Research Library

A Targetable Fluorescent Sensor Reveals That Copper-Deficient <i>SCO1</i> and <i>SCO2</i> Patient Cells Prioritize Mitochondrial Copper Homeostasis

Sheel C. Dodani, Scot C. Leary, Paul A. Cobine +2

Journal of the American Chemical Society

We present the design, synthesis, spectroscopy, and biological applications of Mitochondrial Coppersensor-1 (Mito-CS1), a new type of targetable fluorescent sensor for imaging exchangeable...

A Novel Factor <i>FLOURY ENDOSPERM2</i> Is Involved in Regulation of Rice Grain Size and Starch Quality

Kao-Chih She, Hiroaki Kusano, Kazuyoshi Koizumi +20

The Plant Cell

Rice (Oryza sativa) endosperm accumulates a massive amount of storage starch and storage proteins during seed development. However, little is known about the regulatory system involved in the...

Fixed dose subcutaneous low molecular weight heparins versus adjusted dose unfractionated heparin for venous thromboembolism

Petra MG Erkens, Martin H Prins

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Fixed dose LMWH is more effective and safer than adjusted dose UFH for the initial treatment of VTE. Compared to UFH, LMWH significantly reduced the incidence of thrombotic complications, the...

Chemical composition of essential oils in Zataria multiflora Boiss. from different parts of Iran and their radical scavenging and antimicrobial activity

S. Siavash Saei‐Dehkordi, Hossein Tajik, Mehran Moradi +1

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Orthologs of the Class A4 Heat Shock Transcription Factor HsfA4a Confer Cadmium Tolerance in Wheat and Rice 

Donghwan Shim, Jae‐Ung Hwang, Joohyun Lee +5

The Plant Cell

Cadmium (Cd) is a widespread soil pollutant; thus, the underlying molecular controls of plant Cd tolerance are of substantial interest. A screen for wheat (Triticum aestivum) genes that confer Cd...

Biodiversity, ecological determinants, and metabolic exploitation of sourdough microbiota

Luc De Vuyst, Gino Vrancken, Frédéric Ravyts +2

Food Microbiology

Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy

Jack Hirsh, Gordon Guyatt, Gregory W. Albers +2

CHEST Journal

Antioxidant phenolic compounds from walnut kernels (Juglans regia L.)

Zijia Zhang, Liping Liao, Jeffrey C. Moore +2

Food Chemistry

Docosahexaenoic acid dietary supplementation enhances the effects of exercise on synaptic plasticity and cognition

Ashley Wallace, Zhe Ying, Fernando Gómez‐Pinilla

Neuroscience

Safety of aluminium from dietary intake ‐ Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids and Food Contact Materials (AFC)

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

EFSA Journal

In view of the cumulative nature of aluminium in the organism after dietary exposure, the Panel considered it more appropriate to establish a tolerable weekly intake (TWI) for aluminium&#13;\nrather...

Study of Some Physicochemical and Functional Properties of Quinoa (Chenopodium Quinoa Willd) Protein Isolates

Lilian Abugoch, Nalda Romero, Cristián Tapia +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The amino acid composition and the physicochemical and functional properties of quinoa protein isolates were evaluated. Protein isolates were prepared from quinoa seed by alkaline solubilization (at...

Treatment for 2 mo with n−3 polyunsaturated fatty acids reduces adiposity and some atherogenic factors but does not improve insulin sensitivity in women with type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled study

Morvarid Kabir, Geraldine Skurnik, Nadia Naour +9

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Commensal and pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> use a common pilus adherence factor for epithelial cell colonization

Marı́a A. Rendón, Zeus Saldaña‐Ahuactzi, Aysen L Erdem +5

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is a food-borne pathogen that causes hemorrhagic colitis and the hemolytic uremic syndrome. Colonization of the human gut mucosa and production of...

Evidence that RNA silencing functions as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungi

Gert C. Segers, Xuemin Zhang, Fuyou Deng +2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The role of RNA silencing as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungi was examined by testing the effect of dicer gene disruptions on mycovirus infection of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria...

Extraction and characterization of mucilage in Opuntia spp.

E. Sepúlveda, Carmen Sáenz, Esteban Aliaga +1

Journal of Arid Environments

Andean Potato Cultivars (<i>Solanum tuberosum</i>L.) as a Source of Antioxidant and Mineral Micronutrients

Christelle M. André, Marc Ghislain, Pierre Bertin +6

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Potato tubers were evaluated as a source of antioxidants and minerals for the human diet. A genetically diverse sample of Solanum tuberosum L. cultivars native to the Andes of South America was...

Yeast autolysis in sparkling wine – a review

Hervé Alexandre, Michèle Guilloux-Bénatier

Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research

Sparkling wine produced by the traditional méthode champenoise requires a second in-bottle alcoholic fermentation of a base wine, leading to the sparkling wine. This second fermentation is followed...

Intention to Experience Local Cuisine in a Travel Destination: The Modified Theory of Reasoned Action

Kisang Ryu, SooCheong Jang

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

This article proposes a modified theory of reasoned action model in which past behavior was added to the original theory of reasoned action model. Using the proposed model, this study investigated...

Influence of pH and pectin type on properties and stability of sodium-caseinate stabilized oil-in-water emulsions

Jeonghee Surh, Eric A. Decker, David Julian McClements

Food Hydrocolloids

The role of gut-associated lymphoid tissues and mucosal defence

Maria Luisa Forchielli, W. Allan Walker

British Journal Of Nutrition

The newborn infant leaves a germ-free intrauterine environment to enter a contaminated extrauterine world and must have adequate intestinal defences to prevent the expression of clinical...

Selenium, oxidative stress, and health aspects

Peter Brenneisen, Holger Steinbrenner, Helmut Sies

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Transfer of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Chryseobacterium miricola to Elizabethkingia gen. nov. as Elizabethkingia meningoseptica comb. nov. and Elizabethkingia miricola comb. nov.

Kwang Kyu Kim, Myung Kyum Kim, Ju Hyoung Lim +2

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

The taxonomic positions of six strains (including the type strain) of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum (King 1959) Vandamme et al. 1994 and the type strain of Chryseobacterium miricola Li et al. 2004...

Fault Diagnosis: Models, Artificial Intelligence, Applications

Kybernetes

Antioxidant activity and dietary fibre in durum wheat bran by-products

Fabrizio Esposito, Guido Arlotti, Angela Maria Bonifati +3

Food Research International

<i>Salmonella</i> Modulates Vesicular Traffic by Altering Phosphoinositide Metabolism

Lorraine D. Hernandez, Karsten Hueffer, Markus R. Wenk +1

Science

Salmonella enterica, the cause of food poisoning and typhoid fever, induces actin cytoskeleton rearrangements and membrane ruffling to gain access into nonphagocytic cells, where it can replicate and...

Bioactive berry compounds?novel tools against human pathogens

Riitta Puupponen‐Pimiä, Liisa Nohynek, Hanna‐Leena Alakomi +1

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Thin-layer infrared radiation drying of onion slices

G.P. Sharma, R. C. Verma, Pankaj B. Pathare

Journal of Food Engineering

Chemical Characterization and Biological Effects of Sicilian<i>Opuntia ficus indica</i>(L.) Mill. Fruit Juice:  Antioxidant and Antiulcerogenic Activity

Enza Maria Galati, Maria Rita Mondello, Daniele Giuffrida +4

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The juice of whole fruits of Sicilian cultivars of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus indica (L.) Mill.) was investigated, and the contents of ascorbic acid, total polyphenols, and flavonoids were...

Trends in Legionnaires Disease, 1980–1998: Declining Mortality and New Patterns of Diagnosis

Andrea L. Benin, Robert F. Benson, Richard E. Besser

Clinical Infectious Diseases

New diagnostic tests and empirical therapy for pneumonia may have important ramifications for the identification, treatment, and control of legionnaires disease (LD). To determine trends in the...

Postprandial glucose, insulin, and incretin responses to grain products in healthy subjects

Katri Juntunen, Leo Niskanen, Kirsi Liukkonen +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Plasma amino acid levels with a note on membrane transport: characteristics, regulation, and metabolic significance

Luc Cynober

Nutrition

Emulsification and microencapsulation properties of sodium caseinate/carbohydrate blends

Sean A. Hogan, Brian F. McNamee, Dolores O’Riordan +1

International Dairy Journal

Current developments of microfiltration technologyin the dairy industry

Luciana V. Saboyainsta, Jean-Louis Maubois

Le Lait

This paper deals with the most recent developments of cross flow microfiltration (CFMF), some of them just patented, in the dairy industry. Combination of the use of uniform transmembrane hydraulic...

Cactus seed germination: a review

Mariana Rojas‐Aréchiga, Carlos Vázquez-Yanes

Journal of Arid Environments

Zinc supplementation and stunted infants in Ethiopia: a randomised controlled trial

Melaku Umeta, Clive E. West, Jemal Haidar +2

The Lancet

The effect of dietary patterns on blood pressure control in hypertensive patients: Results from the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) trial

Paul R. Conlin, Dominic C. Chow, Edgar R. Miller +6

American Journal of Hypertension

To determine the impact of dietary patterns on the control of hypertension we studied the subgroup of 133 participants with systolic blood pressure (BP) of 140 to 159 mm Hg and/or diastolic BP of 90...

Molecular basis of <i>Salmonella</i>‐induced enteritis

Timothy S. Wallis, Edouard E. Galyov

Molecular Microbiology

Salmonella pathogenesis is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon. Many genes required for full virulence in mice have been identified, but only a few of these have been shown to be necessary for...

Detection of Intimins α, β, γ, and δ, Four Intimin Derivatives Expressed by Attaching and Effacing Microbial Pathogens

Jeannette Adu‐Bobie, Gad Frankel, Christopher Bain +5

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Intimins are outer membrane proteins expressed by enteric bacterial pathogens capable of inducing intestinal attachment-and-effacement lesions. A eukaryotic cell-binding domain is located within a...

Efficacy and safety of enoxaparin <i>versus</i> unfractionated heparin for prevention of deep vein thrombosis in elective cancer surgery: A double-blind randomized multicentre trial with venographic assessment

ENOXACAN Study Group, D Bergqvist, Amiram Eldor +27

British journal of surgery

BackgroundSurgery for malignant disease carries a high risk of deep vein thrombosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prophylactic effect of a low molecular weight heparin, enoxaparin, 40 mg...

Safe Water Treatment and Storage in the Home

Eric D. Mintz

JAMA

In many parts of the developing world, drinking water is collected from unsafe surface sources outside the home and is then held in household storage vessels. Drinking water may be contaminated at...

Impact of myristic acid versus palmitic acid on serum lipid and lipoprotein levels in healthy women and men.

Peter L. Zock, J.H.M. de Vries, Mira Katan

Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis A Journal of Vascular Biology

The cholesterol-raising effect of dietary saturated fatty acids is largely accounted for by lauric, myristic, and palmitic acids. Dairy fat is a major source of myristic acid, and palm oil is...

Abnormally high polychlorinated biphenyl levels in striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) affected by the 1990–1992 Mediterranean epizootic

Álex Aguilar, Asunción Borrell

The Science of The Total Environment

Structure–Function Properties of Food Proteins

Elsevier eBooks

Inactivation of Campylobacter jejuni flagellin genes by homologous recombination demonstrates that flaA but not flaB is required for invasion.

Trudy M. Wassenaar, Nancy M. C. Bleumink‐Pluym, B A van der Zeijst

The EMBO Journal

Assessment of Zinc Status

Janet C. King

Journal of Nutrition

Reduction in Fatal Pulmonary Embolism and Venous Thrombosis by Perioperative Administration of Subcutaneous Heparin

Rory Collins, Alison Scrimgeour, Salim Yusuf +2

Survey of Anesthesiology

COLLINS, R.; SCRIMGEOUR, A.; YUSUF, S.; PETO, R.; Roizen, Michael F. M.D. Author Information

A zinc-responsive factor interacts with a metal-regulated enhancer element (MRE) of the mouse metallothionein-I gene.

Gunnar Westin, W. Schaffner

The EMBO Journal