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What Sridevi meant to 13-year-old me

Syed Firdaus Ashraf explains why the Bollywood legend will remain an eternal part of his life.




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No Sir! The Oscars weren't boring at all!

'The way the winners react and the speeches they deliver.''That is where the fun happens, when the actors and other winners let down their guard, challenge the system, talk about issues that should matter to us,' says Aseem Chhabra.









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'Rita Bhaduri was my closest competitor in class'

Shabana Azmi knew Rita closely, as they were FTII batchmates, and she tells Subhash K Jha how deep their friendship was.




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How much will Priyanka be paid for Salman's Bharat?

Soorma Director Shaadi Ali moves on to his next biopic.Vivek Agnihotri reveals the subject of his next film.Bolly Gupshup with Subhash K Jha.




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Why Rajshri Deshpande went topless in Sacred Games

'Nawaz, who plays my husband, doesn't look at women when he has sex with them.''He never kisses them.''That moment when I am in front of him is decisive,' the New Wave actress tells Subhash K Jha.





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Why 'Goldfish' Katrina agreed to Bharat

It won't be easy for the half-British diva to step into the Desi Girl's sandals, feels Subhash K Jha.





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Why should patriotic Indians be embarrassed by Mulk?

'Mulk questions the very principle, of good-Muslim exceptionalism.''That, of course, we adore Abdul Hamid, A P J Abdul Kalam and Bismillah Khan and if only more Muslims were like them.''Anubhav Sinha sticks his neck out to say that these are no exceptions.''Most Muslims are like them. It is the terrorists who are exceptions,' says Shekhar Gupta.




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What are Priyanka's plans after her wedding?

Will Priyanka start a family? Or does she have some career aces up her sleeve?Longtime Rediff.com contributor Aseem Chhabra, author of <Priyanka Chopra: The Incredible Story Of A Global Bollywood Star, predicts PeeCee's next moves.








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Songs for a Williamsburg Christmas

Carols, motets, hymns, songs, and madrigals reflect the enthusiastic joy and high spirits of Yuletide celebrations in Williamsburg.




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In Freedom We're Born: Songs from the American Revolution

New lyrics set to familiar (or some not so familiar) English melodies, recorded using 18th-century instrumentation to recreate the ambience of a small tavern or public meeting place.




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A Numerous and Brilliant Assembly: A Colonial Williamsburg Musical Sampler

Selected performances from nine of Colonial Williamsburg's recordings, including fife and drum marches, chamber music, slave chants, and tavern songs.






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Patrick Henry's speech: "Give me liberty or give me death"

Richard Schuman interprets the character of Patrick Henry for The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He re-creates Patrick Henry's powerful speech.




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Backstory Radio Presents: The American Indian Story

In October 2010, the hosts of Backstory visited Colonial Williamsburg's Kimball Theatre to perform a live show.




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Formation and disappearance of aldehydes during simulated gastrointestinal digestion of fried clams

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3483-3492
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO03021B, Paper
Zhong-Yuan Liu, Yuan-Yuan Hu, Man-Tong Zhao, Hong-Kai Xie, Xiao-Pei Hu, Xiao-Chi Ma, Jiang-Hua Zhang, Yan-Hong Bai, Da-Yong Zhou
The formation and disappearance of aldehydes during simulated gastrointestinal digestion (SD) of fried clams was investigated in order to shed light on the underlying mechanism.
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Fucoxanthin alleviates palmitate-induced inflammation in RAW 264.7 cells through improving lipid metabolism and attenuating mitochondrial dysfunction

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3361-3370
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00442A, Paper
Siyu Li, Xiaomeng Ren, Yuandong Wang, Jiangning Hu, Haitao Wu, Shuang Song, Chunhong Yan
Fucoxanthin mitigated palmitate-induced inflammation in macrophages through promoting fatty acid oxidation and ameliorating mitochondrial dysfunction.
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Seaweed Porphyra yezoensis polysaccharides with different molecular weights inhibit hydroxyapatite damage and osteoblast differentiation of A7R5 cells

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3393-3409
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO01732A, Paper
Ling-Hong Huang, Hong Liu, Jia-Yun Chen, Xin-Yuan Sun, Zhi-hui Yao, Jin Han, Jian-Ming Ouyang
Porphyra yezoensis polysaccharide could effectively reduce the cell damage and osteogenic transformation of vascular smooth muscle cells induced by hydroxyapatite crystals.
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Untargeted metabolomics revealed therapeutic mechanisms of icariin on low bone mineral density in older caged laying hens

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3201-3212
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02882J, Paper
Jie Huang, Yanping Hu, Xiaofeng Tong, Lei Zhang, Zhengwang Yu, Zhongxin Zhou
Untargeted metabolomics revealed the therapeutic effects and mechanisms of icariin on low bone mineral density in older caged laying hens.
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Girinimbine from curry leaves promotes gastro protection against ethanol induced peptic ulcers and improves healing via regulation of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant mechanisms

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3493-3505
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00053A, Paper
Syam Mohan, Yahya Hasan Hobani, Emad Shaheen, Alaa Sayed Abou-Elhamd, Aymen abdelhaleem, Hassan A. Alhazmi, Siddig Ibrahim Abdelwahab
Curry leaves (Murraya koenigii) are a leafy spice used in Indian cookery for its fragrant aroma.
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Purification, characterization and molecular cloning of a dicaffeoylquinic acid-hydrolyzing esterase from human-derived Lactobacillus fermentum LF-12

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3235-3244
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00029A, Paper
Yujin Liu, Minhao Xie, Peng Wan, Guijie Chen, Chunxu Chen, Dan Chen, Shijie Yu, Xiaoxiong Zeng, Yi Sun
Dicaffeoylquinic acids (DiCQAs), the main components of kudingcha made from the leaves of Ilex kudingcha, could be transformed by gut microbiota.
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The prophylactic effects of different Lactobacilli on collagen-induced arthritis in rats

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3681-3694
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02556A, Paper
Zhexin Fan, Bo Yang, R. Paul Ross, Catherine Stanton, Jianxin Zhao, Hao Zhang, Wei Chen
The current study evaluated the prophylactic effects of different Lactobacillus species on arthritis induced by collagen.
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Ptaquiloside from bracken (Pteridium spp.) promotes oral carcinogenesis initiated by HPV16 in transgenic mice

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3298-3305
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00207K, Paper
Rui M. Gil da Costa, Tiago Neto, Diogo Estêvão, Magda Moutinho, Ana Félix, Rui Medeiros, Carlos Lopes, Margarida M. S. M. Bastos, Paula A. Oliveira
Bracken (Pteridium spp.) is a common weed that is consumed as food especially in Asia, and is suspected of promoting carcinogenesis induced by papillomaviruses in the digestive and urinary systems.
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Proteomic landscape of liver tissue in old male mice that are long-term treated with polysaccharides from Sargassum fusiforme

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3632-3644
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00187B, Paper
Peichao Chen, Ya Zhang, Man Xu, Hongjun Chen, Huixi Zou, Xu Zhang, Haibin Tong, Cuiping You, Mingjiang Wu
The polysaccharides extracted from Sargassum fusiforme delays the aging process via mitochondria-associated anti-oxidation.
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Chronic flavanol-rich cocoa powder supplementation reduces body fat mass in endurance athletes by modifying the follistatin/myostatin ratio and leptin levels

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3441-3450
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00246A, Paper
Jose Ángel García-Merino, Diego Moreno-Pérez, Beatriz de Lucas, Maria Gregoria Montalvo-Lominchar, Elsa Muñoz, Lara Sánchez, Fernando Naclerio, Karen Marlene Herrera-Rocha, Martha Rocío Moreno-Jiménez, Nuria Elisabeth Rocha-Guzmán, Mar Larrosa
Flavanols-rich cocoa reduced body fat composition in athletes through modulation of follistatin and leptin levels.
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The effect of culinary doses of spices in a high-saturated fat, high-carbohydrate meal on postprandial lipemia and endothelial function: a randomized, controlled, crossover pilot trial

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3191-3200
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02438G, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Kristina S. Petersen, Connie J. Rogers, Sheila G. West, David N. Proctor, Penny M. Kris-Etherton
Lower doses of spices (2 and 6 g) than previously tested may attenuate postprandial lipemia and impairments in endothelial function caused by a high-saturated fat, high-carbohydrate meal.
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Addition of flavonols and polysaccharides as excipient ingredients into epicatechin rich green tea extract inhibited free radical formation and glucose uptake

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3105-3111
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO03020D, Paper
So-Hee Yoo, Yeong-Eun Lee, Jin-Oh Chung, Chan-Su Rha, Yong-Deog Hong, Mi-Young Park, Soon-Mi Shim
Results from the current study suggested that whole green tea components rich in flavonols and polysaccharides could be potential hypoglycemic excipient ingredients into green tea catechins by enhancing catechin absorption.
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cis 9, trans 11, but not trans 10, cis 12 CLA isomer, impairs intestinal epithelial barrier function in IPEC-J2 cells and mice through activation of GPR120-[Ca2+]i and the MLCK signaling pathway

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3657-3667
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00376J, Paper
Han Su, Weijie Zhao, Fenglin Zhang, Min Song, Fangfang Liu, Jisong Zheng, Mingfa Ling, Xiaohua Yang, Qiang Yang, Haiwen He, Lin Chen, Xumin Lai, Xiaotong Zhu, Lina Wang, Ping Gao, Gang Shu, Qingyan Jiang, Songbo Wang
In vitro and in vivo studies show that c9, t11-CLA, but not t10, c12-CLA isomer, impairs intestinal epithelial barrier function in IPEC-J2 cells and mice via activation of GPR120-[Ca2+]i and the MLCK pathway.
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Cloning, expression and comparison of the properties of Scy p 9, a Scylla paramamosain allergen

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3006-3019
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00004C, Paper
Xin-Rong He, Yi-Meng Cheng, Yang Yang, Jie-Jing Xie, Ka-Hou Chu, Yong-Xia Zhang, Gui-Xia Chen, Hong Liu, Min-Jie Cao, Guang-Ming Liu
This study investigated the properties of Scy p 9 in mud crab (Scylla paramamosain).
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Black mulberry ethanol extract attenuates atherosclerosis-related inflammatory factors and downregulates PPARγ and CD36 genes in experimental atherosclerotic rats

Food Funct., 2020, 11,2997-3005
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02736J, Paper
Yun-Guo Liu, Jia-Li Yan, Yan-Qing Ji, Wen-Jing Nie, Yan Jiang
Atherosclerosis (AS) is the pathological basis of various vascular diseases and currently is seriously affecting human health.
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Dietary intake of Lycium ruthenicum Murray ethanol extract inhibits colonic inflammation in dextran sulfate sodium-induced murine experimental colitis

Food Funct., 2020, 11,2924-2937
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00172D, Paper
Shuai Zong, Liu Yang, Hyun Jin Park, Jinglei Li
Lycium ruthenicum Murray extract protected experimental colitis by inhibiting pro-inflammatory cytokines production, inflammatory cell infiltration, inflammatory mediators activation and oxidative stress, and restored intestinal barrier integrity.
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Study of viability of high pressure extract from pomegranate peel to improve carrot juice characteristics

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3410-3419
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02922B, Paper
João P. Trigo, Elisabete M. C. Alexandre, Sara Silva, Eduardo Costa, Jorge A. Saraiva, Manuela Pintado
Extracts from fruit processing by-products usually present high amounts of bioactive compounds with several important activities such as antioxidant and antimicrobial capacities.
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The impact of oligosaccharide content, glycosidic linkages and lactose content of galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) on the expression of mucus-related genes in goblet cells

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3506-3515
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00064G, Paper
Susana Figueroa-Lozano, Chengcheng Ren, Huifang Yin, Hien Pham, Sander van Leeuwen, Lubbert Dijkhuizen, Paul de Vos
Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) are molecules known to impact goblet cell function and mucus composition. Our results show that their molecular structure have a direct effect on goblet cells and impact mucus synthesis-related genes.
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Correction: 5-Heptadecylresorcinol attenuates oxidative damage and mitochondria-mediated apoptosis through activation of the SIRT3/FOXO3a signaling pathway in neurocytes

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3749-3749
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO90012E, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Jie Liu, Yu Wang, Yiming Hao, Zongwei Wang, Zihui Yang, Ziyuan Wang, Jing Wang
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Lycium barbarum polysaccharides ameliorate intestinal barrier dysfunction and inflammation through the MLCK-MLC signaling pathway in Caco-2 cells

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3741-3748
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00030B, Paper
Wei Li, Mingbo Gao, Ting Han
Impairment of the intestinal barrier often occurs in inflammatory bowel diseases, and pro-inflammatory factors play a vital role in the pathogenesis of intestinal diseases.
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Correction: Matrix-mediated distribution of 4-hydroxy-2-hexanal (nonenal) during deep-frying of chicken breast and potato sticks in vegetable oil

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3750-3750
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO90018D, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Lukai Ma, Guoqin Liu, Weiwei Cheng, Xinqi Liu, Huifan Liu, Qin Wang
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Dietary intakes of flavonoids and carotenoids and the risk of developing an unhealthy metabolic phenotype

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3451-3458
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02852H, Paper
Nazanin Moslehi, Mahdieh Golzarand, Farhad Hosseinpanah, Parvin Mirmiran, Fereidoun Azizi
This study was designed to investigate prospective associations between dietary habitual intakes of flavonoids and carotenoids and the development of an unhealthy metabolic phenotype separately in normal-weight and excess weight individuals.
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Hot-water extract of ripened Pu-erh tea attenuates DSS-induced colitis through modulation of the NF-κB and HIF-1α signaling pathways in mice

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3459-3470
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02803J, Paper
Yina Huang, Liang Qiu, Xuan Mi, Zhihong Zhang, Di Xu, Xueying Tao, Keyu Xing, Qinglong Wu, Hua Wei
There was lots of information on anti-obesity and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, to our best knowledge, little was known about the prevention of colitis by RPT. We firstly assessed effects of RPT on phenotypic improvements of DSS-induced colitis in mice.
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Gut microbiota mediate the protective effects on endometritis induced by Staphylococcus aureus in mice

Food Funct., 2020, 11,3695-3705
DOI: 10.1039/C9FO02963J, Paper
Xiaoyu Hu, Ruiying Mu, Mingyue Xu, Xin Yuan, Peng Jiang, Jian Guo, Yongguo Cao, Naisheng Zhang, Yunhe Fu
Endometritis, the inflammation of the endometrial lining caused by bacterial pathogens, is associated with reproductive failure.
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