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Manual of clinical microbiology

Bo Drasar

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 8th edition, 2 volumes. Patrick R. Murray (editor in chief), Ellen Jo Baron, James H. Jorgensen, Michael A. Pfaller & Robert H. Yolken (editors). Washington DC:...

Elevated Circulating Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor in Severe Chronic Heart Failure

Beth Levine, Jill Kalman, Lloyd Mayer +2

New England Journal of Medicine

These findings indicate that circulating levels of tumor necrosis factor are increased in cachectic patients with chronic heart failure and that this elevation is associated with the marked...

Sensory Evaluation of Food

Harry T. Lawless, Hildegarde Heymann

Food science text series

A critical review of visual analogue scales in the measurement of clinical phenomena

Mary Ellen Wewers, Nancy K. Lowe

Research in Nursing & Health

Visual analogue scales (VAS) have been used in the social and behavioral sciences to measure a variety of subjective phenomena. The VAS method has potential utility for the measurement of a variety...

Gravimetric Determination of Amylase-Treated Neutral Detergent Fiber in Feeds with Refluxing in Beakers or Crucibles: Collaborative Study

D.R. Mertens, Collaborators:, M.S. Allen +22

Journal of AOAC International

As an important constituent of animal feeds, fiber represents the portion of feeds that is bulky and difficult to digest. The neutral detergent fiber (NDF) method, developed over 30 years ago, is the...

Antimicrobial activity of essential oils and other plant extracts

Katherine A. Hammer, Christine Carson, T. V. Riley

Journal of Applied Microbiology

The antimicrobial activity of plant oils and extracts has been recognized for many years. However, few investigations have compared large numbers of oils and extracts using methods that are directly...

Human Milk Composition

Olivia Ballard, Ardythe L. Morrow

Pediatric Clinics of North America

A rapid, sensitive, and specific method for the determination of protein in dilute solution

W. Schaffner, Charles Weissmann

Analytical Biochemistry

Dietary modulation of the human colonic microbiota: updating the concept of prebiotics

Glenn R. Gibson, Hollie M. Probert, Jan Van Loo +2

Nutrition Research Reviews

Prebiotics are non-digestible (by the host) food ingredients that have a beneficial effect through their selective metabolism in the intestinal tract. Key to this is the specificity of microbial...

Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin versus a Coumarin for the Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cancer

Agnes Lee, Mark N. Levine, Ross Baker +8

New England Journal of Medicine

In patients with cancer and acute venous thromboembolism, dalteparin was more effective than an oral anticoagulant in reducing the risk of recurrent thromboembolism without increasing the risk of...

Effects of eicosapentaenoic acid on major coronary events in hypercholesterolaemic patients (JELIS): a randomised open-label, blinded endpoint analysis

Mitsuhiro Yokoyama, Hideki Origasa, Masunori Matsuzaki +13

The Lancet

n−3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids, inflammation, and inflammatory diseases

Philip C. Calder

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Oxygen-Dependent Microbial Killing by Phagocytes

Bernard Babior

New England Journal of Medicine

THE part played by phagocytes in defense against invading pathogens has been recognized since 1883. In that year, Metschnikoff, a Russian zoologist, reported that foreign particles injected into...

Where and why are 10 million children dying every year?

Robert E. Black, Saul S. Morris, Jennifer Bryce

The Lancet

Handbook of Industrial Drying

Arun S. Mujumdar

Still the Most Complete, Up-To-Date, and Reliable Reference in the FieldDrying is a highly energy-intensive operation and is encountered in nearly all industrial sectors. With rising energy costs and...

Biosynthesis of plant pigments: anthocyanins, betalains and carotenoids

Yoshikazu Tanaka, Nobuhiro Sasaki, Akemi Ohmiya

The Plant Journal

Plant compounds that are perceived by humans to have color are generally referred to as 'pigments'. Their varied structures and colors have long fascinated chemists and biologists, who have examined...

Resolution of inflammation: the beginning programs the end

Charles N. Serhan, John Savill

Nature Immunology

A Re-Evaluation of Random-Effects Meta-Analysis

Julian P. T. Higgins, Simon G. Thompson, David J. Spiegelhalter

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)

Meta-analysis in the presence of unexplained heterogeneity is frequently undertaken by using a random-effects model, in which the effects underlying different studies are assumed to be drawn from a...

Journal of Food Science and Technology

Journal of Food Science and Technology

Bacteriocins of gram-positive bacteria

Ralph W. Jack, John Tagg, Bibek Ray

Microbiological Reviews

In recent years, a group of antibacterial proteins produced by gram-positive bacteria have attracted great interest in their potential use as food preservatives and as antibacterial agents to combat...

P<scp>HYTOCHELATINS AND</scp> M<scp>ETALLOTHIONEINS</scp>: Roles in Heavy Metal Detoxification and Homeostasis

Christopher S. Cobbett, Peter B. Goldsbrough

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Among the heavy metal-binding ligands in plant cells the phytochelatins (PCs) and metallothioneins (MTs) are the best characterized. PCs and MTs are different classes of cysteine-rich, heavy...

The Regulation of AP-1 Activity by Mitogen-activated Protein Kinases

Michael Karin

Journal of Biological Chemistry

AP-1 is a sequence-specific transcriptional activator composed of members of the Jun and Fos families (for review see Ref. 1Angel P. Karin M. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1991; 1072: 129-157Crossref...

The Global Burden of Nontyphoidal<i>Salmonella</i>Gastroenteritis

Shannon E. Majowicz, Jennie Musto, Elaine Scallan +6

Clinical Infectious Diseases

To estimate the global burden of nontyphoidal Salmonella gastroenteritis, we synthesized existing data from laboratory-based surveillance and special studies, with a hierarchical preference to (1)...

Mediterranean diet pyramid: a cultural model for healthy eating

WC Willett, F. Sacks, Antonia Trichopoulou +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Computational procedures for probing interactions in OLS and logistic regression: SPSS and SAS implementations

Andrew F. Hayes, Jörg Matthes

Behavior Research Methods

Modern Food Microbiology

James M. Jay

Food science text series

A study of the minimum inhibitory concentration and mode of action of oregano essential oil, thymol and carvacrol

R.J.W. Lambert, Panagiotis Skandamis, Peter J. Coote +1

Journal of Applied Microbiology

The knowledge of extent and mode of inhibition of specific compounds, which are present in plant extracts, may contribute to the successful application of such natural preservatives in foods, since...

Use of Detergents in the Analysis of Fibrous Feeds. IV. Determination of Plant Cell-Wall Constituents

P.J. Van Soest, R H Wine

Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

Abstract A rapid procedure for determining cellwall constituents of plants consists of the determination of the fiber insoluble in neutral detergent and is applicable to all feedstuffs. The...

Use of Ranks in One-Criterion Variance Analysis

William Kruskal, W. Allen Wallis

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Abstract Given C samples, with n i observations in the ith sample, a test of the hypothesis that the samples are from the same population may be made by ranking the observations from from 1 to Σn i...

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Stanley J. Stein, Sidney W. Mintz

The American Historical Review

Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior.The New York Review of Books.

Direct transesterification of all classes of lipids in a one-step reaction.

Guy Lepage, Claudie Roy

Journal of Lipid Research

Conventional techniques for the determination of fatty acid composition of lipids require solvent extraction, purification, hydrolysis, and derivatization procedures that are both lengthy and...

Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks—United States, 2006

Daniel Dewey-Mattia, Karunya Manikonda, Aron J. Hall +2

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Ascorbate and Glutathione: The Heart of the Redox Hub

Christine H. Foyer, Graham Noctor

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The discovery that there is a close relationship between ascorbate and glutathione dates from soon after the characterization of the chemical formulae of the two molecules ([Szent-Gyorgyi, 1931][1];...

Harmonized guidelines for single-laboratory validation of methods of analysis (IUPAC Technical Report)

Michael Thompson, Stephen L. R. Ellison, Roger Wood

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Abstract Method validation is one of the measures universally recognized as a necessary part of a comprehensive system of quality assurance in analytical chemistry. In the past, ISO, IUPAC, and AOAC...

Fungi and Food Spoilage

John I. Pitt, Ailsa D. Hocking

Characterization of Mammalian Selenoproteomes

Gregory V. Kryukov, Sergi Castellano, Sergey V. Novoselov +4

Science

In the genetic code, UGA serves as a stop signal and a selenocysteine codon, but no computational methods for identifying its coding function are available. Consequently, most selenoprotein genes are...

Reactive Species and Antioxidants. Redox Biology Is a Fundamental Theme of Aerobic Life

Barry Halliwell

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

10.1104/pp.106.077073

Bacteriocins: developing innate immunity for food

Paul D. Cotter, Colin Hill, R. Paul Ross

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Antioxidant Activity of Pomegranate Juice and Its Relationship with Phenolic Composition and Processing

María I. Gil, Francisco A. Tómas‐Barberán, Betty Hess-Pierce +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The antioxidant activity of pomegranate juices was evaluated by four different methods (ABTS, DPPH, DMPD, and FRAP) and compared to those of red wine and a green tea infusion. Commercial pomegranate...

Oral Rivaroxaban for the Treatment of Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolism

The EINSTEIN–PE Investigators

New England Journal of Medicine

A fixed-dose regimen of rivaroxaban alone was noninferior to standard therapy for the initial and long-term treatment of pulmonary embolism and had a potentially improved benefit-risk profile....

Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

Shinji Fukuda, Hidehiro Toh, Koji Hase +13

Nature

Applications of spray-drying in microencapsulation of food ingredients: An overview

Adem Gharsallaoui, Gaëlle Roudaut, Odile Chambin +2

Food Research International

IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Overall Evaluations of Carcinogenicity: An Updating of IARC Monographs vol. 1 to 42. Supplement 7. 440 Seiten. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon 1987. Preis: 65, – s.Fr

D. W. R. Bleyl

Food / Nahrung

Identification of plasmids by PCR-based replicon typing

Alessandra Carattoli, Alessia Bertini, Laura Villa +3

Journal of Microbiological Methods

The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism

Richard H. White

Circulation

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurs for the first time in approximately 100 persons per 100,000 each year in the United States, and rises exponentially from <5 cases per 100,000 persons <15 years old...

A Sensitive and Quick Microplate Method to Determine the Minimal Inhibitory Concentration of Plant Extracts for Bacteria

J.N. Eloff

Planta Medica

Agar diffusion techniques are used widely to assay plant extracts for antimicrobial activity, but there are problems associated with this technique. A micro-dilution technique was developed using...

Methods of multivariate analysis

Choice Reviews Online

Introduction. Matrix Algebra. Characterizing and Displaying Multivariate Data. The Multivariate Normal Distribution. Tests on One or Two Mean Vectors. Multivariate Analysis of Variance. Tests on...

Effects of Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics on Human Health

Paulina Markowiak‐Kopeć, Katarzyna Śliżewska

Nutrients

The human gastrointestinal tract is colonised by a complex ecosystem of microorganisms. Intestinal bacteria are not only commensal, but they also undergo a synbiotic co-evolution along with their...

Inhibition and facilitation of nucleic acid amplification

Ian Wilson

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Factors that inhibit the amplification of nucleic acids by PCR are present with target DNAs from many sources. The inhibitors generally act at one or more of three essential points in the reaction in...