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Early administration of <i>Bifidobacterium breve</i> to preterm infants: randomised controlled trial

Hiroyuki Kitajima, Yorinobu Sumida, Ryuichiro Tanaka +3

Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal

AIM To investigate the colonisation with Bifidobacterium breve of the bowels of very low birthweight (VLBW) infants. METHODS The adverse effects of B breve were examined in 66 VLBW infants...

Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors Are Associated with Worldwide Patterns of Stunting and Wasting of Children

Edward A. Frongillo, Mercedes de Onís, Kathleen M.P. Hanson

Journal of Nutrition

Characterization of the lactic acid bacteria in artisanal dairy products

Timothy M. Cogan, Manuela Barbosa, Éric Beuvier +10

Journal of Dairy Research

In all, 4379 isolates from 35 products, including 24 artisanal cheeses, were surveyed with a view to identifying strains that could be used as starters in commercial dairy fermentations. Of the...

Molecular analysis of <i>spv</i> virulence genes of the salmonella virulence plasmids

Paul A. Gulig, Hirofumi Danbara, Donald G. Guiney +3

Molecular Microbiology

Genes on an 8 kb region common to the virulence plasmids of several serovars of Salmonella are sufficient to replace the entire plasmid in enabling systemic infection in animal models. This virulence...

Data‐derived safety factors for the evaluation of food additives and environmental contaminants

A.G. Renwick

Food Additives & Contaminants

A safety factor of 100-fold is commonly applied to animal data to derive the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of food additives; other factors have been used in some cases and higher values are used...

Salmonella Interactions with Polarized Human Intestinal Caco-2 Epithelial Cells

B. Brett Finlay, Stanley Falkow

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Polarized monolayers of the human intestinal epithelial Caco-2 cell line were grown on permeable filters and infected apically with either Salmonella choleraesuis or Salmonella typhimurium. Both...

Increased Intestinal Permeability Associated With Infection in Burn Patients

Thomas R. Ziegler

Archives of Surgery

Thermal injury may be associated with disruption of normal gut barrier integrity. To test this hypothesis, we assessed intestinal permeability with the nonmetabolizable, poorly absorbed disaccharide...

Involvement of Abscisic Acid in Potato Cold Acclimation

H H Chen, P. H. Li, M. L. Brenner

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Upon exposure to 2 degrees C day/night (D/N), leaves of Solanum commersonii (Sc) began acclimating on the 4th day from a -5 degrees C (killing temperature) hardy level to -12 degrees C by the 15th...

Farmer-back-to-farmer: A model for generating acceptable agricultural technology

Robert E. Rhoades, Robert H. Booth

Agricultural Administration

Ventilation-perfusion studies in suspected pulmonary embolism

DR Biello, AG Mattar, RC McKnight +1

American Journal of Roentgenology

The results of ventilation-perfusion (V-Q) imaging and pulmonary angiography were retrospectively analyzed in 146 patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) to define the frequency of PE...

Urokinase-Streptokinase Embolism Trial

JAMA

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Membrane Fatty Acids Associated with the Electrical Response in Visual Excitation

R. M. Benolken, Robert E. Anderson, Thomas G. Wheeler

Science

The fatty acid composition of rat photoreceptor membranes was altered by dietary manipulation. A functional alteration was also observed in the component of the electroretinogram which is generated...

<i>Venous Pressure in the Saphenous Vein at the Ankle in Man during Exercise and Changes in Posture</i>

Albert A. Pollack, Earl H. Wood

Journal of Applied Physiology

Nanoemulsions for drug delivery

Russell J. Wilson, Yang Li, Guangze Yang +1

Particuology

Emulsions are liquid–liquid dispersions with one liquid phase dispersed in the other liquid phase as small droplets. Nanoemulsions are nano-sized emulsions with sizes ranging from tens to hundreds of...

Indole-3-lactic acid, a metabolite of tryptophan, secreted by Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis is anti-inflammatory in the immature intestine

Di Meng, Eduardo Sommella, Emanuela Salviati +5

Pediatric Research

Mutations in SLC39A14 disrupt manganese homeostasis and cause childhood-onset parkinsonism–dystonia

Karin Tuschl, Esther Meyer, Leonardo E. Valdivia +27

Nature Communications

Although manganese is an essential trace metal, little is known about its transport and homeostatic regulation. Here we have identified a cohort of patients with a novel autosomal recessive manganese...

Nutritional and biological value of quinoa ( Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)

Rubén Vilcacundo, Blanca Hernández‐Ledesma

Current Opinion in Food Science

Biochar Mitigates Salinity Stress in Potato

Saqib Saleem Akhtar, Mathias Neumann Andersen, Fulai Liu

Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science

Abstract A pot experiment was conducted in a climate‐controlled greenhouse to investigate the growth, physiology and yield of potato in response to salinity stress under biochar amendment. It was...

Resveratrol encapsulation: Designing delivery systems to overcome solubility, stability and bioavailability issues

Gabriel Davidov‐Pardo, David Julian McClements

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Applications of Natural Polymer Gum Arabic: A Review

Seema Patel, Arun Goyal

International Journal of Food Properties

Gum arabic is the complex exudate of the Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal tree. This dried sap with immense commercial value is a global commodity, generally harvested in Africa and Western Asia....

Genome-wide association study identifies vitamin B ₅ biosynthesis as a host specificity factor in <i>Campylobacter</i>

Samuel K. Sheppard, Xavier Didelot, Guillaume Méric +7

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Genome-wide association studies have the potential to identify causal genetic factors underlying important phenotypes but have rarely been performed in bacteria. We present an association mapping...

Probiotic Effects on Late-onset Sepsis in Very Preterm Infants: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Susan E Jacobs, Jacinta Tobin, Gillian Opie +5

PEDIATRICS

The probiotics B infantis, S thermophilus, and B lactis significantly reduced NEC of Bell stage 2 or more in very preterm infants, but not definite late-onset sepsis or mortality. Treatment with this...

Antioxidants that protect mitochondria reduce interleukin-6 and oxidative stress, improve mitochondrial function, and reduce biochemical markers of organ dysfunction in a rat model of acute sepsis

Damon A. Lowes, Nigel R. Webster, Michael P. Murphy +1

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Potential biological fate of ingested nanoemulsions: influence of particle characteristics

David Julian McClements, Hang Xiao

Food & Function

Edible nanoemulsions have great potential for utilization in the food and beverage industries to encapsulate, protect, and deliver lipophilic functional components claimed to have health benefits...

Population Genetics of Vibrio cholerae from Nepal in 2010: Evidence on the Origin of the Haitian Outbreak

René S. Hendriksen, Lance B. Price, James M. Schupp +12

mBio

Cholera continues to be an important cause of human infections, and outbreaks are often observed after natural disasters, such as the one following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Once the cholera...

Increased Short- and Long-Term Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease After Salmonella or Campylobacter Gastroenteritis

M.F. Picco

Yearbook of Gastroenterology

Properties of Bread Dough with Added Fiber Polysaccharides and Phenolic Antioxidants: A Review

Anusooya S. Sivam, Dongxiao Sun‐Waterhouse, Siew Young Quek +1

Journal of Food Science

During breadmaking, different ingredients are used to ensure the development of a continuous protein network that is essential for bread quality. Interests in incorporating bioactive ingredients such...

Modulation of Shigella virulence in response to available oxygen in vivo

Benoît Marteyn, Nicholas P. West, Douglas F. Browning +7

Nature

A widespread family of polymorphic contact-dependent toxin delivery systems in bacteria

Stephanie K. Aoki, Elie J. Diner, Claire T.Kint De Roodenbeke +8

Nature

G protein‐coupled receptor hetero‐dimerization: contribution to pharmacology and function

Graeme Milligan

British Journal of Pharmacology

The concept that G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can form hetero-dimers or hetero-oligomers continues to gain experimental support. However, with the exception of the GABA(B) receptor and the...

Rheological properties of gluten-free bread formulations

İlkem Demirkesen, Behiç Mert, Gülüm Şümnü +1

Journal of Food Engineering

Common susceptibility alleles are unlikely to contribute as strongly as the FV and ABO loci to VTE risk: results from a GWAS approach

David‐Alexandre Trégouët, Simon Heath, Noémie Saut +12

Blood

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a complex disease that has a major genetic component of risk. To identify genetic factors that may modify the risk of VTE, we conducted a genome-wide association study...

The Salmonella-containing vacuole—Moving with the times

Olivia Steele‐Mortimer

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Alcohol, intestinal bacterial growth, intestinal permeability to endotoxin, and medical consequences: Summary of a symposium

Vishnudutt Purohit, J. Christian Bode, Christiane Bode +9

Alcohol

Determination of antioxidant and radical scavenging activity of Basil (<i>Ocimum basilicum L.</i> Family Lamiaceae) assayed by different methodologies

İlhami Gülçın, Mahfuz Elmastaş, Hassan Y. Aboul‐Enein

Phytotherapy Research

Abstract The antioxidant properties of plants have been investigated, in the light of recent scientific developments, throughout the world due to their potent pharmacological activities and food...

Anhydrobiotics: The challenges of drying probiotic cultures

X.C. Meng, Catherine Stanton, Gerald F. Fitzgerald +2

Food Chemistry

Effects of protein concentration and oil-phase volume fraction on the stability and rheology of menhaden oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by whey protein isolate with xanthan gum

Changhui Sun, Sundaram Gunasekaran

Food Hydrocolloids

Variability in essential oil composition of Turkish basils (Ocimum basilicum L.)

İsa Telci̇, Emine Bayram, Güngör Yılmaz +1

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Grassmannians and Cluster Algebras

Joshua S. Scott

Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society

This paper follows the program of study initiated by S. Fomin and A. Zelevinsky, and demonstrates that the homogeneous coordinate ring of the Grassmannian G ( k , n ) is a cluster algebra of...

Fatty Acids as Modulators of the Immune Response

Kevin L. Fritsche

Annual Review of Nutrition

Research describing fatty acids as modulators of inflammation and immune responses abounds. Many of these studies have focused on one particular group of fatty acids, omega-3. The data from animal...

Dietary supplementation of arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids improves cognitive dysfunction

Susumu Kotani, Eiko Sakaguchi, Shogo Warashina +7

Neuroscience Research

Ctr1 drives intestinal copper absorption and is essential for growth, iron metabolism, and neonatal cardiac function

Yasuhiro Nose, Byung‐Eun Kim, Dennis J. Thiele

Cell Metabolism

Nitrate accumulation in plants, factors affecting the process, and human health implications. A review

Shahid Umar Anjana, Muhammad Iqbal

Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Bacterial zinc uptake and regulators

Klaus Hantke

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Copper deficiency myelopathy produces a clinical picture like subacute combined degeneration

Neeraj Kumar, John B. Gross, J. Eric Ahlskog

Neurology

Unrecognized copper deficiency appears to be a common cause of idiopathic myelopathy in adults. The clinical picture bears striking similarities to the syndrome of subacute combined degeneration...

Role of cell walls in the bioaccessibility of lipids in almond seeds

P. R. Ellis, Cyril W.C. Kendall, Yilong Ren +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Fatty acids, the immune response, and autoimmunity: A question of n−6 essentiality and the balance between n−6 and n−3

L. S. Harbige

Lipids

The essentiality of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) is described in relation to a thymus/thymocyte accretion of arachidonic acid (20:4n-6, AA) in early development, and the high requirement of...

Structural and physical characteristics of waxy and other wheat starches

Sang‐Ho Yoo

Carbohydrate Polymers