Research Library

Vibrio cholerae produces a second enterotoxin, which affects intestinal tight junctions.

Alessio Fasano, B. Baudry, D W Pumplin +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Attenuated Vibrio cholerae vaccine strains specifically mutated in genes encoding cholera toxin (CT) are still capable of causing mild to moderate diarrhea. Culture supernatants of V. cholerae...

Macrophages secrete a novel heparin-binding protein with inflammatory and neutrophil chemokinetic properties.

Stephen D. Wolpe, G. Davatelis, Barbara Sherry +7

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

We report the identification and purification of a new inflammatory monokine synthesized by the macrophage tumor cell line RAW 264.7 in response to endotoxin. This monokine, which we term "macrophage...

Breast Milk, a Source of Beneficial Microbes and Associated Benefits for Infant Health

Katríona Lyons, C. Anthony Ryan, Eugene Dempsey +2

Nutrients

Human breast milk is considered the optimum feeding regime for newborn infants due to its ability to provide complete nutrition and many bioactive health factors. Breast feeding is associated with...

Improved Selection of Internal Transcribed Spacer-Specific Primers Enables Quantitative, Ultra-High-Throughput Profiling of Fungal Communities

Nicholas A. Bokulich, David A. Mills

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Ultra-high-throughput sequencing (HTS) of fungal communities has been restricted by short read lengths and primer amplification bias, slowing the adoption of newer sequencing technologies to fungal...

Revealing the History of Sheep Domestication Using Retrovirus Integrations

Bernardo Chessa, Filipe Pereira, Frédérick Arnaud +27

Science

The domestication of livestock represented a crucial step in human history. By using endogenous retroviruses as genetic markers, we found that sheep differentiated on the basis of their "retrotype"...

Incorporating local and international cuisines in the marketing of tourism destinations: The cases of Hong Kong and Turkey

Bendegül Okumuş, Fevzi Okumuş, Bob McKercher

Tourism Management

Handwashing and risk of respiratory infections: a quantitative systematic review

Tamer Rabie, Valérie Curtis

Tropical Medicine & International Health

Handwashing is associated with lowered respiratory infection. However, studies were of poor quality, none related to developing countries, and only one to severe disease. Rigorous trials of the...

Handbook on Metalloproteins

Ivano Bertini, Astrid Sigel

This Handbook on Metalloproteins focuses on the available structural information of proteins and their metal ion coordination spheres. It centers on the metal ions indispensable for life but also...

Umami and Food Palatability

Shizuko Yamaguchi, Kumiko Ninomiya

Journal of Nutrition

Hydration Properties of Dietary Fibre and Resistant Starch: a European Collaborative Study

James A. Robertson, Francois D de Monredon, Patrick Dysseler +3

LWT

Liquid–liquid phase separation in supersaturated lysozyme solutions and associated precipitate formation/crystallization

Martin Muschol, Franz Rosenberger

The Journal of Chemical Physics

Using cloud point determinations, the phase boundaries (binodals) for metastable liquid–liquid (L–L) separation in supersaturated hen egg white lysozyme solutions with 3%, 5%, and 7% (w/v) NaCl at...

Prospective study of exogenous hormones and risk of pulmonary embolism in women

Francine Grodstein, Meir J. Stampfer, Samuel Z. Goldhaber +5

The Lancet

Effect of Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Retinal Function of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Neonates

Ricardo Uauy, David G. Birch, Eileen E. Birch +2

Pediatric Research

Nile red as a polarity-sensitive fluorescent probe of hydrophobic protein surfaces

Dan L. Sackett, J. Wolff

Analytical Biochemistry

GENES AFFECTING THE REGULATION OF <i>SUC2</i> GENE EXPRESSION BY GLUCOSE REPRESSION IN <i>SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE</i>

Lenore Neigeborn, Marian Carlson

Genetics

Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with defects in sucrose or raffinose fermentation were isolated. In addition to mutations in the SUC2 structural gene for invertase, we recovered 18 recessive...

Failure of High-Dose Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) Therapy to Benefit Patients with Advanced Cancer

Edward T. Creagan, Charles G. Moertel, Judith R. OʼFallon +4

New England Journal of Medicine

One hundred and fifty patients with advanced cancer participated in a controlled double-blind study to evaluate the effects of high-dose vitamin C on symptoms and survival. Patients were divided...

Mechanism in carbohydrate chemistry

Brian Capon

Chemical Reviews

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTMechanism in carbohydrate chemistryBrian CaponCite this: Chem. Rev. 1969, 69, 4, 407–498Publication Date (Print):August 1, 1969Publication History...

Nutritional immunity: the battle for nutrient metals at the host–pathogen interface

Caitlin C. Murdoch, Eric P. Skaar

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Dissecting the bacterial type VI secretion system by a genome wide in silico analysis: what can be learned from available microbial genomic resources?

Frédéric Boyer, Gwennaële Fichant, Jérémie Berthod +2

BMC Genomics

The core of T6SS is composed of 13 proteins, conserved in both pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria. Subclasses of T6SS differ in regulatory and accessory protein content suggesting that T6SS has...

Adhesion and aggregation properties of probiotic and pathogen strains

María Carmen Collado, Jussi Meriluoto, Seppo Salminen

European Food Research and Technology

The Tat protein export pathway

Ben C. Berks, Frank Sargent, Tracy Palmer

Molecular Microbiology

The Tat (twin-arginine translocation) system is a bacterial protein export pathway with the remarkable ability to transport folded proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane. Preproteins are directed...

Thiolate ligands in metallothionein confer redox activity on zinc clusters

Wolfgang Maret, Bert L. Vallée

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

We postulate a novel and general mechanism in which the redox-active sulfur donor group of cyst(e)ine confers oxidoreductive characteristics on stable zinc sites in proteins. Thus, the present, an...

2 Serotyping of Escherichia coli

Frits Ørskov, I Orskóv

Methods in microbiology

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CARDIOVASCULAR DEATH AND MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND SERUM SELENIUM IN A MATCHED-PAIR LONGITUDINAL STUDY

JukkaT. Salonen, Georg Alfthan, J K Huttunen +2

The Lancet

Vitamin E as the Biological Lipid Antioxidant

Al L. Tappel

Vitamins and hormones

Farm production diversity is associated with greater household dietary diversity in Malawi: Findings from nationally representative data

Andrew D. Jones, Aditya Shrinivas, Rachel Bezner Kerr

Food Policy

Factors influencing tourist food consumption

Athena H.N. Mak, Margaret Lumbers, Anita Eves +1

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Nanoemulsion- and emulsion-based delivery systems for curcumin: Encapsulation and release properties

Kashif Ahmed, Yan Li, David Julian McClements +1

Food Chemistry

Propionate as a health-promoting microbial metabolite in the human gut

Elham Hosseini, Charlotte Grootaert, Willy Verstraete +1

Nutrition Reviews

Propionate is a major microbial fermentation metabolite in the human gut with putative health effects that extend beyond the gut epithelium. Propionate is thought to lower lipogenesis, serum...

The minerals of milk

Frédéric Gaucheron

annales de biologie animale biochimie biophysique

The salt of milk constitutes a small part of milk (8-9 g.L(-1)); this fraction contains calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium for the main cations and inorganic phosphate, citrate and chloride for...

An overview of binary taste–taste interactions

Russell Keast, Paul Breslin

Food Quality and Preference

Whole-grain intake is favorably associated with metabolic risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the Framingham Offspring Study

Nicola M. McKeown, James B. Meigs, Simin Liu +2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Zinc and the immune system

Lothar Rink

Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

Zn is an essential trace element for all organisms. In human subjects body growth and development is strictly dependent on Zn. The nervous, reproductive and immune systems are particularly influenced...

A novel EspA-associated surface organelle of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli involved in protein translocation into epithelial cells

Stuart Knutton

The EMBO Journal

Antimicrobial Activity of Some Egyptian Spice Essential Oils

R. S. Farag, Z. Y. Daw, F. M. Hewedi +1

Journal of Food Protection

Inhibition of oxidation of methyl linoleate in solution by vitamin E and vitamin C.

E. Niki, Tadatoshi Saito, Akira Kawakami +1

Journal of Biological Chemistry

The oxidation of methyl linoleate in solution initiated with azo compounds has been studied in the absence and presence of vitamin E and vitamin C. Both vitamin E and vitamin C acted as a...

Effects of Peer Models' Food Choices and Eating Behaviors on Preschoolers'Food Preferences

Leann L. Birch

Child Development

Preschooler food preferences can be strongly influenced by outside forces, namely, peer pressure, hero worship, role models, etc., but whether the changed preferences persist or not is slightly...

American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: venous thromboembolism in the context of pregnancy

Shannon M. Bates, Anita Rajasekhar, Saskia Middeldorp +11

Blood Advances

There was a strong recommendation for low-molecular-weight heparin (LWMH) over unfractionated heparin for acute VTE. Most recommendations were conditional, including those for either twice-per-day or...

Burden of typhoid fever in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic, literature-based update with risk-factor adjustment

Vittal Mogasale, Brian Maskery, R. Leon Ochiai +6

The Lancet Global Health

The risk-adjusted typhoid fever burden estimate was more conservative than previous estimates. However, by distinguishing the risk differences, it will allow assessment of the effect at the...

Quantifying food losses and the potential for reduction in Switzerland

Claudio Beretta, Franziska Stoessel, Urs Baier +1

Waste Management

A key element in making our food systems more efficient is the reduction of food losses across the entire food value chain. Nevertheless, food losses are often neglected. This paper quantifies food...

Bacteroides in the Infant Gut Consume Milk Oligosaccharides via Mucus-Utilization Pathways

Ángela Marcobal, Mariana Barboza, Erica D. Sonnenburg +8

Cell Host & Microbe

The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism

Suman Rathbun

Circulation

Citrulline as a biomarker of intestinal failure due to enterocyte mass reduction

Pascal Crenn, Bernard Messing, Luc Cynober

Clinical Nutrition

Antioxidant Activities of Pomegranate Fruit Extract and Its Anthocyanidins:  Delphinidin, Cyanidin, and Pelargonidin

Yasuko Noda, Takao Kaneyuki, Akitane Mori +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Antioxidant activities of freeze-dried preparations of a 70% acetone extract of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) and its three major anthocyanidins (delphinidin, cyanidin, and pelargonidin) were...

The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism in the Community

David C. Mohr, Tanya M. Petterson, Christine M. Lohse +4

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

The incidence of venous thromboembolism exceeds 1 per 1000; over 200,000 new cases occur in the United States annually. Of these, 30% die within 30 days; one-fifth suffer sudden death due to...

The Incidence of Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population-based Cohort Study

James Blanchard, Donald Houston, Andre Wajda +1

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

IBD patients have a threefold increased risk of developing DVT or PE.

Prevalence of<i>Campylobacter</i>spp.<i>, Escherichia coli</i>, and<i>Salmonella</i>Serovars in Retail Chicken, Turkey, Pork, and Beef from the Greater Washington, D.C., Area

Cuiwei Zhao, Beilei Ge, Juan De Villena +6

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

ABSTRACT A total of 825 samples of retail raw meats (chicken, turkey, pork, and beef) were examined for the presence of Escherichia coli and Salmonella serovars, and 719 of these samples were also...

Rheological characterisation of polymer gels

Gaynor M. Kavanagh, Simon B. Ross‐Murphy

Progress in Polymer Science