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ESPEN Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition: Surgery

Marco Braga, Olle Ljungqvist, Peter B. Soeters +3

Clinical Nutrition

Rapid extraction of fungal DNA for PCR amplification

José Luis Cenís

Nucleic Acids Research

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technique widely used in fungal research.One of its advantages is the ability to amplify very small amounts of DNA, in the picograms range, even in

Chestnut Blight: The Classical Problem of an Introduced Pathogen

Sandra L. Anagnostakis

Mycologia

(1987). Chestnut Blight: The Classical Problem of an Introduced Pathogen. Mycologia: Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 23-37.

Enhancement of the gut barrier integrity by a microbial metabolite through the Nrf2 pathway

Rajbir Singh, Sandeep Chandrashekharappa, Sobha R. Bodduluri +18

Nature Communications

The importance of gut microbiota in human health and pathophysiology is undisputable. Despite the abundance of metagenomics data, the functional dynamics of gut microbiota in human health and disease...

Diagnosis of DVT

Shannon M. Bates, Roman Jaeschke, Scott M. Stevens +9

CHEST Journal

Cholesterol-Lowering Effects of Probiotics and Prebiotics: A Review of in Vivo and in Vitro Findings

L.-G. Ooi, Min‐Tze Liong

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Probiotics are live microorganisms that promote health benefits upon consumption, while prebiotics are nondigestible food ingredients that selectively stimulate the growth of beneficial...

The Legionella pneumophila replication vacuole: making a cosy niche inside host cells

Ralph R. Isberg, Tamara J. O’Connor, Matthew Heidtman

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Bacteriocins: Biological tools for bio-preservation and shelf-life extension

Lucy H. Deegan, Paul D. Cotter, Colin Hill +1

International Dairy Journal

Mathematical modeling of thin layer solar drying of sultana grapes

Osman Yaldız, Can Ertekin, H.I. Uzun

Energy

Enteral compared with parenteral nutrition: a meta-analysis

Carol Braunschweig, Paul S. Levy, Patricia Sheean +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The Possible Significance of the Ferrous Oxidase Activity of Ceruloplasmin in Normal Human Serum

Shigemasa Osaki, Donald A. Johnson, Earl Frieden

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The oxidation of Fe(II) by serum was studied at pH 7.35 and at various oxygen concentrations which approach the physiological conditions of human serum. The nonenzymic oxidation of Fe(II) was...

Blockchain-Based Soybean Traceability in Agricultural Supply Chain

Khaled Salah, Nishara Nizamuddin, Raja Jayaraman +1

IEEE Access

The globalized production and the distribution of agriculture production bring a renewed focus on the safety, quality, and the validation of several important criteria in agriculture and food supply...

Effects of n−3 Fatty Acid Supplements in Diabetes Mellitus

The ASCEND Study Collaborative Group

New England Journal of Medicine

Among patients with diabetes without evidence of cardiovascular disease, there was no significant difference in the risk of serious vascular events between those who were assigned to receive n-3...

Nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC): A potential delivery system for bioactive food molecules

Fardin Tamjidi, Mohammad Shahedi, Jaleh Varshosaz +1

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli in human medicine

Helge Karch, Phillip I. Tarr, Martina Bielaszewska

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Antioxidant Activity of Betalains from Plants of the Amaranthaceae

Yi‐Zhong Cai, Mei Sun, Harold Corke

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Antioxidant activity of betalain pigments (seven pure compounds and four combined fractions) from plants of the family Amaranthaceae was evaluated using the modified DPPH(*)...

Aspirin

Eric H. Awtry, Joseph Loscalzo

Circulation

alicylates, in the form of willow bark, were used as an analgesic during the time of Hippocrates, and their antipyretic effects have been recognized for more than 200 years. 1Acetylsalicylic acid, or...

Dietary saturated fats and their food sources in relation to the risk of coronary heart disease in women

Frank B. Hu, Meir J. Stampfer, JoAnn E. Manson +5

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Emerging Foodborne Pathogens: Escherichia coil O157:H7 as a Model of Entry of a New Pathogen into the Food Supply of the Developed World

Gregory L. Armstrong, J. B. Hollingsworth, J. Glenn Morris

Epidemiologic Reviews

There would appear to be little argument that the large outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 which have occurred since the early 1980s represent a distinct, new phenomenon. The number of reported cases have...

Low molecular weight heparin

J. Hirsh, MN Levine

Blood

antithrombin 111 (ATIII)?3.4' The third residue of the pentasaccharide is 3-0-sulfated glucosamine, which is critical for binding to ATIII and is only found in the ATIII-Blood, Vol79, No 1 (January...

Shiga and Shiga-like toxins

Alison D. O’Brien, R K Holmes

Microbiological Reviews

Introduction ........................ 206 Shiga Toxin in Shigella Spp. ........................ 207 History ........................ 207 Purification and Structure ........................ 207 Mode...

Fluorometric Determination of Selenium in Biological Material with 2,3-Diaminonaphthalene.

J. H. Walkinson

Analytical Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTFluorometric Determination of Selenium in Biological Material with 2,3-Diaminonaphthalene.J. H. WalkinsonCite this: Anal. Chem. 1966, 38, 1,...

Sodium Intake and Hypertension

Andrea Grillo, Lucia Salvi, Paolo Coruzzi +2

Nutrients

The close relationship between hypertension and dietary sodium intake is widely recognized and supported by several studies. A reduction in dietary sodium not only decreases the blood pressure and...

Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R

François Husson, Sébastien Lê, Jérôme Pagès

An introduction to exploratory techniques for multivariate data analysis, this book covers the key methodology, including principal components analysis, correspondence analysis, mixed models and...

Selenium in higher plants: understanding mechanisms for biofortification and phytoremediation

Yong‐Guan Zhu, Elizabeth A. H. Pilon‐Smits, Fang‐Jie Zhao +2

Trends in Plant Science

Molecular Diversity of <i>Lactobacillus</i> spp. and Other Lactic Acid Bacteria in the Human Intestine as Determined by Specific Amplification of 16S Ribosomal DNA

Hans G. H. J. Heilig, Erwin G. Zoetendal, Elaine E. Vaughan +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

A Lactobacillus group-specific PCR primer, S-G-Lab-0677-a-A-17, was developed to selectively amplify 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) from lactobacilli and related lactic acid bacteria, including members of...

Complications and validity of pulmonary angiography in acute pulmonary embolism.

Paul D. Stein, Christos A. Athanasoulis, Abass Alavi +6

Circulation

The risks of pulmonary angiography were sufficiently low to justify it as a diagnostic tool in the appropriate clinical setting. Clinical judgment is probably the most important consideration in the...

Sequential Uptake of Horseradish Peroxidase by Lymphoid Follicle Epithelium of Peyer's Patches in the Normal Unobstructed Mouse Intestine: An Ultrastructural Study

Robert L. Owen

Gastroenterology

Handbook of Food Preservation

Mohammad Shafiur Rahman

The preservation of foods by drying is the time-honored and most common method used by communities and the food-processing industry. Heating of air by electric heater or flue gas is the conventional...

Functionality of enterococci in dairy products

Giorgio Giraffa

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Decreased incidence of prostate cancer with selenium supplementation: results of a double‐blind cancer prevention trial

Clark, Dalkin, Krongrad +10

British Journal of Urology

Although selenium shows no protective effects against the primary endpoint of squamous and basal cell carcinomas of the skin, the selenium-treated group had substantial reductions in the incidence of...

Low-molecular-weight heparin versus standard heparin in general and orthopaedic surgery: a meta-analysis

Michael T. Nurmohamed, Harry R. Büller, Friedo W. Dekker +5

The Lancet

Gustducin is a taste-cell-specific G protein closely related to the transducins

Susan K. McLaughlin, Peter J. McKinnon, Robert F. Margolskee

Nature

Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households

Kibrom T. Sibhatu, Vijesh V. Krishna, Matin Qaim

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Undernutrition and micronutrient malnutrition remain problems of significant magnitude in large parts of the developing world. Improved nutrition requires not only better access to food for poor...

Water, sanitation and hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoea

Sandy Cairncross, Caroline Hunt, Sophie Boisson +4

International Journal of Epidemiology

We propose diarrhoea risk reductions of 48, 17 and 36%, associated respectively, with handwashing with soap, improved water quality and excreta disposal as the estimates of effect for the LiST model....

Nanoscale materials development – a food industry perspective

Peerasak Sanguansri, Mary Ann Augustin

Trends in Food Science & Technology

COVER STORY Guidelines for infection control in dental health care settings—2003

William Kohn, Jennifer A. Harte, Dolores M. Malvitz +3

The Journal of the American Dental Association

Glutamine and the preservation of gut integrity

René R. W. J. van der Hulst, M.F. von Meyenfeldt, Nicolaas E.P. Deutz +4

The Lancet

Analysis of bacterial menaquinone mixtures by high performance liquid chromatography

Jin Támaoka, Yoko Katayama-Fujimura, Hiroshi Kuraishi

Journal of Applied Bacteriology

Menaquinone mixtures of microbial origin were separated according to the chain length and the degree of hydrogenation of the polyisoprenyl side‐chain by reversephase partition high performance liquid...

The effectiveness of plant essential oils on the growth of Botrytis cinerea, Fusarium sp. and Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis

Dimitra Daferera, Basil N. Ziogas, Moschos G. Polissiou

Crop Protection

Appropriate starter culture technologies for small-scale fermentation in developing countries

Wilhelm H. Holzapfel

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Rapidly available glucose in foods: an in vitro measurement that reflects the glycemic response

Klaus Englyst, Hans N. Englyst, Geoffrey J. Hudson +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Molecular characterization of a copper transport protein in S. cerevisiae: An unexpected role for copper in iron transport

Andrew Dancis, Daniel Yuan, David J. Haile +5

Cell

The role of phospholipids and factor Va in the prothrombinase complex.

Jan Rosing, Guido Tans, José W.P. Govers‐Riemslag +2

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The kinetic parameters of the conversion of bovine prothrombin into thrombin by activated bovine blood clotting factor X (Xa) have been determined in the absence and presence of Ca2+, activated...

Venous thromboembolism in cancer patients: a population-based cohort study

Frits I. Mulder, Erzsébet Horváth–Puhó, Nick van Es +6

Blood

The incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in cancer patients may have changed in the past decade, possibly due to novel cancer therapies, improved survival, and high-resolution imaging. Danish...

A comprehensive review of the antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral potential of essential oils and their chemical constituents against drug-resistant microbial pathogens

Saika Tariq, Saira Wani, Waseem Rasool +5

Microbial Pathogenesis

Cholera transmission: the host, pathogen and bacteriophage dynamic

Eric J. Nelson, Jason B. Harris, J. Glenn Morris +2

Nature Reviews Microbiology