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Magnesium Metabolism

Warren E. C. Wacker, Alfred F. Parisi

New England Journal of Medicine

OVER the decade since this subject was last reviewed in the Journal 1 much has been added to the knowledge of normal human magnesium metabolism and of its alteration in disease. This has ensued...

ROLE OF LINOLEIC ACID IN INFANT NUTRITION

Arild E. Hansen, Hilda F. Wiese, Arr Nell Boelsche +3

PEDIATRICS

Four hundred and twenty-eight infants over a 4-year period were studied for approximately 4,000 patient-months of observation while receiving five different milk mixtures varying in linoleic acid...

Effects of Cobalt γ-Radiation on Water and Aqueous Solutions

C. J. Hochanadel

The Journal of Physical Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTEffects of Cobalt γ-Radiation on Water and Aqueous SolutionsC. J. HochanadelCite this: J. Phys. Chem. 1952, 56, 5, 587–594Publication Date (Print):May 1,...

Artificial sweeteners and cancer risk: Results from the NutriNet-Santé population-based cohort study

Charlotte Debras, Eloi Chazelas, Bernard Srour +16

PLoS Medicine

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03335644.

Whole-genome sequencing of 128 camels across Asia reveals origin and migration of domestic Bactrian camels

Liang Ming, Liyun Yuan, Li Yi +27

Communications Biology

The domestic Bactrian camels were treated as one of the principal means of locomotion between the eastern and western cultures in history. However, whether they originated from East Asia or Central...

Selenium metabolism in plants

Philip J. White

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects

Applications for α-lactalbumin in human nutrition

Donald K. Layman, Bo Lönnerdal, John D. Fernstrom

Nutrition Reviews

α-Lactalbumin is a whey protein that constitutes approximately 22% of the proteins in human milk and approximately 3.5% of those in bovine milk. Within the mammary gland, α-lactalbumin plays a...

Immunological Effects of Human Milk Oligosaccharides

Vassilis Triantis, Lars Bode, R. J. Joost van Neerven

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) comprise a group of structurally complex, unconjugated glycans that are highly abundant in human milk. HMOs are minimally digested in the gastrointestinal tract and...

Effect of high-intensity ultrasound on the technofunctional properties and structure of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) seed protein isolate

Juan Alberto Resendiz Vazquez, José Armando Ulloa, Judith Esmeralda Urías‐Silvas +4

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cancer Cell Cytotoxicity: Implications for Multi-Targeted Cancer Therapy

Donatella D’Eliseo, Francesca Velotti

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Cancer is a major disease worldwide. Despite progress in cancer therapy, conventional cytotoxic therapies lead to unsatisfactory long-term survival, mainly related to development of drug resistance...

Association of Low-Birth Weight with Malnutrition in Children under Five Years in Bangladesh: Do Mother’s Education, Socio-Economic Status, and Birth Interval Matter?

Muaz Rahman, Muaz Rahman, Tamanna Howlader +3

PLoS ONE

Higher education of mother, better household socio-economic conditions and prolonged birth intervals alone are not sufficient in bringing about substantial reductions in prevalence of child...

Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research

Cristin Kearns, Laura A. Schmidt, Stanton A. Glantz

JAMA Internal Medicine

Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of sugar (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s. We examined Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) internal documents, historical reports, and...

Improving cold chain systems: Challenges and solutions

Ashvin Ashok, Michael Brison, Yann LeTallec

Vaccine

While a number of new vaccines have been rolled out across the developing world (with more vaccines in the pipeline), cold chain systems are struggling to efficiently support national immunization...

Edible film production from chia seed mucilage: Effect of glycerol concentration on its physicochemical and mechanical properties

Melina Dick, Tânia Maria Haas Costa, Ahmed Gomaa +3

Carbohydrate Polymers

Time Spent on Home Food Preparation and Indicators of Healthy Eating

Pablo Monsivais, Anju Aggarwal, Adam Drewnowski

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

The findings indicate that time might be an essential ingredient in the production of healthier eating habits among adults. Further research should investigate the determinants of spending time on...

Selenium uptake, dynamic changes in selenium content and its influence on photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Mu Zhang, Shuanhu Tang, Xu Huang +4

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Worldwide variation in human growth and the World Health Organization growth standards: a systematic review

Valerie Natale, Anuradha Rajagopalan

BMJ Open

PROSPERO (# CRD42013003675).

Pomegranate biology and biotechnology: A review

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Tikam Singh Rana, Diganta Narzary +3

Scientia Horticulturae

Pharmacological ascorbate with gemcitabine for the control of metastatic and node-positive pancreatic cancer (PACMAN): results from a phase I clinical trial

Jessemae L. Welsh, Brett A. Wagner, Thomas J. van ‘t Erve +11

Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology

Galactomannan: A versatile biodegradable seed polysaccharide

Vipul D. Prajapati, Girish K. Jani, Naresh G. Moradiya +4

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Antibacterial activity of plant essential oils and extracts: The role of thyme essential oil, nisin, and their combination to control Listeria monocytogenes inoculated in minced fish meat

Esmail Abdollahzadeh, Masoud Rezaei, Hedayat Hosseini

Food Control

Influence of ultrasonic treatment on the structure and emulsifying properties of peanut protein isolate

Qiuting Zhang, Zongcai Tu, Hui Xiao +7

Food and Bioproducts Processing

Dietary Fiber for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis

Robert E. Post, Arch G. Mainous, Dana E. King +1

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Overall, an intervention involving fiber supplementation for type 2 diabetes mellitus can reduce fasting blood glucose and HbA1c. This suggests that increasing dietary fiber in the diet of patients...

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids for the treatment and prevention of colorectal cancer

Andrew J. Cockbain, Giles J. Toogood, MA Hull

Gut

Omega (ω)-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are naturally occurring substances that are well tolerated and have been used extensively for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. More recently,...

Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda

Richard Akresh, Philip Verwimp, Tom Bundervoet

Economic Development and Cultural Change

We combine Rwandan household survey data with event data on the timing and location of localized crop failure and armed conflict to examine the impact of these distinct shocks on children’s health...

Quantitative data on the magnitude of the systemic inflammatory response and its effect on micronutrient status based on plasma measurements

Andrew Duncan, Dinesh Talwar, Donald C. McMillan +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Taste representation in the human insula

Dana M. Small

Brain Structure and Function

Eicosapentaenoic Acid Prevents and Reverses Insulin Resistance in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice via Modulation of Adipose Tissue Inflammation1–3

Nishan S. Kalupahana, Kate Claycombe, Shelley J. Newman +5

Journal of Nutrition

Selenium nanoparticles fabricated in Undaria pinnatifida polysaccharide solutions induce mitochondria-mediated apoptosis in A375 human melanoma cells

Tianfeng Chen, Yum-Shing Wong, Wenjie Zheng +2

Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces

Host-Pathogen Interactions in<i>Campylobacter</i>Infections: the Host Perspective

Riny Janssen, Karen A. Krogfelt, Shaun Cawthraw +3

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Campylobacter is a major cause of acute bacterial diarrhea in humans worldwide. This study was aimed at summarizing the current understanding of host mechanisms involved in the defense against...

High Throughput Analysis of Red Wine and Grape PhenolicsAdaptation and Validation of Methyl Cellulose Precipitable Tannin Assay and Modified Somers Color Assay to a Rapid 96 Well Plate Format

Meagan D. Mercurio, Robert G. Dambergs, Markus Herderich +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The methyl cellulose precipitable (MCP) tannin assay and a modified version of the Somers and Evans color assay were adapted to high-throughput (HTP) analysis. To improve efficiency of the MCP tannin...

Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli in inflammatory bowel disease

Nathalie Rolhion, Arlette Darfeuille–Michaud

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Increased numbers of mucosa-associated Escherichia coli are observed in both major inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). With the identification of mutations...

Unique milk protein based nanotubes: Food and nanotechnology meet

Johanna F. Graveland‐Bikker, C. G. de Kruif

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Omega-3 fatty acids improve the diagnosis-related clinical outcome*

Axel R. Heller, Susann Rößler, R. J. Litz +4

Critical Care Medicine

Administration of omega-3 fatty acid may reduce mortality, antibiotic use, and length of hospital stay in different diseases. Effects and effect sizes related to fish oil doses are diagnosis...

Biosynthesis of Selenocysteine on Its tRNA in Eukaryotes

Xue-Ming Xu, Bradley A. Carlson, Heiko Mix +6

PLoS Biology

Selenocysteine (Sec) is cotranslationally inserted into protein in response to UGA codons and is the 21st amino acid in the genetic code. However, the means by which Sec is synthesized in eukaryotes...

Selenium modulates the activities of antioxidant enzymes, osmotic homeostasis and promotes the growth of sorrel seedlings under salt stress

Lingan Kong, Mao Wang, Dongling Bi

Plant Growth Regulation

Grinding characteristics and hydration properties of coconut residue: A source of dietary fiber

S. N. Raghavendra, Sathenahally R. Ramachandra Swamy, Navin K. Rastogi +3

Journal of Food Engineering

Antibiotic susceptibility profiles of new probiotic Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains

Joseph S. Zhou, Christopher J. Pillidge, Pramod K. Gopal +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Effect of ethnicity and gender on the incidence of venous thromboembolism in a diverse population in California in 1996

Hong Zhou, Susan Murin, Danielle Harvey +1

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

There have been very few studies that have describe the epidemiology of first-time venous thromboembolism (VTE) in a large, ethnically diverse population. The California Discharge Data Set was used...

Cultured dairy products: an overview of their gelation and texture properties

J.A. Lucey

International Journal of Dairy Technology

There has been considerable research in recent years on the texture and sensory properties of cultured dairy products. This article gives an overview of the formation of structure in cultured...

The Cysteine-rich Region of T1R3 Determines Responses to Intensely Sweet Proteins

Peihua Jiang, Qingzhou Ji, Zhan Liu +4

Journal of Biological Chemistry

A wide variety of chemically diverse compounds taste sweet, including natural sugars such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, and sugar alcohols, small molecule artificial sweeteners such as saccharin and...

The absence of a flagellum leads to altered colony morphology, biofilm development and virulence in <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> O139

Paula I. Watnick, Crystal M. Lauriano, Karl E. Klose +2

Molecular Microbiology

Throughout most of history, epidemic and pandemic cholera was caused by Vibrio cholerae of the serogroup O1. In 1992, however, a V. cholerae strain of the serogroup O139 emerged as a new agent of...

The Changing Epidemiology of<i>Salmonella:</i>Trends in Serotypes Isolated from Humans in the United States, 1987–1997

Sonja J. Olsen, Richard D. Bishop, Frances W. Brenner +4

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Salmonellosis is a major cause of illness in the United States. To highlight recent trends, data for 1987-1997 from the National Salmonella Surveillance System were analyzed. A total of 441,863...

Gas chromatographic technologies for the analysis of essential oils

Philip J. Marriott, Robert A. Shellie, C.F. Cornwell

Journal of Chromatography A

Pulmonary Embolism Detection: Prospective Evaluation of Dual-Section Helical CT versus Selective Pulmonary Arteriography in 157 Patients

Salah D. Qanadli, Mostafa El Hajjam, Benoı̂t Mesurolle +7

Radiology

Dual-section helical CT is an improvement in helical CT that offers a high sensitivity and specificity for the depiction of PE, including at the subsegmental level. Dual-section helical CT can...

Systemic Absorption of Food Dye in Patients with Sepsis

James P. Maloney, Ann C. Halbower, Brian F. Fouty +5

New England Journal of Medicine

To the Editor: Critically ill patients who are receiving enteral feeding are susceptible to pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents. Measures to enhance the early detection of aspiration include the...

Nitric oxide counteracts cytotoxic processes mediated by reactive oxygen species in plant tissues

Marı́a Verónica Beligni, Lorenzo Lamattina

Planta

Chronic administration of docosahexaenoic acid improves reference memory-related learning ability in young rats

Shuji Gamoh, Michio Hashimoto, Kozo Sugioka +4

Neuroscience