Research Library

A metabotropic glutamate receptor variant functions as a taste receptor

Nirupa Chaudhari, Ana Marie Landin, Stephen D. Roper

Nature Neuroscience

Proteins in Whey: Chemical, Physical, and Functional Properties

J.E. Kinsella, D. M. Whitehead

Advances in food and nutrition research

All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present

Julia Twigg, Stephen Mennell

British Journal of Sociology

Syzygium aromaticum L. (Myrtaceae): Traditional Uses, Bioactive Chemical Constituents, Pharmacological and Toxicological Activities

Gaber El‐Saber Batiha, Luay Alkazmi, Lamiaa Wasef +3

Biomolecules

Herbal medicinal products have been documented as a significant source for discovering new pharmaceutical molecules that have been used to treat serious diseases. Many plant species have been...

Worldwide Epidemiology of<i>Salmonella</i>Serovars in Animal-Based Foods: a Meta-analysis

Rafaela Gomes Ferrari, Denes K. A. Rosario, Adelino Cunha Neto +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

<i>Salmonella</i> spp. are among the most important foodborne pathogens and the third leading cause of human death among diarrheal diseases worldwide. Animals are the primary source of this pathogen,...

Tinzaparin vs Warfarin for Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Active Cancer

Agnes Lee, Pieter W. Kamphuisen, Guy Meyer +5

JAMA

clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01130025.

Gastrointestinal function in intensive care patients: terminology, definitions and management. Recommendations of the ESICM Working Group on Abdominal Problems

Annika Reintam Blaser, Manu L. N. G. Malbrain, Joel Starkopf +6

Intensive Care Medicine

State-of-the-art definitions for GI dysfunction with gradation as well as management recommendations are proposed on the basis of current medical evidence and expert opinion. The WGAP recommends...

Crystallization behaviour of fats and lipids — a review

Kiyotaka Sato

Chemical Engineering Science

An Inducible Bundle-Forming Pilus of Enteropathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i>

Jorge A. Girón, Alice S.-Y. Ho, Gary K. Schoolnik

Science

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), a cause of childhood diarrhea, grow on the surface of the small intestine and on cultured epithelial cells as colonies of adherent bacteria. When propagated...

Composition and Properties of Commercial Native Starches

J. J. M. Swinkels

Starch - Stärke

Abstract The physico‐chemical properties of starches depend upon the botanical source from which they are isolated. Important differences between potato, maize, wheat, tapioca and waxy maize starch...

Diseases of Humans (Other than Cholera) Caused by Vibrios

P. A. Blake, R E Weaver, D G Hollis

Annual Review of Microbiology

Human coronavirus (HCoV) infection causes respiratory diseases with mild to severe outcomes. In the last 15 years, we have witnessed the emergence of two zoonotic, highly pathogenic HCoVs: severe...

Risk of poor development in young children in low-income and middle-income countries: an estimation and analysis at the global, regional, and country level

Chunling Lu, Maureen M. Black, Linda Richter

The Lancet Global Health

National Institutes of Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hilton Foundation, and WHO.

Drying, shrinkage and rehydration characteristics of kiwifruits during hot air and microwave drying

Medeni Maskan

Journal of Food Engineering

Why Is L-Glutamine Metabolism Important to Cells of the Immune System in Health, Postinjury, Surgery or Infection?

Philip Newsholme

Journal of Nutrition

Detection and Identification of Gastrointestinal <i>Lactobacillus</i> Species by Using Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Species-Specific PCR Primers

Jens Walter, Gerald W. Tannock, Anu Tilsala-Timisjärvi +4

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of DNA fragments obtained by PCR amplification of the V2-V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene was used to detect the presence of Lactobacillus species in the...

Has the prevalence of asthma increased in children? Evidence from the national study of health and growth 1973-86.

Peter Burney, S Chinn, Roberto J. Rona

BMJ

These results suggest that there has been a true increase in morbidity that is not simply due to changes in diagnostic fashion. The increase is large enough to explain much if not all of the increase...

Biology and pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba

Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Naveed Ahmed Khan

Parasites & Vectors

Acanthamoeba is a free-living protist pathogen, capable of causing a blinding keratitis and fatal granulomatous encephalitis. The factors that contribute to Acanthamoeba infections include parasite...

Cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants for specialty industrial materials

Andrea Lubbe, Robert Verpoorte

Industrial Crops and Products

Organic acids as antimicrobials to control Salmonella in meat and poultry products

Emma Mani‐López, H.S. García, Aurelio López‐Malo

Food Research International

Multiple Correspondence Analysis

Brigitte Le Roux, Henry Rouanet

Diversity and applications of<i>Bacillus</i>bacteriocins

Hikmate Abriouel, Charles M. A. P. Franz, Nabil Ben Omar +1

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Members of the genus Bacillus are known to produce a wide arsenal of antimicrobial substances, including peptide and lipopeptide antibiotics, and bacteriocins. Many of the Bacillus bacteriocins...

PLASMA LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN PATTERN IN GREENLANDIC WEST-COAST ESKIMOS

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

Nutrition Reviews

Summary: The plasma-lipid pattern, including quantitative lipoprotein electrophoresis, was examined in 130 Eskimos (69 females, 61 males)—hunters and/or fishermen, and their wives—in the northern...

DIETARY n-6 AND n-3 FATTY ACID BALANCE AND CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

Vasuki Wijendran, K.C. Hayes

Annual Review of Nutrition

▪ Abstract Epidemiological and clinical studies have established that the n-6 fatty acid, linoleic acid (LA), and the n-3 fatty acids, linolenic acid (LNA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and...

The digestion of dietary triacylglycerols

Huiling Mu

Progress in Lipid Research

A randomized controlled trial of early dietary supply of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development in term infants

Eileen E. Birch, Sharon Garfield, Dennis R. Hoffman +2

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

The effects of dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supply during infancy on later cognitive development of healthy term infants were evaluated in a randomized clinical trial of infant formula milk...

Molecular Adsorbent Recycling System (MARS): Clinical Results of a New Membrane‐Based Blood Purification System for Bioartificial Liver Support

Stange, Mitzner, Risler +12

Artificial Organs

The use of xenogenic or genetically engineered cell types in bioartificial liver support systems requires separation methods between the patients' blood and the liver support bioreactors that...

Guanylyl cyclase is a heat-stable enterotoxin receptor

Stephanie Schulz, Cecelia K. Green, Peter S.T. Yuen +1

Cell

Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Patients with COVID-19 at CT Angiography and Relationship to <scp>d</scp>-Dimer Levels

Ian Léonard-Lorant, Xavier Delabranche, François Séverac +10

Radiology

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Obesity, kidney dysfunction and hypertension: mechanistic links

John E. Hall, Jussara M. do Carmo, Alexandre A. da Silva +2

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Retrospective Analysis

Gábor Vincze, Jamie C. Barner, William D. Linn +3

Retrospective analysis of mode survival, reliability of atrial sensing and incidence of atrial tachyarrhythmias in 307 single-lead VDD pacemaker patients

Catching Fire. How Cooking Made Us Human

Peter Williams

Nutrition & Dietetics

OMEGA, a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial to Test the Effect of Highly Purified Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Top of Modern Guideline-Adjusted Therapy After Myocardial Infarction

Bernhard H. Rauch, Rudolf Schiele, Steffen Schneider +13

Circulation

URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00251134.

Mortality of necrotizing enterocolitis expressed by birth weight categories

Shimae Fitzgibbons, Yiming Ching, David C. Yu +7

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Gastroduodenal mucus bicarbonate barrier: protection against acid and pepsin

Adrian Allen, Gunnar Flemström

American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology

Secretion of bicarbonate into the adherent layer of mucus gel creates a pH gradient with a near-neutral pH at the epithelial surfaces in stomach and duodenum, providing the first line of mucosal...

Survival of foodborne pathogens on stainless steel surfaces and cross-contamination to foods

Harsi Dewantari Kusumaningrum

International Journal of Food Microbiology

A Common Dominant TLR5 Stop Codon Polymorphism Abolishes Flagellin Signaling and Is Associated with Susceptibility to Legionnaires' Disease

Thomas R. Hawn, Annelies Verbon, Kamilla D. Lettinga +10

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Although Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are critical mediators of the immune response to pathogens, the influence of polymorphisms in this gene family on human susceptibility to infection is poorly...

The double-helical nature of the crystalline part of A-starch

Anne Imberty, Henri Chanzy, Serge Pérez +2

Journal of Molecular Biology

Variety in a meal enhances food intake in man

Barbara J. Rolls, E. A. Rowe, Edmund T. Rolls +3

Physiology & Behavior

Review article: dietary fibre-microbiota interactions

Hannah L. Simpson, Barry J. Campbell

Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Agrarian diets high in fruit/legume fibre are associated with greater microbial diversity and a predominance of Prevotella over Bacteroides. 'Western'-style diets, high in fat/sugar, low in fibre,...

Which form is that? The importance of selenium speciation and metabolism in the prevention and treatment of disease

Claire M. Weekley, Hugh H. Harris

Chemical Society Reviews

The biological activity of selenium is dependent upon its speciation. We aim to integrate selenium speciation and metabolism into a discussion of the mechanisms by which selenium exerts its...

The QseC sensor kinase: A bacterial adrenergic receptor

Marcie B. Clarke, David T. Hughes, Chengru Zhu +2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Quorum sensing is a cell-to-cell signaling mechanism in which bacteria respond to hormone-like molecules called autoinducers (AIs). The AI-3 quorum-sensing system is also involved in interkingdom...

Long-term Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin versus Usual Care in Proximal-Vein Thrombosis Patients with Cancer

Russell D. Hull, Graham F. Pineo, Rollin Brant +8

The American Journal of Medicine

Viscosity as Related to Dietary Fiber: A Review

Cheryl L. Dikeman, G. C. Fahey

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Viscosity is a physicochemical property associated with dietary fibers, particularly soluble dietary fibers. Viscous dietary fibers thicken when mixed with fluids and include polysaccharides such as...

Clinical Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death by n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Mechanism of Prevention of Arrhythmias by n-3 Fish Oils

Alexander Leaf, Jing X. Kang, Yong‐Fu Xiao +1

Circulation

T his review will be limited specifically to the beneficial prevention by the n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) of arrhythmic deaths, including sudden cardiac death, which annually causes some...

Triacylglycerols in prokaryotic microorganisms

Héctor M. Álvarez, A. Steinbüchel

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Class IIa bacteriocins: biosynthesis, structure and activity

Saïd Ennahar, Toshihiro Sashihara, Kenji Sonomoto +1

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

In the last decade, a variety of ribosomally synthesized antimicrobial peptides or bacteriocins produced by lactic acid bacteria have been identified and characterized. As a result of these studies,...

Genes encoding putative effector proteins of the type III secretion system of <i>Salmonella</i> pathogenicity island 2 are required for bacterial virulence and proliferation in macrophages

Michael Hensel, Jacqueline E. Shea, Scott R. Waterman +7

Molecular Microbiology

The type III secretion system of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2) is required for systemic infection of this pathogen in mice. Cloning and sequencing of a central region of SPI-2 revealed...

Overexpression of Metallothionein Confers Resistance to Anticancer Drugs

Susan L. Kelley, Alakananda Basu, Beverly A. Teicher +3

Science

Resistance to antineoplastic agents is the major obstacle to curative therapy of cancer. Tumor cell lines with acquired resistance to the antineoplastic agent cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)...

Monoclonal antibodies to epithelium‐specific components of the human milk fat globule membrane: Production and reaction with cells in culture

Joyce Taylor‐Papadimitriou, Jerry A. Peterson, J. Arklie +3

International Journal of Cancer

Three hybridomas producing monoclonal antibodies (IgG), reacting with components of the human mammary milk fat globule have been isolated. When tested for binding to a wide range of human cell lines...