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Chloramphenicol resistance in Campylobacter coli: nucleotide sequence, expression, and cloning vector construction

Ying Wang, Diane E. Taylor

Gene

Role of M cells in initial antigen uptake and in ulcer formation in the rabbit intestinal loop model of shigellosis

J S Wassef, David F. Keren, J L Mailloux

Infection and Immunity

Strains of Shigella flexneri with different invasive and pathogenic potentials were inoculated into the intestinal lumen of acutely ligated loops in nonimmune rabbits. After 90 min, tissues processed...

How much soil do young children ingest: An epidemiologic study

Edward J. Calabrese, Ramón M. Barnes, Edward J. Stanek +6

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Effect of water as a diluent on the glass transition behaviour of malto-oligosaccharides, amylose and amylopectin

Paul D. Orford, Roger Parker, Stephen G. Ring +1

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Possible role of cytosolic free calcium concentrations in mediating insulin resistance of obesity and hyperinsulinemia.

Boris Draznin, Karl E. Sussman, Robert H. Eckel +3

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Insulin- and glyburide-stimulated changes in cytosolic free calcium concentrations [( Ca2+]i) were studied in gluteal adipocytes obtained from six obese women (139 +/- 3% ideal body wt) and six...

Vitamin E supplementation suppresses prostaglandin E21 synthesis and enhances the immune response of aged mice

Simin Nikbin Meydani, Mohsen Meydani, Carl P. Verdon +3

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Dosimetry for radiation processing

A. Miller

International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation Part C Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Comparative Physiology of Sensory Systems

Michael F. Land

Trends in Neurosciences

The Influence of Hypermagnesemia on Serum Calcium and Parathyroid Hormone Levels in Human Subjects

Ina N. Cholst, Susan F. Steinberg, Pamela Tropper +3

New England Journal of Medicine

We measured serum concentrations of calcium and parathyroid hormone in seven pregnant women who were receiving intravenous magnesium sulfate for the suppression of premature labor. After...

Transcriptional regulation of mouse liver metallothionein-I gene by glucocorticoids

Lisa J. Hager, Richard D. Palmiter

Nature

Food and beverage mycology

J.D. Owens

Food Chemistry

RENEWAL OF TASTE BUD CELLS IN RAT CIRCUMVALLATE PAPILLAE

A.I. Farbman

Cell Proliferation

The life span of taste bud cells in rat circumvallate papillae was measured by autoradiography after labeling them with a pulse of [3H]thymidine. Specimens of circumvallate papillae were taken daily...

Regulation of water intake.

B. Andersson

Physiological Reviews

Organic selenium compounds: their chemistry and biology

Ralph A. Zingaro

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

A Conspectus of Research on Zinc Requirements of Man

James A. Halsted, James C. Smith, M. Isabel Irwin

Journal of Nutrition

A Selective Medium for the Isolation and Enumeration of Oral Lactobacilli

Morrison Rogosa, Joyce A. Mitchell, R. F. Wiseman

Journal of Dental Research

Pathogenicity assessment of Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and the public health risk posed by contamination of food with STEC

EFSA BIOHAZ Panel, Kostas Koutsoumanis, Ana Allende +22

EFSA Journal

The provisional molecular approach, proposed by EFSA in 2013, for the pathogenicity assessment of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) has been reviewed. Analysis of the confirmed reported...

Legionella and Coxiella effectors: strength in diversity and activity

Jiazhang Qiu, Zhao‐Qing Luo

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Foxtail millet: Properties, processing, health benefits, and uses

Nitya Sharma, Keshavan Niranjan

Food Reviews International

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) is one of the earliest cultivated crops, extensively grown in the arid and semi-arid regions of Asia and Africa, as well as in some other economically developed...

Meta-analysis and meta-regression of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation for major depressive disorder

Roel J. T. Mocking, Iris M Harmsen, Johanna Assies +3

Translational Psychiatry

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) supplementation has been proposed as (adjuvant) treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD). In the present meta-analysis, we pooled randomized...

High salt reduces the activation of IL-4– and IL-13–stimulated macrophages

Katrina J. Binger, Matthias Gebhardt, Matthias Heinig +18

Journal of Clinical Investigation

A high intake of dietary salt (NaCl) has been implicated in the development of hypertension, chronic inflammation, and autoimmune diseases. We have recently shown that salt has a proinflammatory...

Intermittent Water Supply: Prevalence, Practice, and Microbial Water Quality

Emily Kumpel, Kara L. Nelson

Environmental Science & Technology

Intermittent water supplies (IWS), in which water is provided through pipes for only limited durations, serve at least 300 million people around the world. However, providing water intermittently can...

Innovations in Health Value and Functional Food Development of Quinoa ( <i>Chenopodium quinoa</i> Willd.)

Brittany L. Graf, Patricio Rojas‐Silva, Leonel E. Rojo +3

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Quinoa (<i>Chenopodium quinoa</i> Willd., Amaranthaceae) is a grain-like, stress-tolerant food crop that has provided subsistence, nutrition, and medicine for Andean indigenous cultures for thousands...

Preparation, characterization and functional properties of flax seed protein isolate

Pratibha Kaushik, Kim Dowling, Stafford McKnight +3

Food Chemistry

High-Protein Enteral Nutrition Enriched With Immune-Modulating Nutrients vs Standard High-Protein Enteral Nutrition and Nosocomial Infections in the ICU

Arthur R. H. van Zanten, F. Sztark, Udo X. Kaisers +14

JAMA

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Duration of anticoagulant therapy for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism

Clive Kearon, Elie A. Akl

Blood

It takes about 3 months to complete "active treatment" of venous thromboembolism (VTE), with further treatment serving to prevent new episodes of thrombosis ("pure secondary prevention")....

Carboxymethyl chitosan–soy protein complex nanoparticles for the encapsulation and controlled release of vitamin D3

Zi Teng, Yangchao Luo, Qin Wang

Food Chemistry

Zinc and Regulation of Inflammatory Cytokines: Implications for Cardiometabolic Disease

Meika Foster, Samir Samman

Nutrients

In atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus, the concomitant presence of low-grade systemic inflammation and mild zinc deficiency highlights a role for zinc nutrition in the management of chronic...

Comparing the efficiency of protein and maltodextrin on spray drying of bayberry juice

Zhongxiang Fang, Bhesh Bhandari

Food Research International

The Cost of Virulence: Retarded Growth of Salmonella Typhimurium Cells Expressing Type III Secretion System 1

Alexander Sturm, Matthias Heinemann, Markus Arnoldini +5

PLoS Pathogens

Virulence factors generally enhance a pathogen's fitness and thereby foster transmission. However, most studies of pathogen fitness have been performed by averaging the phenotypes over large...

Secondary metabolites of soil Bacillus spp.

Estibaliz Sansinenea, Aurelio Ortíz

Biotechnology Letters

Anti-proliferative effects of carvacrol on a human metastatic breast cancer cell line, MDA-MB 231

Kalle M. Arunasree

Phytomedicine

Prevalence and characterization of Salmonella serovars in retail meats of marketplace in Shaanxi, China

Baowei Yang, Dong Qu, Xiuli Zhang +7

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Mechanism of Degradation of Starch, a Highly Branched Polymer, during Extrusion

Wei-Chen Liu, Peter J. Halley, Robert G. Gilbert

Macromolecules

An investigation of the mechanisms of degradation of a branched polymer in extrusion was performed using starch as substrate. Starch has the advantage that the distribution of degree of...

Zinc bioavailability and homeostasis

K. Michael Hambidge, Leland V. Miller, Jamie Westcott +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Three-dimensional structure of the human copper transporter hCTR1

Christopher J. De Feo, Stephen G. Aller, Gnana S. Siluvai +2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Copper uptake proteins (CTRs), mediate cellular acquisition of the essential metal copper in all eukaryotes. Here, we report the structure of the human CTR1 protein solved by electron crystallography...

Catheter-directed thrombolysis vs. anticoagulant therapy alone in deep vein thrombosis: results of an open randomized, controlled trial reporting on short-term patency

Tone Enden, Nils Einar Kløw, Leiv Sandvik +8

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) in early infancy

Martin J. Shearer

Blood Reviews

Nitrofuran antibiotics: a review on the application, prohibition and residual analysis

M. Vass, K. Hruška, Milan Fránek

Veterinární Medicína

Nitrofuran antibiotics, employed for the treatment of bacterial diseases in livestock production, were banned from use in the European Union (EU) in 1995 due to concerns about the carcinogenicity of...

Analysis of Collection of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome–associated Enterohemorrhagic<i>Escherichia coli</i>

Alexander Mellmann, Martina Bielaszewska, Robin Köck +6

Emerging infectious diseases

Multilocus sequence typing of 169 non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) isolated from patients with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) demonstrated 29 different sequence types (STs); 78.1%...

Review of Methods for the Reduction of Dietary Content and Toxicity of Acrylamide

Mendel Friedman, Carol E. Levin

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Potentially toxic acrylamide is largely derived from heat-induced reactions between the amino group of the free amino acid asparagine and carbonyl groups of glucose and fructose in cereals, potatoes,...

Metabolic Regulation and Function of Glutathione Peroxidase-1

Xin Gen Lei, Wen‐Hsing Cheng, James P. McClung

Annual Review of Nutrition

Glutathione peroxidase-1 (GPX1) represents the first identified mammalian selenoprotein, and our understanding in the metabolic regulation and function of this abundant selenoenzyme has greatly...

Differential activation and function of Rho GTPases during <i>Salmonella–</i> host cell interactions

Jayesh C. Patel, Jorge E. Galán

The Journal of Cell Biology

Salmonella enterica, the cause of food poisoning and typhoid fever, has evolved sophisticated mechanisms to modulate Rho family guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) to mediate specific cellular...

Diet- and Colonization-Dependent Intestinal Dysfunction Predisposes to Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Pigs

Per Torp Sangild, Richard H. Siggers, Mette Schmidt +12

Gastroenterology

Towards a framework for food tourism as an element of destination marketing

Gerrie du Rand, E. Heath

Current Issues in Tourism

Local and regional food holds great potential to contribute to sustainable competitiveness in a destination. An analysis of the literature and promotional material of South African and key...

Prebiotics and resistance to gastrointestinal infections

Glenn R. Gibson, Anne L. McCartney, Robert A. Rastall

British Journal Of Nutrition

Acute gut disorder is a cause for significant medicinal and economic concern. Certain individual pathogens of the gut, often transmitted in food or water, have the ability to cause severe discomfort....