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Protectins and maresins: New pro-resolving families of mediators in acute inflammation and resolution bioactive metabolome

Charles N. Serhan, Jesmond Dalli, Romain A. Colas +2

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

Fecal Microbiota in Premature Infants Prior to Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Volker Mai, Christopher Young, Maria Ukhanova +8

PLoS ONE

Intestinal luminal microbiota likely contribute to the etiology of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a common disease in preterm infants. Microbiota development, a cascade of initial colonization...

Human copper homeostasis: a network of interconnected pathways

Svetlana Lutsenko

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Dietary fibres in pulse seeds and fractions: Characterization, functional attributes, and applications

Susan M. Tosh, Sylvia Yada

Food Research International

Identification and Characterization of Anthocyanins by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography−Electrospray Ionization−Tandem Mass Spectrometry in Common Foods in the United States:  Vegetables, Nuts, and Grains

Xianli Wu, Ronald L. Prior

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Anthocyanins in common foods in the United States, other than fruits and berries, were identified and characterized by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-electrospray ionization-tandem...

Influence of the drying conditions on the drying constants and moisture diffusivity during the thin-layer drying of figs

Stamatios J. Babalis, V. Belessiotis

Journal of Food Engineering

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF CHESTNUT BLIGHT WITH HYPOVIRULENCE: A Critical Analysis

Michael G. Milgroom, P. Cortesi

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Most hypovirulence in the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, is associated with infection by fungal viruses in the family Hypoviridae. Hypovirulence has controlled chestnut blight well...

Antimicrobial activity of essential oils on the native microflora of organic Swiss chard

Alejandra Ponce, R. Fritz, C. del Valle +1

LWT

Dosage-Related Bifidogenic Effects of Galacto- and Fructooligosaccharides in Formula-Fed Term Infants

Guido E. Moro, I Minoli, M. Mosca +4

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

These data indicate that supplementation of a term infant's formula with a mixture of galacto- and fructooligosaccharides has a dose-dependent stimulating effect on the growth of Bifidobacteria and...

Analysis of acrylamide in cooked foods by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

Johan Rosén, Karl‐Erik Hellenäs

The Analyst

A method using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS) with electrospray for the analysis of acrylamide in foods is reported. The method comprises the addition of deuterium-labelled...

Effect of high-pressure homogenization on droplet size distributions and rheological properties of model oil-in-water emulsions

Juliane Floury, Anne Desrumaux, Jérémie Lardières

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

The Tripartite Type III Secreton of <i>Shigella flexneri</i> Inserts Ipab and Ipac into Host Membranes

Ariel Blocker, Pierre Gounon, Éric Larquet +4

The Journal of Cell Biology

Bacterial type III secretion systems serve to translocate proteins into eukaryotic cells, requiring a secreton and a translocator for proteins to pass the bacterial and host membranes. We used the...

Immunonutrition in the critically ill: A systematic review of clinical outcome

Richard Beale, David J. Bryg, David Bihari

Critical Care Medicine

The benefits of enteral immunonutrition were most pronounced in surgical patients, although they were present in all groups. The reduction in hospital length of stay and infections has resource...

Dietary Potassium and Stroke-Associated Mortality

Kay‐Tee Khaw, Elizabeth Barrett‐Connor

New England Journal of Medicine

Hypertension is the most important known risk factor for stroke. Clinical, experimental, and epidemiologic evidence suggests that a high dietary intake of potassium is associated with lower blood...

Mechanism of Percutaneous Absorption

Robert J. Scheuplein

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

THE ISOLATION OF A CELL MEMBRANE FRACTION FROM RAT LIVER

David M. Neville

The Journal of Cell Biology

A procedure is described for isolating cell membranes from rat liver homogenates. 20 gm. of rat liver was homogenized in a Dounce homogenizer in ice cold water buffered to pH 7.5 with NaHCO(3),...

Magnesium: Biochemistry, Nutrition, Detection, and Social Impact of Diseases Linked to Its Deficiency

Diana Fiorentini, Concettina Cappadone, Giovanna Farruggia +1

Nutrients

Magnesium plays an important role in many physiological functions. Habitually low intakes of magnesium and in general the deficiency of this micronutrient induce changes in biochemical pathways that...

The etiology of oxidative stress in insulin resistance

Samantha Hurrle, Walter H. Hsu

Biomedical Journal

Insulin resistance is a prevalent syndrome in developed as well as developing countries. It is the predisposing factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus, the most common end stage development of metabolic...

Guidance on the identity, characterisation and conditions of use of feed additives

EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Guido Rychen, Gabriele Aquilina +22

EFSA Journal

This guidance document is intended to assist the applicant in the preparation and the presentation of an application, as foreseen in Article 7.6 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003, for the authorisation...

Pathogenic Escherichia coli

James B. Kaper

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Identification of <i>Vibrio parahaemolyticus</i> Strains at the Species Level by PCR Targeted to the <i>toxR</i> Gene

Yung Bu Kim, Jun Okuda, Chiho Matsumoto +3

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

The DNA colony hybridization test with the polynucleotide probe for Vibrio parahaemolyticus toxR gene was performed. All 373 strains of V. parahaemolyticus gave positive results, and the strains...

Industrial Chocolate Manufacture and Use

Stephen T. Beckett

Cancer mortality correlation studies-III: Statistical associations with dietary selenium intakes

G. N. Schrauzer, Desirée A. White, C.J. Schneider

Bioinorganic Chemistry

Clinical Manifestations of Salmonellosis in Man

Ivan Saphra, Joseph W. Winter

New England Journal of Medicine

THE correlation of the numerous salmonella types with the clinical data on the infections that they cause is as important to the clinician as it is to the epidemiologist. The knowledge that certain...

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Flavor mystery of Chinese traditional fermented baijiu: The great contribution of ester compounds

Youqiang Xu, Jingrong Zhao, Xiao Liu +4

Food Chemistry

Antibacterial mechanisms of cinnamon and its constituents: A review

Nathalie Gaebler Vasconcelos, Júlio Croda, Simone Simionatto

Microbial Pathogenesis

Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance glyphosate

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

EFSA Journal

The conclusions of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), following the peer review of the initial risk assessments carried out by the competent authority of the rapporteur Member State Germany,...

Low--Water Activity Foods: Increased Concern as Vehicles of Foodborne Pathogens

Larry R. Beuchat, E. Komitopoulou, HARRY BECKERS +5

Journal of Food Protection

The role of reducing intakes of saturated fat in the prevention of cardiovascular disease: where does the evidence stand in 2010?

Arne Astrup, Jørn Dyerberg, Peter Elwood +14

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Anti-inflammatory properties of a pomegranate extract and its metabolite urolithin-A in a colitis rat model and the effect of colon inflammation on phenolic metabolism

Mar Larrosa, Antonio González‐Sarrías, María J. Yáñez‐Gascón +6

The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Effects of Butyrate on Intestinal Barrier Function in a Caco-2 Cell Monolayer Model of Intestinal Barrier

Luying Peng, Zhenjuan He, Wei Chen +2

Pediatric Research

Citrobacter rodentium of mice and man

Rosanna Mundy, Thomas T. MacDonald, Gordon Dougan +2

Cellular Microbiology

The major classes of enteric bacteria harbour a conserved core genomic structure, common to both commensal and pathogenic strains, that is most likely optimized to a life style involving colonization...

Multiple substrates of the <i>Legionella pneumophila</i> Dot/Icm system identified by interbacterial protein transfer

Zhao‐Qing Luo, Ralph R. Isberg

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular pathogen that multiplies in a specialized vacuole within host cells. Biogenesis of this vacuole requires the Dot/Icm type IV protein translocation system....

Association between trans fatty acid intake and 10-year risk of coronary heart disease in the Zutphen Elderly Study: a prospective population-based study

C.M. Oomen, Marga C. Ocké, Edith J. M. Feskens +3

The Lancet

Arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids are biosynthesized from their 18-carbon precursors in human infants.

N. Salem, Brent Wegher, Pedro Mena +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

It is becoming clear that an adequate level of long-chain highly unsaturated fatty acids in the nervous system is required for optimal function and development; however, the ability of infants to...

Food flavourings and compounds of related structure. II. Subacute and chronic toxicity

E.C. Hagan, Walter H. Hansen, O.Garth Fitzhugh +6

Food and Cosmetics Toxicology

Nondigestible carbohydrates, butyrate, and butyrate-producing bacteria

Xiaodan Fu, Zhemin Liu, Changliang Zhu +2

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Nondigestible carbohydrates (NDCs) are fermentation substrates in the colon after escaping digestion in the upper gastrointestinal tract. Among NDCs, resistant starch is not hydrolyzed by pancreatic...

Lactoferrin: Structure, function, denaturation and digestion

Bo Wang, Yakindra Prasad Timilsena, Ewan W. Blanch +1

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Lactoferrin (LF) is a multifunctional protein occurring in many biological secretions including milk. It possesses iron binding/transferring, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, anti-inflammatory...

Essential Oils: Sources of Antimicrobials and Food Preservatives

Abhay K. Pandey, Pradeep Kumar, Pooja Singh +2

Frontiers in Microbiology

Aromatic and medicinal plants produce essential oils in the form of secondary metabolites. These essential oils can be used in diverse applications in food, perfume, and cosmetic industries. The use...

Gold compounds as therapeutic agents for human diseases

Susan J. Berners‐Price, Aleksandra Filipovska

Metallomics

The application of gold in medicine is traceable for several thousand years and Au(i) compounds have been used clinically to treat rheumatoid arthritis since the last century. Recently research into...

Molecular Pathogenesis of Infections Caused by<i>Legionella pneumophila</i>

Hayley J. Newton, Desmond K. Y. Ang, Ian R. van Driel +1

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

The genus Legionella contains more than 50 species, of which at least 24 have been associated with human infection. The best-characterized member of the genus, Legionella pneumophila, is the major...

Phenol-Sulfuric Acid Method for Total Carbohydrates

S. Suzanne Nielsen

Food science text series

Role of copper in human neurological disorders

Vishal Desai, Stephen G. Kaler

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

A Meta-Analytic Review of Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trials of Antidepressant Efficacy of Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Pao‐Yen Lin, Kuan‐Pin Su

The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Although our meta-analysis showed significant antidepressant efficacy of omega-3 PUFAs, it is still premature to validate this finding due to publication bias and heterogeneity. More large-scale,...

Sodium Intake and Hypertension

Heikki Karppanen, Eero Mervaala

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

A Strategy for Annotating the Human Milk Glycome

Milady R. Niñonuevo, Youmie Park, Hongfeng Yin +8

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Oligosaccharides in human milk represent a group of bioactive molecules that have evolved to be an abundant and diverse component of human milk, even though they have no direct nutritive value to the...

A Multicentre Study of Shigella Diarrhoea in Six Asian Countries: Disease Burden, Clinical Manifestations, and Microbiology

Lorenz von Seidlein, Deok Ryun Kim, Mohammad Ali +15

PLoS Medicine

Shigella appears to be more ubiquitous in Asian impoverished populations than previously thought, and antibiotic-resistant strains of different species and serotypes have emerged. Focusing on...

The Emerging Clinical Importance of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin--Producing Escherichia coli

Joanne Hughes, Mary E. Wilson, Kristine Johnson +2

Clinical Infectious Diseases

In 1982, hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome were linked to infection with Escherichia coli O157:H7, a serotype now classified as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC). Thereafter,...