Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 210: Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) Oil as a Potential Alternative to Antibiotics in Poultry Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9050210 Authors: Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack Mahmoud Alagawany Abdel-Moneim E. Abdel-Moneim Noureldeen G. Mohammed Asmaa F. Khafaga May Bin-Jumah Sarah I. Othman Ahmed A. Allam Shaaban S. Elnesr The removal of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) as feed additives in poultry nutrition from the market in many countries...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 209: Cephalosporins’ Cross-Reactivity and the High Degree of Required Knowledge. Case Report and Review of the Literature Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9050209 Authors: D’Errico Frati Zanon Valentinuz Manetti Scopetti Santurro Fineschi Antibiotic cross-reactivity represents a phenomenon of considerable interest as well as antibiotic resistance. Immediate reactions to cephalosporins are reported in the literature with a prevalence...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 207: Biological Activities of Essential Oils from Leaves of Paramignya trimera (Oliv.) Guillaum and Limnocitrus littoralis (Miq.) Swingle Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9040207 Authors: Nhan Trong Le Duc Viet Ho Tuan Quoc Doan Anh Tuan Le Ain Raal Donatella Usai Giuseppina Sanna Antonio Carta Paola Rappelli Nicia Diaz Piero Cappuccinelli Stefania Zanetti Hoai Thi Nguyen Matthew Gavino Donadu The present study aimed...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 208: Prevalence of Virulence Genes and Antimicrobial Resistances in E. coli Associated with Neonatal Diarrhea, Postweaning Diarrhea, and Edema Disease in Pigs from Austria Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9040208 Authors: Renzhammer Loncaric Roch Pinior Käsbohrer Spergser Ladinig Unterweger Increasing numbers of multi-resistant Escherichia (E.) coli from clinical specimens emphasize the importance of monitoring of their resistance...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 206: Stewardship of Antibiotics for Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9040206 Authors: Daniele Roberto Giacobbe Ilias Karaiskos Nearly one year ago, we wrote the following introductory note for authors willing to submit their paper to our Special Issue entitled “Stewardship of Antibiotics for Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria” in Antibiotics: [...]
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 362: High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) Triglyceride and Oxidized HDL: New Lipid Biomarkers of Lipoprotein-Related Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9050362 Authors: Fumiaki Ito Tomoyuki Ito Lipid markers are well-established predictors of vascular disease. The most frequently measured lipid markers are total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol (HDL-C), LDL cholesterol (LDL-C), and triglyceride. HDL reduces...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 361: Oxidative Stress-Generating Antimicrobials, a Novel Strategy to Overcome Antibacterial Resistance Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9050361 Authors: Mourenza Gil Mateos Letek Antimicrobial resistance is becoming one of the most important human health issues. Accordingly, the research focused on finding new antibiotherapeutic strategies is again becoming a priority for governments and major funding bodies. The development of treatments based...
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 358: The Antioxidant Capability of Higenamine: Insights from Theory Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9050358 Authors: Isabella Romeo Angela Parise Annia Galano Nino Russo Juan Raúl Alvarez-Idaboy Tiziana Marino Density functional theory was employed to highlight the antioxidant working mechanism of higenamine in aqueous and lipid-like environments. Different reaction mechanisms were considered for the reaction of higenamine with the •OOH...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 360: Semi-Continuous Subcritical Water Extraction of Flavonoids from Citrus unshiu Peel: Their Antioxidant and Enzyme Inhibitory Activities Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9050360 Authors: Kim Lim We extracted and hydrolyzed bioactive flavonoids from C. unshiu peel using subcritical water (SW) in a semi-continuous mode. The individual flavonoid yields, antioxidant and enzyme inhibitory activities of the SW extracts were analyzed. The extraction yields...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 359: An Overview of the Antioxidant Effects of Ascorbic Acid and Alpha Lipoic Acid (in Liposomal Forms) as Adjuvant in Cancer Treatment Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9050359 Authors: Attia Essa Zaki Elkordy Antioxidants are known to minimize oxidative stress by interacting with free radicals produced as a result of cell aerobic reactions. Oxidative stress has long been linked to many diseases, especially tumours. Therefore, antioxidants play...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 356: Strategies to Preserve Postharvest Quality of Horticultural Crops and Superficial Scald Control: From Diphenylamine Antioxidant Usage to More Recent Approaches Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9040356 Authors: Dias Amaro Salvador Silvestre Rocha Isidoro Pintado Horticultural crops are vulnerable to several disorders, which affect their physiological and organoleptic quality. For about forty years, the control of physiological disorders...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 355: Effect of Basil Leaves and Wheat Bran Water Extracts on Antioxidant Capacity, Sensory Properties and Microbiological Quality of Shredded Iceberg Lettuce during Storage Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9040355 Authors: Małgorzata Sikora Urszula Złotek Monika Kordowska-Wiater Michał Świeca The effect of basil leaf (BLE) and wheat bran (WBE) extracts (potent anti-browning agents), on the phenolic content, antioxidant potential, microbiological quality,...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 357: Melatonin Enhances Palladium-Nanoparticle-Induced Cytotoxicity and Apoptosis in Human Lung Epithelial Adenocarcinoma Cells A549 and H1229 Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9040357 Authors: Gurunathan Jeyaraj Kang Kim Palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs) are increasingly being used in medical and biological applications due to their unique physical and chemical properties. Recent evidence suggests that these nanoparticles can act as both a pro-oxidant...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 354: Dimethyl Fumarate Alleviates Dextran Sulfate Sodium-Induced Colitis, through the Activation of Nrf2-Mediated Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory Pathways Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9040354 Authors: Shiri Li Chie Takasu Hien Lau Lourdes Robles Kelly Vo Ted Farzaneh Nosratola D. Vaziri Michael J. Stamos Hirohito Ichii Oxidative stress and chronic inflammation play critical roles in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis (UC) and...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 353: Oxidation Impacts the Intracellular Signaling Machinery in Hematological Disorders Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9040353 Authors: Elena Tibaldi Enrica Federti Alessandro Matte Iana Iatcenko Anand B. Wilson Veronica Riccardi Mario Angelo Pagano Lucia De Franceschi The dynamic coordination between kinases and phosphatases is crucial for cell homeostasis, in response to different stresses. The functional connection between oxidation...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 54: Yanagita Kunio and the Culture Film: Discovering Everydayness and Creating/Imagining a National Community, 1935–1945 Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9020054 Authors: Fujii In wartime Japan, folklore studies (minzokugaku) as an academic discipline emerged at the same time as the rise of the culture film (bunka eiga). Both helped mobilize peripheral areas and firmly created the image of a unitary nation. This paper focuses on Living by the Earth (Tsuchi ni ikiru, 1941),...
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 53: Parts and Wholes: The Role of Animals in the Performance of Dolenjska Hallstatt Funerary Rites Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9020053 Authors: Adrienne C. Frie There is a rich iconographic tradition demonstrating the importance of animals in ritual in the Dolenjska Hallstatt archaeological culture of Early Iron Age Slovenia (800–300 BCE). However, the role of animals in mortuary practice is not well represented iconographically, though faunal remains in graves...
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 52: Contested Racial Imaginings of the Serbian Self and the Romani Other in Serbia’s Guča Trumpet Festival Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9020052 Authors: Gligorijević In this article, I will address issues of race using the “Romani question” in Serbia’s Guča trumpet festival as a case study. I will specifically consider a selection of Guča-related themes pertinent to the question of race, while simultaneously discussing the theoretical and ideological...
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 438: Dynamic Diagnosis of Stratospheric Sudden Warming Event in the Boreal Winter of 2018 and Its Possible Impact on Weather over North America Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11050438 Authors: Xie Hu Xu Liu He In the winter of 2018, a major stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) event occurred in the Northern Hemisphere. This study performs a dynamic diagnosis on this 2018 SSW event and analyzes its possible impact on the weather over North America....
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 437: Spatio-Temporal Trends of Monthly and Annual Precipitation in Aguascalientes, Mexico Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11050437 Authors: Ruiz-Alvarez Singh Enciso-Medina Ontiveros-Capurata Corrales-Suastegui The objective of this research was to analyze the temporal patterns of monthly and annual precipitation at 36 weather stations of Aguascalientes, Mexico. The precipitation trend was determined by the Mann–Kendall method and the...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 436: Pre-Signal and Influencing Sources of the Extreme Cold Surges at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Competition Zones Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11050436 Authors: Ding Gao Yuan The 24th Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will take place in Beijing in 2022. All three competition zones are vulnerable to extreme cold surges (ECSs), owing to the occurrence of the East Asian winter monsoon. In this paper, a representative competition domain (37.5–42.5°...
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 435: Evaluation for Characteristics of Tropical Cyclone Induced Heavy Rainfall over the Sub-basins in The Central Hokkaido, Northern Japan by 5-km Large Ensemble Experiments Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11050435 Authors: Tsuyoshi Hoshino Tomohito J. Yamada Hiroaki Kawase Previous studies have shown that the acceleration of global warming will increase the intensity of rainfall induced by tropical cyclones (TCs) (hereinafter referred to as “TC-induced...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 434: Characteristics of Decaying Convective Boundary Layers Revealed by Large-Eddy Simulations Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11040434 Authors: Seung-Bu Park Jong-Jin Baik The decay of the Convective Boundary Layer (CBL) is studied using large-eddy simulations of free and advective CBLs, in which surface heat supply is suddenly cut off. After the cutoff, coherent convective circulations last about one convective time scale and then fade away. In the mixed...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 433: NOx Emission Reduction and Recovery during COVID-19 in East China Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11040433 Authors: Zhang Zhang Lin Feng Fu Wang Since its first confirmed case at the end of 2019, COVID-19 has become a global pandemic in three months with more than 1.4 million confirmed cases worldwide, as of early April 2020. Quantifying the changes of pollutant emissions due to COVID-19 and associated governmental control measures is...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 432: Effects of Model Coupling on Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) Simulation in the South China Sea Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11040432 Authors: Lim Kam Sian Dong Liu Wu Zhang Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) in the South China Sea (SCS) is simulated using a fully coupled atmosphere–ocean–wave model (COAWST). A set of sensitivity experiments are conducted to investigate the effects of different model coupling combinations on the typhoon...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 431: A Numerical Study of Windstorms in the Lee of the Taebaek Mountains, South Korea: Characteristics and Generation Mechanisms Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11040431 Authors: Joohyun Lee Jaemyeong Mango Seo Jong-Jin Baik Seung-Bu Park Beom-Soon Han The Yeongdong region, located east of the Taebaek Mountains, South Korea, often experiences severe windstorms in spring, causing a lot of damages, especially when forest fires spread out rapidly by strong...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 81: Are there Metacognitivists in the Fox Hole? A Preliminary Test of Information Seeking in an Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus) Behavioral Sciences doi: 10.3390/bs10050081 Authors: Eaton Billette Vonk Over the last two decades, evidence has accrued that at least some nonhuman animals possess metacognitive abilities. However, of the carnivores, only domestic dogs have been tested. Although rarely represented in the psychological literature, foxes...
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 80: Preventive and Proactive Coping with Bad Weather in Outdoor Sports: A Measurement Proposal Behavioral Sciences doi: 10.3390/bs10040080 Authors: Piotr Próchniak Agnieszka Próchniak This article presents the Proactive and Preventive Coping with Bad Weather in Outdoor Sports Scale, a tool for diagnosing future oriented coping with bad weather in outdoor sports. A study of the psychometric properties of the Proactive and Preventive Coping with Bad...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 88: Footprints of a Singular 22-Nucleotide RNA Ring at the Origin of Life Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9050088 Authors: Demongeot Henrion-Caude (1) Background: Previous experimental observations and theoretical hypotheses have been providing insight into a hypothetical world where an RNA hairpin or ring may have debuted as the primary informational and functional molecule. We propose a model revisiting the architecture of RNA-peptide interactions at the origin...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 87: The Prevalence and Impact of Hepatic Steatosis on Response to Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy in HIV–HCV Coinfection Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9040087 Authors: Leigh P. Johnson Richard K. Sterling (1) Background: Direct-acting antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with high sustained virologic response (SVR) and overcomes negative predictive factors, including steatosis, in patients without human immunodeficiency...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 97: A Novel Method to Identify Autoantibodies against Putative Target Proteins in Serum from beta-Thalassemia Major: A Pilot Study Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8050097 Authors: Sumera Anuar Radhakrishnan Ibrahim Rutt Ismail Tan Baba Abnormal immune reactivity in patients with beta-thalassemia (beta-thal) major can be associated with poor prognosis. Immunome protein-array analysis represents a powerful approach to identify...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 96: The Minimal Effect of Linker Length for Fatty Acid Conjugation to a Small Protein on the Serum Half-Life Extension Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8050096 Authors: Jinhwan Cho Junyong Park Giyoong Tae Mi Sun Jin Inchan Kwon Conjugation of serum albumin or one of its ligands (such as fatty acid) has been an effective strategy to prolong the serum half-lives of drugs via neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn)–mediated recycling of albumin....
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 95: Does Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw Influence the Quality of Life of Cancer Patients? Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8040095 Authors: Tenore Mohsen Rossi Palaia Rocchetti Cassoni Valentini Ottolenghi Polimeni Romeo The aim of this study is to observe the influence of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (MRONJ) on the physical and mental conditions of cancer patients using a Quality of Life...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 03:00
Biomimetics, Vol. 5, Pages 15: Chitosan Extraction from Goliathus orientalis Moser, 1909: Characterization and Comparison with Commercially Available Chitosan Biomimetics doi: 10.3390/biomimetics5020015 Authors: Fournier Szczepanski Godeau Godeau Chitosan is a polymer obtained by deacetylation of chitin, and chitin is one of the major components of the arthropod cuticle. Chitin and chitosan are both polysaccharides and are considered to be an interesting class of biosourced...
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 670: Upregulation of Sortilin, a Lysosomal Sorting Receptor, Corresponds with Reduced Bioavailability of Latent TGFβ in Mucolipidosis II Cells Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10050670 Authors: Jarrod W. Barnes Megan Aarnio-Peterson Joy Norris Mark Haskins Heather Flanagan-Steet Richard Steet Mucolipidosis II (ML-II) is a lysosomal disease caused by defects in the carbohydrate-dependent sorting of soluble hydrolases to lysosomes. Altered growth...
Sun Apr 26, 2020 03:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 666: The Resistance Mechanisms of Checkpoint Inhibitors in Solid Tumors
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 666: The Resistance Mechanisms of Checkpoint Inhibitors in Solid Tumors Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10050666 Authors: Evangelos Koustas Panagiotis Sarantis Athanasios G. Papavassiliou Michalis V. Karamouzis The emergence of cancer immunotherapy has already shown some remarkable results, having changed the treatment strategy in clinical practice for solid tumors. Despite these promising long-term responses, patients seem to lack the ability to respond...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 668: Local Translation in Growth Cones and Presynapses, Two Axonal Compartments for Local Neuronal Functions Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10050668 Authors: Sasaki During neural development, growth cones, very motile compartments of tips of axons, lead axonal extension to the correct targets. Subsequently, presynapses, another axonal compartment with vigorous trafficking of synaptic vesicles, emerge to form functional synapses with postsynapses. In response...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 667: Mining Drug-Target Associations in Cancer: Analysis of Gene Expression and Drug Activity Correlations Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10050667 Authors: Arroyo Berral-González Bueno-Fortes Alonso-López Rivas Cancer is a complex disease affecting millions of people worldwide, with over a hundred clinically approved drugs available. In order to improve therapy, treatment, and response, it is essential to draw better maps of the targets of...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 665: Clinically Feasible and Accurate View Classification of Echocardiographic Images Using Deep Learning Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10050665 Authors: Kenya Kusunose Akihiro Haga Mizuki Inoue Daiju Fukuda Hirotsugu Yamada Masataka Sata A proper echocardiographic study requires several video clips recorded from different acquisition angles for observation of the complex cardiac anatomy. However, these video clips are not necessarily labeled...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
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