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Agarose gel electrophoresis.

Jan Olof Jeppson, C.‐B. Laurell, Bo Franzén

Clinical Chemistry

Journal Article Agarose gel electrophoresis. Get access J O Jeppson, J O Jeppson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar C B Laurell, C B Laurell Search for other...

Selective induction of an immune response in human external secretions by ingestion of bacterial antigen.

Jiří Městecký, Jerry R. McGhee, Roland Arnold +3

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Ingestion of capsules which contained killed Streptococcus mutans by four healthy human subjects led to the appearance of specific antibodies in external secretions. Salivary and lacrymal antibodies...

Plant-based proteins and their multifaceted industrial applications

Manoj Kumar, Maharishi Tomar, Sneh Punia +19

LWT

Proteins serve as an imperative macronutrient in human nutrition and well-being. Their nutritional quality substantially varies with their digestibility, amino acid profile, bioavailability,...

Chemical components and pharmacological benefits of Basil (<i>Ocimum basilicum</i>): a review

Mohamad Hesam Shahrajabian, Wenli Sun, Qi Cheng

International Journal of Food Properties

Basil (Ocimum basilicum) is one of the most important crops with essential oils as well as polyphenols, phenolics, flavonoids and phenolic acids. This annual plant belongs to mint family, and...

Losses in the Grain Supply Chain: Causes and Solutions

Ákos Mesterházy, Judit Oláh, József Popp

Sustainability

Global grain production needs a significant increase in output in the coming decades in order to cover the food and feed consumption needs of mankind. As sustainability is the key factor in...

Relationship Between Quorum Sensing and Secretion Systems

Rocío Trastoy, Lucía Blasco, Antón Ambroa +8

Frontiers in Microbiology

Quorum sensing (QS) is a communication mechanism between bacteria that allows specific processes to be controlled, such as biofilm formation, virulence factor expression, production of secondary...

Recent developments in intelligent packaging for enhancing food quality and safety

Muhammad Sohail, Da‐Wen Sun, Zhiwei Zhu

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

The role of packaging cannot be denied in the life cycle of any food product. Intelligent packaging is an emerging technology in the food packaging sector. Although it still needs its full emergence...

Micro- and nano bio-based delivery systems for food applications: In vitro behavior

Lívia S. Simões, Daniel A. Madalena, Ana C. Pinheiro +3

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Micro- and nanoencapsulation is an emerging technology in the food field that potentially allows the improvement of food quality and human health. Bio-based delivery systems of bioactive compounds...

Edible Nanoemulsions as Carriers of Active Ingredients: A Review

Laura Salvia‐Trujillo, Robert Soliva‐Fortuny, María Alejandra Rojas‐Graü +2

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

There has been growing interest in the use of edible nanoemulsions as delivery systems for lipophilic active substances, such as oil-soluble vitamins, antimicrobials, flavors, and nutraceuticals,...

Systematic review of dietary salt reduction policies: Evidence for an effectiveness hierarchy?

Lirije Hyseni, Alex Elliot-Green, Ffion Lloyd‐Williams +7

PLoS ONE

Comprehensive strategies involving multiple components (reformulation, food labelling and media campaigns) and "upstream" population-wide policies such as mandatory reformulation generally appear to...

Overview of Lactoferrin as a Natural Immune Modulator

Dominique Legrand

The Journal of Pediatrics

Use of Lactobacillus plantarum Strains as a Bio-Control Strategy against Food-Borne Pathogenic Microorganisms

Mattia Pia Arena, Amandine Silvain, G. Normanno +4

Frontiers in Microbiology

Lactobacillus plantarum is one of the most versatile species extensively used in the food industry both as microbial starters and probiotic microorganisms. Several L. plantarum strains have been...

Probiotic-derived ferrichrome inhibits colon cancer progression via JNK-mediated apoptosis

Hiroaki Konishi, Mikihiro Fujiya, Hiroki Tanaka +7

Nature Communications

Previous reports have suggested that some probiotics inhibit tumorigenesis and cancer progression. However, the molecules involved have not yet been identified. Here, we show that the culture...

Selenium, selenoproteins and neurodegenerative diseases

Bárbara Rita Cardoso, Blaine R. Roberts, Ashley I. Bush +1

Metallomics

It is unsurprising that our understanding of the role of selenium in neurological function is somewhat immature, considering its relatively recent discovery as an essential element to human health....

Vitamin C revisited

Heleen M. Oudemans–van Straaten, A. Man, Monique C. de Waard

Critical Care

Abstract This narrative review summarizes the role of vitamin C in mitigating oxidative injury-induced microcirculatory impairment and associated organ failure in ischemia/reperfusion or sepsis....

A review on astringency and bitterness perception of tannins in wine

Wen Ma, Anque Guo, Yulin Zhang +3

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Anti-fungal activity of Citrus reticulata Blanco essential oil against Penicillium italicum and Penicillium digitatum

Nengguo Tao, Lei Jia, Haien Zhou

Food Chemistry

Charting the travels of copper in eukaryotes from yeast to mammals

Tracy Nevitt, Helena Öhrvik, Dennis J. Thiele

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research

Vitamin K Nutrition, Metabolism, and Requirements: Current Concepts and Future Research

Martin J. Shearer, Xueyan Fu, Sarah L. Booth

Advances in Nutrition

Cholera Epidemic in Haiti, 2010: Using a Transmission Model to Explain Spatial Spread of Disease and Identify Optimal Control Interventions

Ashleigh R. Tuite, Joseph H. Tien, Marisa C. Eisenberg +3

Annals of Internal Medicine

Despite limited surveillance data from the cholera epidemic in Haiti, a model simulating between-region disease transmission according to population and distance closely reproduces reported disease...

Health benefits of marine foods and ingredients

Rune Larsen, Karl‐Erik Eilertsen, Edel O. Elvevoll

Biotechnology Advances

Shiga Toxin Subtypes Display Dramatic Differences in Potency

Cynthia A. Fuller, Christine A. Pellino, Michael J. Flagler +2

Infection and Immunity

Purified Shiga toxin (Stx) alone is capable of producing systemic complications, including hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), in animal models of disease. Stx includes two major antigenic forms (Stx1...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in food and beverages. Analytical methods and trends

Patricia Plaza‐Bolaños, Antonia Garrido Frenich, José Luis Martı́nez Vidal

Journal of Chromatography A

Probiotic beverage from cashew apple juice fermented with Lactobacillus casei

Ana Lúcia Fernandes Pereira, Tatiane Cavalcante Maciel, Suelí Rodrigues

Food Research International

The prevalence of stunting, overweight and obesity, and metabolic disease risk in rural South African children

Elizabeth Kimani‐Murage, Kathleen Kahn, John Μ. Pettifor +4

BMC Public Health

The study highlights that in transitional societies, early stunting and adolescent obesity may co-exist in the same socio-geographic population. It is likely that this profile relates to changes in...

Impact of amylose content on starch retrogradation and texture of cooked milled rice during storage

Shifeng Yu, Ying Ma, Da‐Wen Sun

Journal of Cereal Science

Trace elements in hemodialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The Alberta Kidney Disease Network, Marcello Tonelli, Natasha Wiebe +6

BMC Medicine

Average blood levels of biologically important trace elements were substantially different in hemodialysis patients, compared with healthy controls. Since both deficiency and excess of trace elements...

Amylases and bread firming – an integrated view

Hans Goesaert, Louise Slade, Harry Levine +1

Journal of Cereal Science

The in vitro antibiofilm activity of selected culinary herbs and medicinal plants against Listeria monocytogenes

Maxleene Sandasi, C.M. Leonard, Alvaro Viljoen

Letters in Applied Microbiology

The ability to reduce biofilm biomass as shown by several plant extracts warrants further investigation to explore the use of natural products in antibiofilm adhesion.

Identification and Quantification of Betalains from the Fruits of 10 Mexican Prickly Pear Cultivars by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Elena Castellanos-Santiago, Elhadi M. Yahia

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Qualitative and quantitative analyses of betalain pigments in 10 cultivars/lines of prickly pear (Opuntia spp.) fruit grown in Mexico were conducted with reverse phase high-performance liquid...

Comparative analysis of CRISPR loci in lactic acid bacteria genomes

Philippe Horvath, Anne-Claire Coûté-Monvoisin, Dennis Romero +3

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Detection of Melamine in Gluten, Chicken Feed, and Processed Foods Using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and HPLC

Mengshi Lin, Lili He, Joseph M. Awika +4

Journal of Food Science

Melamine, a nitrogen-rich chemical, was implicated in pet and human food recalls in 2007, which caused enormous economic losses to the food industry. In this study, melamine concentration in wheat...

Zinc Signals Are Essential for Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Signal Transduction in Monocytes

Hajo Haase, Julia L. Ober-Blöbaum, Gabriela Engelhardt +4

The Journal of Immunology

Cytosolic alterations of calcium ion concentrations are an integral part of signal transduction. Similar functions have been hypothesized for other metal ions, in particular zinc (Zn(2+)), but this...

Reconstruction of the genome origins and evolution of the hybrid lager yeast <i>Saccharomyces pastorianus</i>

Barbara Dunn, Gavin Sherlock

Genome Research

Inter-specific hybridization leading to abrupt speciation is a well-known, common mechanism in angiosperm evolution; only recently, however, have similar hybridization and speciation mechanisms been...

The phenotype of soluble starch synthase IV defective mutants of <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> suggests a novel function of elongation enzymes in the control of starch granule formation

Isaac Roldán, Fabrice Wattebled, M. Mercedes Lucas +7

The Plant Journal

All plants and green algae synthesize starch through the action of the same five classes of elongation enzymes: the starch synthases. Arabidopsis mutants defective for the synthesis of the soluble...

Dietary Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load, Carbohydrate and Fiber Intake, and Measures of Insulin Sensitivity, Secretion, and Adiposity in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study

Angela D. Liese, Mandy Schulz, Fang Fang +4

Diabetes Care

Carbohydrates as reflected in glycemic index and glycemic load may not be related to measures of insulin sensitivity, insulin secretion, and adiposity. Fiber intake may not only have beneficial...

Glycoprotein hormone receptors: link between receptor homodimerization and negative cooperativity

Eneko Urizar, Lucia Montanelli, Tiffany Loy +7

The EMBO Journal

Characterization of β-lactoglobulin–chitosan interactions in aqueous solutions: A calorimetry, light scattering, electrophoretic mobility and solubility study

Demet Güzey, David Julian McClements

Food Hydrocolloids

Spatial organization of bacterial flora in normal and inflamed intestine: A fluorescence<i>in situ</i>hybridization study in mice

Alexander Swidsinski

World Journal of Gastroenterology

The proximal and distal colons are functionally different organs with respect to the intestinal flora, representing a bioreactor and a segregation device. The highly organized structure of the...

Microencapsulation of cardamom oleoresin: Evaluation of blends of gum arabic, maltodextrin and a modified starch as wall materials

S KRISHNAN, Rajesh Bhosale, Rekha S. Singhal

Carbohydrate Polymers

Bile salt and acid tolerance of<i>Lactobacillus rhamnosus</i>strains isolated from Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

Mariantonietta Succi, Patrizio Tremonte, Anna Reale +4

FEMS Microbiology Letters

This study aimed to compare phenotypic and genetic characteristics of Lactobacillus rhamnosus strains isolated at the end of the ripening of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and to investigate an important...

The origins of an important cactus crop, <i>Opuntia ficus</i>‐<i>indica</i> (Cactaceae): new molecular evidence

M. Patrick Griffith

American Journal of Botany

Opuntia ficus-indica is a long-domesticated cactus crop that is important in agricultural economies throughout arid and semiarid parts of the world. The biogeographic and evolutionary origins of this...

Efficacy of ozone on survival and permeability of oral microorganisms

Masato Nagayoshi, Takaki Fukuizumi, Chiaki Kitamura +3

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

In the present study, we examined the effect of ozonated water on oral microorganisms and dental plaque. Almost no microorganisms were detected after being treated with ozonated water (4 mg/l) for 10...

Maternal DHA and the Development of Attention in Infancy and Toddlerhood

John Colombo, Kathleen N. Kannass, D. Jill Shaddy +5

Child Development

Infants were followed longitudinally to document the relationship between docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) levels and the development of attention. Erythrocyte (red-blood cell; RBC) phospholipid DHA...

Lactoferrin and Iron: structural and dynamic aspects of binding and release

Heather M. Baker, Edward N. Baker

BioMetals

Dietary α-linolenic acid decreases C-reactive protein, serum amyloid A and interleukin-6 in dyslipidaemic patients

Lοukianos S. Rallidis, Georgios K. Paschos, Georgios K. Liakos +3

Atherosclerosis

Plasma fatty acid composition and depression are associated in the elderly: the Rotterdam Study

Henning Tiemeier, H. Ruud van Tuijl, Albert Hofman +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Modeling Microbial Responses in Food

R.C. McKellar, Xuewen Lu

The first state-of-the-art review of this dynamic field in a decade, Modeling Microbial Responses in Foods provides the latest information on techniques in mathematical modeling of microbial growth...

Zinc deficiency

Ananda S. Prasad

BMJ

Although it has been known for more than six decades that zinc is essential for the growth of micro-organisms, plants, and animals, until 1961 it was believed that zinc deficiency in humans could...

Selenoproteins and selenocysteine insertion system in the model plant cell system, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Sergey V. Novoselov

The EMBO Journal