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Nanosystems in Edible Coatings: A Novel Strategy for Food Preservation

María L. Zambrano‐Zaragoza, Ricardo M. González-Reza, Néstor Mendoza‐Muñoz +4

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Currently, nanotechnology represents an important tool and an efficient option for extending the shelf life of foods. Reducing particle size to nanometric scale gives materials distinct and improved...

Imaging of acute pulmonary embolism: an update

Alastair Moore, Jason Wachsmann, Murthy Chamarthy +3

Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy

Imaging plays an important role in the evaluation and management of acute pulmonary embolism (PE). Computed tomography (CT) pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is the current standard of care and provides...

Goblet cells: multifaceted players in immunity at mucosal surfaces

Kathryn A. Knoop, Rodney D. Newberry

Mucosal Immunology

A Pseudomonas T6SS effector recruits PQS-containing outer membrane vesicles for iron acquisition

Jinshui Lin, Weipeng Zhang, Juanli Cheng +7

Nature Communications

Iron sequestration by host proteins contributes to the defence against bacterial pathogens, which need iron for their metabolism and virulence. A Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant lacking all three known...

The cocoa bean fermentation process: from ecosystem analysis to starter culture development

Luc De Vuyst, Stefan Weckx

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Cocoa bean fermentation is still a spontaneous curing process to facilitate drying of nongerminating cocoa beans by pulp removal as well as to stimulate colour and flavour development of fermented...

Screening of isolated potential probiotic lactic acid bacteria for cholesterol lowering property and bile salt hydrolase activity

Mohamed G. Shehata, Sobhy A. El‐Sohaimy, Malak A. El-Sahn +1

Annals of Agricultural Sciences

A total of 142 isolates of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated from dairy and non-dairy sources. The LAB isolates were screened for antimicrobial activity. Out of 142 isolates only 68 isolates...

The Biology of Mangroves and Seagrasses

Peter J. Hogarth

Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract Mangroves and seagrasses form extensive and highly productive ecosystems that are biologically diverse and economically valuable. This new edition provides an introduction to all aspects of...

Regional microbial signatures positively correlate with differential wine phenotypes: evidence for a microbial aspect to terroir

Sarah Knight, Steffen Klaere, Bruno Fedrizzi +1

Scientific Reports

Many crops display differential geographic phenotypes and sensorial signatures, encapsulated by the concept of terroir. The drivers behind these differences remain elusive, and the potential...

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) essential oil: Chemistry and biological activity

Shyamapada Mandal, Manisha Mandal

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Coriandrum sativum L. (C. sativum) is one of the most useful essential oil bearing spices as well as medicinal plants, belonging to the family Umbelliferae/Apiaceae. The leaves and seeds of the plant...

Buckwheat as a Functional Food and Its Effects on Health

Juan Antonio Giménez‐Bastida, Henryk Zieliński

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Buckwheat (BW) is a gluten-free pseudocereal that belongs to the Polygonaceae family. BW grain is a highly nutritional food component that has been shown to provide a wide range of beneficial...

Venous Thromboembolism and Antithrombotic Therapy in Pregnancy

Wee‐Shian Chan, Évelyne Rey, Nancy Kent +10

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Food tourism, niche markets and products in rural tourism: combining the intimacy model and the experience economy as a rural development strategy

Katia Laura Sidali, Elisabeth Kastenholz, Rossella Bianchi

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

The countryside hosts an increasing number of alternative food networks: rural tourists can play an important role in acting as both consumer and “cultural broker” between these networks. This paper...

Value-centric design of the internet-of-things solution for food supply chain: Value creation, sensor portfolio and information fusion

Zhibo Pang, Qiang Chen, Weili Han +1

Information Systems Frontiers

Exploratory Bi-Factor Analysis

Robert I. Jennrich, Peter M. Bentler

Psychometrika

Bi-factor analysis is a form of confirmatory factor analysis originally introduced by Holzinger. The bi-factor model has a general factor and a number of group factors. The purpose of this paper is...

Metabolic Effects of Krill Oil are Essentially Similar to Those of Fish Oil but at Lower Dose of EPA and DHA, in Healthy Volunteers

Stine M. Ulven, Bente Kirkhus, Amandine Lamglait +6

Lipids

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of krill oil and fish oil on serum lipids and markers of oxidative stress and inflammation and to evaluate if different molecular forms,...

Household Water Treatment in Poor Populations: Is There Enough Evidence for Scaling up Now?

Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Sandy Cairncross

Environmental Science & Technology

Point-of-use water treatment (household water treatment, HWT) has been advocated as a means to substantially decrease the global burden of diarrhea and to contribute to the Millennium Development...

A Novel Bipartite Double-Stranded RNA Mycovirus from the White Root Rot Fungus <i>Rosellinia necatrix</i> : Molecular and Biological Characterization, Taxonomic Considerations, and Potential for Biological Control

Sotaro Chiba, Lakha Salaipeth, Yu-Hsin Lin +3

Journal of Virology

White root rot, caused by the ascomycete Rosellinia necatrix, is a devastating disease worldwide, particularly in fruit trees in Japan. Here we report on the biological and molecular properties of a...

Structure and genetics of<i>Shigella</i>O antigens

Bin Liu, Yuriy A. Knirel, Lu Feng +5

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

This review covers the O antigens of the 46 serotypes of Shigella, but those of most Shigella flexneri are variants of one basic structure, leaving 34 Shigella distinct O antigens to review, together...

Chemical and antioxidant properties of pomegranate cultivars grown in the Mediterranean region of Turkey

Mustafa Özgen, C. Durgaç, Sedat Serçe +1

Food Chemistry

Brock Biology of microorganisms 12th edn.

Mercedes Berlanga

International Microbiology

Characterization of maize amylose-extender (ae) mutant starches. Part I: Relationship between resistant starch contents and molecular structures

Li Li, Hongxin Jiang, Mark Campbell +2

Carbohydrate Polymers

Risk factors and clinical impact of postoperative symptomatic venous thromboembolism

Chethan Gangireddy, John Rectenwald, Gilbert R. Upchurch +4

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Thermal imaging of cucumber leaves affected by downy mildew and environmental conditions

E.-C. Oerke

Journal of Experimental Botany

Pathogenesis of Pseudoperonospora cubensis causing downy mildew of cucumber resulted in changes in the metabolic processes within cucumber leaves including the transpiration rate. Due to the negative...

Oral, direct Factor Xa inhibition with BAY 59‐7939 for the prevention of venous thromboembolism after total hip replacement

Bengt I. Eriksson, Lars C. Borris, O.E. Dahl +5

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

THE EFFECT OF MARKET ECONOMIES ON THE WELL-BEING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ON THEIR USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES

Ricardo Godoy, Victòria Reyes-García, Elizabeth Byron +2

Annual Review of Anthropology

Assessing the effects of markets on the well-being of indigenous peoples and their conservation of natural resources matters to identify public policies to improve well-being and enhance conservation...

Resolvins, docosatrienes, and neuroprotectins, novel omega-3-derived mediators, and their aspirin-triggered endogenous epimers: an overview of their protective roles in catabasis

Charles N. Serhan, Katherine Gotlinger, Song Hong +1

Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators

Diets containing barley significantly reduce lipids in mildly hypercholesterolemic men and women

Kay M. Behall, Daniel J. Scholfield, Judith Hallfrisch

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Conjugated linoleic acid biosynthesis by human-derived Bifidobacterium species

Mairéad Coakley, R. Paul Ross, Marcus Nordgren +3

Journal of Applied Microbiology

The production of CLA by probiotic bifidobacteria offers a possible mechanism for some health-enhancing properties of bifidobacteria and provides novel opportunities for the development of functional...

Tourism: Between Place and Performance

Peter I. Rose, Simon Coleman, Mike Crang

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed...

Phagocyte sabotage: disruption of macrophage signalling by bacterial pathogens

Carrie M. Rosenberger, B. Brett Finlay

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Bacterial Contamination of Animal Feed and Its Relationship to Human Foodborne Illness

John A. Crump, Patricia M. Griffin, Frederick J. Angulo

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Animal feed is at the beginning of the food safety chain in the "farm-to-fork" model. The emergence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has raised awareness of the importance of contaminated animal...

Survival of bifidobacteria after spray-drying

Wei‐Shiung Lian

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Variability of brewer’s spent grain within a brewery

Mercedes Santos, J.J. Jiménez, Begoña Bartolomé +2

Food Chemistry

Taste Enhancements Between Various Amino Acids and IMP

Misako Kawai

Chemical Senses

It is well known that a strong synergistic interaction of umami occurs between L-alpha-amino acids with an acidic side chain, such as L-Glu or L-Asp, and 5'-mononucleotides, such as inosine...

<i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>and<i>Saccharomyces paradoxus</i>coexist in a natural woodland site in North America and display different levels of reproductive isolation from European conspecifics

Paul Sniegowski, Peter G Dombrowski, Ethan G. Fingerman

FEMS Yeast Research

We report the isolation of multiple strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus from a natural woodland site in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA, using enrichment culturing in a...

Antimicrobial Resistance of <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157 Isolated from Humans, Cattle, Swine, and Food

Carl M. Schroeder, Cuiwei Zhao, Chitrita DebRoy +7

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

A total of 361 Escherichia coli O157 isolates, recovered from humans, cattle, swine, and food during the years 1985 to 2000, were examined to better understand the prevalence of antimicrobial...

Dynamic oscillatory shear testing of foods — selected applications

Sundaram Gunasekaran, M. Mehmet Ak

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Nadroparin in the Prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis in Acute Decompensated COPD

F Fraisse, Laurent Holzapfel, JEAN-MICHEL COULAND +7

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Low molecular weight heparins are as effective as unfractionated heparin in deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis for major surgery. However, there is no evidence nor consensus for prophylaxis in...

Harmonized guidelines for the use of recovery information in analytical measurement

Michael Thompson, Stephen L. R. Ellison, A. Fajgelj +2

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Abstract Synopsis : ISO, IUPAC and AOAC INTERNATIONAL have co-operated to produce agreed protocols or guidelines on the "Design, Conduct and Interpretation of Method Performance Studies" [1] on the...

Physico-chemical properties and rheology of alginate gel beads formed with various divalent cations

Caroline Ouwerx, Nicolas M. Velings, M. M. Mestdagh +1

Polymer Gels and Networks

Biological significance of IgA1 proteases in bacterial colonization and pathogenesis: critical evaluation of experimental evidence

Mogens Kilian, Jesper Reinholdt, Hans B. Lomholt +2

Apmis

IgA1 protease activity, which allows bacteria to cleave human IgA1 in the hinge region, represents a striking example of convergent evolution of a specific property in bacteria. Although it has been...

Role of platelet activating factor and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis

Michael S. Caplan, Xiaoming Sun, Wei Hsueh +1

The Journal of Pediatrics

Interlukin-1 stimulates prostaglandin biosynthesis by human amnion

Roberto Romero, Scott K. Durum, C A Dinarello +3

Prostaglandins

The genus Campylobacter: a decade of progress

J L Penner

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

In 1977, microbiologists and clinicians were awakened to the importance of the genus Campylobacter when it was learned that one species, Campylobacter jejuni, was a major cause of human enteritis. In...

A Review of Human Salmonellosis: III. Magnitude of Salmonella Infection in the United States

R. B. Chalker, Martin J. Blaser

Clinical Infectious Diseases

National surveillance for salmonella infections was established in 1962, following recognition of the importance of Salmonella organisms as the cause of potentially preventable infectious disease in...

Free radicals and myocardial injury: pharmacologic implications.

S.W. Werns, Michael J. Shea, Benedict R. Lucchesi

Circulation

A GROWING NUMBER of articles purport to demon- strate the importance of oxygen free radicals in a variety of pathophysiologic processes, including injury due to radiation, inflammation, and oxygen...

Hereditary Hemochromatosis

George E. Cartwright, Corwin Q. Edwards, K Kravitz +4

New England Journal of Medicine

Previous studies have shown that hemochromatosis is an inherited, autosomal-recessive disease and that the gene is closely linked to the HLA locus on chromosome 6. We obtained a lod score for linkage...

Purification and characterization of a prokaryotic glycoprotein from the cell envelope of Halobacterium salinarium.

M F Mescher, Jack L. Strominger

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The glycoprotein which accounts for approximately 50% of the protein and all of the nonlipid carbohydrate of the cell envelope of Halobacterium salinarium (Mescher, M. F., Strominger, J. L., and...

RELATIVE EFFICACY OF BLOOD, URINE, RECTAL SWAB, BONE-MARROW, AND ROSE-SPOT CULTURES FOR RECOVERY OF SALMONELLA TYPHI IN TYPHOID FEVER

Robert H. Gilman, Miguel Terminel, Myron M. Levine +2

The Lancet