Research Library

A Critical Evaluation of the Nitrogen Assimilation Tests Commonly Used in the Classification of Yeasts

Lynferd J. Wickerham

Journal of Bacteriology

Water pollution in Bangladesh and its impact on public health

Md. Khalid Hasan, Abrar Shahriar, Kudrat Ullah Jim

Heliyon

Bangladesh - one of the most densely populated countries of the world- has plentiful water sources, but these sources are being polluted continuously. Both surface water and groundwater sources are...

Expanding the biotechnology potential of lactobacilli through comparative genomics of 213 strains and associated genera

Zhihong Sun, Hugh M. B. Harris, A. McCann +27

Nature Communications

Lactobacilli are a diverse group of species that occupy diverse nutrient-rich niches associated with humans, animals, plants and food. They are used widely in biotechnology and food preservation, and...

Effectiveness and safety of novel oral anticoagulants as compared with vitamin K antagonists in the treatment of acute symptomatic venous thromboembolism: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Tom van der Hulle, Judith Kooiman, Paul L. den Exter +3

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Proteins, polysaccharides, and their complexes used as stabilizers for emulsions: Alternatives to synthetic surfactants in the pharmaceutical field?

Eléonore Bouyer, Ghozlène Mekhloufi, Véronique Rosilio +2

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Second messenger role for Mg2+ revealed by human T-cell immunodeficiency

Feng-Yen Li, Benjamin Chaigne-Delalande, Chrysi Kanellopoulou +7

Nature

Updated Meta-analysis of Probiotics for Preventing Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Neonates

Girish Deshpande, Shripada Rao, Sanjay Patole +1

PEDIATRICS

The results confirm the significant benefits of probiotic supplements in reducing death and disease in preterm neonates. The dramatic effect sizes, tight confidence intervals, extremely low P values,...

Cronobacter gen. nov., a new genus to accommodate the biogroups of Enterobacter sakazakii, and proposal of Cronobacter sakazakii gen. nov., comb. nov., Cronobacter malonaticus sp. nov., Cronobacter turicensis sp. nov., Cronobacter muytjensii sp. nov., Cronobacter dublinensis sp. nov., Cronobacter genomospecies 1, and of three subspecies, Cronobacter dublinensis subsp. dublinensis subsp. nov., Cronobacter dublinensis subsp. lausannensis subsp. nov. and Cronobacter dublinensis subsp. lactaridi subsp. nov.

Carol Iversen, Niamh Mullane, B. A. McCardell +5

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

[Enterobacter] sakazakii is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause infections in neonates. This study further clarifies the taxonomy of isolates described as [E.] sakazakii and completes the formal...

Trends in non-dairy probiotic beverages

Flávera Camargo Prado, José Parada, Ashok Pandey +1

Food Research International

The Probiotic Bacterium <i>Lactobacillus casei</i> Induces Activation of the Gut Mucosal Immune System through Innate Immunity

Carolina Maldonado Galdeano, Gabriela Perdigón

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

The mechanisms by which probiotic bacteria affect the immune system are unknown yet, but many of them are attributed to an increase in the innate or in the acquired immune response. To study the...

Development of insulin resistance and obesity in mice overexpressing cellular glutathione peroxidase

James P. McClung, Carol A. Roneker, Weipeng Mu +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Insulin resistance, a hallmark of type 2 diabetes, is associated with oxidative stress. However, the role of reactive oxygen species or specific antioxidant enzymes in its development has not been...

Dietary Fats and the Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease

Martha Clare Morris, Denis A. Evans, Julia L. Bienias +5

Archives of Neurology

High intake of unsaturated, unhydrogenated fats may be protective against Alzheimer disease, whereas intake of saturated or trans-unsaturated (hydrogenated) fats may increase risk.

Antioxidant and antimutagenic activities of pomegranate peel extracts

Pradeep Singh Negi, G.K. Jayaprakasha, B.S. Jena

Food Chemistry

Probiotics: determinants of survival and growth in the gut

Anatoly Bezkorovainy

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Recent Progress toward Understanding Biosynthesis of the Amylopectin Crystal

Alan M. Myers, Matthew K. Morell, Martha G. James +1

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Plant starch granules provide the largest percentage of calories in the human diet. Starch consists almost entirely of the Glc homopolymers amylopectin and amylose. Amylopectin is the major...

On the In-vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Oleuropein and Hydroxytyrosol

Giuseppe Bisignano, Antonio Tomaino, Rossella Lo Cascio +3

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Secoiridoides (oleuropein and derivatives), one of the major classes of polyphenol contained in olives and olive oil, have recently been shown to inhibit or delay the rate of growth of a range of...

Physicochemical characterization of lipid nanoparticles and evaluation of their drug loading capacity and sustained release potential

Kirsten Westesen, Heike Bunjes, Manuel Koch

Journal of Controlled Release

Female-Headed Households and Female-Maintained Families: Are They Worth Targeting to Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries?

Mayra Buvinić, Geeta Rao Gupta

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Evidence of the crucial role of sucrose synthase for sink strength using transgenic potato plants (<i>Solanum tuberosum</i> L.)

Rita Zrenner, Marcel Salanoubat, Lothar Willmitzer +1

The Plant Journal

Sink strength of growing potato tubers is believed to be limited by sucrose metabolism and/or starch synthesis. Sucrose synthase (Susy) is most likely responsible for the entire sucrose cleavage in...

Radial diffusion method for determining tannin in plant extracts

Ann Hagerman

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Arginine: Biochemistry, Physiology, and Therapeutic Implications

Adrian Barbul

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Selenium. Geobotany, Biochemistry, Toxicity, and Nutrition

I. Rosenfeld, O. A. Beath, Oliver +27

Food and Cosmetics Toxicology

The action of thyroid hormones at the cell level

JR Tata, Lars Ernster, Olle R. Lindberg +3

Biochemical Journal

A number of conflicting mechanisms have been proposed in recent years to explain one or more of the multiple biological actions of thyroid hormones, such as the stimulation of growth, acceleration of...

Role of Copper on Mitochondrial Function and Metabolism

Lina Ruíz, Allan Libedinsky, Álvaro A. Elorza

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Copper is essential for life processes like energy metabolism, reactive oxygen species detoxification, iron uptake, and signaling in eukaryotic organisms. Mitochondria gather copper for the assembly...

Lactic acid bacteria as starter cultures: An update in their metabolism and genetics

Τhomas Bintsis

AIMS Microbiology

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are members of an heterogenous group of bacteria which plays a significant role in a variety of fermentation processes. The general description of the bacteria included in...

Recent Advances in the Utilization of Natural Emulsifiers to Form and Stabilize Emulsions

David Julian McClements, Long Bai, Cheryl Chung

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Consumer concern about human and environmental health is encouraging food manufacturers to use more natural and sustainable food ingredients. In particular, there is interest in replacing synthetic...

The self-assembly, aggregation and phase transitions of food protein systems in one, two and three dimensions

Raffaele Mezzenga, Peter Fischer

Reports on Progress in Physics

The aggregation of proteins is of fundamental relevance in a number of daily phenomena, as important and diverse as blood coagulation, medical diseases, or cooking an egg in the kitchen. Colloidal...

Ranking the Disease Burden of 14 Pathogens in Food Sources in the United States Using Attribution Data from Outbreak Investigations and Expert Elicitation

Michael Batz, Sandra Hoffmann, J. Glenn Morris

Journal of Food Protection

Bread, beer and wine: <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> diversity reflects human history

Jean‐Luc Legras, Didier Merdinoglu, Jean‐Marie Cornuet +1

Molecular Ecology

Fermented beverages and foods have played a significant role in most societies worldwide for millennia. To better understand how the yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the main fermenting agent,...

Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Dietary Role of Potato Polyphenols. A Review

Mendel Friedman

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Potatoes and other plant foods accumulate a variety of secondary metabolites, including phenolic compounds, phytoalexins, protease inhibitors, and glycoalkaloids, as a protection against adverse...

Six-month outcome of critically ill patients given glutamine-supplemented parenteral nutrition

Richard Griffiths, Christina Jones, T. E. A. Palmer

Nutrition

Comparison of Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin With Unfractionated Heparin Acutely and With Placebo for 6 Weeks in the Management of Unstable Coronary Artery Disease

Werner Klein, Arnd B. Buchwald, Stuart E. Hillis +7

Circulation

Our results add to previous evidence suggesting that the low-molecular-weight heparin dalteparin administered by twice-daily subcutaneous injection may be an alternative to unfractionated heparin in...

Collaborative overview of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy - III: Reduction in venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism by antiplatelet prophylaxis among surgical and medical patients

BMJ

Abstract Objective : To determine the efficacy of antiplatelet therapy as prophylaxis against deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism in surgical and high risk medical patients. Design :...

Intramyocardial platelet aggregation in patients with unstable angina suffering sudden ischemic cardiac death.

Michael J. Davies, Anthony Thomas, Paola Knapman +1

Circulation

A specific search for intramyocardial platelet aggregates was made in 90 patients who died suddenly of ischemic heart disease. Platelet aggregates in small intramyocardial vessels were found in 27...

Factors Defined by Negatively Keyed Items: The Result of Careless Respondents?

Neal Schmitt, Daniel M. Stuits

Applied Psychological Measurement

A frequently occurring phenomenon in factor and cluster analysis of personality or attitude scale items is that all or nearly all questionnaire items that are nega tively keyed will define a single...

Hypocholesterolemic effects of oat-bran or bean intake for hypercholesterolemic men

JW Anderson, Linda Story, Beverly Sieling +3

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Actions of cholera toxin and the prevention and treatment of cholera

Jan Holmgren

Nature

Prebiotic inulin-type fructans induce specific changes in the human gut microbiota

Doris Vandeputte, Gwen Falony, Sara Vieira‐Silva +5

Gut

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Associations of Suboptimal Growth with All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Children under Five Years: A Pooled Analysis of Ten Prospective Studies

Ibironke Olofin, Christine M. McDonald, Majid Ezzati +6

PLoS ONE

All degrees of anthropometric deficits are associated with increased risk of under-five mortality using the 2006 WHO Standards. Even mild deficits substantially increase mortality, especially from...

Dietary α-Linolenic Acid Reduces Inflammatory and Lipid Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Hypercholesterolemic Men and Women

Guixiang Zhao, Terry D. Etherton, Keith R. Martin +3

Journal of Nutrition

Human Campylobacteriosis in Developing Countries1

Akitoye O. Coker, Raphael D. Isokpehi, Bolaji N. Thomas +2

Emerging infectious diseases

Campylobacteriosis is a collective description for infectious diseases caused by members of the bacterial genus Campylobacter. The only form of campylobacteriosis of major public health importance is...

Bioactivity of selected plant essential oils against listeria monocytogenes

M. Lis‐Balchin, Stanley G. Deans

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Ninety-three different commercial essential oils were screened for activity against 20 Listeria monocytogenes strains in vitro and the results correlated against the actual chemical composition of...

Predicting a changing taste: Do people know what they will like?

Daniel Kahneman, Jackie Snell

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Abstract A distinction is made between decision utility, experienced utility, and predicted utility and an experiment is reported addressing people's ability to forecast experienced utility. Subjects...

Foodborne Disease Outbreaks in the United States, 1973–1987: Pathogens, Vehicles, and Trends

Nancy H. Bean, Patricia M. Griffin

Journal of Food Protection

DT-diaphorase as a quinone reductase: A cellular control device against semiquinone and superoxide radical formation

Christina Lind, Paul Hochstein, Lars Ernster

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Guar gum and its composites as potential materials for diverse applications: A review

Gaurav Sharma, Shweta Sharma, Amit Kumar +5

Carbohydrate Polymers

Insoluble-Bound Phenolics in Food

Fereidoon Shahidi, JuDong Yeo

Molecules

This contribution provides a review of the topic of insoluble-bound phenolics, especially their localization, synthesis, transfer and formation in plant cells, as well as their metabolism in the...