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No. 24: Mapping the Invisible: The Informal Food Economy of Cape Town, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The informal food retail sector, which is diverse in terms of products traded as well as business models utilized, is an important component of urban food systems and plays a vital role in ensuring access to food by the urban poor. Yet, policy frameworks
Battersby, Jane   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Downregulation of sST2, a decoy receptor for interleukin‐33, enhances subcutaneous tumor growth in murine pancreatic cancer cells

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Subcutaneous implantation of murine Panc02 pancreatic cancer cells depleted of sST2, a soluble decoy receptor for the proinflammatory interleukin‐33 (IL‐33), leads to a decreased number of GLUT4‐positive cancer‐associated adipocytes, reduced levels of the anti‐inflammatory molecule adiponectin, increased phosphorylation of IκBα, elevated Cxcl3 ...
Miho Akimoto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building the Bridge: Linking Food Banking and Community Food Security [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This 24 page document surveys the linkages between food banking and community food security, with case studies and interviews of 10 leading food banks and food bankers.
Andy Fisher
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Cis‐unsaturated sphingolipids support growth of sphingoid base‐deficient yeast but impair plasma membrane integrity

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Sphingoid base structures, the sphingolipid backbones, vary among species. We established yeast cells in which the native sphingoid base was replaced with plant‐type bases containing cis or trans double bonds. This is, to our knowledge, the first eukaryotic model mostly composed of sphingolipids containing cis‐unsaturated sphingoid base, providing a ...
Takashi Higuchi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE FOOD REQUIREMENTS OF CHILDREN [PDF]

open access: green, 1922
L. Emmett Holt
openalex   +1 more source

Migration, Urbanization and Food Security in Cities of the Global South: 26–27 November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The disjuncture between food security, migration and urbanization must be overcome. It is an institutional as well as a thematic disconnect on a global scale. Food security is primarily about access to food, not agricultural production.
Crush, Jonathan
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Most autophagic cell death studies lack evidence of causality

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Of 104 studies claiming autophagic cell death (ACD), only 13 demonstrated both causality and exclusion of apoptosis to confirm true ACD. Most studies relied on correlation‐level data or measured autophagy in isolation, revealing pervasive methodological shortcomings.
Ali Burak Özkaya, Yasmin Ghaseminejad
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer surveys in Juva and Järna for identification of eco-local food baskets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In both Finland and Sweden a family member collected the receipts or filled in purchase diaries for all food entering the household for human consumption during 14 days period.
Hannula, Annamari, Thomsson, Olof
core  

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