Research Library

Surveillance for Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Drinking Water — United States, 2013–2014

Katharine M. Benedict, Hannah E. Reses, Marissa Vigar +9

MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Provision of safe water in the United States is vital to protecting public health (1). Public health agencies in the U.S. states and territories* report information on waterborne disease outbreaks to...

Impact of heat-moisture treatment and annealing in starches: A review

Elessandra da Rosa Zavareze, Álvaro Renato Guerra Dias

Carbohydrate Polymers

Structured emulsion-based delivery systems: Controlling the digestion and release of lipophilic food components

David Julian McClements, Yan Li

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Cluster analysis: a simple, versatile, and robust algorithm for endocrine pulse detection

J. D. Veldhuis, Michael L. Johnson

American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism

Endocrine signaling provides one critical means of physiological communication within an organism. Many endocrine signals exhibit an episodic or pulsatile configuration. In an effort to provide a...

Yeast and its Importance to Wine Aroma - A Review

Marius G. Lambrechts, Isak S. Pretorius

South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture

Wine aroma; wine flavour; fermentation bouquet; wine yeast

Effects of dietary fructooligosaccharide on digestive enzyme activities, intestinal microflora and morphology of male broilers

ZR Xu, CH Hu, MS Xia +2

Poultry Science

Two hundred forty male Avian Farms broiler chicks, 1 d of age, were randomly allocated to four treatments, each of which had five pens of 12 chicks per pen. The chicks were used to investigate the...

Effect of heat–moisture treatment on the structure and physicochemical properties of tuber and root starches

Anil Gunaratne

Carbohydrate Polymers

A gut-brain neural circuit for nutrient sensory transduction

Melanie M. Kaelberer, Kelly Buchanan, Marguerita E. Klein +4

Science

The brain is thought to sense gut stimuli only via the passive release of hormones. This is because no connection has been described between the vagus and the putative gut epithelial sensor cell-the...

Why Nature Chose Selenium

Hans J. Reich, Robert J. Hondal

ACS Chemical Biology

The authors were asked by the Editors of ACS Chemical Biology to write an article titled "Why Nature Chose Selenium" for the occasion of the upcoming bicentennial of the discovery of selenium by the...

Physicochemical properties, modifications and applications of starches from different botanical sources

Sylvia C. Alcázar-Alay, M. Ângela A. Meireles

Food Science and Technology

Present trends towards technologies and processes that increase the use of residues make starchy vegetal biomass an important alternative material in various applications due to starch’s versatility,...

Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in two cohorts: the longitudinal investigation of thromboembolism etiology

Mary Cushman, Albert W. Tsai, Richard H. White +4

The American Journal of Medicine

The European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2018/2019

European Food Safety Authority

EFSA Journal

Data on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food are collected annually by the EU Member States (MSs), jointly analysed by the EFSA and the ECDC...

Eugenol (an essential oil of clove) acts as an antibacterial agent against Salmonella typhi by disrupting the cellular membrane

Kasi Pandima Devi, S. Arif Nisha, R. Sakthivel +1

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults

John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Jere R. Behrman +2

The Lancet

Antibacterial properties of plant essential oils

Stanley G. Deans, Graeme Y. Ritchie

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Cooking, Cuisine and Class

Jack Goody

Cambridge University Press eBooks

The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety...

Microencapsulation of Oils: A Comprehensive Review of Benefits, Techniques, and Applications

Amr M. Bakry, Shabbar Abbas, Barkat Ali +4

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Microencapsulation is a process of building a functional barrier between the core and wall material to avoid chemical and physical reactions and to maintain the biological, functional, and...

Randomised trial of effect of compression stockings in patients with symptomatic proximal-vein thrombosis

Dees PM Brandjes, Harry R. Büller, Harriët Heijboer +4

The Lancet

Some Contributions to Maximum Likelihood Factor Analysis

Karl G. Jöreskog

Psychometrika

A new computational method for the maximum likelihood solution in factor analysis is presented. This method takes into account the fact that the likelihood function may not have a maximum in a point...

Common Sense about Taste: From Mammals to Insects

David A. Yarmolinsky, Charles S. Zuker, Nicholas J. P. Ryba

Cell

KEA

Ian H. Witten, Gordon W. Paynter, Eibe Frank +2

No abstract available.

Probiotics in human medicine.

R. Fuller

Gut

Probotics have been with us for as long as people have eaten fermented milks, but their association with health benefits dates only from the turn of the century when Metchnikoff drew attention to the...

Comparison of QuEChERS sample preparation methods for the analysis of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables

Steven J. Lehotay, Kyung Ae Son, Hyeyoung Kwon +5

Journal of Chromatography A

Nomenclature of Proteins of Cow's Milk: Fifth Revision

W.N. Eigel, John E. Butler, C.A. Ernstrom +4

Journal of Dairy Science

This report reviews changes the nomenclature of bovine milk proteins necessitated by recent advances of our knowledge. Identification of a number of milk proteins (as1-, /~-, and K-caseins;...

Selenium, Selenoproteins, and Immunity

Joseph C. Avery, Peter R. Hoffmann

Nutrients

Selenium is an essential micronutrient that plays a crucial role in development and a wide variety of physiological processes including effect immune responses. The immune system relies on adequate...

Enterochromaffin Cells Are Gut Chemosensors that Couple to Sensory Neural Pathways

Nicholas W. Bellono, James R. Bayrer, Duncan B. Leitch +6

Cell

Acrylamide and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF): A review on metabolism, toxicity, occurrence in food and mitigation strategies

Edoardo Capuano, Vincenzo Fogliano

LWT

Neo-formed contaminants (NFCs) are compounds forming during heating or preservation processes and exhibiting possible harmful effects to humans. Among the several NFCs described in literature,...

The versatility and adaptation of bacteria from the genus Stenotrophomonas

Robert P. Ryan, Sébastien Monchy, Massimiliano Cardinale +6

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Acrylamide Formation Mechanism in Heated Foods

David V. Zyzak, Robert A. Sanders, Marko Stojanović +8

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Recent findings of a potential human carcinogen, acrylamide, in foods have focused research on the possible mechanisms of formation. We present a mechanism for the formation of acrylamide from the...

Specific Inhibition of Nuclear RNA Polymerase II by α-Amanitin

Thomas J. Lindell, Fanyela Weinberg, Paul W. Morris +2

Science

alpha-Amanitin, a toxic substance from the mushroom Amanita phalloides, is a potent inhibitor of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase II (the nucleoplasmic form) from sea urchin, rat liver, and calf thymus....

Zinc transporters and the cellular trafficking of zinc

David Eide

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research

A role for docosahexaenoic acid-derived neuroprotectin D1 in neural cell survival and Alzheimer disease

W.J. Lukiw

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Deficiency in docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a brain-essential omega-3 fatty acid, is associated with cognitive decline. Here we report that, in cytokine-stressed human neural cells, DHA attenuates...

Screening of Probiotic Activities of Forty-Seven Strains of <i>Lactobacillus</i> spp. by In Vitro Techniques and Evaluation of the Colonization Ability of Five Selected Strains in Humans

Charlotte Nexmann Jacobsen, Vibeke Rosenfeldt Nielsen, Alice E. Hayford +6

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The probiotic potential of 47 selected strains of Lactobacillus spp. was investigated. The strains were examined for resistance to pH 2.5 and 0.3% oxgall, adhesion to Caco-2 cells, and antimicrobial...

The effect on human tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin 1 beta production of diets enriched in n-3 fatty acids from vegetable oil or fish oil

Gillian E. Caughey, Evangeline Mantzioris, Robert A. Gibson +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Wilson disease

Anna Członkowska, Tomasz Litwin, Petr Dušek +6

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Health Implications of High Dietary Omega-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

Elaine Patterson, Rebecca Wall, Gerald F. Fitzgerald +2

Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism

Omega-6 (n-6) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) (e.g., arachidonic acid (AA)) and omega-3 (n-3) PUFA (e.g., eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)) are precursors to potent lipid mediator signalling molecules,...

The Pangenome Structure of<i>Escherichia coli</i>: Comparative Genomic Analysis of<i>E. coli</i>Commensal and Pathogenic Isolates

David A. Rasko, M. J. Rosovitz, Garry S. A. Myers +10

Journal of Bacteriology

Whole-genome sequencing has been skewed toward bacterial pathogens as a consequence of the prioritization of medical and veterinary diseases. However, it is becoming clear that in order to accurately...

Bioavailability of nanoparticles in nutrient and nutraceutical delivery

Edgar Acosta

Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science

Inflammation, Immunity, and Hypertension

David G. Harrison, Tomasz J. Guzik, Heinrich E. Lob +5

Hypertension

Aprominent pathology textbook used in the United States includes an image illustrating the renal histopathology caused by malignant hypertension. The legend describes striking “onion skin” changes of...

Influence of process conditions on the physicochemical properties of açai (Euterpe oleraceae Mart.) powder produced by spray drying

Renata Valeriano Tonon, Catherine Brabet, Míriam Dupas Hubinger

Journal of Food Engineering

Selenium in food and the human body: A review

Miguel Navarro‐Alarcón, Carmen Cabrera–Vique

The Science of The Total Environment

PulseNet: The Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Bacterial Disease Surveillance, United States

Bala Swaminathan, Timothy J. Barrett, Susan B. Hunter +2

Emerging infectious diseases

PulseNet, the national molecular subtyping network for foodborne disease surveillance, was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several state health department...

Importance of Zinc in the Central Nervous System: The Zinc-Containing Neuron

Christopher J. Frederickson, Christopher J. Frederickson, Sang Won Suh +4

Journal of Nutrition

Resistant starch as functional ingredient: A review

Evangélica Fuentes‐Zaragoza, M.J. Riquelme-Navarrete, E. Sánchez-Zapata +1

Food Research International

T1R3 and gustducin in gut sense sugars to regulate expression of Na ⁺ -glucose cotransporter 1

Robert F. Margolskee, Jane Dyer, Zaza Kokrashvili +7

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Dietary sugars are transported from the intestinal lumen into absorptive enterocytes by the sodium-dependent glucose transporter isoform 1 (SGLT1). Regulation of this protein is important for the...

Shiga-like toxins are neutralized by tailored multivalent carbohydrate ligands

Pavel I. Kitov, Joanna Sadowska, George L. Mulvey +5

Nature

Lipid Digestion and Absorption

Martin C. Carey, Donald Small, Charles M. Bliss

Annual Review of Physiology

Macrophage polarization refers to how macrophages have been activated at a given point in space and time. Polarization is not fixed, as macrophages are sufficiently plastic to integrate multiple...

Extraction methods and bioautography for evaluation of medicinal plant antimicrobial activity

Antonia Nostro, Maria Paola Germanò, V. D’Angelo +2

Letters in Applied Microbiology

A comparative study on the antimicrobial properties of extracts from medicinal plants obtained by two different methods was carried out. The screening of the antimicrobial activity of extracts from...