Research Library

Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Problems in Animal Orientation and Certain Biological Rhythms.

G. Stennis Watson, Edward Batschelet

Biometrika

Copper in diseases and treatments, and copper‐based anticancer strategies

Francesco Tisato, Cristina Marzano, Marina Porchia +2

Medicinal Research Reviews

Copper is found in all living organisms and is a crucial trace element in redox chemistry, growth and development. It is important for the function of several enzymes and proteins involved in energy...

Free-living amoebae as opportunistic and non-opportunistic pathogens of humans and animals

Frederick L. Schuster, Govinda S. Visvesvara

International Journal for Parasitology

Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin in the Treatment of Patients with Venous Thromboembolism

The Columbus Investigators

New England Journal of Medicine

Fixed-dose, subcutaneous low-molecular-weight heparin is as effective and safe as adjusted-dose, intravenous unfractionated heparin for the initial management of venous thromboembolism, regardless of...

American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: prophylaxis for hospitalized and nonhospitalized medical patients

Holger J. Schünemann, Mary Cushman, Allison Burnett +16

Blood Advances

Strong recommendations included provision of pharmacological VTE prophylaxis in acutely or critically ill inpatients at acceptable bleeding risk, use of mechanical prophylaxis when bleeding risk is...

Food Proteins and their Applications

Srinivasan Damodaran, A. Paraf

International audience

Proresolving Lipid Mediators and Mechanisms in the Resolution of Acute Inflammation

Christopher D. Buckley, Derek W. Gilroy, Charles N. Serhan

Immunity

From the gut to the peripheral tissues: the multiple effects of butyrate

Paul Guilloteau, L. Martin, Venessa Eeckhaut +3

Nutrition Research Reviews

Butyrate is a natural substance present in biological liquids and tissues. The present paper aims to give an update on the biological role of butyrate in mammals, when it is naturally produced by the...

Update on Technical issues concerning Complementary Feeding of Young Children in Developing Countries and Implications for Intervention Programs

Kathryn G. Dewey, Kenneth H. Brown

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

This paper provides an update to the 1998 WHO/UNICEF report on complementary feeding. New research findings are generally consistent with the guidelines in that report, but the adoption of new energy...

The antioxidant role of selenium and seleno-compounds

Haïm Tapiero, Danyelle M. Townsend, Kenneth D. Tew

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Bacterial osmoadaptation: the role of osmolytes in bacterial stress and virulence

Roy D. Sleator, Colin Hill

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Two general strategies exist for the growth and survival of prokaryotes in environments of elevated osmolarity. The 'salt in cytoplasm' approach, which requires extensive structural modifications, is...

The Link between Phylogeny and Virulence in <i>Escherichia coli</i> Extraintestinal Infection

Bertrand Picard, José Sevali Garcia, S. Gouriou +5

Infection and Immunity

Previous studies suggesting a link between Escherichia coli phylogenetic groups and extraintestinal virulence have been hampered by the difficulty in establishing the intrinsic virulence of a...

The<i>Salmonella</i>invasin SipB induces macrophage apoptosis by binding to caspase-1

David Hersh, Denise M. Monack, Mark R. Smith +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recently, Salmonella spp. were shown to induce apoptosis in infected macrophages. The mechanism responsible for this process is unknown. In this report, we establish that the Inv-Spa type III...

Stress Physiology of Lactic Acid Bacteria

Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Ángel Alegría, Peter A. Bron +14

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are important starter, commensal, or pathogenic microorganisms. The stress physiology of LAB has been studied in depth for over 2 decades, fueled mostly by the...

A review of fatty acid profiles and antioxidant content in grass-fed and grain-fed beef

Cynthia A Daley, Amber Abbott, Patrick S. Doyle +2

Nutrition Journal

Growing consumer interest in grass-fed beef products has raised a number of questions with regard to the perceived differences in nutritional quality between grass-fed and grain-fed cattle. Research...

Effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhoea and child growth in rural Bangladesh: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Stephen P. Luby, Mahbubur Rahman, Benjamin F. Arnold +24

The Lancet Global Health

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United States Agency for International Development.

Food-chain selenium and human health: emphasis on intake

Margaret P. Rayman

British Journal Of Nutrition

Following the publication of the landmark trial of Clark et al. in 1996 that appeared to show that Se could reduce the risk of cancer, awareness of the importance of Se to human health has markedly...

Functional cultures and health benefits

Nagendra P. Shah

International Dairy Journal

Quorum sensing by peptide pheromones and two‐component signal‐transduction systems in Gram‐positive bacteria

Michiel Kleerebezem, Luis E. N. Quadri, Oscar P. Kuipers +1

Molecular Microbiology

Cell-density-dependent gene expression appears to be widely spread in bacteria. This quorum-sensing phenomenon has been well established in Gram-negative bacteria, where N-acyl homoserine lactones...

Recycling receptors: The round-trip itinerary of migrant membrane proteins

Michael S. Brown, Richard G.W. Anderson, Joseph L. Goldstein

Cell

The Food-sharing Behavior of Protohuman Hominids

Glynn Ll. Isaac

Scientific American

Introducing inulin-type fructans

Marcel Roberfroid

British Journal Of Nutrition

Inulin is a generic term to cover all beta(2-->1) linear fructans. Chicory inulin is a linear beta(2-->1) fructan (degree of polymerisation (DP) 2 to 60; DPav=12), its partial enzymatic hydrolysis...

Central pulmonary thromboembolism: diagnosis with spiral volumetric CT with the single-breath-hold technique--comparison with pulmonary angiography.

Martine Rémy‐Jardin, Jacques Rémy, L Wattinne +1

Radiology

Forty-two patients were prospectively evaluated with spiral volumetric computed tomography (CT) and selective pulmonary angiography of each lung to detect central pulmonary thromboembolism. Spiral...

Physiology of the bacterial cell — A molecular approach

J. Colin Murrell

Trends in Genetics

Emulsion gels: The structuring of soft solids with protein-stabilized oil droplets

Eric Dickinson

Food Hydrocolloids

Diversity of human colonic butyrate‐producing bacteria revealed by analysis of the butyryl‐CoA:acetate CoA‐transferase gene

Petra Louis, Pauline Young, Grietje Holtrop +1

Environmental Microbiology

Butyrate-producing bacteria play an important role in the human colon, supplying energy to the gut epithelium and regulating host cell responses. In order to explore the diversity and culturability...

Bioavailability and Delivery of Nutraceuticals Using Nanotechnology

Qingrong Huang, Hailong Yu, Qiaomei Ru

Journal of Food Science

Nanotechnology is an enable technology that has the potential to revolutionize agriculture and food systems. Driven by increasing consumer demand for healthy food products, researchers have been...

Recent advances in betalain research

Dieter Strack, Thomas Vogt, Willibald Schliemann

Phytochemistry

Site of action of a Vero toxin (VT2) from <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157:H7 and of Shiga toxin on eukaryotic ribosomes

Yaeta Endo, Kunio Tsurugi, Takashi Yutsudo +3

European Journal of Biochemistry

The site of action of a Vero toxin (VT2 or Shiga-like toxin II) from enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and Shiga toxin from Shigella dysenteriae 1 on eukaryotic ribosomes was studied. Treatment of...

Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

William S. Harris, Dariush Mozaffarian, Eric B. Rimm +6

Circulation

Peer Reviewed: Are Veterinary Medicines Causing Environmental Risks?

Alistair B.A. Boxall, Dana W. Kolpin, Bent Halling‐Sørensen +1

Environmental Science & Technology

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVFeaturesNEXTPeer Reviewed: Are Veterinary Medicines Causing Environmental Risks?Too little is known about the effects of these compounds, their metabolites, and...

Antibacterial activity of essential oils and their major constituents against respiratory tract pathogens by gaseous contact

S Inouye, Toshio Takizawa, Hajime Yamaguchi

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

The antibacterial activity of 14 essential oils and their major constituents in the gaseous state was evaluated against Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes and...

The Bifidogenic Nature of Chicory Inulin and Its Hydrolysis Products

Marcel Roberfroid, Jan Van Loo, Glenn R. Gibson

Journal of Nutrition

A Comparison of Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin with Unfractionated Heparin for Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Gérald Simonneau, Hervé Sors, B Charbonnier +9

New England Journal of Medicine

Under the conditions of this study, initial subcutaneous therapy with the low-molecular-weight heparin tinzaparin appeared to be as effective and safe as intravenous unfractionated heparin in...

A prospective study of the incidence of deep‐vein thrombosis within a defined urban population

Marie Nordström, Bengt Lindblad, David Bergqvist +1

Journal of Internal Medicine

In a prospective study all positive phlebographies within the well-defined population of the city of Malmö, Sweden, during 1987 were studied in order to determine the incidence of deep venous...

Intrauterine fatty acid accretion rates in human brain: implications for fatty acid requirements

M. Thomas Clandinin, J.E. Chappell, S. F. Leong +3

Early Human Development

Strengthening the Immune System and Reducing Inflammation and Oxidative Stress through Diet and Nutrition: Considerations during the COVID-19 Crisis

Mohammed Iddir, Alex Brito, Giulia Dingeo +4

Nutrients

The coronavirus-disease 2019 (COVID-19) was announced as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. Challenges arise concerning how to optimally support the immune system in the general...

Thrombolysis for Pulmonary Embolism and Risk of All-Cause Mortality, Major Bleeding, and Intracranial Hemorrhage

Saurav Chatterjee, Anasua Chakraborty, Ido Weinberg +7

JAMA

Among patients with pulmonary embolism, including those who were hemodynamically stable with right ventricular dysfunction, thrombolytic therapy was associated with lower rates of all-cause mortality...

Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Male and Female Reproduction1

D.C. Wathes, D.R.E. Abayasekara, R. John Aitken

Biology of Reproduction

In Westernized societies, average consumption of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) far exceeds nutritional requirements. The ratio of n-6 to n-3 PUFAs is generally >10:1 whereas on a primitive...

Evidence for several waves of global transmission in the seventh cholera pandemic

Ankur Mutreja, Dong Wook Kim, Nicholas R. Thomson +18

Nature

Invertases. Primary Structures, Functions, and Roles in Plant Development and Sucrose Partitioning

Arnd Sturm

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

One of the key features of plants is their ability to reduce carbon dioxide in the presence of sunlight and water to sugars, and the subsequent transport of assimilated carbon to the...

Systemic Oxidative Stress in Asthma, COPD, and Smokers

Irfan Rahman, Deborah Morrison, Kenneth Donaldson +1

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

An imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants is proposed in smokers and in patients with airways diseases. We tested this hypothesis by measuring the Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC)...

Industrial Gums, Polysaccharides and their Derivatives

D.M.W. Anderson

Carbohydrate Research

Food waste generation and industrial uses: A review

Francesca Girotto, Luca Alibardi, Raffaello Cossu

Waste Management

Frequency, risk factors, and trends for venous thromboembolism among hospitalized cancer patients

Alok A. Khorana, Charles W. Francis, Eva Culakova +2

Cancer

VTE, particularly PE, is an increasingly frequent complication of hospitalization in cancer patients. Patients with black ethnicity, specific sites of cancer, or those receiving chemotherapy are...