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Formation, Structure, and Functionality of Interfacial Layers in Food Emulsions

Claire Berton‐Carabin, Leonard M.C. Sagis, Karin Schroën

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Emulsions, i.e., the dispersion of liquid droplets in a nonmiscible liquid phase, are overwhelmingly present in food products. In such systems, both liquid phases (generally, oil and water) are...

Selenium modulates dynamics of antioxidative defence expression, photosynthetic attributes and secondary metabolites to mitigate chromium toxicity in Brassica juncea L. plants

Neha Handa, Sukhmeen Kaur Kohli, Anket Sharma +5

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Synthesis and characterization of octenyl succinic anhydride modified starches for food applications. A review of recent literature

Luz Altuna, M. L. Herrera, María Laura Foresti

Food Hydrocolloids

2016OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Immune System Development

Julio Plaza‐Díaz, Luis Fontana, Ángel Gil

Nutrients

Maternal milk contains compounds that may affect newborn immunity. Among these are a group of oligosaccharides that are synthesized in the mammary gland from lactose; these oligosaccharides have been...

Gallium and its competing roles with iron in biological systems

Christopher R. Chitambar

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research

2016OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Identification of Salmonella for public health surveillance using whole genome sequencing

Philip Ashton, Satheesh Nair, Tansy Peters +10

PeerJ

In April 2015, Public Health England implemented whole genome sequencing (WGS) as a routine typing tool for public health surveillance of Salmonella, adopting a multilocus sequence typing (MLST)...

2015OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

RNA-seq Brings New Insights to the Intra-Macrophage Transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium

Shabarinath Srikumar, Carsten Kröger, Magali Hébrard +6

PLoS Pathogens

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is arguably the world's best-understood bacterial pathogen. However, crucial details about the genetic programs used by the bacterium to survive and replicate...

2015OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

The kinetics of the swelling process and the release mechanisms of Coriandrum sativum L. essential oil from chitosan/alginate/inulin microcapsules

Cristian Dima, Livia Pătraşcu, Alina Cantaragiu +2

Food Chemistry

Preparation and application of starch nanoparticles for nanocomposites: A review

Déborah Le Corre, Hélène Angellier‐Coussy

Reactive and Functional Polymers

Role of selenium in male reproduction—A review

U. Ahsan, Zahid Kamran, Imran Raza +4

Animal Reproduction Science

The Science behind the Probiotic Strain Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12®

Mikkel Jungersen, Anette Wind, Eric Johansen +3

Microorganisms

This review presents selected data on the probiotic strain Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12(®) (BB-12(®)), which is the world's most documented probiotic Bifidobacterium. It is described...

2013OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Antioxidant and DNA damage protection potentials of selected phenolic acids

Kemal Sevgi, Bektaş Tepe, Cengiz Sarıkürkçü

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Eugenol-loaded antimicrobial nanoemulsion preserves fruit juice against, microbial spoilage

Vijayalakshmi Ghosh, Amitava Mukherjee, Natarajan Chandrasekaran

Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces

2013OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Products of vegetable origin: A new alternative for the consumption of probiotic bacteria

Eliane Maurício Furtado Martins, Afonso Mota Ramos, Ellen Silva Lago‐Vanzela +3

Food Research International

2013OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Zinc Coordination Spheres in Protein Structures

Mikko Laitaoja, Jarkko Valjakka, Janne Jänis

Inorganic Chemistry

Zinc metalloproteins are one of the most abundant and structurally diverse proteins in nature. In these proteins, the Zn(II) ion possesses a multifunctional role as it stabilizes the fold of small...

2011OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

BitterDB: a database of bitter compounds

Ayana Wiener, Marina Shudler, Anat Levit +1

Nucleic Acids Research

Basic taste qualities like sour, salty, sweet, bitter and umami serve specific functions in identifying food components found in the diet of humans and animals, and are recognized by proteins in the...

2011OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Complex formation, thermal properties, and in-vitro digestibility of gelatinized potato starch–fatty acid mixtures

Kiyoshi Kawai, Setsuko Takato, Tomoko Sasaki +1

Food Hydrocolloids

2011OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Risk of first venous thromboembolism in and around pregnancy: a population‐based cohort study

Alyshah Abdul Sultan, Joe West, Laila J. Tata +3

British Journal of Haematology

Knowledge of the absolute and relative risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in and around pregnancy would be crucial in identifying when to commence and cease thromboprophylaxis in women who would...

Structural modeling of heterogeneous data with partial least squares

Edward E. Rigdon, Christian M. Ringle, Marko Sarstedt

Review of marketing research

Alongside structural equation modeling (SEM), the complementary technique of partial least squares (PLS) path modeling helps researchers understand relations among sets of observed variables. Like...

Food and the Senses

David Sutton

Annual Review of Anthropology

This review makes the case for anthropological reflection on the intersection of food and the senses. Given that a focus on food and the senses allows us to explore some of the most basic boundaries...

Dietary nitrate attenuates oxidative stress, prevents cardiac and renal injuries, and reduces blood pressure in salt-induced hypertension

Mattias Carlström, A. Erik G. Persson, Erik Larsson +5

Cardiovascular Research

Dietary inorganic nitrate is strongly protective in this model of renal and cardiovascular disease. Future studies will reveal if nitrate contributes to the well-known cardioprotective effects of a...

Food, Health and Identity

Patricia Caplan

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health...

2009OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Identification of protective and broadly conserved vaccine antigens from the genome of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli

Danilo Gomes Moriel, Isabella Bertoldi, Angela Spagnuolo +22

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) are a common cause of disease in both mammals and birds. A vaccine to prevent such infections would be desirable given the increasing antibiotic...

Zinc: The brain's dark horse

Byron K.Y. Bitanihirwe, Miles G. Cunningham

Synapse

Zinc is a life-sustaining trace element, serving structural, catalytic, and regulatory roles in cellular biology. It is required for normal mammalian brain development and physiology, such that...

2009OpenAlex261 citationsDOI

Melamine-Contaminated Powdered Formula and Urolithiasis in Young Children

Na Guan, Qingfeng Fan, Jie Ding +12

New England Journal of Medicine

Prematurity and exposure to melamine-contaminated formula were associated with urinary stones. Affected children lacked typical signs and symptoms of urolithiasis.

Cortical activation in response to pure taste stimuli during the physiological states of hunger and satiety

Lori Haase, Barbara Cerf-Ducastel, Claire Murphy

NeuroImage

Efficacy of Selenium and/or N-Acetyl-Cysteine for Improving Semen Parameters in Infertile Men: A Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Randomized Study

Mohammad Reza Safarinejad, Shiva Safarinejad

The Journal of Urology

These results indicate that supplemental selenium and N-acetyl-cysteine improve semen quality. We advocate their use for male infertility treatment.

Effect of pretreatment with microwaves on mechanical extraction yield and quality of vegetable oil from Chilean hazelnuts (Gevuina avellana Mol)

Edgar Uquiche, Marcia Jeréz, Jaime Ortíz

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

Phytochemical and Dietary Fiber Components in Barley Varieties in the HEALTHGRAIN Diversity Screen

Annica Andersson, Anna‐Maija Lampi, Laura Nyström +13

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Ten different barley varieties grown in one location were studied for their content of tocols, folate, plant sterols, alkylresorcinols, and phenolic acids, as well as dietary fiber components...

Probiotics, prebiotics and competitive exclusion for prophylaxis against bacterial disease

Todd R. Callaway, Thomas S. Edrington, Robin C. Anderson +5

Animal Health Research Reviews

The microbial population of the intestinal tract is a complex natural resource that can be utilized in an effort to reduce the impact of pathogenic bacteria that affect animal production and...

Phytochemical Analysis and in vitro Antiviral Activities of the Essential Oils of Seven Lebanon Species

Monica Rosa Loizzo, Antoine M. Saab, Rosa Tundis +6

Chemistry & Biodiversity

Abstract The chemical composition of the essential oils of Laurus nobilis, Juniperus oxycedrus ssp. oxycedrus, Thuja orientalis, Cupressus sempervirens ssp. pyramidalis, Pistacia palaestina, Salvia...

During infection of epithelial cells Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium undergoes a time-dependent transcriptional adaptation that results in simultaneous expression of three type 3 secretion systems

Isabelle Hautefort, Arthur R. Thompson, Sofia Eriksson-Ygberg +7

Cellular Microbiology

The biogenesis of the Salmonella-containing vacuole within mammalian cells has been intensively studied over recent years. However, the ability of Salmonella to sense and adapt to the intracellular...