Research Library

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

David E. Larson, Duane D. Burton, Kenneth W. Schroeder +1

Gastroenterology

From bacterial killing to immune modulation: Recent insights into the functions of lysozyme

Stephanie A. Ragland, Alison K. Criss

PLoS Pathogens

Lysozyme is a cornerstone of innate immunity. The canonical mechanism for bacterial killing by lysozyme occurs through the hydrolysis of cell wall peptidoglycan (PG). Conventional type (c-type)...

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: An overview1

Carlton Gyles

Journal of Animal Science

The objective of this review is to highlight the importance of cattle in human disease due to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and to discuss features of STEC that are important in human...

Determinants and Time Course of the Postthrombotic Syndrome after Acute Deep Venous Thrombosis

Susan R. Kahn, Ian Shrier, Jim A. Julian +12

Annals of Internal Medicine

The postthrombotic syndrome occurs frequently after DVT. Patients with extensive DVT and those with more severe postthrombotic manifestations 1 month after DVT have poorer long-term outcomes.

Function and Regulation of Human Copper-Transporting ATPases

Svetlana Lutsenko, Natalie Barnes, Mee Y. Bartee +1

Physiological Reviews

Copper-transporting ATPases (Cu-ATPases) ATP7A and ATP7B are evolutionarily conserved polytopic membrane proteins with essential roles in human physiology. The Cu-ATPases are expressed in most...

Quorum-sensing regulators control virulence gene expression in <i>Vibrio cholerae</i>

Jun Zhu, Melissa B. Miller, Russell E. Vance +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The production of virulence factors including cholera toxin and the toxin-coregulated pilus in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is strongly influenced by environmental conditions. The...

A periodic distribution of the chain length of amylopectin as revealed by high-performance anion-exchange chromatography

Isao Hanashiro, Jun‐ichi Abe, Susumu Hizukuri

Carbohydrate Research

Oxidative Stress in Human Pathology and Aging: Molecular Mechanisms and Perspectives

Younis Ahmad Hajam, Raksha Rani, Shahid Yousuf Ganie +10

Cells

Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) are generated through various endogenous and exogenous processes; however, they are neutralized by enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants. An imbalance...

Short-Term Clinical Outcome of Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Normal Blood Pressure, and Echocardiographic Right Ventricular Dysfunction

Stefano Grifoni, Iacopo Olivotto, Paolo Cecchini +6

Circulation

A significant proportion (31%) of normotensive patients with acute PE presents with RV dysfunction; these patients with latent hemodynamic impairment have a 10% rate of PE-related shock and 5%...

Mucin glycan foraging in the human gut microbiome

Louise E. Tailford, Emmanuelle H. Crost, Devon Kavanaugh +1

Frontiers in Genetics

The availability of host and dietary carbohydrates in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract plays a key role in shaping the structure-function of the microbiota. In particular, some gut bacteria have the...

[5] Diversity of glutathione peroxidases

Fursini M. Maiorino, R. Brigelius‐Flohé, K.D. Aumann +3

Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

Mechanisms of Action of (n-3) Fatty Acids,

Philip C. Calder

Journal of Nutrition

The Effects of Diet on Inflammation

Dario Giugliano, Antonio Ceriello, Katherine Esposito

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Household drinking water in developing countries: a systematic review of microbiological contamination between source and point‐of‐use

Jim Wright, Stephen Gundry, Ronán Conroy

Tropical Medicine & International Health

Policies that aim to improve water quality through source improvements may be compromised by post-collection contamination. Safer household water storage and treatment is recommended to prevent this,...

Assessing Factorial Invariance in Ordered-Categorical Measures

Roger E. Millsap, Jenn Yun‐Tein

Multivariate Behavioral Research

The factor analysis of ordered-categorical measures has been described in the literature on factor analysis, but the extension of the analysis to the multiple-population case is less well-known. For...

Associations between Virulence Factors of Shiga Toxin-Producing<i>Escherichia coli</i>and Disease in Humans

Patrick Boerlin, Scott A. McEwen, Franziska Boerlin-Petzold +3

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Associations between known or putative virulence factors of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli and disease in humans were investigated. Univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression...

On the presence of Inulin and Oligofructose as natural ingredients in the western diet

Jan Van Loo, Paul Coussement, L. De Leenheer +2

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

The classic definitions of inulin and oligofructose are constructively criticized. It is observed that inulin cannot unequivocally be described as a polydisperse 1-kestose-based (GFn) beta (2-->1)...

Pea protein isolates: Structure, extraction, and functionality

Angie Che Yan Lam, Aslı Can Karaça, Robert T. Tyler +1

Food Reviews International

In keeping with emerging consumer trends, the food industry is continually searching for cheaper and healthier protein ingredients to replace those derived from animal sources (e.g., whey, casein,...

Protein/polysaccharide complexes and coacervates in food systems

Christophe Schmitt, Sylvie L. Turgeon

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Application of Natural Antimicrobials for Food Preservation

Brijesh K. Tiwari, Vasilis Valdramidis, Colm P. O’ Donnell +3

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

In this review, antimicrobials from a range of plant, animal, and microbial sources are reviewed along with their potential applications in food systems. Chemical and biochemical antimicrobial...

Prevention of thalidomide- and lenalidomide-associated thrombosis in myeloma

Antonio Palumbo, S. Vincent Rajkumar, Meletios Α. Dimopoulos +27

Leukemia

Evidence for the Presence of the Ascorbate-Glutathione Cycle in Mitochondria and Peroxisomes of Pea Leaves

Ana Jiménez, José Antonio Hernández, Luis A. del Rı́o +1

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The presence of the enzymes of the ascorbate-glutathione cycle was investigated in mitochondria and peroxisomes purified from pea (Pisum sativum L.) leaves. All four enzymes, ascorbate peroxidase...

Starch Crystal Transformations and Their Industrial Importance

H. F. Zobel

Starch - Stärke

Abstract The structures and transformations of the starch crystal forms A, B, C and V are reviewed from the viewpoint of their industrial importance. Reviewed also is the non‐crystalline or amorphous...

DETERMINATION OF SH‐ AND SS‐GROUPS IN SOME FOOD PROTEINS USING ELLMAN'S REAGENT

T. Beveridge, S.J. Toma, S. Nakai

Journal of Food Science

Direct oral anticoagulants compared with vitamin K antagonists for acute venous thromboembolism: evidence from phase 3 trials

Nick van Es, Michiel Coppens, Sam Schulman +2

Blood

In the last 4 years, 6 phase 3 trials including a total of 27,023 patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) compared a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) with vitamin K antagonists (VKAs). To aid the...

The Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy

James D. Douketis, Peter B. Berger, Andrew Dunn +4

CHEST Journal

Bacteriocin production as a mechanism for the antiinfective activity of <i>Lactobacillus salivarius</i> UCC118

Sinéad C. Corr, Yin Li, Christian U. Riedel +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The mechanisms by which probiotic strains enhance the health of the host remain largely uncharacterized. Here we demonstrate that Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118, a recently sequenced and genetically...

Pharmacomechanical Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Deep-Vein Thrombosis

Suresh Vedantham, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Jim A. Julian +27

New England Journal of Medicine

The post-thrombotic syndrome frequently develops in patients with proximal deep-vein thrombosis despite treatment with anticoagulant therapy. Pharmacomechanical catheterdirected thrombolysis...

Carbohydrate metabolism in Bifidobacteria

Karina Pokusaeva, Gerald F. Fitzgerald, Douwe van Sinderen

Genes & Nutrition

Correspondence Analysis: A Neglected Multivariate Method

M. O. Hill

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics)

R. A. Fisher's canonical analysis of contingency tables is shown to be applicable to incidence data as well as to contingency tables, and is accordingly designated by another author's name...

Mg2+ as an Extracellular Signal: Environmental Regulation of Salmonella Virulence

Eleonora Garcı́a Véscovi, Fernando C. Soncini, Eduardo A. Groisman

Cell

Magnesium: Nature's physiologic calcium blocker

Lloyd T. Iseri, James H. French

American Heart Journal

Simple Models for the Analysis of Association in Cross-Classifications Having Ordered Categories

Leo A. Goodman

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Abstract A class of models is proposed for the analysis of association in a contingency table with ordered rows and ordered columns. Association is measured in terms of the odds-ratios in 2 × 2...

<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>and Staphylococcal Food-Borne Disease: An Ongoing Challenge in Public Health

Jhalka Kadariya, Tara C. Smith, Dipendra Thapaliya

BioMed Research International

Staphylococcal food-borne disease (SFD) is one of the most common food-borne diseases worldwide resulting from the contamination of food by preformed S. aureus enterotoxins. It is one of the most...

Not your ordinary yeast: non-<i>Saccharomyces</i>yeasts in wine production uncovered

N.P. Jolly, Cristián Varela, Isak S. Pretorius

FEMS Yeast Research

Saccharomyces cerevisiae and grape juice are 'natural companions' and make a happy wine marriage. However, this relationship can be enriched by allowing 'wild' non-Saccharomyces yeast to participate...

Protein-based nanocarriers as promising drug and gene delivery systems

Ahmed O. Elzoghby, Wael Samy, Nazik A. Elgindy

Journal of Controlled Release

Nanoencapsulation of essential oils to enhance their antimicrobial activity in foods

Francesco Donsı̀, Marianna Annunziata, Mariarenata Sessa +1

LWT

Factors that interact with the antibacterial action of thyme essential oil and its active constituents

B.J. Juven, Joseph Kanner, F. Schved +1

Journal of Applied Bacteriology

The viable counts of Salmonella typhimurium on nutrient agar (NA) decreased upon the addition of either the essential oil of thyme or its constituent thymol, especially under anaerobic conditions....

Resistant Starch: Promise for Improving Human Health

Diane F. Birt, Terri D. Boylston, Suzanne Hendrich +10

Advances in Nutrition

Necrotising enterocolitis

Patricia Lin, Barbara J. Stoll

The Lancet

Regulation of metallothionein gene expression by oxidative stress and metal ions

Glen K. Andrews

Biochemical Pharmacology

A population based perspective of the hospital incidence and case fatality rates of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism

Paul M. Walker

Journal of Vascular Surgery

The global burden of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Jeffrey D Stanaway, Robert C. Reiner, Brigette F. Blacker +27

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Metallothioneins in metal regulation and toxicity in aquatic animals

G. Roesijadi

Aquatic Toxicology

Role of ROS and Nutritional Antioxidants in Human Diseases

Zewen Liu, Zhangpin Ren, Jun Zhang +4

Frontiers in Physiology

The overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been implicated in the development of various chronic and degenerative diseases such as cancer, respiratory, neurodegenerative, and digestive...

Measurement and Clinical Significance of Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress in Humans

Ilaria Marrocco, Fabio Altieri, Ilaria Peluso

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Oxidative stress is the result of the imbalance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation and enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidants. Biomarkers of oxidative stress are relevant in the...

The common mucosal immune system and current strategies for induction of immune responses in external secretions

Jiří Městecký

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Apixaban to Prevent Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cancer

Marc Carrier, Karim Abou-Nassar, Ranjeeta Mallick +20

New England Journal of Medicine

Apixaban therapy resulted in a significantly lower rate of venous thromboembolism than did placebo among intermediate-to-high-risk ambulatory patients with cancer who were starting chemotherapy. The...