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Modification of rapeseed protein by ultrasound-assisted pH shift treatment: Ultrasonic mode and frequency screening, changes in protein solubility and structural characteristics

Yihe Li, Yu Cheng, Zhaoli Zhang +6

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

We investigated the effect of ultrasound-assisted pH shift treatment on the micro-particle, molecular, and spatial structure of rapeseed protein isolates (RPI). Various ultrasonic frequency modes...

Shaping the Gut Microbiota by Breastfeeding: The Gateway to Allergy Prevention?

Lieke van den Elsen, Johan Garssen, Rémy Burcelin +1

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Evidence is accumulating that demonstrates the importance of the gut microbiota in health and diseases such as allergy. Recent studies emphasize the importance of the "window of opportunity" in early...

Activation of intestinal tuft cell-expressed Sucnr1 triggers type 2 immunity in the mouse small intestine

Weiwei Lei, Wenwen Ren, Makoto Ohmoto +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The hallmark features of type 2 mucosal immunity include intestinal tuft and goblet cell expansion initiated by tuft cell activation. How infectious agents that induce type 2 mucosal immunity are...

Direct evidence for α ether linkage between lignin and carbohydrates in wood cell walls

Hiroshi Nishimura, Akihiro Kamiya, Takashi Nagata +2

Scientific Reports

Cross-linking between lignin and polysaccharide in plant cell-wall determines physical, chemical, and biological features of lignocellulosic biomass. Since Erdmann's first report in 1866, numerous...

A review of natural polysaccharides for drug delivery applications: Special focus on cellulose, starch and glycogen

V. Gopinath, S. Saravanan, Anis Rageh Al‐Maleki +2

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

A review of the evidence linking child stunting to economic outcomes

Mark E. McGovern, Aditi Krishna, Víctor M. Aguayo +1

International Journal of Epidemiology

Countries with high rates of stunting, such as those in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, should scale up policies and programmes aiming to reduce child undernutrition as cost-beneficial investments...

Physicochemical and functional properties of quinoa protein isolate

Sobhy A. El‐Sohaimy, T.M. Refaay, M.A.M. Zaytoun

Annals of Agricultural Sciences

This study was focused on the optimum conditions for preparing the protein isolate of quinoa seeds and investigates the physicochemical and functional properties of the isolated protein to assess the...

Bacteria and yeast microbiota in milk kefir grains from different Italian regions

Cristiana Garofalo, Andrea Osimani, Vesna Milanović +8

Food Microbiology

Oregano and lavender essential oils as antioxidant and antimicrobial additives of biogenic gelatin films

Josefa F. Martucci, Liesel B. Gende, Laura M. Neira +1

Industrial Crops and Products

Natural colorants: Pigment stability and extraction yield enhancement via utilization of appropriate pretreatment and extraction methods

Luxsika Ngamwonglumlert, Sakamon Devahastin, Naphaporn Chiewchan

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Natural colorants from plant-based materials have gained increasing popularity due to health consciousness of consumers. Among the many steps involved in the production of natural colorants, pigment...

Green preparation and characterisation of waxy maize starch nanoparticles through enzymolysis and recrystallisation

Qingjie Sun, Guanghua Li, Lei Dai +2

Food Chemistry

The Canadian Critical Care Nutrition Guidelines in 2013

Rupinder Dhaliwal, Naomi E. Cahill, Margot Lemieux +1

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are systematically developed statements to assist practitioners and patient decisions about appropriate healthcare for specific clinical circumstances, and are...

Anticancer activity of essential oils: a review

Yashika Bhalla, V. K. Gupta, Vikas Jaitak

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Natural essential oil constituents play an important role in cancer prevention and treatment. Essential oil constituents from aromatic herbs and dietary plants include monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes,...

Major bioactivities and mechanism of action of essential oils and their components

Nizar Y. Saad, Christian D. Muller, Annelise Lobstein

Flavour and Fragrance Journal

ABSTRACT Essential oils are gaining increasing interest for their antimicrobial and antiviral properties, as well as for their preventive and therapeutic actions against many human pathologies....

Molecular forces involved in heat-induced pea protein gelation: Effects of various reagents on the rheological properties of salt-extracted pea protein gels

Xiang Dong Sun, Susan D. Arntfield

Food Hydrocolloids

Dietary intakes of women during pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries

Sun Eun Lee, Sameera A. Talegawkar, Mario Merialdi +1

Public Health Nutrition

Imbalanced macronutrients, inadequate micronutrient intakes and predominantly plant-based diets were common features of the diet of pregnant women in developing countries. Cohesive public health...

Effects of nano-selenium on performance, meat quality, immune function, oxidation resistance, and tissue selenium content in broilers

Shuang Cai, C.X. Wu, Lei Gong +3

Poultry Science

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of nano-selenium (nano-Se) on performance, meat quality, immune function, oxidation resistance, and tissue selenium content in broilers. A total of...

Selenium Compounds, Apoptosis and Other Types of Cell Death: An Overview for Cancer Therapy

Carmen Sanmartín, Daniel Plano, Arun Sharma +1

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element involved in different physiological functions of the human body and plays a role in cancer prevention and treatment. Induction of apoptosis is considered...

Oxidative stress and metal carcinogenesis

Jeong‐Chae Lee, Young‐Ok Son, Poyil Pratheeshkumar +1

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Edible oleogels: structure and health implications.

Alejandro G. Marangoni, Nissim Garti

Edible Oleogels, Structure and Health Implications, Second Edition presents a novel strategy on how to eliminate trans fats from our diets. Topics covered include how to avoid excessive amounts of...

Phytochemical characterisation for industrial use of pomegranate (<i>Punica granatum</i> L.) cultivars grown in Spain

Pedro Mena, Cristina García‐Viguera, Javier Navarro-Rico +4

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

These useful results can be employed by the juice processing industry to select those properties more interesting for the development of pomegranate juices that are organoleptically attractive and...

Scientific and Technical Aspects of Yogurt Aroma and Taste: A Review

Winny Routray, Hari Niwas Mishra

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Abstract: Yogurt is a basic dairy product that has been consumed for centuries as a part of the diet, even when its beneficial effects were neither fully known nor scientifically proven. With time,...

International Spread of an Epidemic Population of Salmonella enterica Serotype Kentucky ST198 Resistant to Ciprofloxacin

Simon Le Hello, René S. Hendriksen, Benoît Doublet +13

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

National Salmonella surveillance systems from France, England and Wales, Denmark, and the United States identified the recent emergence of multidrug-resistant isolates of Salmonella enterica serotype...

So similar, yet so different: uncovering distinctive features in the genomes of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Typhi

Sébastien C. Sabbagh, Chantal Forest, Christine Lepage +2

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Salmonella enterica represents a major human and animal pathogen. Many S. enterica genomes have been completed and many more genome sequencing projects are underway, constituting an excellent...

Annotation and Structural Analysis of Sialylated Human Milk Oligosaccharides

Shuai Wu, Rudolf Grimm, J. Bruce German +1

Journal of Proteome Research

Sialylated human milk oligosaccharides (SHMOs) are important components of human milk oligosaccharides. Sialic acids are typically found on the nonreducing end and are known binding sites for...

Vapour treatments with methyl salicylate or methyl jasmonate alleviated chilling injury and enhanced antioxidant potential during postharvest storage of pomegranates

Mohammad Sayyari, Mesbah Babalar, Siamak Kalantari +4

Food Chemistry

Guidance for Substantiating the Evidence for Beneficial Effects of Probiotics: Current Status and Recommendations for Future Research1–3

Ger T. Rijkers, Stig Bengmark, Paul Enck +14

Journal of Nutrition

Assessment of cell surface properties and adhesion potential of selected probiotic strains

Hua Xu, H.S. Jeong, H.Y. Lee +1

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Because the use of probiotic strains has been more concerned with their beneficial effects in the GI tract, it is essential to examine the potential of probiotic strains based on the physicochemical...

Formation and properties of the whey protein/κ-casein complexes in heated skim milk – A review

Laurence Donato, Fanny Guyomarc’H

Dairy Science and Technology

n-3 Fatty Acids in the Brain and Retina: Evidence for Their Essentiality

Martha Neuringer, William E. Connor

Nutrition Reviews

n-3 Fatty Acids in the Brain and Retina: Evidence for Their Essentiality Get access Martha Neuringer, PhD, Martha Neuringer, PhD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed...

Epidemic Clonal Groups of <i>Escherichia coli</i> as a Cause of Antimicrobial-Resistant Urinary Tract Infections in Canada, 2002 to 2004

James R. Johnson, Megan Menard, Brian Johnston +3

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

The extent to which clonal spread contributes to emerging antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli is incompletely defined. To address this question within a recent, nationally representative...

Genome-Scale Identification of Legionella pneumophila Effectors Using a Machine Learning Approach

David Burstein, Tal Zusman, Elena Degtyar +3

PLoS Pathogens

A large number of highly pathogenic bacteria utilize secretion systems to translocate effector proteins into host cells. Using these effectors, the bacteria subvert host cell processes during...

Global impact of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> interactions with chitin

Carla Pruzzo, Luigi Vezzulli, Rita R. Colwell

Environmental Microbiology

The interaction of Vibrio cholerae with chitin exemplifies for microbial ecology a successful bacteria-substrate interaction with complex and significant influence on the lifestyle of the bacterium....

Variation in the Content of Dietary Fiber and Components Thereof in Wheats in the HEALTHGRAIN Diversity Screen

Kurt Gebruers, Emmie Dornez, Danuta Boros +5

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Within the HEALTHGRAIN diversity screening program, the variation in the content of dietary fiber and components thereof in different types of wheat was studied. The wheat types were winter (131...

Influence of cooking and dehulling on nutritional composition of several varieties of lentils (Lens culinaris)

N. Wang, D. W. Hatcher, R. Toews +1

LWT

TRPM6 and TRPM7—Gatekeepers of human magnesium metabolism

Karl P. Schlingmann, Siegfried Waldegger, Martin Konrad +2

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease

In Vitro Fermentation by Human Fecal Microflora of Wheat Arabinoxylans

Simon Hughes, Peter R. Shewry, L. Li +3

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The fermentation of three arabinoxylan (AX) fractions from wheat by the human fecal microflora was investigated in vitro. Three AX fractions, with average molecular masses of 354, 278, and 66 kDa,...

Identification of lactobacilli by pheS and rpoA gene sequence analyses

Sabri M. Naser, Peter Dawyndt, Bart Hoste +5

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of the phenylalanyl-tRNA synthase alpha subunit (pheS) and the RNA polymerase alpha subunit (rpoA) partial gene sequences for species identification of...

Extraintestinal Pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> Strains of Avian and Human Origin: Link between Phylogenetic Relationships and Common Virulence Patterns

Maryvonne Moulin-Schouleur, Maryline Répérant, Sylvie Laurent +5

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains of human and avian origin show similarities that suggest that the avian strains potentially have zoonotic properties. However, the...

Urban–rural differentials in child malnutrition: Trends and socioeconomic correlates in sub-Saharan Africa

Jean‐Christophe Fotso

Health & Place

Nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase‐2 is the ecto‐ATPase of type I cells in taste buds

Dianna L Bartel, Susan L. Sullivan, Élise G. Lavoie +2

The Journal of Comparative Neurology

The presence of one or more calcium-dependent ecto-ATPases (enzymes that hydrolyze extracellular 5'-triphosphates) in mammalian taste buds was first shown histochemically. Recent studies have...

Composition, Digestibility and Application in Breadmaking of Banana Flour

Erika Juárez‐García, Edith Agama‐Acevedo, Sonia G. Sáyago‐Ayerdi +2

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Preparation and physical characteristics of slowly digesting modified food starches

Jung‐Ah Han, James N. BeMiller

Carbohydrate Polymers

Docosahexaenoic acid affects cell signaling by altering lipid rafts

William Stillwell, Saame Raza Shaikh, Mustafa Zerouga +2

annales de biologie animale biochimie biophysique

With 22 carbons and 6 double bonds docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is the longest and most unsaturated fatty acid commonly found in membranes. It represents the extreme example of a class of important...

Comparison of home-based therapy with ready-to-use therapeutic food with standard therapy in the treatment of malnourished Malawian children: a controlled, clinical effectiveness trial

Michael A. Ciliberto, Heidi Sandige, MacDonald Ndekha +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID, FATTY ACID–INTERACTING PROTEINS, AND NEURONAL FUNCTION: Breastmilk and Fish Are Good for You

Joseph R. Marszalek, Harvey F. Lodish

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

In contrast to other tissues, the nervous system is enriched in the polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs): arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4 n-6) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6 n-3). Despite their...

Burns, Bacterial Translocation, Gut Barrier Function, and Failure

Louis J. Magnotti, Edwin A. Deitch

Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation

The development of systemic inflammation, acute lung injury, and multiple organ failure after a major thermal injury, as well as nonthermal forms of trauma, remain relatively common causes of...

An International Outbreak of Salmonellosis Associated with Raw Almonds Contaminated with a Rare Phage Type of Salmonella Enteritidis

S Isaacs, Jeff Aramini, Bruce Ciebin +17

Journal of Food Protection

Energy Aspects in Drying

Tadeusz Kudra

Drying Technology

Abstract The energy performance of a dryer and a drying process is characterized by various indices such as volumetric evaporation rate, steam consumption, unit heat consumption and energy (thermal)...

TccP is an enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 type III effector protein that couples Tir to the actin-cytoskeleton+

Junkal Garmendia, Alan D. Phillips, Marie‐France Carlier +8

Cellular Microbiology

Subversion of host cell actin microfilaments is the hallmark of enterohaemorrhagic (EHEC) and enteropathogenic (EPEC) Escherichia coli infections. Both pathogens translocate the trans-membrane...