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Selective Media for Isolation of <i>Agrobacterium</i>, <i>Corynebacterium</i>, <i>Erwinia</i>, <i>Pseudomonas</i>, and <i>Xanthomonas</i>

Clarence I. Kado, M. G. Heskett

Phytopathology

Five selective plating media (designated as D-series media) were developed for plant-pathogenic bacteria in the genera Agrobacterium, Corynebacterium (including species pathogenic for animals and...

Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of the Essential Oils of Two <i>Origanum</i> Species

Nektarios Aligiannis, Eleftherios Kalpoutzakis, Sofia Mitaku +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The essential oils obtained from the aerial parts of Origanum scabrum and Origaum microphyllum, both endemic species in Greece, were analyzed by means of GC and GC-MS. Forty-eight constituents were...

Zinc in Infection and Inflammation

Nour Zahi Gammoh, Lothar Rink

Nutrients

Micronutrient homeostasis is a key factor in maintaining a healthy immune system. Zinc is an essential micronutrient that is involved in the regulation of the innate and adaptive immune responses....

The roles of selenium in protecting plants against abiotic stresses

Renwei Feng, Chaoyang Wei, Shuxin Tu

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Sensory profiling, the blurred line between sensory and consumer science. A review of novel methods for product characterization

Paula Varela, Gastón Ares

Food Research International

Postharvest losses and waste in developed and less developed countries: opportunities to improve resource use

R.J. Hodges, Jean C. Buzby, Ben Bennett

The Journal of Agricultural Science

SUMMARY This review compares and contrasts postharvest food losses (PHLs) and waste in developed countries (especially the USA and the UK) with those in less developed countries (LDCs), especially...

Composition, molecular structure, properties, and modification of pulse starches: A review

R. Hoover, T. Hughes, Hyun‐Jung Chung +1

Food Research International

Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Properties of Rosemary and Sage (Rosmarinus officinalis L. and Salvia officinalis L., Lamiaceae) Essential Oils

Biljana Božin, Neda Mimica–Dukić, Isidora Samojlik +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The essential oils of rosemary ( Rosmarinus officinalis L.) and sage ( Salvia officinalis L.) were analyzed by means of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and assayed for their antimicrobial and...

Vitamin C

Carole L. Linster, Emile Van Schaftingen

FEBS Journal

Vitamin C, a reducing agent and antioxidant, is a cofactor in reactions catalyzed by Cu(+)-dependent monooxygenases and Fe(2+)-dependent dioxygenases. It is synthesized, in vertebrates having this...

Comparison of Low-Intensity Warfarin Therapy with Conventional-Intensity Warfarin Therapy for Long-Term Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism

Clive Kearon, Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, Michael J. Kovacs +17

New England Journal of Medicine

Conventional-intensity warfarin therapy is more effective than low-intensity warfarin therapy for the long-term prevention of recurrent venous thromboembolism. The low-intensity warfarin regimen does...

Exploitation of Mammalian Host Cell Functions by Bacterial Pathogens

B. Brett Finlay, Pascale Cossart

Science

Interest in bacterial pathogenesis has recently increased because of antibiotic resistance, the emergence of new pathogens and the resurgence of old ones, and the lack of effective therapeutics. The...

INTESTINAL FLORA IN NEW-BORN INFANTS

Ivan C. Hall

American Journal of Diseases of Children

Following our first article on the bacterial flora of first passage specimens of meconium from fifty new-born infants¹we studied the daily microbial changes in the feces of ten normal...

The Role of Zinc in Antiviral Immunity

Scott Read, Stephanie Obeid, Chantelle Ahlenstiel +1

Advances in Nutrition

Dietary fibre in Europe: current state of knowledge on definitions, sources, recommendations, intakes and relationships to health

Alison M. Stephen, Martine Champ, Susan Cloran +4

Nutrition Research Reviews

Research into the analysis, physical properties and health effects of dietary fibre has continued steadily over the last 40-50 years. From the knowledge gained, countries have developed guidelines...

Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Venous Thrombosis

Mary Cushman

Seminars in Hematology

Modelling shrinkage during convective drying of food materials: a review

Luis Mayor, Alberto M. Sereno

Journal of Food Engineering

Increased thermal stability of proteins in the presence of sugars and polyols

Joan F Back, David Oakenfull, Malcolm Smith

Biochemistry

Sugars and polyols stablize proteins against heat denaturation. Scanning calorimetry was used to obtain a quantitative estimate of the degree of stabilization. Solutions of ovalbumin, lysozyme,...

The Origin of the Haitian Cholera Outbreak Strain

Chen-Shan Chin, Jon M. Sorenson, Jason B. Harris +13

New England Journal of Medicine

The Haitian epidemic is probably the result of the introduction, through human activity, of a V. cholerae strain from a distant geographic source. (Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and...

Zinc in the physiology and pathology of the CNS

Stefano L. Sensi, Pierre Paoletti, Ashley I. Bush +1

Nature reviews. Neuroscience

Non‐O157 Shiga Toxin–Producing<i>Escherichia coli</i>Infections in the United States, 1983–2002

John T. Brooks, Evangeline G. Sowers, Joy G. Wells +4

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Non-O157 STEC can cause severe illness that is comparable to the illness caused by STEC O157. Strains that produce Shiga toxin 2 are much more likely to cause HUS than are those that produce Shiga...

Lipolysis and free fatty acid catabolism in cheese: a review of current knowledge

Yvonne F. Collins, Paul L.H. McSweeney, Martin G. Wilkinson

International Dairy Journal

Simplified scheme for routine identification of human Staphylococcus species

Wesley E. Kloos, Karl‐Heinz Schleifer

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

From a total of 40 characters that were previously used to differentiate species of staphylococci, 13 key characters were selected to make a simplified scheme that could be easily used by the routine...

The after‐effects of impulses in the giant nerve fibres of <i>Loligo</i>

B. Frankenhaeuser, A. L. Hodgkin

The Journal of Physiology

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Antimicrobial activity of some plant extracts against bacterial strains causing food poisoning diseases

Ashraf Abdеl-Fattah Mostafa, Abdulaziz A. Al–Askar, Khalid S. Almaary +3

Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences

Prevention of food spoilage and food poisoning pathogens is usually achieved by use of chemical preservatives which have negative impacts including: human health hazards of the chemical applications,...

Characterization of the Diversity and Temporal Stability of Bacterial Communities in Human Milk

Katherine M Hunt, James A. Foster, Larry J. Forney +9

PLoS ONE

Recent investigations have demonstrated that human milk contains a variety of bacterial genera; however, as of yet very little work has been done to characterize the full diversity of these milk...

Lactobacillus acidophilus LA 1 binds to cultured human intestinal cell lines and inhibits cell attachment and cell invasion by enterovirulent bacteria.

M F Bernet, Dominique Brassart, Jean‐Richard Neeser +1

Gut

Four human Lactobacillus acidophilus strains were tested for their ability to adhere onto human enterocyte like Caco-2 cells in culture. The LA 1 strain exhibited a high calcium independent adhesive...

Overview of the Antimicrobial Compounds Produced by Members of the Bacillus subtilis Group

Simon Caulier, Catherine Nannan, Annika Gillis +3

Frontiers in Microbiology

Over the last seven decades, applications using members of the <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> group have emerged in both food processes and crop protection industries. Their ability to form survival...

Effect of Fermentation Processing on the Flavor of Baijiu

Huilin Liu, Baoguo Sun

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Baijiu, otherwise known as the national liquor of China, is a well-known distilled spirit that has been produced for over 2000 years. Baijiu is a clear and transparent fermented alcoholic beverage...

Bacillus probiotics

Simon M. Cutting

Food Microbiology

Specificity of Polysaccharide Use in Intestinal Bacteroides Species Determines Diet-Induced Microbiota Alterations

Erica D. Sonnenburg, Hongjun Zheng, Payal Joglekar +4

Cell

Systematic and comprehensive strategy for reducing matrix effects in LC/MS/MS analyses

Erin Chambers, Diane M. Diehl, Ziling Lu +1

Journal of Chromatography B

Analytical, Biochemical and Physicochemical Aspects of Starch Granule Size, with Emphasis on Small Granule Starches: A Review

Nienke Lindeboom, Peter R. Chang, Robert T. Tyler

Starch - Stärke

Abstract Granule size, size distribution and shape are among the most important morphologically distinguishing factors of starches from different origins. This article provides an overview of aspects...

Postnatal Malnutrition and Growth Retardation: An Inevitable Consequence of Current Recommendations in Preterm Infants?

Nicholas D. Embleton, Naomi Pang, Richard J. Cooke

PEDIATRICS

Preterm infants inevitably accumulate a significant nutrient deficit in the first few weeks of life that will not be replaced when current RDIs are fed. This deficit can be directly related to...

Vitamin K Dependent Modifications of Glutamic Acid Residues in Prothrombin

Johan Stenflo, Per Fernlund, William Egan +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A tetrapeptide, residues 6 to 9 in normal prothrombin, was isolated from the NH(2)-terminal, Ca(2+)-binding part of normal prothrombin. The electrophoretic mobility of the peptide was too high to be...

Validation of bioanalytical LC–MS/MS assays: Evaluation of matrix effects

Ann Van Eeckhaut, Katrien Lanckmans, Sophie Sarre +2

Journal of Chromatography B

Selective probiotic bacteria induce IL-10–producing regulatory T cells in vitro by modulating dendritic cell function through dendritic cell–specific intercellular adhesion molecule 3–grabbing nonintegrin

Hermelijn H. Smits, Anneke Engering, Desirée van der Kleij +7

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Learning with prolonged delay of reinforcement

John García, Frank R. Ervin, R. A. Koelling

Psychonomic Science

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Pasquale Ferranti

Elsevier eBooks

Clove (Syzygium aromaticum): a precious spice

Diego Francisco Cortés-Rojas, Cláudia R. F. Souza, Wanderley P. Oliveira

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Clove (Syzygium aromaticum) is one of the most valuable spices that has been used for centuries as food preservative and for many medicinal purposes. Clove is native of Indonesia but nowadays is...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Prevent Inflammation and Metabolic Disorder through Inhibition of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation

Yiqing Yan, Wei Jiang, Thibaud Spinetti +7

Immunity

Estimating the burden of disease from water, sanitation, and hygiene at a global level.

Annette Prüss, David Kay, Lorna Fewtrell +1

Environmental Health Perspectives

We estimated the disease burden from water, sanitation, and hygiene at the global level taking into account various disease outcomes, principally diarrheal diseases. The disability-adjusted life year...

Incidence of Recurrent Thromboembolic and Bleeding Complications Among Patients With Venous Thromboembolism in Relation to Both Malignancy and Achieved International Normalized Ratio: A Retrospective Analysis

Barbara A. Hutten, Martin H. Prins, Michael Gent +3

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Although adequately dosed vitamin K antagonists are effective in patients with malignant disease, the incidence of thrombotic and bleeding complications remains higher than in patients without...

An infrared spectroscopic study of the interactions of carbohydrates with dried proteins

John F. Carpenter, John H. Crowe

Biochemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTAn infrared spectroscopic study of the interactions of carbohydrates with dried proteinsJohn F. Carpenter and John H. CroweCite this: Biochemistry 1989,...

An improved colorimetric procedure for determining apparent and total amylose in cereal and other starches

William R. Morrison, Bernard Laignelet

Journal of Cereal Science

Multiple-Group Factor Analysis Alignment

Tihomir Asparouhov, Bengt Muthén

Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal

This article presents a new method for multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), referred to as the alignment method. The alignment method can be used to estimate group-specific factor means...

Production of instant soymilk powders by ultrafiltration, spray drying and fluidized bed agglomeration

Nakarin Jinapong, Manop Suphantharika, Pimon Jamnong

Journal of Food Engineering

Synbiotic therapy ( <i>Bifidobacterium longum</i> /Synergy 1) initiates resolution of inflammation in patients with active ulcerative colitis: a randomised controlled pilot trial

Elizabeth Furrie, S Macfarlane, A Kennedy +4

Gut

Short term synbiotic treatment of active UC resulted in improvement of the full clinical appearance of chronic inflammation in patients receiving this therapy.

Effect of handwashing on child health: a randomised controlled trial

Stephen P. Luby, Mubina Agboatwalla, Daniel R. Feikin +4

The Lancet

The Weight-based Heparin Dosing Nomogram Compared with a Standard Care Nomogram

Robert Raschke, Brendan M. Reilly, James R. Guidry +2

Annals of Internal Medicine

The weight-based heparin nomogram is widely generalizable and has proved to be effective, safe, and superior to one based on standard practice.