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Establishing optimal selenium status: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Rachel Hurst, Charlotte Armah, J. Dainty +6

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Biological metals and Alzheimer's disease: Implications for therapeutics and diagnostics

James A. Duce, Ashley I. Bush

Progress in Neurobiology

Antimicrobial potential and chemical composition of Eucalyptus globulus oil in liquid and vapour phase against food spoilage microorganisms

Amit K. Tyagi, Anushree Malik

Food Chemistry

Determination of multi-class pesticides in wines by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

Anastasios Economou, Helen Botitsi, Spyros Antoniou +1

Journal of Chromatography A

Detection of Melamine in Milk Products by Surface Desorption Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Shuiping Yang, Jianhua Ding, Jian Zheng +5

Analytical Chemistry

Without any sample pretreatment, trace amounts of melamine in various milk products were rapidly detected noting the characteristic fragments (i.e., m/z 110, 85, and 60) in the MS/MS spectrum of...

Anticoagulation: Low-Molecular-Weight Heparins in Renal Impairment and Obesity: Available Evidence and Clinical Practice Recommendations Across Medical and Surgical Settings

Edith A. Nutescu, Sarah A. Spinier, Ann K. Wittkowsky +1

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Additional data are needed for specific dose guiding in obese and renally impaired patients, who are often excluded from larger clinical trials. Practice recommendations are made based on available...

Medication administration through enteral feeding tubes

Nancy Toedter Williams

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

Successful drug delivery through enteral feeding tubes requires consideration of the tube size and placement as well as careful selection and appropriate administration of drug dosage forms.

Plasma phospholipid and dietary fatty acids as predictors of type 2 diabetes: interpreting the role of linoleic acid

Allison Hodge, Dallas R. English, Kerin O’Dea +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Cereal complex carbohydrates and their contribution to human health

David L. Topping

Journal of Cereal Science

Salt stress increases the expression of p5cs gene and induces proline accumulation in cactus pear

Claudia O. Silva‐Ortega, Ana Erika Ochoa‐Alfaro, Juan Antonio Reyes‐Agüero +2

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Selenium Geochemistry and Health

F.M. Fordyce

AMBIO

Selenium is a naturally occurring metalloid element, which is essential to human and
\nother animal health in trace amounts but is harmful in excess. Of all the elements,
\nselenium has one...

The Pomegranate: A New Look at the Fruit of Paradise

Ed Stover, Eric W. Mercure

HortScience

In this paper, a broad overview is provide<;l for the fruit known as the pomegranate (Pu~ica granatum). The pomegranate has a deep association with the cultures of the Mediterranean region and Near...

Microwave Drying of Parsley: Modelling, Kinetics, and Energy Aspects

Yurtsever Soysal, S. Özteki̇n, Ömer Eren

Biosystems Engineering

Salivary mutans streptococci and lactobacilli levels after ingestion of the probiotic bacterium<i>Lactobacillus reuteri</i>ATCC 55730 by straws or tablets

Eşber Çağlar, Şule Kavaloğlu Çildir, Semra Ergeneli +2

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica

A short-term daily ingestion of lactobacilli-derived probiotics delivered by prepared straws or lozenges reduced the levels of salivary mutans streptococci in young adults.

Non-sensory factors in sensory science research

Sara R. Jaeger

Food Quality and Preference

Postoperative Outcomes of Extremely Low Birth-Weight Infants With Necrotizing Enterocolitis or Isolated Intestinal Perforation

Martin L. Blakely, Kevin P. Lally, Scott A. McDonald +13

Annals of Surgery

Survival to hospital discharge after operation for NEC or IP in ELBW neonates remains poor (51%). Patients with a preoperative diagnosis of NEC have a relative risk for death of 1.4 compared with...

From sucrose to starch granule to starch physical behaviour: a focus on rice starch

G.E. Vandeputte, Jan A. Delcour

Carbohydrate Polymers

Antimicrobial Susceptibility and Epidemiology of a Worldwide Collection of <i>Chryseobacterium</i> spp.: Report from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (1997-2001)

Jeffrey T. Kirby, Hélio S. Sader, Timothy R. Walsh +1

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Limited data are available on Chryseobacterium spp. leading to an evaluation of the patient demographics and susceptibility patterns for Chryseobacterium spp. collected in the first 5 years of the...

<i>Shigella flexneri</i>infection: pathogenesis and vaccine development

Amy V. Jennison, Naresh K. Verma

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative bacterium which causes the most communicable of bacterial dysenteries, shigellosis. Shigellosis causes 1.1 million deaths and over 164 million cases each year,...

Demographic Trends in the Cactaceae

Héctor Godínez–Álvarez, Teresa Valverde, Pablo Ortega–Baes

The Botanical Review

Birc1e is the gene within the Lgn1 locus associated with resistance to Legionella pneumophila

Eduardo Diez, Seung Hwan Lee, Susan A. Gauthier +4

Nature Genetics

Transport of toxic metals by molecular mimicry.

Nazzareno Ballatori

Environmental Health Perspectives

Intracellular concentrations of essential metals are normally maintained within a narrow range, whereas the nonessential metals generally lack homeostatic controls. Some of the factors that...

Selenomethionine regulation of p53 by a ref1-dependent redox mechanism

Young Rok Seo, Mark R. Kelley, Martin L. Smith

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The cancer chemopreventive properties of selenium compounds are well documented, yet little is known of the mechanism(s) by which these agents inhibit carcinogenesis. We show that selenium in the...

Use of Antithrombotic Agents During Pregnancy

Jeff Ginsberg, Ian Greer, J. Hirsh

CHEST Journal

Health effects of occupational exposure to acrylamide using hemoglobin adducts as biomarkers of internal dose

Lars Hagmar, Margareta Törnqvist, Catarina Nordander +8

Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health

Occupational exposure to a grouting agent containing acrylamide resulted in PNS symptoms and signs. The use of Hb adducts of acrylamide as a biomarker of internal dose revealed strong dose-response...

Essential fatty acids in mothers and their neonates

Gerard Hornstra

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Conjugated linoleic acid: implications for human health

Leah D. Whigham, Mark E. Cook, Richard L. Atkinson

Pharmacological Research

Inhibition of a starch-granule–bound protein leads to modified starch and repression of cold sweetening

Ruth Lorberth, Gerhard Ritte, Lothar Willmitzer +1

Nature Biotechnology

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past

William Roseberry

American Anthropologist

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past. Sidney W. Mintz. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.149 pp.

Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus in the Chesapeake Bay

A C Wright, Russell T. Hill, J. A. Johnson +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Vibrio vulnificus is a potentially lethal human pathogen capable of producing septicemia in susceptible persons. Disease is almost always associated with consumption of seafood, particularly raw...

Membranes as a target for stress adaptation

Nicholas J. Russell, Rhodri Evans, P. F. Ter Steeg +3

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Antibiotic production and biocontrol activity by Bacillus subtilis CL27 and Bacillus pumilus CL45

Carlo Leifert, Huiping Li, Siripun Chidburee +5

Journal of Applied Bacteriology

Bacillus subtilis CL27 and B. pumilus CL45 showed similar activity against Botrytis cinerea in in vitro plate assays. In a seedling bioassay, however, B. subtilis CL27 had activity similar to a...

Salicylic Acid Is Not the Translocated Signal Responsible for Inducing Systemic Acquired Resistance but Is Required in Signal Transduction

Bernard Vernooij, Leslie Friedrich, Alison M. Morse +6

The Plant Cell

Bernard Vernooij, Leslie Friedrich, Alison Morse, Roland Reist, Rachida Kolditz-Jawhar, Eric Ward, Scott Uknes, Helmut Kessmann, John Ryals, Salicylic Acid Is Not the Translocated Signal Responsible...

Psychrotrophs in dairy products: Their effects and their control

Claude P. Champagne, Richard R. Laing, Denis Roy +3

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Health concerns and technological effects of psychrotrophic bacteria in dairy products are reviewed, as well as methods to control their presence and development. The various Gram-negative and...

Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of Nine Medicinal Plants from Zaire

Dave N Muanza, B. W. Kim, K. L. Euler +1

International Journal of Pharmacognosy

Zairean medicinal plants were extracted and screened for in vitro antibacterial and antifungal activities. Of nine plants investigated, extracts of six plants (Alchornea cordifolia, Bridelia...

AMPA receptor activation potentiates zinc neurotoxicity

John H. Weiss, Dean M. Hartley, Jae‐Young Koh +1

Neuron

Regulation of cytokine release from mononuclear cells by the iron- binding protein lactoferrin

S P Crouch, KJ Slater, John Fletcher

Blood

The iron-binding protein lactoferrin (Lf) is a constituent of neutrophil secondary granules and is discharged into the surrounding medium when neutrophils are activated. Lf released from neutrophils...

Spontaneous hepatic copper accumulation in Long-Evans Cinnamon rats with hereditary hepatitis. A model of Wilson's disease.

Y Li, Yuji Togashi, Shin‐ichi Sato +7

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Long-Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rats, an inbred strain of a mutant rat isolated from Long-Evans rats, develop hereditary hepatitis. To elucidate the role of copper metabolism in the development of the...

One of two different ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase genes from potato responds strongly to elevated levels of sucrose

Bernd Müller‐Röber, Jens Koßmann, L. Curtis Hannah +2

Molecular and General Genetics MGG

Testing for the equivalence of factor covariance and mean structures: The issue of partial measurement invariance.

Barbara M. Byrne, Richard J. Shavelson, Bengt Muthén

Psychological Bulletin

Addresses issues related to partial measurement in variance using a tutorial approach based on the LISREL confirmatory factor analytic model.Specifically, we demonstrate procedures for (a) using...

Magnesium metabolism. A review with special reference to the relationship between intracellular content and serum levels

Richard A. Reinhart

Archives of Internal Medicine

Magnesium (Mg++) is a ubiquitous element in nature, playing a role in photosynthesis and many metabolic functions in humans. All enzymatic reactions that involve adenosine triphosphate have an...

Primary structure and transcription of an amplified genetic locus: the CUP1 locus of yeast.

Michael Karin, Richard C. Najarian, Alois Haslinger +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Copper resistance in yeast is controlled by the CUP1 locus. The level of resistance is proportional to the copy number of this locus, which can be found in up to 15 tandemly iterated copies. To...

The Mechanism of Action of Guar Gum in Improving Glucose Tolerance in Man

N. A. Blackburn, Jan S. Redfern, H. A. Jarjis +5

Clinical Science

Experiments were carried out in human volunteers to investigate the mechanism by which guar gum improves glucose tolerance. Guar reduced both plasma glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose...

Adjusted versus Fixed-Dose Subcutaneous Heparin in the Prevention of Deep-Vein Thrombosis after Total Hip Replacement

P.-F. Leyvraz, J Richard, F Bachmann +4

New England Journal of Medicine

Venous thromboembolism after total hip replacement continues to be a serious problem. We conducted a study to determine whether adjustment of the dose of subcutaneous heparin to yield partial...

Some Biochemical Consequences of the Spatial Distribution of Ionizing Radiation-Produced Free Radicals

John F. Ward

Radiation Research

Ionizing radiation deposits energy nonhomogeneously in the medium through which it passes. Mozumder and Magee (Radiat. Res. 28, 203-214 (1966)) have classified the events as spurs, blobs, and short...

PURIFICATION AND PROPERTIES OF BOVINE THYMOSIN*

John A. Hooper, Mildred C. McDaniel, Gary B. Thurman +3

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Comparison by Controlled Clinical Trial of Streptokinase and Heparin in Treatment of Life-threatening Pulmonary Embolism

David Tibbutt, John A. Davies, J. Anderson +8

BMJ

Treatment with heparin or streptokinase was allocated randomly to 30 patients with life-threatening pulmonary embolism verified by angiography. Treatment was given for 72 hours and pulmonary...

Susceptibility of Phytopathogenic Bacteria to Wheat Purothionins In Vitro

R. Fernandez De Caleya, Blanca Gonzalez-Pascual, Francisco García‐Olmedo +1

Applied Microbiology

Purothionins are basic polypeptides with antimicrobial properties that are present in the endosperm of wheat and other cereal species. Susceptibility to wheat purothionins among phytopathogenic...