Antibiotics, Vol. 8, Pages 187: Antimicrobial Effect of Visible Light—Photoinactivation of Legionella rubrilucens by Irradiation at 450, 470, and 620 nm Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics8040187 Authors: Schmid Hoenes Vatter Hessling Despite the high number of legionella infections, there are currently no convincing preventive measures. Photoinactivation with visible light is a promising new approach and the photoinactivation sensitivity properties of planktonic Legionella...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 8, Pages 186: Susceptibility of Multidrug-Resistant and Biofilm-Forming Uropathogens to Mexican Oregano Essential Oil Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics8040186 Authors: Karen Arely Zapién-Chavarría Alejandro Plascencia-Terrazas María Georgina Venegas-Ortega Mauricio Varillas-Torres Blanca Estela Rivera-Chavira Jaime Raúl Adame-Gallegos María Olga González-Rangel Guadalupe Virginia Nevárez-Moorillón Antibiotic resistance along with biofilm formation...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 8, Pages 185: Carveoylphenols and Their Antifungal Potential against Pathogenic Yeasts Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics8040185 Authors: Iván Montenegro Marco Mellado Alessandra Russo Bastian Said Ximena Besoain Patricio Godoy Enrique Werner Nelson Caro Alejandro Madrid Candida is a genus of yeasts and is the most common cause of fungal infections worldwide. However, only a few antifungal drugs are currently available for the treatment of...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 8, Pages 486: Effects of Storage Time and Temperature on Lipid Oxidation and Protein Co-Oxidation of Low-Moisture Shredded Meat Products Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox8100486 Authors: Hazrati Wazir Shyan Yea Chay Mohammad Zarei Farah Salina Hussin Nor Afizah Mustapha Wan Zunairah Wan Ibadullah Nazamid Saari Studies on the oxidative changes in meat-based, low-moisture, ready to eat foods are complicated due to complex food system and slow lipid-protein...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 8, Pages 485: Methyl Jasmonate Reduces Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in the Brain of Arthritic Rats Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox8100485 Authors: Pereira-Maróstica Castro Gonçalves Silva Bracht Bersani-Amado Peralta Comar Bracht Sá-Nakanishi Methyl jasmonate (MeJA), common in the plant kingdom, is capable of reducing articular and hepatic inflammation and oxidative stress in adjuvant-induced arthritic rats. This study investigated...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 8, Pages 484: Anti-Oxidized LDL Antibodies and Coronary Artery Disease: A Systematic Review Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox8100484 Authors: van den Berg Vroegindewey Kardys Boersma Haskard Khamis Antibodies to oxidized LDL (oxLDL) may be associated with improved outcomes in cardiovascular disease. However, analysis is restricted by heterogenous study design and endpoints. Our objective was to conduct a comprehensive systematic review assessing...
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Arts, Vol. 8, Pages 135: Teaching the Whitefella—The Role of Cultural Tourism in Opening Remote Indigenous Art Centres to Non-Indigenous Visitors Arts doi: 10.3390/arts8040135 Authors: Chrischona Schmidt This article explores how a remote Aboriginal-owned and -run art centre, Ikuntji Artists in Haasts Bluff, has developed grassroots-level cultural tourism. While not many remote Indigenous art centres engage with the tourism industry, Aboriginal tourism engagement has only recently been...
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Arts, Vol. 8, Pages 134: Ectoplastic Art Therapy as a Genre of Contemporary Art Arts doi: 10.3390/arts8040134 Authors: Peter Tzanev Art therapy is the successor of “psychological Modernism”, which during the late 19th and early 20th centuries included medical psychology as well as theories and practices related to more speculative practices of hypnosis, somnambulism, interpretation of dreams, automatic writing and spiritualism. Art therapy emerged in the second half...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 10, Pages 622: Levels, Sources and Health Risk of PM2.5 and PM1-Bound PAHs across the Greater Athens Area: The Role of the Type of Environment and the Meteorology Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos10100622 Authors: Styliani Pateraki Kyriaki-Maria Fameli Vasiliki Assimakopoulos Aikaterini Bougiatioti Thomas Maggos Nikolaos Mihalopoulos Fine particulate matter (PM) has significant impacts on public health. Among its various chemical components, Polycyclic Aromatic...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 10, Pages 621: Tailpipe VOC Emissions from Late Model Gasoline Passenger Vehicles in the Japanese Market Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos10100621 Authors: Hiroo Hata Megumi Okada Chikage Funakubo Junya Hoshi High concentrations of tropospheric ozone remain a concern, and strategies to reduce the precursors of ozone, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides, have been established in many countries. In this study, chassis dynamometer experiments were...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 10, Pages 620: Density Fluctuations in the Lower Thermosphere of Mars Retrieved From the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) Aerobraking Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos10100620 Authors: David Jesch Alexander S. Medvedev Francesco Castellini Erdal Yiğit Paul Hartogh The upper atmosphere of Mars is constantly perturbed by small-scale gravity waves propagating from below. As gravity waves strongly affect the large-scale dynamics and thermal state, constraining their...
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Beverages, Vol. 5, Pages 61: Sugary Kefir: Microbial Identification and Biotechnological Properties Beverages doi: 10.3390/beverages5040061 Authors: Maria K. Syrokou Marina Papadelli Ioanna Ntaikou Spiros Paramithiotis Eleftherios H. Drosinos Background: The aim of the present study was to assess the microecosystem composition of three different fruit kefir grains used for the fermentation of apple juice (NAJ), cherry juice (SCN), and a solution of sugary water, enriched...
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Biomimetics, Vol. 4, Pages 70: Study on the Heat Reduction Effect of Biomimetic Unidirectional Transporting Channels Inspired by Nepenthes alata Biomimetics doi: 10.3390/biomimetics4040070 Authors: Yixuan Zhang Deyuan Zhang Dongyue Wang Xiangyu Zhang Heat control has been a momentous problem in engineering areas which include manufacturing, aeronautics, microchips and so forth for a considerable amount of time. The control of material for thermal deformation, effective cooling...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 9, Pages 612: Reliable Generation of Native-Like Decoys Limits Predictive Ability in Fragment-Based Protein Structure Prediction Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom9100612 Authors: Shaun M. Kandathil Mario Garza-Fabre Julia Handl Simon C. Lovell Our previous work with fragment-assembly methods has demonstrated specific deficiencies in conformational sampling behaviour that, when addressed through improved sampling algorithms, can lead to more reliable prediction...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 9, Pages 611: Tuning Structure and Dynamics of Blue Copper Azurin Junctions via Single Amino-Acid Mutations Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom9100611 Authors: Ortega Vilhena Zotti Díez-Pérez Cuevas Pérez In the growing field of biomolecular electronics, blue-copper Azurin stands out as one of the most widely studied protein in single-molecule contacts. Interestingly, despite the paramount importance of the structure/dynamics of molecular contacts in...
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Brain Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 276: The Role of the Embodiment Disturbance in the Anorexia Nervosa Psychopathology: A Network Analysis Study Brain Sciences doi: 10.3390/brainsci9100276 Authors: Cascino Castellini Stanghellini Ricca Cassioli Ruzzi Monteleone Monteleone Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is characterized by body image distortion. From a phenomenological perspective, body image disturbance has been associated with a more profound disturbance encompassing...
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Brain Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 275: Neuroprotective and Antioxidant Effect of Naringenin-Loaded Nanoparticles for Nose-to-Brain Delivery Brain Sciences doi: 10.3390/brainsci9100275 Authors: Shadab Md Nabil A. Alhakamy Hibah M. Aldawsari Hani Zakaria Asfour Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting in a decreased nigrostriatal availability of dopamine. Oxidative stress is one factor contributing to PD. Naringenin (NAR), a flavonoid, is a potent...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1569: Breast Cancer Stem Cells as Drivers of Tumor Chemoresistance, Dormancy and Relapse: New Challenges and Therapeutic Opportunities Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11101569 Authors: De Angelis Francescangeli Zeuner Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women worldwide. Therapeutic strategies to prevent or treat metastatic disease are still inadequate although great progress has been made in treating early‐stage breast cancer. Cancer stem-like...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1570: Technological and Therapeutic Advances in Advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11101570 Authors: Lum Alamgeer Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for approximately 10–15% of all lung cancers. The prognosis is poor with median survival in the advanced stage remaining at around 12 months. Despite applying every known therapeutic approach, no major breakthrough has improved the overall survival in the last 30 years....
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1566: PD-1-Associated Gene Expression Signature of Neoadjuvant Trastuzumab-Treated Tumors Correlates with Patient Survival in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11101566 Authors: William P. D. Hendricks Natalia Briones Rebecca F. Halperin Salvatore Facista Paul R. Heaton Daruka Mahadevan Suwon Kim The therapeutic HER2-targeting antibody trastuzumab has been shown to elicit tumor immune response in a subset of HER2-positive...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1568: Platelets and Hepatocellular Cancer: Bridging the Bench to the Clinics
Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1568: Platelets and Hepatocellular Cancer: Bridging the Bench to the Clinics Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11101568 Authors: Quirino Lai Alessandro Vitale Tommaso M. Manzia Francesco G. Foschi Giovanni B. Levi Sandri Martina Gambato Fabio Melandro Francesco P. Russo Luca Miele Luca Viganò Patrizia Burra Edoardo G. Giannini Growing interest is recently being focused on the role played by the platelets in favoring hepatocellular cancer...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1565: Molecular Insights into Potential Contributions of Natural Polyphenols to Lung Cancer Treatment Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11101565 Authors: Zhou Pan Li Naturally occurring polyphenols are believed to have beneficial effects in the prevention and treatment of a myriad of disorders due to their anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antineoplastic, cytotoxic, and immunomodulatory activities documented in a large body of literature. In the era of molecular...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1567: Microsatellite Instability: Diagnosis, Heterogeneity, Discordance, and Clinical Impact in Colorectal Cancer Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11101567 Authors: Evrard Tachon Randrian Karayan-Tapon Tougeron Tumor DNA mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency testing is important to the identification of Lynch syndrome and decision making regarding adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colorectal cancer (CRC) and has become an indispensable test in metastatic...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1563: Bioactive Compounds: Multi-Targeting Silver Bullets for Preventing and Treating Breast Cancer Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11101563 Authors: Nethaji Muniraj Sumit Siddharth Dipali Sharma Each cell in our body is designed with a self-destructive trigger, and if damaged, can happily sacrifice itself for the sake of the body. This process of self-destruction to safeguard the adjacent normal cells is known as programmed cell death or apoptosis. Cancer cells...
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Cancers, Vol. 11, Pages 1564: Genetic and Lineage Classification of Glioma-Initiating Cells Identifies a Clinically Relevant Glioblastoma Model Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers11101564 Authors: Norihiko Saito Nozomi Hirai Kazuya Aoki Sho Sato Ryo Suzuki Yu Hiramoto Satoshi Fujita Haruo Nakayama Morito Hayashi Takatoshi Sakurai Satoshi Iwabuchi The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project described a robust gene expression-based molecular classification of glioblastoma...
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Cells, Vol. 8, Pages 1258: WIP1 Promotes Homologous Recombination and Modulates Sensitivity to PARP Inhibitors Cells doi: 10.3390/cells8101258 Authors: Kamila Burdova Radka Storchova Matous Palek Libor Macurek Genotoxic stress triggers a combined action of DNA repair and cell cycle checkpoint pathways. Protein phosphatase 2C delta (referred to as WIP1) is involved in timely inactivation of DNA damage response by suppressing function of p53 and other targets at chromatin. Here...
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Cells, Vol. 8, Pages 1259: Potential Therapeutic Application of Estrogen in Gender Disparity of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease/Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Cells doi: 10.3390/cells8101259 Authors: Lee Kim Jung Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) caused by fat accumulation in the liver is globally the most common cause of chronic liver disease. Simple steatosis can progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a more severe form of NAFLD. The most potent driver for...
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Cells, Vol. 8, Pages 1257: Where to Stand with Stromal Cells and Chronic Synovitis in Rheumatoid Arthritis? Cells doi: 10.3390/cells8101257 Authors: Jean-Marc Brondello Farida Djouad Christian Jorgensen The synovium exercises its main function in joint homeostasis through the secretion of factors (such as lubricin and hyaluronic acid) that are critical for the joint lubrication and function. The main synovium cell components are fibroblast-like synoviocytes, mesenchymal stromal/stem...
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Cells, Vol. 8, Pages 1255: iNOS Interacts with Autophagy Receptor p62 and is Degraded by Autophagy in Macrophages Cells doi: 10.3390/cells8101255 Authors: Jing Wang Ming-Yue Wu Huanxing Su Jinjian Lu Xiuping Chen Jieqiong Tan Jia-Hong Lu Nitric oxide (NO) is an important mediator of inflammation response and the production of NO has been linked to a variety of diseases, including tumors, inflammation and central nervous system diseases. In macrophages, a high level...
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Cells, Vol. 8, Pages 1256: MicroRNAs as a Potential Quality Measurement Tool of Platelet Concentrate Stored in Blood Banks—A Review Cells doi: 10.3390/cells8101256 Authors: Jersey Heitor da Silva Maués Caroline de Fátima Aquino Moreira-Nunes Rommel Mário Rodriguez Burbano Background: Platelet concentrate (PC) is one of the main products used in a therapeutic transfusion. This blood component requires special storage at blood banks, however, even under good storage conditions, modifications...
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Children, Vol. 6, Pages 114: Agreement between Fathers’ and Mothers’ Reported Stimulation and Associations with Observed Responsive Parenting in Pakistan Children doi: 10.3390/children6100114 Authors: Joshua Jeong Saima Siyal Aisha K. Yousafzai Parental stimulation and responsiveness are associated with improved early child development outcomes. However, the majority of studies have relied on maternal-reported measures of only mothers’ parenting practices. The purpose...
Tue Oct 15, 2019 03:00
Clean Technol., Vol. 1, Pages 325-340: Process and Carbon Footprint Analyses of the Allam Cycle Power Plant Integrated with an Air Separation Unit Clean Technologies doi: 10.3390/cleantechnol1010022 Authors: Dan Fernandes Song Wang Qiang Xu Russel Buss Daniel Chen The Allam cycle is the latest advancement in power generation technologies with a high cycle efficiency, zero NOx emission, and carbon dioxide available at pipeline specification for sequestration and utilization....
Tue Oct 15, 2019 03:00
Climate, Vol. 7, Pages 121: Prospective Climate Change Impacts upon Energy Prices in the 21ST Century: A Case Study in Italy Climate doi: 10.3390/cli7100121 Authors: Bombelli Soncini Bianchi Bocchiola The assessment of the effect of the electricity price on energy production is important when studying the profitability and benefits of energy systems. The demand and price of electricity depends upon societal and economic development, but it is subject to a seasonal, weather-dependent...
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