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Extremely limited synthesis of long chain polyunsaturates in adults: implications for their dietary essentiality and use as supplements

Mélanie Plourde, Stephen C. Cunnane

Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism

There is considerable interest in the potential impact of several polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in mitigating the significant morbidity and mortality caused by degenerative diseases of the...

CEACAM6 acts as a receptor for adherent-invasive E. coli, supporting ileal mucosa colonization in Crohn disease

Nicolas Barnich, Frédéric A. Carvalho, Anne-Lise Glasser +8

Journal of Clinical Investigation

The ileal mucosa of Crohn disease (CD) patients is abnormally colonized by adherent-invasive E. coli (AIEC) that are able to adhere to and invade intestinal epithelial cells. Here, we show that...

Liposomal Nanocapsules in Food Science and Agriculture

T. Matthew Taylor, Jochen Weiß, P. Michael Davidson +1

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Liposomes, spherical bilayer vesicles from dispersion of polar lipids in aqueous solvents, have been widely studied for their ability to act as drug delivery vehicles by shielding reactive or...

Effect of whole grains on insulin sensitivity in overweight hyperinsulinemic adults

Mark A. Pereira, David R. Jacobs, Joel J. Pins +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Prevalence and some properties of verotoxin (Shiga-like toxin)-producing Escherichia coli in seven different species of healthy domestic animals

Lothar Beutin, D Geier, H Steinrück +2

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Fecal samples from 720 healthy, domestic animals representing seven different species (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, dogs, and cats) were investigated for verotoxin (VT [Shiga-like...

Heparin: Mechanism of Action, Pharmacokinetics, Dosing Considerations, Monitoring, Efficacy, and Safety

Jack Hirsh, James E. Dalen, Daniel Deykin +1

CHEST Journal

Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in the gut microbiome

Jacob F. Wardman, Rajneesh K. Bains, Peter Rahfeld +1

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Essential Oils in Food Preservation, Flavor and Safety

Elsevier eBooks

A geminivirus-related DNA mycovirus that confers hypovirulence to a plant pathogenic fungus

Xiao Yu, Bo Li, Yànpíng Fù +8

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi and have the potential to control fungal diseases of crops when associated with hypovirulence. Typically, mycoviruses have double-stranded (ds) or...

Opinion of the Scientific Committee on a request from EFSA related to A Harmonised Approach for Risk Assessment of Substances Which are both Genotoxic and Carcinogenic

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

EFSA Journal

Immunomodulation of Human Blood Cells Following the Ingestion of Lactic Acid Bacteria

Eduardo J. Schiffrin, Florence Rochat, Harriet Link‐Amster +2

Journal of Dairy Science

Because of the lack of data that convincingly show immunomodulatory properties of lactic acid bacteria in humans, a study was performed in which healthy volunteers were divided into two groups and...

Assessing method variance in multitrait-multimethod matrices: The case of self-reported affect and perceptions at work.

Richard P. Bagozzi, Youjae Yi

Journal of Applied Psychology

What kind of exposure reduces children's food neophobia?

Leann L. Birch, Linda McPhee, B.C. Shoba +2

Appetite

Essential Fatty Acids

E. Aaes‐Jørgensen

Physiological Reviews

Exploratory factor analysis: Current use, methodological developments and recommendations for good practice

David Goretzko, Huong Pham, Markus Bühner

Current Psychology

Food safety for food security: Relationship between global megatrends and developments in food safety

Thea King, Martin Cole, Jeffrey M. Farber +4

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Magnesium deficiency in plants: An urgent problem

Wanli Guo, Hussain Nazim, Zongsuo Liang +1

The Crop Journal

Although magnesium (Mg) is one of the most important nutrients, involved in many enzyme activities and the structural stabilization of tissues, its importance as a macronutrient ion has been...

Chemical Preservatives and Natural Antimicrobial Compounds

P. Michael Davidson, T. Matthew Taylor, Shannon E. Schmidt

Food Microbiology

This chapter talks about antimicrobial compounds that are divided into two classes: traditional and naturally occurring. Antimicrobials are classified as traditional when they (i) have been used for...

The tight calorie control study (TICACOS): a prospective, randomized, controlled pilot study of nutritional support in critically ill patients

Pierre Singer, Ronit Anbar, Jonathan Cohen +7

Intensive Care Medicine

Prebiotic evaluation of cocoa-derived flavanols in healthy humans by using a randomized, controlled, double-blind, crossover intervention study

Xenofon Tzounis, Ana Rodriguez‐Mateos, Jelena Vulevic +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Amoebae as Training Grounds for Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens

Maëlle Molmeret, Matthias Horn, Michael Wagner +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Free-living amoebae are important predators that control microbial communities. They are ubiquitous and have been isolated from various natural sources such as soil, freshwater, salt water, dust, and...

Multiple parameters for the comprehensive evaluation of the susceptibility of Escherichia coli to the silver ion

Guojing Zhao, S. Edward Stevens

BioMetals

Mice Deficient in Cellular Glutathione Peroxidase Develop Normally and Show No Increased Sensitivity to Hyperoxia

Ye‐Shih Ho, Jean-Luc Magnenat, Roderick T. Bronson +4

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Glutathione peroxidase, a selenium-containing enzyme, is believed to protect cells from the toxicity of hydroperoxides. The physiological role of this enzyme has previously been implicated mainly...

h<i>CTR1</i>: A human gene for copper uptake identified by complementation in yeast

Bing Bing Zhou, Jane Gitschier

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The molecular mechanisms responsible for the cellular uptake of copper in mammalian cells are unknown. We describe isolation of a human gene involved in this process by complementation of the yeast...

Induction of a New Metallothionein Isoform (MT-IV) Occurs during Differentiation of Stratified Squamous Epithelia

Carol J. Quaife, S D Findley, Jonathan C. Erickson +4

Biochemistry

A new member of the metallothionein (MT) gene family was discovered that lies about 20 kb 5' of the MT-III gene in both mouse and human. The MT-IV proteins are highly conserved in both species and...

THE PERCEPTION OF FOOD TEXTURE ‐ THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BREAKDOWN PATH

J. B. Hutchings, Peter J. Lillford

Journal of Texture Studies

ABSTRACT Many authors have drawn attention to the limitations of present texture testing methods. To a great extent this may be due to the assumption that the perception of the structural properties...

Antimicrobial substance from a human Lactobacillus strain

M Silva, N V Jacobus, Carl F. Deneke +1

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Lactobacillus sp. strain GG, which was isolated from the feces of a normal person, produced a substance with potent inhibitory activity against a wide range of bacterial species. It inhibited...

Antihypertensive activity of an alkyl ether analog of phosphatidylcholine

Merle L. Blank, Fred Snyder, Lawrence W. Byers +2

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Essential Oils as Antimicrobial Agents—Myth or Real Alternative?

Katarzyna Wińska, Wanda Mączka, Jacek Łyczko +3

Molecules

Herbs and the essential oils derived from them have been used from the beginning of human history for different purposes. Their beneficial properties have been applied to mask unpleasant odors,...

The Evolution and Ecology of Bacterial Warfare

Elisa T. Granato, Thomas A. Meiller-Legrand, Kevin R. Foster

Current Biology

Antibiotics in agriculture and the risk to human health: how worried should we be?

Qiuzhi Chang, Weike Wang, Gili Regev‐Yochay +2

Evolutionary Applications

The use of antibiotics in agriculture is routinely described as a major contributor to the clinical problem of resistant disease in human medicine. While a link is plausible, there are no data...

Coagulation and cancer: biological and clinical aspects

Anna Falanga, Marina Marchetti, A. Vignoli

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Freesia Horsted, Joe West, Matthew J. Grainge

PLoS Medicine

VTE occurs in greater than 1% of cancer patients each year, but this varies widely by cancer type and time since diagnosis. The absolute VTE risks obtained from this review can aid in clinical...

A.S.P.E.N. Enteral Nutrition Practice Recommendations

Robin Bankhead, Joseph I. Boullata, Susan L. Brantley +9

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Intake of Fish and n3 Fatty Acids and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Among Japanese

Hiroyasu Iso, Minatsu Kobayashi, Junko Ishihara +5

Circulation

Compared with a modest fish intake of once a week or &20 g/d, a higher intake was associated with substantially reduced risk of coronary heart disease, primarily nonfatal cardiac events, among...

Habitual Dietary Intake of n-3 and n-6 Fatty Acids in Relation to Inflammatory Markers Among US Men and Women

Tobias Pischon, Susan E. Hankinson, Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil +3

Circulation

These results suggest that n-6 fatty acids do not inhibit the antiinflammatory effects of n-3 fatty acids and that the combination of both types of fatty acids is associated with the lowest levels of...

Intake of Fatty Acids and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in a Cohort of Finnish Men: The Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study

P Pietinen, Alberto Ascherio, Pasi Korhonen +4

American Journal of Epidemiology

The relation of intakes of specific fatty acids and the risk of coronary heart disease was examined in a cohort of 21,930 smoking men aged 50-69 years who were initially free of diagnosed...

Regulation of Lipid A Modifications by <i>Salmonella typhimurium</i> Virulence Genes <i>phoP-phoQ</i>

Lin Guo, Kheng B. Lim, John S. Gunn +4

Science

Bacterial pathogenesis requires proteins that sense host microenvironments and respond by regulating virulence gene transcription. For Salmonellae, one such regulatory system is PhoP-PhoQ, which...

Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism with spiral CT: comparison with pulmonary angiography and scintigraphy.

Martine Rémy‐Jardin, Jacques Rémy, F Deschildre +5

Radiology

Spiral CT can reliably depict central PE and may be introduced into the classic diagnostic algorithms.

Two toxin-converting phages from Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain 933 encode antigenically distinct toxins with similar biologic activities

N A Strockbine, L R Marques, John W. Newland +3

Infection and Immunity

Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain 933 contains two distinct toxin-converting phages (933J and 933W). The biologic activities and antigenic relationship between the toxins produced by 933J and 933W...

Consensus Values and Weighting Factors

Robert C Paule, J. Mandel

Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards

A method is presented for the statistical analysis of sets of data which are assembled from multiple experiments. The analysis recognizes the existence of both within group and between group...

Colorimetric determination of hexuronic acids in plant materials

Ralph W. Scott

Analytical Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTColorimetric determination of hexuronic acids in plant materialsRalph W. ScottCite this: Anal. Chem. 1979, 51, 7, 936–941Publication Date (Print):June 1,...

Consumption of Human Milk Oligosaccharides by Gut-Related Microbes

Ángela Marcobal, Mariana Barboza, John W. Froehlich +4

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Human milk contains large amounts of complex oligosaccharides that putatively modulate the intestinal microbiota of breast-fed infants by acting as decoy binding sites for pathogens and as prebiotics...

Cereal dietary fibre: a natural functional ingredient to deliver phenolic compounds into the gut

Paola Vitaglione, Aurora Napolitano, Vincenzo Fogliano

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Probiotics—From Metchnikoff to bioactives

Todor Vasiljevic, Nagendra P. Shah

International Dairy Journal

Antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of the essential oils and methanol extract from Mentha longifolia L. ssp. longifolia

Medine Güllüce, Fatih Şahin, Münevver Sökmen +6

Food Chemistry

Outbreak of Necrotizing Enterocolitis Associated with <i>Enterobacter sakazakii</i> in Powdered Milk Formula

Jos Van Acker, Francis De Smet, G. Muyldermans +3

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

We describe an outbreak of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) that occurred in the neonatal intensive care unit of our hospital. A total of 12 neonates developed NEC in June-July 1998. For two of them,...

<i>Salmonella</i> Pathogenicity Island 2-Dependent Evasion of the Phagocyte NADPH Oxidase

Andrés Vázquez‐Torres, Yisheng Xu, Jessica Jones‐Carson +5

Science

A type III protein secretion system encoded by Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI2) has been found to be required for virulence and survival within macrophages. Here, SPI2 was shown to allow...