MSG was first prepared in 1908 by the Japanese biochemist Kikunae Ikeda. Ajinomoto means ‘the essence of flavour’ — and it ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a recall over Wegman's Jalapeno Cheese Puffs. The recall has been classified as a Class II high-risk warning. Containing undeclared additives and ...

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1 Department of Brain Biochemistry, Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland 2 Department of Physiology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ...

Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer that has been used for more than a century. At some point, however, it started to get a bad reputation and was said to be associated with various health ...

“Brain rot” was named the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 after a public vote involving more than 37,000 people. Oxford University Press defines the concept as “the supposed deterioration of a person ...

This fundamental work provides evidence that glutamate and GABA are released from different synaptic vesicles at supramammillary axon terminals onto granule cells of the dentate gyrus. The study uses ...

Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a ...

Intravenous administration of arginine was shown to be protective against cerebral ischemic insults via nitric oxide production and possibly via additional mechanisms. The present study aimed at ...