Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 132: New Peptaibiotics and a Cyclodepsipeptide from Ijuhya vitellina: Isolation, Identification, Cytotoxic and Nematicidal Activities Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9030132 Authors: Ashaimaa Y. Moussa Christopher Lambert Theresia E.B. Stradal Samad Ashrafi Wolfgang Maier Marc Stadler Soleiman E. Helaly Fungal associations with nematodes have attracted scientific attention because of the need to develop new biocontrol agents. In this context,...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 131: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Meropenem and Piperacillin in Critical Illness—Experience and Recommendations from One Year in Routine Clinical Practice Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9030131 Authors: Christina Scharf Michael Paal Ines Schroeder Michael Vogeser Rika Draenert Michael Irlbeck Michael Zoller Uwe Liebchen Various studies have reported insufficient beta-lactam concentrations in critically ill patients. The extent to...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 130: Tissue Specificity in Social Context-Dependent lysozyme Expression in Bumblebees Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9030130 Authors: H. Michael G. Lattorff Group living at high densities may result in the enhanced transmission of pathogens. Social insects are obligate group-living species, which often also exhibit high relatedness and frequent social interactions amongst individuals, resulting in a high risk of disease spread. Social species seem to exhibit...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 129: Novel Approaches to Detect and Treat Biofilms within the Root Canals of Teeth: A Review Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9030129 Authors: Laurence J. Walsh Biofilms located within the root canals of teeth are a unique and pressing concern in dentistry and in medical microbiology. These multispecies biofilms, which include fungi as well as bacteria, form in a protected site with low shear stress and low oxygen tension. Systemic antibiotics are of limited...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 128: Pexiganan in Combination with Nisin to Control Polymicrobial Diabetic Foot Infections Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9030128 Authors: Diana Gomes Raquel Santos Rui S. Soares Solange Reis Sandra Carvalho Pedro Rego Maria C. Peleteiro Luís Tavares Manuela Oliveira Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are major complications of Diabetes mellitus being responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. DFUs frequently become chronically...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 261: Iron and Advanced Glycation End Products: Emerging Role of Iron in Androgen Deficiency in Obesity Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030261 Authors: Seu-Hwa Chen Kuo-Ching Yuan Yu-Chieh Lee Chun-Kuang Shih Sung-Hui Tseng Alexey A. Tinkov Anatoly V. Skalny Jung-Su Chang The literature suggests a bidirectional relationship between testosterone (T) and iron, but mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. We investigated effects...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 260: Antioxidant Therapies in Traumatic Brain Injury Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030260 Authors: Valentina Di Pietro Kamal M. Yakoub Giuseppe Caruso Giacomo Lazzarino Stefano Signoretti Aron K. Barbey Barbara Tavazzi Giuseppe Lazzarino Antonio Belli Angela Maria Amorini Due to a multiplicity of causes provoking traumatic brain injury (TBI), TBI is a highly heterogeneous pathology, characterized by high mortality and disability...
Sun Mar 22, 2020 02:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 259: Nitrosative Stress Biomarkers in the Non-Stimulated and Stimulated Saliva, as well as Gingival Crevicular Fluid of Patients with Periodontitis: Review and Clinical Study Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030259 Authors: Joanna Toczewska Tomasz Konopka Anna Zalewska Mateusz Maciejczyk Diagnosis of periodontopathy is complex and includes defining the cause, type, stage, and grade of periodontitis. Therefore, alternative diagnostic methods are sought...
Sat Mar 21, 2020 02:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 258: p-Hydroxybenzoic Acid β-d-Glucosyl Ester and Cimidahurinine with Antimelanogenesis and Antioxidant Effects from Pyracantha angustifolia via Bioactivity-Guided Fractionation Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030258 Authors: Sun-Yup Shim Ye Eun Lee Hwa Young Song Mina Lee This study evaluated bioactivity-guided fractionation as a means to identify therapeutic phytochemicals from Pyracantha angustifolia that can attenuate melanogenesis and oxidation....
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 257: Global Evolutionary Analysis of 11 Gene Families Part of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Gene Network in Four Eucalyptus Species Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030257 Authors: Qiang Li Hélène San Clemente Yongrui He Yongyao Fu Christophe Dunand Eucalyptus is a worldwide hard-wood species which increasingly focused on. To adapt to various biotic and abiotic stresses, Eucalyptus have evolved complex mechanisms, increasing the cellular concentration...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 256: The Interaction between Antioxidants Content and Allergenic Potency of Different Raspberry Cultivars Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030256 Authors: Ewelina Hallmann Alicja Ponder Mateusz Aninowski Tuya Narangerel Joanna Leszczyńska Food allergies are a very serious problem among consumers. The most common food allergies involve animal products, but they can also involve fruits such as berries. We aimed to determine whether organic farming...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 255: Rosemary Diterpenes and Flavanone Aglycones Provide Improved Genoprotection against UV-Induced DNA Damage in a Human Skin Cell Model Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030255 Authors: Sánchez-Marzo Pérez-Sánchez Barrajón-Catalán Castillo Herranz-López Micol : Overexposure to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the major cause of a variety of cutaneous disorders, including sunburn, photoaging, and skin cancers. UVB radiation (290–320...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 254: Phenolic Profile, Antioxidant, and Antidiabetic Potential Exerted by Millet Grain Varieties Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030254 Authors: Ofosu Elahi Daliri Chelliah Ham Kim Han Hur Oh This study evaluated the potential antioxidant and antidiabetic properties in vitro of four millet grain varieties cultivated in South Korea. The free fractions were tested for their total antioxidant capacity using 2,2′-azino-bis...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 253: Antioxidant Properties and Protective Effects of Some Species of the Annonaceae, Lamiaceae, and Geraniaceae Families against Neuronal Damage Induced by Excitotoxicity and Cerebral Ischemia Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030253 Authors: Narayana Pineda-Ramírez Fernando Calzada Iván Alquisiras-Burgos Omar Noel Medina-Campos José Pedraza-Chaverri Alma Ortiz-Plata Enrique Pinzón Estrada Ismael Torres Penélope Aguilera This study...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 252: Phenolic Constitution, Phytochemical and Macronutrient Content in Three Species of Microgreens as Modulated by Natural Fiber and Synthetic Substrates Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9030252 Authors: Marios C. Kyriacou Christophe El-Nakhel Antonio Pannico Giulia Graziani Georgios A. Soteriou Maria Giordano Mario Palladino Alberto Ritieni Stefania De Pascale Youssef Rouphael The present study examined the modulatory effects of...
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Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 39: “I Can’t Be What You Expect of Me”: Power, Palatability, and Shame in Frozen: The Broadway Musical Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9010039 Authors: Hannah Robbins This article combines critical, cultural, and musical analysis to situate Frozen: The Broadway Musical as a distinct work within Disney’s wider franchise. In this article, I consider the evolution of Elsa’s character on stage and the role of additional songs in the Frozen score. In so doing,...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 310: Compositional Characteristics of Atmospheric Aerosols during a Consecutive High Concentration Episode in Seoul, Korea Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030310 Authors: Hee-Jung Ko Seung Joo Song Jeong Eun Kim Jung-Min Song Joo Wan Cha This study focuses on the temporal variation in the compositional characteristics of atmospheric aerosols in Seoul, South Korea, during the consecutive high aerosol concentration episode from 30 December 2013 to...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 309: Understanding the Variability of West African Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Contrasting Tropospheric Features and Monsoon Index Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030309 Authors: Akintomide Afolayan Akinsanola Wen Zhou West African Summer Monsoon (WASM) rainfall exhibits large variability at interannual and decadal timescales, causing droughts and floods in many years. Therefore it is important to investigate the major tropospheric features controlling the WASM...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 308: Global Dimming and Brightening Features during the First Decade of the 21st Century Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030308 Authors: Nikolaos Hatzianastassiou Eleftherios Ioannidis Marios-Bruno Korras-Carraca Maria Gavrouzou Christos D. Papadimas Christos Matsoukas Nikolaos Benas Angeliki Fotiadi Martin Wild Ilias Vardavas Downward surface solar radiation (SSR) trends for the first decade of the 2000s were computed using a radiative...
Sat Mar 21, 2020 02:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 306: Spatiotemporal Trends of Aerosols over Urban Regions in Pakistan and Their Possible Links to Meteorological Parameters Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030306 Authors: Gohar Ali Yansong Bao Waheed Ullah Safi Ullah Qin Guan Xulin Liu Lin Li Yuhong Lei Guangwen Li Jun Ma Aerosol optical depth (AOD) has become one of the most crucial parameters for climate change assessment on regional and global scales. The present study investigates...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 305: Gaseous Emissions from a Seagoing Ship under Different Operating Conditions in the Coastal Region of China Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030305 Authors: Chunjiang Bai Ying Li Bingxin Liu Zhaoyi Zhang Peng Wu Pollution caused by ship emissions has drawn attention from various countries. Because of the high density of ships in ports, channels, and anchorages and their proximity to the densely populated areas, ship emissions will considerably...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 307: Evaluation of Meteorological Drought and Flood Scenarios over Kenya, East Africa Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030307 Authors: Ayugi Tan Rouyun Zeyao Ojara Mumo Babaousmail Ongoma This work examines drought and flood events over Kenya from 1981 to 2016 using the Standardized Precipitation–Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). The spatiotemporal analysis of dry and wet events was conducted for 3 and 12 months. Extreme...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 304: Wave-Tracking in the Surf Zone Using Coastal Video Imagery with Deep Neural Networks Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030304 Authors: Jinah Kim Jaeil Kim Taekyung Kim Dong Huh Sofia Caires In this paper, we propose a series of procedures for coastal wave-tracking using coastal video imagery with deep neural networks. It consists of three stages: video enhancement, hydrodynamic scene separation and wave-tracking. First, a generative adversarial...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 303: Spatiotemporal Variations of Precipitation in China Using Surface Gauge Observations from 1961 to 2016 Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030303 Authors: Yunfei Su Chuanfeng Zhao Yuan Wang Zhanshan Ma Long-term precipitation trend is a good indicator of climate and hydrological change. The data from 635 ground stations are used to quantify the temporal trends of precipitation with different intensity in China from 1961 to 2016. These sites are roughly...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 302: Irrigation Groundwater Quality Characteristics: A Case Study of Cyprus Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030302 Authors: Nikolaou Neocleous Christophi Heracleous Markou This study was conducted in order to investigate possible quality changes in Cyprus’ groundwater resources over a 10-year period of pumping and to check the suitability of primary irrigation water. Water samples (n = 890) from private wells in agricultural areas...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 301: A Statistical Investigation of Mesoscale Precursors of Significant Tornadoes: The Italian Case Study Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11030301 Authors: Roberto Ingrosso Piero Lionello Mario Marcello Miglietta Gianfausto Salvadori In this study, mesoscale environments associated with 57 significant tornadoes occurring over Italy in the period 2000–2018 are analyzed. The role of the vertical Wind Shear in the lower and middle troposphere,...
Fri Mar 20, 2020 02:00
Bioengineering, Vol. 7, Pages 29: PHA Production and PHA Synthases of the Halophilic Bacterium Halomonas sp. SF2003 Bioengineering doi: 10.3390/bioengineering7010029 Authors: Tatiana Thomas Kumar Sudesh Alexis Bazire Anne Elain Hua Tiang Tan Hui Lim Stéphane Bruzaud Among the different tools which can be studied and managed to tailor-make polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and enhance their production, bacterial strain and carbon substrates are essential. The assimilation...
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Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 60: Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants in Atherosclerosis Development and Treatment Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9030060 Authors: Anastasia V. Poznyak Andrey V. Grechko Varvara A. Orekhova Yegor S. Chegodaev Wei-Kai Wu Alexander N. Orekhov Atherosclerosis can be regarded as chronic inflammatory disease affecting the arterial wall. Despite the recent progress in studying the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, some of the pathogenic mechanisms remain to...
Sat Mar 21, 2020 02:00
Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 59: Assessing Autophagy in Archived Tissue or How to Capture Autophagic Flux from a Tissue Snapshot Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9030059 Authors: Magali Humbert María Morán Patricia de la Cruz-Ojeda Jordi Muntané Tabea Wiedmer Nadezda Apostolova Sharon L. McKenna Guillermo Velasco Walter Balduini Leopold Eckhart Bassam Janji Belém Sampaio-Marques Paula Ludovico Eva Žerovnik Rupert Langer Aurel Perren Nikolai Engedal Mario...
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Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 58: Silicates of Potassium and Aluminium (Kaolin); Comparative Foliar Mitigation Treatments and Biochemical Insight on Grape Berry Quality in Vitis vinifera L. (cv. Touriga National and Touriga Franca) Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9030058 Authors: Rupesh Kumar Singh Jessica Afonso Marta Nogueira Ana A. Oliveira Fernanda Cosme Virgílio Falco Grapevine physiology is influenced by several environmental factors, such as temperature, precipitation, potential...
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Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 57: Unravelling Cellular Mechanisms of Stem Cell Senescence: An Aid from Natural Bioactive Molecules Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9030057 Authors: Sara Cruciani Giuseppe Garroni Giorgio Carlo Ginesu Angela Fadda Carlo Ventura Margherita Maioli Cellular senescence plays a role in the onset of age-related pathologies and in the loss of tissue homeostasis. Natural compounds of food or plants exert an important antioxidant activity, counteracting the...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 66: Attenuation of Hyperoxic Lung Injury in Newborn Thioredoxin-1-Overexpressing Mice through the Suppression of Proinflammatory Cytokine mRNA Expression Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8030066 Authors: Nagano Tanaka Ozawa Watanabe Miyake Matsumura Osada Matsuoka Tamura Namba The role of thioredoxin-1 (TRX), a small redox-active protein with antioxidant effects, during hyperoxic lung injury in newborns remains undetermined....
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Biomimetics, Vol. 5, Pages 11: Biomimetic Nanocarrier Targeting Drug(s) to Upstream-Receptor Mechanisms in Dementia: Focusing on Linking Pathogenic Cascades Biomimetics doi: 10.3390/biomimetics5010011 Authors: D’Arrigo Past published studies have already documented that, subsequent to the intravenous injection of colloidal lipid nanocarriers, apolipoprotein (apo)A-I is adsorbed from the blood onto the nanoparticle surface. The adsorbed apoA-I mediates the interaction of the nanoparticle...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 481: High-Density Lipoprotein Particles and Their Relationship to Posttransplantation Diabetes Mellitus in Renal Transplant Recipients Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030481 Authors: Sokooti Szili-Torok Flores-Guerrero Osté Gomes-Neto Kootstra-Ros Heerspink Connelly Bakker Dullaart High concentrations of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol are likely associated with a lower risk of posttransplantation diabetes mellitus...
Sat Mar 21, 2020 02:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 482: Exploring Successful Parameter Region for Coarse-Grained Simulation of Biomolecules by Bayesian Optimization and Active Learning Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030482 Authors: Ryo Kanada Atsushi Tokuhisa Koji Tsuda Yasushi Okuno Kei Terayama Accompanied with an increase of revealed biomolecular structures owing to advancements in structural biology, the molecular dynamics (MD) approach, especially coarse-grained (CG) MD suitable for macromolecules,...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 480: Fluorogenic and Bioorthogonal Modification of RNA Using Photoclick Chemistry Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030480 Authors: Katja Krell Hans-Achim Wagenknecht A bromoaryltetrazole-modified uridine was synthesized as a new RNA building block for bioorthogonal, light-activated and postsynthetic modification with commercially available fluorescent dyes. It allows “photoclick”-type modifications by irradiation with light (300 nm LED)...
Sat Mar 21, 2020 02:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 479: 1H-Imidazole-2,5-Dicarboxamides as NS4A Peptidomimetics: Identification of a New Approach to Inhibit HCV-NS3 Protease Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030479 Authors: Abdelsattar M. Omar Mahmoud A. Elfaky Stefan T. Arold Sameh H. Soror Maan T. Khayat Hani Z. Asfour Faida H. Bamane Moustafa E. El-Araby The nonstructural (NS) protein NS3/4A protease is a critical factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) maturation that requires activation...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 478: PIRT the TRP Channel Regulating Protein Binds Calmodulin and Cholesterol-Like Ligands Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030478 Authors: Nicholas J. Sisco Dustin D. Luu Minjoo Kim Wade D. Van Horn Transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels are polymodal receptors that have been implicated in a variety of pathophysiologies, including pain, obesity, and cancer. The capsaicin and heat sensor TRPV1, and the menthol and cold sensor TRPM8, have...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 477: The Role of Nicotinamide in Cancer Chemoprevention and Therapy Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10030477 Authors: Nikas Paschou Ryu Nicotinamide (NAM) is a water-soluble form of Vitamin B3 (niacin) and a precursor of nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) which regulates cellular energy metabolism. Except for its role in the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), NAD+ acts as a substrate for several enzymes including sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) and...
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