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A Review of the Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Rosmarinic Acid on Inflammatory Diseases

Chunxu Luo, Lin Zou, Huijun Sun +6

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Inflammatory diseases are caused by abnormal immune responses and are characterized by an imbalance of inflammatory mediators and cells. In recent years, the anti-inflammatory activity of natural...

Novel insights on the functional/nutritional features of the sourdough fermentation

Marco Gobbetti, Maria De Angelis, Raffaella Di Cagno +3

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Can dynamic<i>in vitro</i>digestion systems mimic the physiological reality?

Didier Dupont, Monique Alric, Stéphanie Blanquet‐Diot +14

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

During the last decade, there has been a growing interest in understanding the fate of food during digestion in the gastrointestinal tract in order to strengthen the possible effects of food on human...

Roles and applications of probiotic Lactobacillus strains

Zhongwang Zhang, Jianliang Lv, Li Pan +1

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Citrus lemon essential oil: chemical composition, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities with its preservative effect against Listeria monocytogenes inoculated in minced beef meat

Anis Ben Hsouna, Nihed Ben Halima, Slim Smaoui +1

Lipids in Health and Disease

It was suggested that the ClEO may be a new potential source as natural antimicrobial and antioxidant agents applied in food systems and pharmaceutical industry.

Strain-specific probiotic properties of lactic acid bacteria and their interference with human intestinal pathogens invasion

Raffaella Campana, Saskia van Hemert, Wally Baffone

Gut Pathogens

The LAB strains examined in this study may protect the intestinal epithelium through a series of barriers (antimicrobial activity, co-aggregation with pathogens, adherence) and interference...

On the Measurement of Food Waste

Marc F. Bellemare, Metin Çakır, Hikaru Hanawa Peterson +2

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Abstract According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, one‐quarter to one‐third of all the food produced worldwide is wasted. We develop a simple framework to...

Potential non-dairy probiotic products – A healthy approach

Anil Panghal, Sandeep Janghu, Kiran Virkar +3

Food Bioscience

Food contamination during food process

Cristina Nerı́n, Margarita Aznar, Daniel Carrizo

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Physicochemical, textural and rheological properties of probiotic yogurt fortified with fibre-rich pineapple peel powder during refrigerated storage

Baidya Nath P. Sah, Todor Vasiljevic, Stephen W. McKechnie +1

LWT

Dry fractionation for sustainable production of functional legume protein concentrates

Maarten A.I. Schutyser, Pascalle J.M. Pelgrom, Atze Jan van der Goot +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Redox-Active Selenium Compounds—From Toxicity and Cell Death to Cancer Treatment

Sougat Misra, Mallory Boylan, Arun Kumar Selvam +2

Nutrients

Selenium is generally known as an antioxidant due to its presence in selenoproteins as selenocysteine, but it is also toxic. The toxic effects of selenium are, however, strictly concentration and...

The Global Nutrition Report 2014: Actions and Accountability to Accelerate the World’s Progress on Nutrition

Lawrence Haddad, Endang Achadi, Mohamed Ag Bendech +23

Journal of Nutrition

Agricultural policy and nutrition outcomes – getting beyond the preoccupation with staple grains

Prabhu Pingali

Food Security

There is a growing disconnect between agricultural policy and contemporary nutritional challenges, the persistent problem of micronutrient malnutrition and child stunting, as well as the emerging...

The FUR (ferric uptake regulator) superfamily: Diversity and versatility of key transcriptional regulators

Marı́a F. Fillat

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Use of antibiotics as feed additives: a burning question

Madhab K. Chattopadhyay

Frontiers in Microbiology

OPINION article Front. Microbiol., 02 July 2014Sec. Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00334

Identification of T6SS-dependent effector and immunity proteins by Tn-seq in <i>Vibrio cholerae</i>

Tao Dong, Brian T. Ho, Deborah R. Yoder-Himes +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Type VI protein secretion system (T6SS) is important for bacterial competition through contact-dependent killing of competitors. T6SS delivers effectors to neighboring cells and corresponding...

Complex coacervation of soybean protein isolate and chitosan

Guoqing Huang, Yan‐Ting Sun, Jun‐Xia Xiao +1

Food Chemistry

Preterm Birth and Body Composition at Term Equivalent Age: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Mark J. Johnson, Stephen A. Wootton, Alison Leaf +1

PEDIATRICS

The body composition at TEA of infants born preterm is different than that of infants born at term. Preterm infants have less lean tissue but more similar fat mass. There is a need to determine...

Copper Homeostasis at the Host-Pathogen Interface

Victoria Hodgkinson, Michael J. Petris

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The trace element copper is indispensable for all aerobic life forms. Its ability to cycle between two oxidation states, Cu(1+) and Cu(2+), has been harnessed by a wide array of metalloenzymes that...

What defines extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli?

Christian-Daniel Köhler, Ulrich Dobrindt

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Application of spray drying for preservation of lactic acid starter cultures: a review

Seyed Hadi Peighambardoust, Abolfazl Golshan Tafti, Javad Hesari

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Ordinal Variables With Misspecified Models

Fan Yang‐Wallentin, Karl G. Jöreskog, Hao Luo

Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal

Ordinal variables are common in many empirical investigations in the social and behavioral sciences. Researchers often apply the maximum likelihood method to fit structural equation models to ordinal...

Mutations in the selenocysteine insertion sequence–binding protein 2 gene lead to a multisystem selenoprotein deficiency disorder in humans

Erik Schoenmakers, Maura Agostini, Catherine Mitchell +27

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Selenium, a trace element that is fundamental to human health, is incorporated into some proteins as selenocysteine (Sec), generating a family of selenoproteins. Sec incorporation is mediated by a...

Effect of ultrafine grinding on hydration and antioxidant properties of wheat bran dietary fiber

Ke‐Xue Zhu, Sheng Huang, Wei Peng +2

Food Research International

The type VI secretion system: translocation of effectors and effector-domains

Stefan Pukatzki, Steven B. McAuley, Sarah T. Miyata

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Effects of extracts from Italian medicinal plants on planktonic growth, biofilm formation and adherence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Cassandra L. Quave, Lisa R. W. Plano, Traci Pantuso +1

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

COPPER AND ANGIOGENESIS: UNRAVELLING A RELATIONSHIP KEY TO CANCER PROGRESSION

Lydia Finney, Stefan Vogt, Tohru Fukai +1

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

1. Angiogenesis, the formation of new capillaries from existing vasculature, is a critical process in normal physiology as well as several physiopathologies. A desire to curb the supportive role...

Zinc: Mechanisms of Host Defense1,

Ananda S. Prasad

Journal of Nutrition

Effect of milling on colour and nutritional properties of rice

Lieve Lamberts, Els De Bie, Greet E. Vandeputte +4

Food Chemistry

Survival and Growth in the Presence of Elevated Copper: Transcriptional Profiling of Copper-Stressed <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>

Gail Teitzel, Ashley Geddie, Susan K. De Long +3

Journal of Bacteriology

Transcriptional profiles of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exposed to two separate copper stress conditions were determined. Actively growing bacteria subjected to a pulse of elevated copper for a short...

Traceability in the Canadian Red Meat Sector: Do Consumers Care?

Jill E. Hobbs, DeeVon Bailey, David L. Dickinson +1

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie

Increased traceability of food and food ingredients through the agri‐food chain has featured in recent industry initiatives in the Canadian livestock sector and is an important facet of the new...

The Changing View of Acrylamide Neurotoxicity

Richard M. LoPachin

NeuroToxicology

Cholera and Other Types of Vibriosis: A Story of Human Pandemics and Oysters on the Half Shell

J. Glenn Morris, David W. K. Acheson

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Vibrios are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment and are commonly present in or on shellfish and other seafood. A small subset of strains/species are able to cause human disease, including the...

Zinc Supplement Use and Risk of Prostate Cancer

Michael F. Leitzmann, M. J. Stampfer, Kana Wu +3

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

The high concentration of zinc in the prostate suggests that zinc may play a role in prostate health. We examined the association between supplemental zinc intake and prostate cancer risk among 46...

Immunology of bacterial polysaccharide antigens

Andrej Weintraub

Carbohydrate Research

Whey Components: Millennia of Evolution Create Functionalities for Mammalian Nutrition: What We Know and What We May Be Overlooking

Rosemary L. Walzem, Cora J. Dillard, J. Bruce German

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Nutrition is undergoing a revolution owing to the recognition that some foods contain trophic, health-promoting factors distinct from essential nutrients. In this revolution, whey is increasingly...

Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC‐PUFA) and perinatal development

B. Koletzko, Carlo Agostoni, SE Carlson +6

Acta Paediatrica

For healthy infants we recommend and strongly support breastfeeding as the preferred method of feeding, which supplies preformed LC-PUFA. Infant formulas for term infants should contain at least 0.2%...

Food variety, socioeconomic status and nutritional status in urban and rural areas in Koutiala (Mali)

Anne Hatløy, Jesper Hallund, Modibo M Diarra +1

Public Health Nutrition

Food variety and dietary diversity seem to be associated with nutritional status (weight/age and height/age) of children in heterogeneous communities, as our data from urban areas showed. In rural...

Demonstrations of the influence of the eating environment on food acceptance

Herbert L. Meiselman, Joy L. Johnson, William G. Reeve +1

Appetite

OmpR Regulates the Two-Component System SsrA-SsrB in <i>Salmonella</i> Pathogenicity Island 2

Anthea K. Lee, Corrella S. Detweiler, Stanley Falkow

Journal of Bacteriology

Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2) encodes a putative, two-component regulatory system, SsrA-SsrB, which regulates a type III secretion system needed for replication inside macrophages and...

Fluorine-containing natural products

David O’Hagan, David B. Harper

Journal of Fluorine Chemistry

Export of Virulence Genes and Shiga Toxin by Membrane Vesicles of <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157:H7

Glynis L. Kolling, Karl R. Matthews

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Membrane vesicles released by Escherichia coli O157:H7 into culture medium were purified and analyzed for protein and DNA content. Electron micrographs revealed vesicles that are spherical, range in...

Validation of bioanalytical chromatographic methods

C. Hartmann, J. Smeyers–Verbeke, D.L. Massart +1

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Salmonella induces the formation of filamentous structures containing lysosomal membrane glycoproteins in epithelial cells.

Francisco García‐del Portillo, Michael B. Zwick, Ka Yin Leung +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Salmonella species invade and replicate within epithelial cells in membrane-bound vacuoles. In this report we show that upon infection of HeLa epithelial cells, Salmonella typhimurium residues in...

Identification of a Legionella pneumophila locus required for intracellular multiplication in human macrophages.

Andrea Marra, S J Blander, Marcus A. Horwitz +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The legionnaires' disease bacterium, Legionella pneumophila, is a facultative intracellular parasite. Its interaction with phagocytes has characteristics in common with several other intracellular...

Wilson Disease

George J. Brewer, Vilma Yuzbasiyan‐Gurkan

Medicine

Wilson disease is an inherited disorder of copper metabolism. Progress has been made in establishing the location of the gene on the long arm of chromosome 13, and in finding nearby probes that can...

cDNA cloning of carrot extracellular beta-fructosidase and its expression in response to wounding and bacterial infection.

Arnd Sturm, M. J. Chrispeels

The Plant Cell

We isolated a full-length cDNA for apoplastic (extracellular or cell wall-bound) beta-fructosidase (invertase), determined its nucleotide sequence, and used it as a probe to measure changes in mRNA...

VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOUR DURING THE GELATINIZATION OF STARCH I. COMPARISON OF WHEAT, MAIZE, POTATO and WAXY‐BARLEY STARCHES

A.‐C. Eliasson

Journal of Texture Studies

ABSTRACT Dynamic measurements were used to characterize the viscoelastic behavior during gelatinization of wheat, maize, potato and waxy‐barley starches. During the experimental conditions used the...