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Starch nanoparticles formation via high power ultrasonication

Sihem Bel Haaj, Albert Magnin, Christian Pétrier +1

Carbohydrate Polymers

Gastronomy as a tourism resource: profile of the culinary tourist

Sandra María Sánchez Cañizares, Tomás López‐Guzmán

Current Issues in Tourism

The aim of this paper is to explore the characteristics and motivations of culinary tourists whose destination is the city of Córdoba (Spain) while attempting to determine whether gastronomy is an...

A proprietary alpha-amylase inhibitor from white bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): A review of clinical studies on weight loss and glycemic control

Marilyn Barrett, Jay Udani

Nutrition Journal

Obesity, and resultant health hazards which include diabetes, cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome, are worldwide medical problems. Control of diet and exercise are cornerstones of the...

Improvement of functional properties of peanut protein isolate by conjugation with dextran through Maillard reaction

Yan Liu, Guanli Zhao, Mouming Zhao +2

Food Chemistry

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Is a Risk Factor for Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism

Gottfried Novacek, Ansgar Weltermann, Anna Sobala +18

Gastroenterology

Sphingomonas paucimobilis: a persistent Gram-negative nosocomial infectious organism

Michael P. Ryan, Catherine C. Adley

Journal of Hospital Infection

Erythrocyte membrane phospholipid fatty acids, desaturase activity, and dietary fatty acids in relation to risk of type 2 diabetes in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)–Potsdam Study

Janine Kröger, Vera Zietemann, Cornelia Enzenbach +6

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Magnesium, inflammation, and obesity in chronic disease

Forrest H. Nielsen

Nutrition Reviews

About 60% of adults in the United States do not consume the estimated average requirement for magnesium, but widespread pathological conditions attributed to magnesium deficiency have not been...

Whole Berries versus Berry Anthocyanins: Interactions with Dietary Fat Levels in the C57BL/6J Mouse Model of Obesity

Ronald L. Prior, Xianli Wu, Liwei Gu +3

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Male C57BL/6J mice received diets with either 10% of calories from fat (LF) or a high-fat diet [45% (HF45) or 60% (HF60) calories from fat] for 92 days (expt 1) or 70 days (expt 2). These were given...

Probiotics and Prebiotics in Dietetics Practice

Linda C. Douglas, Mary Ellen Sanders

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Prezygotic reproductive isolation between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus

Calum J. Maclean, Duncan Greig

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Prezygotic reproductive isolation is well known in higher organisms but has been largely overlooked in yeast, an important model microbe. Here we present the first report of prezygotic reproductive...

Safety of probiotics: translocation and infection

Min‐Tze Liong

Nutrition Reviews

The long history of safety has contributed to the acceptance of probiotics as a safe food adjunct. Consequently, many probiotic products and their applications have been granted GRAS (generally...

Antifungal activity of the lemongrass oil and citral against Candida spp.

Cristiane de Bona da Silva, Sı́lvia Stanisçuaski Guterres, Vanessa Weisheimer +1

The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Superficial mycoses of the skin are among the most common dermatological infections, and causative organisms include dermatophytic, yeasts, and non-dermatophytic filamentous fungi. The treatment is...

Omega-3 fatty acids and rodent behavior

I. M. Fedorova, Norman Salem

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Selective Deficits in the Omega-3 Fatty Acid Docosahexaenoic Acid in the Postmortem Orbitofrontal Cortex of Patients with Major Depressive Disorder

Robert K. McNamara, Chang-Gyu Hahn, Ronald J. Jandacek +4

Biological Psychiatry

Chemical and nutritional properties of soybean carbohydrates as related to nonruminants: A review

Lisa K. Karr‐Lilienthal, C.T. Kadzere, Christine M. Grieshop +1

Livestock Production Science

Detection and Characterization of Diarrheagenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> from Young Children in Hanoi, Vietnam

Trung Vu Nguyen, Phung Le Van, Chinh Le Huy +2

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Diarrhea continues to be one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality among infants and children in developing countries. Escherichia coli is an emerging agent among pathogens that cause...

Pancreatic cancer and thromboembolic disease

Alok A. Khorana, Robert L. Fine

The Lancet Oncology

Omega 3 fatty acids for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease

Lee Hooper, Roger Harrison, Carolyn Summerbell +7

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

It is not clear that dietary or supplemental omega 3 fats alter total mortality, combined cardiovascular events or cancers in people with, or at high risk of, cardiovascular disease or in the general...

Risk Assessment of Acrylamide in Foods

Erik Dybing

Toxicological Sciences

Daily mean intakes of acrylamide present in foods and coffee in a limited Norwegian exposure assessment study have been estimated to be 0.49 and 0.46 microg per kg body weight in males and females,...

Serum and Tissue Trace Elements in Patients with Breast Cancer in Taiwan

Hsien‐Wen Kuo, Su Fan Chen, Chin Ching Wu +2

Biological Trace Element Research

Duodenal and Milk Trans Octadecenoic Acid and Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) Isomers Indicate that Postabsorptive Synthesis Is the Predominant Source of cis-9-Containing CLA in Lactating Dairy Cows

Liliana S. Piperova, J. Sampugna, B.B. Teter +5

Journal of Nutrition

Crispness: a critical review on sensory and material science approaches

Gaëlle Roudaut, Catherine Dacremont, Baltasar Valles Pamies +2

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Milk Fat Synthesis in Dairy Cows Is Progressively Reduced by Increasing Supplemental Amounts of trans-10, cis-12 Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)

L.H. Baumgard, Jodi K. Sangster, Dale E. Bauman

Journal of Nutrition

Zn2+ Induces Permeability Transition Pore Opening and Release of Pro-apoptotic Peptides from Neuronal Mitochondria

Dongmei Jiang, Patrick G. Sullivan, Stefano L. Sensi +2

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Rapid entry of Ca(2+) or Zn(2+) kills neurons. Mitochondria are major sites of Ca(2+)-dependent toxicity. This study examines Zn(2+)-initiated mitochondrial cell death signaling. 10 nm Zn(2+) induced...

Rapid Translocation of Zn²⁺From Presynaptic Terminals Into Postsynaptic Hippocampal Neurons After Physiological Stimulation

Yang Li, Christopher J. Hough, Sang Won Suh +2

Journal of Neurophysiology

Zn(2+) is found in glutamatergic nerve terminals throughout the mammalian forebrain and has diverse extracellular and intracellular actions. The anatomical location and possible synaptic signaling...

The role of probiotic bacteria in cancer prevention

Kazuhiro Hirayama, Joseph Rafter

Microbes and Infection

Deep Venous Thrombosis: Detection by Using Indirect CT Venography

Matthew D. Cham, David F. Yankelevitz, Dorith Shaham +12

Radiology

Among patients suspected to have pulmonary embolism, a substantial number had DVT in the absence of pulmonary embolism. Combined pulmonary CT angiography-indirect CT venography can depict these cases...

Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States

Craig W. Hedberg

Emerging infectious diseases

correctly identified E. faecium and E. faecalis to the species level, most (4 of 5) did not correctly identify E. gallinarum (three misidentified it as E. casseliflavus and one as E. faecalis)

Selenoprotein P in Human Plasma as an Extracellular Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase

Yoshiro Saito, Takaaki Hayashi, Ayako Tanaka +4

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Selenoprotein P is an extracellular protein containing presumably 10 selenocysteines that are encoded by the UGA stop codon in the open reading frame of the mRNA. The function of selenoprotein P is...

Treatment of Wilson and Menkes Diseases

Bibudhendra Sarkar

Chemical Reviews

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTTreatment of Wilson and Menkes DiseasesBibudhendra SarkarView Author Information Department of Structural Biology and Biochemistry, The Hospital for Sick...

Development of a Method for Analyzing the Volatile Thiols Involved in the Characteristic Aroma of Wines Made from<i>Vitis vinifera</i>L. Cv. Sauvignon Blanc

Takatoshi Tominaga, Marie-Laure Murat, Denis Dubourdieu

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volatile thiols were purified from a dichloromethane extract of Sauvignon blanc wine by the reversible combination of the thiols with p-hydroxymercuribenzoate, fixation of the resulting complex in an...

Diphtheria in the Former Soviet Union: Reemergence of a Pandemic Disease

Charles Vitek, Melinda Wharton

Emerging infectious diseases

The massive reemergence of diphtheria in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union marked the first large-scale diphtheria epidemic in industrialized countries in 3 decades. Factors...

Risk of and Prophylaxis for Venous Thromboembolism in Hospital Patients

Second Thromboembolic Risk Factors (THRiFT II) Consensus Group

Phlebology The Journal of Venous Disease

Objective: To review the published clinical data on prophylaxis for thromboembolism in order to develop general guidelines to encourage the establishment of local protocols for management. Data...

Effect of drying on the volatile constituents of thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) and sage (Salvia officinalis L.)

P. R. Venskutonis

Food Chemistry

Early postoperative enteral immunonutrition

M. Senkal, A. Mumme, Ulrich Eickhoff +6

Critical Care Medicine

Early enteral feeding with an arginine, dietary nucleotides, and omega-3 fatty acids supplemented diet, as well as an isonitrogenous, isocaloric control diet (placebo) were well tolerated in patients...

Properties of human milk and their relationship with maternal nutrition

Pauline Emmett, Imogen Rogers

Early Human Development

Proposal To Reclassify Leuconostoc oenos as Oenococcus oeni [corrig.] gen. nov., comb. nov.

Leon M. T. Dicks, Franco Dellaglio, Matthew Collins

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Wine strains belonging to the genus Leuconostoc were classified as Leuconostoc oenos by Garvie in 1967, and this name was confirmed on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in 1980. L. oenos is...

Transcriptional induction of the mouse metallothionein-I gene in hydrogen peroxide-treated Hepa cells involves a composite major late transcription factor/antioxidant response element and metal response promoter elements

Tim Dalton, Richard D. Palmiter, Glen K. Andrews

Nucleic Acids Research

Synthesis of metallothionein-I (MT-I) and heme oxygenase mRNAs is rapidly and transiently induced by H2O2 in mouse hepatoma cells (Hepa) and this effect is blocked by catalase. Menadione, which...

THE POWER OF SENSORY DISCRIMINATION METHODS

Daniel M. Ennis

Journal of Sensory Studies

ABSTRACT Difference testing methods are extensively used in a variety of applications from small sensory evaluation tests to large scale consumer tests. A central issue in the use of these tests is...

Caseins as rheomorphic proteins: interpretation of primary and secondary structures of the α_S1-, β- and κ-caseins

Carl Holt, Lindsay Sawyer

Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions

Caseins are members of a class of proteins with extremely open and flexible conformations. Here, we consider what features of their sequences are important in maintaining such a structure. Primary...

Influence of Fat and Emulsifiers on the Efficacy of Nisin in Inhibiting Listeria monocytogenes in Fluid Milk

Dong-Sun Jung, F. W. Bodyfelt, Mark A. Daeschel

Journal of Dairy Science

The recent FDA affirmation of nisin, an antimicrobial peptide, as a GRAS (generally recognized as safe) additive in pasteurized cheese spreads has renewed interest in its potential application in US...

Common purslane: a source of omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants.

Artemis P. Simopoulos, Helen Norman, J E Gillaspy +1

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

omega-3 fatty acids, alpha-tocopherol, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene and glutathione determined in leaves of purslane (Portulaca oleracea), grown in both a controlled growth chamber and in the wild,...

Spoilage Yeasts

Graham H. Fleet

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Yeasts are best known for their beneficial contributions to society, and the literature abounds with discussions of their role in the fermentation of alcoholic beverages, bread, and other products....

Gustatory responses of single neurons in the insula of the macaque monkey

S. Yaxley, Edmund T. Rolls, Zenon Sienkiewicz

Journal of Neurophysiology

1. In recordings made from 2,925 single neurons, a region of primary taste cortex was localized to the rostral and dorsal part of the insula of the cynomolgus macaque monkey, Macaca fascicularis. The...

Rheological properties of aqueous suspensions of swollen starch granules

Peter A.M. Steeneken

Carbohydrate Polymers

Comparison of the carbohydrate-binding specificities of cholera toxin and Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxins LTh-I, LT-IIa, and LT-IIb

Seiko Fukuta, J L Magnani, E M Twiddy +2

Infection and Immunity

The heat-labile enterotoxins of Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli are related in structure and function. They are oligomers consisting of A and B polypeptide subunits. They bind to gangliosides,...

Salt-Sensitive Essential Hypertension in Men

Theodore W. Kurtz, Hamoudi Al-Bander, R. Curtis Morris

New England Journal of Medicine

We investigated whether the anionic component of an orally administered sodium salt can influence the salt's capacity to increase blood pressure. In five men with essential hypertension in whom blood...

Malnutrition is a determining factor in diarrheal duration, but not incidence, among young children in a longitudinal study in rural Bangladesh

Robert E. Black, Kenneth H. Brown, Stan Becker

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition