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Molecular analysis of the plasmid-encoded hemolysin of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain EDL 933

Herbert Schmidt, Lothar Beutin, Helge Karch

Infection and Immunity

In this study, we determined the nucleotide sequence of the 5.4-kb SalI restriction fragment of the recombinant plasmid pEO40-1, cloned from the large plasmid of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli...

On orthogonal polynomials

E.I. Jury, Seoiyoung Ahn

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Beneficial Effects of Probiotic Consumption on the Immune System

Carolina Maldonado Galdeano, Silvia I. Cazorla, José María Lemme Dumit +2

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Once administered, oral probiotic bacteria interact with the intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) or immune cells associated with the lamina propria, through Toll-like receptors, and induce the...

Rice: Importance for Global Nutrition

Naomi K. Fukagawa, Lewis H. Ziska

Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology

Rice, a staple food for more than half of the world's population, is grown in >100 countries with 90% of the total global production from Asia. Although there are more than 110,000 cultivated...

Antimicrobial activity of some ethnomedicinal plants used by Paliyar tribe from Tamil Nadu, India

Veeramuthu Duraipandiyan, Muniappan Ayyanar, S. Ignacimuthu

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

This study evaluated the antimicrobial activity of the some ethnomedicinal plants used in folkloric medicine. Compared to hexane extract, methanol extract showed significant activity against tested...

Blood pressure response to fish oil supplementation: metaregression analysis of randomized trials

Johanna M. Geleijnse, Erik J. Giltay, Diederick E. Grobbee +2

Journal of Hypertension

High intake of fish oil may lower BP, especially in older and hypertensive subjects. The antihypertensive effect of lower doses of fish oil (< 0.5 g/day) however, remains to be established.

Fast food nation: the dark side of the all-American meal

José A. Tapia Granados

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública

Putative Mammalian Taste Receptors

Mark A. Hoon, Elliot Adler, J x FC rgen Lindemeier +3

Cell

Perioperative Total Parenteral Nutrition in Surgical Patients

R Verdery

New England Journal of Medicine

Preferential interactions of proteins with salts in concentrated solutions

Tsutomu Arakawa, Serge N. Timasheff

Biochemistry

The preferential interactions of proteins with solvent components were studied in concentrated salt by densimetric measurements. Proteins were found to be preferentially hydrated in NaCl, NaCH3COO,...

LACTOFERRIN, AN IRON-BINBING PROTEIN NI NEUTROPHILIC LEUKOCYTES

Pierre Masson, J.F. Heremans, E. Schonne

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Lactoferrin, an iron-binding protein previously shown to occur in many external secretions, is identified as one of the major proteins present in human and guinea pig neutrophilic polymorphonuclear...

Obesity, Inflammation, Toll-Like Receptor 4 and Fatty Acids

Marcelo Macedo Rogero, Philip C. Calder

Nutrients

Obesity leads to an inflammatory condition that is directly involved in the etiology of cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and certain types of cancer. The classic inflammatory...

ESPEN guidelines on chronic intestinal failure in adults

Loris Pironi, Jann Arends, Federico Bozzetti +11

Clinical Nutrition

CIF management requires complex technologies, multidisciplinary and multiprofessional activity, and expertise to care for both the underlying gastrointestinal disease and to provide HPN support. The...

Free radicals and antioxidants – quo vadis?

Barry Halliwell

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Metals in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases

Kevin J. Barnham, Ashley I. Bush

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Mammalian Zinc Transport, Trafficking, and Signals

Robert J. Cousins, Juan P. Liuzzi, Louis A. Lichten

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Structural, catalytic, and regulatory functions of zinc in biology continue to be defined. The number of genes coding for proteins with zinc-binding domains is conservatively estimated at 3% of the...

MICROENCAPSULATION BY SPRAY DRYING

Maria Inês Ré

Drying Technology

Abstract Spray drying technique has been widely used for drying heat-sensitive foods, pharmaceuticals, and other substances, because of the solvent rapid evaporation from the droplets, Although most...

Isolation of a partial candidate gene for Menkes disease by positional cloning

Julian F. B. Mercer, Janie Livingston, Bryan Hall +8

Nature Genetics

Survival of Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Human Stomach and Adhesion to Intestinal Cells

Patricia L. Conway, S. L. Gorbach, Barry R. Goldin

Journal of Dairy Science

The survival of four strains of lactic acid bacteria in human gastric juice, in vivo and in vitro, and in buffered saline, pH 1 to 5, has been investigated. The strains studied include two...

Inflammation, Immunity, and Hypertensive End-Organ Damage

William G. McMaster, Annet Kirabo, Meena S. Madhur +1

Circulation Research

For >50 years, it has been recognized that immunity contributes to hypertension. Recent data have defined an important role of T cells and various T cell-derived cytokines in several models of...

A novel approach for calculating starch crystallinity and its correlation with double helix content: A combined XRD and NMR study

Amparo López‐Rubio, Bernadine M. Flanagan, Elliot P. Gilbert +1

Biopolymers

A peak fitting procedure has been implemented for calculating crystallinity in granular starches. This methodology, widely used for synthetic polymers, is proposed to better reflect the crystalline...

Inhibitory effect of thyme and basil essential oils, carvacrol, thymol, estragol, linalool and p-cymene towards Shigella sonnei and S. flexneri

C.F. Bagamboula, Mieke Uyttendaele, J Debevere

Food Microbiology

The species concept for prokaryotes

Ramon Rosselló‐Móra

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Trabajo presentado en la 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, celebrada en Denver, Estados Unidos, del 18 al 21 de mayo de 2013

Selenomethionine: A Review of Its Nutritional Significance, Metabolism and Toxicity

G. N. Schrauzer

Journal of Nutrition

Feeding Strategies for Premature Infants: Beneficial Outcomes of Feeding Fortified Human Milk Versus Preterm Formula

Richard J. Schanler, Robert J. Shulman, Chantal Lau

PEDIATRICS

Although the study does not allow a comparison of FHM with unfortified human milk, the data suggest that the unique properties of human milk promote an improved host defense and gastrointestinal...

Metal Ion Chaperone Function of the Soluble Cu(I) Receptor Atx1

Robert A. Pufahl, Christopher P. Singer, Katrina Peariso +6

Science

Reactive and potentially toxic cofactors such as copper ions are imported into eukaryotic cells and incorporated into target proteins by unknown mechanisms. Atx1, a prototypical copper chaperone...

Protein phosphorylation and regulation of adaptive responses in bacteria.

Jeffry B. Stock, Alexander J. Ninfa, Ann Stock

Microbiological Reviews

Bacteria continuously adapt to changes in their environment. Responses are largely controlled by signal transduction systems that contain two central enzymatic components, a protein kinase that uses...

Adhesion mechanisms mediated by probiotics and prebiotics and their potential impact on human health

Andrea Monteagudo-Mera, Robert A. Rastall, Glenn R. Gibson +2

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Adhesion ability to the host is a classical selection criterion for potential probiotic bacteria that could result in a transient colonisation that would help to promote immunomodulatory effects, as...

Virulence factors, prevalence and potential transmission of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from different sources: recent reports

Jolanta Sarowska, Bożena Futoma-Kołoch, Agnieszka Jama−Kmiecik +4

Gut Pathogens

Extraintestinal pathogenic <i>E</i>. <i>coli</i> (ExPEC) are facultative pathogens that are part of the normal human intestinal flora. The ExPEC group includes uropathogenic <i>E. coli</i> (UPEC),...

Invited Review: Perspectives on the Basis of the Rheology and Texture Properties of Cheese

J.A. Lucey, M.E. Johnson, David S. Horne

Journal of Dairy Science

Physical and chemical properties of cheese, such as texture, color, melt, and stretch, are primarily determined by the interaction of casein (CN) molecules. This review will discuss CN chemistry, how...

Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Venous Thromboembolism Incidence

Albert W. Tsai, Mary Cushman, Wayne D. Rosamond +3

Archives of Internal Medicine

Our data showing no relationship of some arterial risk factors with VTE corroborate the view that the etiology of VTE differs from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. In addition, the findings...

A Multistate Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7—Associated Bloody Diarrhea and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome From Hamburgers

Beth P. Bell

JAMA

This E coli O157:H7 outbreak, the largest reported, resulted from errors in meat processing and cooking. Public health surveillance through state-mandated reporting of E coli O157:H7 infection as is...

The Legionnaires' disease bacterium (Legionella pneumophila) inhibits phagosome-lysosome fusion in human monocytes.

Marcus A. Horwitz

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

The interactions between the L. pneumophila phagosome and monocyte lysosomes were investigated by prelabeling the lysosomes with thorium dioxide, an electron-opaque colloidal marker, and by acid...

Selenium and selenocysteine: roles in cancer, health, and development

Dolph L. Hatfield, Petra A. Tsuji, Bradley A. Carlson +1

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Current views on fungal chitin/chitosan, human chitinases, food preservation, glucans, pectins and inulin: A tribute to Henri Braconnot, precursor of the carbohydrate polymers science, on the chitin bicentennial

Riccardo A.A. Müzzarelli, Joseph Boudrant, Diederick Meyer +3

Carbohydrate Polymers

Emerging molecular insights into the interaction between probiotics and the host intestinal mucosa

Peter A. Bron, Peter van Baarlen, Michiel Kleerebezem

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Anti-Candida activity of Brazilian medicinal plants

Marta Cristina Teixeira Duarte, Glyn Mara Figueira, Adilson Sartoratto +2

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil and various extracts of Salvia tomentosa Miller (Lamiaceae)

Bektaş Tepe, Dimitra Daferera, Atalay Sökmen +2

Food Chemistry

2‐Aminoethoxydiphenyl borate (2‐APB) is a reliable blocker of store‐operated Ca ²⁺ entry but an inconsistent inhibitor of InsP ₃ ‐induced Ca ²⁺ release

Martin D. Bootman, Tony Collins, Lauren J MacKenzie +3

The FASEB Journal

Since its introduction to Ca2+ signaling in 1997, 2-aminoethoxydiphenyl borate (2-APB) has been used in many studies to probe for the involvement of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors in the...

An Epidemiologic Study of Risk Factors for Deep Vein Thrombosis in Medical Outpatients

Meyer-Michel Samama

Archives of Internal Medicine

Several risk factors for DVT were identified in medical outpatients presenting with DVT, and their comprehension may improve appropriateness and efficiency of the different methods available for...

Tissue injury in inflammation. Oxidants, proteinases, and cationic proteins.

Peter M. Henson, Richard B. Johnston

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Determination of Total Dietary Fiber in Foods and Food Products: Collaborative Study

Leon Prosky, Nils‐Georg Asp, Ivan Furda +3

Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

A collaborative study was conducted to determine the soluble dietary fiber (SDF) content of foods and food products by using a combination of enzymatic and gravimetric procedures. The method was...

Ecological relationships between Vibrio cholerae and planktonic crustacean copepods

A. Huq, E. B. Small, P. A. West +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Strains of Vibrio cholerae, both O1 and non-O1 serovars, were found to attach to the surfaces of live copepods maintained in natural water samples collected from the Chesapeake Bay and Bangladesh...

Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, source of a high-potency natural sweetener: A comprehensive review on the biochemical, nutritional and functional aspects

Roberto Lemus‐Mondaca, Antonio Vega‐Gálvez, Liliana Zura‐Bravo +1

Food Chemistry

<i>Vibrio vulnificus</i>: Disease and Pathogenesis

Melissa K. Jones, James D. Oliver

Infection and Immunity

Vibrio vulnificus is an opportunistic human pathogen that is highly lethal and is responsible for the overwhelming majority of reported seafood-related deaths in the United States (30, 117).This...

Apixaban or Enoxaparin for Thromboprophylaxis after Knee Replacement

Michael R. Lassen, Gary E. Raskob, Alexander Gallus +3

New England Journal of Medicine

As compared with enoxaparin for efficacy of thromboprophylaxis after knee replacement, apixaban did not meet the prespecified statistical criteria for noninferiority, but its use was associated with...