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Development of Standard Rating Scales for Mechanical Parameters of Texture and Correlation Between the Objective and the Sensory Methods of Texture Evaluation

Alina S. Szczesniak, MARGARET A. BRANDT, Herman H. Friedman

Journal of Food Science

SUMMARY Standard rating scales of hardness, brittleness, chewiness, gumminess, viscosity, and adhesiveness were established for quantitative evaluation of food texture. The scales cover the entire...

Copper metabolism in cell death and autophagy

Qian‐Li Xue, Rui Kang, Daniel J. Klionsky +3

Autophagy

Copper is an essential trace element in biological systems, maintaining the activity of enzymes and the function of transcription factors. However, at high concentrations, copper ions show increased...

Zinc in Wound Healing Modulation

Pei‐Hui Lin, Matthew Sermersheim, Haichang Li +3

Nutrients

Wound care is a major healthcare expenditure. Treatment of burns, surgical and trauma wounds, diabetic lower limb ulcers and skin wounds is a major medical challenge with current therapies largely...

The Salmonella In Silico Typing Resource (SISTR): An Open Web-Accessible Tool for Rapidly Typing and Subtyping Draft Salmonella Genome Assemblies

Catherine E. Yoshida, Peter Kruczkiewicz, Chad Laing +4

PLoS ONE

For nearly 100 years serotyping has been the gold standard for the identification of Salmonella serovars. Despite the increasing adoption of DNA-based subtyping approaches, serotype information...

Complete genome sequence of the probiotic lactic acid bacterium<i>Lactobacillus acidophilus</i>NCFM

Eric Altermann, W. M. S. Russell, M. Andrea Azcárate-Peril +11

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM is a probiotic bacterium that has been produced commercially since 1972. The complete genome is 1,993,564 nt and devoid of plasmids. The average GC content is 34.71%...

Antimicrobial activities of methanol extracts and essential oils of Rosmarinus officinalis, depending on location and seasonal variations

Özlem Yeşil-Çeliktaş, Erdal Kocabaş, Erdal Bedi̇r +3

Food Chemistry

Does enteral nutrition compared to parenteral nutrition result in better outcomes in critically ill adult patients? A systematic review of the literature

Leah Gramlich, Krikor Kichian, Jaime C. Pinilla +3

Nutrition

Microwave/air and microwave finish drying of banana

Medeni Maskan

Journal of Food Engineering

Predictors of Survival After Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism

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

Archives of Internal Medicine

Survival after VTE, and especially after PE+/-DVT, is much worse than reported, and significantly less than expected survival. Compared with DVT alone, symptomatic PE+/-DVT is an independent...

Food proteins from animals and plants: Differences in the nutritional and functional properties

Li Day, Julie A. Cakebread, Simon M. Loveday

Trends in Food Science & Technology

PlasmidFinder and In Silico pMLST: Identification and Typing of Plasmid Replicons in Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS)

Alessandra Carattoli, Henrik Hasman

Methods in molecular biology

Cholera

Jason B Harris, Regina C LaRocque, Firdausi Qadri +2

The Lancet

Handbook of Essential Oils

K. Husnu Can Baser, Gerhard Buchbauer

Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese scrolls, and Ayurvedic literature record physicians administering aromatic oils to their patients. Today society looks to science to document&nbsp; health choices and...

Consensus Statement; ESPEN guidelines on Artificial enteral nutrition - percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)

Chr. Löser, G Aschl, Xavier Hébuterne +6

Clinical Nutrition

Physiological compartmental analysis of α-linolenic acid metabolism in adult humans

Robert J. Pawlosky, Joseph R. Hibbeln, Janet A. Novotny +1

Journal of Lipid Research

A physiological compartmental model of alpha-linolenic acid metabolism was derived from the plasma concentration-time curves for d5-18:3n-3, d5-20:5n-3, d5-22:5n-3, and d5-22:6n-3 in eight healthy...

A Rapid Method for the Analysis of Starch

J. Holm, Inger Björck, Anders Drews +1

Starch - Stärke

Abstract A rapid enzymic method for starch analysis, especially in cereal products, is presented. One person can analyze 30 samples per day. The method includes a 15 min gelatinization step in a...

Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Theory

Partha Dasgupta, Debraj Ray

The Economic Journal

Journal Article Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Theory Get access Partha Dasgupta, Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on:...

An improved procedure for the methylation analysis of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides

Philip J. Harris, Robert J Henry, Anthony B. Blakeney +1

Carbohydrate Research

Genome-wide screening and functional analysis identify a large number of long noncoding RNAs involved in the sexual reproduction of rice

Yu‐Chan Zhang, Jian‐You Liao, Ze-Yuan Li +6

Genome biology

Genome-wide screening and functional analysis enabled the identification of a set of lncRNAs that are involved in the sexual reproduction of rice. The results also provide a source of lncRNAs and...

The Role of the Bacterial Flagellum in Adhesion and Virulence

Johanna Haiko, Benita Westerlund‐Wikström

Biology

The bacterial flagellum is a complex apparatus assembled of more than 20 different proteins. The flagellar basal body traverses the cell wall, whereas the curved hook connects the basal body to the...

Alpha-linolenic acid and its conversion to longer chain n−3 fatty acids: Benefits for human health and a role in maintaining tissue n−3 fatty acid levels

Gwendolyn Barceló‐Coblijn, Eric J. Murphy

Progress in Lipid Research

Analytical Characterization of the Aroma of Five Premium Red Wines. Insights into the Role of Odor Families and the Concept of Fruitiness of Wines

Ana Escudero, Elı́as Campo, Laura Fariña +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The aroma profile of five premium red wines has been studied by sensory descriptive analysis, quantitative gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O), and chemical quantitative analysis. The most...

Use of probiotic <i>Lactobacillus</i> preparation to prevent diarrhoea associated with antibiotics: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial

Mary Hickson, Aloysius L D'Souza, Nirmala Muthu +4

BMJ

National Research Register N0016106821.

The Horwitz Ratio (HorRat): A Useful Index of Method Performance with Respect to Precision

William Horwitz, Richard H Albert

Journal of AOAC International

The Horwitz ratio (HorRat) is a normalized performance parameter indicating the acceptability of methods of analysis with respect to among-laboratory precision (reproducibility). It is the ratio of...

Sources of <i>Campylobacter</i> Colonization in Broiler Chickens

Diane G. Newell, Catherine Fearnley

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Campylobacter jejuni and its close relative Campylobacter coli (hereafter jointly referred to as C. jejuni or campylobacters) are gram-negative, thermophilic, obligate microaerophilic bacteria that...

Food neophobia among the Finns and related responses to familiar and unfamiliar foods

Hely Tuorila, Liisa Lähteenmäki, Leena Pohjalainen +1

Food Quality and Preference

Protein adsorption at the oil/water interface: characterization of adsorption kinetics by dynamic interfacial tension measurements

C.J. Beverung, Clayton J. Radke, Harvey W. Blanch

Biophysical Chemistry

Fluorescence-Based Isolation of Bacterial Genes Expressed Within Host Cells

Raphael H. Valdivia, Stanley Falkow

Science

A selection strategy was devised to identify bacterial genes preferentially expressed when a bacterium associates with its host cell. Fourteen Salmonella typhimurium genes, which were under the...

Distinctive patterns of adherence of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli to HeLa cells

Isabel C. A. Scaletsky, M. L. M. SILVA, Luíz Rachid Trabulsi

Infection and Immunity

We showed that Escherichia coli strains attach to HeLa cells in two different patterns. In one, the bacteria cover the whole surface of the cell (diffuse adherence), and in the other, attachment is...

Biologic Fate of Autogenous Vein lmplants as Arterial Substitutes

D. Emerick Szilagyi, J. Paul Elliott, JOHN H. HACEMAN +2

Annals of Surgery

SZILAGYI, D. EMERICK M.D.; ELLIOTT, JOSEPH P. M.D.; HACEMAN, JOHN H. M.D.; SMITH, ROGER F. M.D.; DALL'OLMO, CARLO A. M.D. Author Information

Health Benefits of Heat-Killed (Tyndallized) Probiotics: An Overview

Núria Piqué, Mercedes Berlanga, David Miñana‐Galbis

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Nowadays, the oral use of probiotics is widespread. However, the safety profile with the use of live probiotics is still a matter of debate. Main risks include: Cases of systemic infections due to...

Molecular Medical Microbiology

Elsevier eBooks

Plant-Derived Antimicrobial Compounds: Alternatives to Antibiotics

Dianella Savoia

Future Microbiology

The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens has drawn the attention of the pharmaceutical and scientific communities towards studies on the potential antimicrobial activity of plant-derived...

Importance of food in probiotic efficacy

R. D. C. S. Ranadheera, Susan Baines, M.C. Adams

Food Research International

The use and reporting of cluster analysis in health psychology: A review

Jane Clatworthy, Deanna Buick, Matthew Hankins +2

British Journal of Health Psychology

The reporting of cluster analysis was found to be generally unsatisfactory, with many studies failing to provide enough information to allow replication or the evaluation of the quality of the...

10 years of the nisin-controlled gene expression system (NICE) in Lactococcus lactis

Igor Mierau, Michiel Kleerebezem

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Food lipids: Chemistry, nutrition and biotechnology

Júlio Tirapegui

Revista Brasileira de Ciências Farmacêuticas

MAMMALIAN ZINC TRANSPORTERS

Juan P. Liuzzi, Robert J. Cousins

Annual Review of Nutrition

New insights into mammalian zinc metabolism have been acquired through the identification and characterization of zinc transporters. These proteins all have transmembrane domains, and are encoded by...

Salt Sensitivity, Pulse Pressure, and Death in Normal and Hypertensive Humans

Myron H. Weinberger, Naomi S. Fineberg, S Edwin Fineberg +1

Hypertension

Although factors such as age, blood pressure, and its responsiveness to changes in sodium balance and extracellular fluid volume status (salt sensitivity) are associated with an increased risk of...

Assessing clinical probability of pulmonary embolism in the emergency ward: a simple score.

J Wicki, Thomas Perneger, Alain Junod +2

PubMed

This clinical score, based on easily available and objective variables, provides a standardized assessment of the clinical probability of PE. Applying this score to emergency ward patients suspected...

Zn2+: a novel ionic mediator of neural injury in brain disease

John H. Weiss, Stefano L. Sensi, Jae Young Koh

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Purified eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids have differential effects on serum lipids and lipoproteins, LDL particle size, glucose, and insulin in mildly hyperlipidemic men

Trevor A. Mori, Valerie Burke, Ian B. Puddey +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Characterisation of a novel solid lipid nanoparticle carrier system based on binary mixtures of liquid and solid lipids

Volkhard Jenning, Andreas F. Thünemann, Sven Gohla

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Antioxidative activity and phenolic composition of pilot‐plant and commercial extracts of sage and rosemary

Marie‐Elisabeth Cuvelier, Hubert Richard, Claudette Berset

Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society

Abstract Eight sage ( Salvia officinalis ) and twenty‐four rosemary ( Rosmarinus officinalis ) extracts, originating from pilot‐plant or commercial sources, had different antioxidative activities as...

Selenium Deficiency and Toxicity in the Environment

F.M. Fordyce

Pomegranate peel and fruit extracts: A review of potential anti-inflammatory and anti-infective effects

Tariq Ismail, Piero Sestili, Saeed Akhtar

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Obesity as a risk factor in venous thromboembolism

Paul D. Stein, Afzal Beemath, Ronald E. Olson

The American Journal of Medicine

Antioxidant activities of buckwheat extracts

Ting Sun

Food Chemistry