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Determinants of stunting, underweight and wasting among children < 5 years of age: evidence from 2012-2013 Pakistan demographic and health survey

Sadaf Khan, Sidra Zaheer, Nilofer Fatimi Safdar

BMC Public Health

The study suggests that most of the analysed factors that accounted for malnutrition in Pakistani children (such as mother's age at marriage, educational level and mothers' nutritional status) are...

Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent Clostridium Difficile

Sarah Mathew, Jessica Barton, Adrian W. Ong

Background Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection is difficult to treat, and failure rates for antibiotic therapy are high. We studied the effect of duodenal infusion of donor feces in patients...

Current in vitro digestion systems for understanding food digestion in human upper gastrointestinal tract

Cheng Li, Wenwen Yu, Peng Wu +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Chemical and nutritional characterization of Chenopodium quinoa Willd (quinoa) grains: A good alternative to nutritious food

Eliana Pereira, Christian R. Encina‐Zelada, Lillian Barros +3

Food Chemistry

Functional colloids from proteins and polysaccharides for food applications

Wahyu Wijaya, Ashok R. Patel, Arima Diah Setiowati +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

A critical review on phytochemical profile and health promoting effects of mung bean ( Vigna radiata )

Kumar Ganesan, Baojun Xu

Food Science and Human Wellness

The seeds and sprouts of mung bean are very common cruise in Asia. Evidence showed that bioactive compounds in mung bean have emerged as an increasing scientific interest due to their role in the...

An Analysis of Water Collection Labor among Women and Children in 24 Sub-Saharan African Countries

Jay P. Graham, Mitsuaki Hirai, Seung-Sup Kim

PLoS ONE

In the 24 SSA countries studied, an estimated 3.36 million children and 13.54 million adult females were responsible for water collection in households with collection times greater than 30 minutes....

Human Milk Lipids

Berthold Koletzko

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Human milk lipids provide the infant with energy and essential vitamins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and bioactive components. Adding complex lipids and milk fat globule membranes to vegetable...

Acute pulmonary embolism: mortality prediction by the 2014 European Society of Cardiology risk stratification model

Cecilia Becattini, Giancarlo Agnelli, Mareike Lankeit +9

European Respiratory Journal

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has proposed an updated risk stratification model for death in patients with acute pulmonary embolism based on clinical scores (Pulmonary Embolism Severity...

Microbial Dysbiosis: Rethinking Disease in Marine Ecosystems

Suhelen Egan, Melissa Gardiner

Frontiers in Microbiology

With growing environmental pressures placed on our marine habitats there is concern that the prevalence and severity of diseases affecting marine organisms will increase. Yet relative to terrestrial...

Pengaruh Proses Pemasakan Terhadap Komposisi Zat Gizi Bahan Pangan Sumber Protein

Dian Sundari, Almasyhuri Almasyhuri, Astuti Lamid

Media Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kesehatan

Abstrak Telah dilakukan penelitian pengaruh proses pemasakan terhadap komposisi zat gizi beberapa bahan pangan sumber protein baik hewani maupun nabati. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk melihat...

Estimating seabed pressure from demersal trawls, seines, and dredges based on gear design and dimensions

Ole Ritzau Eigaard, François Bastardie, Michael J. Breen +16

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Abstract This study assesses the seabed pressure of towed fishing gears and models the physical impact (area and depth of seabed penetration) from trip-based information of vessel size, gear type,...

Adhesion abilities of dairy Lactobacillus plantarum strains showing an aggregation phenotype

Tomás García‐Cayuela, Ahmed M. Korany, Irene Bustos +4

Food Research International

Effect of pullulan on the short-term and long-term retrogradation of rice starch

Long Chen, Fei Ren, Zipei Zhang +2

Carbohydrate Polymers

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers on food safety in food service operations at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Norrakiah Abdullah Sani, Oi Nee Siow

Food Control

Lactic acid bacteria producing B-group vitamins: a great potential for functional cereals products

Vittorio Capozzi, Pasquale Russo, María Teresa Dueñas +2

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Probiotics Supplementation During Pregnancy or Infancy for the Prevention of Atopic Dermatitis

Claudio Pelucchi, Liliane Chatenoud, Federica Turati +4

Epidemiology

This meta-analysis provided evidence in support of a moderate role of probiotics in the prevention of atopic dermatitis and IgE-associated atopic dermatitis in infants. The favorable effect was...

Genomic epidemiology of the <i>Escherichia coli</i> O104:H4 outbreaks in Europe, 2011

Yonatan H. Grad, Marc Lipsitch, Michael Feldgarden +27

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The degree to which molecular epidemiology reveals information about the sources and transmission patterns of an outbreak depends on the resolution of the technology used and the samples studied....

Fatty acids in cardiovascular health and disease: A comprehensive update

Seth J. Baum, Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, Walter C. Willett +6

Journal of clinical lipidology

Bran-induced changes in water structure and gluten conformation in model gluten dough studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Jayne E. Bock, Srinivasan Damodaran

Food Hydrocolloids

G protein-coupled receptors for energy metabolites as new therapeutic targets

Clara C. Blad, Cong Tang, Stefan Offermanns

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Dietary sources of omega 3 fatty acids: public health risks and benefits

Josep A. Tur, M. M. Bibiloni, A. Sureda +1

British Journal Of Nutrition

Omega 3 fatty acids can be obtained from several sources, and should be added to the daily diet to enjoy a good health and to prevent many diseases. Worldwide, general population use omega-3 fatty...

Novel Anti-Inflammatory-Pro-Resolving Mediators and Their Receptors

Charles N. Serhan, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Antonio Recchiuti +1

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Resolution of inflammation, an actively coordinated program, is essential to maintain host health. It involves effective removal of inflammatory stimuli and the spatio-temporal control of leukocyte...

Impact of gastric structuring on the lipolysis of emulsified lipids

Matt Golding, Tim J. Wooster, Li Day +4

Soft Matter

Understanding and manipulating how emulsion structure impacts on fat digestion is an important step towards understanding the role of fat in our diet. This article reports on the nature of emulsion...

Cancer-preventing attributes of probiotics: an update

Manoj Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Ravinder Nagpal +9

International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Cancer is a serious global public health problem. Cancer incidence and mortality have been steadily rising throughout the past century in most places of the world. There are several epidemiological...

Enhancing food safety culture to reduce rates of foodborne illness

Douglas Powell, Casey J. Jacob, Ben Chapman

Food Control

Human Copper Transporters: Mechanism, Role in Human Diseases and Therapeutic Potential

Arnab Gupta, Svetlana Lutsenko

Future Medicinal Chemistry

Normal copper homeostasis is essential for human growth and development. Copper deficiency, caused by genetic mutations, inadequate diet or surgical interventions, may lead to cardiac hypertrophy,...

Quantitative Reconstruction of the Nonvolatile Sensometabolome of a Red Wine

Jan Carlos Hufnagel, Thomas Hofmann

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The first comprehensive quantitative determination of 82 putative taste-active metabolites and mineral salts, the ranking of these compounds in their sensory impact based on dose-over-threshold (DoT)...

Multi-residue determination of veterinary drugs in milk by ultra-high-pressure liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

M.M. Aguilera-Luiz, José Luis Martı́nez Vidal, Roberto Romero‐González +1

Journal of Chromatography A

Thermal Processing of Packaged Foods

Donald Holdsworth, Ricardo Simpson

Food engineering series

Image Quality and Radiation Exposure at Pulmonary CT Angiography with 100- or 120-kVp Protocol: Prospective Randomized Study

Christoph M. Heyer, P Mohr, Stefan P. Lemburg +2

Radiology

Reduction of kilovoltage from 120 to 100 kVp resulted in significant reduction of effective dose at pulmonary CT angiography, without significant loss of objective or subjective image quality.

Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism and the Impact on Survival in Breast Cancer Patients

Helen K. Chew, Theodore Wun, Danielle Harvey +2

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Approximately 1% of breast cancer patients developed VTE within 2 years, with the highest incidence in the first 6 months after diagnosis. Metastatic disease and comorbidities were the strongest...

The effect of slaughter operations on the contamination of chicken carcasses with thermotolerant Campylobacter

Hanne Rosenquist, Helle Mølgaard Sommer, Niels Ladefoged Nielsen +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Functional properties of rice bran protein concentrates

Gurpreet Kaur Chandi, Dalbir Singh Sogi

Journal of Food Engineering

Bran fermentation as a means to enhance technological properties and bioactivity of rye

Kati Katina, Arja Laitila, Riikka Juvonen +6

Food Microbiology

Dietary α-linolenic acid and health-related outcomes: a metabolic perspective

Graham C. Burdge, Philip C. Calder

Nutrition Research Reviews

alpha-Linolenic acid (alphaLNA; 18: 3n-3) is essential in the human diet, probably because it is the substrate for the synthesis of longer-chain, more unsaturated n-3 fatty acids, principally EPA...

pH-, Lactic Acid-, and Non-Lactic Acid-Dependent Activities of Probiotic Lactobacilli against <i>Salmonella enterica</i> Serovar Typhimurium

Domitille Fayol-Messaoudi, Cédric N. Berger, Marie-Hélène Coconnier-Polter +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The mechanism(s) underlying the antibacterial activity of probiotic Lactobacillus strains appears to be multifactorial and includes lowering of the pH and the production of lactic acid and of...

Systematic review and meta-analysis of strategies for the diagnosis of suspected pulmonary embolism

Pierre‐Marie Roy, Isabelle Colombet, Pierre Durieux +3

BMJ

The accuracy of tests for suspected pulmonary embolism varies greatly, but it is possible to estimate the range of pretest probabilities over which each test or strategy can confirm or rule out...

Long-term consumption of infant formulas containing live probiotic bacteria: tolerance and safety

José M. Saavedra, A Abi‐Hanna, Nancy Moore +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Oxidative stress, renal infiltration of immune cells, and salt-sensitive hypertension: all for one and one for all

Bernardo Rodríguez‐Iturbe, Nosratola D. Vaziri, Jaime Herrera-Acosta +1

American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology

Recent evidence indicates that interstitial infiltration of T cells and macrophages plays a role in the pathogenesis of salt-sensitive hypertension. The present review examines this evidence and...

Practical implications of lactate and pyruvate metabolism by lactic acid bacteria in food and beverage fermentations

S Liu

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Validation and cross-national comparison of the food neophobia scale (FNS) using confirmatory factor analysis

P. Neal Ritchey, Robert Frank, Ulla‐Kaisa Koivisto Hursti +1

Appetite

Characterization and Pathogenic Significance of <i>Vibrio vulnificus</i> Antigens Preferentially Expressed in Septicemic Patients

Young Ran Kim, Shee Eun Lee, Choon Mee Kim +9

Infection and Immunity

Many important virulence genes of pathogenic bacteria are preferentially expressed in vivo. We used the recently developed in vivo-induced antigen technology (IVIAT) to identify Vibrio vulnificus...

<i>Legionella pneumophila</i>: an aquatic microbe goes astray

Michael Steinert, Ute Hentschel, Jörg Hacker

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Legionella pneumophila is naturally found in fresh water were the bacteria parasitize within protozoa. It also survives planctonically in water or biofilms. Upon aerosol formation via man-made water...

A kinetic study of β‐lactoglobulin amyloid fibril formation promoted by urea

Daizo Hamada, Christopher M. Dobson

Protein Science

The formation of fibrillar aggregates by beta-lactoglobulin in the presence of urea has been monitored by using thioflavin T fluorescence and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Large quantities...

Prebiotic effects of inulin and oligofructose

Sofía Kolida, Kieran Tuohy, Glenn R. Gibson

British Journal Of Nutrition

Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients that target certain components within the microbiota of the human large intestine. Efficient prebiotics need to have a specific fermentation therein and...

PBDEs in the San Francisco Bay Area: measurements in harbor seal blubber and human breast adipose tissue

Jianwen She, Myrto Petreas, Jennifer Winkler +3

Chemosphere

Influence of Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) on Establishment and Progression of Atherosclerosis in Rabbits

David Kritchevsky, Shirley A. Tepper, Scott Wright +2

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

Dietary CLA is an effective inhibitor of atherogenesis and also causes regression of established atherosclerosis.

Preclinical Perspectives on Platinum Resistance

Lloyd R. Kèlland

Drugs

Striking a balance: Modulation of the actin cytoskeleton by<i>Salmonella</i>

Jorge E. Galán, Daoguo Zhou

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Salmonella spp. have evolved the ability to enter into cells that are normally nonphagocytic. The internalization process is the result of a remarkable interaction between the bacteria and the host...