Volume 91: Issue 5

Contents

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Invited commentary: Food-based nutrition education and hygiene can improve the growth of stunted children

J. H. Himes and D. R. Jacobs Jr

661

Selenium and iodine intakes and status in New Zealand and Australia

Christine D. Thomson

673

Relative stability of transgene DNA fragments from GM rapeseed in mixed ruminal cultures

Ranjana Sharma, Trevor W. Alexander, S. Jacob John, Robert J. Forster and Tim A. McAllister

683

Effect of exercise performed immediately before a meal of moderate fat content on postprandial lipaemia

Anatoli Petridou, Nikos Gerkos, Myrsini Kolifa, Michalis G. Nikolaidis, Dimitris Simos and Vassilis Mougios

689

Effects of ileo-rectal anastomosis on cholesterol metabolism in pigs fed either casein or extruded soya beans

Ofélia P. Bento, José M. Martins, Maria J. Lança, Manuel C. de Abreu, Ana M. Viegas-Crespo, João P. B. Freire, José A. A. Almeida and Michel Riottot

699

Stable isotope-labelled vitamin C as a probe for vitamin C absorption by human subjects

Christopher J. Bates, Kerry S. Jones and Leslie J. C. Bluck

707

Comparison of plasma responses in human subjects after the ingestion of 3R,3R′-zeaxanthin dipalmitate from wolfberry (Lycium barbarum) and non-esterified 3R,3R′-zeaxanthin using chiral high-performance liquid chromatography

Dietmar E. Breithaupt, Philipp Weller, Maike Wolters and Andreas Hahn

715

Psyllium and fat in diets differentially affect the activities and expressions of colonic sphingomyelinases and caspase in mice

Yajun Cheng, Lena Ohlsson and Rui-Dong Duan

725

Immune response in mice to ingested soya protein: antibody production, oral tolerance and maternal transfer

Hanne R. Christensen, Susanne Brix and Hanne Frøkiær

733

Fatty acid-mediated inhibition of IL-12 production by murine macrophages is independent of PPARγ

Meijuan Zhang and Kevin L. Fritsche

741

Dietary repletion can replenish reduced T cell subset numbers and lymphoid organ weight in zinc-deficient and energy-restricted rats

Heather J. Hosea, Edward S. Rector and Carla G. Taylor

749

Effects of esculin and esculetin on the survival of Escherichia coli O157 in human faecal slurries, continuous-flow simulations of the rumen and colon and in calves

Sylvia H. Duncan, E. Carol McWilliam Leitch, Karen N. Stanley, Anthony J. Richardson, Richard A. Laven, Harry J. Flint and Colin S. Stewart

757

Use of Tween 40 and Tween 80 to deliver a mixture of phytochemicals to human colonic adenocarcinoma cell (CaCo-2) monolayers

Sinead M. O'Sullivan, Julie A. Woods and Nora M. O'Brien

765

Standardised coding of diet records: experiences from INTERMAP UK†

Rana Conway, Claire Robertson, Barbara Dennis, Jeremiah Stamler and Paul Elliott for the INTERMAP Research Group

773

Relationship between pre-pregnancy BMI and plasma zinc concentrations in early pregnancy

Tsunenobu Tamura, Robert L. Goldenberg, Kelley E. Johnston and Victoria R. Chapman

779

Assessing the impact of nutrition education on growth indices of Iranian nomadic children: an application of a modified beliefs, attitudes, subjective-norms and enabling-factors model

Mousa Salehi, S. M. Kimiagar, M. Shahbazi, Y. Mehrabi and A. A. Kolahi

789

Docosahexaenoic acid-enriched egg consumption induces accretion of arachidonic acid in erythrocytes of elderly patients

Marianne Payet, Mohamed H. Esmail, Elisabeth Polichetti, Gaël Le Brun, Lounès Adjemout, Gérard Donnarel, Henri Portugal and Gérard Pieroni