Maternal obesity increases the risk of obesity in offspring, and obesity is accompanied by an increase in blood leptin levels. The "yellow" mutation at the mouse agouti locus (A(y)) increases blood leptin levels in C57BL preobese pregnant mice without affecting other metabolic characteristics. We investigated the influence of the A(y) mutation or leptin injection at the end of pregnancy in C57B...

I grew up in a household afraid of germs. When my sister was born, my father had all guests put on surgical masks to protect her. We all had our tonsils taken out “just because,” and antibiotics were considered a miracle discovered by science. My generation was the one first introduced to fast food—we really believed it was food! Our mothers were sold the idea that formula could be better than ...

The development of integrated, fast and affordable platforms for pathogen detection is an emerging area where a multidisciplinary approach is necessary for designing microsystems employing miniaturized devices; these new technologies promise a significant advancement of the current state of analytical testing leading to improved healthcare. In this work, the development of a lab-on-chip microsy...

Escherichia albertii is a potential food-borne pathogen because of its documented ability to cause diarrheal disease by producing attachment and effacement lesions. Its tolerances to heat (56 degrees C), acid (pH 3.0), and pressure (500 MPa [5 min]) were evaluated and found to be significantly less than those of wild-type E. coli O157:H7.

Contamination of waste effluent from hospitals and intensive food animal production with antimicrobial residues is an immense global problem. Antimicrobial residues exert selection pressures that influence the acquisition of antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes in diverse microbial populations. Despite these concerns there is only a limited understanding of how antimicrobial residues co...

objective: bacillus cereus (b. cereus) is a gram-positive, spore-forming bacteria widely distributed in the environment. this bacteria is an opportunistic human pathogen that can cause diarrheal and emetic types of food poisoning. the diarrhea type of food poisoning can be caused by hemolysin bl (hbl), non-hemolytic (nhe), and cytotoxin k enterotoxins. rice is commonly contaminated with b. cere...

2 Membranolytic Peptides 3 Ariadna Grau-Campistany,‡,† Erik Strandberg,‡ Parvesh Wadhwani,‡ Francesc Rabanal,† 4 and Anne S. Ulrich*,‡,§ 5 ‡Institute of Biological Interfaces (IBG-2), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), POB 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 6 †Departament de Química Orgaǹica, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 7 Institute of Organic Chemistry, KIT...

BACKGROUND An epidemic of gastrointestinal disturbances related to food ingestion occurred at a junior high school in Komatsu, Japan, and was caused by specifically Shiga toxin (Stx) 1-producing Escherichia coli O118:H2, which has not been reported previously in humans. No outbreak of E coli-producing Stx 1 alone had occurred. METHODS A total of 526 students and 35 adult staff members who ate...

Cleft lip and palate is a congenital deformity associated with maxillary sagittal transverse discrepancies. Feeding an immediate concern in children born cleft as it delays their normal growth. A feeding plate essential for proper nutrition, has role craniofacial development decreases the incidence of otitis media nasopharyngeal infections. This case report describes single visit technique fabr...