Research Library

Plants as sources of new antimicrobials and resistance-modifying agents

Ana Cristina Abreu, Andrew J. McBain, Manuel Simões

Natural Product Reports

Infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria are an increasing problem due to the emergence and propagation of microbial drug resistance and the lack of development of new antimicrobials....

Ethnomedicinal studies on the plant resources of east Anatolia, Turkey

Ernaz Altundağ, Münir Öztürk

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

A total of 444 naturally distributed taxa belonging to 62 families are used in the traditional medicine in the East Anatolian region of Turkey. These mainly belong to the families like Asteraceae (93...

Zinc supplementation decreases incidence of infections in the elderly: effect of zinc on generation of cytokines and oxidative stress

Ananda S. Prasad, Frances W.J. Beck, Bin Bao +4

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Rapid determination of short‐chain fatty acids in colonic contents and faeces of humans and rats by acidified water‐extraction and direct‐injection gas chromatography

Guohua Zhao, Margareta Nyman, Jan Åke Jönsson

Biomedical Chromatography

Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) have attracted much attention recently because of their positive physiological effects. In this work, a rapid and reliable gas chromatographic method for determination...

Why food microstructure?

José Miguel Aguilera

Journal of Food Engineering

Preference for natural: instrumental and ideational/moral motivations, and the contrast between foods and medicines

Paul Rozin, Mark Spranca, Zeev Krieger +4

Appetite

Cereal grains and coronary heart disease

A S Truswell

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Nutritional and Physicochemical Characteristics of Dietary Fiber Enriched Pasta

Carmen M. Tudorica, Víctor Kuri, Charles S. Brennan

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The relationship between pasta texture and physicostructural characteristics was determined in relation to potential starch degradation and subsequent glucose release. Pastas with added soluble and...

Cultural expectations of muscularity in men: The evolution of playgirl centerfolds

Richard A. Leit, Harrison G. Pope, James J. Gray

International Journal of Eating Disorders

These observations, in combination with previous studies, suggest that cultural norms of the ideal male body are growing increasingly muscular.

<b>A cloned pathogenicity island from enteropathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> confers the attaching and effacing phenotype on <i>E. coli</i> K‐12</b>

Timothy K. McDaniel, James B. Kaper

Molecular Microbiology

Attaching and effacing (AE) bacteria are a diverse group of gastrointestinal pathogens, comprising members of four genera, that cause the intestinal epithelial microvilli to be replaced with raised...

A SIMPLE METHOD FOR ESTIMATING 24 H URINARY SODIUM AND POTASSIUM EXCRETION FROM SECOND MORNING VOIDING URINE SPECIMEN IN ADULTS

Terukazu Kawasaki, Kazue Itoh, Keiko Uezono +1

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

1. An assessment was made of the extent sodium (Na) and potassium (K) intake can be estimated from Na, K and creatinine (Cr) content of a second morning voiding urine (SMU) specimen collected within...

Chemical identification of a glycosphingolipid receptor for<i>Escherichia coli</i>attaching to human urinary tract epithelial cells and agglutinating human erythrocytes

Hakon Leffler, C. Svanborg Edén

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Complement-Induced Granulocyte Aggregation

Howard L. Bleich, Mary Jean Moore, Harry S. Jacob +3

New England Journal of Medicine

The capacity of blood cells to aggregate, best exemplified by the response of platelets to vascular injury, is generally thought to be beneficial. However, if aggregation occurs inappropriately—that...

DOES BREAST MILK PROTECT AGAINST SEPTICÆMIA IN THE NEWBORN ?

Jan Winberg, G. Wessner

The Lancet

Use of dietary linoleic acid for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and death: evaluation of recovered data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study and updated meta-analysis

Christopher E. Ramsden, Daisy Zamora, B. Leelarthaepin +6

BMJ

Clinical trials NCT01621087.

Malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: burden, causes and prospects

Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Paschal Kum Awah, Ngia Geraldine +4

Pan African Medical Journal

Malnutrition is estimated to contribute to more than one third of all child deaths, although it is rarely listed as the direct cause. Contributing to more than half of deaths in children worldwide;...

Progress in starch modification in the last decade

Bhupinder Kaur, Fazilah Ariffin, Rajeev Bhat +1

Food Hydrocolloids

Structured biopolymer-based delivery systems for encapsulation, protection, and release of lipophilic compounds

Alison Matalanis, Owen G. Jones, David Julian McClements

Food Hydrocolloids

Effect of air-drying temperature on physico-chemical properties, antioxidant capacity, colour and total phenolic content of red pepper (Capsicum annuum, L. var. Hungarian)

Antonio Vega‐Gálvez, Karina Di Scala, Katia Rodríguez +4

Food Chemistry

Hemorrhagic Complications of Anticoagulant Treatment

Mark N. Levine, Gary E. Raskob, Rebecca J. Beyth +2

CHEST Journal

Two antioxidative lactobacilli strains as promising probiotics

Tiiu Kullisaar, Mihkel Zilmer, Marika Mikelsaar +4

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Tas1r3, encoding a new candidate taste receptor, is allelic to the sweet responsiveness locus Sac

Marianna Max, Y. Gopi Shanker, Liquan Huang +6

Nature Genetics

Rapid pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for typing of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and other gram-negative organisms in 1 day

Romesh Gautom

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Genomic DNA patterns generated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis are highly specific for different strains of an organism and have significant value in epidemiologic investigations of...

Nutritional Needs of Low-Birth-Weight Infants

Committee on Nutrition

PEDIATRICS

Optimal nutrition is critical in the management of the ever-increasing number of surviving small premature infants. Although the most appropriate goal of nutrition of the low-birth-weight (LBW)...

Kinetics of product inhibition in alcohol fermentation

Setsuya Aiba, Munehito Shoda, M. Nagatani

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Abstract The inhibitory effect of ethanol concentration p in a medium on the specific rates of growth μ and ethanol production ν of a specific strain of baker's yeast was studied in a chemostat,...

The Chemical Composition of the Cell Wall in some Gram-positive Bacteria and its Possible Value as a Taxonomic Character

C. S. Cummins, H. B. Harris

Journal of General Microbiology

SUMMARY: Hydrolysates of cell-wall preparations of more than 60 strains of corynebacteria, lactobacilli, streptococci, staphylococci and other Gram-positive cocci have been examined by paper...

Postharvest Technology of Horticultural Crops

Priya Awasthi, Subhash C. Singh, Rohit Kumar

This book is an informative introduction to the post-harvest technology of horticultural crops, and their conservation and management. The different post-harvest handling operations including storage...

Bacteriocins, Antimicrobial Peptides from Bacterial Origin: Overview of Their Biology and Their Impact against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

Alexis Simons, Kamel Alhanout, Raphaël E. Duval

Microorganisms

Currently, the emergence and ongoing dissemination of antimicrobial resistance among bacteria are critical health and economic issue, leading to increased rates of morbidity and mortality related to...

Potassium solubilizing bacteria (KSB):: Mechanisms, promotion of plant growth, and future prospects A review

Hassan Etesami, Somayeh Emami, Hossein Ali Alikhani

Journal of soil science and plant nutrition

Potassium (K) is considered as an essential nutrient and a major constituent within all living cells. Naturally, soils contain K in larger amounts than any other nutrients; however most of the K is...

Modifying the physicochemical properties of pea protein by pH-shifting and ultrasound combined treatments

Shanshan Jiang, Junzhou Ding, Juan E. Andrade +4

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

Applications of Response Surface Methodology in the Food Industry Processes

Mahmoud Yolmeh, Seid Mahdi Jafari

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Casein micelles and their internal structure

Cornelis G. de Kruif, Thom Huppertz, Volker S. Urban +1

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

An overview of the last advances in probiotic and prebiotic field

Naïma Saad, Cédric Delattre, María C. Urdaci +2

LWT

Probiotics and prebiotics play an important role in human nutrition. In recent years there has been a significant increase in research on the characterization and verification potential health...

Fatty acids and inflammation: The cutting edge between food and pharma

Philip C. Calder

European Journal of Pharmacology

Breast Milk as the Gold Standard for Protective Nutrients

Allan Walker

The Journal of Pediatrics

Protection against reactive oxygen species by selenoproteins

Holger Steinbrenner, Helmut Sies

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects

Lantibiotics: Mode of Action, Biosynthesis and Bioengineering

Gabriele Bierbaum, Hans‐Georg Sahl

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Lantibiotics are gene-encoded peptides that contain intramolecular ring structures, introduced through the thioether containing lanthionine and methyllanthionine residues. The overwhelming majority...

How did Saccharomyces evolve to become a good brewer?

Jure Piškur, E. Rozpedowska, Silvia Poláková +2

Trends in Genetics

Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of fat crystallization

C. Himawan, Víctor M. Starov, A.G.F. Stapley

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Short Bowel Syndrome and Intestinal Failure: Consensus Definitions and Overview

Stephen J. O’Keefe, Alan L. Buchman, Thomas Fishbein +3

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

The receptors and coding logic for bitter taste

Ken L. Mueller, Mark A. Hoon, Isolde Erlenbach +3

Nature

Selenium and endocrine systems

Geoffrey J. Beckett, John R. Arthur

Journal of Endocrinology

The trace element selenium (Se) is capable of exerting multiple actions on endocrine systems by modifying the expression of at least 30 selenoproteins, many of which have clearly defined functions....

A transição nutricional no Brasil: tendências regionais e temporais

Malaquias Batista Filho, Anete Rissin

Cadernos de Saúde Pública

Based on three cross-sectional studies conducted in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, an analysis of the nutritional transition in Brazil was performed. This analysis found a rapid decrease in the prevalence...

Towards a Better Understanding of the Metabolic System for Amylopectin Biosynthesis in Plants: Rice Endosperm as a Model Tissue

Yasunori Nakamura

Plant and Cell Physiology

Starch is made up of amylose (linear alpha-1,4-polyglucans) and amylopectin (alpha-1,6-branched polyglucans). Amylopectin has a distinct fine structure called multiple cluster structure and is...

Quorum sensing <i>Escherichia coli</i> regulators B and C (QseBC): a novel two‐component regulatory system involved in the regulation of flagella and motility by quorum sensing in <i>E. coli</i>

Vanessa Sperandio, Alfredo G. Torres, James B. Kaper

Molecular Microbiology

Quorum sensing is a cell-to-cell signalling mechanism in which bacteria secrete hormone-like compounds called autoinducers. When these auto-inducers reach a certain threshold concentration, they...

Phenolics and Betacyanins in Red Beetroot (<i>Beta </i><i>v</i><i>ulgaris</i>) Root:  Distribution and Effect of Cold Storage on the Content of Total Phenolics and Three Individual Compounds

Tytti Kujala, Jyrki Loponen, Karel D. Klika +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The distribution of total phenolics and main betacyanins in red beetroot (Beta vulgaris) root was determined. Also, the subsequent effects of cold storage on the content of total phenolics, main...

Dietary Sodium Intake and Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Overweight Adults

Jiang He

JAMA

Our analysis indicates that high sodium intake is strongly and independently associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in overweight persons.

T cell activation-associated hepatic injury: mediation by tumor necrosis factors and protection by interleukin 6.

Hidekazu Mizuhara, Emily O’Neill, Nobuo Seki +7

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

This study investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying the induction of and protection from T cell activation-associated hepatic injury. When BALB/c mice were given a single intravenous...

Determination of dietary fibre as non-starch polysaccharides with gas–liquid chromatographic, high-performance liquid chromatographic or spectrophotometric measurement of constituent sugars

Hans N. Englyst, Michael E. Quigley, Geoffrey J. Hudson

The Analyst

Methods for the measurement of dietary fibre as non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) are described. A common enzymic removal of starch and acid hydrolysis of the NSP to their constituent sugars are...