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Cyclic diguanylate (c‐di‐GMP) regulates <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> biofilm formation

Anna D. Tischler, Andrew Camilli

Molecular Microbiology

While studying virulence gene regulation in Vibrio cholerae during infection of the host small intestine, we identified VieA as a two-component response regulator that contributes to activating...

Spoilage yeasts in the wine industry

V. Loureiro

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Antifungal activity of the components of Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) oil

Katherine A. Hammer, Christine Carson, Thomas V. Riley

Journal of Applied Microbiology

This study has identified that most components of tea tree oil have activity against a range of fungi. However, the measurement of antifungal activity may be significantly influenced by the test...

Parallel evolution of virulence in pathogenic Escherichia coli

Sean D. Reid, Corinne J. Herbelin, Alyssa C. Bumbaugh +2

Nature

A <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> pathogenicity island associated with epidemic and pandemic strains

David K.R. Karaolis, Judith A. Johnson, Camella Bailey +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The bacterial species Vibrio cholerae includes harmless aquatic strains as well as strains capable of causing epidemics and global pandemics of cholera. While investigating the relationship between...

Magnesium: The Fifth but Forgotten Electrolyte

Ronald J. Elin

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Magnesium (Mg) is the second most abundant intracellular cation and is a cofactor in more than 300 enzymatic reactions involving energy metabolism and protein and nucleic acid synthesis. Ionized Mg...

By how much does dietary salt reduction lower blood pressure? III--Analysis of data from trials of salt reduction.

M R Law, Chris Frost, N J Wald

BMJ

The results from the trials support the estimates from the observational data in the accompanying two papers. The effect of universal moderate dietary salt reduction on mortality from stroke and...

Functional properties of food proteins and role of protein-polysaccharide interaction

V. B. Tolstoguzov

Food Hydrocolloids

Phospholipid ester-linked fatty acid profile changes during nutrient deprivation of Vibrio cholerae: increases in the trans/cis ratio and proportions of cyclopropyl fatty acids

James B. Guckert, Mary A. Hood, David C. White

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The phospholipid ester-linked fatty acids of 0-day-, 7-day-, and 30-day-starved cultures of Vibrio cholerae were compared. Statistically significant trends were noted in the fatty acid profiles as...

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 increases synthesis of the vitamin K-dependent bone protein by osteosarcoma cells.

Paul A. Price, S.A. Baukol

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Rat osteosarcoma cells respond to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 with a 6-fold increase in intracellular and secreted levels of the vitamin K-dependent protein of bone (BGP). The rise in intracellular BGP...

Antibacterial plant compounds, extracts and essential oils: An updated review on their effects and putative mechanisms of action

F.J. Álvarez-Martínez, Enrique Barrajón‐Catalán, María Herranz‐López +1

Phytomedicine

In recent years, terpenes, flavones, flavonols and some alkaloids and phenylpropanoids, either isolated or as a part of extracts, have shown promising antimicrobial activity, being membrane...

Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Antiviral Properties of Herbal Materials

Shokoh Parham, Anousheh Zargar Kharazi, Hamid Reza Bakhsheshi‐Rad +5

Antioxidants

Recently, increasing public concern about hygiene has been driving many studies to investigate antimicrobial and antiviral agents. However, the use of any antimicrobial agents must be limited due to...

Flagella and bacterial pathogenicity

Qiangde Duan, Mingxu Zhou, Liqian Zhu +1

Journal of Basic Microbiology

As locomotive organelles, flagella allow bacteria to move toward favorable environments. A flagellum consists of three parts: the basal structure (rotary motor), the hook (universal joint), and the...

Casein-based formulations as promising controlled release drug delivery systems

Ahmed O. Elzoghby, Wael S. Abo El-Fotoh, Nazik A. Elgindy

Journal of Controlled Release

Catheter-directed Therapy for the Treatment of Massive Pulmonary Embolism: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Modern Techniques

William T. Kuo, Michael K. Gould, John D. Louie +3

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Shiga toxins — from cell biology to biomedical applications

Ludger Johannes, Winfried Römer

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Quantitative risk assessment of human campylobacteriosis associated with thermophilic Campylobacter species in chickens

Hanne Rosenquist, Niels Ladefoged Nielsen, Helle Mølgaard Sommer +2

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Cholera Dynamics and El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Mercedes Pascual, Xavier Rodó, Stephen P. Ellner +2

Science

Analysis of a monthly 18-year cholera time series from Bangladesh shows that the temporal variability of cholera exhibits an interannual component at the dominant frequency of El Niño-Southern...

Banting Lecture 1997. Control of glucose uptake and release by the liver in vivo.

Alan D. Cherrington

Diabetes

Two human glutamate decarboxylases, 65-kDa GAD and 67-kDa GAD, are each encoded by a single gene.

Ding-fang Bu, Mark G. Erlander, B. C. Hitz +5

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

We report the isolation and sequencing of cDNAs encoding two human glutamate decarboxylases (GADs; L-glutamate 1-carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.15), GAD65 and GAD67. Human GAD65 cDNA encodes a Mr 65,000...

Phylogeny of the Vibrionaceae, and Recommendation for Two New Genera, Listonella and Shewanella

M. T. MacDonell, Rita R. Colwell

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Bactericidal activity of human lactoferrin: sensitivity of a variety of microorganisms

Roland R. Arnold, Michael J. Brewer, Joseph Gauthier

Infection and Immunity

Lactoferrin is an iron-binding protein that has been detected in secretions that bathe human mucosal tissues. Previous studies have shown that, when this protein is in the iron-free state, it is...

Contributions to Factor Analysis of Dichotomous Variables

Bengt Muthén

Psychometrika

A new method is proposed for the factor analysis of dichotomous variables. Similar to the method of Christoffersson this uses information from the first and second order proportions to fit a multiple...

Global Nutrition Report 2016 From Promise to Impact Ending Malnutrition by 2030

International Food Policy Research Institute, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3370-6061 Haddad, Lawrence; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5988-2894 Menon, Purnima

Few challenges facing the global community today match the scale of malnutrition, a condition that directly affects 1 in 3 people. Malnutrition manifests itself in many different ways: as poor child...

Animal contact as a source of human non-typhoidal salmonellosis

Karin Hoelzer, Andrea I. Moreno‐Switt, Martin Wiedmann

Veterinary Research

Non-typhoidal Salmonella represents an important human and animal pathogen world-wide. Most human salmonellosis cases are foodborne, but each year infections are also acquired through direct or...

Risk Assessment of Recurrence in Patients With Unprovoked Deep Vein Thrombosis or Pulmonary Embolism

Sabine Eichinger, Georg Heinze, Lisanne M. Jandeck +1

Circulation

By use of a simple scoring system, the assessment of the recurrence risk in patients with a first unprovoked VTE and without strong thrombophilic defects can be improved.

Irradiation for better foods

J. Farkas

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Right Ventricular Dysfunction and Pulmonary Obstruction Index at Helical CT: Prediction of Clinical Outcome during 3-month Follow-up in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism

R.W. van der Meer, Peter M. T. Pattynama, Marco J. L. van Strijen +5

Radiology

Markers of RVD and pulmonary vascular obstruction, assessed with helical CT at baseline, help predict mortality during follow-up.

Quantitative PCR with 16S rRNA-Gene-Targeted Species-Specific Primers for Analysis of Human Intestinal Bifidobacteria

Takahiro Matsuki, Koichi Watanabe, Junji Fujimoto +4

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

A highly sensitive quantitative PCR detection method has been developed and applied to the distribution analysis of human intestinal bifidobacteria by combining real-time PCR with Bifidobacterium...

Independent Prognostic Value of Cardiac Troponin T in Patients With Confirmed Pulmonary Embolism

Evangelos Giannitsis, Margit Müller-Bardorff, Volkhard Kurowski +4

Circulation

cTnT may improve risk stratification in patients with PE and may aid in the identification of patients in whom a more aggressive therapy may be warranted.

A new method for determining the minimum inhibitory concentration of essential oils

C.M. Mann, J.L. Markham

Journal of Applied Microbiology

A new microdilution method has been developed for determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of oil-based compounds. The redox dye resazurin was used to determine the MIC of a sample of...

Visual Acuity and the Essentiality of Docosahexaenoic Acid and Arachidonic Acid in the Diet of Term Infants

Eileen E. Birch, Dennis R. Hoffman, Ricardo Uauy +2

Pediatric Research

Taxonomy and physiology of probiotic lactic acid bacteria

Günter Klein, Alexander Pack, C. Bonaparte +1

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Amino Terminal Cu(II)- and Ni(II)-Binding (ATCUN) Motif of Proteins and Peptides:  Metal Binding, DNA Cleavage, and Other Properties

Catherine Harford, Bibudhendra Sarkar

Accounts of Chemical Research

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTAmino Terminal Cu(II)- and Ni(II)-Binding (ATCUN) Motif of Proteins and Peptides: Metal Binding, DNA Cleavage, and Other Properties†Catherine Harford and...

Antibacterial activity of lactoferrin and a pepsin-derived lactoferrin peptide fragment

Koji Yamauchi, Mamoru TOMITA, T J Giehl +1

Infection and Immunity

Although the antimicrobial activity of lactoferrin has been well described, its mechanism of action has been poorly characterized. Recent work has indicated that in addition to binding iron, human...

Mechanism of bactericidal action of aminoglycosides

Bernard D. Davis

Microbiological Reviews

Effects of Growth Factors on Intracellular pH Regulation

Wouter H. Moolenaar

Annual Review of Physiology

Macrophage polarization refers to how macrophages have been activated at a given point in space and time. Polarization is not fixed, as macrophages are sufficiently plastic to integrate multiple...

The Application and Misapplication of Factor Analysis in Marketing Research

David W. Stewart

Journal of Marketing Research

The use of factor analysis as a method for examining the dimensional structure of data is contrasted with its frequent misapplication as a tool for identifying clusters and segments. Procedures for...

Critical Review of Exposure and Effects: Implications for Setting Regulatory Health Criteria for Ingested Copper

Alicia A. Taylor, Joyce S. Tsuji, Michael R. Garry +4

Environmental Management

Decades of study indicate that copper oral exposures are typically not a human health concern. Ingesting high levels of soluble copper salts can cause acute gastrointestinal symptoms and, in uncommon...

Shiga Toxin (Stx) Classification, Structure, and Function

Angela R. Melton‐Celsa

Microbiology Spectrum

Shiga toxin (Stx) is one of the most potent bacterial toxins known. Stx is found in Shigella dysenteriae 1 and in some serogroups of Escherichia coli (called Stx1 in E. coli). In addition to or...

Consumption of raw or heated milk from different species: An evaluation of the nutritional and potential health benefits

W. Claeys, Claire Verraes, S. Cardoen +5

Food Control

The probiotic paradox: live and dead cells are biological response modifiers

Clifford A. Adams

Nutrition Research Reviews

Probiotics are usually defined as products which contain viable non-pathogenic micro-organisms able to confer health benefits to the host. There are specific gastrointestinal effects of probiotics...

Probiotics and immunity

Andrea T. Borchers, Carlo Selmi, Frederick J. Meyers +2

Journal of Gastroenterology

Predictive variables for major bleeding events in patients presenting with documented acute venous thromboembolism. Findings from the RIETE Registry

N. Ruiz‐Giménez, Carmen Suárez, R. González +5

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

A score that can accurately determine the risk of major bleeding during anticoagulant therapy may help to make decisions on anticoagulant use. RIETE is an ongoing registry of consecutive patients...

Pathogen survival during livestock manure storage and following land application

F. A. Nicholson, S. J. Groves, B. J. Chambers

Bioresource Technology

The economics of iron deficiency

Susan Horton, Jay Ross

Food Policy

Proteins and emulsifiers at liquid interfaces

Peter J. Wilde, Alan R. Mackie, Fiona A. Husband +2

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Fish Consumption, Fish Oil, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and Cardiovascular Disease

Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, William S. Harris, Lawrence J. Appel

Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology

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Screening of some Palestinian medicinal plants for antibacterial activity

Tamer Essawi, M Srour

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Interaction between free fatty acids and insulin in the acute control of very low density lipoprotein production in humans.

Gary F. Lewis, Kristine D. Uffelman, Linda Szeto +2

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Changes in VLDL triglyceride and VLDL apo B production were determined semiquantitatively in healthy young men by examining the effect of altering plasma insulin and/or FFA levels on the change in...