Research Library

Encapsulation of ascorbyl palmitate in chitosan nanoparticles by oil-in-water emulsion and ionic gelation processes

Rangrong Yoksan, Jatesuda Jirawutthiwongchai, Kridsada Arpo

Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces

Role of P-fimbrial-mediated adherence in pyelonephritis and persistence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) in the mammalian kidney

M. Chelsea Lane, Harry L. T. Mobley

Kidney International

Reinventing the gastronomic identity of Croatian tourist destinations

Renata Fox

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Functional modulation of human intestinal epithelial cell responses by <i>Bifidobacterium infantis </i>and <i>Lactobacillus salivarius</i>

Ann M. O’Hara, P O'Regan, Á Fanning +6

Immunology

Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) and dendritic cells (DCs) play a pivotal role in antigen sampling and the maintenance of gut homeostasis. However, the interaction of commensal bacteria with the...

Antioxidant activities of five different mulberry cultivars in Korea

Song Hwan Bae, Hyung Joo Suh

LWT

Punica granatum (pomegranate) flower extract possesses potent antioxidant activity and abrogates Fe-NTA induced hepatotoxicity in mice

Gurpreet Kaur, Zoobi Jabbar, Mohammad Athar +1

Food and Chemical Toxicology

A Review of Methods to Detect Cases of Severely Malnourished Children in the Community for Their Admission into Community-Based Therapeutic Care Programs

Mark Myatt, Tanya Khara, Steve Collins

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

There is no compelling evidence to support a move away from using weight in combination with clinical criteria for monitoring and discharge.

n−3 Fatty acids and the metabolic syndrome

Yvon Carpentier, Laurence Portois, Willy Malaisse

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Separate Populations of Receptor Cells and Presynaptic Cells in Mouse Taste Buds

R. Anthony DeFazio, Gennady Dvoryanchikov, Yutaka Maruyama +4

Journal of Neuroscience

Taste buds are aggregates of 50-100 cells, only a fraction of which express genes for taste receptors and intracellular signaling proteins. We combined functional calcium imaging with single-cell...

Impact of different saturated fatty acid, polyunsaturated fatty acid and cholesterol containing diets on beta-amyloid accumulation in APP/PS1 transgenic mice

Mari Oksman, H. Iivonen, Endre Hőgyes +7

Neurobiology of Disease

Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Catheter-Related Thrombosis in Adult Patients With Cancer

Agnes Lee, Mark N. Levine, Gregory J. Butler +4

Journal of Clinical Oncology

In adults with cancer, the incidence of symptomatic CRT is low and long-term complications are uncommon.

Multicenter evaluation of the use of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in acutely ill medical patients in Canada

Susan R. Kahn, Akbar Panju, William Geerts +6

Thrombosis Research

The EAL Domain Protein VieA Is a Cyclic Diguanylate Phosphodiesterase

Rita Tamayo, Anna D. Tischler, Andrew Camilli

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The newly recognized bacterial second messenger 3',5'-cyclic diguanylic acid (cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP)) has been shown to regulate a wide variety of bacterial behaviors and traits. Biosynthesis...

Live <i>Lactobacillus reuteri</i> Is Essential for the Inhibitory Effect on Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha-Induced Interleukin-8 Expression

Dong‐Lai Ma, Paul Forsythe, John Bienenstock

Infection and Immunity

The mechanism of the apparent anti-inflammatory action of probiotic organisms is unclear. Lactobacillus reuteri is effective in inhibiting colitis in interleukin-10 (IL-10)-deficient mice. Nerve...

Biological activity of five antibacterial flavonoids from Combretum erythrophyllum (Combretaceae)

Nataly Martini, David R. Katerere, J.N. Eloff

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Omega-3 fatty acids in cellular membranes: a unified concept

Raymond C. Valentine, David L. Valentine

Progress in Lipid Research

The role of friction in perceived oral texture

René A. de Wijk, Jon F. Prinz

Food Quality and Preference

Prevalence and Predictors of Underweight, Stunting, and Wasting among Children Aged 5 and Under in Western Kenya

Emily Bloss

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

The health and nutritional status of children aged 5 and under was assessed in three villages in Siaya District of western Kenya. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 121 adults and 175...

Changes in Protein Secondary Structure during Gluten Deformation Studied by Dynamic Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Nikolaus Wellner, E. N. Clare Mills, Geoff J. Brownsey +6

Biomacromolecules

Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy was used to monitor changes in the secondary structure of wheat prolamins, the main components of gluten, during mechanical deformation in a series of...

A one-quarter reduction in the salt content of bread can be made without detection

Seham Girgis, Bruce Neal, John Prescott +4

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Molecular Basis of Vitamin E Action

Savita Khanna, Sashwati Roy, Hoon Ryu +4

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Vitamin E is a generic term for tocopherols and tocotrienols. This work is based on our striking evidence that, in neuronal cells, nanomolar concentrations of alpha-tocotrienol, but not...

Intakes of fish and marine fatty acids and the risks of cancers of the breast and prostate and of other hormone-related cancers: a review of the epidemiologic evidence

Paul Terry, Thomas E. Rohan, Alicja Wolk

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The road less traveled

Craig R. Roy, Lewis G. Tilney

The Journal of Cell Biology

Phagosomes containing the bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila are transported to the ER after macrophage internalization. To modulate phagosome transport, Legionella use a specialized secretion...

Effect of zinc supplementation started during diarrhoea on morbidity and mortality in Bangladeshi children: community randomised trial

Abdullah H Baqui, Robert E. Black, Shams El Arifeen +4

BMJ

The lower rates of child morbidity and mortality with zinc treatment represent substantial benefits from a simple and inexpensive intervention that can be incorporated in existing efforts to control...

Plasma D-Dimers in the Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism

James Kelly, Anthony Rudd, Roger R. Lewis +1

Archives of Internal Medicine

Clinical suspicion for venous thromboembolism (VTE) mandates objective testing to confirm or exclude the diagnosis. However, current imaging modalities are imperfect because of a small but important...

Heterodimeric structure of superoxide dismutase in complex with its metallochaperone.

Audrey L. Lamb, Andrew S. Torres, Thomas V. O’Halloran +1

Nature Structural Biology

Pyruvate Released by Astrocytes Protects Neurons from Copper-Catalyzed Cysteine Neurotoxicity

Xue Feng Wang, Max S. Cynader

Journal of Neuroscience

We have found previously that astrocytes can provide cysteine to neurons. However, cysteine has been reported to be neurotoxic although it plays a pivotal role in regulating intracellular levels of...

Amylopectin Fine Structure and Rice Starch Paste Breakdown

Xian‐Zhong Han, Bruce R. Hamaker

Journal of Cereal Science

Tracing the Origins of <i>Salmonella</i> Outbreaks

Andreas J. Bäumler, Billy M. Hargis, Renée M. Tsolis

Science

Salmonellosis is a serious illness transmitted by various serotypes of the Salmonella bacteria that are present as contaminants in chicken carcasses, eggs, and egg products. In a Perspective,...

The viable but non-culturable state of wine micro-organisms during storage

V. Millet, Aline Lonvaud‐Funel

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Colony counting and DEFT did not give the same results when wine micro-organisms were enumerated. Both methods were used to monitor the population of acetic acid bacteria (AAB) and lactic acid...

Rapid identification of 11 human intestinal<i>Lactobacillus</i>species by multiplex PCR assays using group- and species-specific primers derived from the 16Sâ23S rRNA intergenic spacer region and its flanking 23S rRNA

Yuli Song, Naoki Kato, Cheng-Xu Liu +3

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Rapid and reliable two-step multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays were established to identify human intestinal lactobacilli; a multiplex PCR was used for grouping of lactobacilli with a...

The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change.

Angela Gordon

American Anthropologist

The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change. Chris Gosden and Jon Hather. eds. New York: Routledge, 1999. 523 pp.

Molecular Characterization of a Shiga Toxigenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> O113:H21 Strain Lacking <i>eae</i> Responsible for a Cluster of Cases of Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome

Adrienne W. Paton, Matthew C. Woodrow, Robyn M. Doyle +2

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are a diverse group of organisms capable of causing severe gastrointestinal disease in humans. Within the STEC family, certain strains appear to have...

Structure and mucosal adjuvanticity of cholera and Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxins

Rino Rappuoli, Mariagrazia Pizza, Gill Douce +1

Immunology Today

Separation and Characterization of A‐ and B‐Type Starch Granules in Wheat Endosperm

Mingsheng Peng, Ming Gao, E.‐S. M. Abdel‐Aal +2

Cereal Chemistry

ABSTRACT Mature wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) endosperm contains two types of starch granules: large A‐type and small B‐type. Two methods, microsieving or centrifugal sedimentation through aqueous...

Expanding Eligibility for Outpatient Treatment of Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism With Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin

Philip S. Wells, Michael J. Kovacs, Janis Bormanis +4

Archives of Internal Medicine

We demonstrate that more than 80% of patients at our tertiary care hospital could be treated at home using 1 of the 2 models of care we describe. Our results demonstrate that patients can safely and...

Classification of fermented foods: worldwide review of household fermentation techniques

K. H. Steinkraus

Food Control

Fermented foods are of great significance because they provide and preserve vast quantities of nutritious foods in a wide diversity of flavors, aromas and textures which enrich the human diet....

An O-antigen processing function for Wzx (RfbX): a promising candidate for O-unit flippase

D Liu, Rachel Cole, Peter R. Reeves

Journal of Bacteriology

O antigen is the major cell surface antigen of gram-negative bacteria, and the genes responsible for its synthesis are located in a single gene cluster. The wzx (rbfX) gene, which is characteristic...

Yeasts and their possible beneficial and negative effects on the quality of dairy products

Mogens Jakobsen, Judy Narvhus

International Dairy Journal

Treatment of Deep Venous Thrombosis With Low-Molecular-Weight Heparins

Anthonie W.A. Lensing

Archives of Internal Medicine

<h3>Background:</h3> An intravenous course of unfractionated heparin adjusted on the basis of the activated partial thromboplastin time is the initial treatment of choice for most patients with...

Cellular Copper Transport

Chris D. Vulpe, Seymour Packman

Annual Review of Nutrition

Cellular copper transport processes are required by all organisms for correct utilization in cell biochemical processes and avoidance of the toxicity of copper excess. Copper import into bacterial,...

Influence of temperature and plumbing material selection on biofilm formation and growth of Legionella pneumophila in a model potable water system containing complex microbial flora

J Rogers, A. B. Dowsett, P. J. Dennis +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Survival and growth of Legionella pneumophila in both biofilm and planktonic phases were determined with a two-stage model system. The model used filter-sterilized tap water as the sole source of...

A second chromosomal gene necessary for intimate attachment of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli to epithelial cells

Michael S. Donnenberg, Jiaao Yu, James B. Kaper

Journal of Bacteriology

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is capable of attaching intimately to epithelial cells and effacing their microvilli. A chromosomal locus, eaeA (originally eae), is required for the intimate...

Low Molecular Weight Versus Standard Heparin for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism After Major Abdominal Surgery

V. V. Kakkar, Alexander T. Cohen, R. A. EDMONSON +7

Survey of Anesthesiology

KAKKAR, V. V.; COHEN, A. T.; EDMONSON, R. A.; PHILLIPS, M. J.; COOPER, D. J.; DAS, S. K.; MAHLER, K. T.; SANDERSON, R. M.; WARD, V. P.; KAKKAR, S. Author Information

Mode of action of pediocin AcH from <i>Pediococcus acidilactici</i> H on sensitive bacterial strains

Arun K. Bhunia, M. C. Johnson, Bibek Ray +1

Journal of Applied Bacteriology

The peptide, pediocin AcH, from Pediococcus acidilactici H binds to the cell surface of Lactobacillus plantarum NCDO 955, its resistant mutant and several other sensitive and resistant Gram‐positive...

Cloning and characterization of the asd gene of Salmonella typhimurium: use in stable maintenance of recombinant plasmids in Salmonella vaccine strains

Jorge E. Galán, Koji Nakayama, Roy Curtiss

Gene

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FOOD CHOICE

Richard Shepherd

Nutrition & Food Science

At the Institute of Food Research in Reading a new Department of Food Acceptability was formed in April 1989. This includes sections investigating sensory responses to foods, food appearance and...

Identification of a selenocysteyl-tRNASer in mammalian cells that recognizes the nonsense codon, UGA

B. J. Lee, Peter J. Worland, J N Davis +2

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The presence of a unique opal suppressor seryl-tRNA in higher vertebrates which is converted to phosphoseryl-tRNA has been known for several years, but its function has been uncertain (see Hatfield,...