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https://read.qxmd.com/read/32858926/population-density-size-structure-and-reproductive-cycle-of-the-comestible-sea-urchin-sphaerechinus-granularis-echinodermata-echinoidea-in-the-pagasitikos-gulf-aegean-sea
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dimitrios Vafidis, Chryssanthi Antoniadou, Vassiliki Ioannidi
Sphaerechinus granularis is a common grazer that lives in various sublittoral habitats, displaying typical covering behavior; i.e., putts shell-fragments, pebbles, and algae on its test. It is an edible species of increasing commercial importance due to the depletion of the common urchin's, Paracentrotus lividus , stocks. Its biology, however, is not adequately studied over its distributional range. The present study examines population density, size structure, and reproductive biology of S. granularis in the Aegean Sea...
August 26, 2020: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32685070/a-curious-case-of-a-comestible-cough-candy
#22
Yasmine T Sallam, Michael T Jurkiewicz
An 80-year-old woman was seen in the Emergency Department with a history of left jaw pain and headaches, as well as numerous additional comorbidities. Computed tomography examination of the head and face found a circumscribed, ovoid, markedly hyperattenuating mass with areas of internal air within the left buccal space - the density of which was neither that of metal nor bone. After speaking with the patient, she reported having a cough candy in her mouth during the examination. Here we review the imaging appearance of an unusual case of a comestible intraoral foreign body so as to raise awareness of this incidental pseudolesion...
September 2020: Radiology Case Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32557685/fruit-extract-of-pithecellobium-dulce-fpd-ameliorates-carrageenan-induced-acute-inflammatory-responses-via-regulating-pro-inflammatory-mediators
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Suresh Sulekha Dhanisha, Sudarsanan Drishya, Chandrasekharan Guruvayoorappan
Unravelling the precise mechanisms underlying the anti-inflammatory action of fruit extract of Pithecellobium dulce (FPD) is quite complex. Hence the prime approach of this particular study is to unveil intriguing insights to its possible anti-inflammatory mechanisms. Anti-inflammatory effects of FPD were determined against experimentally induced acute and chronic inflammation in mice paw edema models. Administration of FPD significantly reduced the acute and chronic inflammation via regulating pro-inflammatory mediators such as pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-1ß), Cycloxygenase 2 (COX-2), and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) compared to control group...
June 17, 2020: Journal of Food Biochemistry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32372596/chapitre-2-la-comest-et-l%C3%A2-%C3%A3-thique-de-l%C3%A2-espace
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Jean Audouze
Mankind entered the space era in 1957 with the first flight of the Soviet Sputnik. Shortly after being set up, UNESCO's COMEST (World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology) examined some of the issues of an ethical nature relating to Man's access to outer space.
November 27, 2019: Journal International de Bioéthique et D'éthique des Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32141201/james-cook-s-first-pacific-voyage-alleged-scurvy-freedom-unmasked
#25
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Bruce H Short
The east coast of New Holland was discovered 250 years ago during a voyage of covert strategic exploration of the Pacific Ocean regions by Lieutenant James Cook acting under instructions of the Royal Navy espionage chief, Philip Stephens, Secretary of the Admiralty. In addition to the study of the transit of Venus, the well resourced mission included some clandestine mapmaking during August 1768 to July 1771. Tasked by the Royal Society of London to investigate the anti-scorbutic effects of a variety of foods and herbs, Cook's post-operational debrief to the Admiralty included the inaccurate supposition that HM Bark Endeavour's cruise was scurvy-free...
March 2020: Internal Medicine Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31665224/palm-seed-and-fruit-lipid-composition-phylogenetic-and-ecological-perspectives
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chloé Guerin, Julien Serret, Rommel Montúfar, Virginie Vaissayre, Aldecinei Bastos-Siqueira, Tristan Durand-Gasselin, James Tregear, Fabienne Morcillo, Stéphane Dussert
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Palms are vital to worldwide human nutrition, in particular as major sources of vegetable oils. However, our knowledge of seed and fruit lipid diversity in the family Arecaceae is limited. We therefore aimed to explore relationships between seed and fruit lipid content, fatty acid (FA) composition in the respective tissues, phylogenetic factors and biogeographical parameters. METHODS: Oil content and FA composition were characterized in seeds and fruits of 174 and 144 palm species respectively...
October 26, 2019: Annals of Botany
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31596359/pharmacological-evaluation-of-the-hydro-alcoholic-extract-of-campomanesia-phaea-fruits-in-rats
#27
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L R Wczassek, V C B Pontes, M T Gamberini
Campomanesia phaea (Myrtaceae), popularly known as cambuci, is one of several species of plants producing comestible fruits, largely used in human nutrition. Despite its consumption and economic potential, limited scientific research is available on the Campomanesia, especially those related to its therapeutic benefits. It is reported by traditional medicine the use of the plant in the treatment of different disorders, such as cardiovascular and nervous system disturbances. So, the aim of this study was to carry out the pharmacological evaluation of the hydro-alcoholic extract (HAE) of Campomanesia fruits in rats by screening consisting of tests: a) neuropharmacological observation, b) test on the cardiovascular system...
October 7, 2019: Brazilian Journal of Biology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31390579/synthesis-of-fluorescent-pink-emitting-copper-nanoparticles-and-sensitive-detection-of-%C3%AE-naphthaleneacetic-acid
#28
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Lin Li, Juan Chen, Yang Li, Nan Song, Lulu Zhu, Zhiying Li
Detecting NAA in food has drawn intense attention as it has imposed significant threat to people's health and the growth of food industry. Over the past few years, great importance has been attached to the application of copper nanomaterials as fluorescent probe to food and environmental detection. Here, the simple, rapid, cost effective and water soluble fluorescent copper nanoparticles were synthesized with chemical reduction sonochemical assisted method for highly selective and sensitive detection of α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) by using 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT) as a protecting agent and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a stabilizing agent (MBT-PVP CuNPs)...
July 29, 2019: Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30189896/trypanosoma-cruzi-transmission-in-the-wild-and-its-most-important-reservoir-hosts-in-brazil
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Ana Maria Jansen, Samanta Cristina das Chagas Xavier, André Luiz Rodrigues Roque
Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae) infects all tissues of its hosts, which along with humans, include hundreds of mammalian species in the Americas. The epidemiology of T. cruzi has been changing in that currently the majority of the cases and/or outbreaks of Chagas disease occur by the ingestion of comestibles contaminated by T. cruzi metacyclic forms. These cases/outbreaks occur in distinct regional scenarios, mainly in the Amazon biome and are related to the local interaction mode of humans with their surroundings, as well as with the overall local ecological peculiarities...
September 6, 2018: Parasites & Vectors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29773615/microbial-diversity-in-commercial-bee-pollen-from-europe-chile-and-mexico-based-on-16s-rrna-gene-amplicon-metagenome-sequencing
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Vicente D Moreno Andrade, Carlos Saldaña Gutiérrez, Rosa P Calvillo Medina, Andrés Cruz Hérnandez, Moisés A Vázquez Cruz, Alfonso Torres Ruíz, Sergio Romero Gómez, Miguel A Ramos López, Erika Álvarez-Hidalgo, Silvia B López-Gaytan, Natanahel Salvador Ramírez, George H Jones, Jose Luis Hernandez-Flores, Juan Campos-Guillén
Bee pollen is a highly nutritive natural foodstuff. Because of its use as a comestible, the association of bacteria with bee pollen is commercially and biologically important. We report here the bacterial diversity of seven bee pollen samples (five from Europe, one from Chile, and one from Mexico) based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon metagenome sequencing.
May 17, 2018: Genome Announcements
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29495027/erosive-tooth-wear-a-review-on-global-prevalence-and-on-its-prevalence-in-risk-groups
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
N Schlueter, B Luka
Erosion is a common phenomenon in the general population of developed countries. However, due to variations in indices, sample sizes and general study designs, it is difficult to compare the various studies and to estimate actual global prevalence. Therefore, the aim of this present paper is to give a narrative overview on the data available on the global prevalence of erosion. Information on prevalence is not available from each country; in particular, data from Asia, Africa, South America, North America and large parts of South-Eastern Europe are unavailable...
March 9, 2018: British Dental Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28800181/synephrine-and-phenylephrine-act-as-%C3%AE-amylase-%C3%AE-glycosidase-acetylcholinesterase-butyrylcholinesterase-and-carbonic-anhydrase-enzymes-inhibitors
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Parham Taslimi, Hülya Akıncıoglu, İlhami Gülçin
In this paper, synephrine and phenylephrine compounds showed excellent inhibitory effects against human carbonic anhydrase (hCA) isoforms I and II, α-amylase, α-glycosidase, acetylcholinesterase (AChE), and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE). Synephrine and phenylephrine had Ki values of 199.02 ± 16.01 and 65.01 ± 5.00 μM against hCA I and 336.02 ± 74.01 and 92.04  ±  18.03 μM against hCA II, respectively. On the other hand, their Ki values were found to be 169.10  ±  80.03 and 88.03  ±  5...
November 2017: Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28606927/mtorc-in-%C3%AE-cells-more-than-only-recognizing-comestibles
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Kathrin Maedler, Amin Ardestani
The pathways regulating pancreatic β cell survival in diabetes are poorly understood. Here, Chau et al. (2017. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201701085) demonstrate that mTOR regulates the apoptotic machinery through binding to the ChREBP-Mlx complex to suppress TXNIP, thereby protecting pancreatic β cells in the diabetic setting by inhibiting oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction.
July 3, 2017: Journal of Cell Biology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28361700/plant-mirnas-found-in-human-circulating-system-provide-evidences-of-cross-kingdom-rnai
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Yu-Chen Liu, Wen Liang Chen, Wei-Hsiang Kung, Hsien-Da Huang
BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence indicates that plant miRNAs can present within human circulating system through dietary intake and regulate human gene expression. Hence we deduced that comestible plants miRNAs can be identified in the public available small RNA sequencing data sets. RESULTS: In this study, we identified abundant plant miRNAs sequences from 410 human plasma small RNA sequencing data sets. One particular plant miRNA miR2910, conserved in fruits and vegetables, was found to present in high relative amount in the plasma samples...
March 14, 2017: BMC Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27666408/functionalized-and-graft-copolymers-of-chitosan-and-its-pharmaceutical-applications
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REVIEW
Chintan Bhavsar, Munira Momin, Sankalp Gharat, Abdelwahab Omri
Chitosan is the second most abundant natural polysaccharide. It belongs a family of polycationic polymers comprised of repetitive units of glucosamine and N-acetylglucosamine. Its biodegradability, nontoxicity, non-immunogenicity and biocompatibility along with properties like mucoadhesion, fungistatic and bacteriogenic have made chitosan an appreciated polymer with numerous applications in the pharmaceutical, comestics and food industry. However, the limited solubility of chitosan at alkaline and neutral pH limits its widespread commercial use...
October 2017: Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27338422/a-review-on-the-valorization-of-macroalgal-wastes-for-biomethane-production
#36
REVIEW
Yann Nicolas Barbot, Hashem Al-Ghaili, Roland Benz
The increased use of terrestrial crops for biofuel production and the associated environmental, social and ethical issues have led to a search for alternative biomass materials. Terrestrial crops offer excellent biogas recovery, but compete directly with food production, requiring farmland, fresh water and fertilizers. Using marine macroalgae for the production of biogas circumvents these problems. Their potential lies in their chemical composition, their global abundance and knowledge of their growth requirements and occurrence patterns...
June 21, 2016: Marine Drugs
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27290641/investigation-into-the-cytotoxicity-and-mutagenicity-of-the-maraj%C3%A3-archipelago-waters-using-plagioscion-squamosissimus-perciformes-sciaenidae-as-a-bioindicator
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carlos Alberto Machado da Rocha, Carla Mariana Ferreira Pessoa, Claudia Antonia Campos Rodrigues, Raul Henrique da Silva Pinheiro, Edmar Tavares da Costa, Adriana Costa Guimarães, Rommel Rodríguez Burbano
Maintaining water quality within tolerable limits is a basic need of the riverside communities in the Amazon. Using endemic aquatic organisms as biological models is useful for monitoring the environment. In this study, potential cytotoxic and genotoxic damages in Plagioscion squamosissimus (commonly known as silver croaker) from the Marajó Archipelago were evaluated using a flow cytometry assay and a survey of micronuclei (MN) frequency as well as other nuclear abnormalities (NA). P. squamosissimus specimens were collected at four locations in the Marajó Archipelago...
October 2016: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
https://read.qxmd.com/read/26941492/male-chronic-pelvic-pain-an-update
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REVIEW
Christopher P Smith
INTRODUCTION: Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) and interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome collectively referred to as urologic CPPS (UCPPS) is defined by the absence of identifiable bacterial infection as a cause for the chronic pain and urinary symptoms. METHODS: A PubMed search of all recent relevant articles using the keywords/phrases: CPPS, CPPS, and male pelvic pain, was conducted. RESULTS: CPPS has a high worldwide prevalence and its negative impact on quality of life compares with or exceeds common chronic morbidities...
January 2016: Indian Journal of Urology: IJU: Journal of the Urological Society of India
https://read.qxmd.com/read/24316093/statistical-validation-of-the-shorter-moldwin-food-sensitivity-questionnaire-for-patients-with-interstitial-cystitis-bladder-pain-syndrome
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Barbara Shorter, Meredith Ackerman, Michael Varvara, Robert M Moldwin
PURPOSE: American Urological Association guidelines suggest dietary changes as first line treatment for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome. We previously developed a validated survey instrument to determine which foods, beverages and supplements exacerbate the symptoms of this condition. In this study we developed a shortened questionnaire that would provide an easily self-administered food symptom history useful for clinical practice and future research. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using data from our previously validated food sensitivity questionnaire we remodeled the original lengthy survey to an abbreviated list including the 35 most problematic comestibles...
June 2014: Journal of Urology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/23978369/effects-of-foods-and-beverages-on-the-symptoms-of-chronic-prostatitis-chronic-pelvic-pain-syndrome
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Amin S Herati, Barbara Shorter, Arun K Srinivasan, Julia Tai, Casey Seideman, Martin Lesser, Robert M Moldwin
OBJECTIVE: To better elucidate the prevalence of perceived food sensitivity and characterize the sensitivity pattern in patients with clinically diagnosed chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. METHODS: A total of 286 men meeting the National Institutes of Health criteria for chronic prostatitis were mailed a validated questionnaire designed to detect the effect of foods, beverages, and/or supplements on pelvic pain symptoms. The questionnaire assessed the effect of 176 individual comestibles on each patient's symptoms...
December 2013: Urology
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