Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 387: Broad-Spectrum Cephalosporin-Resistant and/or Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Enterobacterales Associated with Canine and Feline Urogenital Infections Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9070387 Authors: Igor Loncaric Dusan Misic Michael P. Szostak Frank Künzel Sabine Schäfer-Somi Joachim Spergser The aim of the present study was to characterize Enterobacterales resistant to 3rd and 4th generation cephalosporins, carbapenems and/or fluoroquinolones,...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 388: Ceftazidime-Avibactam Combination Therapy Compared to Ceftazidime-Avibactam Monotherapy for the Treatment of Severe Infections Due to Carbapenem-Resistant Pathogens: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9070388 Authors: Fiore Alfieri Di Franco Pace Simeon Ingoglia Cortegiani Ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA) is a novel beta-lactam beta-lactamase inhibitor combination approved for the treatment...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 386: Controlled Fermentation Using Autochthonous Lactobacillus plantarum Improves Antimicrobial Potential of Chinese Chives against Poultry Pathogens Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9070386 Authors: Damini Kothari Woo-Do Lee Eun Sung Jung Kai-Min Niu Choong Hwan Lee Soo-Ki Kim Chinese chives (CC) are rich in several antimicrobial constituents including organosulfur compounds, phenolics, and saponins, among others. Herein, we fermented CC...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 384: Potent and Specific Antibacterial Activity against Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) of G17 and G19 Peptides Encapsulated into Poly-Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid (PLGA) Nanoparticles Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9070384 Authors: Nicolás Gómez-Sequeda Jennifer Ruiz Claudia Ortiz Mauricio Urquiza Rodrigo Torres Antimicrobial peptides constitute an excellent alternative against conventional antibiotics...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 385: How Fungal Glycans Modulate Platelet Activation via Toll-Like Receptors Contributing to the Escape of Candida albicans from the Immune Response Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9070385 Authors: Samir Jawhara Platelets are essential for vascular repair and for the maintenance of blood homeostasis. They contribute to the immune defence of the host against many infections caused by bacteria, viruses and fungi. Following infection, platelet function is...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 595: Could Ergothioneine Aid in the Treatment of Coronavirus Patients? Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9070595 Authors: Irwin K. Cheah Barry Halliwell Infection with SARS-CoV-2 causes the coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19), a pandemic that has, at present, infected more than 11 million people globally. Some COVID-19 patients develop a severe and critical illness, spurred on by excessive inflammation that can lead to respiratory or multiorgan...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 596: Oral Administration of Sodium Nitrate to Metabolic Syndrome Patients Attenuates Mild Inflammatory and Oxidative Responses to Acute Exercise Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9070596 Authors: Capó Ferrer Olek Salaberry Suau Marí Llompart Tur Sureda Pons The beneficial effects of exercise for the treatment and prevention of metabolic syndrome pathologies have been related to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects....
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 594: Calmangafodipir Reduces Sensory Alterations and Prevents Intraepidermal Nerve Fibers Loss in a Mouse Model of Oxaliplatin Induced Peripheral Neurotoxicity Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9070594 Authors: Annalisa Canta Alessia Chiorazzi Eleonora Pozzi Giulia Fumagalli Laura Monza Cristina Meregalli Valentina A. Carozzi Virginia Rodriguez-Menendez Norberto Oggioni Jacques Näsström Paola Marmiroli Guido Cavaletti Oxaliplatin...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 75: Walking with The Murderers Are Among Us: Henry Ries’s Post-WWII Berlin Rubble Photographs Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9030075 Authors: Vivien Green Fryd Henry Ries (1917–2004), a celebrated American-German photojournalist, was born into an upper-class Jewish family in Berlin. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1938 to escape Nazi Germany. As a new American citizen, he joined the U.S. Air Force. After the war, Ries became photo editor and chief photographer for the...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 724: Investigation of the Weather Conditions During the Collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa on 14 August 2018 Using Field Observations and WRF Model Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11070724 Authors: Massimiliano Burlando Djordje Romanic Giorgio Boni Martina Lagasio Antonio Parodi On 14 August 2018, Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy, collapsed to the ground that was 40 m below. This tragedy killed 43 people. Preliminary investigations indicated poor...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 726: Influence of Novaya Zemlya Bora on Sea Waves: Satellite Measurements and Numerical Modeling Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11070726 Authors: Shestakova Myslenkov Kuznetsova This paper investigates for the first time sea waves during Novaya Zemlya bora—a downslope windstorm on the western coast of the archipelago during eastern winds—using a statistical and case-study approach. Statistical analysis of altimeter data off the western...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 725: Coastal Resilience Against Storm Surge from Tropical Cyclones Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11070725 Authors: Mendelsohn Zheng It is well known that seawalls are effective at stopping common storm surges in urban areas. This paper examines whether seawalls should be built to withstand the storm surge from a major tropical cyclone. We estimate the extra cost of building the wall tall enough to stop such surges and the extra flood benefit of this additional...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 723: Evaluation of Historical CMIP5 GCM Simulation Results Based on Detected Atmospheric Teleconnections Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11070723 Authors: Erzsébet Kristóf Zoltán Barcza Roland Hollós Judit Bartholy Rita Pongrácz Atmospheric teleconnections are characteristic to the climate system and exert major impacts on the global and regional climate. Accurate representation of teleconnections by general circulation models (GCMs) is indispensable...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 114: Parents’ Past Bonding Experience with Their Parents Interacts with Current Parenting Stress to Influence the Quality of Interaction with Their Child Behavioral Sciences doi: 10.3390/bs10070114 Authors: Atiqah Azhari Ariel Wan Ting Wong Mengyu Lim Jan Paolo Macapinlac Balagtas Giulio Gabrieli Peipei Setoh Gianluca Esposito Healthy dyadic interactions serve as a foundation for child development and are typically characterised by...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 113: Enhancing Existential Thinking through Death Education: A Qualitative Study among High School Students Behavioral Sciences doi: 10.3390/bs10070113 Authors: Ines Testoni Lorenza Palazzo Ciro De Vincenzo Michael Alexander Wieser The censorship of death-related issues is widespread in contemporary Western culture because the boundary between death and life is substantially managed in medical areas. In the context of Italian educational initiatives,...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Bioengineering, Vol. 7, Pages 72: Polyphenols in Dental Applications Bioengineering doi: 10.3390/bioengineering7030072 Authors: Naji Kharouf Youssef Haikel Vincent Ball (1) Background: polyphenols are a broad class of molecules extracted from plants and have a large repertoire of biological activities. Biomimetic inspiration from the effects of tea or red wine on the surface of cups or glass lead to the emergence of versatile surface chemistry with polyphenols. Owing to their hydrogen...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 156: CoVid-19 Pandemic Trend Modeling and Analysis to Support Resilience Decision-Making Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9070156 Authors: Duffey Zio Policy decision-making for system resilience to a hazard requires the estimation and prediction of the trends of growth and decline of the impacts of the hazard. With focus on the recent worldwide spread of CoVid-19, we take the infection rate as the relevant metric whose trend of evolution to follow for verifying...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 199: Novel Blood-Derived Extracellular Vesicle-Based Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease Identified by Proximity Extension Assay Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8070199 Authors: Jonas Ellegaard Nielsen Kamilla Sofie Pedersen Karsten Vestergård Raluca Georgiana Maltesen Gunna Christiansen Søren Lundbye-Christensen Torben Moos Søren Risom Kristensen Shona Pedersen Easily accessible biomarkers for Alzheimer’s dementia (AD)...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 198: The Link between Chronic Stress and Accelerated Aging Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8070198 Authors: Yegor E. Yegorov Anastasia V. Poznyak Nikita G. Nikiforov Igor A. Sobenin Alexander N. Orekhov People exposed to chronic stress age rapidly. The telomeres in their cells of all types shorten faster. Inflammation is another important feature of stress that, along with aging, accounts for the phenomenon of inflammaging. In addition to...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 197: Studying the Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s Disease Using Zebrafish
Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 197: Studying the Pathophysiology of Parkinson’s Disease Using Zebrafish Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8070197 Authors: Lisa M. Barnhill Hiromi Murata Jeff M. Bronstein Parkinson’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder leading to severe disability. The clinical features reflect progressive neuronal loss, especially involving the dopaminergic system. The causes of Parkinson’s disease are slowly being uncovered and...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Biomimetics, Vol. 5, Pages 32: Cationic Nanostructures for Vaccines Design Biomimetics doi: 10.3390/biomimetics5030032 Authors: Ana Maria Carmona-Ribeiro Yunys Pérez-Betancourt Subunit vaccines rely on adjuvants carrying one or a few molecular antigens from the pathogen in order to guarantee an improved immune response. However, to be effective, the vaccine formulation usually consists of several components: an antigen carrier, the antigen, a stimulator of cellular immunity such as...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 1007: Ten-Year Research Update Review: Antiviral Activities from Marine Organisms Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10071007 Authors: Gennaro Riccio Nadia Ruocco Mirko Mutalipassi Maria Costantini Valerio Zupo Daniela Coppola Donatella de Pascale Chiara Lauritano Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the surface of our planet and are characterized by huge taxonomic and chemical diversity of marine organisms. Several studies have shown that...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 1008: Biogenesis of Mitochondrial Metabolite Carriers Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10071008 Authors: Horten Colina-Tenorio Rampelt : Metabolite carriers of the mitochondrial inner membrane are crucial for cellular physiology since mitochondria contribute essential metabolic reactions and synthesize the majority of the cellular ATP. Like almost all mitochondrial proteins, carriers have to be imported into mitochondria from the cytosol. Carrier precursors...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Biosensors, Vol. 10, Pages 74: Factors Influencing the Long-Term Stability of Electronic Tongue and Application of Improved Drift Correction Methods Biosensors doi: 10.3390/bios10070074 Authors: Zoltan Kovacs Dániel Szöllősi John-Lewis Zinia Zaukuu Zsanett Bodor Flóra Vitális Balkis Aouadi Viktória Zsom-Muha Zoltan Gillay Temperature, memory effect, and cross-contamination are suspected to contribute to drift in electronic tongue (e-tongue) sensors, therefore drift...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Brain Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 431: Cortico-Hippocampal Computational Modeling Using Quantum Neural Networks to Simulate Classical Conditioning Paradigms Brain Sciences doi: 10.3390/brainsci10070431 Authors: Mustafa Khalid Jun Wu Taghreed M. Ali Thaair Ameen Ahmed A. Moustafa Qiuguo Zhu Rong Xiong Most existing cortico-hippocampal computational models use different artificial neural network topologies. These conventional approaches, which simulate various biological...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Brain Sciences, Vol. 10, Pages 430: Feasibility Randomized Trial for an Intensive Memory-Focused Training Program for School-Aged Children with Acquired Brain Injury Brain Sciences doi: 10.3390/brainsci10070430 Authors: Recla Molteni Manfredi Arrigoni Nordio Galbiati Pastore Modat Strazzer (1) Background: Memory deficits are common sequelae of pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). Only methods for non-focused cognitive remediation are available to the...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1828: Improved Prognostic Prediction in Never-Smoker Lung Cancer Patients by Integration of a Systemic Inflammation Marker with Tumor Immune Contexture Analysis Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071828 Authors: Massimo Milione Mattia Boeri Anna Cantarutti Giovanni Centonze Adele Busico Paola Suatoni Giovanna Garzone Laura Cattaneo Elena Tamborini Federica Perrone Alessandro Mangogna Giovanni Corrao Giancarlo Pruneri Gabriella Sozzi...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1824: DrugSniper, a Tool to Exploit Loss-Of-Function Screens, Identifies CREBBP as a Predictive Biomarker of VOLASERTIB in Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (SCLC) Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071824 Authors: Fernando Carazo Cristina Bértolo Carlos Castilla Xabier Cendoya Lucía Campuzano Diego Serrano Marian Gimeno Francisco J. Planes Ruben Pio Luis M. Montuenga Angel Rubio The development of predictive biomarkers of response to targeted...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1825: Unique Spatial Immune Profiling in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma with Enrichment of Exhausted and Senescent T Cells and Diffused CD47-SIRPα Expression Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071825 Authors: Alexandros Papalampros Michail Vailas Konstantinos Ntostoglou Maria Lopez Chiloeches Stratigoula Sakellariou Niki V. Chouliari Menelaos G. Samaras Paraskevi D. Veltsista Sofia D. P. Theodorou Aggelos T. Margetis Anna Bergonzini Lysandros...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1827: Exosomal MicroRNAs and Organotropism in Breast Cancer Metastasis Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071827 Authors: Grace L. Wong Sara Abu Abu Jalboush Hui-Wen Lo Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy for women in which one in eight women will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime. Despite advances made in treating primary breast cancer, there is still no effective treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Consequently, metastatic breast...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1823: BRAF Inhibitors: Molecular Targeting and Immunomodulatory Actions Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071823 Authors: Ilaria Proietti Nevena Skroza Simone Michelini Alessandra Mambrin Veronica Balduzzi Nicoletta Bernardini Anna Marchesiello Ersilia Tolino Salvatore Volpe Patrizia Maddalena Marco Fraia Giorgio Mangino Giovanna Romeo Concetta Potenza The BRAF inhibitors vemurafenib, dabrafenib and encorafenib are used in the...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1822: Insights into the New Cancer Therapy through Redox Homeostasis and Metabolic Shifts Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071822 Authors: Dong-Hoon Hyun Modest levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are necessary for intracellular signaling, cell division, and enzyme activation. These ROS are later eliminated by the body’s antioxidant defense system. High amounts of ROS cause carcinogenesis by altering the signaling pathways associated with metabolism,...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1826: Advances in Anti-Cancer Immunotherapy: Car-T Cell, Checkpoint Inhibitors, Dendritic Cell Vaccines, and Oncolytic Viruses, and Emerging Cellular and Molecular Targets Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071826 Authors: Emilie Alard Aura-Bianca Butnariu Marta Grillo Charlotte Kirkham Dmitry Aleksandrovich Zinovkin Louise Newnham Jenna Macciochi Md Zahidul Islam Pranjol Unlike traditional cancer therapies, such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1821: XRN2 Links RNA:DNA Hybrid Resolution to Double Strand Break Repair Pathway Choice Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071821 Authors: Tuyen T. Dang Julio C. Morales It was recently shown that the 5’ to 3’ exoribonuclease XRN2 is involved in the DNA damage response. Importantly, loss of XRN2 abrogates DNA double stranded break repair via the non-homologous end-joining pathway. However, the mechanistic details of how XRN2 functions in the...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1820: Prospective Assessment of Systemic MicroRNAs as Markers of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071820 Authors: Andrew McGuire Maire-Caitlin Casey Ronan M. Waldron Helen Heneghan Olga Kalinina Emma Holian Ailbhe McDermott Aoife J. Lowery John Newell Róisín M. Dwyer Nicola Miller Maccon Keane James A.L. Brown Michael J. Kerin Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is used in locally...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1819: Sex and Gender Disparities in Melanoma Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071819 Authors: Maria Bellenghi Rossella Puglisi Giada Pontecorvi Alessandra De De Feo Alessandra Carè Gianfranco Mattia Worldwide, the total incidence of cutaneous melanoma is higher in men than in women, with some differences related to ethnicity and age and, above all, sex and gender. Differences exist in respect to the anatomic localization of melanoma, in that it is...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 1818: Increase of Antitumoral Effects of Cytokine-Induced Killer Cells by Antibody-Mediated Inhibition of MICA Shedding Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12071818 Authors: Xiaolong Wu Ying Zhang Yutao Li Ingo G.H. Schmidt-Wolf Natural killer group 2D (NKG2D) receptor plays a pivotal role in cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cell-mediated cytotoxicity against malignancies, and the expression of NKG2D ligands might allow targets to be more susceptible to the CIK...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cells, Vol. 9, Pages 1631: Basophils from Cancer Patients Respond to Immune Stimuli and Predict Clinical Outcome Cells doi: 10.3390/cells9071631 Authors: Heather J. Bax Jitesh Chauhan Chara Stavraka Atousa Khiabany Mano Nakamura Giulia Pellizzari Kristina M. Ilieva Sara Lombardi Hannah J. Gould Christopher J. Corrigan Stephen J. Till Sidath Katugampola Paul S. Jones Claire Barton Anna Winship Sharmistha Ghosh Ana Montes Debra H. Josephs James...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
Cells, Vol. 9, Pages 1634: Bivalent Inhibitor with Selectivity for Trimeric MMP-9 Amplifies Neutrophil Chemotaxis and Enables Functional Studies on MMP-9 Proteoforms Cells doi: 10.3390/cells9071634 Authors: Elisa Nuti Armando Rossello Doretta Cuffaro Caterina Camodeca Jens Van Bael Dries van der Maat Erik Martens Pierre Fiten Rafaela Vaz Sousa Pereira Estefania Ugarte-Berzal Mieke Gouwy Ghislain Opdenakker Jennifer Vandooren A fundamental part of the...
Tue Jul 07, 2020 03:00
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