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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Martina K Bergentall, Jun Niimi, Ingela Persson, Emeline Calmet, Dorine As, Alexander Plovie, Loredana Malafronte, Petter Melin
Lingonberry is a common wild berry that is often sold as jams and beverages. It naturally contains high amounts of the weak acid preservative benzoic acid making it an interesting ingredient for shelf-life extension. Despite this, their use as a raw ingredient is limited by the inherently intense sour taste. This study aimed to improve the taste of lingonberry juice by subjecting it to malolactic fermentation in order to reduce the sourness, and to investigate the benzoic acid in lingonberries as a natural preservative in juice blends by determining the microbial stability...
August 2024: Food Microbiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wei-Hsiang Ma, Che-Chia Chang, Te-Sheng Lin, Yu-Chie Chen
Pathogenic bacteria, including drug-resistant variants such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), can cause severe infections in the human body. Early detection of MRSA is essential for clinical diagnosis and proper treatment, considering the distinct therapeutic strategies for methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) and MRSA infections. However, the similarities between MRSA and MSSA properties present a challenge in promptly and accurately distinguishing between them. This work introduces an approach to differentiate MRSA from MSSA utilizing matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) in conjunction with a neural network-based classification model...
April 18, 2024: Mikrochimica Acta
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Drishti Palwankar, Ashima Garg, Monika Tandan, Prashant Bhasin, Akshat Sachdeva, Pooja Palwankar
BACKGROUND: Effective irrigation is crucial for successful endodontic treatment. Traditional irrigants like sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) have been widely used, but there is a growing interest in exploring natural alternatives for their potential antimicrobial properties. OBJECTIVE: The study aims to compare the antimicrobial efficacy of Neem, Bitter Gourd, and NaOCl, with and without ultrasonic activation in managing primary endodontic infections. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ninety patients were randomly assigned six groups ( n = 15) Group 1: NaOCl, Group 2: NaOCl with passive ultrasonic irrigation (PUI), Group 3: Neem juice, Group 4: Neem juice with PUI, Group 5: Bitter gourd juice, and Group 6: Bitter gourd juice with PUI...
March 2024: J Conserv Dent Endod
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paula Regina Humbelino de Melo, Pericles Vale Alves, Tatiana Souza de Camargo
BACKGROUND: Rural schools in Amazonas, Brazil, often offer ultra-processed foods in school meals for students, which can lead to health problems and loss of regional food culture. We show an analysis of the menu offered in a riverside school in the Brazilian Amazon and the acceptability of students regarding the consumption of the food they are served with. METHODS: Data were collected in situ, in a riverside school in southern Amazonas, through the analysis of the school menu and the application of an investigative questionnaire to 37 students in the 9th grade of Junior High School...
April 2024: Lancet. Planetary Health
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Magdalena Stepien, Talita Duarte-Salles, Veronika Fedirko, Antonia Trichopoulou, Pagona Lagiou, Christina Bamia, Kim Overvad, Anne Tjønneland, Louise Hansen, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Guy Fagherazzi, Gianluca Severi, Tilman Kühn, Rudolf Kaaks, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Heiner Boeing, Eleni Klinaki, Domenico Palli, Sara Grioni, Salvatore Panico, Rosario Tumino, Alessio Naccarati, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Petra H Peeters, Guri Skeie, Elisabete Weiderpass, Christine L Parr, José Ramón Quirós, Genevieve Buckland, Esther Molina-Montes, Pilar Amiano, Maria-Dolores Chirlaque, Eva Ardanaz, Emily Sonestedt, Ulrika Ericson, Maria Wennberg, Lena Maria Nilsson, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nick Wareham, Kathryn E Bradbury, Heather A Ward, Isabelle Romieu, Mazda Jenab
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 17, 2024: European Journal of Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Priyanka Singh, Anam, Pushpa Singh, Saachi Chaurasia, D Kumar
BACKGROUND: Sugarcane juice, which has a short shelf life, is a popular thirst-quenching and rejuvenating beverage worldwide. The limited shelf life is due to changes in polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity, total plate count (TPC) and color attributes (L*, a* and b* values). We hypothesized that chemical kinetics and thermodynamics of blanched sugarcane cane juice causing alterations in PPO, TPC and L, a*, b* values shall address the challenges of sugarcane juice preservation. RESULT: Sugarcane billets were blanched at variable time-temperature combinations in the range of 0-20 min and 70-90°C...
April 17, 2024: Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maha Ahmed Taha Hassan, Amel M Soliman, Ayman Saber Mohamed
BACKGROUND: The annual incidence of peptic ulcer disease is estimated to be four million cases worldwide, with an average lifetime risk of 7.5% in individuals of all ages. Polymer nanocomposites have novel prospects in the field of modern medicine. OBJECTIVE: The present research endeavors to assess the therapeutic efficacy of nanoparticles composed of silver/chitosan, silver/saponin, and chitosan/saponin against gastric ulcers induced by ethanol in Wistar rats...
April 16, 2024: Recent advances in inflammation & allergy drug discovery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Najia El Frakchi, Khaoula El Kinany, Marwa El Baldi, Younes Saoud, Karima El Rhazi
AIMS: A new approach to a healthy diet is the assessment of dietary Total Antioxidant Capacity (TAC). The aim of this study was to assess the dietary TAC among Moroccan Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients and identify the main food sources contributing to the total antioxidant capacity intake. METHODS: A total of 254 patients with T2DM was included in the study. The usual dietary intakes were assessed by means of a validated food frequency questionnaire. The dietary TAC was estimated using published databases of the antioxidant content of foods measured by the FRAP (ferric ion reducing antioxidant potential) method...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mengya Zhao, Hong Ren, Zhuomin Yan, Jing Ma, Xiaoping Feng, Di Liu, Fangyu Long
Ochratoxin A (OTA) contamination in grape juice has attracted widespread concern as OTA can lead to kidney disease and cause adverse neurological effects. An effective method to remove OTA is to make use of highly adsorbent materials that are able to remove the toxic contaminant. Recently, inactivated Lactobacillus plantarum- based biosorbents have shown to be an efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly bioremediation method in removing toxic pollutants such as OTA. We used five chemical thiol-modification methods to improve the adsorption efficiency of OTA in grape juice...
June 30, 2024: Food chemistry: X
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tahir Mahmood Qureshi, Muhammad Mobeen Saeed, Muhammad Nadeem, Ghulam Muhammad, Mian Anjum Murtaza, Salam A Ibrahim
The experiments reported in this research paper aimed to evaluate the physico-chemical and sensory characteristics, microbial quality and antioxidant potential of goat's milk paneer during storage (0-12 d, 4 ± 1°C). The juices from five different citrus fruits were used as coagulant (treatments) to make goat's milk paneer. The pH of all paneer samples decreased during storage whereas titratable acidity increased. Ash (%) fat (%) and protein (%) of paneer increased slightly during storage, whereas sensory perception decreased...
April 16, 2024: Journal of Dairy Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tracy Y Wang
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April 15, 2024: JAMA Internal Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brendan T Smith, Christine M Warren, Laura N Anderson, David Hammond, Douglas G Manuel, Ye Li, Alessandra T Andreacchi, Laura C Rosella, Sze Hang Fu, Erin Hobin
OBJECTIVE: Estimate the impact of 20% flat-rate and tiered sugary drink tax structures on the consumption of sugary drinks, sugar-sweetened beverages, and 100% juice by age, sex, and socioeconomic position. DESIGN: We modelled the impact of price changes -for each tax structure- on the demand for sugary drinks by applying own- and cross-price elasticities to self-report sugary drink consumption measured using single day 24-hour dietary recalls from the cross-sectional, nationally-representative 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition...
April 15, 2024: Public Health Nutrition
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Cristina Díaz Del Arco, M Jesús Fernández Aceñero, Luis Ortega Medina
After the study of circulating tumor cells in blood through liquid biopsy (LB), this technique has evolved to encompass the analysis of multiple materials originating from the tumor, such as nucleic acids, extracellular vesicles, tumor-educated platelets, and other metabolites. Additionally, research has extended to include the examination of samples other than blood or plasma, such as saliva, gastric juice, urine, or stool. LB techniques are diverse, intricate, and variable. They must be highly sensitive, and pre-analytical, patient, and tumor-related factors significantly influence the detection threshold, diagnostic method selection, and potential results...
March 28, 2024: World Journal of Gastroenterology: WJG
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Hua Tang, Ramon Bartolo, Bruno B Averbeck
Reinforcement learning (RL) engages a network of areas, including the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ventral striatum (VS), amygdala (AMY), and mediodorsal thalamus (MDt). This study examined RL mediated by gains and losses of symbolic reinforcers across this network. Monkeys learned to select options that led to gaining tokens and avoid options that led to losing tokens. Tokens were cashed out for juice rewards periodically. We found that task-relevant information was distributed across the network. However, examination of the way in which information was encoded differed, with VS showing increased responses to appetitive outcomes, OFC differentiating primary and symbolic reinforcers, and AMY responding to the salience of outcomes...
April 4, 2024: bioRxiv
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sara Spinelli, Helene Hopfer, Victor Moulinier, John Prescott, Erminio Monteleone, John E Hayes
Over the last half-century, variable responses to sweetness have repeatedly been shown to fall into a small number of hedonic responses, implying that looking only at group means may can obfuscate meaningfully different response patterns. Comparative data for sourness is quite sparse, especially in adults. While increased liking with higher acid concentration has been reported for some children, in adults, sourness is classically assumed to be aversive, with a monotonic drop in liking with increasing sourness...
July 2024: Food Quality and Preference
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuta Yagi, Yiwei Liu, Jinting Li, Shunsuke Shimada, Munetaka Ohkouchi, Yasushi Taguchi, Teruki Nii, Takeshi Mori, Yoshiki Katayama
In this study, we prepared antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-encapsulated nanoparticles (NPs) with a suitable profile for oral administration for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We chose a water-in-oil-in-water (w/o/w) method to prepare the NPs using poly(lactide-co-glycolide) as a matrix and Pluronic as a stabilizer. The obtained NPs had a suitable diameter (158 nm) for the penetration of the mucus layer, endocytic uptake by enterocytes, and accumulation in inflammatory lesions in the intestine...
2024: Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shurong Chen, Yuhao Jiang, Junxian Li, Meng You, Rongxu Zhang, Jilong Li, Zhuang Fu, Jiahan Xie, Zhibing Wang
A convenient, efficient, and green dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction based on the in situ formation of solidified supramolecular solvents combined with high performance liquid chromatography was developed for the determination of four phenylurea herbicides in liquid samples, including monuron, monolinuron, isoproturon, and chlortoluron. Herein, a novel supramolecular solvent was prepared by the in situ reaction of [P4448 ]Br and NH4 PF6 , which had the advantages of low melting point, high density, and good dispersibility...
April 10, 2024: Food Chemistry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wenjie Jing, Yajun Yang, Qihao Shi, Jiahao Xu, Guanjie Xing, Yujie Dai, Fufeng Liu
Although nanozymes sensor arrays have the potential to recognize multiple target substances simultaneously, they currently rarely identify phenolic acids in food due to limited catalytic performance and complex preparation conditions of nanozymes. Here, inspired by the structure of polyphenol oxidase, we have successfully prepared a novel gallic acid-Cu (GA-Cu) nanozyme with laccase-like activity. Due to the different catalytic efficiency of GA-Cu nanozymes towards six common phenolic acids, a three-channel colorimetric sensor array was constructed using reaction kinetics as the sensing unit to achieve high-throughput detection and identification of six phenolic acids within a concentration range from 1 to 100 μM...
April 10, 2024: Food Chemistry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mathiyazhagan Narayanan, K Suresh, Sami Al Obaid, Parameswari Alagarsamy, Cong-Kinh Nguyen
This investigation was performed to obtain a promising phytase enzyme producing yeast. In this regard, the PSM was used to isolate the phytase-producing Hanseniaspora guilliermondii S1 (MG663578) from sugarcane juice. The SSF optimum conditions for phytase generation were optimized using (OVAT) one-variable-at-a-time strategy using both Box-Behnken design and shake flask method (g/100ml: 0.05 yeast extract, 0.15 Peptone, 0.05 malt extract 0.50 dextrose, pH 5.8 and 28ᵒC). The protein model developed was shown to be adequate for phytase production (91% accuracy), with the greatest phytase productivity in shake flask with substrate jack fruit seed powder being 395± 0...
April 11, 2024: Environmental Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nitish Sharma, Satya N Patel, Amit K Rai, Sudhir P Singh
Endopolygalacturonases are crucial pectinases known for their efficient and sustainable pectin depolymerization activities. The present study identified a novel gene encoding endopolygalacturonase from an acidic mine tailing metagenome. The putative gene showed a maximum identity of 67.55 % with an uncharacterized peptide sequence from Flavobacterium fluvii. The gene was cloned and expressed in a heterologous host, E. coli. Biochemical characterization of the novel endopolygalacturonase enzyme variant (EPHM ) showed maximum activity at 60 °C and at 5...
April 11, 2024: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
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