Research Library

Anthocyanin stability and antioxidant activity of spray-dried açai (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) juice produced with different carrier agents

Renata Valeriano Tonon, Catherine Brabet, Míriam Dupas Hubinger

Food Research International

Malnutrition as an enteric infectious disease with long-term effects on child development

Richard L. Guerrant, Reinaldo B. Oriá, Sean R. Moore +2

Nutrition Reviews

Malnutrition is a major contributor to mortality and is increasingly recognized as a cause of potentially lifelong functional disability. Yet, a rate-limiting step in achieving normal nutrition may...

Carbohydrate terminology and classification

J.H. Cummings, A. M. Stephen

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The chemistry of beer aging – a critical review

Bart Vanderhaegen, Hedwig Neven, H. Verachtert +1

Food Chemistry

Acrylamide: A Cooking Carcinogen?

Eden Tareke, Per Rydberg, Patrik Karlsson +2

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Exposure to acrylamide (AA) has been monitored by mass spectrometric detection of the adduct, N-(2-carbamoylethyl)valine (CEV), to the N-termini of hemoglobin (Hb), according to the N-alkyl Edman...

Zinc Supplementation Reduces the Incidence of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections in Infants and Preschool Children: A Double-blind, Controlled Trial

Sunil Sazawal, Robert E. Black, Sanju Jalla +3

PEDIATRICS

Background. Increased acute lower respiratory infection incidence, severity, and mortality are associated with malnutrition, and reduced immunological competence may be a mechanism for this...

Host cell killing and bacterial conjugation require overlapping sets of genes within a 22-kb region of the <i>Legionella pneumophila</i> genome

Gil Segal, Mary Purcell, Howard A. Shuman

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A 22-kb DNA locus of Legionella pneumophila is described that contains 18 genes, 16 of which are required for macrophage killing (icm genes). In this paper two previously described icm loci were...

A new selenoprotein from human lung adenocarcinoma cells: purification, properties, and thioredoxin reductase activity.

Takashi Tamura, Thressa C. Stadtman

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

We report the isolation and characterization of a new selenoprotein from a human lung adenocarcinoma cell line, NCI-H441. Cells were grown in RPMI-1640 medium containing 10% (vol/vol) fetal bovine...

A Severe Outbreak of<i>Escherichia coli</i>O157:H7–Associated Hemorrhagic Colitis in a Nursing Home

A O Carter, A Borczyk, Joyce Carlson +6

New England Journal of Medicine

In September 1985, an outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 enteritis affected 55 of 169 residents and 18 of 137 staff members at a nursing home. The outbreak was characterized by two phases: a...

Relationship between the distribution of the chain length of amylopectin and the crystalline structure of starch granules

Susumu Hizukuri

Carbohydrate Research

Obesity in the critically ill: a narrative review

Miet Schetz, Audrey De Jong, Adam M. Deane +8

Intensive Care Medicine

Functional Properties of Microorganisms in Fermented Foods

Jyoti Prakash Tamang, Dong-Hwa Shin, Su‐Jin Jung +1

Frontiers in Microbiology

Fermented foods have unique functional properties imparting some health benefits to consumers due to presence of functional microorganisms, which possess probiotics properties, antimicrobial,...

Multiple factor analysis: principal component analysis for multitable and multiblock data sets

Hervé Abdi, Lynne J. Williams, D. Valentin

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics

Abstract Multiple factor analysis (MFA, also called multiple factorial analysis) is an extension of principal component analysis (PCA) tailored to handle multiple data tables that measure sets of...

Metals, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration: A focus on iron, manganese and mercury

Marcelo Farina, Daiana Silva Ávila, João Batista Teixeira da Rocha +1

Neurochemistry International

Health effects of dietary phospholipids

Daniela Kuellenberg de Gaudry, Lenka A. Taylor, Michael Schneider +1

Lipids in Health and Disease

Beneficial effects of dietary phospholipids (PLs) have been mentioned since the early 1900's in relation to different illnesses and symptoms, e.g. coronary heart disease, inflammation or cancer. This...

Guidance on studies concerning the safety of use of the additive for users/workers

EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP)

EFSA Journal

Predictive and Associative Models to Identify Hospitalized Medical Patients at Risk for VTE

Alex C. Spyropoulos, Frederick A. Anderson, Gordon FitzGerald +15

CHEST Journal

Meta-analysis: Anticoagulant Prophylaxis to Prevent Symptomatic Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Medical Patients

Francesco Dentali, James D. Douketis, Monica Gianni +2

Annals of Internal Medicine

Anticoagulant prophylaxis is effective in preventing symptomatic venous thromboembolism during anticoagulant prophylaxis in at-risk hospitalized medical patients. Additional research is needed to...

Risk Factors for Sporadic<i>Campylobacter</i>Infection in the United States: A Case‐Control Study in FoodNet Sites

Cindy R. Friedman, Robert M. Hoekstra, Michael C. Samuel +11

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis in the United States. We conducted a population-based case-control study to determine risk factors for sporadic Campylobacter infection. During a...

Irradiation as a method for decontaminating food

J. Farkas

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Echocardiography Doppler in pulmonary embolism: Right ventricular dysfunction as a predictor of mortality rate

Ary Ribeiro, Per Lindmarker, A. Juhlin‐Dannfelt +2

American Heart Journal

<i>Escherichia coli</i>O157:H7 and the Hemolytic–Uremic Syndrome

Thomas G. Boyce, David L. Swerdlow, Patricia M. Griffin

New England Journal of Medicine

In the decade since its initial description in the Journal, 1 Escherichia coli O157:H7 has emerged as a major cause of both sporadic cases and outbreaks of diarrhea in North America. The first report...

Handbook of Food Engineering

Dennis R. Heldman, Daryl Lund, Cristina M. Sabliov

The concept of membrane separation is widely established in nature using semi-permeable membranes for the separation of molecules. The theoretical foundations of membrane technology can be dated back...

Saturated Fat and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes: a Fresh Look at the Evidence

Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian

Lipids

Dietary and policy recommendations frequently focus on reducing saturated fatty acid consumption for improving cardiometabolic health, based largely on ecologic and animal studies. Recent advances in...

Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens

Peter Wareing

Those Things That Hold Us Together: Taste and Sociology

Antoine Hennion

Cultural Sociology

The idea of reflexivity has much to offer to the analysis of taste - but reflexivity in its ancient sense, a form neither active nor passive, pointing to an originary state where things, persons, and...

A Review of the Effect of Winemaking Techniques on Phenolic Extraction in Red Wines

Karna L. Sacchi, Linda F. Bisson, Douglas O. Adams

American Journal of Enology and Viticulture

Winemaking variables and techniques are known to affect the phenolic composition of red wines. This review surveys the current literature on the impact of processing and fermentation parameters on...

The cactus family

Choice Reviews Online

Only now, at the beginning of the new millennium, is there an up-to-date, comprehensive study of the cactus family. This long-awaited, monumental work covers the Cactaceae in an encyclopedic manner,...

Ceftriaxone-Resistant Salmonella Infection Acquired by a Child from Cattle

Paul D. Fey, Thomas J. Safranek, Mark E. Rupp +6

New England Journal of Medicine

This study provides additional evidence that antibiotic-resistant strains of salmonella in the United States evolve primarily in livestock. Resistance to ceftriaxone, the drug of choice for invasive...

Study of Prediagnostic Selenium Level in Toenails and the Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

Kazuko Yoshizawa, Walter C. Willett, Steven J. Morris +4

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Our results support earlier findings that higher selenium intakes may reduce the risk of prostate cancer. Further prospective studies and randomized trials of this relationship should be conducted.

Dining in a Classical Context

University of Michigan Press eBooks

Pulmonary Strategies of Antioxidant Defense

John E. Heffner, John E. Repine

American Review of Respiratory Disease

"Pulmonary Strategies of Antioxidant Defense." American Review of Respiratory Disease, 140(2), pp. 531–554

Receptor‐mediated transcytosis of transferrin across the blood‐brain barrier

Jordan B. Fishman, Joshua B. Rubin, J. V. Handrahan +2

Journal of Neuroscience Research

The perfusion of rat brain with 125I-transferrin resulted in a receptor-mediated uptake of transferrin into the endothelium of the blood-brain barrier followed by its detection in the brain. During a...

Chemistry and Biochemistry of Metallothionein

Jeremias H.R. Kägi, Yutaka Kojima

Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Reactions

A wealth of chemical, spectroscopic and structural data attest to the uniqueness of the metallothioneins as a group of novel bioinorganic structures. Their earmarking feature is the arrangement of...

Iron and copper promote modification of low density lipoprotein by human arterial smooth muscle cells in culture.

Jay W. Heinecke, H. R. Rosen, Alan Chait

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Modification of low density lipoproteins by human arterial smooth muscle cells was characterized by increased electrophoretic mobility and increased content of malondialdehyde-like oxidation products...

INDUCTION OF CELLULASE IN <i>TRICHODERMA VIRIDE</i> AS INFLUENCED BY CARBON SOURCES AND METALS

Mary Mandels, Elwyn T. Reese

Journal of Bacteriology

Starch–lipid and starch–lipid–protein complexes: A comprehensive review

Shujun Wang, Chen Chao, Jingjing Cai +3

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Physical interactions often occur between major food components during food processing. These interactions may involve starch, lipids, and proteins forming V-type starch-lipid complexes or ternary...

Ancient WGD events as drivers of key innovations in angiosperms

Pamela S. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Microcins mediate competition among Enterobacteriaceae in the inflamed gut

Martina Sassone‐Corsi, Sean‐Paul Nuccio, Henry X. Liu +5

Nature

DHA Effects in Brain Development and Function

Lotte Lauritzen, Paolo Brambilla, Alessandra Mazzocchi +3

Nutrients

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is a structural constituent of membranes specifically in the central nervous system. Its accumulation in the fetal brain takes place mainly during the last trimester of...

Whole grain and refined grain consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of cohort studies

Dagfinn Aune, Teresa Norat, Pål Romundstad +1

European Journal of Epidemiology

Xylooligosaccharides (XOS) as an Emerging Prebiotic: Microbial Synthesis, Utilization, Structural Characterization, Bioactive Properties, and Applications

Ayyappan Appukuttan Aachary, Siddalingaiya Gurudutt Prapulla

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Abstract: Xylooligosaccharides (XOS) have great prebiotic potential and can be incorporated into many food products. XOS seem to exert their nutritional benefits in various animal species, which by...

Geraniol — A review of a commercially important fragrance material

W. Chen, Alvaro Viljoen

South African Journal of Botany

Geraniol is a commercially important terpene alcohol occurring in the essential oils of several aromatic plants. It is one of the most important molecules in the flavour and fragrance industries and...

Mucosal delivery of therapeutic and prophylactic molecules using lactic acid bacteria

Jerry M. Wells, Annick Mercenier

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Harmonization of strategies for the validation of quantitative analytical procedures

P. Hubert, J.-J. Nguyen-Huu, Bruno Boulanger +13

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

The use of high-selenium yeast to raise selenium status: how does it measure up?

Margaret P. Rayman

British Journal Of Nutrition

Selenium-enriched yeast (Se-yeast) is a common form of Se used to supplement the dietary intake of this important trace mineral. However, its availability within the European Union is under threat,...

Hyperdopaminergic Mutant Mice Have Higher “Wanting” But Not “Liking” for Sweet Rewards

Susana Peciña, Barbara Cagniard, Kent Berridge +2

Journal of Neuroscience

What is the role of dopamine in natural rewards? A genetic mutant approach was taken to examine the consequences of elevated synaptic dopamine on (1) spontaneous food and water intake, (2) incentive...

Rheological characterisation of thermogelling chitosan/glycerol-phosphate solutions

A. Chenite

Carbohydrate Polymers