Research Library

Understanding Starch Structure: Recent Progress

Eric Bertoft

Agronomy

Starch is a major food supply for humanity. It is produced in seeds, rhizomes, roots and tubers in the form of semi-crystalline granules with unique properties for each plant. Though the size and...

Essential Oils: Extraction, Bioactivities, and Their Uses for Food Preservation

Phakawat Tongnuanchan, Soottawat Benjakul

Journal of Food Science

Essential oils are concentrated liquids of complex mixtures of volatile compounds and can be extracted from several plant organs. Essential oils are a good source of several bioactive compounds,...

Effect of inulin on the human gut microbiota: stimulation of<i>Bifidobacterium adolescentis</i>and<i>Faecalibacterium prausnitzii</i>

Carlett Ramirez‐Farias, Kathleen Slezak, Zoë Fuller +3

British Journal Of Nutrition

Prebiotics are food ingredients that improve health by modulating the colonic microbiota. The bifidogenic effect of the prebiotic inulin is well established; however, it remains unclear which species...

Inulin-Type Fructans: Functional Food Ingredients

Marcel Roberfroid

Journal of Nutrition

Early childhood nutrition and academic achievement: a longitudinal analysis

Paul Glewwe, Hanan G. Jacoby, Elizabeth M. King

Journal of Public Economics

The selenoprotein GPX4 is essential for mouse development and protects from radiation and oxidative damage insults

Levi Yant, Qitao Ran, Lin Rao +6

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Insight into the prebiotic concept: lessons from an exploratory, double blind intervention study with inulin-type fructans in obese women

Evelyne Dewulf, Patrice D. Cani, Sandrine P. Claus +8

Gut

ITF prebiotics selectively changed the gut microbiota composition in obese women, leading to modest changes in host metabolism, as suggested by the correlation between some bacterial species and...

Effects of stunting, diarrhoeal disease, and parasitic infection during infancy on cognition in late childhood: a follow-up study

Douglas S. Berkman, Andrés G. Lescano, Robert H. Gilman +2

The Lancet

Multidimensional Scaling

Mark L. Davison, Stephen G. Sireci

Elsevier eBooks

A chemical genetic roadmap to improved tomato flavor

Denise M. Tieman, Guangtao Zhu, Márcio F. R. Resende +17

Science

Modern commercial tomato varieties are substantially less flavorful than heirloom varieties. To understand and ultimately correct this deficiency, we quantified flavor-associated chemicals in 398...

A Comparison of Low-Dose Heparin with Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin as Prophylaxis against Venous Thromboembolism after Major Trauma

William Geerts, Richard M. Jay, Karen I. Code +4

New England Journal of Medicine

Low-molecular-weight heparin was more effective than low-dose heparin in preventing venous thromboembolism after major trauma. Both interventions were safe.

PTC/PROP tasting: Anatomy, psychophysics, and sex effects

Linda M. Bartoshuk, Valerie B. Duffy, I. Miller

Physiology & Behavior

Taste worlds of humans vary because of taste blindness to phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and its chemical relative, 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP). We review early PTC studies and apply modern statistical...

Tissue levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids during early human development

Manuela Martínez

The Journal of Pediatrics

The Harris Benedict equation reevaluated: resting energy requirements and the body cell mass

Allan M. Roza, H.M. Shizgal

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Scientific Opinion on acrylamide in food

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM)

EFSA Journal

Abstract EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on acrylamide (AA) in food. AA has widespread uses as an industrial chemical. It is also formed when certain foods are prepared at temperatures...

Polysaccharides. Structural diversity and functional versatility

G. Ya. Wiederschain

Biochemistry (Moscow)

Long-Term, Low-Intensity Warfarin Therapy for the Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism

Paul M. Ridker, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Ellie Danielson +14

New England Journal of Medicine

Long-term, low-intensity warfarin therapy is a highly effective method of preventing recurrent venous thromboembolism.

Infrared spectroscopy as a tool to characterise starch ordered structure—a joint FTIR–ATR, NMR, XRD and DSC study

Frederick J. Warren, Michael J. Gidley, Bernadine M. Flanagan

Carbohydrate Polymers

Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold

Harri Hemilä, Elizabeth Chalker

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

The failure of vitamin C supplementation to reduce the incidence of colds in the general population indicates that routine vitamin C supplementation is not justified, yet vitamin C may be useful for...

Reactive Oxygen Species in Health and Disease

Assim A. Alfadda, Reem M. Sallam

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology

During the past decades, it became obvious that reactive oxygen species (ROS) exert a multitude of biological effects covering a wide spectrum that ranges from physiological regulatory functions to...

Microparticles in Hemostasis and Thrombosis

A. Phillip Owens, Nigel Mackman

Circulation Research

Blood contains microparticles (MPs) derived from a variety of cell types, including platelets, monocytes, and endothelial cells. In addition, tumors release MPs into the circulation. MPs are formed...

<i>Acanthamoeba</i>: biology and increasing importance in human health

Naveed Ahmed Khan

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Acanthamoeba is an opportunistic protozoan that is widely distributed in the environment and is well recognized to produce serious human infections, including a blinding keratitis and a fatal...

S. typhimurium Encodes an Activator of Rho GTPases that Induces Membrane Ruffling and Nuclear Responses in Host Cells

Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt, Li-Mei Chen, Kornel E. Schuebel +2

Cell

Glutathione-ascorbic acid antioxidant system in animals

A Meister

Journal of Biological Chemistry

strong evolutionary link between GSH and eukaryotic aerobic metabolism that is reflected in the function of GSH in protection against oxygen toxicity (2). GSH is not required in the diet of animals...

Is Glutamine a Conditionally Essential Amino Acid?

Janet M. Lacey, Douglas W. Wilmore

Nutrition Reviews

The nonessential amino acid glutamine has recently been the focus of extensive scientific interest because of its importance in cell and tissue cultures and its physiologic role in animals and...

Evaluating acid and base catalysts in the methylation of milk and rumen fatty acids with special emphasis on conjugated dienes and total <i>trans</i> fatty acids

John K. G. Kramer, V. Fellner, M. E. R. Dugan +3

Lipids

Milk analysis is receiving increased attention. Milk contains conjugated octadecadienoic acids (18:2) purported to be anticarcinogenic, low levels of essential fatty acids, and trans fatty acids that...

Multiple-Organ-Failure Syndrome

C. James Carrico

Archives of Surgery

Rheology of Fluid and Semisolid Foods: Principles and Applications

M.A. Rao

The cell biology of taste

Nirupa Chaudhari, Stephen D. Roper

The Journal of Cell Biology

Taste buds are aggregates of 50-100 polarized neuroepithelial cells that detect nutrients and other compounds. Combined analyses of gene expression and cellular function reveal an elegant cellular...

Assessment techniques of antimicrobial properties of natural compounds of plant origin: current methods and future trends

Nqobani Ncube, Anthony Jide Afolayan, Anthony I. Okoh

AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

&nbsp; Medicinal plants have recently received the attention of the pharmaceutical and scientific communities and various publications have documented the therapeutic value of natural compounds in a...

Handbook of Food Preservation

Tobacco smoking and cancer: a brief review of recent epidemiological evidence

Annie J. Sasco, Béatrice Secretan, Kurt Straíf

Lung Cancer

Effect of modest salt reduction on blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomized trials. Implications for public health

Feng J. He, Graham A. MacGregor

Journal of Human Hypertension

Recent advances in cheese microbiology

Tom Beresford, Nora Fitzsimons, Noelle L Brennan +1

International Dairy Journal

Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence Elucidated Using a Pseudomonas aeruginosa– Caenorhabditis elegans Pathogenesis Model

Shalina Mahajan‐Miklos, Man‐Wah Tan, Laurence G. Rahme +1

Cell

Structure and function of cholera toxin and the related Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin

Brenda D. Spangler

Microbiological Reviews

Cholera and the related Escherichia coli-associated diarrheal disease are important problems confronting Third World nations and any area where water supplies can become contaminated. The disease is...

Urea and Guanidine Hydrochloride Denaturation of Ribonuclease, Lysozyme, α-Chymotrypsin, and b-Lactoglobulin

Raymond F. Greene, C. Nick Pace

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Goat P-lactoglobulin was prepared from the milk of two Saanen goats by the procedure of Kalan and Basch (12).

Enzyme-assisted extraction of bioactives from plants

Munish Puri, Deepika Sharma, Colin J. Barrow

Trends in biotechnology

<scp>d</scp>-Dimer for the Exclusion of Acute Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism

Paul D. Stein, Russell D. Hull, Kalpesh C. Patel +6

Annals of Internal Medicine

The ELISAs in general dominate the comparative ranking among the d-dimer assays for sensitivity and negative likelihood ratio. For excluding PE or DVT, a negative result on quantitative rapid ELISA...

Vitamin C in human health and disease is still a mystery? An overview

K. Akhilender Naidu

Nutrition Journal

Ascorbic acid is one of the important water soluble vitamins. It is essential for collagen, carnitine and neurotransmitters biosynthesis. Most plants and animals synthesize ascorbic acid for their...

Metallochaperones, an Intracellular Shuttle Service for Metal Ions

Thomas V. O’Halloran, Valeria Culotta

Journal of Biological Chemistry

superoxide dismutase copper chaperone for SOD1 familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Enzymes that employ transition metals as co-factors are housed in a wide variety of intracellular locations or...

Evidence that the <i>trans</i>‐10,<i>cis</i>‐12 isomer of conjugated linoleic acid induces body composition changes in mice

Yeonhwa Park, J. M Storkson, Karen Albright +2

Lipids

We investigated the effects of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) preparations, which were enriched for the cis-9,trans-11 CLA isomer or the trans-10,cis-12 CLA isomer, on body composition in mice. Body...

[69] Overview of metallothionein

Jeremias H.R. Kägi

Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

Cohort profile: the National Health Insurance Service-National Health Screening Cohort (NHIS-HEALS) in Korea

Sang Cheol Seong, Yeon-Yong Kim, Sue K. Park +10

BMJ Open

This database can be used to study the risk factors of non-communicable diseases and dental health problems, which are important health issues that have not yet been fully investigated. The cohort...

Effects of ultrasound on structural and physical properties of soy protein isolate (SPI) dispersions

Hao Hu, Jiahui Wu, Eunice C.Y. Li‐Chan +7

Food Hydrocolloids

Clinical, Laboratory, Roentgenographic, and Electrocardiographic Findings in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism and No Pre-Existing Cardiac or Pulmonary Disease

Paul D. Stein, Michael L. Terrin, Charles A. Hales +4

CHEST Journal

Serum cholesterol response to changes in the diet

Ancel Keys, Joseph T. Anderson, Francisco Grande

Metabolism

Inulin: Properties, health benefits and food applications

Muhammad Shoaib, Aamir Shehzad, Omar Mukama +6

Carbohydrate Polymers