Research Library

Effects of Culture and Response Format on Extreme Response Style

C. Harry Hui, Harry C. Triandis

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Do cultural and ethnic groups differ in their extreme response style? To answer this question, Hispanic and non-Hispanic subjects were asked to respond to a questionnaire on 5-point or 10-point...

New Concepts in the Biology and Biochemistry of Ascorbic Acid

Jeffrey S. Flier, Lisa H. Underhill, Mark Levine

New England Journal of Medicine

ASCORBIC acid, originally called vitamin C, is required for human health.1 In human beings deprived of ascorbic acid, the deficiency disease scurvy develops and can be life threatening. Although a...

Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of VTE in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019

Lisa K. Moores, Tobias Tritschler, Shari B. Brosnahan +8

CHEST Journal

2019 international clinical practice guidelines for the treatment and prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

Dominique Farge, Corinne Frère, Jean M. Connors +27

The Lancet Oncology

The Immune System in Children with Malnutrition—A Systematic Review

Maren Johanne Heilskov Rytter, Lilian Kolte, André Briend +2

PLoS ONE

The immunological alterations associated with malnutrition in children may contribute to increased mortality. However, the underlying mechanisms are still inadequately understood, as well as why...

A View to a Kill: The Bacterial Type VI Secretion System

Brian T. Ho, Tao Dong, John J. Mekalanos

Cell Host & Microbe

Microencapsulation for the improved delivery of bioactive compounds into foods

Claude P. Champagne, Patrick Fustier

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

The International Harmonized Protocol for the proficiency testing of analytical chemistry laboratories (IUPAC Technical Report)

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

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Abstract The international standardizing organizations - International, ISO, and IUPAC - cooperated to produce the International Harmonized Protocol for the Proficiency Testing of (Chemical)...

Biogeochemistry of selenium and its impact on food chain quality and human health

Helinä Hartikainen

Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

Proposal for a New Inclusive Designation for Extraintestinal Pathogenic Isolates of<i>Escherichia coli:</i>ExPEC

Thomas A. Russo, James R. Johnson

The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Dietary fatty acids and human health

Christine M. Williams

Annales de Zootechnie

A considerable amount of evidence has accumulated to support the view that the very long chain omega 3 fatty acids (eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)) have beneficial...

Plasticizing Effect of Water on Thermal Behavior and Crystallization of Amorphous Food Models

Yrjö H. Roos, Marcus Karel

Journal of Food Science

ABSTRACT Dehydrated sugar solutions were used as models of thermal behavior of amorphous foods, and of the effect of temperature, moisture content and time on physical state of such foods. The...

Food safety in the 21st century

Fred Fung, Huei-Shyong Wang, Suresh Menon

Biomedical Journal

Food is essential to life, hence food safety is a basic human right. Billons of people in the world are at risk of unsafe food. Many millions become sick while hundreds of thousand die yearly. The...

Alginates as a useful natural polymer for microencapsulation and therapeutic applications

Cheong Hian Goh, Paul Wan Sia Heng, Lai Wah Chan

Carbohydrate Polymers

Interaction of Four Monoterpenes Contained in Essential Oils with Model Membranes:  Implications for Their Antibacterial Activity

Mariateresa Cristani, Manuela D’Arrigo, Giuseppina Mandalari +7

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The present article reports the antimicrobial efficacy of four monoterpenes (thymol, carvacrol, p-cymene, and gamma-terpinene) against the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and the...

Effects of Weight Loss and Sodium Reduction Intervention on Blood Pressure and Hypertension Incidence in Overweight People With High-Normal Blood Pressure

Archives of Internal Medicine

<h3>Objective:</h3> To provide a firmer basis for preventing high blood pressure (BP), we tested interventions to promote weight loss, dietary sodium reduction, and their combination for lowering...

Multivariate Analysis

P. A. Lachenbruch, K. V. Mardia, J. T. Kent +1

Biometrics

Effects of tourists’ local food consumption value on attitude, food destination image, and behavioral intention

Ja Young Choe, Seongseop Kim

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Ligand-regulated transport of the Menkes copper P-type ATPase efflux pump from the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane: a novel mechanism of regulated trafficking.

Michael J. Petris, J. F. B. Mercer, Janetta G. Culvenor +3

The EMBO Journal

Dietary fiber, inulin, and oligofructose: A review comparing their physiological effects

Marcel Roberfroid

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Dietary fiber is a general term. It covers a wide variety of substances that belong to the family of carbohydrates that resist hydrolysis by human alimentary enzymes but are fermented by colonic...

Genetics of bacteriocins produced by lactic acid bacteria

Todd R. Klaenhammer

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Pharmacological properties of Salvia officinalis and its components

Ahmad Ghorbani, Mahdi Esmaeilizadeh

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

<i>Salvia officinalis</i> (Sage) is a plant in the family of Labiatae/Lamiaceae. It is native to Middle East and Mediterranean areas, but today has been naturalized throughout the world. In folk...

Sustainable food consumption: an overview of contemporary issues and policies

Lucia A. Reisch, Ulrike Eberle, Sylvia Lorek

Sustainability Science Practice and Policy

Contemporary food production and consumption cannot be regarded as sustainable and raises problems with its wide scope involving diverse actors. Moreover, in the face of demographic change and a...

Asparagine in plants

Peter J. Lea, Ladaslav Sodek, M. A. J. Parry +2

Annals of Applied Biology

Abstract Interest in plant asparagine has rapidly taken off over the past 5 years following the report that acrylamide, a neurotoxin and potential carcinogen, is present in cooked foods, particularly...

Evasion of Toll-like receptor 5 by flagellated bacteria

Erica Andersen‐Nissen, Kelly D. Smith, Katie Strobe +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) recognizes an evolutionarily conserved site on bacterial flagellin that is required for flagellar filament assembly and motility. The alpha and epsilon Proteobacteria,...

Correlation between chemical composition and antibacterial activity of essential oils of some aromatic medicinal plants growing in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Kanyanga Cimanga, K. Kambu, L. Tona +6

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Transformation of arachidonic acid and homo-gamma-linolenic acid by rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Monohydroxy acids from novel lipoxygenases

P Borgeat, Mats Hámberg, Bengt Samuelsson

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Addition of arachidonic acid and homo-gamma-linolenic acid to a suspension of rabbit peritoneal neutrophils led to the synthesis of 5-L-hydroxy-6,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic acid and...

Risk of Arterial Thromboembolism in Patients With Cancer

Babak B. Navi, Anne S. Reiner, Hooman Kamel +5

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Brewers' spent grain: a review with an emphasis on food and health

Kieran M. Lynch, Eric J. Steffen, Elke K. Arendt

Journal of the Institute of Brewing

Brewers' spent grain (BSG) is the most abundant by-product generated in the beer-brewing process. This material consists of the barley grain husks obtained as solid residue after the production of...

Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Diseases

Carl J. Lavie, Richard V. Milani, Mandeep R. Mehra +1

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Live probiotics protect intestinal epithelial cells from the effects of infection with enteroinvasive <i>Escherichia coli</i> (EIEC)

Silvia Resta‐Lenert, K E Barrett

Gut

Live ST/LA interact with intestinal epithelial cells to protect them from the deleterious effect of EIEC via mechanisms that include, but are not limited to, interference with pathogen adhesion and...

Nutrients, foods, and dietary patterns as exposures in research: a framework for food synergy

David R. Jacobs, Lyn M. Steffen

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Biological preservation of foods with reference to protective cultures, bacteriocins and food-grade enzymes

Wilhelm H. Holzapfel, Rolf Geisen, Ulrich Schillinger

International Journal of Food Microbiology

The use of the glycemie Index in predicting the blood glucose response to mixed meals

TMS Wolever, DJA Jenkins

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

A critical physiological role of zinc in the structure and function of biomembranes

William J. Bettger, Boyd L. O’Dell

Life Sciences

Legionnaires' Disease Bacterium (Legionella pneumophila) Multiplies Intracellularly in Human Monocytes

Marcus A. Horwitz, Samuel C. Silverstein

Journal of Clinical Investigation

We have studied the interaction between virulent egg yolk-grown Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia 1 and human blood monocytes in vitro. The leukocytes were cultured in antibiotic-free tissue...

Representation of associative functions

Cho-Hsin Ling

Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen

Total and per capita value of food loss in the United States

Jean C. Buzby, Jeffrey Hyman

Food Policy

Time Trends in Pulmonary Embolism in the United States

Renda Soylemez Wiener, Lisa M. Schwartz, Steven Woloshin

Archives of Internal Medicine

The introduction of CTPA was associated with changes consistent with overdiagnosis: rising incidence, minimal change in mortality, and lower case fatality. Better technology allows us to diagnose...

n−3 Fatty acid dietary recommendations and food sources to achieve essentiality and cardiovascular benefits

Sarah K Gebauer, Tricia Psota, William S. Harris +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Apple pomace as a source of dietary fiber and polyphenols and its effect on the rheological characteristics and cake making

M. L. Sudha, V. Baskaran, K. Leelavathi

Food Chemistry

Factors Affecting Starch Digestibility with Special Emphasis on Sorghum and Corn1

L. W. Rooney, R. Pflugfelder

Journal of Animal Science

Starch exists inside the endosperm of cereals enmeshed in a protein matrix, which is particularly strong in sorghum and corn. Starch digestibility is affected by the plant species, the extent of...

Functional properties and amino acid content of a protein isolate from mung bean flour*

C. W. COFFMANN, V. V. GARCIAJ

International Journal of Food Science & Technology

Summary A protein isolate was prepared from mung bean flour by extraction with 0.001 NNaOH, precipitation at pH4.5, neutralization of the dispersed precipitate to pH6.8–7.0, and subsequent freeze...

Molecular characterization of vulnibactin biosynthesis in Vibrio vulnificus indicates the existence of an alternative siderophore

Wenzhi Tan, Vivek Verma, Kwangjoon Jeong +4

Frontiers in Microbiology

Vibrio vulnificus is a halophilic estuarine bacterium that causes fatal septicemia and necrotizing wound infections in humans. Virulent V. vulnificus isolates produce a catechol siderophore called...

Food traceability as an integral part of logistics management in food and agricultural supply chain

Techane Bosona, Girma Gebresenbet

Food Control

Consumer-driven definition of traditional food products and innovation in traditional foods. A qualitative cross-cultural study

Luís Guerrero, María Dolors Guárdia, Joan Xicola +10

Appetite

Analysis of pesticide residues using the Quick Easy Cheap Effective Rugged and Safe (QuEChERS) pesticide multiresidue method in combination with gas and liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometric detection

Paula Payá, Michelangelo Anastassiades, Dorothea Mack +4

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry