Research Library

Nutritional and physiologic significance of human milk proteins

Bo Lönnerdal

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Pomegranate juice consumption reduces oxidative stress, atherogenic modifications to LDL, and platelet aggregation: studies in humans and in atherosclerotic apolipoprotein E–deficient mice

Michael Aviram, Leslie Dornfeld, Mira Rosenblat +6

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The Role of Copper in Neurodegenerative Disease

Darrel Waggoner, Thomas B. Bartnikas, Jonathan D. Gitlin

Neurobiology of Disease

Presence of adherent Escherichia coli strains in ileal mucosa of patients with Crohn's disease

Arlette Darfeuille–Michaud, Christel Neut, Nicolas Barnich +7

Gastroenterology

Visualization of differential gene expression using a novel method of RNA fingerprinting based on AFLP: Analysis of gene expression during potato tuber development

C. Bachem, Rutger S. van der Hoeven, S.M. de Bruijn +3

The Plant Journal

Using a highly synchronous in vitro tuberization system, in combination with an amplified restriction fragment polymorphism (AFLP)-derived technique for RNA fingerprinting (cDNA-AFLP),...

Encapsulation of probiotic living cells: From laboratory scale to industrial applications

Jennifer Burgain, Claire Gaïani, Michel Linder +1

Journal of Food Engineering

Efficacy and safety of fondaparinux for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in older acute medical patients: randomised placebo controlled trial

Alexander T Cohen, Bruce L. Davidson, Alexander Gallus +6

BMJ

Fondaparinux is effective in the prevention of asymptomatic and symptomatic venous thromboembolic events in older acute medical patients. The frequency of major bleeding was similar for both...

Adhesion and aggregation ability of probiotic strain<i>Lactobacillus acidophilus</i>M92

Blaženka Kos, Jagoda Šušković, S. Vuković +3

Journal of Applied Microbiology

This investigation has shown that L. acidophilus M92 has the ability to establish in the human gastrointestinal tract, which is an important determinant in the choice of probiotic strains.

Polysaccharides in colon-specific drug delivery

Vivek Ranjan Sinha, Rachna Kumria

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Reduction of Plasma Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Apoproteins by Dietary Fish Oils in Patients with Hypertriglyceridemia

B E Phillipson, Douglas W. Rothrock, Connor We +2

New England Journal of Medicine

Dietary fish oils, which are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, have been reported to reduce plasma lipid levels in normolipidemic subjects. We examined the effects of fish oil in 20 hypertriglyceridemic...

Review on plant antimicrobials: a mechanistic viewpoint

Bahman Khameneh, Milad Iranshahy, Vahid Soheili +1

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Microbial resistance to classical antibiotics and its rapid progression have raised serious concern in the treatment of infectious diseases. Recently, many studies have been directed towards finding...

Depletion of Butyrate-Producing Clostridia from the Gut Microbiota Drives an Aerobic Luminal Expansion of Salmonella

Fabian Rivera-Chávez, Lillian F. Zhang, Franziska Faber +8

Cell Host & Microbe

Food proteins: A review on their emulsifying properties using a structure–function approach

R. Lam, Michael T. Nickerson

Food Chemistry

Metabolism of highly unsaturated n-3 and n-6 fatty acids

Howard Sprecher

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids

Intersalt revisited: further analyses of 24 hour sodium excretion and blood pressure within and across populations

Paul Elliott, Jeremiah Stamler, R Nichols +4

BMJ

The strong, positive association of urinary sodium with systolic pressure of individuals concurs with Intersalt cross population findings and results of other studies. Higher urinary sodium is also...

Antibacterial and antifungal activities of thymol: A brief review of the literature

Anna Marchese, İlkay Erdoğan Orhan, Maria Daglia +6

Food Chemistry

Spaghetti soup: The complex world of food waste behaviours

Tom Quested, Eliza Marsh, D. Stunell +1

Resources Conservation and Recycling

Oxygen Toxicity: A Radical Explanation

Irwin Fridovich

Journal of Experimental Biology

During its reduction to water, O2 readily gives rise to dangerously reactive intermediates. This threat is diminished by families of defensive enzymes which include the superoxide dismutases,...

Salt Sensitivity of Blood Pressure in Humans

Myron H. Weinberger

Hypertension

A variety of different techniques have been used for the assessment of the blood pressure response to changes in salt and water balance in humans. These have generally been found to be reproducible...

Controlled gene expression systems for Lactococcus lactis with the food-grade inducer nisin

P G de Ruyter, Oscar P. Kuipers, Willem M. de Vos

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The kinetics, control, and efficiency of nisin-induced expression directed by the nisA promoter region were studied in Lactococcus lactis with transcriptional and translational fusions to the gusA...

Oxygen free radicals and metallothionein

Masao Sato, I. Bremner

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Encapsulation of Natural Polyphenolic Compounds; a Review

Aude Munin, Florence Edwards‐Lévy

Pharmaceutics

Natural polyphenols are valuable compounds possessing scavenging properties towards radical oxygen species, and complexing properties towards proteins. These abilities make polyphenols interesting...

Unravelling the biology of macrophage infection by gene expression profiling of intracellular <i>Salmonella enterica</i>

Sofia Eriksson, Sacha Lucchini, Arthur R. Thompson +2

Molecular Microbiology

For intracellular pathogens such as Salmonellae, Mycobacteriae and Brucellae, infection requires adaptation to the intracellular environment of the phagocytic cell. The transition from extracellular...

Consumer perception of meat quality and implications for product development in the meat sector—a review

Klaus G. Grunert, Lone Bredahl, Karen Brunsø

Meat Science

[29] Preparation of selenomethionyl proteins for phase determination

Sylvie Doublié

Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

Mechanisms and Functions of Long Non-Coding RNAs at Multiple Regulatory Levels

Xiaopei Zhang, Wei Wang, Weidong Zhu +4

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Long non-coding (lnc) RNAs are non-coding RNAs longer than 200 nt. lncRNAs primarily interact with mRNA, DNA, protein, and miRNA and consequently regulate gene expression at the epigenetic,...

Association of Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion with Blood Pressure

Andrew Mente, Martin O’Donnell, Sumathy Rangarajan +26

New England Journal of Medicine

In this study, the association of estimated intake of sodium and potassium, as determined from measurements of excretion of these cations, with blood pressure was nonlinear and was most pronounced in...

Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

G. P. Bodey, R. Bolivar, V. Fainstein +1

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Pseudomonas aeruginosa has emerged as an important pathogen during the past two decades. It causes between 10% and 20% of infections in most hospitals. Pseudomonas infection is especially prevalent...

Determination of the non-starch polysaccharides in plant foods by gas-liquid chromatography of constituent sugars as alditol acetates

Hans Englyst, H. S. Wiggins, John H. Cummings

The Analyst

A method is reported for the measurement of non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) from plant foods. NSP are the major components of “dietary fibre.” The polysaccharides are divided into cellulose and...

An Overview of Selenium Uptake, Metabolism, and Toxicity in Plants

Meetu Gupta, Shikha Gupta

Frontiers in Plant Science

Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient for humans and animals, but lead to toxicity when taken in excessive amounts. Plants are the main source of dietary Se, but essentiality of Se for plants...

Identification and quantification of phenolic compounds from pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) peel, mesocarp, aril and differently produced juices by HPLC-DAD–ESI/MSn

Ulrike A. Fischer, Reinhold Carle, Dietmar R. Kammerer

Food Chemistry

Child undernutrition, tropical enteropathy, toilets, and handwashing

Jean H. Humphrey

The Lancet

Microbiological and Clinical Aspects of Infection Associated with <i>Stenotrophomonas maltophilia</i>

Miles Denton, Kevin G. Kerr

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

The gram-negative bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is increasingly recognized as an important cause of nosocomial infection. Infection occurs principally, but not exclusively, in debilitated...

Guidance on selected default values to be used by the EFSA Scientific Committee, Scientific Panels and Units in the absence of actual measured data

EFSA Scientific Committee

EFSA Journal

Abstract This guidance of the Scientific Committee, prepared on request of EFSA, describes the scientific rationale for a number of default values to be used in a harmonised way across EFSA...

An overview of encapsulation technologies for food applications

Viktor Nedović, Ana Kalušević, Verica Manojlović +2

Procedia Food Science

Encapsulation is a process to entrap active agents within a carrier material and it is a useful tool to improve delivery of bioactive molecules and living cells into foods. Materials used for design...

Dietary n−6 and n−3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: From biochemistry to clinical implications in cardiovascular prevention

Gian Luigi Russo

Biochemical Pharmacology

The in vitro antibacterial activity of dietary spice and medicinal herb extracts

Bin Shan, Yi‐Zhong Cai, John D. Brooks +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Influence of hydrocolloids on dough rheology and bread quality

Cristina M. Rosell, J. A. Rojas, C. Benedito de Barber

Food Hydrocolloids

Multilocus Sequence Typing System for <i>Campylobacter jejuni</i>

Kate E. Dingle, Frances M. Colles, D.R.A. Wareing +7

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

The gram-negative bacterium Campylobacter jejuni has extensive reservoirs in livestock and the environment and is a frequent cause of gastroenteritis in humans. To date, the lack of (i) methods...

Lipid composition of the normal human brain: gray matter, white matter, and myelin

John S. O’Brien, Elizabeth L Sampson

Journal of Lipid Research

Gray matter, white matter, and myelin were isolated from the frontal lobes of humans aged 10 months, 6 yr, 9 yr, and 55 yr and the lipid compositions of each were determined. Myelin had a much higher...

Foodborne pathogens

Thomas Bintsis

AIMS Microbiology

Foodborne pathogens are causing a great number of diseases with significant effects on human health and economy. The characteristics of the most common pathogenic bacteria (<i>Bacillus cereus</i>,...

α-Linolenic acid supplementation and conversion to n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in humans

J. Thomas Brenna, Norman Salem, Andrew J. Sinclair +1

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Flavour formation by lactic acid bacteria and biochemical flavour profiling of cheese products

Gerrit Smit, Bart Smit, Wim Engels

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Flavour development in dairy fermentations, most notably cheeses, results from a series of (bio)chemical processes in which the starter cultures provide the enzymes. Particularly the enzymatic...

Anthocyanins in Fruits, Vegetables, and Grains

Giuseppe Mazza

This text is a comprehensive reference covering the chemistry, physiology, chemotaxonomy, biotechnology and food technology aspects of the anthocyanins. Topics discussed include types of...

Pharmacologic doses of ascorbate act as a prooxidant and decrease growth of aggressive tumor xenografts in mice

Qi Chen, Michael Graham Espey, Andrew Y. Sun +6

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient commonly regarded as an antioxidant. In this study, we showed that ascorbate at pharmacologic concentrations was a prooxidant, generating...

Selenium in cancer prevention: a review of the evidence and mechanism of action

Margaret P. Rayman

Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

Se is an unusual trace element in having its own codon in mRNA that specifies its insertion into selenoproteins as selenocysteine (SeCys), by means of a mechanism requiring a large SeCys-insertion...

Antioxidant activity and total phenolic content of Iranian Ocimum accessions

Jamal Javanmardi

Food Chemistry

Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action

Jessica Aschemann‐Witzel, Ilona E. de Hooge, Pegah Amani +2

Sustainability

In the past decade, food waste has received increased attention on both academic and societal levels. As a cause of negative economic, environmental and social effects, food waste is considered to be...

Alteplase versus heparin in acute pulmonary embolism: randomised trial assessing right-ventricular function and pulmonary perfusion

Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Patricia C. Come, R.T. Lee +10

The Lancet