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Recent advances refining galactooligosaccharide production from lactose

Aaron Gosling, Geoffrey W. Stevens, Andrew Barber +2

Food Chemistry

Screening for Wilson disease in acute liver failure

Jessica D. Korman, Irene Volenberg, Jody Balko +6

Hepatology

Conventional WD testing utilizing serum ceruloplasmin and/or serum copper levels are less sensitive and specific in identifying patients with ALF-WD than other available tests. More readily available...

Comparative Genome Analysis of Lactobacillus reuteri and Lactobacillus fermentum Reveal a Genomic Island for Reuterin and Cobalamin Production

Hidetoshi Morita, Hidehiro Toh, Shinji Fukuda +16

DNA Research

Lactobacillus reuteri is a heterofermentative lactic acid bacterium that naturally inhabits the gut of humans and other animals. The probiotic effects of L. reuteri have been proposed to be largely...

Kinetic Modeling of Reactions In Foods

M.A.J.S. van Boekel

The level of quality that food maintains as it travels down the production-to-consumption path is largely determined by the chemical, biochemical, physical, and microbiological changes that take...

Tunisian Salvia officinalis L. and Schinus molle L. essential oils: Their chemical compositions and their preservative effects against Salmonella inoculated in minced beef meat

El Akrem Hayouni, Imed Chraief, Manaf Abedrabba +4

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Genetic and environmental determinants of children's food preferences

Jane Wardle, Lucy Cooke

British Journal Of Nutrition

Omnivores have the advantage of a variety of food options but face a challenge in identifying foods that are safe to eat. Not surprisingly, therefore, children show a relative aversion to new foods...

Host Transmission of <i>Salmonella enterica</i> Serovar Typhimurium Is Controlled by Virulence Factors and Indigenous Intestinal Microbiota

Trevor D. Lawley, Donna M. Bouley, Yana Emmy Hoy +3

Infection and Immunity

Transmission is an essential stage of a pathogen's life cycle and remains poorly understood. We describe here a model in which persistently infected 129X1/SvJ mice provide a natural model of...

Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis in Cancer Patients: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Khaled El‐Shami, Elizabeth A. Griffiths, Michael B. Streiff

The Oncologist

Thrombophilia is a well-described consequence of cancer and its treatment. The pathogenesis of this phenomenon is complex and multifactorial. Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) is a serious...

N-Terminal Pro–Brain Natriuretic Peptide or Troponin Testing Followed by Echocardiography for Risk Stratification of Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Lutz Binder, Burkert Pieske, Manfred Olschewski +4

Circulation

Our results support a simple risk stratification algorithm for patients with PE, with the use of NT-proBNP or troponin testing as an initial step that should be followed by echocardiography if...

Thoracic Ultrasound for Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism

Gebhard Mathis, Wolfgang Blank, Angelika Reißig +4

CHEST Journal

Vitamins E and C are safe across a broad range of intakes1,2

John N. Hathcock, Angelo Azzi, Jeffrey B. Blumberg +11

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Antimicrobial‐Resistant Nontyphoidal<i>Salmonella</i>Is Associated with Excess Bloodstream Infections and Hospitalizations

Jay K. Varma, Kåre Mølbak, Timothy J. Barrett +7

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Patients with antimicrobial-resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella infection were more likely to have bloodstream infection and to be hospitalized than were patients with pansusceptible infection....

Organoleptic and nutritional evaluation of wheat biscuits supplemented with untreated and treated fenugreek flour

Shalini Hooda, Sudesh Jood

Food Chemistry

Molecular Structures of Fructans from <i>Agave tequilana</i> Weber var. <i>azul</i>

Mercedes G. López, Norma Alejandra Mancilla-Margalli, Guillermo Mendoza-Dı́az

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Agave plants utilize crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) for CO(2) fixation. Fructans are the principal photosynthetic products generated by agave plants. These carbohydrates are fructose-bound...

Treatment of Wilson Disease With Ammonium Tetrathiomolybdate

George J. Brewer, Peter Hedera, Karen J. Kluin +5

Archives of Neurology

Tetrathiomolybdate appears to be an excellent form of initial treatment in patients with Wilson disease who present with neurologic symptoms and signs. In contrast to penicillamine therapy, initial...

Critical Role of Multidrug Efflux Pump CmeABC in Bile Resistance and In Vivo Colonization of<i>Campylobacter jejuni</i>

Jun Lin, Orhan Şahin, Linda O. Michel +1

Infection and Immunity

CmeABC functions as a multidrug efflux pump contributing to the resistance of Campylobacter to a broad range of antimicrobials. In this study, we examined the role of CmeABC in bile resistance and...

Interfacial rheology of food emulsifiers and proteins

Brent S. Murray

Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science

Probiotics up-regulate MUC-2 mucin gene expression in a Caco-2 cell-culture model

Aladdein Mattar, Daniel H. Teitelbaum, Robert A. Drongowski +3

Pediatric Surgery International

Dietary Probiotic Supplementation Enhances Natural Killer Cell Activity in the Elderly: An Investigation of Age-Related Immunological Changes

H. S. Gill, Kay J. Rutherfurd, Martin L. Cross

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Digestive and Bacterial Enzyme Activities in Broilers Fed Diets Supplemented with Lactobacillus Cultures

Jin Li, Yin Wan Ho, Norhani Abdullah +1

Poultry Science

A study was carried out to investigate the effects of adherent Lactobacillus cultures on 1) amylolytic, lipolytic, and proteolytic enzyme activities in the contents of the small intestine (from the...

Extraction of Rutin from Buckwheat (<i>Fagopyrum </i><i>esculentum </i>Moench) Seeds and Determination by Capillary Electrophoresis

Samo Kreft, Martina Knapp, Ivan Kreft

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The content of the flavonoid rutin was determined in different milling fractions of buckwheat seeds and in buckwheat stems, leaves, and flowers. The extraction was performed by using a solvent...

<i>Legionella pneumophila</i> Utilizes the Same Genes To Multiply within <i>Acanthamoeba castellanii</i> and Human Macrophages

Gil Segal, Howard A. Shuman

Infection and Immunity

In previous reports we described a 22-kb Legionella pneumophila chromosomal locus containing 18 genes. Thirteen of these genes (icmT, -R, -Q, -P, -O, -M, -L, -K, -E, -C, -D, -J, and -B) were found to...

Iron and zinc interactions in humans

Paul Whittaker

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The Influence of Culture Time and Passage Number on the Morphological and Physiological Development of Caco-2 Cells

Mary Briske‐Anderson, John W. Finley, Scott M. Newman

Experimental Biology and Medicine

The Caco-2 cell line is used by many investigators as a model of the intestinal epithelium to study nutrient uptake and transport. Our goal was to create an awareness of inherent variabilities in the...

Potential of lactic acid bacteria and novel antimicrobials against Gram-negative bacteria

Ilkka M. Helander, Atte von Wright, T. Mattila-Sandholm

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Identification of 3‐hydroxypalmitic acid methyl ester as a novel autoregulator controlling virulence in <i>Ralstonia solanacearum</i>

Albert B. Flavier, Steven J. Clough, Mark A. Schell +1

Molecular Microbiology

Expression of virulence genes in Ralstonia solanacearum, a phytopathogenic bacterium, is controlled by a complex regulatory network that integrates multiple signal inputs. Production of several...

The Effect of Heat–Moisture Treatment on the Structure and Physicochemical Properties of Normal Maize, Waxy Maize, Dull Waxy Maize and Amylomaize V Starches

R. Hoover, H. Manuel

Journal of Cereal Science

Enhanced Sensitivity to Oxidative Stress in Cultured Embryonic Cells from Transgenic Mice Deficient in Metallothionein I and II Genes

John S. Lazo, Yukihiro Kondo, Dana Dellapiazza +3

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Embryonic cells from transgenic mice with targeted disruption of metallothionein I and II genes expressed no detectable metallothionein either constitutively or after treatment with cadmium, in...

Seaweed Ecology and Physiology.

A.D. Boney, Christopher S. Lobban, Paul J. Harrison

Journal of Ecology

Modelling of vacuum osmotic dehydration of food

P. Fito

Journal of Food Engineering

The collapse temperature in freeze drying: Dependence on measurement methodology and rate of water removal from the glassy phase

Michael J. Pikal, Saroj Shah

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Cloning of plasmid DNA sequences involved in invasion of HeLa cells by Shigella flexneri

Anthony T. Maurelli, B. Baudry, H.M. d'Hauteville +2

Infection and Immunity

A large plasmid is found in virulent isolates of Shigella sp. and encodes functions essential for invasion of mammalian cells. To identify plasmid sequences necessary for invasion, we isolated a...

Aspects of Free Radical Reactions in Biological Systems: Aging

Brian Leibovitz, Benjamin V. Siegel

Journal of Gerontology

The role of free radicals and lipid peroxidation is reviewed with regard to the aging process. Free radicals are produced during mitochondrial respiration, during the autooxidation of a variety of...

Journal of ethnopharmacology

Laurent Rivier, Jan G. Bruhn

Brittonia

Chemical characterization of the selenoprotein component of clostridial glycine reductase: identification of selenocysteine as the organoselenium moiety.

Joyce E. Cone, Rafael Martı́n del Rı́o, J N Davis +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A small, heat-stable selenoprotein, one of the components of the glycine reductase complex, was labeled with 75Se by growth of Clostridium sticklandii in the presence of Na2 75SeO3. The...

Biochemistry of bacterial growth

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry

The Relationship Between Two Apparently Different Enterotoxins Produced By Enteropathogenic Strains Of Escherichia Coli Of Porcine Origin

Howard W. Smith, Carlton Gyles

Journal of Medical Microbiology

SUMMARY Two enterotoxins formed by enteropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli of pig origin were studied. One of them (LT) was heat-labile and antigenic and the other (ST) was heat-stable and...

Effect of Linolenic Acid Upon the Metabolism of Linoleic Acid

Hans Mohrhauer, Ralph T. Holman

Journal of Nutrition

THE DETERMINATION OF DIKETO-l-GULONIC ACID, DEHYDRO-l-ASCORBIC ACID, AND l-ASCORBIC ACID IN THE SAME TISSUE EXTRACT BY THE 2,4-DINITROPHENYLHYDRAZINE METHOD

Joseph H. Roe, Mary B. Mills, M. Jane Oesterling +1

Journal of Biological Chemistry

By the Roe and Kuether (1) method for the determination of vitamin C dehydro-Z-ascorbic (DHA) and diketo-Z-gulonic acid (DKA) are not differentiated. The basic principle of this method, however., is...

CONTRIBUTION TO THE CHEMISTRY OF PHOSPHOMOLYBDIC ACIDS, PHOSPHOTUNGSTIC ACIDS, AND ALLIED SUBSTANCES

Hsein Wu

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Current insights into protein solubility: A review of its importance for alternative proteins

Lutz Großmann, David Julian McClements

Food Hydrocolloids

Retraction of DNA-bound type IV competence pili initiates DNA uptake during natural transformation in Vibrio cholerae

Courtney K. Ellison, Triana N. Dalia, Alfredo Vidal Ceballos +4

Nature Microbiology

Isolation, structures and bioactivities of the polysaccharides from jujube fruit (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.): A review

Xiaolong Ji, Qiang Peng, Yuepeng Yuan +3

Food Chemistry

Spectrophotometric assays for total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in dog serum: an update

Camila Peres Rubio, Josefa Hernández‐Ruíz, Silvia Martínez‐Subiela +2

BMC Veterinary Research

The aim of this review is to study the main spectrophotometric methods used to evaluate total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in serum samples of dogs. Total antioxidant capacity (TAC) is an analyte...

Glutathione peroxidase 4 and vitamin E cooperatively prevent hepatocellular degeneration

Bradley A. Carlson, Ryuta Tobe, Elena Yefremova +6

Redox Biology

The selenoenzyme glutathione peroxidase 4 (Gpx4) is an essential mammalian glutathione peroxidase, which protects cells against detrimental lipid peroxidation and governs a novel form of regulated...

The Effects of Household Food Production Strategies on the Health and Nutrition Outcomes of Women and Young Children: A Systematic Review

Amy Girard, Julie L. Self, Corey McAuliffe +1

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

The objective of this review is to systematically examine and summarise the effects of agricultural interventions to increase household food production on the nutrition and health outcomes of women...

The microbiome of the chicken gastrointestinal tract

Carl J. Yeoman, Nicholas Chia, Patricio Jeraldo +3

Animal Health Research Reviews

The modern molecular biology movement was developed in the 1960s with the conglomeration of biology, chemistry, and physics. Today, molecular biology is an integral part of studies aimed at...

Characterization and probiotic potential of Lactobacillus plantarum strains isolated from cheeses

Miriam Zago, Maria Emanuela Fornasari, Domenico Carminati +5

Food Microbiology

Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA): An Ancient Nutrient for the Modern Human Brain

Joanne Bradbury

Nutrients

Modern humans have evolved with a staple source of preformed docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the diet. An important turning point in human evolution was the discovery of high-quality, easily digested...