of outbreaks of cholera in Africa in 1970 and in Latin America in 1991, mainly in coastal communities, and the appearance of the new serotype Vibrio cholerae O139 in India and...

Neem—An Omnipotent Plant: A Retrospection

Goutam Brahmachari

ChemBioChem

Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) has universally been accepted as a wonder tree because of its diverse utility. Multidirectional therapeutic uses of neem have been known in India since the Vedic...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Cardiac Biopsies From Heart Transplantation Patients

William S. Harris, Scott A. Sands, Sheryl L. Windsor +5

Circulation

Although any of the tissues examined could serve as a surrogate for cardiac omega-3 FA content, RBC EPA+DHA was highly correlated with cardiac EPA+DHA; the RBC omega-3 response to supplementation was...

Effects of non-ionic polysaccharides on the gelatinization and retrogradation behavior of wheat starch☆

Takahiro Funami, Yohei Kataoka, Toshio Omoto +3

Food Hydrocolloids

Effect of temperature on expression of genes encoding enzymes for starch biosynthesis in developing wheat endosperm

William J. Hurkman, Kent F. McCue, Susan B. Altenbach +8

Plant Science

Effects of Milk Products Fermented by Bifidobacterium longum on Blood Lipids in Rats and Healthy Adult Male Volunteers

Jin‐zhong Xiao, Shizuki Kondo, Noritoshi Takahashi +6

Journal of Dairy Science

The effects of milk products fermented by Bifidobacterium longum strain BL1, a probiotic strain, on blood lipids in rats and humans were studied. Rats were fed a cholesterol-enriched experimental...

Population Genetics of the Nomenspecies <i>Enterobacter cloacae</i>

Harald Hoffmann, Andreas Roggenkamp

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The genetic heterogeneity of the nomenspecies Enterobacter cloacae is well known. Enterobacter asburiae, Enterobacter cancerogenus, Enterobacter dissolvens, Enterobacter hormaechei, Enterobacter...

Leuconostoc, characteristics, use in dairy technology and prospects in functional foods

Denis Hemme, Catherine Foucaud-Scheunemann

International Dairy Journal

An overview of formation and roles of acetaldehyde in winemaking with emphasis on microbiological implications

Shao‐Quan Liu, Gordon J. Pilone

International Journal of Food Science & Technology

Abstract Acetaldehyde is an important aroma compound in wine. This article first reviews the microbial and chemical formation of acetaldehyde, then the effects of sulphur dioxide on acetaldehyde and...

On the Molecular Characteristics, Compositional Properties, and Structural-Functional Mechanisms of Maltodextrins: A Review

Ioannis S. Chronakis

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Compositional, physicochemical, and structural properties of maltodextrins and the most important advances that have been made are critically reviewed. Individual topics focuses on the maltodextrin...

Differential compartmentalization of brain ascorbate and glutathione between neurons and glia

Margaret E. Rice, Iolanda Russo-Menna

Neuroscience

Short-bowel syndrome in children and adults

JA Vanderhoof, Langnas An

Gastroenterology

Effects of weight loss and sodium reduction intervention on blood pressure and hypertension incidence in overweight people with high-normal blood pressure. The Trials of Hypertension Prevention, phase II. The Trials of Hypertension Prevention Collaborative Research Group

Archives of Internal Medicine

In overweight adults with high-normal BP, weight loss and reduction in sodium intake, individually and in combination, were effective in lowering systolic and diastolic BP, especially in the...

Insulin sensitivity is related to the fatty acid composition of serum lipids and skeletal muscle phospholipids in 70-year-old men

B. Vessby, Siv Tengblad, Hans Lithell

Diabetologia

Household food security and child nutrition: the interaction of income and gender of household head

Eileen Kennedy, Pauline E. Peters

World Development

Aquatic humic substances—Influence on fate and treatment of pollutants

Raphael Ikan

Organic Geochemistry

A Differential Scanning Calorimetry Study on the Effect of Annealing on Gelatinization Behavior of Corn Starch

B. Krueger, Clarence A. Knutson, George E. Inglett +1

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT Gelatinization characteristics of laboratory‐isolated and commercial corn starch were compared by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) before and after being annealed at subgelatinization...

A Scale to Measure Self-Concepts, Person Concepts, and Product Concepts

Naresh K. Malhotra

Journal of Marketing Research

The author describes the construction of a scale to measure self-concepts, person concepts, and product concepts. Multivariate analysis and multidimensional scaling procedures are employed to devel...

Partial replacement of serum by selenite, transferrin, albumin and lecithin in haemopoitec cell cultures

L.J. Guilbert, Norman N. Iscove

Nature

Resistance of certain long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids of marine oils to pancreatic lipase hydrolysis

Nestor R. Bottino, Gloria A. Vandenburg, Raymond Reiser

Lipids

When whale oil triglycerides were subjected to pancreatic lipase hydrolysis, eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids were found mainly in the di- and triglyceride products, suggesting that they...

Role of Lactic Acid Bacteria in Food Preservation and Safety

Agnieszka Zapaśnik, Barbara Sokołowska, Marcin Bryła

Foods

Fermentation of various food stuffs by lactic acid bacteria is one of the oldest forms of food biopreservation. Bacterial antagonism has been recognized for over a century, but in recent years, this...

Microencapsulation: An overview on concepts, methods, properties and applications in foods

Nitamani Choudhury, Murlidhar Meghwal, Kalyan Das

Food Frontiers

Abstract Microencapsulation is an advanced food processing technology, using which any compound can be encapsulated inside a particular material, making a tiny sphere of diameter ranging from 1 μm to...

Overconsumption of Omega-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) versus Deficiency of Omega-3 PUFAs in Modern-Day Diets: The Disturbing Factor for Their “Balanced Antagonistic Metabolic Functions” in the Human Body

Abeba Haile Mariamenatu, Emebet Mohammed Abdu

Journal of Lipids

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) contain ≥2 double-bond desaturations within the acyl chain. Omega-3 (n-3) and Omega-6 (n-6) PUFAs are the two known important families in human health and...

Application of essential oil as a sustained release preparation in food packaging

Jian Ju, Xueqi Chen, Yunfei Xie +5

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Rosmarinus officinalis essential oil: A review of its phytochemistry, anti-inflammatory activity, and mechanisms of action involved

Raphaelle Sousa Borges, Brenda Lorena Sánchez-Ortíz, Arlindo César Matias Pereira +2

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Managing Socio-Ethical Challenges in the Development of Smart Farming: From a Fragmented to a Comprehensive Approach for Responsible Research and Innovation

Callum Eastwood, Laurens Klerkx, Margaret Ayre +1

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Smart farming (also referred to as digital farming, digital agriculture and precision agriculture) has largely been driven by productivity and efficiency aims, but there is an increasing awareness of...

Reducing Food Loss and Waste to Enhance Food Security and Environmental Sustainability

Majid Shafiee‐Jood, Ximing Cai

Environmental Science & Technology

While food shortage remains a big concern in many regions around the world, almost one-third of the total food production is discarded as food loss and waste (FLW). This is associated with about...

Selenoproteins: Antioxidant selenoenzymes and beyond

Holger Steinbrenner, Bodo Speckmann, Lars‐Oliver Klotz

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

The Knowledge Base for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal Targets on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene

Guy Hutton, Claire Chase

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental to an improved standard of living. Globally, 91% of households used improved drinking water sources in 2015, while for improved...

What dimensions of women’s empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana?

Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing

Food Policy

• Examines empowerment–nutrition links using a new survey-based empowerment measure. • Empowerment is more strongly associated with diet quality than nutrition status. • Credit decisionmaking is...

Food traceability: New trends and recent advances. A review

Ricardo Badia-Melis, Puneet Mishra, Luis Ruiz-García

Food Control

Nanoemulsion delivery systems for oil-soluble vitamins: Influence of carrier oil type on lipid digestion and vitamin D3 bioaccessibility

Bengü Öztürk, Sanem Argın, Mustafa Özilgen +1

Food Chemistry