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Regression of warfarin-induced medial elastocalcinosis by high intake of vitamin K in rats

Leon J. Schurgers, Henri M.H. Spronk, Berry A.M. Soute +3

Blood

Arterial calcification (AC) is generally regarded as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Matrix Gla protein (MGP) is a potent inhibitor of AC, and its activity...

Catheter-direct thrombolysis versus pharmacomechanical thrombectomy for treatment of symptomatic lower extremity deep venous thrombosis

Peter H. Lin, Wei Zhou, Alan Dardik +7

The American Journal of Surgery

Is malaria a disease of poverty? A review of the literature

Eve Worrall, Suprotik Basu, Kara Hanson

Tropical Medicine & International Health

Important socio-economic differentials exist in access to malaria interventions, increasing the vulnerability of the poorest. More information is needed about how other methods of delivering malaria...

Cognitive and physiological effects of Omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in healthy subjects

Giuliano Fontani, F. Corradeschi, Andrea Felici +3

European Journal of Clinical Investigation

Omega-3 supplementation is associated with an improvement of attentional and physiological functions, particularly those involving complex cortical processing. These findings are discussed in terms...

LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS GG BACTEREMIA ASSOCIATED WITH PROBIOTIC USE IN A CHILD WITH SHORT GUT SYNDROME

Mary Ann De Groote, Daniel N. Frank, Elaine Dowell +2

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Probiotic agents are increasingly used for the treatment and prevention of a variety of infectious and inflammatory conditions. They are generally safe, but complications of probiotic use can occur....

Acrylamide-induced oxidative stress and biochemical perturbations in rats

Mokhtar I. Yousef, Fatma M. El‐Demerdash

Toxicology

Pomegranate seed oil rich in conjugated linolenic acid suppresses chemically induced colon carcinogenesis in rats

Hiroyuki Kohno, Rikako Suzuki, Yumiko Yasui +3

Cancer Science

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) seed oil (PGO) contains more than 70% cis(c)9,trans(t)11,c13-18:3 as conjugated linolenic acids (CLN). Our previous short-term experiment demonstrated that seed oil...

Color Properties and Stability of Betacyanins from<i>Opuntia</i>Fruits

Rosario Castellar, J.M. Obón, Mercedes Alacid +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The colorant properties of pigments from Opuntia stricta, Opuntia undulata, and Opuntia ficus-indicafruits were studied. The pigments were extracted with different solvents and identified by...

Bioavailability and metabolism

Wilhelm Stahl

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Male Fertility Is Linked to the Selenoprotein Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase1

Carlo Foresta, Leopold Flohé, Andrea Garolla +3

Biology of Reproduction

The selenoprotein phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (PHGPx) accounts for almost the entire selenium content of mammalian testis. PHGPx is abundantly expressed in spermatids as active...

Multicenter, prospective, randomized, single-blind study comparing the efficacy and gastrointestinal complications of early jejunal feeding with early gastric feeding in critically ill patients

Juan Carlos Montejo, T. Grau, José Acosta Batlle +8

Critical Care Medicine

Gastrointestinal complications are less frequent in ICU patients fed in the jejunum. Nevertheless, it seems to be a necessary learning curve to achieve better results with a postpyloric access. Early...

Bioactive compounds in the cereal grains before and after hydrothermal processing

Henryk Zieliński, Halina Kozłowska, Bogdan Lewczuk

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

Modulation of human immune and inflammatory responses by dietary fatty acids

Darshan S. Kelley

Nutrition

Use of WL Medium to Profile Native Flora Fermentations

Christina L. Pallmann, James A. Brown, Tammi L. Olineka +3

American Journal of Enology and Viticulture

Vineyard, winery, barrel, and controlled temperature fermentation samples from a single commercial winery (Luna Vineyards) conducting fermentations with indigenous organisms were plated onto...

Food Acceptance and Genetic Variation in Taste

Valerie B. Duffy, Linda M. Bartoshuk

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Probiotics-A Critical Review.

Martin H. Floch

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

<i>Citrobacter rodentium</i>Infection in Mice Elicits a Mucosal Th1 Cytokine Response and Lesions Similar to Those in Murine Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Lisa M. Higgins, Gad Frankel, Gill Douce +2

Infection and Immunity

Citrobacter rodentium is a classically noninvasive pathogen of mice that is similar to enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) in man. Following oral infection of young mice, the organism colonizes...

Specific and Differential Activation of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades by Unfamiliar Taste in the Insular Cortex of the Behaving Rat

Diego E. Berman, Shoshi Hazvi, Kobi Rosenblum +2

Journal of Neuroscience

Rats were given to drink an unfamiliar taste solution under conditions that result in long-term memory of that taste. The insular cortex, which contains the taste cortex, was then removed and assayed...

<i>Escherichia coli</i> O157: H7 Diarrhea in the United States: Clinical and Epidemiologic Features

Laurence Slutsker, Allen A. Ries, Katherine D. Greene +3

Annals of Internal Medicine

In some geographic areas and some age groups, isolation proportions from fecal specimens for E. coli O157:H7 surpassed those of other common enteric pathogens. One third of isolates of this organism...

Flavonoids and Antioxidative Activities in Buckwheat

B. Dave Oomah, Giuseppe Mazza

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Samples of buckwheat from four cultivars grown at three locations in western Canada for 4 years were used to study the effect of cultivar, location, and growing season on the flavonoid content and...

Identification of a <i>Salmonella</i> virulence gene required for formation of filamentous structures containing lysosomal membrane glycoproteins within epithelial cells

Murry A. Stein, Ka Yin Leung, Michael B. Zwick +2

Molecular Microbiology

Salmonella species are facultative intracellular pathogens that invade epithelial cells and reside within lysosomal membrane glycoprotein (lgp)-containing vacuoles. Coincident with the onset of...

Depolymerisation and Re-polymerisation of Wheat Glutenin During Dough Processing. I. Relationships between Glutenin Macropolymer Content and Quality Parameters

P.L. Weegels, Anne M. van de Pijpekamp, A. Graveland +2

Journal of Cereal Science

Vitamin A Deficiency

Alfred Sommer, Keith P. West

Abstract Many studies over the past decade and a half have indicated that vitamin A status is an important determinant of health. The World Bank now estimates that vitamin A intervention programs are...

Interaction of Hydrophobic Organic Compounds with Mineral-Bound Humic Substances

Ellyn M. Murphy, John M. Zachara, Steven C. Smith +2

Environmental Science & Technology

The sorption of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOC) on mineral-associated peat humic acid (PHA) was evaluated under different pH and electrolyte regimes. Relative size distribution measurements...

Rice Science and Technology

Wayne E. Marshall, J. I. Wadsworth

Focuses on developments in rice storage, quality, processing and utilization, emphasizing their importance to growers, technologists and consumers. This work also provides insight into future...

Ascorbate: The Most Effective Antioxidant in Human Blood Plasma

Balz Frei, Roland Stocker, Laura England +1

Advances in experimental medicine and biology

Antioxidant activity of some spice essential oils on linoleic acid oxidation in aqueous media

R. S. Farag, A.Z.M. Badei, F. M. Hewedi +1

Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society

Abstract Some spice essential oils (caraway, clove, cumin, rosemary, sage and thyme) and their major constituents were added to emulsified linoleic acid in aqueous media to examine their antioxidant...

Anion Sorption on a Calcareous, Montmorillonitic Soil‐Selenium

Sabine Goldberg, R. A. Glaubig

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Abstract Selenite and selenate sorption on a calcareous, montmorillonitic soil was investigated as a function of solution pH (2–11) at two initial Se concentrations (1.9 mmol m −3 and 19 mmol m −3 ....

Phagocytosis of Legionella pneumophila is mediated by human monocyte complement receptors.

Nicholas Roy Payne, Marcus A. Horwitz

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

We have examined receptors mediating phagocytosis of the intracellular bacterial pathogen, Legionella pneumophila. Three mAbs against the type 3 complement receptor (CR3), which recognizes C3bi,...

Assignment of the gene for Wilson disease to chromosome 13: linkage to the esterase D locus.

Moshe Frydman, Batsheva Bonné‐Tamir, Lindsay A. Farrer +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Wilson disease (WD) is an autosomal recessively inherited disorder of copper metabolism for which the basic defect is still unknown. Twenty-seven autosomal markers were investigated for linkage in a...

The effect of variations in dietary fatty acids on the fatty acid composition of erythrocyte phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine in human infants

JC Putnam, SE Putnam, PW DeVoe +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Fluorogenic assays for immediate confirmation of Escherichia coli

Peter Feng, Paul A. Hartman

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Rapid assays for Escherichia coli were developed by using the compound 4-methylumbelliferone glucuronide (MUG), which is hydrolyzed by glucuronidase to yield a fluorogenic product. The production of...

High risk of the critically ill for venous thromboembolism

J. F. Cade

Critical Care Medicine

The incidence of deep venous thrombosis of the legs (DVT) was studied in 119 critically ill patients by 125I-labeled fibrinogen scanning; the efficacy of low-dose heparin prophylaxis was assessed in...

GENETIC DIVERSITY AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN THE <i>E. COLI</i> POPULATION OF A HUMAN HOST

Dominique A. Caugant, Bruce R. Levin, Robert K. Selander

Genetics

Electrophoretic techniques were employed to study variation in chromosomal genes encoding enzymes and in the distribution of cryptic plasmids in the E. coli population of a human host over an...

Thiobarbituric acid‐reactivity following iron‐dependent free‐radical damage to amino acids and carbohydrates

John M.C. Gutteridge

FEBS Letters

The socioeconomic effects of an iliofemoral venous thrombosis

Thomas F. O’Donnell, N L Browse, K G Burnand +1

Journal of Surgical Research

Conditioned satiety in the rat.

David Booth

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

In 3 experiments with a total of 72 male albino Wistar or Sprague-Dawley rats, liquid or solid diets differing in carbohydrate or triglyceride content were presented 1 at a time to each S once or...

Natural History of Major Venous Thrombosis of the Upper Extremity

Nicholas L. Tilney

Archives of Surgery

Forty-eight cases of thrombosis of major veins of the upper extremity have been studied. In 17 patients primary thrombosis occurred following effort, prolonged compression, or without recognized...

The history and social influence of the potato

Salaman, Redcliffe N. 1874-1955, Burton, W. G.

Notes and Queries

The history and social influence of the potato Get access Notes and Queries, Volume 194, Issue 18, 3 September 1949, Pages 395–396, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/194.18.395b Published: 03 September 1949

A Microbiota-Directed Food Intervention for Undernourished Children

Robert Y. Chen, Ishita Mostafa, Martin L. Hibberd +16

New England Journal of Medicine

These findings provide support for MDCF-2 as a dietary supplement for young children with moderate acute malnutrition and provide insight into mechanisms by which this targeted manipulation of...

A comprehensive review of the factors influencing the formation of retrograded starch

Qing Chang, Baodong Zheng, Yi Zhang +1

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Metalloimmunology: The metal ion-controlled immunity

Chenguang Wang, Rui Zhang, Xiaoming Wei +2

Advances in immunology

Improved physicochemical and functional properties of dietary fiber from millet bran fermented by Bacillus natto

Jiaxi Chu, Haizhen Zhao, Zhaoxin Lu +3

Food Chemistry

Antibiotic Resistance in Salmonella Typhimurium Isolates Recovered From the Food Chain Through National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System Between 1996 and 2016

Xuchu Wang, Silpak Biswas, Narayan Paudyal +4

Frontiers in Microbiology

<i>Salmonella</i> is a major foodborne pathogen which causes widespread contamination and infection worldwide. <i>Salmonella</i> Typhimurium is one of the leading serovars responsible for human and...

Pesticides Classification and its Impact on Environment

Rajveer Kaur, Gurjot Kaur Mavi, Shweta Raghav +1

International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Pesticides are substance or mixture of substance which differ in their physical, chemical and identical properties from one to other. Hence, they are classified based on these properties. Some...

Anticancer Properties of Essential Oils and Other Natural Products

K. Blowman, Mariana Magalhães, Marco F.L. Lemos +2

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Essential oils are secondary metabolites with a key-role in plants protection, consisting primarily of terpenes with a volatile nature and a diverse array of chemical structures. Essential oils...

Nanotechnology: current uses and future applications in the food industry

Muthu Thiruvengadam, Govindasamy Rajakumar, Ill‐Min Chung

3 Biotech

Interfacial Antioxidants: A Review of Natural and Synthetic Emulsifiers and Coemulsifiers That Can Inhibit Lipid Oxidation

David Julian McClements, Eric A. Decker

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

There has been strong interest in developing effective strategies to inhibit lipid oxidation in emulsified food products due to the need to incorporate oxidatively labile bioactive lipids, such as...

Review of D‐dimer testing: Good, Bad, and Ugly

Lori‐Ann Linkins, S. Takach Lapner

International Journal of Laboratory Hematology

D-dimer assays are commonly used in clinical practice to exclude a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. More recently, they have been also been used to guide patients with...

The post-thrombotic syndrome

Susan R. Kahn

Hematology

Abstract The post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) is a frequent, sometimes disabling complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) that reduces quality of life and is costly. This article discusses risk...