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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Michael S. Donnenberg, James B. Kaper

Infection and Immunity

Abstract Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains are a leading cause of diarrhea among infants in developing countries. These bacteria spread via fecal–oral transmission and colonize the...

Observations On The Pathogenic Properties Of The K88, Hly And Ent Plasmids Of Escherichia Coli With Particular Reference To Porcine Diarrhoea

H. Williams Smith, M. A. Linggood

Journal of Medical Microbiology

SUMMARY Strains of Escherichia coli containing different combinations of the transmissible plasmids governing production of α-haemolysin (Hly), enterotoxin (Ent) and K88 antigen (K88) were prepared...

Lactobacillus spp. for Gastrointestinal Health: Current and Future Perspectives

Elaine Dempsey, Sinéad C. Corr

Frontiers in Immunology

In recent decades, probiotic bacteria have become increasingly popular as a result of mounting scientific evidence to indicate their beneficial role in modulating human health. Although there is...

The Effect of India's Total Sanitation Campaign on Defecation Behaviors and Child Health in Rural Madhya Pradesh: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Sumeet Patil, Benjamin F. Arnold, Alicia L. Salvatore +4

PLoS Medicine

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01465204. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

The global burden of cholera

Mohammad Ali, Anna Lena Lopez, Young Ae You +4

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

The global burden of cholera, as determined through a systematic review with clearly stated assumptions, is high. The findings of this study provide a contemporary basis for planning public health...

Structure and Properties of Wine Pigments and Tannins

Véronique Cheynier, Montserrat Dueñas, Erika Salas +4

American Journal of Enology and Viticulture

Grape phenolics are structurally diverse, from simple molecules to oligomers and polymers that are usually designated “tannins,” referring to their ability to interact with proteins. Anthocyanin...

Dietary Fat Intake and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women: 20 Years of Follow-up of the Nurses' Health Study

Kyungwon Oh

American Journal of Epidemiology

The authors examined the associations of dietary fat and specific types of fat with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) among 78,778 US women initially free of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in...

Cactus stems (Opuntia spp.): A review on their chemistry, technology, and uses

Florian C. Stintzing, Reinhold Carle

Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Although traditionally used as a valuable health supporting nutrient, the vegetative parts of Opuntia spp. plants are scarcely used in modern nutrition and medicine. While all kinds of different...

Different functional roles of T1R subunits in the heteromeric taste receptors

Hong Xu, Lena Staszewski, Huixian Tang +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The T1R receptors, a family of taste-specific class C G protein-coupled receptors, mediate mammalian sweet and umami tastes. The structure-function relationships of T1R receptors remain largely...

n−3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids and inflammation: From molecular biology to the clinic

Philip C. Calder

Lipids

The immune system is involved in host defense against infectious agents, tumor cells, and environmental insults. Inflammation is an important component of the early immunologic response....

Function, Structure, and Mechanism of Intracellular Copper Trafficking Proteins

David L. Huffman, Thomas V. O’Halloran

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Genetic, biochemical, and spectroscopic studies have established a new function for an intracellular protein, i.e., guiding and inserting a copper cofactor into the active site of a target enzyme....

[29] Osmotic stress for the direct measurement of intermolecular forces

V. Adrian Parsegian, R.P. Rand, N. L. Fuller +1

Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

Probiotics: mechanism of action, health benefits and their application in food industries

Anam Latif, Aamir Shehzad, Sobia Niazi +11

Frontiers in Microbiology

Probiotics, like lactic acid bacteria, are non-pathogenic microbes that exert health benefits to the host when administered in adequate quantity. Currently, research is being conducted on the...

Selenium and sulfur influence ethylene formation and alleviate cadmium-induced oxidative stress by improving proline and glutathione production in wheat

M. Iqbal R. Khan, Faroza Nazir, Mohd Asgher +2

Journal of Plant Physiology

Halophyte agriculture: Success stories

Suresh Panta, T. J. Flowers, Peter A. Lane +3

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Serum vitamin C and the prevalence of vitamin C deficiency in the United States: 2003–2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

Rosemary L. Schleicher, Margaret D. Carroll, Earl S. Ford +1

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Advances in the manufacture, purification and applications of xylo-oligosaccharides as food additives and nutraceuticals

Andrés Moure, Patricia Gullón, Herminia Domı́nguez +1

Process Biochemistry

Clinical criteria to prevent unnecessary diagnostic testing in emergency department patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

Jeffrey A. Kline, Alice M. Mitchell, Christopher Kabrhel +2

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Interactions between flavor compounds and food ingredients and their influence on flavor perception

E. Guichard

Food Reviews International

Interactions between flavor compounds and food ingredients are reviewed and their influence on flavor perception is discussed. Proteins are known to bind flavor compounds. For β-lactoglobulin, the...

Rheological properties of selected hydrocolloids as a function of concentration and temperature

Michèle Marcotte, Ali R. Taherian Hoshahili, Hosahalli S. Ramaswamy

Food Research International

Enterobacter sakazakii Infections among Neonates, Infants, Children, and Adults

Kwan Kew Lai

Medicine

Enterobacter sakazakii can cause serious infections especially among the very young and the elderly. It continues to be more common among neonates and infants than adults. Its tropism for the central...

Uses of inorganic hypochlorite (bleach) in health-care facilities

W A Rutala, David J. Weber

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Hypochlorite has been used as a disinfectant for more than 100 years. It has many of the properties of an ideal disinfectant, including a broad antimicrobial activity, rapid bactericidal action,...

Mammalian facilitative hexose transporters mediate the transport of dehydroascorbic acid

Juan Carlos Vera, Coralia I. Rivas, Jorge Fischbarg +1

Nature

Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale

Neil Smith

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks

Possibly in response to a book that subjected it to a ‘postmodernist’ analysis (Kaplan, 1987), Music Television (MTV) initiated a special feature entitled ‘Postmodern MTV’, but the differences...

Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture.

Stephen K. Sanderson, M Ichsan Harris

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY-TYPE GRANULOMA FORMATION AND DERMAL REACTION INDUCED AND ELICITED BY A SOLUBLE FACTOR ISOLATED FROM SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI EGGS

Dov L. Boros, Kenneth S. Warren

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

A soluble material has been isolated from schistosome eggs which in minute quantities without the addition of adjuvant induces sensitization to a delayed hypersensitivity type of granuloma forming...

Copper-induced cell death

Martha A. Kahlson, Scott J. Dixon

Science

Excess copper causes mitochondrial protein aggregation and triggers a distinct form of cell death.

Multiple Correspondence Analysis

Eric J. Beh, Rosaria Lombardo

Wiley series in probability and statistics

This chapter describes some common approaches that can be used for simultaneously visualising the association between multiple categorical variables by focusing on the analysis of only three...

Teaching the basics of redox biology to medical and graduate students: Oxidants, antioxidants and disease mechanisms

Balaraman Kalyanaraman

Redox Biology

This article provides a succinct but limited overview of the protective and deleterious effects of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in a clinical context. Reactive oxygen species include...

Mode of delivery affects the bacterial community in the newborn gut

Giacomo Biasucci, Monica Rubini, Sara Riboni +3

Early Human Development

Determinants of health‐related quality of life during the 2 years following deep vein thrombosis

Susan R. Kahn, Hadia Shbaklo, Donna L. Lamping +11

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

New Developments and Novel Therapeutic Perspectives for Vitamin C ,

Yi Li, Herb E. Schellhorn

Journal of Nutrition

An Alternative Bactericidal Mechanism of Action for Lantibiotic Peptides That Target Lipid II

Hester E. Hasper, Naomi E. Kramer, Leif Smith +5

Science

Lantibiotics are polycyclic peptides containing unusual amino acids, which have binding specificity for bacterial cells, targeting the bacterial cell wall component lipid II to form pores and thereby...

Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Properties of Clove Leaf Essential Oil

Leopold Jirovetz, Gerhard Buchbauer, Иванка Стоилова +3

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

The antioxidant activity of a commercial rectified clove leaf essential oil (Eugenia caryophyllus) and its main constituent eugenol was tested. This essential oil comprises in total 23 identified...

Determination of minor and trace volatile compounds in wine by solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection

Ricardo López, Margarita Aznar, Juan Cacho +1

Journal of Chromatography A

An Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant, Quinolone-Resistant<i>Salmonella enterica</i>Serotype Typhimurium DT104

Kåre Mølbak, Dorte Lau Baggesen, Frank M. Aarestrup +6

New England Journal of Medicine

Our investigation of an outbreak of DT104 documented the spread of quinolone-resistant bacteria from food animals to humans; this spread was associated with infections that were difficult to treat....

Evaluation of analytical methods used for regulation of foods and drugs

William Horwitz

Analytical Chemistry

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTEvaluation of analytical methods used for regulation of foods and drugsWilliam. HorwitzCite this: Anal. Chem. 1982, 54, 1, 67–76Publication Date...

Improved semiselective medium for isolation of Legionella pneumophila from contaminated clinical and environmental specimens

Paul H. Edelstein

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Eighteen types of media, all of which used charcoal yeast extract medium as a base, were tested for their ability to support the growth of a stock strain of Legionella pneumophila. Fifteen of these...

In vitro colonic fermentation of dietary fibers: Fermentation rate, short-chain fatty acid production and changes in microbiota

Miaomiao Wang, Santad Wichienchot, Xiaowei He +3

Trends in Food Science & Technology

An Overview of Hazardous Impacts of Soil Salinity in Crops, Tolerance Mechanisms, and Amelioration through Selenium Supplementation

Muhammad Kamran, Aasma Parveen, Sunny Ahmar +7

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Soil salinization is one of the major environmental stressors hampering the growth and yield of crops all over the world. A wide spectrum of physiological and biochemical alterations of plants are...

Trends in thrombolytic treatment and outcomes of acute pulmonary embolism in Germany

Karsten Keller, Lukas Hobohm, Matthias Ebner +4

European Heart Journal

Although the proportion of PE patients treated with systemic thrombolysis increased slightly in Germany between 2005 and 2015, only the minority of haemodynamically unstable patients currently...

Natural Pigments: Stabilization Methods of Anthocyanins for Food Applications

Regina Cortez, Diego A. Luna‐Vital, Daniel Margulis +1

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

The production of natural food pigments continues to grow worldwide. The global market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.22%, by revenue, over the period 2015 to 2019....

Predicting household food waste reduction using an extended theory of planned behaviour

Ella Graham-Rowe, Donna C. Jessop, Paul Sparks

Resources Conservation and Recycling

Recent trend in the physical and chemical modification of starches from different botanical sources: A review

Adeleke Omodunbi Ashogbon, E. T. Akintayo

Starch - Stärke

Starch is, after cellulose, the most abundant organic compound in nature. Modification of starch is carried out to enhance the positive attributes and to eliminate the shortcomings of the native...

The Secretion, Components, and Properties of Saliva

Guy H. Carpenter

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Saliva has one of the most difficult roles to perform in the body. It must facilitate the taste and detection of foods nutritious to the body but also defend the mucosa from infection by the...

Influence of socio‐demographical, behavioural and attitudinal factors on the amount of avoidable food waste generated in Finnish households

Heta‐Kaisa Koivupuro, Hanna Hartikainen, Kirsi Silvennoinen +4

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Abstract This paper presents the results of a questionnaire and food waste diary study on the influence of socio‐demographical, behavioural and attitudinal factors on the amount of avoidable...

Changes in Membrane Fatty Acids Composition of Microbial Cells Induced by Addiction of Thymol, Carvacrol, Limonene, Cinnamaldehyde, and Eugenol in the Growing Media

Rosangela Di Pasqua, Nikki Hoskins, Gail Betts +1

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Major active compounds from essential oils are well-known to possess antimicrobial activity against both pathogen and spoilage microorganisms. The aim of this work was to determine the alteration of...