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Hoevenaars, F.P.M. (author), Berendsen, C.M.M. (author), Pasman, W.J. (author), van den Broek, T.J. (author), Barrat, E. (author), de Hoogh, I.M. (author), Wopereis, S. (author)In public health initiatives, generic nutrition advice (GNA) from national guidelines has a limited effect on food-intake improvement. Personalized nutrition advice (PNA) may enable dietary behavior change. A monocentric, randomized, parallel, controlled clinical trial was performed in males (n = 55) and females (n = 100) aged 25 to 70 years....article 2020
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Oliveira, C.C.N. (author), Rochedo, P.R.R. (author), Bhardwaj, R. (author), Worrell, E. (author), Szklo, A. (author)The urgency with which the world economy needs to be decarbonized could lead to the emergence of regions with the capacity to produce renewable feedstock such as biomass. The competitiveness of these regions could result from their ability to produce high value-added chemicals at the lowest cost. The biomass embodied in a chemical product could...article 2019
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Glasius, M. (author), Hansen, A.M.K. (author), Claeys, M. (author), Henzing, J.S. (author), Jedynska, A.D. (author), Kasper-Giebl, A. (author), Kistler, M. (author), Kristensen, K. (author), Martinsson, J. (author), Maenhaut, W. (author), Nøjgaard, J.K. (author), Spindler, G. (author), Stenström, K.E. (author), Swietlicki, E. (author), Szidat, S. (author), Simpson, D. (author), Yttri, K.E. (author)Sources of elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) in atmospheric aerosols (carbonaceous aerosols) were investigated by collection of weekly aerosol filter samples at six background sites in Northern Europe (Birkenes, Norway; Vavihill, Sweden; Risoe, Denmark; Cabauw and Rotterdam in The Netherlands; Melpitz, Germany) during winter 2013....article 2018
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Viester, L. (author), Verhagen, E.A.L.M. (author), Bongers, P.M. (author), van der Beek, A.J. (author)Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of an individually tailored intervention for improvement in lifestyle behavior, health indicators, and prevention and reduction of overweight among construction workers. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Various blue-collar departments of a large construction company in the Netherlands....article 2018
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Barbiroli, A. (author), Marengo, M. (author), Fessas, D. (author), Ragg, E. (author), Renzetti, S. (author), Bonomi, F. (author), Iametti, S. (author)Temperature sensitivity of bovine milk beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) was assessed in the presence/absence of non-reducing sugars (sucrose and trehalose) and polyols (glycerol and sorbitol). None of them affected the structural features of the protein at room temperature, where the only observed effect was an increased affinity towards hydrophobic...article 2017
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Koster, S. (author), Leeman, W.R. (author), Verheij, E.R. (author), Dutman, A.E. (author), van Stee, L.L.P. (author), Munch Nielsen, L. (author), Ronsmans, S. (author), Noteborn, H. (author), Krul, L. (author)A main challenge in food safety research is to demonstrate that processing of foodstuffs does not lead to the formation of substances for which the safety upon consumption might be questioned. This is especially so since food is a complex matrix in which the analytical detection of substances, and consequent risk assessment thereof, is difficult...article 2015
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de Jong-Lenters, M. (author), Duijster, D. (author), Bruist, M.A. (author), Thijssen, J. (author), de Ruiter, C. (author)The aim of this case-control study was to explore the relationship between parenting practices, parent-child interaction and childhood dental caries, using a sample of 5-8-year old children from the Netherlands. Cases were defined as children with four or more decayed, missing or filled teeth and controls were caries free. Cases (n=28) and...article 2014
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Gozalpour, E. (author), Greupink, R. (author), Wortelboer, H.M. (author), Bilos, A. (author), Schreurs, M. (author), Russel, F.G.M. (author), Koenderink, J.B. (author)Digitalis-like compounds (DLCs) such as digoxin, digitoxin, and ouabain, also known as cardiac glycosides, are among the oldest pharmacological treatments for heart failure. The compounds have a narrow therapeutic window, while at the same time, DLC pharmacokinetics is prone to drug-drug interactions at the transport level. Hepatic transporters...article 2014
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Ripken, D. (author), van der Wielen, N. (author), Wortelboer, H.M. (author), Meijerink, J. (author), Witkamp, R.F. (author), Hendriks, H.F.J. (author)Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and peptide YY (PYY) are hormones important for satiation and are involved in the process called “ileal brake”. The aim of this study was to investigate the GLP-1- and PYY-stimulating efficacy of rebaudioside A, casein, and sucrose. This was studied using tissue segments collected from various regions of the pig...article 2014
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Laguna, L. (author), Vallons, K.J.R. (author), Jurgens, A. (author), Sanz, T. (author)Sucrose is the main sugar used in short dough biscuit formula, and it plays an important role in the biscuit manufacturing as well as in the biscuits final quality. However, for health reasons, high levels of sucrose are undesirable, making sucrose replacement an important issue to study. The present study focused on sucrose reduction and its...article 2013
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Knijnenburg, A.D. (author), Spalburg, E. (author), de Neeling, A.J. (author), Mars-Groenendijk, R.H. (author), Noort, D. (author), Grotenbreg, G.M. (author), van der Marel, G.A. (author), Overkleeft, H.S. (author), Overhand, M. (author)This article presents a series of ring-extended gramicidin S derivatives, 9-14, that have four ornithine residues as polar protonated side chains and one modified turn region containing a mono-functionalized cis-δ-oxetane, δ-furanoid, or δ-pyranoid sugar amino acid residue. Of the GS analogs evaluated, we identified compound 7, which contains...article 2012
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Beerkens, R.G.C. (author), Kers, G. (author), van Santen, E. (author)This presentation shows the advantages of re-melting post-consumer glass, but also the potential risks of using contaminated cullet in the raw material batch of glass furnaces (e.g. container glass furnaces). As an example of potential advantages: increasing the cullet % in the batch of an efficient end-port fired regenerative container glass...conference paper 2011
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Tuin, A.W. (author), Palachanis, D.K. (author), Buizert, A. (author), Grotenbreg, G.M. (author), Spalburg, E. (author), de Neeling, A.J. (author), Mars-Groenendijk, R.H. (author), Noort, D. (author), van der Marel, G.A. (author), Overkleeft, H.S. (author), Overhand, M. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)The synthesis of three new analogues of the cyclic cationic antimicrobial peptide Gramicidin S is described. These derivatives contain a modified turn region in which the DPhe-Pro motif has been replaced by a constrained furanoid sugar amino acid or a flexible linear aminoethoxy acetic acid moiety. Structural analysis revealed conformational...article 2009
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van Leeuwen, S.S. (author), Kralj, S. (author), Eeuwema, W. (author), Gerwig, G.J. (author), Dijkhuizen, L. (author), Kamerling, J.P. (author)Mutagenesis of specific amino acid residues of the glucansucrase (GTF180) enzyme from Lactobacillus reuteri strain 180 yielded 12 mutant enzymes that produced modified exopolysaccharides (mEPSs) from sucrose. Ethanol-precipitated and purified mEPSs were subjected to linkage analysis, Smith degradation analysis, and 1D/2D <sup>1</sup>H NMR...article 2009
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Meijnen, J.P. (author), de Winde, J.H. (author), Ruijssenaars, H.J. (author)The oxidative D-xylose catabolic pathway of Caulobacter crescentus, encoded by the xylXABCD operon, was expressed in the gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas putida S12. This engineered transformant strain was able to grow on D-xylose as a sole carbon source with a biomass yield of 53% (based on g [dry weight] g D-xylose-1) and a maximum growth...article 2009
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Knijnenburg, A.D. (author), Spalburg, E. (author), de Neeling, A.J. (author), Mars-Groenendijk, R.H. (author), Noort, D. (author), Grotenbreg, G.M. (author), van der Marel, G.A. (author), Overkleeft, H.S. (author), Overhand, M. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)(Chemical Equation Presented) A series of ring-extended gramicidin S (GS) derivatives containing furanoid sugar amino acids were evaluated. Although the extended GS derivatives have a less well-defined secondary structure as determined by NMR and CD, some derivatives show an improved biological profile, namely, an increased antibacterial...article 2009
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Tuin, A.W. (author), Grotenbreg, G.M. (author), Spalburg, E. (author), de Neeling, A.J. (author), Mars-Groenendijk, R.H. (author), Noort, D. (author), van der Marel, G.A. (author), Overkleeft, H.S. (author), Overhand, M. (author), TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (author)Loloatin C is a cyclic cationic antimicrobial peptide which is active against Gram positive as well as certain Gram negative bacteria. Unfortunately, it is equally potent against human erythrocytes. To probe the structure-activity relationship of this promising antibiotic peptide, amino acid substitution and/or incorporation of a constraint...article 2009
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TNO Kwaliteit van Leven (author), Klaassens, E.S. (author), Boesten, R.J. (author), Haarman, M. (author), Knol, J. (author), Schuren, F.H. (author), Vaughan, E.E. (author), Vos, W.M.de (author)Although their exact function remains enigmatic, bifidobacteria are among the first colonizers of the newborn infant gut and further develop into abundant communities, notably in response to diet. Therefore, the transcriptional responses of bifidobacteria in rapidly processed fecal samples from young infants that were fed either breast milk or a...article 2009
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van Groenestijn, J.W. (author), Geelhoed, J.S. (author), Goorissen, H.P. (author), Meesters, K.P.M. (author), Stams, A.J.M. (author), Claassen, P.A.M. (author), TNO Kwaliteit van Leven (author)Non-axenic operation of a 400 L trickle bed reactor inoculated with the thermophile Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus, yielded 2.8 molH 2mol hexose converted. The reactor was fed with a complex medium with sucrose as the main substrate, continuously flushed with nitrogen gas, and operated at 73°C. The volumetric productivity was 22 mmolH2(L...article 2009
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Shi, Y. (author), Xu, X. (author), Zhu, Y. (author), TNO Kwaliteit van Leven (author)Verticillium lecanii is an entomopathogen with high potential in biological control of pests. We developed a solid-state fermentation with sugarcane bagasse as carrier absorbing liquid medium to propagate V. lecanii spores. Using statistical experimental design, we optimized the medium composition for spore production. We first used one-factor...article 2009