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Formation of Mutagens in Beef and Beef Extract During Cooking

Barry Commoner, Antony J. Vithayathil, Piero Dolara +3

Science

Mutagens, distinguishable from benzo[a]pyrene and from mutagenic amino acid and protein pyrolysis products, are formed when ground beef is cooked in a home hamburger cooking appliance or when beef...

ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LAMELLAR BODIES AND TUBULAR MYELIN FROM RAT LUNG HOMOGENATES

Joan Gil, Oscar K. Reiss

The Journal of Cell Biology

Three surface-active fractions which differ in their morphology have been isolated from rat lung homogenates by ultracentrifugation in a discontinuous sucrose density gradient. In order of increasing...

Taste Pathways in Rat Brainstem

R. Norgren, Christiana M. Leonard

Science

By means of a combination of electrophysiological and anatomical procedures, the projections of the anterior portion of the solitary nucleus were traced to the parabrachial nuclei in the pons,...

A Comprehensive Study of the Postnatal Changes in the Concentration of the Lipids of Developing Rat Brain^*

Michael A. Wells, John C. Dittmer

Biochemistry

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On Chemical Protection against Ionizing Radiation

Z. M. Bacq

Acta Radiologica

Virulence Factors of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa and Antivirulence Strategies to Combat Its Drug Resistance

Chongbing Liao, Xin Huang, Qingxia Wang +2

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

<i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> is an opportunistic pathogen causing nosocomial infections in severely ill and immunocompromised patients. Ubiquitously disseminated in the environment, especially in...

Effect of pH-shifting treatment on structural and heat induced gel properties of peanut protein isolate

Junguang Li, Mengmeng Wu, Yuntao Wang +3

Food Chemistry

Nanoemulsions as delivery systems for lipophilic nutraceuticals: strategies for improving their formulation, stability, functionality and bioavailability

Seung Jun Choi, David Julian McClements

Food Science and Biotechnology

The food and beverage industry often need to encapsulate hydrophobic functional ingredients in their products, including colors, flavors, lipids, nutraceuticals preservatives, and vitamins....

Comparison of Faba Bean Protein Ingredients Produced Using Dry Fractionation and Isoelectric Precipitation: Techno-Functional, Nutritional and Environmental Performance

Martin Vogelsang-O’Dwyer, Iben Lykke Petersen, Marcel Skejovic Joehnke +8

Foods

Dry fractionated faba bean protein-rich flour (FPR) produced by milling/air classification, and faba bean protein isolate (FPI) produced by acid extraction/isoelectric precipitation were compared in...

Interpreting Whole-Genome Sequence Analyses of Foodborne Bacteria for Regulatory Applications and Outbreak Investigations

Arthur Pightling, James Pettengill, Yan Luo +3

Frontiers in Microbiology

Whole-genome sequence (WGS) analysis has revolutionized the food safety industry by enabling high-resolution typing of foodborne bacteria. Higher resolving power allows investigators to identify...

A consumer behavioural approach to food waste

Emel Aktaş, Hafize Sahin, Zeynep Topaloğlu +6

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Purpose Food waste occurs in every stage of the supply chain, but the value-added lost to waste is the highest when consumers waste food. The purpose of this paper is to understand the food waste...

An Overview of the Biological Effects of Some Mediterranean Essential Oils on Human Health

Hazem S. Elshafie, Ippolito Camele

BioMed Research International

Essential oils (EOs), extracted from aromatic plants, are interesting natural products and represent an important part of the traditional pharmacopeia. The use of some EOs as alternative...

Progress in household water insecurity metrics: a cross‐disciplinary approach

Wendy Jepson, Amber Wutich, Shalean M. Colllins +2

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Despite the central importance of water for human wellbeing and development, researchers and practitioners have few tools to quantitatively measure, assess, and compare the scope and scale of...

Indirect calorimetry in nutritional therapy. A position paper by the ICALIC study group

Taku Oshima, Mette M. Berger, Elisabeth De Waele +6

Clinical Nutrition

An Endoperoxide Reactivity-Based FRET Probe for Ratiometric Fluorescence Imaging of Labile Iron Pools in Living Cells

Allegra T. Aron, Morten O. Loehr, Jana Bogena +1

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Iron is essential for sustaining life, as its ability to cycle between multiple oxidation states is critical for catalyzing chemical transformations in biological systems. However, without proper...

Decay control in the postharvest system: Role of microbial and plant volatile organic compounds

Marta Mari, Silvia Bautista‐Baños, Dharini Sivakumar

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Identification of Diverse Mycoviruses through Metatranscriptomics Characterization of the Viromes of Five Major Fungal Plant Pathogens

Shin-Yi Lee Marzano, Berlin D. Nelson, Olutoyosi O. Ajayi-Oyetunde +5

Journal of Virology

Plant-pathogenic fungi reduce crop yields, which affects food security worldwide. Plant host resistance is considered a sustainable disease management option but may often be incomplete or lacking...

Ellagic acid: Pharmacological activities and molecular mechanisms involved in liver protection

Wylly Ramsés García‐Niño, Cecilia Zazueta

Pharmacological Research

Edible applications of shellac oleogels: spreads, chocolate paste and cakes

Ashok R. Patel, Pravin S. Rajarethinem, Agnieszka Grędowska +5

Food & Function

We demonstrate three potential edible applications of shellac oleogels as (i) a continuous oil phase for preparation of emulsifier-free, structured w/o emulsions (spreads), (ii) a replacer for...

The Cytosolic Bacterial Peptidoglycan Sensor Nod2 Affords Stem Cell Protection and Links Microbes to Gut Epithelial Regeneration

Giulia Nigro, Raffaella Rossi, Pierre‐Henri Commère +2

Cell Host & Microbe

Photo, thermal and chemical degradation of riboflavin

Muhammad Ali Sheraz, Sadia Hafeez Kazi, Sofia Ahmed +2

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Riboflavin (RF), also known as vitamin B2, belongs to the class of water-soluble vitamins and is widely present in a variety of food products. It is sensitive to light and high temperature, and...

Protein content and amino acids profile of pseudocereals

Carla Mota, Mariana Santos, R. de A. Mauro +4

Food Chemistry

Current Limitations and Challenges with Lactic Acid Bacteria: A Review

Saeed A. Hayek, Salam A. Ibrahim

Food and Nutrition Sciences

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) play a critical role in food, agricultural, and clinical applications. The fast growing characteristics of LAB and their metabolic activity have been the key in most...

A review on traditional Turkish fermented non-alcoholic beverages: Microbiota, fermentation process and quality characteristics

Filiz Altay, Funda Karbancıoğlu‐Güler, Ceren Daşkaya-Dikmen +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Bifidobacteria Isolated From Infants and Cultured on Human Milk Oligosaccharides Affect Intestinal Epithelial Function

Maciej Chichlowski, Guillaume de Lartigue, J. Bruce German +2

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

The study provides evidence for the specific relation between HMO-grown bifidobacteria and intestinal epithelial cells. To our knowledge, this is the first study describing HMO-induced changes in the...

Freshwater Availability and Water Fetching Distance Affect Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Amy J. Pickering, Jennifer Davis

Environmental Science & Technology

Currently, more than two-thirds of the population in Africa must leave their home to fetch water for drinking and domestic use. The time burden of water fetching has been suggested to influence the...

Protein Kinase CK2 Triggers Cytosolic Zinc Signaling Pathways by Phosphorylation of Zinc Channel ZIP7

KM Taylor, Stephen Hiscox, Robert I. Nicholson +2

Science Signaling

The transition element zinc, which has recently been identified as an intracellular second messenger, has been implicated in various signaling pathways, including those leading to cell proliferation....

Composition and Evolution of the Vertebrate and Mammalian Selenoproteomes

Marco Mariotti, Perry G. Ridge, Yan Zhang +5

PLoS ONE

This analysis represents the first comprehensive survey of the vertebrate and mammal selenoproteomes, and depicts their evolution along lineages. It also provides a wealth of information on these...

World Health Organization (WHO) infant and young child feeding indicators: associations with growth measures in 14 low‐income countries

Bernadette P. Marriott, Alan White, Louise Hadden +2

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Eight World Health Organization (WHO) feeding indicators (FIs) and Demographic and Health Survey data for children <24 months were used to assess the relationship of child feeding with stunting and...

The Role of Magnesium in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

Mark C. Houston

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Magnesium intake of 500 mg/d to 1000 mg/d may reduce blood pressure (BP) as much as 5.6/2.8 mm Hg. However, clinical studies have a wide range of BP reduction, with some showing no change in BP. The...

Microencapsulation in food science and biotechnology

Filomena Nazzaro, Pierangelo Orlando, Florinda Fratianni +1

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Comment analysis of consumer’s likes and dislikes as an alternative tool to preference mapping. A case study on apples

Ronan Symoneaux, Mara V. Galmarini, Emira Mehinagic

Food Quality and Preference

Potentials of Exopolysaccharides from Lactic Acid Bacteria

Seema Patel, Avishek Majumder, Arun Goyal

Indian Journal of Microbiology

Cytosolic Monothiol Glutaredoxins Function in Intracellular Iron Sensing and Trafficking via Their Bound Iron-Sulfur Cluster

Ulrich Mühlenhoff, Sabine Molik, José R. Godoy +9

Cell Metabolism

Fruit polyphenols and CVD risk: a review of human intervention studies

Mary Foong‐Fong Chong, Rory Macdonald, Julie A. Lovegrove

British Journal Of Nutrition

Epidemiological evidence suggests that polyphenols may, in part, explain the cardioprotective properties of fruits. This review aims to summarise the evidence for the effects of fruit polyphenols on...

Calcium Oscillations

Geneviève Dupont, Laurent Combettes, Gary S. Bird +1

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Calcium signaling results from a complex interplay between activation and inactivation of intracellular and extracellular calcium permeable channels. This complexity is obvious from the pattern of...

Nuts and novel biomarkers of cardiovascular disease

Emilio Ros

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Fish oil supplementation in pregnancy and lactation may decrease the risk of infant allergy

Catrin Furuhjelm, Kristina Warstedt, J. Larsson +4

Acta Paediatrica

Maternal omega-3 fatty acid supplementation may decrease the risk of food allergy and IgE-associated eczema during the first year of life in infants with a family history of allergic disease.

Pomegranate (Punica granatum) purified polyphenol extract inhibits influenza virus and has a synergistic effect with oseltamivir

Mehran Haidari, Muzammil Ali, S. Ward Casscells +1

Phytomedicine

Ecology and biotechnological potential of Paenibacillus polymyxa: a minireview

Sadhana Lal, Silvia Tabacchioni

Indian Journal of Microbiology

Conjugated linoleic acids as functional food: an insight into their health benefits

Sailas Benjamin, Friedrich Spener

Nutrition & Metabolism

This review evaluates the health benefits of the functional food, conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) - a heterogeneous group of positional and geometric isomers of linoleic acid predominantly found in...

Kinetics of starch digestion in sorghum as affected by particle size

K. Mahasukhonthachat, P. A. Sopade, Michael J. Gidley

Journal of Food Engineering

Structural Transitions and Related Physical Properties of Starch

Costas G. Βiliaderis

Elsevier eBooks

Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease associated with Campylobacter jejuni

Marc Lecuit

Hematology Meeting Reports

Background. Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID, also known as alpha-chain disease) is a form of lymphoma that arises in small intestinal mucosa-associated lymphoid-tissue (MALT), and...

Major Femoral Bleeding Complications After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Brendan Doyle, Henry H. Ting, Malcolm R. Bell +5

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Large-Scale Analysis of Association Between &lt;emph type="ital"&gt;LRP5&lt;/emph&gt; and &lt;emph type="ital"&gt;LRP6&lt;/emph&gt; Variants and Osteoporosis

Joyce B. J. van Meurs

JAMA

Common LRP5 variants are consistently associated with BMD and fracture risk across different white populations. The magnitude of the effect is modest. LRP5 may be the first gene to reach a...

Frozen bread dough: Effects of freezing storage and dough improvers

Vania Octaviani Selomulyo, Weibiao Zhou

Journal of Cereal Science

Consensus meeting: monosodium glutamate – an update

Konrad Beyreuther, H. K. Biesalski, John D. Fernstrom +7

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Trace Metal Ion Buffers and Their Use in Culture Studies

William G. Sunda, Neil M. Price, François M. M. Morel

Elsevier eBooks

Phenolic Acids, Syringaldehyde, and Juglone in Fruits of Different Cultivars of<i> Juglans regia</i> L.

M. Colarič, Robert Veberič, A. Solar +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Phenolic acids (chlorogenic, caffeic, p-coumaric, ferulic, sinapic, ellagic, and syringic acid) as well as syringaldehyde and juglone were identified in ripe fruits of 10 walnut cultivars: Adams,...