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Human milk oligosaccharides: Every baby needs a sugar mama

Lars Bode

Glycobiology

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are a family of structurally diverse unconjugated glycans that are highly abundant in and unique to human milk. Originally, HMOs were discovered as a prebiotic...

Rheological methods in food process engineering

M.A. Rao

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease

Dariush Mozaffarian, Jason Wu

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Severe early-onset obesity, adrenal insufficiency and red hair pigmentation caused by POMC mutations in humans

Heiko Krude, Heike Biebermann, W. A. P. Luck +3

Nature Genetics

Vitamin E and the Risk of Prostate Cancer

Eric A. Klein, Ian M. Thompson, Catherine M. Tangen +18

JAMA

Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00006392.

A novel automated method to measure total antioxidant response against potent free radical reactions

Özcan Erel

Clinical Biochemistry

Siderophore-Based Iron Acquisition and Pathogen Control

Marcus Miethke, Mohamed A. Marahiel

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

High-affinity iron acquisition is mediated by siderophore-dependent pathways in the majority of pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria and fungi. Considerable progress has been made in characterizing...

A Clinical Trial of Vena Caval Filters in the Prevention of Pulmonary Embolism in Patients with Proximal Deep-Vein Thrombosis

Hervé Decousus, Alain Leizorovicz, Florence Parent +9

New England Journal of Medicine

In high-risk patients with proximal deep-vein thrombosis, the initial beneficial effect of vena caval filters for the prevention of pulmonary embolism was counterbalanced by an excess of recurrent...

Role of the T cell in the genesis of angiotensin II–induced hypertension and vascular dysfunction

Tomasz J. Guzik, Nyssa E. Hoch, Kathryn Brown +6

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Hypertension promotes atherosclerosis and is a major source of morbidity and mortality. We show that mice lacking T and B cells (RAG-1-/- mice) have blunted hypertension and do not develop...

Legionnaires' Disease

David W. Fraser, Theodore R. Tsai, Walter A. Orenstein +10

New England Journal of Medicine

An explosive, common-source outbreak of pneumonia caused by a previously unrecognized bacterium affected primarily persons attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in July, 1976....

Essential fatty acids in health and chronic disease

Artemis P. Simopoulos

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Starch—composition, fine structure and architecture

Richard F. Tester, John Karkalas, Xin Qi

Journal of Cereal Science

Oxidative Stress, Prooxidants, and Antioxidants: The Interplay

Anu Rahal, Amit Kumar, Vivek Singh +4

BioMed Research International

Oxidative stress is a normal phenomenon in the body. Under normal conditions, the physiologically important intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are maintained at low levels by...

Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lorna Fewtrell, Rachel Kaufmann, David Kay +3

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Food Polysaccharides and Their Applications

James N. BeMiller

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Microelectrophoretic study of radiation-induced DNA damages in individual mammalian cells

O. Östling, Karl J. Johanson

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Regulation of Inflammation by Short Chain Fatty Acids

Marco Aurélio Ramirez Vinolo, Hosana Gomes Rodrigues, Renato Tadeu Nachbar +1

Nutrients

The short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) acetate (C(2)), propionate (C(3)) and butyrate (C(4)) are the main metabolic products of anaerobic bacteria fermentation in the intestine. In addition to their...

A Population-Based Perspective of the Hospital Incidence and Case-Fatality Rates of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism

Frederick A. Anderson

Archives of Internal Medicine

A community-wide study was conducted in 16 short-stay hospitals in metropolitan Worcester, Mass, to examine the incidence and case-fatality rates of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in...

Nanoemulsions versus microemulsions: terminology, differences, and similarities

David Julian McClements

Soft Matter

Colloidal delivery systems based on microemulsions or nanoemulsions are increasingly being utilized in the food and pharmaceutical industries to encapsulate, protect, and deliver lipophilic bioactive...

THE TAXONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF FERMENTATIVE VERSUS OXIDATIVE METABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATES BY VARIOUS GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA

Rudolph Hugh, Einar Leifson

Journal of Bacteriology

A Detergent‐trypsin method for the preparation of nuclei for flow cytometric DNA analysis

Lars L. Vindeløv, Ib Jarle Christensen, Nis I. Nissen

Cytometry

A new modification of our detergent technique for the preparation of nuclei for flow cytometric DNA analysis is described. The attainment of low coefficients of variation of the peaks and of...

Modern multidimensional scaling : theory and applications

Ingwer Borg, Patrick J. F. Groenen

Bifidobacteria and Butyrate-Producing Colon Bacteria: Importance and Strategies for Their Stimulation in the Human Gut

Audrey Rivière, Marija Selak, David Lantin +2

Frontiers in Microbiology

With the increasing amount of evidence linking certain disorders of the human body to a disturbed gut microbiota, there is a growing interest for compounds that positively influence its composition...

Determination of Starch and Amylose in Vegetables

R. M. McCready, Jack Guggolz, Vernon. Silviera +1

Analytical Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTDetermination of Starch and Amylose in VegetablesR. M. McCready, Jack. Guggolz, Vernon. Silviera, and H. S. OwensCite this: Anal. Chem. 1950, 22, 9,...

Mammalian Sweet Taste Receptors

Greg Nelson, Mark A. Hoon, Jayaram Chandrashekar +3

Cell

Magnesium in Man: Implications for Health and Disease

Jeroen H. F. de Baaij, Joost G.J. Hoenderop, René J.M. Bindels

Physiological Reviews

Magnesium (Mg(2+)) is an essential ion to the human body, playing an instrumental role in supporting and sustaining health and life. As the second most abundant intracellular cation after potassium,...

Acrylamide from Maillard reaction products

Richard H. Stadler, Imre Blank, Natalia Varga +5

Nature

Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Léopold Simar

Food Polysaccharides and Their Applications

Alistair M. Stephen, Glyn O. Phillips

Comprehensive in scope, Food Polysaccharides and Their Applications, Second Edition explains the production aspects and the chemical and physical properties of the main classes of polysaccharaides...

Risk Factors for Venous Thromboembolism

Frederick A. Anderson, Frederick A. Spencer

Circulation

Until the 1990s, venous thromboembolism (VTE) was viewed primarily as a complication of hospitalization for major surgery (or associated with the late stage of terminal illness). However, recent...

Early versus Late Parenteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Adults

Michaël P. Casaer, Dieter Mesotten, Greet Hermans +15

New England Journal of Medicine

Late initiation of parenteral nutrition was associated with faster recovery and fewer complications, as compared with early initiation. (Funded by the Methusalem program of the Flemish government and...

Thromboembolism is a leading cause of death in cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy

Alok A. Khorana, C. W. Francis, Eva Culakova +2

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Dietary fibre and fibre-rich by-products of food processing: Characterisation, technological functionality and commercial applications: A review

Mohamed Elleuch, Dorothea Bedigian, Olivier Roiseux +3

Food Chemistry

Power and sensitivity of alternative fit indices in tests of measurement invariance.

Adam W. Meade, Emily Johnson, Phillip W. Braddy

Journal of Applied Psychology

Confirmatory factor analytic tests of measurement invariance (MI) based on the chi-square statistic are known to be highly sensitive to sample size. For this reason, G. W. Cheung and R. B. Rensvold...

The Cloning of a Family of Genes That Encode the Melanocortin Receptors

Kathleen G. Mountjoy, Linda S. Robbins, Marty Mortrud +1

Science

Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) regulate pigmentation and adrenal cortical function, respectively. These peptides also have a variety of biological...

Studies on the spectrophotometric determination of DNA hybridization from renaturation rates

Volker A. R. Huss, Herbert Festl, Karl Heinz Schleifer

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Characterization of the Action of Selected Essential Oil Components on Gram-Negative Bacteria

Ilkka M. Helander, Hanna‐Leena Alakomi, Kyösti Latva‐Kala +5

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Carvacrol, (+)-carvone, thymol, and trans-cinnamaldehyde were tested for their inhibitory activity against Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella typhimurium. In addition, their toxicity to...

Multidetector Computed Tomography for Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Paul D. Stein, Sarah Fowler, Lawrence R. Goodman +12

New England Journal of Medicine

In patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, multidetector CTA-CTV has a higher diagnostic sensitivity than does CTA alone, with similar specificity. The predictive value of either CTA or CTA-CTV...

Derivation of a Simple Clinical Model to Categorize Patients Probability of Pulmonary Embolism: Increasing the Models Utility with the SimpliRED D-dimer

David Anderson, Marc Rodger, Jeffrey Ginsberg +10

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

We have previously demonstrated that a clinical model can be safely used in a management strategy in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE). We sought to simplify the clinical model and...

Fundamentals of analytical chemistry

Sílvio Vaz

Elsevier eBooks

Antibacterial activity of plant extracts and phytochemicals on antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Gislene G. F. Nascimento, Juliana Locatelli, Paulo Chanel Deodato de Freitas +1

Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

The antimicrobial activity of plant extracts and phytochemicals was evaluated with antibiotic susceptible and resistant microorganisms. In addition, the possible synergistic effects when associated...

Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition

Elsevier eBooks

Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy

James D. Douketis, Alex C. Spyropoulos, Frederick A. Spencer +5

CHEST Journal

Resolvins

Charles N. Serhan, Song Hong, Karsten Gronert +4

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Aspirin (ASA) is unique among current therapies because it acetylates cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 enabling the biosynthesis of R-containing precursors of endogenous antiinflammatory mediators. Here, we...

Resistant Starch–A Review

M.G. Sajilata, Rekha S. Singhal, Pushpa R. Kulkarni

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

The concept of resistant starch (RS) has evoked new interest in the bioavailability of starch and in its use as a source of dietary fiber, particularly in adults. RS is now considered to provide...

Undetectable Intracellular Free Copper: The Requirement of a Copper Chaperone for Superoxide Dismutase

Tracey Rae, Paul J. Schmidt, Robert A. Pufahl +2

Science

The copper chaperone for the superoxide dismutase (CCS) gene is necessary for expression of an active, copper-bound form of superoxide dismutase (SOD1) in vivo in spite of the high affinity of SOD1...

Marine omega-3 fatty acids and inflammatory processes: Effects, mechanisms and clinical relevance

Philip C. Calder

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids