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A Bayesian method for identifying associations between response variables and bacterial community composition by Verster, Adrian, Petronella, Nicholas, Green, Judy, Matias, Fernando, Brooks, Stephen P. J

“…Determining associations between intestinal bacteria and continuously measured physiological outcomes is important for understanding the bacteria-host…”
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Early prenatal use of a multivitamin diminishes the risk for inadequate vitamin D status in pregnant women: results from the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals (MIREC) cohort study by Weiler, Hope A, Brooks, Stephen PJ, Sarafin, Kurtis, Fisher, Mandy, Massarelli, Isabelle, Luong, The Minh, Johnson, Markey, Morisset, Anne-Sophie, Dodds, Linda, Taback, Shayne, Helewa, Michael, von Dadelszen, Peter, Smith, Graeme, Lanphear, Bruce P, Fraser, William D, Arbuckle, Tye E

“…Reports on the adequacy of vitamin D status of pregnant women are not available in Canada. The objectives of this study were to examine vitamin D status across…”
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Standardizing 25-hydroxyvitamin D values from the Canadian Health Measures Survey by Sarafin, Kurtis, Durazo-Arvizu, Ramón, Tian, Lu, Phinney, Karen W, Tai, Susan, Camara, Johanna E, Merkel, Joyce, Green, Evan, Sempos, Christopher T, Brooks, Stephen P J

“…The Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) is an ongoing cross-sectional national survey that includes a measure of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] by…”
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A scoping review shows that no single existing risk of bias assessment tool considers all sources of bias for cross-sectional studies by Kelly, Shannon E., Brooks, Stephen P.J., Benkhedda, Karima, MacFarlane, Amanda J., Greene-Finestone, Linda S., Skidmore, Becky, Clifford, Tammy J., Wells, George A.

“…Different tools to assess the potential risk of bias (RoB) for cross-sectional studies have been developed, but it is unclear whether all pertinent bias…”
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Identification of Methanoculleus spp. as Active Methanogens during Anoxic Incubations of Swine Manure Storage Tank Samples by BARRET, Maialen, GAGNON, Nathalie, KALMOKOFF, Martin L, TOPP, Edward, VERASTEGUI, Yris, BROOKS, Stephen P. J, MATIAS, Fernando, NEUFELD, Josh D, TALBOT, Guylaine

“…Classifications Services AEM Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Development of an Improved Standard Reference Material for Vitamin D Metabolites in Human Serum by Phinney, Karen W, Tai, Susan S.-C, Bedner, Mary, Camara, Johanna E, Chia, Rosalind R. C, Sander, Lane C, Sharpless, Katherine E, Wise, Stephen A, Yen, James H, Schleicher, Rosemary L, Chaudhary-Webb, Madhulika, Maw, Khin L, Rahmani, Yasamin, Betz, Joseph M, Merkel, Joyce, Sempos, Christopher T, Coates, Paul M, Durazo-Arvizu, Ramón A, Sarafin, Kurtis, Brooks, Stephen P. J

“…The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed Standard Reference Material (SRM) 972a Vitamin D Metabolites in Frozen Human Serum as a…”
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Ctr2 is partially localized to the plasma membrane and stimulates copper uptake in COS-7 cells by Bertinato, Jesse, Swist, Eleonora, Plouffe, Louise J, Brooks, Stephen P J, L'abbé, Mary R

“…Ctr1 (copper transporter 1) mediates high-affinity copper uptake. Ctr2 (copper transporter 2) shares sequence similarity with Ctr1, yet its function in…”
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A Spatially Continuous Model of Carbohydrate Digestion and Transport Processes in the Colon by Moorthy, Arun S, Brooks, Stephen P J, Kalmokoff, Martin, Eberl, Hermann J

“…A spatially continuous mathematical model of transport processes, anaerobic digestion and microbial complexity as would be expected in the human colon is…”
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NUQUEST—NUtrition QUality Evaluation Strengthening Tools: development of tools for the evaluation of risk of bias in nutrition studies by Kelly, Shannon E, Greene-Finestone, Linda S, Yetley, Elizabeth A, Benkhedda, Karima, Brooks, Stephen PJ, Wells, George A, MacFarlane, Amanda J

“…Dietary exposure assessments are a critical issue in evaluating human nutrition studies; however, nutrition-specific criteria are not consistently included in…”
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Promotion of Autoimmune Diabetes by Cereal Diet in the Presence or Absence of Microbes Associated With Gut Immune Activation, Regulatory Imbalance, and Altered Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptide by PATRICK, Christopher, WANG, Gen-Sheng, MAGLIO, Mariantonia, TRONCONE, Riccardo, POUSSIER, Philippe, SCOTT, Fraser W, LEFEBVRE, David E, CROOKSHANK, Jennifer A, SONIER, Brigitte, EBERHARD, Chandra, MOJIBIAN, Majid, KENNEDY, Christopher R, BROOKS, Stephen P. J, KALMOKOFF, Martin L

“…We are exposed to millions of microbial and dietary antigens via the gastrointestinal tract, which likely play a key role in type 1 diabetes (T1D). We…”
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Dietary folate does not significantly affect the intestinal microbiome, inflammation or tumorigenesis in azoxymethane–dextran sodium sulphate-treated mice by MacFarlane, Amanda J., Behan, Nathalie A., Matias, Fernando M. G., Green, Judy, Caldwell, Don, Brooks, Stephen P. J.

“…Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a risk factor for the development of colon cancer. Environmental factors including diet and the microflora influence…”
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Optimal reactive vaccination strategies for a foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK by Tildesley, M.J, Savill, N.J, Shaw, D.J, Deardon, R, Brooks, S.P, Woolhouse, M.E.J, Grenfell, B.T, Keeling, M.J

“…Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the UK provides an ideal opportunity to explore optimal control measures for an infectious disease. The presence of fine-scale…”
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The Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) Manual for Retrospective Laboratory Standardization of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Data by Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon A, Tian, Lu, Brooks, Stephen P J, Sarafin, Kurtis, Cashman, Kevin D, Kiely, Mairead, Merkel, Joyce, Myers, Gary L, Coates, Paul M, Sempos, Christopher T

“…Low concentrations of total 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], the principal biological measure of vitamin D status, have been associated with clinical and public…”
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INFERENCE FOR INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL MODELS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN LARGE POPULATIONS by Deardon, Rob, Brooks, Stephen P., Grenfell, Bryan T., Keeling, Matthew J., Tildesley, Michael J., Savill, Nicholas J., Shaw, Darren J., Woolhouse, Mark E. J.

“…Individual Level Models (ILMs), a new class of models, are being applied to infectious epidemic data to aid in the understanding of the spatio-temporal…”
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Sex differences in gut fermentation and immune parameters in rats fed an oligofructose-supplemented diet by Shastri, Padmaja, McCarville, Justin, Kalmokoff, Martin, Brooks, Stephen P J, Green-Johnson, Julia M

“…Mechanistic data to support health claims is often generated using rodent models, and the influence of prebiotic supplementation has largely been evaluated…”
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Baseline Assessment of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Assay Performance: A Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) Interlaboratory Comparison Study by Wise, Stephen A, Phinney, Karen W, Tai, Susan S-C, Camara, Johanna E, Myers, Gary L, Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon, Tian, Lu, Hoofnagle, Andrew N, Bachmann, Lorin M, Young, Ian S, Pettit, Juanita, Caldwell, Grahame, Liu, Andrew, Brooks, Stephen P J, Sarafin, Kurtis, Thamm, Michael, Mensink, Gert B M, Busch, Markus, Rabenberg, Martina, Cashman, Kevin D, Kiely, Mairead, Kinsella, Michael, Galvin, Karen, Zhang, Joy Y, Oh, Kyungwon, Lee, Sun-Wha, Jung, Chae L, Cox, Lorna, Goldberg, Gail, Guberg, Kate, Prentice, Ann, Carter, Graham D, Jones, Julia, Brannon, Patsy M, Lucas, Robyn M, Crump, Peter M, Cavalier, Etienne, Merkel, Joyce, Betz, Joseph M, Sempos, Christopher T

“…The Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) coordinated an interlaboratory study to assess the comparability of measurements of total 25-hydroxyvitamin D…”
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Spaceflight influences both mucosal and peripheral cytokine production in PTN-Tg and wild type mice by McCarville, Justin L, Clarke, Sandra T, Shastri, Padmaja, Liu, Yi, Kalmokoff, Martin, Brooks, Stephen P J, Green-Johnson, Julia M

“…Spaceflight is associated with several health issues including diminished immune efficiency. Effects of long-term spaceflight on selected immune parameters of…”
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Accuracy of models for the 2001 foot-and-mouth epidemic by Tildesley, Michael J, Deardon, Rob, Savill, Nicholas J, Bessell, Paul R, Brooks, Stephen P, Woolhouse, Mark E.J, Grenfell, Bryan T, Keeling, Matt J

“…Since 2001 models of the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, supported by the data from the UK epidemic, have been expounded as some of the best examples of…”
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Methanoculleus spp. as a biomarker of methanogenic activity in swine manure storage tanks by Barret, Maialen, Gagnon, Nathalie, Morissette, Bruno, Topp, Edward, Kalmokoff, Martin, Brooks, Stephen P.J., Matias, Fernando, Massé, Daniel I., Masse, Lucie, Talbot, Guylaine

“…Abstract Greenhouse gas emissions represent a major problem associated with manure management in the livestock industry. A prerequisite to mitigate methane…”
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Dietary fructooligosaccharides and wheat bran elicit specific and dose-dependent gene expression profiles in the proximal colon epithelia of healthy Fischer 344 rats by Chen, Qixuan, Swist, Eleonora, Beckstead, Jocelyn, Green, Judy, Matias, Fernando, Roberts, Jennifer, Qiao, Cunye, Raju, Jayadev, Brooks, Stephen P J, Scoggan, Kylie A

“…Proximal colon epithelial gene responses to diets containing increasing levels of dietary fermentable material (FM) from 2 different sources were measured to…”
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