Research Library

The Association of Official Agricultural Chemists

H. W. Wiley

Science

Sensory Evaluation of Food: Principles and Practices

Harry T. Lawless, Hildegarde Heymann

Improved Medium for Lactic Streptococci and Their Bacteriophages

Betty E. Terzaghi, W. E. Sandine

Applied Microbiology

Incorporation of 1.9% beta-disodium glycerophosphate (GP) into a complex medium resulted in improved growth by lactic streptococci at 30 C. The medium, called M17, contained: Phytone peptone, 5.0 g;...

Oral Apixaban for the Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism

Giancarlo Agnelli, Harry R. Büller, Alexander T. Cohen +8

New England Journal of Medicine

A fixed-dose regimen of apixaban alone was noninferior to conventional therapy for the treatment of acute venous thromboembolism and was associated with significantly less bleeding (Funded by Pfizer...

What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival

Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Tahmeed Ahmed, Robert E. Black +8

The Lancet

Calcium homeostasis in intact lymphocytes: cytoplasmic free calcium monitored with a new, intracellularly trapped fluorescent indicator.

Roger Y. Tsien, Tullio Pozzan, T J Rink

The Journal of Cell Biology

A new, fluorescent, highly selective Ca2+ indicator , "quin2", has been trapped inside intact mouse and pig lymphocytes, to measure and manipulate cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentrations, [Ca2+]i. Quin2...

The economic and social burden of malaria

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Pia N. Malaney

Nature

Two Structural Equation Models: LISREL and PLS Applied to Consumer Exit-Voice Theory

Claes Fornell, Fred L. Bookstein

Journal of Marketing Research

In marketing applications of structural equation models with unobservable variables, researchers have relied almost exclusively on LISREL for parameter estimation. Apparently they have been little...

Resonant Formation of DNA Strand Breaks by Low-Energy (3 to 20 eV) Electrons

Badia Boudaı̈ffa, Pierre Cloutier, Darel J. Hunting +2

Science

Most of the energy deposited in cells by ionizing radiation is channeled into the production of abundant free secondary electrons with ballistic energies between 1 and 20 electron volts. Here it is...

Acrylamide is formed in the Maillard reaction

Donald S. Mottram, B.L. Wedzicha, Andrew T. Dodson

Nature

Intersalt: an international study of electrolyte excretion and blood pressure. Results for 24 hour urinary sodium and potassium excretion. Intersalt Cooperative Research Group.

Gabriel Scally, ; Maezawa;Japan, S Professor +27

BMJ

The relations between 24 hour urinary electrolyte excretion and blood pressure were studied in 10,079 men and women aged 20-59 sampled from 52 centres around the world based on a highly standardised...

Fiber and Prebiotics: Mechanisms and Health Benefits

Joanne Slavin

Nutrients

The health benefits of dietary fiber have long been appreciated. Higher intakes of dietary fiber are linked to less cardiovascular disease and fiber plays a role in gut health, with many effective...

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

Roman Jaeschke

JAMA

<h3>CLINICAL SCENARIO</h3> You are back where we put you in the previous article¹on diagnostic tests in this series on how to use the medical literature: in the library studying an article...

Molecular basis of bacterial outer membrane permeability

Hiroshi Nikaido, Martti Vaara

Microbiological Reviews

Health benefits of dietary fiber

James W. Anderson, Pat Baird, Richard H. Davis +5

Nutrition Reviews

Dietary fiber intake provides many health benefits. However, average fiber intakes for US children and adults are less than half of the recommended levels. Individuals with high intakes of dietary...

The Inverse Relation between Fish Consumption and 20-Year Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease

Daan Kromhout, Edward B. Bosschieter, Cor de Lezenne Coulander

New England Journal of Medicine

The low death rate from coronary heart disease among the Greenland Eskimos has been ascribed to their high fish consumption. We therefore decided to investigate the relation between fish consumption...

Microbial degradation of complex carbohydrates in the gut

Harry J. Flint, Karen P. Scott, Sylvia H. Duncan +2

Gut Microbes

Bacteria that colonize the mammalian intestine collectively possess a far larger repertoire of degradative enzymes and metabolic capabilities than their hosts. Microbial fermentation of complex...

Analysis of Acrylamide, a Carcinogen Formed in Heated Foodstuffs

Eden Tareke, Per Rydberg, Patrik Karlsson +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Reaction products (adducts) of acrylamide with N termini of hemoglobin (Hb) are regularly observed in persons without known exposure. The average Hb adduct level measured in Swedish adults is...

Global prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children

Mercedes de Onís, Monika Blössner, Elaine Borghi

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Management of Massive and Submassive Pulmonary Embolism, Iliofemoral Deep Vein Thrombosis, and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

Michael R. Jaff, M. Sean McMurtry, Stephen L. Archer +10

Circulation

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is responsible for the hospitalization of >250 000 Americans annually and represents a significant risk for morbidity and mortality. Despite the publication of...

Risk Factors for Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism

John A. Heit, Marc D. Silverstein, David N. Mohr +3

Archives of Internal Medicine

Hospital or nursing home confinement, surgery, trauma, malignant neoplasm, chemotherapy, neurologic disease with paresis, central venous catheter or pacemaker, varicose veins, and superficial vein...

Omega-3 fatty acids in health and disease and in growth and development

AP Simopoulos

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Development and validation of a predictive model for chemotherapy-associated thrombosis

Alok A. Khorana, Nicole M. Kuderer, Eva Culakova +2

Blood

Risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is elevated in cancer, but individual risk factors cannot identify a sufficiently high-risk group of outpatients for thromboprophylaxis. We developed a simple...

Lithium amplifies agonist-dependent phosphatidylinositol responses in brain and salivary glands

Michael J. Berridge, C. Peter Downes, Michael R. Hanley

Biochemical Journal

1. The effect of Li+ on the agonist-dependent metabolism of [3H]inositol has been studied in rat brain, rat parotid and the insect salivary gland. 2. When brain or parotid slices were incubated in...

Venous and arterial thromboembolic complications in COVID-19 patients admitted to an academic hospital in Milan, Italy

Corrado Lodigiani, G. Iapichino, Luca Carenzo +9

Thrombosis Research

Mediterranean alpha-linolenic acid-rich diet in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease

M. de Lorgeril, S. Renaud, Patricia Salen +6

The Lancet

A novel suicide vector and its use in construction of insertion mutations: osmoregulation of outer membrane proteins and virulence determinants in Vibrio cholerae requires toxR

Virginia L. Miller, John J. Mekalanos

Journal of Bacteriology

The toxR gene of Vibrio cholerae encodes a transmembrane, DNA-binding protein that activates transcription of the cholera toxin operon and a gene (tcpA) for the major subunit of a pilus colonization...

<b>fitdistrplus</b>: An<i>R</i>Package for Fitting Distributions

Marie Laure Delignette‐Muller, Christophe Dutang

Journal of Statistical Software

The package fitdistrplus provides functions for fitting univariate distributions to different types of data (continuous censored or non-censored data and discrete data) and allowing different...

Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries

Susan Walker, Theodore D. Wachs, Julie Meeks Gardner +4

The Lancet

Principles of QSAR models validation: internal and external

Paola Gramatica

QSAR & Combinatorial Science

Abstract The recent REACH Policy of the European Union has led to scientists and regulators to focus their attention on establishing general validation principles for QSAR models in the context of...

WHO estimates of the causes of death in children

Jennifer Bryce, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Kenji Shibuya +1

The Lancet

Data Resource Profile: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES)

Sun‐Seog Kweon, Yoonjung Kim, Minyoung Jang +6

International Journal of Epidemiology

The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) is a national surveillance system that has been assessing the health and nutritional status of Koreans since 1998. Based on the...

Multidimensional Scaling: I. Theory and Method

Warren S. Torgerson

Psychometrika

Multidimensional scaling can be considered as involving three basic steps. In the first step, a scale of comparative distances between all pairs of stimuli is obtained. This scale is analogous to the...

Copper toxicity, oxidative stress, and antioxidant nutrients

Lisa M. Gaetke

Toxicology

Effect of Selenium and Vitamin E on Risk of Prostate Cancer and Other Cancers

Scott M. Lippman, Eric A. Klein, Phyllis J. Goodman +27

JAMA

clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT00006392.

The Long-Term Clinical Course of Acute Deep Venous Thrombosis

P. Prandoni, Anthonie W.A. Lensing, Alberto Cogo +7

Annals of Internal Medicine

Patients with symptomatic deep venous thrombosis, especially those without transient risk factors for deep venous thrombosis, have a high risk for recurrent venous thromboembolism that persists for...

Pharmacology and Management of the Vitamin K Antagonists

Jack Ansell, Jack Hirsh, Elaine M. Hylek +3

CHEST Journal

Aromatic-dependent Salmonella typhimurium are non-virulent and effective as live vaccines

Susan K. Hoiseth, B. A. D. Stocker

Nature

Prevention of VTE in Nonorthopedic Surgical Patients

Michael K. Gould, David García, Sherry M. Wren +4

CHEST Journal

Gastrostomy without laparotomy: A percutaneous endoscopic technique

Michael W.L. Gauderer, Jeffrey L. Ponsky, Robert J. Izant

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Handbook of hydrocolloids

G. O. Phillips, Peter A. Williams

Woodhead Publishing Limited eBooks

Introduction. Agar. Starch. Gelatin. Carrageenan. Xanthum Gum. Gellan Gum. Gallactomannans. Gum Arabic. Pectins. Milk Proteins. Cellulosis. Tragacanth and Karaya. Xyloglucan. Curdlan. Glucans....

Reactive oxygen species, toxicity, oxidative stress, and antioxidants: chronic diseases and aging

Klaudia Jomová, Renáta Raptová, Suliman Yousef Alomar +4

Archives of Toxicology

A physiological level of oxygen/nitrogen free radicals and non-radical reactive species (collectively known as ROS/RNS) is termed oxidative eustress or "good stress" and is characterized by low to...

Antioxidant enzymes and human diseases

José M. Matés, Cristina Pérez‐Gómez, Ignacio Núñez de Castro

Clinical Biochemistry

Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Josef Neu, W. Allan Walker

New England Journal of Medicine

Necrotizing enterocolitis, one of the most common and devastating diseases in neonates, typically manifests with feeding intolerance, abdominal distention, and bloody stools. This article discusses...

Genome sequence of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7

Nicole T. Perna, Guy Plunkett, Valerie Burland +25

Nature

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Food Microbiology

Essential Oils in Food Preservation: Mode of Action, Synergies, and Interactions with Food Matrix Components

Morten Hyldgaard, Tina Mygind, Rikke Louise Meyer

Frontiers in Microbiology

Essential oils are aromatic and volatile liquids extracted from plants. The chemicals in essential oils are secondary metabolites, which play an important role in plant defense as they often possess...