Research Library

Randomized clinical trials on the effects of dietary fat and carbohydrate on plasma lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease

Frank M. Sacks, Mira Katan

The American Journal of Medicine

LANTIBIOTICS: Biosynthesis and Biological Activities of Uniquely Modified Peptides from Gram-Positive Bacteria

Hans‐Georg Sahl, Gabriele Bierbaum

Annual Review of Microbiology

A plethora of novel gene-encoded antimicrobial peptides from animals, plants and bacteria has been described during the last decade. Many of the bacterial peptides possess modified building blocks...

Biochemical and genetic characterization of enterocin P, a novel sec-dependent bacteriocin from Enterococcus faecium P13 with a broad antimicrobial spectrum

Luis M. Cintas, Pilar Casaus, Leiv Sigve Håvarstein +2

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Enterocin P is a new bacteriocin produced by Enterococcus faecium P13 isolated from a Spanish dry-fermented sausage. Enterocin P inhibited most of tested spoilage and food-borne gram-positive...

Enzyme structure and mechanism (2nd edn)

Irwin A. Rose

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

HOSPITAL STUDY OF ADULT COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA

J T Macfarlane, M.J. Ward, R. Finch +1

The Lancet

Analysis of Categorical Data

Shizuhiko Nishisato

University of Toronto Press eBooks

Controlling Epithelial Polarity: A Human Enteroid Model for Host-Pathogen Interactions

Julia Y. Co, Mar Margalef-Català, Xingnan Li +4

Cell Reports

Human enteroids-epithelial spheroids derived from primary gastrointestinal tissue-are a promising model to study pathogen-epithelial interactions. However, accessing the apical enteroid surface is...

Sugar alcohols—their role in the modern world of sweeteners: a review

Małgorzata Grembecka

European Food Research and Technology

Epidemic obesity and diabetes encouraged the changes in population lifestyle and consumers’ food products awareness. Food industry has responded people’s demand by producing a number of...

Systematic Review of the Use of Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters

Luis F. Angel, Victor F. Tapson, Richard E. Galgon +2

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Inapparent infections and cholera dynamics

Aaron A. King, Edward L. Ionides, Mercedes Pascual +1

Nature

Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Data from PIOPED II

Paul D. Stein, Afzal Beemath, Fadi Matta +12

The American Journal of Medicine

Formula milk versus maternal breast milk for feeding preterm or low birth weight infants

Ginny Henderson, M Y Anthony, William McGuire

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

There are no data from randomised trials of formula milk versus maternal breast milk for feeding preterm or low birth weight infants. This may relate to a perceived difficulty of allocating an...

Probiotics in prevention of IgE-associated eczema: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

Thomas Abrahamsson, Ted Jakobsson, Malin Fagerås Böttcher +4

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Phylogeny and Molecular Identification of Vibrios on the Basis of Multilocus Sequence Analysis

Fabiano L. Thompson, Dirk Gevers, C. C. Thompson +5

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

We analyzed the usefulness of rpoA, recA, and pyrH gene sequences for the identification of vibrios. We sequenced fragments of these loci from a collection of 208 representative strains, including...

Deletion of Selenoprotein P Alters Distribution of Selenium in the Mouse

Kristina E. Hill, Jiadong Zhou, Wendy J. McMahan +4

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Selenoprotein P (Se-P) contains most of the selenium in plasma. Its function is not known. Mice with the Se-P gene deleted (Sepp(-/-)) were generated. Two phenotypes were observed: 1) Sepp(-/-) mice...

Functional properties of dietary fibre prepared from defatted rice bran

Azizah Abdul Hamid, Yu Siew Luan

Food Chemistry

Decreased antioxidant status and increased lipid peroxidation in patients with septic shock and secondary organ dysfunction

Helen F. Goode, Hugh Cowley, B. E. Walker +2

Critical Care Medicine

These data indicate decreased antioxidant status in the face of enhanced free radical activity, and suggest potential therapeutic strategies involving antioxidant repletion.

The coronary circulation in human septic shock.

Robert E. Cunnion, Gary L. Schaer, Margaret M. Parker +2

Circulation

Reversible myocardial depression, manifested by ventricular dilatation and decreased ejection fraction, is common in human septic shock. A proposed mechanism, based on animal studies, is myocardial...

Lipase‐catalyzed interesterification of oils and fats

Alasdair R. Macrae

Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society

Abstract Extracellular microbial lipases can be used as catalysts for the interesterification of oils and fats. Use of specific lipases gives products which are unobtainable by chemical...

THE LOCALIZATION OF PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITIES AT THE LEVEL OF ULTRASTRUCTURE

Sidney Goldfischer, Edward Essner, Alex B. Novikoff

Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry

The effect of dose level of essential fatty acids upon fatty acid composition of the rat liver

Hans Mohrhauer, Ralph T. Holman

Journal of Lipid Research

Rats were fed various levels of either ethyl linoleate, ethyl arachidonate, or ethyl linolenate. Weight gain, fat-deficiency status, and fatty acid composition of the liver lipids were...

Applying the Model-Comparison Approach to Test Specific Research Hypotheses in Psychophysical Research Using the Palamedes Toolbox

Nicolaas Prins, Frederick A. A. Kingdom

Frontiers in Psychology

In the social sciences it is common practice to test specific theoretically motivated research hypotheses using formal statistical procedures. Typically, students in these disciplines are trained in...

Bifidobacteria and Their Health-Promoting Effects

Claudio Hidalgo-Cantabrana, Susana Delgado, Lorena Ruíz +3

Microbiology Spectrum

Bifidobacteria are members of the intestinal microbiota of mammals and other animals, and some strains are able to exert health-promoting effects. The genus <i>Bifidobacterium</i> belongs to the...

Functional and conformational changes to soy proteins accompanying anthocyanins: Focus on covalent and non-covalent interactions

Xiaonan Sui, Hongbo Sun, Baokun Qi +3

Food Chemistry

Drinking Water Quality Status and Contamination in Pakistan

Muhammad Daud, Muhammad Nafees, Shafaqat Ali +9

BioMed Research International

Due to alarming increase in population and rapid industrialization, drinking water quality is being deteriorated day by day in Pakistan. This review sums up the outcomes of various research studies...

Association between maternal age at childbirth and child and adult outcomes in the offspring: a prospective study in five low-income and middle-income countries (COHORTS collaboration)

Caroline Fall, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Clive Osmond +10

The Lancet Global Health

Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Flavor Chemistry of Cocoa and Cocoa Products—An Overview

Ana Clara Aprotosoaie, Simon Vlad Luca, Anca Miron

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Cocoa originates from beans of the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao L.) and it is an important commodity in the world and the main ingredient in chocolate manufacture. Its value and quality are related to...

Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition

Description: Milk is nature s most complete food, and dairy products are considered to be the most nutritious foods of all. The traditional view of the role of milk has been greatly expanded in...

Milk β-lactoglobulin complexes with tea polyphenols

Charalabos D. Kanakis, Imed Hasni, Philippe Bourassa +3

Food Chemistry

Synthesis and characterisation of zein–curcumin colloidal particles

Ashok R. Patel, Yingchun Hu, Jyoti Kumar Tiwari +1

Soft Matter

Zein–curcumin composite colloidal particles were synthesized using an antisolvent precipitation method. The average particle size could be controlled down to 100–150 nm, depending on the solvent...

Probiotic and other functional microbes: from markets to mechanisms

Maija Saxelin, Soile Tynkkynen, Tiina Mattila‐Sandholm +1

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Early enteral supply of lactobacillus and fiber versus selective bowel decontamination: a controlled trial in liver transplant recipients

Nada Rayes, Daniel Seehofer, Sonja Hansen +5

Transplantation

Early enteral nutrition with fiber-containing solutions and living L plantarum 299 was well tolerated. It decreases markedly the rate of postoperative infections both in comparison with inactivated L...

Street foods in Accra, Ghana: how safe are they?

Patience Mensah, Dorothy Yeboah‐Manu, K Owusu-Darko +1

PubMed

Street foods can be sources of enteropathogens. Vendors should therefore receive education in food hygiene. Special attention should be given to the causes of diarrhoea, the transmission of...

Salmonella: A Model for Bacterial Pathogenesis

Michael Ohl, Samuel I. Miller

Annual Review of Medicine

Salmonellae are gram-negative bacteria that cause gastroenteritis and enteric fever. Salmonella virulence requires the coordinated expression of complex arrays of virulence factors that allow the...

The anthropology of food and body: gender, meaning, and power

Choice Reviews Online

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and...

<b>Co‐ordinate regulation of <i>Salmonella typhimurium</i> invasion genes by environmental and regulatory factors is mediated by control of <i>hilA</i> expression</b>

Vivek Bajaj, Robin L. Lucas, Clara Hwang +1

Molecular Microbiology

During infection of their hosts, salmonellae enter intestinal epithelial cells. It has been proposed that when Salmonella typhimurium is present in the intestinal lumen, several environmental and...

Lactic acid bacteria, their metabolic products and interference with microbial growth

Peter A. Vandenbergh

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Lactic acid bacteria produce a variety of metabolic products that are capable of interfering with the growth of other microbes. These bacterial end products have been applied to food systems to...

The immune system of human milk

Armond S. Goldman

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

From the The Division of Immunology/Allergy, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.

Resistant starch: Formation and measurement of starch that survives exhaustive digestion with amylolytic enzymes during the determination of dietary fibre

C.S. Berry

Journal of Cereal Science

Importance of Bile Tolerance of Lactobacillus acidophilus Used as a Dietary Adjunct

S. E. Gilliland, T.E. Staley, L.J. Bush

Journal of Dairy Science

Cultures of lactobacilli identified as Lactobacillus acidophilus from the intestinal contents of young calves varied in their ability to grow in broth containing .3% oxgall compared with control...

Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data for Oligosaccharides

Klaus Bock, Christian Pedersen, Henrik Pedersen

Advances in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry

Biological Control of Chestnut Blight

Sandra L. Anagnostakis

Science

After 77 years of being attacked by the chestnut blight fungus, American chestnut trees continue to sprout from gradually declining root systems. The blight fungus in Italy is now associated with...

MUTANTS OF YEAST DEFECTIVE IN SUCROSE UTILIZATION

Marian Carlson, Barbara C Osmond, David Botstein

Genetics

Utilization of sucrose as a source of carbon and energy in yeast (Saccharomyces) is controlled by the classical SUC genes, which confer the ability to produce the sucrose-degrading enzyme invertase...

Identification of the catalytic site of rat liver glutathione peroxidase as selenocysteine

John W. Forstrom, Jack Zakowski, Al L. Tappel

Biochemistry

A procedure was developed to isolate 75Se-labeled rat liver glutathione peroxidase (glutathione:H2O2 oxidoreductase, EC 1.11.1.9) at 30--50% purity with 20--30% yields in 4--5 days. Using these...

Incidence of VTE and Bleeding Among Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019

David Jiménez, Aldara García‐Sánchez, Parth Rali +7

CHEST Journal

Microwave processing techniques and their recent applications in the food industry

Qiushan Guo, Da‐Wen Sun, Jun‐Hu Cheng +1

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Human milk microbiota profiles in relation to birthing method, gestation and infant gender

Camilla Urbaniak, Michelle Angelini, Gregory B. Gloor +1

Microbiome

The study revealed the diverse bacterial types transferred to newborns. We postulate that there may be a fail-safe mechanism whereby the mother is "ready" to pass along her bacterial imprint...

Secretory antibodies in breast milk promote long-term intestinal homeostasis by regulating the gut microbiota and host gene expression

Eric Rogier, Aubrey L. Frantz, Maria E. C. Bruno +4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Maintenance of intestinal homeostasis requires a healthy relationship between the commensal gut microbiota and the host immune system. Breast milk supplies the first source of antigen-specific immune...

Antioxidant, Antimalarial and Antimicrobial Activities of Tannin-Rich Fractions, Ellagitannins and Phenolic Acids from <i>Punica granatum</i> L.

Muntha Reddy, Sashi Gupta, Melissa R. Jacob +2

Planta Medica

The Punica granatum L. (pomegranate) by-product POMx was partitioned between water, EtOAc and n-BuOH, and the EtOAc and n-BuOH extracts were purified by XAD-16 and Sephadex LH-20 column...

Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Neutropenic Cancer Patients

Alok A. Khorana, Charles W. Francis, Eva Culakova +3

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Thromboembolism is frequent in hospitalized neutropenic cancer patients, including in perceived low-risk subgroups such as patients with hematologic malignancies and nonmetastatic disease, and seems...