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Oral intake of Lactobacillus fermentum CECT5716 enhances the effects of influenza vaccination

Mónica Olivares, Maria Paz Díaz-Ropero, Saleta Sierra +5

Nutrition

Development of a computer vision system to measure the color of potato chips

Franco Pedreschi, Jorge León, Domingo Mery +1

Food Research International

Reducing the Carriage of Foodborne Pathogens in Livestock and Poultry

Michael P. Doyle, Marilyn C. Erickson

Poultry Science

Several foodborne pathogens, including Salmonella species and campylobacters, are common contaminants in poultry and livestock. Typically, these pathogens are carried in the animal's intestinal tract...

Flocculants—an Ecofriendly Approach

Brij Raj Sharma, N. C. Dhuldhoya, Uday Merchant

Journal of environmental polymer degradation

Structure-Function Relationships in Highly Modified Shoots of Cactaceae

James D. Mauseth

Annals of Botany

Cactus leaves are diverse; all cacti have foliage leaves; many intermediate stages in evolutionary reduction of leaves are still present; floral shoots often have large, complex leaves whereas...

Changes in flagellin glycosylation affect <i>Campylobacter</i> autoagglutination and virulence

Patricia Guerry, Cheryl P. Ewing, Michael Schirm +6

Molecular Microbiology

Summary Analysis of the complete flagellin glycosylation locus of Campylobacter jejuni strain 81–176 revealed a less complex genomic organization than the corresponding region in the genome strain,...

Chocolate and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review

Eric L. Ding, Susan Hutfless, Xin Ding +1

Nutrition & Metabolism

Multiple lines of evidence from laboratory experiments and randomized trials suggest stearic acid may be neutral, while flavonoids are likely protective against CHD mortality. The highest priority...

Effects of sourdough and enzymes on staling of high-fibre wheat bread

Kati Katina, Marjatta Salmenkallio‐Marttila, Riitta Partanen +2

LWT

Evaluation of New Broth Media for Microdilution Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Lactobacilli, Pediococci, Lactococci, and Bifidobacteria

Ingo Klare, Carola Konstabel, Sibylle Müller-Bertling +6

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Nine pure or mixed broth media were evaluated for their suitabilities to determine MICs in a microdilution test of 19 antibacterial agents for lactic acid bacteria (LAB) of the genera Lactobacillus,...

Influence of drying and extraction methods on yield and chemical composition of the essential oil of Satureja hortensis

Fatemeh Sefidkon, Khadijeh Abbasi, Gholamreza Bakhshi Khaniki

Food Chemistry

Functional genomics uncovers three glucosyltransferases involved in the synthesis of the major sweet glucosides of <i>Stevia rebaudiana</i>

Alex Richman, Andrew K. Swanson, Tania Humphrey +4

The Plant Journal

Stevia rebaudiana leaves accumulate a mixture of at least eight different steviol glycosides. The pattern of glycosylation heavily influences the taste perception of these intensely sweet compounds....

Zinc and Sulfur:  A Critical Biological Partnership

Wolfgang Maret

Biochemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUECurrent Topics/Persp...Current Topics/PerspectivesNEXTZinc and Sulfur: A Critical Biological PartnershipWolfgang MaretView Author Information Department of Preventive...

Composition and Structure of Whey Protein/Gum Arabic Coacervates

Fanny Weinbreck, R. Hans Tromp, C. G. de Kruif

Biomacromolecules

Complex coacervation in whey protein/gum arabic (WP/GA) mixtures was studied as a function of three main key parameters: pH, initial protein to polysaccharide mixing ratio (Pr:Ps)(ini), and ionic...

Spray drying of tomato pulp in dehumidified air: II. The effect on powder properties

Athanasia M. Goula, Konstantinos G. Adamopoulos

Journal of Food Engineering

Antibacterial Activity of Coriander Volatile Compounds against<i>Salmonella choleraesuis</i>

Isao Kubo, Ken‐ichi Fujita, Aya Kubo +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Aliphatic (2E)-alkenals and alkanals characterized from the fresh leaves of the coriander Coriandrum sativum L. (Umbelliferae) were found to possess bactericidal activity against Salmonella...

Malnutrition in critically ill children: from admission to 6 months after discharge

Jessie M. Hulst, Koen Joosten, Luc J. I. Zimmermann +5

Clinical Nutrition

Antioxidant potential of vitamins A, E and C in modulating oxidative stress in rat brain

Syed Kashif Zaidi, Naheed Banu

Clinica Chimica Acta

Archaeology of Food and Identity

Katheryn C. Twiss

Anthropology News

Epidermal growth factor reduces the development of necrotizing enterocolitis in a neonatal rat model

Bohuslav Dvořák, Melissa D. Halpern, Hana Holubec +6

American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common gastrointestinal disease of prematurely born infants. Maternal milk plays an important protective role against NEC development and is the major...

Effect of hydrogenated and saturated, relative to polyunsaturated, fat on immune and inflammatory responses of adults with moderate hypercholesterolemia

Sung Nim Han, Lynette S. Leka, Alice H. Lichtenstein +3

Journal of Lipid Research

Consumption of diets high in hydrogenated fat/trans fatty acids has been shown to have an adverse affect on lipoprotein profiles with respect to cardiovascular disease risk. Dietary fat and...

Review: Bacteriocins of Lactic Acid Bacteria

Luis M. Cintas, M. P. Casaus, Carmen Herranz +2

Food Science and Technology International

During the last few years, a large number of new bacteriocins produced by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been identified and characterized. LAB-bacteriocins comprise a heterogeneous group of...

A review of acoustic research for studying the sensory perception of crisp, crunchy and crackly textures

Lisa M. Duizer

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Antimicrobial activity profiles of the two enantiomers of limonene and carvone isolated from the oils of <i>Mentha spicata</i> and <i>Anethum sowa</i>

K. K. Aggarwal, S. P. S. Khanuja, Ateeque Ahmad +3

Flavour and Fragrance Journal

Abstract The antimicrobial activity of the essential oils of Mentha spicata L. and Anethum sowa Roxb. (Indian dill) were studied. The major chemical constituents of the hydrodistilled essential oils...

The Pathology of Diphtheria

Ted L. Hadfield, Peter McEvoy, Yury Polotsky +2

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Diphtheria is an acute, communicable disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The disease is generally characterized by local growth of the bacterium in the pharynx with pseudomembrane...

Thermal stimulation of taste

Alberto Cruz, Barry G. Green

Nature

The use of low molecular weight heparin in pediatric patients: A prospective cohort study

David Dix, Maureen Andrew, Velma Marzinotto +7

The Journal of Pediatrics

Association between oxidative stress and changes of trace elements in patients with breast cancer

Yeou‐Lih Huang, Jenn-Yuan Sheu, Te‐Hsien Lin

Clinical Biochemistry

Effects of dietary levels of selenium-enriched yeast and sodium selenite as selenium sources fed to growing-finishing pigs on performance, tissue selenium, serum glutathione peroxidase activity, carcass characteristics, and loin quality.

D. C. Mahan, T. R. Cline, B. T. Richert

Journal of Animal Science

This research evaluated the efficacy of inorganic and organic Se sources for growing-finishing pigs, as measured by performance and various tissue, serum, carcass, and loin quality traits. A total of...

High-Performance Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Proanthocyanidins in Foods and Beverages

Sheryl A. Lazarus, Gary E. Adamson, John F. Hammerstone +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Monomeric and oligomeric proanthocyanidins present in a range of plant-derived foods and beverages were separated by degree of polymerization and identified using a modified normal-phase...

Analysis of 16S-23S rRNA Intergenic Spacer Regions of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> and <i>Vibrio mimicus</i>

Jongsik Chun, Anwarul Huq, Rita R. Colwell

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Vibrio cholerae identification based on molecular sequence data has been hampered by a lack of sequence variation from the closely related Vibrio mimicus. The two species share many genes coding for...

Enumeration of amino acid fermenting bacteria in the human large intestine: effects of pH and starch on peptide metabolism and dissimilation of amino acids

E. A. Smith, G.T. Macfarlane

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Proteins and trichloroacetic acid-soluble peptides were present in high concentrations in human intestinal contents and faeces. Free amino acids were also detected in millimolar amounts in proximal...

A comparison of the vitamin C content of fresh and frozen vegetables

D.J. Favell

Food Chemistry

Clinical Intestinal Transplantation: New Perspectives and Immunologic Considerations 1 1This study was supported in part by Project Grant No. DK 29661 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Kareem Abu‐Elmagd, Jorge Reyes, Satoru Todo +12

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

These results demonstrate that longterm rehabilitation similar to that with the other kinds of organ allografts is achievable with all three kinds of intestinal transplant procedures, that the...

Emulsification and Microencapsulation Properties of Gum Arabic

Brian F. McNamee, E. Dolores O'Riorda, Michael O’Sullivan

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Emulsions of gum arabic solutions (10% w/w) and soya oil at oil/gum ratios of 0.25−5.0 were prepared by homogenization at 20 MPa. The resulting emulsions were subsequently spray-dried to produce...

cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein in the Amygdala Is Required for Long- but not Short-Term Conditioned Taste Aversion Memory

Raphael Lamprecht, Shoshi Hazvi, Yadin Dudai

Journal of Neuroscience

In conditioned taste aversion (CTA) organisms learn to avoid a taste if the first encounter with that taste is followed by transient poisoning. The neural mechanisms that subserve this robust and...

Zinc in the human prostate gland: Normal, hyperplastic and cancerous

V. Ye. Zaichick, Т. В. Свиридова, Sofia Zaichick

International Urology and Nephrology

Colonic microflora: Nutrition and health

John H. Cummings, G.T. Macfarlane

Nutrition

Controlled gene expression systems for lactic acid bacteria: transferable nisin-inducible expression cassettes for Lactococcus, Leuconostoc, and Lactobacillus spp

Michiel Kleerebezem, Marke M. Beerthuyzen, Elaine E. Vaughan +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

A transferable dual-plasmid inducible gene expression system for use in lactic acid bacteria that is based on the autoregulatory properties of the antimicrobial peptide nisin produced by Lactococcus...

Social psychology and health: European perspectives

Patient Education and Counseling

Manganese intoxication in the rhesus monkey

C. Warren Olanow, Paul F. Good, Hitoshi Shinotoh +6

Neurology

We gave three adult rhesus monkeys seven IV injections of manganese chloride at approximately 1-week intervals. We evaluated neurologic status by serial clinical examinations and performed a levodopa...

Psychosocial Determinants of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

Johannes Brug, Lilian Lechner, Hein de Vries

Appetite

Calcium and Magnesium Absorption from the Colon and Rectum Are Increased in Rats Fed Fructooligosaccharides

Atsutane Ohta, Masako Ohtsuki, Seigo Baba +3

Journal of Nutrition

Molecular basis of glycoalkaloid induced membrane disruption

Erik A.J. Keukens, Truus de Vrije, Claudia van den Boom +6

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes

Characterization of food polymers using state diagrams

Yrjö H. Roos

Journal of Food Engineering

Signal transduction and invasion of epithelial cells by S. typhimurium

John Pace, Michael J. Hayman, Jorge E. Galán

Cell

Excessive production of reactive oxygen metabolites by inflamed colon: Analysis by chemiluminescence probe

Ali Keshavarzian, Shahriar Sedghi, Jefferey Kanofsky +4

Gastroenterology

Review of the physico-chemical characteristics and properties of konjac mannan

Katsuyoshi Nishinari, Peter A. Williams, G. O. Phillips

Food Hydrocolloids

Childhood Weight and Growth Rate as Predictors of Adult Mortality

F. Javier Nieto, Moysés Szklo, George W. Comstock

American Journal of Epidemiology

The effect of rate of growth and relative weight in childhood on adult mortality was studied among 13,146 persons whose weights and heights were measured between the ages of 5 and 18 years in...

Resuscitation of Vibrio vulnificus from the viable but nonculturable state

Lena Nilsson, James D. Oliver, Staffan Kjelleberg

Journal of Bacteriology

Stationary-phase-grown cells of the estuarine bacterium Vibrio vulnificus became nonculturable in nutrient-limited artificial seawater microcosms after 27 days at 5 degrees C. When the nonculturable...

Moisture‐induced aggregation of lyophilized proteins in the solid state

Wei Liu, Róbert Langer, Alexander M. Klibanov

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

A critical problem in the storage and delivery of pharmaceutical proteins is their aggregation induced by moisture. A model system has been elaborated and investigated to elucidate the mechanism of...