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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in urban rodents from a groceries trade center of Medellin, Colombia.

30 Oct 2009 Leptospirosis is a widely distributed zoonosis, and rats are its most common source of infection. Our goal was to determine the frequency for Leptospira infection in rodents in a farmers market in the city of Medellin. We performed a descriptive ... Read more...

Food incentives to improve completion of tuberculosis treatment: randomised controlled trial in Dili, Timor-Leste.

24 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of the provision of whole food to enhance completion of treatment for tuberculosis. DESIGN: Parallel group randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Three primary care clinics in Dili, Timor-Leste. PARTICIPANTS: ... Read more...

AMPK regulates the circadian clock by cryptochrome phosphorylation and degradation.

14 Oct 2009 Circadian clocks coordinate behavioral and physiological processes with daily light-dark cycles by driving rhythmic transcription of thousands of genes. Whereas the master clock in the brain is set by light, pacemakers in peripheral organs, such as ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Food'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in urban rodents from a groceries trade center of Medellin, Colombia. 30 Oct 2009
• Food incentives to improve completion of tuberculosis treatment: randomised controlled trial in Dili, Timor-Leste. 24 Oct 2009
• Food incentives and completion of tuberculosis treatment. 24 Oct 2009
• AMPK regulates the circadian clock by cryptochrome phosphorylation and degradation. 14 Oct 2009
• Physiology. Feeding the clock. 14 Oct 2009
• Availability of less nutritious snack foods and beverages in secondary schools - selected States, 2002-2008. 7 Oct 2009
• Relationship between malocclusion, orthodontic treatment, and tooth wear. 29 Sep 2009
• Life sciences. A new biology to mend society's woes. 23 Sep 2009
• Edible cotton. 12 Sep 2009
• Differential engagement of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex by goal-directed and habitual behavior toward food pictures in humans. 7 Sep 2009
• "They don't care what happens to us." The situation of double orphans heading households in Rakai District, Uganda. 2 Sep 2009
• Agriculture. Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run. 2 Sep 2009
• Comment on "Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny". 2 Sep 2009
• Food and beverage brands that market to children and adolescents on the internet: a content analysis of branded web sites. 30 Aug 2009
• Focus group studies on food safety knowledge, perceptions, and practices of school-going adolescent girls in South India. 30 Aug 2009
• The Key Events Dose-Response Framework: a cross-disciplinary mode-of-action based approach to examining dose-response and thresholds. 30 Aug 2009
• 3rd International IUPAC Symposium on Trace Elements in Food. 30 Aug 2009
• Exercise: the best therapy for managing side effects. How to stay active and energetic. 30 Aug 2009
• What's for breakfast (and lunch and dinner)? HIV and what you eat, drink, and take. 30 Aug 2009
• Update on drugs prohibited from extralabel use in food animals. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Food'

Definition: Any substances taken in by the body that provide nourishment.

Descriptor UI: D005502

Alternative terms: Food; Foods; Nutrients;

Related Mesh Headings: Diet; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Nutritional Requirements; Plants, Edible;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; radiation effects; standards; toxicity; utilization; statistics & numerical data; virology;

Tree Number: J02.500;

Technical Notes: /adv eff = probably FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY or FOOD POISONING; /rad eff = probably FOOD IRRADIATION or FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; Manual 31.5-31.12; food consumption = FOOD or EATING or FOOD SUPPLY; food for animals = ANIMAL FEED; refeeding after starvation goes here; microbes found in food: consider FOOD MICROBIOLOGY (IM) + specific microbe (IM); parasites found in food: consider FOOD PARASITOLOGY (IM) + specific parasite (IM); differentiation from DIET & NUTRITION: see note under NUTRITION & Manual 31.5