Research Library

Antioxidant activity of medicinal and aromatic plants. A review.

Maria Graça Miguel

Flavour and Fragrance Journal

Abstract Antioxidant properties have been attributed to the essential oils but a great diversity of results has been reported, mainly attributed to the chemical composition of the essential oils and...

Antioxidant and antiproliferative activities of common edible nut seeds

Jun Yang, Rui Hai Liu, Linna Halim

LWT

Novel Role of Antioxidant-1 (Atox1) as a Copper-dependent Transcription Factor Involved in Cell Proliferation

Shinichi Itoh, Ha Won Kim, Osamu Nakagawa +7

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Copper plays a fundamental role in regulating cell growth. Many types of human cancer tissues have higher copper levels than normal tissues. Copper can also induce gene expression. However,...

Orosensory-Directed Identification of Astringent Mouthfeel and Bitter-Tasting Compounds in Red Wine

Jan Carlos Hufnagel, Thomas Hofmann

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Application of sequential solvent extraction, followed by HPLC combined with the taste dilution analysis, enabled the localization of the most intense velvety astringent, drying, and puckering...

Vitamin K and Vitamin D Status: Associations with Inflammatory Markers in the Framingham Offspring Study

M. Kyla Shea, Sarah L. Booth, Joseph M. Massaro +9

American Journal of Epidemiology

In vitro data suggest protective roles for vitamins K and D in inflammation. To examine associations between vitamins K and D and inflammation in vivo, the authors used multiple linear regression...

Fatty acids and early human development

Sheila M. Innis

Early Human Development

Efficacy of conjugated linoleic acid for reducing fat mass: a meta-analysis in humans

Leah D. Whigham, Abigail C. Watras, Dale A. Schoeller

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Anti-Inflammatory Effect of <i>Lactobacillus casei</i> on <i>Shigella</i> -Infected Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells

Meng-Tsung Tien, Stephen E. Girardin, Béatrice Regnault +6

The Journal of Immunology

Shigella invades the human intestinal mucosa, thus causing bacillary dysentery, an acute recto-colitis responsible for lethal complications, mostly in infants and toddlers. Conversely, commensal...

Docosahexaenoic acid induces an anti-inflammatory profile in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated human THP-1 macrophages more effectively than eicosapentaenoic acid

Sinéad Weldon, Anne Mullen, Christine E. Loscher +2

The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Meat as a First Complementary Food for Breastfed Infants: Feasibility and Impact on Zinc Intake and Status

Nancy F. Krebs, Jamie Westcott, Nancy Butler +3

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Introduction of meat as an early complementary food for exclusively breastfed infants is feasible and was associated with improved zinc intake and potential benefits. The high percentage of infants...

Strong antimicrobial activity of<i>Lactobacillus rhamnosus</i>GG against<i>Salmonella typhimurium</i>is due to accumulation of lactic acid

Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker, Tine Verhoeven, Jos Desair +3

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Spent culture supernatant (SCS) of the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG had been reported to exert antibacterial activity against Salmonella typhimurium. However, the chemical identity of the...

Effect of alginate concentrations on survival of microencapsulated Lactobacillus casei NCDC-298

Surajit Mandal, Anil Kumar Puniya, K. P. Singh

International Dairy Journal

Pushing the envelope: extracytoplasmic stress responses in bacterial pathogens

Gary Rowley, Michael Spector, Ján Kormanec +1

Nature Reviews Microbiology

The effect of surface composition on the functional properties of milk powders

J. J. Nijdam, T.A.G. Langrish

Journal of Food Engineering

Inulin, oligofructose and immunomodulation

Bernhard Watzl, Stephanie Girrbach, Monika Roller

British Journal Of Nutrition

Diet is known to modulate immune functions in multiple ways and to affect host resistance to infections. Besides the essential nutrients, non-essential food constituents such as non-digestible...

Extensive screening for occult malignant disease in idiopathic venous thromboembolism: a prospective randomized clinical trial

Andrea Piccioli, A.W.A. Lensing, Martin H. Prins +8

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Historical Concepts of Interactions, Synergism and Antagonism between Nutrition and Infection

Nevin S. Scrimshaw

Journal of Nutrition

Microbially triggered drug delivery to the colon

Vivek Ranjan Sinha, Rachna Kumria

European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Mucosal immunity: integration between mother and the breast-fed infant

P Brandtzæg

Vaccine

Spatializing Quality: Regional Protection and the Alternative Geography of Food

Nicholas Parrott, Natasha Wilson, Jonathan Murdoch

European Urban and Regional Studies

The globalization of trade in foodstuffs is now a firmly established feature on the landscape of economic geography, although its impacts and desirability remain the source of controversy. Yet, while...

Sensory interpretation of instrumental measurements 2: sweet and acid taste of apple fruit

F. Roger Harker, Ken Marsh, H. Young +3

Postharvest Biology and Technology

The United States National Prospective Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Study: Microbiologic, Serologic, Clinical, and Epidemiologic Findings

Nick Banatvala, Patricia M. Griffin, Katherine D. Greene +4

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

The frequency of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serotypes associated with postdiarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) cases among children and adults in the United States and the...

Role of biofilms in the survival of Legionella pneumophila in a model potable-water system

Ricardo Murga, Janet Pruckler, Terri S. Forster +3

Microbiology

Legionellae can infect and multiply intracellularly in both human phagocytic cells and protozoa. Growth of legionellae in the absence of protozoa has been documented only on complex laboratory media....

Bacterial DNA Containing CpG Motifs Stimulates Lymphocyte-Dependent Protection of Mice Against Lethal Infection with Intracellular Bacteria

Karen L. Elkins, Tonya R. Rhinehart-Jones, Scott Stibitz +2

The Journal of Immunology

Bacterial DNA containing unmethylated CpG motifs activates mammalian lymphocytes and macrophages to produce cytokines and polyclonal Ig. These include IFN-gamma, IL-12, TNF-alpha, and IL-6, which are...

Contribution of<i>Salmonella typhimurium</i>Virulence Factors to Diarrheal Disease in Calves

Renée M. Tsolis, L. Garry Adams, Thomas A. Ficht +1

Infection and Immunity

Limited knowledge is available about the virulence mechanisms responsible for diarrheal disease caused by Salmonella typhimurium. To assess the contribution to diarrheal disease of virulence...

A comparison of nitrogen values obtained utilizing the Kjeldahl nitrogen and Dumas combustion methodologies (Leco CNS 2000) on samples typical of an animal nutrition analytical laboratory

Ronald Drew Etheridge, G.M. Pesti, Evan Foster

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Potential contribution of maternal zinc supplementation during pregnancy to maternal and child survival

Laura E Caulfield, Nelly Zavaleta, Anuraj H. Shankar +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Liver Complications of Pediatric Parenteral Nutrition—Epidemiology

Déirdre Kelly

Nutrition

The Human Nramp2 Gene: Characterization of the Gene Structure, Alternative Splicing, Promoter Region and Polymorphisms

Pauline L. Lee, Terri Gelbart, Carol West +2

Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases

Fatty acid modulation of K+ channels in taste receptor cells: gustatory cues for dietary fat

Timothy A. Gilbertson, Daniel Fontenot, Lidong Liu +2

American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology

In an attempt to determine the chemosensory cues, if any, provided by fats in the oral cavity, we have performed patch-clamp recordings on isolated rat taste receptor cells during application of free...

Season of birth predicts mortality in rural Gambia

Sophie E. Moore, Timothy J. Cole, E.M.E. Poskitt +4

Nature

Oenological properties of non-Saccharomyces yeasts associated with wine-making

Maurizio Ciani, F. Maccarelli

World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Characterization and Fermentation of Dilute-Acid Hydrolyzates from Wood

Mohammad J. Taherzadeh, Robert Eklund, Lena Gustafsson +2

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Dilute-acid hydrolyzates from alder, aspen, birch, willow, pine, and spruce were fermented without prior detoxification. The hydrolyzates were prepared by a one-stage hydrolysis process using...

Sorghum and millets: chemistry and technology

Bruce R. Hamaker

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Phagocytosis by zippers and triggers

Joel A. Swanson, Stephen C. Baer

Trends in Cell Biology

Cholera toxin B subunit: an efficient transmucosal carrier-delivery system for induction of peripheral immunological tolerance.

Jiabin Sun, Jan Holmgren, Cécil Czerkinsky

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Oral administration of antigens, including allergens and autoantigens, may be an efficient way to prevent diseases associated with untoward immune responses to self- and non-self-antigens. However,...

Distribution of Thrombosis in Patients With Symptomatic Deep Vein Thrombosis

Alberto Cogo

Archives of Internal Medicine

Most symptomatic patients have extensive occlusive proximal vein thrombosis at the time of presentation. Thrombi isolated to the superficial femoral or iliac vein were not observed in this large...

<i>γ</i>-carboxyglutamate-containing proteins and the vitamin K-dependent carboxylase

Cees Vermeer

Biochemical Journal

Research Article| March 15 1990 γ-carboxyglutamate-containing proteins and the vitamin K-dependent carboxylase C Vermeer C Vermeer 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Limburg, P.O. Box 616,...

Tissue‐specific regulation of zinc metabolism and metallothionein genes by interleukin 1

Robert J. Cousins, Annette S. Leinart

The FASEB Journal

Interleukin 1 (IL 1) production is stimulated by infection, cellular injury, and inflammation. This cytokine directs a wide spectrum of host responses. Human interleukin 1 alpha (IL 1 alpha) was used...

Relationship between oil uptake and moisture loss during frying of potato slices from c. v. Record U.K. tubers

Michael Gamble, Peter Rice, J. D. Selman

International Journal of Food Science & Technology

Summary The variations in moisture content and oil content of samples of 1.5‐mm thick slices of potato (c.v. Record U.K.) were examined after various frying times at frying temperatures of 145, 165...

Methodology Review: Analysis of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices

Neal Schmitt, Daniel M. Stults

Applied Psychological Measurement

Procedures for analyzing multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) matrices are reviewed. Confirmatory factor analysis (Jöreskog, 1974) is presented as a general model allowing evaluation of the discriminant and...

Factors associated with correct antemortem diagnosis of major pulmonary embolism

Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Charles H. Hennekens, Denis A. Evans +2

The American Journal of Medicine

Glycolipid receptors for uropathogenic Escherichia coli on human erythrocytes and uroepithelial cells

Hakon Leffler, C Svanborg-Edén

Infection and Immunity

A specific family of glycolipids, the globoseries, was shown to act as receptors on human uroepithelial cells and erythrocytes for the majority of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains attaching to...

Two aldehyde dehydrogenases from human liver. Isolation via affinity chromatography and characterization of the isozymes

Norma J. Greenfield, Regina Pietruszko

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Enzymology

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Isolated from Patients with Severe Cholera-like Disease

R. Bradley Sack, S. L. Gorbach, John G. Banwell +3

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Isolated from Patients with Severe Cholera-like Disease R. Bradley Sack, R. Bradley Sack From the Johns Hopkins University Center for Medical Research and Training,...

Inhibition of bacteria by lactoferrin and other iron-chelating agents

J. D. Oram, B. Reiter

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects

Prostaglandins and Related Factors

Erik Änggård, Bengt Samuelsson

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Associations among Dietary Omega‐3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, the Gut Microbiota, and Intestinal Immunity

Yawei Fu, Yadong Wang, Hu Gao +5

Mediators of Inflammation

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs), which are essential fatty acids that humans should obtain from diet, have potential benefits for human health. In addition to altering the...

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as an Emerging Ubiquitous Pathogen: Looking Beyond Contemporary Antibiotic Therapy

Anthony A. Adegoke, Thor Axel Stenström, Anthony I. Okoh

Frontiers in Microbiology

<i>Stenotrophomonas maltophilia</i> is a commensal and an emerging pathogen earlier noted in broad-spectrum life threatening infections among the vulnerable, but more recently as a pathogen in...