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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Sharp Ingrained Functional Foods, Inc.

Bruce J Holub

Gordon B Mills

Yan Xu

F William Collins

Graham Casey

Arun Nagpurkar

Douglas C Gaudette

Dominique P Bureau

Diana J Philbrick

A method is provided for fortifying a seed, grain, nut, bean, or the like with an essential fatty acid such as docosahexaenoic acid or eicosapentaenoic acid. Using the method, it is possible to produce seeds that can be used as a dietary source of that essential fatty acid. A seed that has been soaked in an aqueous mixture containing an essential fatty acid so as to become fortified with the fatty acid, and a food product formed using the seed are also provided.

Method of fortifying seeds with an essential fatty acid, fortified seed and food product

A method of treating polycystic kidney disease is described. The method involves administering soyasaponin B to an animal in need thereof.

Triterpene saponins from soybeans for treating kidney disease

Methods for diagnosing and screening for ovarian carcinomas in a subject are provided The methods employ the steps of preparing a plasma sample from a blood specimen from the subject, and assaying for the presence of lysophosphatidic acid in the plasma sample. The presence of lysophosphatidic acid in the plasma sample is indicative of ovarian carcinoma in the subject. In a preferred embodiment the plasma sample is prepared under conditions which minimize the release of lysophosphatidic acid from platelets in the blood specimen into the plasma.

Method of detecting gynecological carcinomas

Fish meal containing omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids is useful as a feed additive for beef cattle feed.

Animal feed supplement

Growing community of inventors

Guelph, Canada

Bruce J Holub