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Stabilizing Infrastructure of Cell Membranes

Vincent T. Marchesi

Annual Review of Cell Biology

Cells organize many of their biochemical reactions in non-membrane compartments. Recent evidence has shown that many of these compartments are liquids that form by phase separation from the...

DMSA and DMPS-Water Soluble Antidotes for Heavy Metal Poisoning

H. Vasken Aposhian

The Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

This article reviews the pharmacological properties and the uses of two important antidotes for heavy metal poisoning. Meso-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) and 2,3-dimercapto-l-propanesulfonic acid,...

Relationships Between Hydrophobicity and Foaming Characteristics of Food Proteins

ALTHEA‐ANN TOWNSEND, Shuryo Nakai

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT Hydrophobocity measured fluorometrically for food proteins and pure proteins using cis‐parinaric acid as a hydrophobic probe had significant correlations to foaming capacity when the...

Spirulina, the edible microorganism.

O. Ciferri

Microbiological Reviews

EFFECTS OF COLORANTS AND FLAVORANTS ON IDENTIFICATION, PERCEIVED FLAVOR INTENSITY, AND HEDONIC QUALITY OF FRUIT‐FLAVORED BEVERAGES AND CAKE

Cynthia N. DuBose, Armand V. Cardello, Owen Maller

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT Four experiments were conducted to assess the effect of food color on flavor identification of noncarbonated beverages and to assess the interactive effect of food color and flavor levels on...

Micro-organisms in foods 1: Their significance and methods of enumeration

Food and Cosmetics Toxicology

The induction of metallothionein in rat liver by zinc injection and restriction of food intake

I. Bremner, N. T. Davies

Biochemical Journal

The isolation of two forms of hepatic zinc-thioneins after either zinc injection into rats or partial restriction of their food intake is described. The proteins differed slightly in their amino acid...

Packing Analysis of Carbohydrates and Polysaccharides. III. Valonia Cellulose and Cellulose II

A. Sarko, Reto Müggli

Macromolecules

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTPacking Analysis of Carbohydrates and Polysaccharides. III. Valonia Cellulose and Cellulose IIAnatole Sarko and Reto MuggliCite this: Macromolecules 1974,...

Drawers of Water: Domestic Water Use in East Africa

Clarke Brooke, Gilbert F. White, David J. Bradley +1

Geographical Review

7. Total Social Costs ... THE INTERRELATION OF HEALTH AND IMPROVEMENTS The epidemiological basis for the prevention of infections related to water by improving supplies may be summarized in the...

NUTRITION, GROWTH AND NEUROINTEGRATIVE DEVELOPMENT: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND ECOLOGIC STUDY

J Cravioto, Elsa R. DeLicardie, Herbert G. Birch

PEDIATRICS

IN THIS MONOGRAPH we report the results of an experimental and ecologic study concerned with estimating some of the effects which malnutrition in early childhood may have upon neurointegrative...

STUDIES ON LYSOSOMES

Gerald Weissmann, Lewis Thomas

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Granular fractions sedimenting between 800 g and 15,000 g have been prepared in 0.25 M sucrose from the livers of normal young rabbits and from the livers of rabbits injected with A. aerogenes...

The WHO Global report 2023 on hypertension warning the emerging hypertension burden in globe and its treatment strategy

Kazuomi Kario, Ayako Okura, Satoshi Hoshide +1

Hypertension Research

Thirty-year % increase of adults with hypertension in the European/ Americas and South-East Asia/ Western Pacific (WHO region). Create using the data from: World Health Organization. Global report on...

Intravenous Vitamin C in Adults with Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit

François Lamontagne, Marie-Hélène Masse, Julie Ménard +27

New England Journal of Medicine

In adults with sepsis receiving vasopressor therapy in the ICU, those who received intravenous vitamin C had a higher risk of death or persistent organ dysfunction at 28 days than those who received...

Health benefits of resistant starch: A review of the literature

Adrianna Bojarczuk, Sylwia Skąpska, Amin Mousavi Khaneghah +1

Journal of Functional Foods

Starch is an essential source of energy for the human diet. Resistant starch is the portion of starch that is not digested in the small intestine and is fermented in the colon by microorganisms,...

Resolution of inflammation: An organizing principle in biology and medicine

Dipak Panigrahy, Molly M. Gilligan, Charles N. Serhan +1

Pharmacology & Therapeutics

The role of smart packaging system in food supply chain

Shoue Chen, Sandrayee Brahma, Jonathon Mackay +2

Journal of Food Science

Food supply chain is a rapidly growing integrated sector and covers all the aspects from farm to fork, including manufacturing, packaging, distribution, storing, as well as further processing or...

Isolation, characterization, and assessment of lactic acid bacteria toward their selection as poultry probiotics

Rine Christopher Reuben, Pravas Chandra Roy, Shovon Lal Sarkar +2

BMC Microbiology

The selected LAB strains are ideal probiotic candidates which can be applied in the field for the improvement of poultry performance and control of pathogens in poultry, hence curtailing further...

Cancer-associated thrombosis: the when, how and why

Caio Júlio César dos Santos Fernandes, Luciana Tamie Kato Morinaga, José Leonidas Alves +4

European Respiratory Review

Cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) is a condition in which relevance has been increasingly recognised both for physicians that deal with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and for oncologists. It is...

Encapsulation and delivery of bioactive compounds using spray and freeze-drying techniques: A review

Amir Rezvankhah, Zahra Emam‐Djomeh, Gholamreza Askari

Drying Technology

There are various bioactive components exist in plants, fruits, and vegetable origins that have many beneficial health effects (mainly antioxidant). However, they suffer from low-stability against...

Rural food security, subsistence agriculture, and seasonality

Kibrom T. Sibhatu, Matin Qaim

PLoS ONE

Many of the world's food-insecure and undernourished people are smallholder farmers in developing countries. This is especially true in Africa. There is an urgent need to make smallholder agriculture...

Nutrition in the Acute Phase of Critical Illness

Michaël P. Casaer, Greet Van den Berghe

New England Journal of Medicine

The quality of randomized, controlled trials was considered to be high when the study had blinded study-group assignments, a sample size sufficiently large to detect the hypothesized treatment...

Protein Encapsulation via Polypeptide Complex Coacervation

Katie A. Black, Dimitrios Priftis, Sarah L. Perry +3

ACS Macro Letters

Proteins have gained increasing success as therapeutic agents; however, challenges exist in effective and efficient delivery. In this work, we present a simple and versatile method for encapsulating...

DHA supplementation and pregnancy outcomes

Susan E. Carlson, John Colombo, Byron Gajewski +7

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Inflammation-Induced Thrombosis: Mechanisms, Disease Associations and Management

Gökhan Keser

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Although inflammation-induced thrombosis is a well-known entity, its pathogenesis remains complicated. There are complex interactions between inflammation and hemostasis, involving proinflammatory...

Modified Atmosphere Packaging Technology of Fresh and Fresh-cut Produce and the Microbial Consequences—A Review

Oluwafemi J. Caleb, Pramod V. Mahajan, Fahad Al-Julanda Al-Said +1

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Mechanisms of Ascorbate-Induced Cytotoxicity in Pancreatic Cancer

Juan Du, Sean M. Martin, Mark Levine +7

Clinical Cancer Research

These results show that pharmacologic doses of ascorbate, easily achievable in humans, may have potential for therapy in pancreatic cancer.

Relationship of Granule Size Distribution and Amylopectin Structure with Pasting, Thermal, and Retrogradation Properties in Wheat Starch

Sandeep Singh, Narpinder Singh, Naoto Isono +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Starches separated from 18 Indian wheat varieties were evaluated to see relationship of granule size distribution and amylopectin structure with pasting, thermal, and retrogradation properties....

Fitness of Escherichia coli during Urinary Tract Infection Requires Gluconeogenesis and the TCA Cycle

Christopher J. Alteri, Sara N. Smith, Harry L. T. Mobley

PLoS Pathogens

Microbial pathogenesis studies traditionally encompass dissection of virulence properties such as the bacterium's ability to elaborate toxins, adhere to and invade host cells, cause tissue damage, or...

Unraveling Microbial Interactions in Food Fermentations: from Classical to Genomics Approaches

Sander Sieuwerts, Frank Bok, Jeroen Hugenholtz +1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Fermentation, the microbial degradation of organic compounds without net oxidation, is an important process in the global carbon cycle and is also exploited worldwide for the production and...

Plant secondary metabolites: occurrence, structure and role in the human diet

Eileen Smith

Phytotherapy Research

Evidence of anti-obesity effects of the pomegranate leaf extract in high-fat diet induced obese mice

F Lei, X N Zhang, Weihong Wang +4

International Journal of Obesity

Effects of high-pressure treatment on some physicochemical and functional properties of soy protein isolates

Xiansheng Wang, Chuan‐He Tang, LI Bian-sheng +3

Food Hydrocolloids

A review of food safety and food hygiene training studies in the commercial sector

Bernadette Egan, Monique Raats, S.M. Grubb +4

Food Control

Treatment of Wilson Disease With Ammonium Tetrathiomolybdate

George J. Brewer, Fred Askari, Matthew T. Lorincz +9

Archives of Neurology

Tetrathiomolybdate is a better choice than trientine for preserving neurologic function in patients who present with neurologic disease.

Effect of xanthan gum on physicochemical properties of whey protein isolate stabilized oil-in-water emulsions

Changhui Sun, Sundaram Gunasekaran, Mark P. Richards

Food Hydrocolloids

Relation between quality of anticoagulant treatment and the development of the postthrombotic syndrome

C.J.J. van Dongen, Paolo Prandoni, Michela Frulla +3

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Anti-oxidative effects of pomegranate juice (PJ) consumption by diabetic patients on serum and on macrophages

Mira Rosenblat, Tony Hayek, Michael Aviram

Atherosclerosis

Biochemistry and physiology of sourdough lactic acid bacteria

Marco Gobbetti, Maria De Angelis, Aldo Corsetti +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Challenges with nonfiber carbohydrate methods1,2

Mary Beth Hall

Journal of Animal Science

Nonfiber carbohydrates (NFC) encompass a compositionally and nutritionally diverse group exclusive of those carbohydrates found in NDF. Their content in feeds has often been described as a single...

Microbial ferric iron reductases

Imke Schröder, Eric F. Johnson, Simon de Vries

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Almost all organisms require iron for enzymes involved in essential cellular reactions. Aerobic microbes living at neutral or alkaline pH encounter poor iron availability due to the insolubility of...

Antifungal 3-Hydroxy Fatty Acids from <i>Lactobacillus plantarum</i> MiLAB14

Jörgen Sjögren, Jesper Magnusson, Anders Broberg +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

We report the identification and chemical characterization of four antifungal substances, 3-(R)-hydroxydecanoic acid, 3-hydroxy-5-cis-dodecenoic acid, 3-(R)-hydroxydodecanoic acid and...

The effect of surfactants on the solubility, zeta potential, and viscosity of soy protein isolates

Anupam Malhotra, John N. Coupland

Food Hydrocolloids

Food irradiation—past, present and future

J.F. Diehl

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Desaturation and Elongation of Fatty Acids and Insulin Action

B. Vessby, IB Gustafsson, Siv Tengblad +2

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Insulin resistance is characterized by specific changes of the composition of fatty acids in the serum lipids and in the skeletal muscle membranes. Impaired insulin sensitivity is associated with...

Prevalence of <i>Campylobacter</i> , <i>Arcobacter</i> , <i>Helicobacter</i> , and <i>Sutterella</i> spp. in Human Fecal Samples as Estimated by a Reevaluation of Isolation Methods for Campylobacters

Jørgen Engberg, Stephen L. W. On, Clare S. Harrington +1

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

The aims of this study were to investigate the prevalence of campylobacteria including Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni (C. jejuni) and Campylobacter coli in human clinical samples and in samples...

Formation of Flavor Components by the Reaction of Amino Acid and Carbonyl Compounds in Mild Conditions

Laura Pripis‐Nicolau, Gilles de Revel, Alain Bertrand +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

This work describe products of reactions between four alpha-dicarbonyl compounds (diacetyl, pentan-2,3-dione, glyoxal, and methylglyoxal) or two alpha-hydroxy ketones, (acetoine and acetol) and amino...

Identification of a <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> RTX toxin gene cluster that is tightly linked to the cholera toxin prophage

Wei Lin, Karla Jean Fullner, Rebecca A. Clayton +6

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

We identify and characterize a gene cluster in El Tor Vibrio cholerae that encodes a cytotoxic activity for HEp-2 cells in vitro. This gene cluster contains four genes and is physically linked to the...

Health benefits of probiotics

Barry R. Goldin

British Journal Of Nutrition

This paper reviews the evidence for the claims of health benefits derived from the use of probiotics. A brief history of probiotics and the types of probiotics currently used and the criteria for the...

Relationship between bioactivity and chemical composition of commercial essential oils

Maria Lis‐Balchin, Stanley G. Deans, Elizabeth Eaglesham

Flavour and Fragrance Journal

In order to establish the value of the use of biological activities as accessory criteria (in conjunction with gas chromatography, but in the absence of enantiomeric analysis) for establishing the...