• Seasonal changes in Vitamin D-effective UVB availability in Europe and associations with population serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D 

  O'Neill, Colette M.; Kazantzidis, Andreas; Ryan, Mary J.; Barber, Niamh; Sempos, Christopher T.; Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon A.; Jorde, Rolf; Grimnes, Guri; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Cotch, Mary Frances; Kiely, Mairead; Webb, Ann R.; Cashman, Kevin D. (MDPI, 2016-09)

  Low vitamin D status is common in Europe. The major source of vitamin D in humans is ultraviolet B (UVB)-induced dermal synthesis of cholecalciferol, whereas food sources are believed to play a lesser role. Our objectives ...
• In vitro antioxidant and immunomodulatory activity of transglutaminase-treated sodium caseinate hydrolysates 

  Cermeño, Maria; FitzGerald, Richard J.; O’Brien, Nora M. (Elsevier B.V., 2016-08-31)

  Sodium caseinate (NaCN) was incubated prior to and after hydrolysis with a microbial transglutaminase (TGase) and hydrolysed with Prolyve 1000. The resultant hydrolysates were tested for their immunomodulatory and antioxidant ...
• The effect of gestational and lactational age on the human milk metabolome 

  Sundekilde, Ulrik K.; Downey, Eimear; O'Mahony, James A.; O'Shea, Carol Anne; Ryan, C. Anthony; Kelly, Alan L.; Bertram, Hanne C. (MDPI, 2016-05-19)

  Human milk is the ideal nutrition source for healthy infants during the first six months of life and a detailed characterisation of the composition of milk from mothers that deliver prematurely (<37 weeks gestation), and ...
• Smoking and dietary inadequacy among Inuvialuit women of child bearing age in the Northwest Territories, Canada 

  Kolahdooz, Fariba; Mathe, Nonsikelelo; Katunga, Lalage A; Beck, Lindsay; Sheehy, Tony; Corriveau, Andre; Sharma, Sangita (BioMed Central, 2013-02-22)

  Objective. The prevalence of smoking in Aboriginal Canadians is higher than non-Aboriginal Canadians, a behavior that also tends to alter dietary patterns. Compared with the general Canadian population, maternal smoking ...
• Catabolic flexibility of mammalian-associated lactobacilli 

  O'Donnell, Michelle M.; O'Toole, Paul W.; Ross, R. Paul (BioMed Central, 2013-05-16)

  Metabolic flexibility may be generally defined as “the capacity for the organism to adapt fuel oxidation to fuel availability”. The metabolic diversification strategies used by individual bacteria vary greatly from the use ...

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