Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 742: Electroresponsive Silk-Based Biohybrid Composites for Electrochemically Controlled Growth Factor Delivery Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12080742 Authors: Adrián Magaz Mark D. Ashton Rania M. Hathout Xu Li John G. Hardy Jonny J. Blaker Stimuli-responsive materials are very attractive candidates for on-demand drug delivery applications. Precise control over therapeutic agents in a local area is particularly enticing to regulate...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 141: A Student Pharmacist Quality Engagement Team to Support Initial Implementation of Comprehensive Medication Management within Independent Community Pharmacies Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8030141 Authors: Sophia M. C. Herbert Joni C. Carroll Kim C. Coley Stephanie Harriman McGrath Melissa Somma McGivney In 2017, the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Care Network (PPCN), an enhanced pharmacy services network, and STRAND Clinical Technologies partnered to...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 140: The Role of Hospital and Community Pharmacists in the Management of COVID-19: Towards an Expanded Definition of the Roles, Responsibilities, and Duties of the Pharmacist Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8030140 Authors: Bragazzi Mansour Bonsignore Ciliberti Since late December 2019, a novel, emerging coronavirus was identified as the infectious agent responsible for a generally mild but sometimes severe and even life-threatening disease, termed...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1006: Tumorous Stem Development of Brassica Juncea: A Complex Regulatory Network of Stem Formation and Identification of Key Genes in Glucosinolate Biosynthesis Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9081006 Authors: Mengyao Li Fangjie Xie Jie Li Bo Sun Ya Luo Yong Zhang Qing Chen Yan Wang Fen Zhang Yunting Zhang Yuanxiu Lin Xiaorong Wang Haoru Tang Stem mustard is a stem variety of mustard, an important Brassica vegetable. The formation and...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1007: Effects of Harvest-Aids on Seed Nutrition in Soybean under Midsouth USA Conditions Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9081007 Authors: Nacer Bellaloui H. Arnold Bruns Hamed K. Abbas Daniel K. Fisher Alemu Mengistu Interest in using harvest aids (defoliants or crop desiccants) such as paraquat, carfentrazone-ethyl, glyphosate, and sodium chlorate (NaClO3) have become increasingly important to assure harvest efficiency, producer profit, and to maintain seed...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1004: The Selection of Gamma-Ray Irradiated Higher Yield Rice Mutants by Directed Evolution Method Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9081004 Authors: Hiroshi Kato Feng Li Akemi Shimizu We have succeeded in selecting four higher yield mutants from five gamma-ray irradiated high-yielding Japanese rice varieties using a novel approach. A total of 464 M2 plants which had heavier total panicle weights per plant were first selected from 9801 irradiated M2 plants. Their...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1003: Interactive Effects of N Form and P Concentration on Growth and Tissue Composition of Hybrid Napier Grass (Pennisetum purpureum × Pennisetum americanum) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9081003 Authors: Chonthicha Pakwan Arunothai Jampeetong Hans Brix This study aimed to assess effect of nitrogen (N) form and phosphorus (P) level on the growth and mineral composition of hybrid Napier grass. Experimental plants were grown with different N forms (NO3−,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1005: Substrate and Plant Genotype Strongly Influence the Growth and Gene Expression Response to Trichoderma afroharzianum T22 in Sugar Beet Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9081005 Authors: John Schmidt Bradley R. Dotson Ludwig Schmiderer Adriaan van Tour Banushree Kumar Salla Marttila Kenneth M. Fredlund Susanne Widell Allan G. Rasmusson Many strains of Trichoderma fungi have beneficial effects on plant growth and pathogen control, but little...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 410: Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Happiness and Religious Participation within China Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11080410 Authors: Tianyuan Liu Lin Wu Yang Yang Yu Jia Although the positive relationship between religion and happiness has aroused heated debate, empirical studies on this are limited in the Chinese cultural context. Furthermore, there is a lack of heterogeneity analysis concerning this influence. This paper aims to address...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 409: Islamic Education: An Islamic “Wisdom-Based Cultural Environment” in a Western Context Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11080409 Authors: Fella Lahmar As the number and types of Islamic schools in a Western context have increased, so too have the questions on their purpose and impact in pluralistic Western societies. Amid this increasingly complex environment, questions are raised, both internally and externally, to determine the nature of Islamic educational...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 407: Liturgy and Landscape—Re-Activating Christian Funeral Rites through Adaptive Reuse of a Rural Church and Its Surroundings as a Columbarium and Urn Cemetery Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11080407 Authors: Samuel Goyvaerts Nikolaas Vande Keere We present the design research for the adaptive reuse of the St. Odulphus church as a columbarium in the village of Booienhoven (BE). Surrounded by agriculture, the site is listed as a historic rural landscape. The small...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 408: Terraforming Religious Consciousness: Race as a Signifier in New World Religious Cosmogony Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11080408 Authors: Malik J. M. Walker What is the connection between race and religious diversity? This question has emerged as particularly important in recent times, following heightened discussions on racial justice, equity, and the organization of society with regard to racial oppression. The terms race and religious diversity imply distinct...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 406: Ecological Perspectives on Religion and Positive Youth Development Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11080406 Authors: Mona M. Abo-Zena Meenal Rana A positivist orientation that marginalized the study of religion and spirituality in social science research has limited both its scope and focus. Given a primarily cognitive orientation to this inquiry, children, adolescents, and emerging adults were typically not the focus of research. More recently, the scope...
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Smart Cities, Vol. 3, Pages 853-872: Blockchain as a Driver for Smart City Development: Application Fields and a Comprehensive Research Agenda Smart Cities doi: 10.3390/smartcities3030044 Authors: Horst Treiblmaier Abderahman Rejeb Andreas Strebinger The term “Smart City” denotes a comprehensive concept to alleviate pending problems of modern urban areas which have developed into an important work field for practitioners and scholars alike. However, the question...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 111: Anthropometric and Functional Profile of Selected vs. Non-Selected 13-to-17-Year-Old Soccer Players Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8080111 Authors: Erik Nughes Vincenzo Rago Rodrigo Aquino Georgios Ermidis Morten B. Randers Luca Paolo Ardigò The purpose of this study was to compare anthropometric and functional profiles of 13-to-17-year-old soccer players according to their competitive level. Height, body mass, percentage of body fat, countermovement...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 110: Towards a de facto Nonlinear Periodization: Extending Nonlinearity from Programming to Periodizing Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8080110 Authors: José Afonso Filipe Manuel Clemente João Ribeiro Miguel Ferreira Ricardo J. Fernandes Planning is paramount in sport. Among different philosophical approaches to planning, periodization is a highly popular concept that refers to structured training periods with ensuing programs encompassing moments of progressively-loaded...
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Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 54: Orally Administered 6:2 Chlorinated Polyfluorinated Ether Sulfonate (F-53B) Causes Thyroid Dysfunction in Rats Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8030054 Authors: Hong Lee Yang Lee Jung Seok Kim Nam Jeong Lee Oh The compound 6:2 chlorinated polyfluorinated ether sulfonate (F-53B), a replacement for perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) in the electroplating industry, has been widely detected in numerous environmental matrices, human...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 511: Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Concentration-QTc Analysis of Tetrodotoxin: A Randomized, Dose Escalation Study in Healthy Adults Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080511 Authors: Mojgan Kavoosi Terry E. O’Reilly Mehran Kavoosi Peng Chai Caroline Engel Walter Korz Christopher C. Gallen Robert M. Lester Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a highly specific voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) blocker in clinical evaluation as a peripheral-acting...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 510: A Role of Newly Found Auxiliary Site in Phospholipase A1 from Thai Banded Tiger Wasp (Vespa affinis) in Its Enzymatic Enhancement: In Silico Homology Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Insights Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080510 Authors: Teajaroen Phimwapi Daduang Klaynongsruang Tipmanee Daduang Phospholipase A1 from Thai banded tiger wasp (Vespa affinis) venom also known as Ves a 1 plays an essential role in fatal vespid allergy. Ves a 1...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 508: Purification and Characterization of the Pink-Floyd Drillipeptide, a Bioactive Venom Peptide from Clavus davidgilmouri (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Drilliidae) Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080508 Authors: Victor M. Chua Joanna Gajewiak Maren Watkins Samuel S. Espino Iris Bea L. Ramiro Carla A. Omaga Julita S. Imperial Louie Paolo D. Carpio Alexander Fedosov Helena Safavi-Hemami Lilibeth A. Salvador-Reyes Baldomero M. Olivera Gisela P....
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 509: Foodborne Botulism: Clinical Diagnosis and Medical Treatment Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12080509 Authors: Davide Lonati Azzurra Schicchi Marta Crevani Eleonora Buscaglia Giulia Scaravaggi Francesca Maida Marco Cirronis Valeria Margherita Petrolini Carlo Alessandro Locatelli Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) produced by Clostridia species are the most potent identified natural toxins. Classically, the toxic neurological syndrome is characterized...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 448: Immunogenicity and Protective Efficacy of Influenza A DNA Vaccines Encoding Artificial Antigens Based on Conservative Hemagglutinin Stem Region and M2 Protein in Mice Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030448 Authors: Bazhan Antonets Starostina Ilyicheva Kaplina Marchenko Durymanov Oreshkova Karpenko Background: Development of a universal vaccine capable to induce antibody responses against a broad range of influenza virus strains...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 447: Immuno-Oncotherapeutic Approaches in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030447 Authors: Robin Park Fariha Eshrat Mohammed Al-Jumayli Azhar Saeed Anwaar Saeed Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma has limited treatment options, but there has been extensive growth recently with cabozantinib, regorafenib, lenvatinib, nivolumab, atezolizumab, and bevacizumab, which are some of the treatments that have received FDA approval...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 446: Evaluating the Relative Vaccine Effectiveness of Adjuvanted Trivalent Influenza Vaccine Compared to High-Dose Trivalent and Other Egg-Based Influenza Vaccines among Older Adults in the US during the 2017–2018 Influenza Season Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030446 Authors: Stephen I. Pelton Victoria Divino Drishti Shah Joaquin Mould-Quevedo Mitch DeKoven Girishanthy Krishnarajah Maarten J. Postma The influenza-related disease burden is highest...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 107: Identification of High-Risk Areas for the Spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Central Luzon, Philippines Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030107 Authors: Roderick Salvador Neil Tanquilut Kannika Na Lampang Warangkhana Chaisowwong Dirk Pfeiffer Veerasak Punyapornwithaya Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) is a major problem in the poultry industry. It is highly contagious and is associated with a high...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 106: Improvement of the Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Infection Model for Post-Weaning Diarrhea by Controlling for Bacterial Adhesion, Pig Breed and MUC4 Genotype Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030106 Authors: Hiroki Matsumoto Masashi Miyagawa Sayaka Takahashi Ryouichi Shima Takayuki Oosumi Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a major cause of post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) in pigs and causes significant damage to the swine...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 105: African Swine Fever in Two Large Commercial Pig Farms in LATVIA—Estimation of the High Risk Period and Virus Spread within the Farm Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7030105 Authors: Kristīne Lamberga Edvīns Oļševskis Mārtiņš Seržants Aivars Bērziņš Arvo Viltrop Klaus Depner African swine fever (ASF) was first detected in Latvia in wild boar at the Eastern border in June 2014. Since then ASF has continued to spread in wild boar...
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Vibration, Vol. 3, Pages 189-203: Nonlocal Torsional Vibration of Elliptical Nanorods with Different Boundary Conditions Vibration doi: 10.3390/vibration3030015 Authors: Farshad Khosravi Seyyed Amirhosein Hosseini Babak Alizadeh Hamidi Rossana Dimitri Francesco Tornabene This work aims at investigating the free torsional vibration of one-directional nanostructures with an elliptical shape, under different boundary conditions. The equation of motion is derived from Hamilton’s...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 871: The RNAi Pathway Is Important to Control Mayaro Virus Infection in Aedes aegypti but not for Wolbachia-Mediated Protection Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080871 Authors: Pedro H. F. Sucupira Álvaro G. A. Ferreira Thiago H. J. F. Leite Silvana F. de Mendonça Flávia V. Ferreira Fernanda O. Rezende João T. Marques Luciano A. Moreira Mayaro virus (MAYV), a sylvatic arbovirus belonging to the Togaviridae family and Alphavirus genus, is responsible...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 870: Influenza A Virus: Host–Virus Relationships Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080870 Authors: Lal We are in the midst of a pandemic where the infective agent has been identified, but how it causes mild disease in some and fatally severe disease in other infected
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 867: Mapping Attenuation Determinants in Enterovirus-D68 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080867 Authors: Ming Te Yeh Sara Capponi Adam Catching Simone Bianco Raul Andino Enterovirus (EV)-D68 has been associated with epidemics in the United Sates in 2014, 2016 and 2018. This study aims to identify potential viral virulence determinants. We found that neonatal type I interferon receptor knockout mice are susceptible to EV-D68 infection via intraperitoneal inoculation...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 868: Efficient Non-Epigenetic Activation of HIV Latency through the T-Cell Receptor Signalosome Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080868 Authors: Joseph Hokello Adhikarimayum Lakhikumar Sharma Mudit Tyagi Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) can either undergo a lytic pathway to cause productive systemic infections or enter a latent state in which the integrated provirus remains transcriptionally silent for decades. The ability to latently infect T-cells enables...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 866: Aedes aegypti from Amazon Basin Harbor High Diversity of Novel Viral Species Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080866 Authors: Ribeiro Morais Monteiro Soares D’Athaide Ribeiro Rego Souto Villanova Tahmasebi Hefford Deng Delwart Sabino Fernandes Costa Leal Viruses are the most diverse and abundant microorganisms on earth, highly adaptive to a wide range of hosts. Viral diversity within invertebrate hosts has gained...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 869: The Minor Matrix Protein VP24 from Ebola Virus Lacks Direct Lipid-Binding Properties Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080869 Authors: Yuan Su Robert V. Stahelin Viral protein 24 (VP24) from Ebola virus (EBOV) was first recognized as a minor matrix protein that associates with cellular membranes. However, more recent studies shed light on its roles in inhibiting viral genome transcription and replication, facilitating nucleocapsid assembly and transport, and interfering...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 864: Chronic Hepatitis B Infection Is Associated with Increased Molecular Degree of Inflammatory Perturbation in Peripheral Blood Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080864 Authors: Caian L. Vinhaes Luís A. B. Cruz Rodrigo C. Menezes Thomas A. Carmo María B. Arriaga Artur T. L. Queiroz Manoel Barral-Netto Bruno B. Andrade Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major public health concern. The interaction between HBV and the host inflammatory response...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 863: SARS-CoV-2 RNA Extraction Using Magnetic Beads for Rapid Large-Scale Testing by RT-qPCR and RT-LAMP Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080863 Authors: Steffen Klein Thorsten G. Müller Dina Khalid Vera Sonntag-Buck Anke-Mareil Heuser Bärbel Glass Matthias Meurer Ivonne Morales Angelika Schillak Andrew Freistaedter Ina Ambiel Sophie L. Winter Liv Zimmermann Tamara Naumoska Felix Bubeck Daniel Kirrmaier Stephanie Ullrich Isabel...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 865: Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase Is Involved in Interferon Gamma’s Anti-BKPyV Activity in Renal Cells Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080865 Authors: Tony Fiore Elodie Martin Véronique Descamps Etienne Brochot Virginie Morel Lynda Handala Fatima Dakroub Sandrine Castelain Gilles Duverlie François Helle Catherine François Reactivation of BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) infection is frequently increasing in transplant recipients treated with potent...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 862: Emerging Role of Mucosal Vaccine in Preventing Infection with Avian Influenza A Viruses Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080862 Authors: Tong Wang Fanhua Wei Jinhua Liu Avian influenza A viruses (AIVs), as a zoonotic agent, dramatically impacts public health and the poultry industry. Although low pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV) incidence and mortality are relatively low, the infected hosts can act as a virus carrier and provide a resource pool for reassortant...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 861: Vaccine Candidates against Coronavirus Infections. Where Does COVID-19 Stand? Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12080861 Authors: Jawad Al-Kassmy Jannie Pedersen Gary Kobinger Seven years after the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak, a new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) made its first appearance in a food market in Wuhan, China, drawing an entirely new course to our lives. As the virus belongs to the same genus of MERS...
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