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Antimicrobial activity of whey protein based edible films incorporated with oregano, rosemary and garlic essential oils

Atıf Can Seydim, G. Sarikus

Food Research International

Plant Volatile Compounds: Sensory Cues for Health and Nutritional Value?

Stephen A. Goff, Harry J. Klee

Science

Plants produce many volatile metabolites. A small subset of these compounds is sensed by animals and humans, and the volatile profiles are defining elements of the distinct flavors of individual...

Effect of Salt Substitution on Cardiovascular Events and Death

Bruce Neal, Yangfeng Wu, Xiangxian Feng +27

New England Journal of Medicine

Among persons who had a history of stroke or were 60 years of age or older and had high blood pressure, the rates of stroke, major cardiovascular events, and death from any cause were lower with the...

Immune Function and Micronutrient Requirements Change over the Life Course

Silvia Maggini, Adeline Pierre, Philip C. Calder

Nutrients

As humans age, the risk and severity of infections vary in line with immune competence according to how the immune system develops, matures, and declines. Several factors influence the immune system...

Relationship of Plasma Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids to Circulating Inflammatory Markers

Luigi Ferrucci, Antonio Cherubini, Stefania Bandinelli +7

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

In this community-based sample, PUFAs, and especially total n-3 fatty acids, were independently associated with lower levels of proinflammatory markers (IL-6, IL-1ra, TNFalpha, C-reactive protein)...

HUMAN MILK GLYCANS PROTECT INFANTS AGAINST ENTERIC PATHOGENS

David S. Newburg, Guillermo M. Ruiz‐Palacios, Ardythe L. Morrow

Annual Review of Nutrition

▪ Abstract Breastfed infants have lower morbidity and mortality due to diarrhea than those fed artificially. This had been attributed primarily to the secretory antibodies and prebiotic factors in...

Incidence of recurrent venous thromboembolism in relation to clinical and thrombophilic risk factors: prospective cohort study

Trevor Baglin, Roger Luddington, Karen Brown +1

The Lancet

Corrgrams

Michael Friendly

The American Statistician

Correlation and covariance matrices provide the basis for all classical multivariate techniques. Many statistical tools exist for analyzing their structure but, surprisingly, there are few techniques...

Polyphenol/Peptide Binding and Precipitation

Adrian J. Charlton, Nicola J. Baxter, Mahera Khan +4

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Polyphenols are largely responsible for the astringency and "mouthfeel" of tea and wine by their interactions with basic salivary proline-rich proteins. Astringency arises from precipitation of...

A HORMONE MECHANISM FOR GALL-BLADDER CONTRACTION AND EVACUATION

A. C. Ivy, Eric Oldberg

American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content

Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of zinc. Zinc-dependent NF-κB signaling

Magdalena Jarosz, Magdalena Olbert, Gabriela Wyszogrodzka +2

Inflammopharmacology

Zinc is a nutritionally fundamental trace element, essential to the structure and function of numerous macromolecules, including enzymes regulating cellular processes and cellular signaling pathways....

Effect of the addition of different fibres on wheat dough performance and bread quality

Jinshui Wang, Cristina M. Rosell, C. Benedito de Barber

Food Chemistry

New CT Index to Quantify Arterial Obstruction in Pulmonary Embolism

Salah D. Qanadli, Mostafa El Hajjam, Antoine Vieillard‐Baron +7

American Journal of Roentgenology

The degree of arterial obstruction in pulmonary embolism may be quantified by a specific CT index that appears reproducible and highly correlated to the previously described index with pulmonary...

Malnutrition and parasitic helminth infections

Lani S. Stephenson, M. C. Latham, Eric A. Ottesen

Parasitology

The Global Burden of Disease caused by the 3 major intestinal nematodes is an estimated 22.1 million disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) lost for hookworm, 10.5 million for Ascaris lumbricoides,...

Descriptive sensory analysis: past, present and future

Jane Murray, C.M. Delahunty, Irene A. Baxter

Food Research International

Seaweeds; Their Environment, Biogeography and Ecophysiology.

A. D. Boney, K. Luning

Journal of Ecology

Structure, biochemistry and mechanism of action of glycopeptide antibiotics

Peter E. Reynolds

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Quality assurance of chemical measurements

J.K. Taylor, Roy L. Tranter

Analytica Chimica Acta

Intestinal dysbiosis in preterm infants preceding necrotizing enterocolitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Mohan Pammi, Julia Cope, Phillip I. Tarr +12

Microbiome

Microbial dysbiosis preceding NEC in preterm infants is characterized by increased relative abundances of Proteobacteria and decreased relative abundances of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. Microbiome...

Antifungal activity of the clove essential oil from Syzygium aromaticum on Candida, Aspergillus and dermatophyte species

Eugénia Pinto, Luís A. Vale-Silva, Carlos Cavaleiro +1

Journal of Medical Microbiology

The composition and antifungal activity of clove essential oil (EO), obtained from Syzygium aromaticum, were studied. Clove oil was obtained commercially and analysed by GC and GC-MS. The EO analysed...

Differential activation of the dorsal striatum by high-calorie visual food stimuli in obese individuals

Yvonne Rothemund, Claudia Preuschhof, Georg Böhner +4

NeuroImage

Typical and Atypical Enteropathogenic<i>Escherichia coli</i>

Luíz Rachid Trabulsi, R. Keller, Tânia A. T. Gomes

Emerging infectious diseases

Typical and atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains differ in several characteristics. Typical EPEC, a leading cause of infantile diarrhea in developing countries, is rare in...

The influence of amylose and amylopectin characteristics on gelatinization and retrogradation properties of different starches

Helena Fredriksson, J. Silverio, Roger Andersson +2

Carbohydrate Polymers

Regulatory effects of bifidobacteria on the growth of other colonic bacteria

G. R. Gibson, X. Wang

Journal of Applied Bacteriology

In the human large intestine bifidobacteria are a numerically important group of micro-organisms which are considered to exert a range of biological activities related to host health. One aspect is...

Passive smoking and heart disease. Epidemiology, physiology, and biochemistry.

Stanton A. Glantz, William W. Parmley

Circulation

The evidence that ETS increases risk of death from heart disease is similar to that which existed in 1986 when the US Surgeon General concluded that ETS caused lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers....

ESCHERICHIA COLI STRAINS THAT CAUSE DIARRHŒA BUT DO NOT PRODUCE HEAT-LABILE OR HEAT-STABLE ENTEROTOXINS AND ARE NON-INVASIVE

MyronM. Levine, DavidR. Nalin, R. B. Hornick +5

The Lancet

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in dromedary camels: an outbreak investigation

Bart L. Haagmans, Said H S Al Dhahiry, Chantal Reusken +17

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

A Systemic Review of the Roles of n-3 Fatty Acids in Health and Disease

Natalie D. Riediger, Rgia A. Othman, Miyoung Suh +1

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Selenium metabolism, selenoproteins and mechanisms of cancer prevention: complexities with thioredoxin reductase

Howard E. Ganther

Carcinogenesis

Numerous studies in animal models and more recent studies in humans have demonstrated cancer chemopreventive effects with Se. There is extensive evidence that monomethylated forms of Se are critical...

Bovine β-lactoglobulin at 1.8 Å resolution —  still an enigmatic lipocalin

Sharon Brownlow, João H. Morais‐Cabral, R. A. Cooper +5

Structure

Production, properties and applications of food-grade oligosaccharides

Ross Crittenden, M. J. Playne

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Oral (n-3) Fatty Acid Supplementation Suppresses Cytokine Production and Lymphocyte Proliferation: Comparison between Young and Older Women

Simin Nikbin Meydani, Stefan Endres, Margo M. Woods +5

Journal of Nutrition

Nutritional supplementation, psychosocial stimulation, and mental development of stunted children: the Jamaican Study

S Grantham-McGregor, Catherine Powell, Susan Walker +1

The Lancet

Editor's Choice – European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2021 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Venous Thrombosis

Stavros K. Kakkos, Manjit Gohel, Niels Bækgaard +27

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Noninvasive Diagnosis of Deep Venous Thrombosis

Clive Kearon, Jim A. Julian, M Math +2

Annals of Internal Medicine

Patients with suspected deep venous thrombosis can usually be managed with noninvasive testing. However, if the results of this testing are nondiagnostic or are discordant with the clinical...

Characterization of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis phagosome and evidence that phagosomal maturation is inhibited.

Daniel L. Clemens, Marcus A. Horwitz

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

We have used the cryosection immunogold technique to study the composition of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis phagosome. We have used quantitative immunogold staining to determine the distribution of...

Population Genetics and Fishery Management.

Alan J. Jamieson, Nils Ryman, Fred M. Utter

Biometrics

Common themes in microbial pathogenicity

B. Brett Finlay, Stanley Falkow

Microbiological Reviews

A bacterial pathogen is a highly adapted microorganism which has the capacity to cause disease. The mechanisms used by pathogenic bacteria to cause infection and disease usually include an...

PLASMA LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN PATTERN IN GREENLANDIC WEST-COAST ESKIMOS

H.O. Bang, J. Dyerberg, Aase Brøndum Nielsen

The Lancet

Comparison of Antioxidant Potency of Commonly Consumed Polyphenol-Rich Beverages in the United States

Navindra P. Seeram, Michael Aviram, Yanjun Zhang +4

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

A number of different beverage products claim to have antioxidant potency due to their perceived high content of polyphenols. Basic and applied research indicates that pomegranate juice (PJ),...

A Clinical Outcome-Based Prospective Study on Venous Thromboembolism After Cancer Surgery

Giancarlo Agnelli, Giorgio Bolis, Lorenzo Capussotti +10

Annals of Surgery

VTE remains a common complication of cancer surgery, with a remarkable proportion of events occurring late after surgery. In patients undergoing cancer surgery, VTE is the most common cause of death...

British Thoracic Society guidelines for the management of suspected acute pulmonary embolism

Thorax

Advances in the study of proteolysis during cheese ripening

Maria J. Sousa, Ylva Ardö, Paul L.H. McSweeney

International Dairy Journal

Structure and function of metal chelators produced by plants

Wilfried E. Rauser

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

IMPACT OF VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION ON CHILDHOOD MORTALITY

Alfred Sommer, Edi Djunaedi, A.A Loeden +5

The Lancet

Refeeding syndrome: what it is, and how to prevent and treat it

Hisham Mehanna, Jamil Moledina, Jane Travis

BMJ

Refeeding syndrome is a well described but often forgotten condition. No randomised controlled trials of treatment have been published, although there are guidelines that use best available evidence...

Effects of sample size, model specification and factor loadings on the GFI in confirmatory factor analysis

Mark Shevlin, J.N.V. Miles

Personality and Individual Differences