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The impact of long-chain<i>n</i>-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on human health

C. H. S. Ruxton, Philip C. Calder, Stephen C. Reed +1

Nutrition Research Reviews

A considerable literature has been published on the health benefits of fish, oil-rich fish and fish oils and their constituent long-chain (LC) n-3 PUFA. Evidence from epidemiological studies...

Essential fatty acids, DHA and human brain

Meharban Singh

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Analytical characterization of the aroma of Tinta Negra Mole red wine: Identification of the main odorants compounds

Rosa Perestrelo, A.C. Fernandes, Filipe Albuquerque +2

Analytica Chimica Acta

Manipulation of the host actin cytoskeleton by Salmonella — all in the name of entry

Jayesh C. Patel, Jorge E. Galán

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Apoptosis is a Critical Cellular Event in Cancer Chemoprevention and Chemotherapy by Selenium Compounds

Raghu Sinha, Karam El‐Bayoumy

Current Cancer Drug Targets

Epidemiological studies, preclinical investigations and clinical intervention trials support the role of selenium compounds as potent cancer chemopreventive agents; the dose and the form of selenium...

Pomegranate extract inhibits Staphylococcus aureus growth and subsequent enterotoxin production

Letícia da Conceição Braga, Jeffrey W. Shupp, Christiano Cummings +5

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Synthesis and Characterization of Starch Acetates with High Substitution

Yixiang Xu, V.D. Miladinov, Milford A. Hanna

Cereal Chemistry

ABSTRACT Acetylation of high‐amylose (70%) maize starch to high degree of substitution (DS) was studied by reacting starch with acetic anhydride using 50% aqueous NaOH as the catalyst. DS increased...

Modelling the rheological behaviour of galactomannan aqueous solutions

Wancheng Sittikijyothin, Duarte Torres, Maria P. Gonçalves

Carbohydrate Polymers

Gut flora in health and disease

David J. Knight, Keith J. Girling

The Lancet

Diarrhea and Malnutrition

Kenneth H. Brown

Journal of Nutrition

Functional and comparative genomic analyses of an operon involved in fructooligosaccharide utilization by <i>Lactobacillus acidophilus</i>

Rodolphe Barrangou, Eric Altermann, Robert W. Hutkins +2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lactobacillus acidophilus is a probiotic organism that displays the ability to use prebiotic compounds such as fructooligosaccharides (FOS), which stimulate the growth of beneficial commensals in the...

Biological Significance of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) in Human Health - A Review

Khalid Iqbal, Alam Khan, M. Muzaffar Ali Khan .

Pakistan Journal of Nutrition

The recognition of vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) is associated with history of an unrelenting search for the cause of the ancient hemorrhagic disease scurvy. Isolated in 1928 vitamin C is essential for...

Analysis of Genome Plasticity in Pathogenic and Commensal <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolates by Use of DNA Arrays

Ulrich Dobrindt, Franziska Agerer, Kai Michaelis +7

Journal of Bacteriology

Genomes of prokaryotes differ significantly in size and DNA composition. Escherichia coli is considered a model organism to analyze the processes involved in bacterial genome evolution, as the...

Pulmonary tumor embolism: a review of the literature

Kari E. Roberts, Diane Hamele‐Bena, Anjali Saqi +2

The American Journal of Medicine

The role of the intestinal microflora for the development of the immune system in early childhood

Arthur C. Ouwehand, Erika Isolauri, Seppo Salminen

European Journal of Nutrition

Current aspects of mucosal immunology and its influence by nutrition

Kenneth A. Kudsk

The American Journal of Surgery

Fatty acid analysis of wild ruminant tissues: evolutionary implications for reducing diet-related chronic disease

Loren Cordain, Bruce A. Watkins, GL Florant +3

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Pan-European Study on Culture-Proven Legionnaires' Disease: Distribution of Legionella pneumophila Serogroups and Monoclonal Subgroups

Jörg Helbig, Sverker Bernander, Maddalena Castellani Pastoris +13

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

A PCR-based method for identification of lactobacilli at the genus level

Ségolà ̈ne Dubernet, Nathalie Desmasures, Micheline Guéguen

FEMS Microbiology Letters

We developed a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method for the identification of lactobacilli at the genus level. One specific primer, LbLMA1-rev, was designed by analysing similarities between...

N‐3 and N‐6 fatty acids in breast adipose tissue and relative risk of breast cancer in a case‐control study in Tours, France

Virginie Maillard, Philippe Bougnoux, Pietro Ferrari +6

International Journal of Cancer

Experimental studies have indicated that n-3 fatty acids, including alpha-linolenic acid (18:3 n-3) and long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids inhibit mammary tumor growth and metastasis. Earlier...

Quantitative Study of Changes in Intestinal Morphology and Mucus Gel on Total Parenteral Nutrition in Rats

Kenichi Sakamoto, H. Hirose, A Onizuka +4

Journal of Surgical Research

Fish oil and cardiovascular disease: lipids and arterial function

Paul J. Nestel

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The molecular physiology of taste transduction

Timothy A. Gilbertson, Sami Damak, Robert F. Margolskee

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Innate Recognition of Bacteria in Human Milk Is Mediated by a Milk-Derived Highly Expressed Pattern Recognition Receptor, Soluble Cd14

Mario O. Labéta, Karine Vidal, Julia E. Rey Nores +11

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Little is known about innate immunity to bacteria after birth in the hitherto sterile fetal intestine. Breast-feeding has long been associated with a lower incidence of gastrointestinal infections...

Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin Prophylaxis Using Dalteparin in Close Proximity to Surgery vs Warfarin in Hip Arthroplasty Patients

Russell D. Hull

Archives of Internal Medicine

A modified dalteparin regimen in close proximity to surgery resulted in substantive risk reductions for all and proximal deep vein thrombosis, compared with warfarin therapy. Such findings have not...

Anticarcinogenic effects of selenium

G. N. Schrauzer

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Effect of Salinity on Photosynthesis and Biochemical Characteristics in Mulberry Genotypes

Paul Agastian, S. Kingsley, M. Vivekanandan

Photosynthetica

Mulberry genotypes were subjected to salinity (0-12 mS cm-1) in pot culture experiment. Chlorophyll and total carotenoid contents were reduced considerably by salinity. At low salinity,...

Cholesterol Reduction by Glucomannan and Chitosan Is Mediated by Changes in Cholesterol Absorption and Bile Acid and Fat Excretion in Rats

Cynthia M. Gallaher, Jessa Munion, Daniel D. Gallaher +2

Journal of Nutrition

Lactobacillus endocarditis caused by a probiotic organism

Andrew D. Mackay, Mark B. Taylor, Christopher C. Kibbler +1

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Review of probiotics available to modify gastrointestinal flora

Maria Rita Gismondo, Lorenzo Drago, A. Lombardi

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

M cells as ports of entry for enteroinvasive pathogens: Mechanisms of interaction, consequences for the disease process

Philippe Sansonetti, Armelle Phalipon

Seminars in Immunology

Antibiotic resistance spread in food

Vincent Perreten, Franziska Schwarz, Luana Cresta +3

Nature

A comparative study of volatile compounds in the water-soluble fraction of various types of ripened cheese

Wim Engels, R. Dekker, Catrienus de Jong +2

International Dairy Journal

The catabolite repressor/activator (Cra) protein of enteric bacteria

Milton H. Saier, T M Ramseier

Journal of Bacteriology

n‐3 fatty acids and lipoproteins: Comparison of results from human and animal studies

William S. Harris

Lipids

The impact of n-3 fatty acids (FA) on blood lipoprotein levels has been examined in many studies over the last 15 yr in both animals and humans. Studies in humans first demonstrated the potent...

Use of recombinase gene fusions to identify <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> genes induced during infection

Andrew Camilli, John J. Mekalanos

Molecular Microbiology

A complete understanding of host-parasite interactions must necessarily include the identification and characterization of gene products expressed by both parties during the infectious process. We...

Quality as influenced by color

F. J. Francis

Food Quality and Preference

Antibacterial Activity of Carvacrol, Citral, and Geraniol against <i>Salmonella typhimurium</i> in Culture Medium and on Fish Cubes

Jeong‐Mok Kim, Maurice R. Marshall, John A. Cornell +2

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT Carvacrol, citral and geraniol showed potent antibacterial activity against Salmonella typhimurium and its rifampicin‐resistant (Rif R ) strain as determined in txyptic soy broth and by zone...

Potential food applications of high-pressure effects on ice-water transitions

Monica T. Kalichevsky

Trends in Food Science & Technology

<i>Enterococcus faecium</i> Strains with <i>vanA</i> -Mediated High-Level Glycopeptide Resistance Isolated from Animal Foodstuffs and Fecal Samples of Humans in the Community

Ingo Klare, H. Heier, H. Claus +6

Microbial Drug Resistance

The occurrence and the further spread of high-level glycopeptide-resistant, vanA-positive Enterococcus faecium strains outside of hospitals have been investigated. We could isolate such bacteria...

Activity of thymol, carvacrol, cinnamaldehyde and eugenol on oral bacteria

N Didry, L. Dubreuil, M Pinkas

Pharmaceutica Acta Helvetiae

Tropical Forests, People and Food: Biocultural Interactions and Applications to Development

Tim Smyth

Journal of Environmental Quality

Dietary magnesium, lung function, wheezing, and airway hyper-reactivity in a random adult population sample

John Britton

The Lancet

A comparative analysis of two models of colitis in rats

Tamaki Yamada, Steven J. Marshall, Robert D. Specian +1

Gastroenterology

Legionella pneumophila mip gene potentiates intracellular infection of protozoa and human macrophages.

Nicholas P. Cianciotto, Barry S. Fields

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular parasite of freshwater protozoa and human macrophages. Recent studies determined that the macrophage infectivity potentiator (Mip) surface protein, a...

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Dietary salt intake. A determinant of cardiac involvement in essential hypertension.

Roland E. Schmieder, Franz H. Messerli, G Garavaglia +1

Circulation

Because a given increase in afterload does not consistently produce the same degree of left ventricular hypertrophy, we evaluated several clinical, hemodynamic, and endocrine factors that are prone...