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Roles of oxidative stress and antioxidant therapy in chronic kidney disease and hypertension

Nosratola D. Vaziri

Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension

Oxidative stress, hypertension and inflammation are closely interrelated and involve a spiralling vicious cycle that can lead to progressive deterioration of hypertension and target organ damage.

Diet and risk of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes

J I Mann

The Lancet

Comparison of Gum Arabic, Modified Starch, and Whey Protein Isolate as Emulsifiers: Influence of pH, CaCl ₂ and Temperature

Ratjika Chanamai, David Julian McClements

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT: The particle size and zeta potential of model beverage emulsions (0.01 wt% soybean oil‐in‐water emulsions, d ≅ 1 mm) stabilized by gum arabic, modified starch, or whey protein isolate (WPI)...

Working Weeks, Rave Weekends: Identity Fragmentation and the Emergence of New Communities

Christina Goulding, Avi Shankar, Richard Elliott

Consumption Markets & Culture

Popular music is one of the most ubiquitous forms of contemporary culture. This paper looks at the phenomenon known as rave or dance culture in Britain. It examines the nature of the consumer...

Analysis of the Compartmentation of Glycolytic Intermediates, Nucleotides, Sugars, Organic Acids, Amino Acids, and Sugar Alcohols in Potato Tubers Using a Nonaqueous Fractionation Method

Eva M. Farré, Axel Tiessen, Ute Roessner +3

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The compartmentation of metabolism in heterotrophic plant tissues is poorly understood due to the lack of data on metabolite distributions and fluxes between subcellular organelles. The main reason...

Structural Basis of the Interaction of the Pyelonephritic E. coli Adhesin to Its Human Kidney Receptor

Karen Dodson, Jerome S. Pinkner, Thierry Rose +3

Cell

Iliofemoral Deep Vein Thrombosis: Conventional Therapy Versus Lysis and Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty and Stenting

Ali F. AbuRahma, Samuel E. Perkins, John T. Wulu +1

Annals of Surgery

Lysis/stenting treatment was more effective than conventional treatment in patients with iliofemoral vein thrombosis.

Role for a Phage Promoter in Shiga Toxin 2 Expression from a Pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> Strain

Patrick Wagner, Melody N. Neely, Xiaoping Zhang +3

Journal of Bacteriology

Shiga toxins (Stxs), encoded by the stxA and stxB genes, are important contributors to the virulence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and other Stx-producing E. coli (STEC) strains. The stxA and stxB...

Effect of double-muscling in Belgian Blue young bulls on the intramuscular fatty acid composition with emphasis on conjugated linoleic acid and polyunsaturated fatty acids

Katleen Raes, Stefaan De Smet, Daniël Demeyer

Animal Science

Abstract The effect of double-muscling (DM) genotype (double-muscling, mh/mh; heterozygous, mh/+; normal, +/+) of Belgian Blue (BB) young bulls on the intramuscular fatty acid composition, in...

New hybrid drying technologies for heat sensitive foodstuffs

S.K. Chou, K.J. Chua

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Development of bioactive food packaging materials using immobilised bacteriocins Lacticin 3147 and Nisaplin®

Amalia G. M. Scannell, Colin Hill, R. Paul Ross +3

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Inhibition of Salmonella enteritidis and Staphylococcus aureus in nutrient broth by mint essential oil

Chrysoula C. Tassou, K. Koutsoumanis, George‐John E. Nychas

Food Research International

Electrospray and Tandem Mass Spectroscopy As Tools for Anthocyanin Characterization

M. Mónica Giusti, Luis Rodriguez‐Saona, D. C. Griffin +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The utility of electrospray and tandem mass spectroscopy (ES-MS and MS-MS) in anthocyanin characterization was tested using different anthocyanin extracts. Anthocyanins were semipurified by using a...

Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of the Essential Oils of<i>Pistacia lentiscus</i>var.<i>chia</i>

Prokopios Magiatis, Eleni Melliou, Alexios‐Léandros Skaltsounis +2

Planta Medica

The chemical composition of the three essential oils obtained by steam distillation of the mastic gum, leaves and twigs of Pistacia lentiscus var. chia, was studied by GC/MS. Sixty nine constituents...

Hypomagnesemia

Zalman S. Agus

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Hypomagnesemia is a common entity occurring in up to 12% of hospitalized patients (1). The incidence rises to as high as 60 to 65% in patients in intensive care settings in which nutrition,...

Essential fatty acids are mediators of brain biochemistry and cognitive functions

Shlomo Yehuda, Sharon Rabinovitz, David I. Mostofsky

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Major advances have been made in understanding the biochemistry of essential fatty acids (FA) and their interactions with metabolic pathways leading to the production of longer and more complex fatty...

Compared effects of three oligosaccharides on metabolism of intestinal microflora in rats inoculated with a human faecal flora

Zakia Djouzi, Claude Andlueux

British Journal Of Nutrition

Using germ-free rats inoculated with a human faecal flora (gnotobiotic rats), the effects of three oligosaccharides (beta-fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), beta-galacto-oligosaccharides (TOS) and...

Bifidobacterium longum, a lactic acid-producing intestinal bacterium inhibits colon cancer and modulates the intermediate biomarkers of colon carcinogenesis

Johar Singh

Carcinogenesis

The human colon can be described as a complex microbial ecosystem, comprising several hundred bacterial species. Some of these enteric bacteria are beneficial to the host and have been shown to exert...

Lactobacillus‐ and bifidobacterium‐mediated antigenotoxicity in the colon of rats

Beatrice L. Pool‐Zobel, Christian Neudecker, I. Domizlaff +7

Nutrition and Cancer

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are proposed to have several beneficial effects, including the inactivation of carcinogens. We have studied the potential of Lactobacillus acidophilus (from a commercially...

Epidemiology of<i>Campylobacter</i>spp. at two Dutch broiler farms

W.F. Jacobs‐Reitsma, A.W. van de Giessen, N.M. Bolder +1

Epidemiology and Infection

Broiler flocks on two Dutch poultry farms were screened weekly for the presence of campylobacter in fresh caecal droppings during eight consecutive production cycles. Hatchery and fresh litter...

Nanoparticles as carriers for oral peptide absorption: Studies on particle uptake and fate

Alexander T. Florence, Anya M Hillery, Nasir Hussain +1

Journal of Controlled Release

Computer prediction of triacylglycerol composition of vegetable oils by HRGC

Nelson Roberto Antoniosi Filho, O. Mendes, Fernando Mauro Lanças

Chromatographia

Altered intracellular targeting properties associated with mutations in the <i>Legionella pneumophila dotA</i> gene

Karen H. Berger, Jennifer Merriam, Ralph R. Isberg

Molecular Microbiology

Legionella pneumophila dot mutations cause defects in intracellular targeting of the microorganism within cultured macrophages. Each of the previously characterized dot mutations was shown to be...

Outer membrane protein A (OmpA) contributes to serum resistance and pathogenicity of Escherichia coli K-1

Jeffrey N. Weiser, E C Gotschlich

Infection and Immunity

We examined whether outer membrane protein A (OmpA) contributes to gram-negative pathogenesis by determining the effect of mutagenesis of ompA in a virulent Escherichia coli K-1 isolate. An OmpA...

Comparison of the Effects of Oat Bran and Low-Fiber Wheat on Serum Lipoprotein Levels and Blood Pressure

Justine Swain, Ian Rouse, Caitriona Curley +1

New England Journal of Medicine

Previous studies have shown that supplementation of the diet with oat bran may lower serum cholesterol levels. However, it is not known whether oat-bran diets lower serum cholesterol levels by...

Highly efficient protoplast transformation system for Streptococcus faecalis and a new Escherichia coli-S. faecalis shuttle vector

Reinhard Wirth, Florence Y. An, Don B. Clewell

Journal of Bacteriology

A highly efficient protoplast transformation system for Streptococcus faecalis has been developed by systematically optimizing different parameters. Up to 10(6) transformants per micrograms of DNA...

Measurement of the chain length of amylopectin and its relevance to the origin of crystalline polymorphism of starch granules

Susumu Hizukuri, Takahiro Kaneko, Yasuhito Takeda

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects

Campylobacter Enteritis in the United States

Martin J. Blaser, JOY G. WELLS, ROGER A. FELDMAN +3

Annals of Internal Medicine

During a 15-month study, 8097 fecal specimens submitted to clinical microbiology laboratories at eight hospitals in different parts of the United States were examined. Campylobacter jejuni was...

Relationship between rate of digestion of foods and post-prandial glycaemia

David J.A. Jenkins, Hamid Reza Ghafari, Thomas M.S. Wolever +5

Diabetologia

Campylobacter enteritis in children

Mohamed A. Karmali, Peter Fleming

The Journal of Pediatrics

Parathyroid Hormone Secretion in Magnesium Deficiency*

Robert K. Rude, Susan B. Oldham, Charles F. Sharp +1

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

The effect of an acute elevation of the serum magnesium concentration on the concentrations of serum immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (IPTH) were studed in hypocalcemic hypomagnesemic patients,...

Effect of Zinc on Cells and Biomembranes

Milos Chuapil

Medical Clinics of North America

Purification and properties of rat liver glutathione peroxidase

Wataru Nakamura, Syun Hosoda, Kazuko Hayashi

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Enzymology

Lysosomal localization of β-fructofuranosidase-containing liposomes injected into rats. Some implications in the treatment of genetic disorders

Gregory Gregoriadis, Brenda E. Ryman

Biochemical Journal

Yeast beta-fructofuranosidase (invertase) or (131)I-labelled albumin were entrapped into liposomes composed of phosphatidylcholine, cholesterol and phosphatidic acid. Of the beta-fructofuranosidase...

Relationship of Selenium to Cancer. I. Inhibitory Effect of Selenium on Carcinogenesis

Raymond J. Shamberger

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

In 5 of 6 nondietary tumor-promotion experiments, sodium selenide significantly reduced the number of tumors in mice. In 2 of these 6 experiments, vitamin E also significantly reduced the number of...

Analytical fractionation of plant and animal proteins by gel electrofucing

C.W. Wrigley

Journal of Chromatography A

Electron Microscopic Observations on the Excretion of Cell-wall Material by Vibrio cholerae

Soumendranath Chatterjee, Joyati Das

Journal of General Microbiology

SUMMARY Thin sections of Vibrio cholerae harvested during the logarithmic phase of growth in alkaline peptone water or in syncase medium have revealed an excretion process of the cell wall in the...

Composition of lipids in human serum and adipose tissue during prolonged feeding of a diet high in unsaturated fat

Seymour Dayton, Sam Hashimoto, W. J. Dixon +1

Journal of Lipid Research

Elderly institutionalized men were assigned at random to two groups, one of which received a conventional diet while the other was fed a diet in which the major modification was substitution of...

Salmonellosis — A Review of Some Unusual Aspects

Paul H. Black, Lawrence J. Kunz, Morton N. Swartz

New England Journal of Medicine

THE pathogenicity of salmonellae was first pointed out by Gärtner1 in 1888 in an epidemic of gastroenteritis. Since that time, many reports dealing with the bacteriology, clinical aspects,...

Antibacterial activities of hexadecanoic acid methyl ester and green‐synthesized silver nanoparticles against multidrug‐resistant bacteria

Mohamed T. Shaaban, Mohamed F. Ghaly, Sara Fahmi

Journal of Basic Microbiology

Antibacterial drug resistance is considered one of the biggest threats to human health worldwide, and the overuse of antibiotics accelerates this problem. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are...

The household wasteful behaviour framework: A systematic review of consumer food waste

Ludovica Principato, Giovanni Mattia, Alessio Di Leo +1

Industrial Marketing Management

Postdischarge thrombosis and hemorrhage in patients with COVID-19

Rushad Patell, Thomas Bogue, Anita G. Koshy +5

Blood

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with a prothrombotic state with a high incidence of thrombotic events during hospitalization; however, data examining rates of thrombosis after...

Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow’s Milk

Aidin Foroutan, An Chi Guo, Rosa Vázquez‐Fresno +8

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Bovine milk is a nutritionally rich, chemically complex biofluid consisting of hundreds of different components. While the chemical composition of cow's milk has been studied for decades, much of...

Redesigning a food supply chain for environmental sustainability – An analysis of resource use and recovery

Ramesh Krishnan, Renu Agarwal, Christopher Bajada +1

Journal of Cleaner Production

Immunomodulatory and antimicrobial effects of vitamin C

Soraya Mousavi, Stefan Bereswill, Markus M. Heimesaat

European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology

Humans have lost their vitamin C-synthesizing capacities during evolution. Therefore, the uptake of this essential compound from external sources is mandatory in order to prevent vitamin C-deficient...

A review of the current evidence of fruit phenolic compounds as potential antimicrobials against pathogenic bacteria

Maria Carolina P. Lima, Cristina Paiva de Sousa, Christopher Fernandez‐Prada +3

Microbial Pathogenesis

Production of sesame oil oleogels based on beeswax and application as partial substitutes of animal fat in beef burger

Maryam Moghtadaei, Nafiseh Soltanizadeh, Sayed Amir Hossein Goli

Food Research International