Research Library

The coding of valence and identity in the mammalian taste system

Li Wang, Sarah Gillis-Smith, Yueqing Peng +5

Nature

Probiotic strains detect and suppress cholera in mice

Ning Mao, Andrés Cubillos-Ruiz, D. Ewen Cameron +1

Science Translational Medicine

Microbiota-modulating interventions are an emerging strategy to promote gastrointestinal homeostasis. Yet, their use in the detection, prevention, and treatment of acute infections remains...

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

Glycan Utilization and Cross-Feeding Activities by Bifidobacteria

Francesca Turroni, Christian Milani, Sabrina Duranti +3

Trends in Microbiology

Effective variables on production and structure of xanthan gum and its food applications: A review

Hossein Habibi, Kianoush Khosravi‐Darani

Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology

Domestic food practices: A study of food management behaviors and the role of food preparation planning in reducing waste

Simona Romani, Silvia Grappi, Richard P. Bagozzi +1

Appetite

Protein encapsulation in alginate hydrogel beads: Effect of pH on microgel stability, protein retention and protein release

Zipei Zhang, Ruojie Zhang, Liqiang Zou +1

Food Hydrocolloids

Salivary Amylase: Digestion and Metabolic Syndrome

Catherine Peyrot des Gachons, Paul Breslin

Current Diabetes Reports

Effect of limited enzymatic hydrolysis on structure and emulsifying properties of rice glutelin

Xingfeng Xu, Wei Liu, Chengmei Liu +5

Food Hydrocolloids

Pullulan and pullulan derivatives as promising biomolecules for drug and gene targeting

Ram Sarup Singh, Navpreet Kaur, John F. Kennedy

Carbohydrate Polymers

Dietary Salt Intake and Hypertension

Sung Kyu Ha

Electrolytes & Blood Pressure

Over the past century, salt has been the subject of intense scientific research related to blood pressure elevation and cardiovascular mortalities. Moderate reduction of dietary salt intake is...

Neurobehavioral Function in School-Age Children Exposed to Manganese in Drinking Water

Youssef Oulhote, Donna Mergler, Benoît Barbeau +7

Environmental Health Perspectives

Exposure to manganese in water was associated with poorer neurobehavioral performances in children, even at low levels commonly encountered in North America.

Towards understanding vacuolar antioxidant mechanisms: a role for fructans?

Darin Peshev, Rudy Vergauwen, Andrea Moglia +2

Journal of Experimental Botany

Recent in vitro, in vivo, and theoretical experiments strongly suggest that sugar-(like) molecules counteract oxidative stress by acting as genuine reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavengers. A concept...

Protecting Groundwater for Health: Managing the Quality of Drinking-water Sources

Oliver Schmoll

Water Intelligence Online

Protecting drinking-water resources is the first barrier against pathogens and substances hazardous to health. Practitioners in drinking-water supply or surveillance - from the local and technical...

Food Safety in Home Kitchens: A Synthesis of the Literature

Carol Byrd‐Bredbenner, Jacqueline R. Berning, Jennifer Martin‐Biggers +1

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Although foodborne illness is preventable, more than 56,000 people per year become ill in the U.S., creating high economic costs, loss of productivity and reduced quality of life for many. Experts...

Increased flavour diversity of Chardonnay wines by spontaneous fermentation and co-fermentation with Hanseniaspora vineae

Karina Medina, Eduardo Boido, Laura Fariña +6

Food Chemistry

Lactobacillus salivarius: Bacteriocin and probiotic activity

Soumaya Messaoudi, Mohamed Manaï, Gilles Kergourlay +4

Food Microbiology

Legionella pneumophila Effector RomA Uniquely Modifies Host Chromatin to Repress Gene Expression and Promote Intracellular Bacterial Replication

Monica Rolando, Serena Sanulli, Christophe Rusniok +5

Cell Host & Microbe

Antimicrobial activity of essential oils

Bruna Fernanda Murbach Teles Andrade, Lidiane Nunes Barbosa, Isabella da Silva Probst +1

Journal of Essential Oil Research

Natural products have been studied aiming to understand their biological properties. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the antimicrobial activity of twenty-seven essential oils (EOs) used in...

Antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of leafy green vegetable extracts and their applications to meat product preservation

Sung-Jin Kim, Ah Reum Cho, Jaejoon Han

Food Control

Characteristics of the enteroaggregative Shiga toxin/verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 strain causing the outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Germany, May to June 2011

Flemming Scheutz, Eva Møller Nielsen, Jakob Frimodt-Møller +5

Eurosurveillance

The Escherichia coli strain causing a large outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and bloody diarrhoea in Germany in May and June 2011 possesses an unusual combination of pathogenic features...

Early Nutrition Mediates the Influence of Severity of Illness on Extremely LBW Infants

Richard A. Ehrenkranz, Abhik Das, Lisa A. Wrage +4

Pediatric Research

Salt in food processing; usage and reduction: a review

William Albarracín, Iván C Sánchez, Raúl Grau +1

International Journal of Food Science & Technology

Summary Salt is one of the most widely used additives in food industries because of its low cost and varied properties. It has a preservative and antimicrobial effect as a direct consequence of the...

Methodologies for Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Subtyping: Gold Standards and Alternatives

Pierre Wattiau, Cécile Boland, Sophie Bertrand

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

For more than 80 years, subtyping of Salmonella enterica has been routinely performed by serotyping, a method in which surface antigens are identified based on agglutination reactions with specific...

Allelic Variation in TAS2R Bitter Receptor Genes Associates with Variation in Sensations from and Ingestive Behaviors toward Common Bitter Beverages in Adults

John E. Hayes, Margaret R. Wallace, Valerie S. Knopik +3

Chemical Senses

The 25 human bitter receptors and their respective genes (TAS2Rs) contain unusually high levels of allelic variation, which may influence response to bitter compounds in the food supply. Phenotypes...

Deep sequencing analysis of viruses infecting grapevines: Virome of a vineyard

Beatrix Coetzee, Michael-John J. Freeborough, Hans J. Maree +3

Virology

Anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulatory activities of caffeic acid and ellagic acid in cardiac tissue of diabetic mice

Pei‐Chun Chao, Cheng‐Chin Hsu, Mei-chin Yin

Nutrition & Metabolism

These results support that CA and EA could provide triglyceride-lowering, anti-coagulatory, anti-oxidative, and anti-inflammatory protection in cardiac tissue of diabetic mice. Thus, the supplement...

Household Dietary Diversity and Food Expenditures Are Closely Linked in Rural Bangladesh, Increasing the Risk of Malnutrition Due to the Financial Crisis

Andrew Thorne‐Lyman, Natalie Valpiani, Kai Sun +8

Journal of Nutrition

Influence of grain germination on functional properties of sorghum flour

Abd Elmoneim O. Elkhalifa, Rita Bernhardt

Food Chemistry

Markers of de novo lipogenesis in adipose tissue: associations with small adipocytes and insulin sensitivity in humans

Rachel Roberts, Leanne Hodson, Andrea Dennis +5

Diabetologia

The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on child nutrition: a review of evidence using a programme theory framework

Jef L Leroy, Marie T. Ruel, Ellen Verhofstadt

Journal of Development Effectiveness

The authors reviewed the evidence regarding the impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes on child nutrition outcomes, using a programme theory framework. They developed a programme impact...

Effect of sourdough fermentation on stabilisation, and chemical and nutritional characteristics of wheat germ

Carlo Giuseppe Rizzello, Luana Nionelli, Rossana Coda +2

Food Chemistry

Buffalo vs. cow milk fat globules: Size distribution, zeta-potential, compositions in total fatty acids and in polar lipids from the milk fat globule membrane

Olivia Ménard, Sarfraz Ahmad, Florence Rousseau +3

Food Chemistry

Physico-chemical factors controlling the foamability and foam stability of milk proteins: Sodium caseinate and whey protein concentrates

K. Marinova, Elka S. Basheva, Boriana Nenova +4

Food Hydrocolloids

Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Coriandrum sativum

Josphat C. Matasyoh, Z. C. Maiyo, R. M. Ngure +1

Food Chemistry

Hand-portable gas chromatograph-toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (GC-TMS) for detection of hazardous compounds

Jesse A. Contreras, Jacolin A. Murray, Samuel E. Tolley +6

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

A novel gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) based on a miniature toroidal ion trap mass analyzer (TMS) and a low thermal mass GC is described. The TMS system has an effective mass/charge...

Assimilable nitrogen utilisation and production of volatile and non-volatile compounds in chemically defined medium by Saccharomyces cerevisiae wine yeasts

Mar Vilanova, Maurizio Ugliano, Cristián Varela +3

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Reviews on atmospheric selenium: Emissions, speciation and fate

Hanjie Wen, Jean Carignan

Atmospheric Environment

Human milk: maternal dietary lipids and infant development

Sheila M. Innis

Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

Human milk provides all the dietary essential fatty acids, linoleic acid (LA; 18:2n-6) and alpha-linolenic acid (18:3n-3), as well as their longer-chain more-unsaturated metabolites, including...

Ácidos graxos poliinsaturados ômega-3 e ômega-6: importância e ocorrência em alimentos

Clayton Antunes Martin, Vanessa Vivian de Almeida, Marcos Roberto Ruiz +4

Revista de Nutrição

Os ácidos graxos poliinsaturados abrangem as famílias de ácidos graxos ômega-3 e ômega-6. Os ácidos graxos de cadeia muito longa, como os ácidos araquidônico e docosaexaenóico, desempenham...

Cultivation-independent assessment of the bacterial diversity of breast milk among healthy women

Rocı́o Martı́n, Hans G. H. J. Heilig, Erwin G. Zoetendal +4

Research in Microbiology

Inhibition of glycogenolysis in astrocytes interrupts memory consolidation in young chickens

Marie E. Gibbs, Damian G. Anderson, Leif Hertz

Glia

Glycolysis and glycogenolysis are involved in memory processing in day-old chickens and, aside from the provision of energy for neuronal and astrocytic energy metabolism these pathways enable...

Flavonoids from Almond Skins Are Bioavailable and Act Synergistically with Vitamins C and E to Enhance Hamster and Human LDL Resistance to Oxidation

Chung-Yen Chen, Paul E. Milbury, Karen G. Lapsley +1

Journal of Nutrition

Consumer Food Safety Knowledge, Practices, and Demographic Differences: Findings from a Meta-Analysis

Sumeet Patil, Sheryl Cates, Roberta A. Morales

Journal of Food Protection

The universe of food quality

Claudio Peri

Food Quality and Preference

Expression of cellulose and curli fimbriae by Escherichia coli isolated from the gastrointestinal tract

Werner Bokranz, Xiaoda Wang, H. Tschäpe +1

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Escherichia coli colonizes the gastrointestinal tract of humans; however, little is known about the features of commensal strains. This study investigated whether expression of the biofilm...

Pseudogenization of a Sweet-Receptor Gene Accounts for Cats' Indifference toward Sugar

Xia Li, Weihua Li, Hong Wang +8

PLoS Genetics

Although domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) possess an otherwise functional sense of taste, they, unlike most mammals, do not prefer and may be unable to detect the sweetness of sugars. One...

Molecular analysis of rugosity in a <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> O1 El Tor phase variant

Fitnat H. Yildiz, Xiaole S. Liu, Arne Heydorn +1

Molecular Microbiology

Reversible phase variation between the rugose and smooth colony variants is predicted to be important for the survival of Vibrio cholerae in natural aquatic habitats. Microarray expression profiling...

Effects of Asparagine, Fructose, and Baking Conditions on Acrylamide Content in Yeast-Leavened Wheat Bread

Nicolas Surdyk, Johan Rosén, Roger Andersson +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

A repeatable procedure for studying the effects of internal and external factors on acrylamide content in yeast-leavened wheat bread has been developed. The dough contained wheat endosperm flour with...