consumers and functional foods

... that the foods already on the market represent a small fraction of the potential for functional foods Today’s science and technology can be used to provide many additional functional foods, and future ... fortification of foods with vitamins and minerals has been accepted by consumers and regulators, but consumers should recognize the clear distinction between the use and purpose of foods vs drugs ... development and marketing of functional foods Where existing terminology and regulatory frameworks are inadequate to address the full scope of benefits and opportunities for functional foods, the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20

... consensus on the definition of nutraceuticals and functional foods The term 'nutraceutical' was coined from 'nutrition' and 'pharmaceutical' in 1989 by DeFelice and was originally defined as 'a food ... placebo) AND osteoarthritis Biosis was searched with the following keywords: random* AND (double near blind OR trial? OR stud??? OR placebo) AND osteoarthritis These searches generated 1,519, 324, and ... lipids (avocado and soybean unsaponifiables [ASUs], n-3 PUFAs, lipid extracts from New Zealand green-lipped mussel, and cetyl myristoleate), on vitamins and minerals (vitamins C, E, B3, and B12, boron,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... technology and nutrition list: Performance functional foods (ISBN 85573 671 3) Some of the newest and most exciting developments in functional foods are products that claim to influence mood and enhance ... fat-based foods, particularly meat and dairy products and fried foods Recent research suggests that they play a role in limiting cardiovascular disease and cancers This book provides a review of the functional ... mental and physical performance This important collection reviews the range of ingredients used in these ‘performance’ functional foods, their effects and the evidence supporting their functional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2015, 01:56

... A total of 20 foods were chosen to represent familiar and unfamiliar foods of both plant and animal origin (see Table for food names) Along with familiar and unfamiliar ethnic foods, other types ... observed between FNG and the percentage of subjects who had tasted the food stimuli (Table 3) Seven foods in the group of familiar foods and six foods in the group of unfamiliar foods had been tried ... am constantly sampling new and di€erent foods I don't trust new foods If I don't know what is in a food, I won't try it I like foods from di€erent countries Ethnic foods look too weird to eat...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:06

... Nutraceuticals (1st and 2nd Editions), Handbook of Fermented Functional Foods (1st Edition), Handbook of Functional Dairy Products, Handbook of Functional Lipids, Dictionary of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, ... nutrition, and health professionals They are: Functional Foods: Biochemical and Processing Aspects (Volumes and 2), Herbs Botanicals and Teas, Methods of Analysis for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals ... (2004) Handbook of Fermented Functional Foods, Second Edition (2008) Herbs, Botanicals, and Teas (2002) Functional Foods: Biochemical and Processing Aspects Volume (2002) Functional Foods: Biochemical...

Ngày tải lên: 02/09/2013, 23:18

... ‘balanced’ diet, Functional foods improve the capacity to resist disease and enhance health Functional foods are one of the outcomes of this The functional foods market Functional foods first emerged ... between functional foods and health An understanding of this is obviously critical to the claims that manufacturers can make about functional products Chapter looks at colonic functional foods: ... of functional foods since the early 1980s when systematic and large-scale research programmes were launched and 12 Functional foods funded by the Japanese government on systematic analysis and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 19:20

... lower extremities were carried out, using standard procedures These included: semi tandem stand, full tandem stand, rising from chair without using arms and shoulder external rotation (full) A younger ... injury or an illness Best performance was in "standing from chair without using arms" (84%), semi tandem stand was completed by 78% and full tandem stand by 72% The poorest performance was in shoulder ... in Myanmar, 84% in Indonesia and 62% in Thailand (10) It was D N Fernando and R de A Seneviratna 14 Table Self-assessed "health status" by some psychosocial factors and indicators of use of health...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (to L.W and S.E.), the 4928 Swedish Research Council (to H.E and P.N.) and the Swedish Cancer Foundation (to H.E and P.N.) The Structural Genomics ... domain is mainly built up by residues from the C-terminus and consists of a two-stranded anti-parallel b-sheet composed of b2 and b9 and an a-helix from the C-terminus (Fig 1A) The two subunits ... PRTFDC1 (A) monomer and (B) tetramer generated using symmetry-related molecules Interactions with GMP (C) GMP, phosphate and calcium ions are shown as sticks and spheres colored pink and black, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... benefit consumers by expanding the array of services offered by banks and allowing consumers to go outside the local market for banking services Impact of consolidation One way mergers could hurt consumers ... THE CHANGES ON CONSUMERS Consumers have traditionally relied on nearby banks and branches for many of their banking services Will the transformation of banking now under way hurt consumers by raising ... of developing information management systems and creating brand recognition among consumers Others argue that small banks are merely being cautious and will catch up with large banks by outsourcing...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... (a helix signature), 218 nm (b strand signature), 202–204 nm (random coil signature) In WhiB5 and WhiB6, the structure was dominated by a helices and b strands and the proportion of these structural ... refolding were  98% pure and were brownish (Figs S1 and S2) The presence of four conserved cysteines and the brownish appearance of purified WhiB1, WhiB2, WhiB5, WhiB6 and WhiB7 indicated the presence ... WhiB6 and WhiB7 the loss was  8–10% After 48 h of air exposure, losses were as follows:  80% in WhiB1,  75% in WhiB2 and WhiB5,  65% in WhiB3,  60% in WhiB4, and  35–40% in WhiB6 and WhiB7...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 12:20

... between R81 and P82 and between G90 and I91 A similar cis peptide between G93 and V94 is found in Tm SurE also Overall structural features of the protein St SurE is an aba sandwich protein and adopts ... archaic and thermophilic homologues The St SurE monomer consists of 13 b-strands, six a-helices and three 310-helices The core of the protein is made up of a nine-stranded b-sheet flanked by a1, a5 and ... are represented by pink, cyan, blue and yellow, respectively The tetrameric interactions are between the subunits A and C, and B and D, by way of the b hairpins and the loop, which connects b2 to...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... lanes 2,3 and 4, lower band) The levels of mutant and wild-type MCPIP mRNAs were higher when these vectors were co-transfected with a vector overexpressing IL-1b (Fig 5, lanes and 4, upper bands) ... intermediate levels in heart and placenta, and the lowest levels in spleen, kidney, liver and lung The transcript was not detectable in brain, thymus, muscles, small intestine and colon (Fig 3A) The ... within the PIN domain (D141A and D226A) Transcription was inhibited by addition of actinomycin D, and RNA was collected after 3, and h The mRNA level for IL-1b (top panel) and MCPIP (bottom panel)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... performed with rabbit preimmune and post-third inoculation sera against a M tuberculosis sonicate (lanes 1, and 5) and a membrane fraction (lanes and 4) Lanes and 3, absence of recognition of ... nm) (Fig 5A) Scatchard and Hill analyses were then performed and dissociation constants (Kd) were calculated for Rv2560 HABP 11024 for U937 and A549 cell lines (Kd of 380 and 800 nm, respectively) ... for U937 and 1.2 for A549 cells, suggesting positive ligand–receptor cooperativity The numbers of binding sites per cell calculated for peptide 11024 were 200 000 and 000 000 for U937 and A549...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... D and E + F), (b) a few hydrogen bonds, and a hydrophobic interaction between A + C, B + E and D + F, and (c) electrostatic forces in the central channel of the hexamer between B, C and F, and ... water molecule fixing the three lysines from the B, C and F subunits, and there is no direct interaction between subunits A and F, B and D, or C and E A phosphate ion was found in the donor site ... Ala The mutant enzymes, F133N and F133A, were expressed, purified and characterized With mm UMP and ATP as substrates, the activities of F133N and F133A were only 50 and 20% of that of the wild-type...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... 60, 70 and 80 °C between 190 and 260 nm with a step increase of 0.2 nm, and a bandwidth of nm Thermal stability of Rep245 was measured by incubating the protein at 60, 70 and 80 °C for 30 and then ... prim–pol domain S Prato et al Zn-binding motif and the two disulfide bonds respectively connecting the a4-helix to the b4 strand and the b9 strand to the b10 strand at the bottom of the Zn-stem loop in ... known to serve as ligands for divalent cations and as tags revealing the presence of DNA polymerases in the active site [18–20] In this study, we report on the structural and functional characterization...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... (accession numbers AJ880690 and AJ880691 for cDNAs, Q53I65 and Q53I64 for amino-acid sequences) were aligned and compared with other globins in the multiple sequence alignment (Fig and Table 1) The sequence ... typical molecular features: Lys-A9, Trp-B10 and also a deletion of three residues between the A and B helices, and a deletion of one residue between the F and G helices Moreover, the two residues ... Asp-A4, Trp-A16, Phe-B10 and LeuB13 Furthermore, it shows an insertion of three residues between the A and B helices, an insertion of one residue between the F and G helices, and a three-residue motif...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... glucose and hemin chloride (13 lgÆmL)1), and further incubated at 30 °C for 24 h Then, the cells were collected and suspended in 25 mL of 40% potassium hydroxide and 25 mL of methanol and refluxed ... cDNA and functional analysis of several other EST clones belonging to this subfamily is in progress On the other hand, sterol oxygenases thus far identified not show high sequence homology and ... vector MS fragmentations of entries A and B are shown in the lower panel CYP93E1 has 24-hydroxylase activities for both b-amyrin and sophoradiol substrates b-amyrin and sophoradiol hydroxylase activities...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... chromosomes; PDGF-a and -b on chromosomes and 22 [17,18], and PDGF-c and -d on chromosomes and 11 [19], respectively The genomic organization of the pdgf genes is quite similar, although PDGF-c and -d genes ... exons in PDGF-c (exons and 6) and PDGF-d (exons and 7) encoding the cystine knot motifs resemble the corresponding exons in the PDGF-a and -b (exons and 5) genes Both in PDGF-a and -b, exon encodes ... While PDGF-A and -B can form both homo- and heterodimers (PDGF-AA, -AB, -BB), PDGF-C and -D exist only as homodimers (PDGF-CC and -DD) The full-length PDGF-C and -D monomers are 54–55 kDa and 49–56...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... concentrations: 40 and 80 mM (lanes and 3) for h MTs were also treated for the same period with a reducing agent (dithiothreitol) at 40 and 80 mM (lanes and 5) To reduce aggregation, MT samples were handled ... urchin, snail and oyster) have so far been elucidated [11–17] As in mammals and fish [18], echinoderm MTs contain two globular domains binding four and three bivalent ions [19] On the other hand, in ... Vergani et al right-handed b domain binds three bivalent metal ions The C-terminal a domain is left-handed and binds four bivalent ions Zinc is preferentially located in the b domain and cadmium in...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... in Asian and Mediterranean countries [15] This paper describes the cloning and functional characterization of an AK gene from a genomic library of L donovani as well as its expression and molecular ... characterization Materials and methods Materials Plasmids pGEM-3Zf(+) and pQE30 were from Promega and QIAGEN, respectively [32P]dCTP[aP] (3000 CiÆ mmol)1) was from DuPont-NEN Restriction enzymes and Taq DNA ... as all enzymes showed only one band, except those which cut once into the gene sequence (BamHI, KpnI and SalI), which exhibited two hybridizing bands Chromosomal bands from L donovani 1S2D strain...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20