Research Library

Trans fats—sources, health risks and alternative approach - A review

Vandana Dhaka, Neelam Gulia, K. S. Ahlawat +1

Journal of Food Science and Technology

Effects of<i>n</i>-3 fatty acids, EPA<i>v</i>. DHA, on depressive symptoms, quality of life, memory and executive function in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a 6-month randomised controlled trial

Natalie Sinn, Catherine M. Milte, Steven J. Street +4

British Journal Of Nutrition

Depressive symptoms may increase the risk of progressing from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia. Consumption of n-3 PUFA may alleviate both cognitive decline and depression. The aim of the...

Biotechnological potential of inulin for bioprocesses

Zhen‐Ming Chi, Tong Zhang, Tian-Shu Cao +3

Bioresource Technology

Examination of faecal Bifidobacterium populations in breast- and formula-fed infants during the first 18 months of life

Laure C. Roger, Adele Costabile, Diane T. Holland +2

Microbiology

Bifidobacteria in the infant faecal microbiota have been the focus of much interest, especially during the exclusive milk-feeding period and in relation to the fortification of infant formulae to...

Characterization and antimicrobial activity of essential oils of industrial hemp varieties (Cannabis sativa L.)

Lorenzo Nissen, Alessandro Zatta, Ilaria Stefanini +4

Fitoterapia

Study on the antibiotic activity of microcapsule curcumin against foodborne pathogens

Yu Wang, Zhaoxin Lu, Hao Wu +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Gelation properties of salt-extracted pea protein induced by heat treatment

Xiang Dong Sun, Susan D. Arntfield

Food Research International

Response surface methodology for optimization of extraction yield, viscosity, hue and emulsion stability of mucilage extracted from Lepidium perfoliatum seeds

Arash Koocheki, Ali R. Taherian, Seyed Mohammad Ali Razavi +1

Food Hydrocolloids

Interfacial rheology of protein–surfactant mixtures

Julia Maldonado‐Valderrama, Juan M. Rodrı́guez Patino

Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science

Sourdough in gluten-free bread-making: An ancient technology to solve a novel issue?

Alice Moroni, Fabio Dal Bello, Elke K. Arendt

Food Microbiology

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Nutrition Reviews

<i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> activates caspase 1 through Ipaf

Edward A. Miao, Robert K. Ernst, Monica Dors +2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The innate immune system encodes cytosolic Nod-like receptors (NLRs), several of which activate caspase 1 processing and IL-1beta and IL-18 secretion. Macrophages respond to Salmonella typhimurium...

The omega-3 index as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

William S. Harris

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Microplate quantification of enzymes of the plant ascorbate–glutathione cycle

Ramzi Murshed, Félicie Lopez‐Lauri, Huguette Sallanon

Analytical Biochemistry

Supramolecular Structure of the Casein Micelle

Donald J. McMahon, B. S. Oommen

Journal of Dairy Science

The supramolecular structure of colloidal casein micelles in milk was investigated by using a sample preparation protocol based on adsorption of proteins onto a poly-l-lysine and parlodion-coated...

Trans Fatty Acids and Bioactive Lipids in Ruminant Milk

K.J. Shingfield, Yves Chilliard, Vesa Toivonen +2

Advances in experimental medicine and biology

School feeding for improving the physical and psychosocial health of disadvantaged students

Betsy Kristjansson, Mark Petticrew, Barbara Macdonald +10

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

School meals may have some small benefits for disadvantaged children. We recommend further well-designed studies on the effectiveness of school meals be undertaken, that results should be reported...

Pomegranate Ellagitannin-Derived Metabolites Inhibit Prostate Cancer Growth and Localize to the Mouse Prostate Gland

Navindra P. Seeram, William J. Aronson, Yanjun Zhang +10

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Our group has shown in a phase II clinical trial that pomegranate juice (PJ) increases prostate specific antigen (PSA) doubling time in prostate cancer (CaP) patients with a rising PSA. Ellagitannins...

Risk of venous thrombosis: obesity and its joint effect with oral contraceptive use and prothrombotic mutations

Elisabeth R. Pomp, Saskia le Cessie, Frits R. Rosendaal +1

British Journal of Haematology

In the Multiple Environmental and Genetic Assessment of risk factors for venous thrombosis (MEGA study), body weight, height and body mass index (BMI) were evaluated as risk factors. Additionally,...

Construction of a <i>Vibrio splendidus</i> Mutant Lacking the Metalloprotease Gene <i>vsm</i> by Use of a Novel Counterselectable Suicide Vector

Frédérique Le Roux, Johan Binesse, Denis Saulnier +1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Vibrio splendidus is a dominant culturable Vibrio in seawater, and strains related to this species are also associated with mortality in a variety of marine animals. The determinants encoding the...

Effect of Fish Oil on Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia and Death in Patients With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

Ingeborg A. Brouwer, Peter L. Zock, A. John Camm +10

JAMA

clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00110838.

Essential amino acids of starch synthase IIa differentiate amylopectin structure and starch quality between japonica and indica rice varieties

Yasunori Nakamura, Perigio B. Francisco, Yuko Hosaka +4

Plant Molecular Biology

Specific interactions between Dicer-like proteins and HYL1/DRB- family dsRNA-binding proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

Akihiro Hiraguri, Riku Itoh, Naoko Kondo +7

Plant Molecular Biology

Molecular Koch's postulates applied to bacterial pathogenicity — a personal recollection 15 years later

Stanley Falkow

Nature Reviews Microbiology

<i>rpoB</i> Gene Sequencing for Identification of <i>Corynebacterium</i> Species

Atieh Khamis, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

The genus Corynebacterium is a heterogeneous group of species comprising human and animal pathogens and environmental bacteria. It is defined on the basis of several phenotypic characters and the...

Complexation of Whey Proteins with Carrageenan

Fanny Weinbreck, Hans Nieuwenhuijse, Gerard W. Robijn +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The formation of electrostatic complexes of whey protein (WP) and a nongelling carrageenan (CG) was investigated as a function of pH, ionic strength, temperature, and protein-to-polysaccharide...

Principal Components Analysis With Nonlinear Optimal Scaling Transformations for Ordinal and Nominal Data

Jacqueline J. Meulman, Anita van der Kooij, Willem J. Heiser

This chapter focuses on the analysis of ordinal and nominal multivariate data, using a special variety of principal components analysis that includes nonlinear optimal scaling transformation of the...

Antioxidative probiotic fermented goats' milk decreases oxidative stress-mediated atherogenicity in human subjects

Tiiu Kullisaar, Epp Songisepp, Marika Mikelsaar +3

British Journal Of Nutrition

The increasing interest in a healthy diet is stimulating innovative development of novel scientific products in the food industry. The viable lactic acid bacteria in fermented milk products, such as...

Type IV Pilin Structure and Assembly

Lisa Craig, Ronald K. Taylor, Michael E. Pique +9

Molecular Cell

Meat eating and human evolution

Curtis W. Marean

American Journal of Human Biology

Consumption of diacylglycerol oil as part of a reduced-energy diet enhances loss of body weight and fat in comparison with consumption of a triacylglycerol control oil

Kevin C. Maki, Michael H. Davidson, Rikio Tsushima +9

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Evaluation of drying parameters and desorption isotherms of garden mint leaves (Mentha crispa L.)

Kil Jin Park, Zdenka Vohnikova, Fernando Pedro Reis Brod

Journal of Food Engineering

Screening for enterocins and detection of hemolysin and vancomycin resistance in enterococci of different origins

Luc De Vuyst

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Selenosugars are key and urinary metabolites for selenium excretion within the required to low-toxic range

Yayoi Kobayashi, Yasumitsu Ogra, Kazuya Ishiwata +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Essential micronutrient selenium is excreted into the urine andor expired after being transformed to methylated metabolites. Monomethylated selenium is excreted into the urine in response to a supply...

Zinc Has an Insulin-Like Effect on Glucose Transport Mediated by Phosphoinositol-3-Kinase and Akt in 3T3-L1 Fibroblasts and Adipocytes

Xiao‐Han Tang, Neil F. Shay

Journal of Nutrition

Probiotic impact on microbial flora, inflammation and tumour development in IL‐10 knockout mice

Liam O’Mahony, Mary Feeney, Sinéad O'Halloran +7

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Background: The enteric bacterial flora has been implicated in the pathogenesis of enterocolitis and colon cancer in C57BL/6 IL‐10 knockout mice. Probiotic Lactobacilli modify the enteric flora and...

Probiotics in human disease

Erika Isolauri

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Modulating immune responses with probiotic bacteria

Takeshi Matsuzaki, James Chin

Immunology and Cell Biology

For many years, probiotic bacteria have been known to confer health benefits to the consumer. One possible mechanism for this may be the ability of probiotic bacteria to modulate immune responses....

Dietary fat and insulin action in humans

Bengt Vessby

British Journal Of Nutrition

A high intake of fat may increase the risk of obesity. Obesity, especially abdominal obesity, is an important determinant of the risk of developing insulin resistance and non-insulin-dependent...

Channels of maize and sorghum starch granules

Kerry C. Huber, James N. BeMiller

Carbohydrate Polymers

A placebo-controlled trial of Lactobacillus GG to prevent diarrhea in undernourished Peruvian children

Richard A. Oberhelman, Robert H. Gilman, Patricia Sheen +6

The Journal of Pediatrics

Impact of Trace Elements and Vitamin Supplementation on Immunity and Infections in Institutionalized Elderly Patients

François Girodon

Archives of Internal Medicine

Low-dose supplementation of zinc and selenium provides significant improvement in elderly patients by increasing the humoral response after vaccination and could have considerable public health...

Quantitation of Bacteria in Blood of Typhoid Fever Patients and Relationship between Counts and Clinical Features, Transmissibility, and Antibiotic Resistance

John Wain, To Song Diep, Vô Anh Hó +4

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Salmonella typhi was isolated from 369 and Salmonella paratyphi A was isolated from 6 of 515 Vietnamese patients with suspected enteric fever. Compared with conventional broth culture of blood,...

A mannose-specific adherence mechanism in Lactobacillus plantarum conferring binding to the human colonic cell line HT-29

Ingegerd Adlerberth, Siv Ahrné, Mia Johansson +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Two Lactobacillus plantarum strains of human intestinal origin, strains 299 (= DSM 6595) and 299v (= DSM 9843), have proved to be efficient colonizers of the human intestine under experimental...

Copper as an essential nutrient

Manuel Olivares, Ricardo Uauy

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Structure of new anthocyanin-derived wine pigments

Hélène Fulcrand, Paulo Cameira dos Santos, Pascale Manchado-Sarni +2

Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1

Two new malvidin-derived pigments, referred to as A and B, were detected in red wine made from Vitis vinifera grapes (var. Carignane) and characterised. The results reported herein indicate that they...

Bowes and Church's food values of portions commonly used

Susan A. Jebb

Clinical Nutrition

Liver transplantation for Wilson’s disease: Indications and outcome

Michael L. Schilsky, Herbert I. Scheinberg, Irmin Sternlieb

Hepatology

The objective of this study was to determine the indications for and results of liver transplantation in patients with Wilson's disease on the basis of results of a survey with retrospective review...

Hard‐to‐cook phenomenon in common beans — A review

C. Reyes‐Moreno, Octavio Paredes‐López, Elvira González

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Abstract Legumes are one of the world's most important sources of food supply, especially in developing countries, in terms of food energy as well as nutrients. Common beans are a good source of...

Ascorbic acid recycling in human neutrophils

P Washko, Y. Wang, Mark Levine

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) accumulation in activated human neutrophils is increased as much as 10-fold above the mM concentrations present in normal neutrophils. Internal concentrations as high as 14...