Research Library

Heterogeneous shedding of<i>Escherichia coli</i>O157 in cattle and its implications for control

Louise Matthews, J. C. Low, David L. Gally +9

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Identification of the relative importance of within- and between-host variability in infectiousness and the impact of these heterogeneities on the transmission dynamics of infectious agents can...

Macrolide resistance in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli

Amera Gibreel

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Infection with Campylobacter jejuni is now considered to be the most common cause of acute bacterial gastroenteritis in humans worldwide. It occurs more frequently than infections caused by...

Perceived parenting style and practices and the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by adolescents

Klazine van der Horst, Stef Kremers, Isabel Ferreira +3

Health Education Research

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether perceived parenting practices and parenting style dimensions (strictness and involvement) are associated with adolescents' consumption of...

Selenium in Food and Health

Reilly, Conor

In vitro fermentation of xylo-oligosaccharides from corn cobs autohydrolysis by Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus strains

Patrícia Moura, Rosário Barata, Florbela Carvalheiro +3

LWT

Sources of <i>Campylobacter</i> spp. Colonizing Housed Broiler Flocks during Rearing

S. A. Bull, V.M. Allen, G. Domingue +8

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The study aimed to identify sources of campylobacter in 10 housed broiler flocks from three United Kingdom poultry companies. Samples from (i) the breeder flocks, which supplied the broilers, (ii)...

Severe Pulmonary Embolism:Pulmonary Artery Clot Load Scores and Cardiovascular Parameters as Predictors of Mortality

B. Ghaye, Alexandre Ghuysen, Valérie Willems +5

Radiology

RV/LV ratio and azygos vein diameter are predictors of mortality in patients with severe PE.

Ratio of n–6 to n–3 fatty acids and bone mineral density in older adults: the Rancho Bernardo Study

Lauren A. Weiss, Elizabeth Barrett‐Connor, Denise von Mühlen

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Plasma fatty acid composition is associated with the metabolic syndrome and low-grade inflammation in overweight adolescents

Carine Platat, Jocelyne Drai, Mohamed Oujaa +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Self-limiting nature of seasonal cholera epidemics: Role of host-mediated amplification of phage

Shah M. Faruque, M. Johirul Islam, Qazi Shafi Ahmad +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Phage predation of Vibrio cholerae has recently been reported to be a factor that influences seasonal epidemics of cholera in Bangladesh. To understand more about this phenomenon, we studied the...

Identification and Distribution of <i>Acanthamoeba</i> Species Genotypes Associated with Nonkeratitis Infections

Gregory C. Booton, Govinda S. Visvesvara, Thomas J. Byers +2

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Acanthamoeba is a free-living protozoan genus found in a wide variety of natural habitats, including water, soil, and air. Pathogenic isolates of Acanthamoeba are medically relevant as the causative...

Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages – genomes in motion

Sylvia Herold, Helge Karch, Herbert Schmidt

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Iron and zinc supplementation promote motor development and exploratory behavior among Bangladeshi infants

Maureen M. Black, Abdullah H Baqui, K. Zaman +7

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Neuronal Shp2 tyrosine phosphatase controls energy balance and metabolism

Eric Erquan Zhang, Emilie A. Chapeau, Kazuki Hagihara +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Shp2, a Src homology 2-containing tyrosine phosphatase, has been implicated in a variety of growth factor or cytokine signaling pathways. However, it is conceivable that this enzyme acts...

Effects of process variables on the powder yield of spray-dried trehalose on a laboratory spray-dryer

Michael Maury, Keith Murphy, Sandeep Kumar +2

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Screening Chemical Composition and in Vitro Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of the Essential Oils from Origanum syriacum L. Growing in Turkey

Mehmet Hakkı Alma, Ahmet Mavi, Ali Yıldırım +2

Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin

In the present study, essential oil from the leaves of Syrian oreganum [Origanum syriacum L. (Lauraceae)] grown in Turkish state forests of the Dortyol district, Turkey, was obtained by steam...

Low-cost drying methods for developing countries

K.J. Chua, S.K. Chou

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Dielectric Properties of Fruits and Insect Pests as related to Radio Frequency and Microwave Treatments

Yanan Wang, Juming Tang, Jeff Johnson +5

Biosystems Engineering

Prior short-term consumption of resistant starch enhances postprandial insulin sensitivity in healthy subjects

M. Denise Robertson, J. M. Currie, Linda Morgan +2

Diabetologia

Recovery of Weak Common Factors by Maximum Likelihood and Ordinary Least Squares Estimation

Nancy Briggs, Robert C. MacCallum

Multivariate Behavioral Research

This article examines the relative performance of two commonly used methods of parameter estimation in factor analysis, maximum likelihood (ML) and ordinary least squares (OLS). It is shown that ML...

Zero‐inflated models for regression analysis of count data: a study of growth and development

Yin Bin Cheung

Statistics in Medicine

Poisson regression is widely used in medical studies, and can be extended to negative binomial regression to allow for heterogeneity. When there is an excess number of zero counts, a useful approach...

Effects of fermentation temperature and Saccharomyces species on the cell fatty acid composition and presence of volatile compounds in wine

María-Jesús Torija, Gemma Beltran, Maïté Novo +4

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Sweetener Preference of C57BL/6ByJ and 129P3/J Mice

Alexander A. Bachmanov

Chemical Senses

Previous studies have shown large differences in taste responses to several sweeteners between mice of the C57BL/6ByJ (B6) and 129P3/J (129) inbred strains. The goal of this study was to compare...

An Orange a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Scurvy in the Year 2000

Michael Weinstein, Paul Babyn, Stan Zlotkin

PEDIATRICS

Scurvy has been known since ancient times, but the discovery of the link between the dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid and scurvy has dramatically reduced its incidence over the past half-century....

“Type III” cells of rat taste buds: Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies of neuron‐specific enolase, protein gene product 9.5, and serotonin

Cindy L. Yee, Ruibiao Yang, Bärbel Böttger +2

The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Taste buds contain a variety of morphological and histochemical types of elongate cells. Serotonin, neuron-specific enolase (NSE), ubiquitin carboxyl terminal hydrolase (PGP 9.5), and neural cell...

Lactogenesis

Margaret C. Neville, Jane Morton, Shinobu Umemura

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Hypoglycemic effect of the water extract of Smallantus sonchifolius (yacon) leaves in normal and diabetic rats

Manuel J. Aybar, Alicia N. Sánchez Riera, Alfredo Grau +1

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Influence of carvacrol on growth and toxin production by Bacillus cereus

A. Ultee, Eddy J. Smid

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Subsequent Pulmonary Embolism: Risk after a Negative Helical CT Pulmonary Angiogram— Prospective Comparison with Scintigraphy

Lawrence R. Goodman, Randolph J. Lipchik, Ronald S. Kuzo +3

Radiology

The frequency of clinical diagnoses of PE after a negative CT scan was low and similar to that after a negative or low-probability V-P scan. Helical CT is a reliable imaging tool for excluding...

Rationale for the luminal provision of butyrate in intestinal diseases

Astrid Wächtershäuser, Jürgen M. Stein

European Journal of Nutrition

Assessment of trace mineral status of ruminants: A review

R.L. Kincaid

Journal of Animal Science

An assessment of the trace mineral status of ruminants begins with clear objectives. These may be to determine whether a nutrient deficiency exists, to assess the prevalence of a deficiency, or to...

How does ascorbic acid prevent endothelial dysfunction?

James M. May

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Copper transport

MC Linder, Lisa Wooten, Philip Cerveza +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Moisture migration and control in multi-domain foods

T. P. Labuza, C.R Hyman

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Conjugated linoleic acids alter bone fatty acid composition and reduce <i>ex vivo</i> prostaglandin E₂ biosynthesis in rats fed n‐6 or n‐3 fatty acids

Yong Li, Bruce A. Watkins

Lipids

This study evaluated the effects of conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) on tissue fatty acid composition and ex vivo prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) production in rats given diets varying in n-6 and n-3 fatty...

A universal protocol for PCR detection of 13 species of foodborne pathogens in foods

R.-F. WANG, W W Cao, Carl E. Cerniglia

Journal of Applied Microbiology

A universal protocol for PCR detection of 13 species of foodborne pathogens in foods was developed. The protocol used a universal culture medium and the same PCR conditions with 13 sets of specific...

Influence of bacterial overgrowth and intestinal inflammation on duration of parenteral nutrition in children with short bowel syndrome

Stuart S. Kaufman, Candace A. Loseke, James V. Lupo +4

The Journal of Pediatrics

Molecular characterization of the plasmid‐encoded <i>eps</i> gene cluster essential for exopolysaccharide biosynthesis in <i>Lactococcus lactis</i>

Richard van Kranenburg, Joey D. Marugg, Iris I. van Swam +2

Molecular Microbiology

Lactococcus lactis strain NIZO B40 produces an extracellular phosphopolysaccharide containing galactose, glucose, and rhamnose. A 40 kb plasmid encoding exopolysaccharide production was isolated...

Saccharomyces boulardii prevents diarrhea in critically ill tube-fed patients

G Bleichner, Henri Bléhaut, Hervé Mentec +1

Intensive Care Medicine

phoP/phoQ-Deleted Salmonella typhi (Ty800) Is a Safe and Immunogenic Single Dose Typhoid Fever Vaccine in Volunteers

Elizabeth Hohmann, C A Oletta, Kevin Killeen +1

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

The phoP/phoQ virulence regulatory genes of Salmonella typhi Ty2 were deleted, and the resultant strain (Ty800) was tested as a live attenuated typhoid fever vaccine in human volunteers. Groups of 2...

Effect of diet on the fatty acid composition of the major phospholipids of infant cerebral cortex.

Jamie Farquharson, E C Jamieson, Kanwal Abbasi +3

Archives of Disease in Childhood

The fatty acid compositions of the major cerebral cortex phospholipids, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, and phosphatidylserine were measured in 16 term and one preterm 'cot death'...

Preference mapping in practice

Keith Greenhoff, H.J.H. MacFie

Conjugated linoleic acid. A powerful anticarcinogen from animal fat sources

Clement lp, Joseph A. Scimeca, Henry J. Thompson

Cancer

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a mixture of positional and geometric isomers of linoleic acid, which is found preferentially in dairy products and meat. Preliminary studies indicate that CLA is a...

Colonization of chicks by motility mutants of Campylobacter jejuni demonstrates the importance of flagellin A expression

Trudy M. Wassenaar, B A van der Zeijst, Roger D. Ayling +1

Journal of General Microbiology

Campylobacter jejuni strain 81116 contains two flagellin genes, flaA and flaB. Wild-type (WT) bacteria express flaA only, but flaB can be expressed under certain conditions. We have determined the...

Regulation of Plasma LDL-Cholesterol Levels by Dietary Cholesterol and Fatty Acids

D. K. Spady, L. A. Woollett, J. M. Dietschy

Annual Review of Nutrition

Extensive data obtained in both experimental animals and humans demonstrate that steady-state plasma LDL-C concentrations are determined largely by the rate of LDL-C formation, Jt, and the level of...

Biology And Molecular Biology Of Starch Synthesis And Its Regulation

Jack Preiss

Abstract Starch is the major reserve carbohydrate of most higher plants and is found as a water-insoluble granule which can vary in size and shape depending on its plant source and on the maturity or...

Ascorbic acid and dehydroascorbic acid measurements in human plasma and serum

KR Dhariwal, W O Hartzell, Mark Levine

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Salmonella: A Postmodern Pathogen

Robert V. Tauxe

Journal of Food Protection