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Nutrients, Volume 3, Issue 9

September 2011 - 4 articles

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Articles (4)

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,322 Views
21 Pages

16 September 2011

Abelmoschus esculentus (Malvaceae), Hibiscus acetosella (Malvaceae), Manihot esculenta Crantz (Euphorbiaceae) and Pteridium aquilinum (Dennstaedtiaceae) leaves are currently consumed as vegetables by migrants from sub-Saharan Africa living in Western...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,079 Views
13 Pages

Deficiency in the 15 kDa Selenoprotein Inhibits Human Colon Cancer Cell Growth

  • Petra A. Tsuji,
  • Salvador Naranjo-Suarez,
  • Bradley A. Carlson,
  • Ryuta Tobe,
  • Min-Hyuk Yoo and
  • Cindy D. Davis

5 September 2011

Selenium is an essential micronutrient for humans and animals, and is thought to provide protection against some forms of cancer. These protective effects appear to be mediated, at least in part, through selenium-containing proteins (selenoproteins)....

  • Review
  • Open Access
431 Citations
28,573 Views
27 Pages

Bioactive Peptides from Muscle Sources: Meat and Fish

  • Joseph Thomas Ryan,
  • Reynolds Paul Ross,
  • Declan Bolton,
  • Gerald F. Fitzgerald and
  • Catherine Stanton

31 August 2011

Bioactive peptides have been identified in a range of foods, including plant, milk and muscle, e.g., beef, chicken, pork and fish muscle proteins. Bioactive peptides from food proteins offer major potential for incorporation into functional foods and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,148 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Dietary Glutamine Supplementation on the Body Composition and Protein Status of Early-Weaned Mice Inoculated with Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guerin

  • Marcelo Macedo Rogero,
  • Maria Carolina Borges,
  • Inar Alves De Castro,
  • Ivanir S. O. Pires,
  • Primavera Borelli and
  • Julio Tirapegui

31 August 2011

Glutamine, one of the most abundant amino acids found in maternal milk, favors protein anabolism. Early-weaned babies are deprived of this source of glutamine, in a period during which endogenous biosynthesis may be insufficient for tissue needs in s...

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