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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,...

Right Ventricular Enlargement on Chest Computed Tomography

U. Joseph Schoepf, Nils Kucher, Florian Kipfmueller +3

Circulation

In patients with acute PE, RV enlargement on reconstructed CT 4-CH view helps predict early death.

Plants used in cosmetics

Talal Aburjaı, Feda M. Natsheh

Phytotherapy Research

This review describes the use of some natural products in cosmetic preparations, due to their low mammalian toxicity, with a brief description of the major use, plant parts used, the actives...

Mathematical modelling of solar drying of apricots in thin layers

İnci Türk Toğrul, Dursun Pehlívan

Journal of Food Engineering

Physicochemical and Functional Properties of Tropical Tuber Starches: A Review

Subramony N. Moorthy

Starch - Stärke

The tropical tuber crops contain starch as the major component and thus act as important source of starch. Except cassava and to a smaller extent sweet potato, starch from other tuber crops has not...

The Effect of Dietary ω-3 Fatty Acids on Coronary Atherosclerosis

Clemens von Schacky, Peter Angerer, Wolfgang Kothny +2

Annals of Internal Medicine

Dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids modestly mitigates the course of coronary atherosclerosis in humans.

THE SYNTHESIS OF THE STARCH GRANULE

Alison M. Smith, Kay Denyer, Cathie Martin

Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology

This review describes and discusses the implications of recent discoveries about how starch polymers are synthesized and organized to form a starch granule. Three issues are highlighted. 1. The role...

From Glycogen to Amylopectin: A Model for the Biogenesis of the Plant Starch Granule

Steven Ball, Hanping Guan, Martha G. James +6

Cell

The redox couple between glutathione and ascorbic acid: A chemical and physiological perspective

Barry S. Winkler, Stephen M. Orselli, Tonia S. Rex

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology.

Maryon McDonald, Mary Douglas

Man

First published in 1987, Constructive Drinking is a series of original case studies organized into three sections based on three major functions of drinking. The three constructive functions are:...

Very Simple Structure: An Alternative Procedure For Estimating The Optimal Number Of Interpretable Factors

William Revelle, Thomas Rocklin

Multivariate Behavioral Research

A new procedure for determining the optimal number of interpretable factors to extract from a correlation matrix is introduced and compared to more conventional procedures. The new method evaluates...

MEASUREMENT OF THE RELATIVE TASTE INTENSITY OF SOME L‐α‐AMINO ACIDS AND 5′‐NUCLEOTIDES

Shizuko Yamaguchi, T. Yoshikawa, Shingo Ikeda +1

Journal of Food Science

SUMMARY— Intensity of glutamate‐like and/or inosinate‐like taste (umami in Japanese) of various flavor amino acids and flavor nucleotides was studied using sensory analysis and always found...

Use of bacteriolytic enzymes in determination of wall structure and their role in cell metabolism.

Jean‐Marie Ghuysen

Bacteriological Reviews

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Verification and Extension of the Principle of Autonomic Response-Stereotypy

John I. Lacey, Beatrice C. Lacey

The American Journal of Psychology

STUDIES ON THE VIRULENCE OF BACTERIOPHAGE-INFECTED STRAINS OF CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE

Victor J. Freeman

Journal of Bacteriology

Chemical and physical pretreatments of fruits and vegetables: Effects on drying characteristics and quality attributes – a comprehensive review

Lizhen Deng, Arun S. Mujumdar, Qian Zhang +5

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Pretreatment is widely used before drying of agro-products to inactivate enzymes, enhance drying process and improve quality of dried products. In current work, the influence of various pretreatments...

Roots and Tuber Crops as Functional Foods: A Review on Phytochemical Constituents and Their Potential Health Benefits

Anoma Chandrasekara, Thamilini Josheph Kumar

International Journal of Food Science

Starchy roots and tuber crops play a pivotal role in the human diet. There are number of roots and tubers which make an extensive biodiversity even within the same geographical location. Thus, they...

Cancer-associated venous thromboembolism: Burden, mechanisms, and management

Cihan Ay, Ingrid Pabinger, Alexander T. Cohen

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a significant health problem in the general population but especially in cancer patients. In this review, we discuss the epidemiology and burden of the disease, the...

Salmonellae interactions with host processes

Doris L. LaRock, Anu Chaudhary, Samuel I. Miller

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Food Safety in Low and Middle Income Countries

Delia Grace

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Evidence on foodborne disease (FBD) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is still limited, but important studies in recent years have broadened our understanding. These suggest that developing...

Nanoencapsulation of food ingredients using carbohydrate based delivery systems

Milad Fathi, Ángel Martín, David Julian McClements

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Metabolism and functions of copper in brain

Ivo F. Scheiber, Julian F. B. Mercer, Ralf Dringen

Progress in Neurobiology

<i>Yarrowia lipolytica</i>: Safety assessment of an oleaginous yeast with a great industrial potential

Marizeth Groenewald, Teun Boekhout, Cécile Neuvéglise +3

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Yarrowia lipolytica has been developed as a production host for a large variety of biotechnological applications. Efficacy and safety studies have demonstrated the safe use of Yarrowia-derived...

Pomegranate: Botany, Horticulture, Breeding

Doron Holland, Kamel Hatib, Irit Bar-Ya’akov

Horticultural reviews

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Taxonomy and Morphology Origin and Genetic Resources Horticulture Breeding Health Benefits Concluding Remarks Acknowledgments Literature Cited

Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Acutely Ill Hospitalized Medical Patients

Victor F. Tapson, Hervé Decousus, M Pini +15

CHEST Journal

Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis and Eggs: A National Epidemic in the United States

Christopher R. Braden

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Beginning in the 1970s, the incidence of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis (SE) infection and the number of related outbreaks in the United States has increased dramatically. By 1994, SE was...

Selenium speciation from food source to metabolites: a critical review

Emmie Dumont, Frank Vanhaecke, Rita Cornelis

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Fructooligosaccharides—Occurrence, preparation, and application

Jong Won Yun

Enzyme and Microbial Technology

Copper—A “Modern” Bioelement

Wolfgang Kaim, Jochen Rall

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English

Abstract Copper is a bioessential element in biology with truly unique chemical characteristics in its two relevant oxidation states +I and +II. Significant progress has been made in recent years in...

Dietary linoleic acid influences desaturation and acylation of deuterium-labeled linoleic and linolenic acids in young adult males

E. A. Emken, R. O. Adlof, R. M. Gulley

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism

Value of the ventilation/perfusion scan in acute pulmonary embolism

James Bodenhamer

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Evaluation of the Cd/hemoglobin affinity assay for the rapid determination of metallothionein in biologival tissues

David L. Eaton, Brian F. Toal

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Ischemic heart disease and dietary fiber

H. C. Trowell

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Effective interventions to address maternal and child malnutrition: an update of the evidence

Emily C Keats, Jai K Das, Rehana A Salam +4

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Better Crops with Plant Food

Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from six months to five years of age

Aamer Imdad, Evan Mayo‐Wilson, Kurt R. Herzer +1

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Vitamin A supplementation is associated with a clinically meaningful reduction in morbidity and mortality in children. Therefore, we suggest maintaining the policy of universal supplementation for...

High-Dose Parenteral Ascorbate Enhanced Chemosensitivity of Ovarian Cancer and Reduced Toxicity of Chemotherapy

Yan Ma, Julia Chapman, Mark Levine +3

Science Translational Medicine

Ascorbate (vitamin C) was an early, unorthodox therapy for cancer, with an outstanding safety profile and anecdotal clinical benefit. Because oral ascorbate was ineffective in two cancer clinical...

Randomized Trial of Exclusive Human Milk versus Preterm Formula Diets in Extremely Premature Infants

Elizabeth Cristofalo, Richard J. Schanler, Cynthia L. Blanco +8

The Journal of Pediatrics

Magnesium in Disease Prevention and Overall Health

Stella L. Volpe

Advances in Nutrition

A Molecular Mechanism for Bacterial Susceptibility to Zinc

Christopher A. McDevitt, Abiodun D. Ogunniyi, Eugene Valkov +4

PLoS Pathogens

Transition row metal ions are both essential and toxic to microorganisms. Zinc in excess has significant toxicity to bacteria, and host release of Zn(II) at mucosal surfaces is an important innate...

Antibiotics as signalling molecules

Grace Yim, Helena Huimi Wang, Julian Davies FRS

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

We present the argument that the majority of low-molecular-weight organic compounds made and secreted by microbes play roles as cell-signalling molecules in the environment. Of the large number of...

Transient receptor potential family members PKD1L3 and PKD2L1 form a candidate sour taste receptor

Yoshiro Ishimaru, Hitoshi Inada, Momoka Kubota +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Animals use their gustatory systems to evaluate the nutritious value, toxicity, sodium content, and acidity of food. Although characterization of molecular identities that receive taste chemicals is...

Cytosolic recognition of flagellin by mouse macrophages restricts <i>Legionella pneumophila</i> infection

Ari B. Molofsky, Brenda Byrne, Natalie N. Whitfield +4

The Journal of Experimental Medicine

To restrict infection by Legionella pneumophila, mouse macrophages require Naip5, a member of the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain leucine-rich repeat family of pattern recognition...

The mouth‐feel properties of grape and apple proanthocyanidins in a wine‐like medium

Stéphane Vidal, I. Leigh Francis, Sylvain Guyot +5

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Abstract A range of structurally defined apple and grape proanthocyanidins was isolated in sufficient amount to carry out a formal sensory descriptive analysis study. Purified proanthocyanidin...

New Scientific Paradigms for Probiotics and Prebiotics

Gregor Reid, Mary Ellen Sanders, H. Rex Gaskins +7

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

The inaugural meeting of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) was held May 3 to May 5 2002 in London, Ontario, Canada. A group of 63 academic and industrial...

Fermentation of Fructooligosaccharides by Lactic Acid Bacteria and Bifidobacteria

Handan Kaplan, Robert W. Hutkins

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria were screened of their ability to ferment fructooligosaccharides (FOS) on MRS agar. Of 28 strains of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria examined, 12 of 16...

Enteral Nutritional Supplementation With Key Nutrients in Patients With Critical Illness and Cancer

Steven D. Heys, Leslie G. Walker, Ian C. P. Smith +1

Annals of Surgery

This meta-analysis has demonstrated that nutritional support supplemented with key nutrients results in a significant reduction in the risk of developing infectious complications and reduces the...