Research Library

Damage of the outer membrane of enteric gram-negative bacteria by lactoferrin and transferrin

Richard T. Ellison, T J Giehl, F. Marc LaForce

Infection and Immunity

Many studies have shown that lactoferrin and transferrin have antimicrobial activity against gram-negative bacteria, but a mechanism of action has not been defined. We hypothesized that the...

Blood pressure, sodium intake, and sodium related hormones in the Yanomamo Indians, a "no-salt" culture.

W. J. Oliver, Edwin Cohen, J.V. Neel

Circulation

The Yanomamo Indians are an unacculturated tribe inhabiting the tropical equatorial rain forest of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela who do not use salt in their diet. The group therefore...

ADP-activated lipid peroxidation coupled to the TPNH oxidase system of microsomes

Paul Hochstein, Lars Ernster

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Animals as sources of food-borne pathogens: A review

Norma Heredia, Santos García

Animal nutrition

Food-producing animals are the major reservoirs for many foodborne pathogens such as <i>Campylobacter</i> species, non-Typhi serotypes of <i>Salmonella enterica</i>, Shiga toxin-producing strains of...

Polysaccharide Utilization Loci: Fueling Microbial Communities

Julie M. Grondin, Kazune Tamura, Guillaume Déjean +2

Journal of Bacteriology

The complex carbohydrates of terrestrial and marine biomass represent a rich nutrient source for free-living and mutualistic microbes alike. The enzymatic saccharification of these diverse substrates...

Ascorbate regulates haematopoietic stem cell function and leukaemogenesis

Michalis Agathocleous, Corbin E. Meacham, Rebecca J. Burgess +11

Nature

Glycosides from <i>Stevia rebaudiana</i> Bertoni Possess Insulin‐Mimetic and Antioxidant Activities in Rat Cardiac Fibroblasts

Cecilia Prata, Laura Zambonin, Benedetta Rizzo +5

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

<i>Stevia rebaudiana</i> Bertoni is a shrub having a high content of sweet diterpenoid glycosides in its leaves, mainly stevioside and rebaudioside A, which are used as noncaloric, natural...

How collinearity affects mixture regression results

Jan-Michael Becker, Christian M. Ringle, Marko Sarstedt +1

Marketing Letters

The role of nutrition in children's neurocognitive development, from pregnancy through childhood

Anett Nyaradi, Jianghong Li, Siobhan Hickling +2

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

This review examines the current evidence for a possible connection between nutritional intake (including micronutrients and whole diet) and neurocognitive development in childhood. Earlier studies...

PAAR-repeat proteins sharpen and diversify the type VI secretion system spike

Mikhail M. Shneider, S.A. Buth, Brian T. Ho +3

Nature

Polymorphic toxin systems: Comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics

Dapeng Zhang, Robson Francisco de Souza, Vivek Anantharaman +2

Biology Direct

Along with a comprehensive inventory of toxins and immunity proteins, we present several testable predictions regarding active sites and catalytic mechanisms of toxins, their processing and...

Contemporaneous and recent radiations of the world's major succulent plant lineages

Mónica Arakaki, Pascal‐Antoine Christin, Reto Nyffeler +6

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The cacti are one of the most celebrated radiations of succulent plants. There has been much speculation about their age, but progress in dating cactus origins has been hindered by the lack of fossil...

Nutritional value of bread: Influence of processing, food interaction and consumer perception

Koen Dewettinck, Filip Van Bockstaele, Bianka Kühne +3

Journal of Cereal Science

Fiber and Magnesium Intake and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes

Matthias B. Schulze

Archives of Internal Medicine

Higher cereal fiber and magnesium intakes may decrease diabetes risk.

Flagellin-Deficient Legionella Mutants Evade Caspase-1- and Naip5-Mediated Macrophage Immunity

Tao Ren, Dario S. Zamboni, Craig R. Roy +2

PLoS Pathogens

Macrophages from C57BL/6J (B6) mice restrict growth of the intracellular bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila. Restriction of bacterial growth requires caspase-1 and the leucine-rich...

<i>Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics and Power</i>. By Michael Dietler and Brian Hayden.

Carol Palmer

American Journal of Archaeology

Antioxidant Activities of Sicilian Prickly Pear (<i>Opuntia ficus indica</i>) Fruit Extracts and Reducing Properties of Its Betalains:  Betanin and Indicaxanthin

Daniela Butera, Luisa Tesoriere, Francesca Di Gaudio +5

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Sicilian cultivars of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus indica) produce yellow, red, and white fruits, due to the combination of two betalain pigments, the purple-red betanin and the yellow-orange...

Intestinal flora and endogenous vitamin synthesis

Michael J. Hill

European Journal of Cancer Prevention

It is well established that the rumen microbial flora are a rich source of vitamins to the ruminant, and that the faecal bacterial flora are a major vitamin source for coprophagic rodents. There is...

Novel method to extract large amounts of bacteriocins from lactic acid bacteria

Rongguang Yang, M. C. Johnson, Bibek Ray

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Antimicrobial peptides, bacteriocins, produced by lactic acid bacteria were adsorbed on the cells of producing strains and other gram-positive bacteria. pH was a crucial factor in determining the...

Recent Advances in Knowledge of Starch Structure

Anne Imberty, Alain Buléon, V.H. Tran +1

Starch - Stärke

Abstract Three dimensional models of crystalline zones and amorphous branching zones of starch granules are reviewed. In crystallites of both A and B starch, double helices are found in pairs, and...

Venous Thromboembolism and Other Venous Disease in the Tecumseh Community Health Study

William W. Coon, Park W. Willis, Jacob B. Keller

Circulation

The prevalence and incidence of venous thromboembolism and other venous disease has been determined as part of a longitudinal study of health and disease in a Michigan community. When these data are...

The effect of ultrasound treatment on the structural, physical and emulsifying properties of animal and vegetable proteins

Jonathan O’Sullivan, Brian A. Murray, Cal Flynn +1

Food Hydrocolloids

The ultrasonic effect on the physicochemical and emulsifying properties of three animal proteins, bovine gelatin (BG), fish gelatin (FG) and egg white protein (EWP), and three vegetable proteins, pea...

An Infection-Relevant Transcriptomic Compendium for Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

Carsten Kröger, Aoife Colgan, Shabarinath Srikumar +8

Cell Host & Microbe

Composition and functional role of the mucus layers in the intestine

Malin Johansson, Daniel Ambort, Thaher Pelaseyed +12

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

RFID smart tag for traceability and cold chain monitoring of foods: Demonstration in an intercontinental fresh fish logistic chain

E. Abad, F. Palacio, M. Nuin +4

Journal of Food Engineering

Food tourism reviewed

Joan C. Henderson

British Food Journal

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the contribution of food to tourism with particular reference to the importance of food tourism and the factors which are critical to its...

Antibacterial activity of the essential oils of Salvia officinalis L. and Salvia triloba L. cultivated in South Brazil

Ana Paula Longaray Delamare, Ivete T. Moschen-Pistorello, Liane de Oliveira Artico +2

Food Chemistry

Fermentation of Fructooligosaccharides and Inulin by Bifidobacteria: a Comparative Study of Pure and Fecal Cultures

Maddalena Rossi, Claudio Corradini, Alberto Amaretti +4

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The utilization of fructooligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin by 55 Bifidobacterium strains was investigated. Whereas FOS were fermented by most strains, only eight grew when inulin was used as the...

Marked Decrease in Plasma Antioxidants in Aged Osteoporotic Women: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study

D. Maggio, Mauro Barabani, M. Pierandrei +6

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Although recent epidemiological studies found a positive correlation between dietary vitamin C intake and bone mineral density, data on plasma levels of vitamin C or other antioxidants in...

Tartary Buckwheat (<i>Fagopyrum tataricum</i> Gaertn.) as a Source of Dietary Rutin and Quercitrin

Nina Fabjan, Janko Rode, Iztok Jože Košir +3

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Two samples of tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum Gaertn.) from China and one from Luxembourg were studied by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to reveal the possibilities of growing...

Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activity of Foeniculum vulgare and Crithmum maritimum Essential Oils

Giuseppe Ruberto, M. Tiziana Baratta, Stanley G. Deans +1

Planta Medica

The essential oils obtained from Crithmum maritimum L. (marine fennel) and two samples of Foeniculum vulgare Miller (common fennel) were analysed by GC and GC-MS and assayed for their antioxidant and...

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids and depression: when cholesterol does not satisfy

JR Hibbeln, N. Salem

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Nutrition, immunity and COVID-19

Philip C. Calder

BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health

The immune system protects the host from pathogenic organisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites). To deal with this array of threats, the immune system has evolved to include a myriad of...

Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development (BOND)—Zinc Review

Janet C. King, Kenneth H. Brown, Rosalind S. Gibson +4

Journal of Nutrition

Microencapsulation optimization of natural anthocyanins with maltodextrin, gum Arabic and gelatin

Sahar Akhavan Mahdavi, Seid Mahdi Jafari, Elham Assadpoor +1

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Biological and Nutritional Properties of Palm Oil and Palmitic Acid: Effects on Health

Annamaria Mancini, Esther Imperlini, Ersilia Nigro +4

Molecules

A growing body of evidence highlights the close association between nutrition and human health. Fat is an essential macronutrient, and vegetable oils, such as palm oil, are widely used in the food...

Immune System Stimulation by Probiotic Microorganisms

Rabia Ashraf, Nagendra P. Shah

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Probiotic organisms are claimed to offer several functional properties including stimulation of immune system. This review is presented to provide detailed informations about how probiotics stimulate...

Emulsion Design to Improve the Delivery of Functional Lipophilic Components

David Julian McClements

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

The food industry has used emulsion science and technology for many years to create a diverse range of food products, such as milk, cream, soft drinks, nutritional beverages, dressings, mayonnaise,...

Microbial modulation of aromatic esters in wine: Current knowledge and future prospects

Krista M. Sumby, Paul R. Grbin, Vladimir Jiranek

Food Chemistry

Postoperative fondaparinux versus postoperative enoxaparin for prevention of venous thromboembolism after elective hip-replacement surgery: a randomised double-blind trial

Alexander GG Turpie, Kenneth A. Bauer, Bengt I. Eriksson +1

The Lancet

Total Parenteral Nutrition in the Critically Ill Patient

Daren K. Heyland, Shaun MacDonald, Laurie Keefe +1

JAMA

Total parenteral nutrition does not influence the overall mortality rate of surgical or critically ill patients. It may reduce the complication rate, especially in malnourished patients, but study...

Trans-Octadecenoic Acids and Milk Fat Depression in Lactating Dairy Cows

J.M. Griinari, D.A. Dwyer, Mark A. McGuire +3

Journal of Dairy Science

We examined the role of trans-octadecenoic acids in milk fat depression when low fiber diets were fed. The study consisted of four experimental periods with a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of...

Digestion of the polysaccharides of some cereal foods in the human small intestine

HN Englyst, JH Cummings

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Review on Major Food-Borne Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogens

Engidaw Abebe, Getachew Gugsa, Meselu Ahmed

Journal of Tropical Medicine

Food-borne microorganisms are major pathogens affecting food safety and cause human illness worldwide as a result of consumption of foodstuff, mainly animal products contaminated with vegetative...

Guidance on harmonised methodologies for human health, animal health and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals

Simon J. More, Vasileios Bampidis, Diane Benford +27

EFSA Journal

This Guidance document describes harmonised risk assessment methodologies for combined exposure to multiple chemicals for all relevant areas within EFSA's remit, i.e. human health, animal health and...

Interactions between starch and phenolic compound

Fan Zhu

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Chemistry and biochemistry of lipid peroxidation products

Françoise Guéraud, Mustafa Atalay, Nikolaus Bresgen +6

Free Radical Research

Oxidative stress and resulting lipid peroxidation is involved in various and numerous pathological states including inflammation, atherosclerosis, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. This review...

Microparticle‐associated tissue factor activity: a link between cancer and thrombosis?

Margot Tesselaar, Fred P.H.T.M. Romijn, I K van der Linden +3

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Oxidative stress in cell culture: an under‐appreciated problem?

Barry Halliwell

FEBS Letters

Cell culture studies have given much valuable information about mechanisms of metabolism and signal transduction and of regulation of gene expression, proliferation, senescence, and death. However,...

Calcium and Ischemic Injury

Franklin H. Epstein, Joseph Y. Cheung, Joseph V. Bonventre +2

New England Journal of Medicine

ISCHEMIC diseases of the heart, kidney, and brain continue to be the primary causes of mortality and morbidity in the United States and other Western industrialized nations. The magnitude of the...