JCM, Vol. 9, Pages 423: Are the Immune Properties of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Wharton’s Jelly Maintained during Chondrogenic Differentiation? Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm9020423 Authors: Voisin Cauchois Reppel Laroye Louarn Schenowitz Sonon Poras Wang D. Carosella Benkirane-Jessel Moreau Rouas-Freiss Bensoussan Huselstein Background: Umbilical mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs), and especially those derived...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
JCM, Vol. 9, Pages 422: Nintedanib Treatment for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients Who Have Been Switched from Pirfenidone Therapy: A Retrospective Case Series Study Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm9020422 Authors: Vianello Salton Molena Turato Graziani Braccioni Frassani Sella Pretto Paladini Sukthi Confalonieri Background: The efficacy and effectiveness of nintedanib as a first-line therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
JCM, Vol. 9, Pages 424: Reduction of Preoperative Waiting Time before Urgent Surgery for Patients on P2Y12 Inhibitors Using Multiple Electrode Aggregometry: A Retrospective Study Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm9020424 Authors: Hardy Dupuis Dincq Jacqmin Lecompte Mullier Lessire P2Y12 inhibitor discontinuation is essential before most surgical interventions to limit bleeding complications. Based on pharmacokinetic data, fixed discontinuation durations...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
JCM, Vol. 9, Pages 421: The Workflow of a New Dynamic Navigation System for the Insertion of Dental Implants in the Rehabilitation of Edentulous Jaws: Report of Two Cases Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm9020421 Authors: Armando Lopes Miguel de Araújo Nobre Diogo Santos Background: This case series describes the surgical workflow during maxillary full-arch rehabilitations in two patients through the All-on-4 concept (standard and hybrid) assisted by DTX Studio Implant...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
JCM, Vol. 9, Pages 419: The Rate of Underascertainment of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection: Estimation Using Japanese Passengers Data on Evacuation Flights Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm9020419 Authors: Nishiura Kobayashi Yang Hayashi Miyama Kinoshita Linton Jung Yuan Suzuki Akhmetzhanov From 29 to 31 January 2020, a total of 565 Japanese citizens were evacuated from Wuhan, China on three chartered flights. All passengers...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
JCM, Vol. 9, Pages 420: Diagnostic Validity of Digital Imaging Fiber-Optic Transillumination (DIFOTI) and Near-Infrared Light Transillumination (NILT) for Caries in Dentine Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm9020420 Authors: Marmaneu-Menero Iranzo-Cortés Almerich-Torres Ortolá-Síscar Montiel-Company Almerich-Silla The objective of the study is to analyse the available evidence for the validity of the transillumination method in the diagnosis of interproximal...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
JoF, Vol. 6, Pages 22: Monoclonal Antibodies as Tools to Combat Fungal Infections Journal of Fungi doi: 10.3390/jof6010022 Authors: Ulrich Ebel Antibodies represent an important element in the adaptive immune response and a major tool to eliminate microbial pathogens. For many bacterial and viral infections, efficient vaccines exist, but not for fungal pathogens. For a long time, antibodies have been assumed to be of minor importance for a successful clearance of fungal infections;...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Medical Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 9: A Systematic Review of the Extra-Hepatic Manifestations of Hepatitis E Virus Infection Medical Sciences doi: 10.3390/medsci8010009 Authors: Rawla Raj Kannemkuzhiyil Aluru Thandra Gajendran Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a non-enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA icosahedral virus belongs to the genus Orthohepevirus within the Hepeviridae family. HEV infection can be asymptomatic, or it can cause icteric or fulminant hepatitis....
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Medicina, Vol. 56, Pages 61: The Impact of Prostate Cancer Upgrading and Upstaging on Biochemical Recurrence and Cancer-Specific Survival Medicina doi: 10.3390/medicina56020061 Authors: Bakavičius Drevinskaitė Daniūnaitė Barisienė Jarmalaitė Jankevičius Background and Objectives: Significant numbers of prostate cancer (PCa) patients experience tumour upgrading and upstaging between prostate biopsy and radical prostatectomy (RP) specimens. The aim of our study was...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Medicina, Vol. 56, Pages 60: Discharge Planning and Home Care Needs Assessment for Older Patients in a Nursing Hospital Medicina doi: 10.3390/medicina56020060 Authors: Lina Urbietė Vita Lesauskaitė Jūratė Macijauskienė Background and objectives: Following the accumulation of a sufficient amount of scientific evidence, it is now possible to appeal for changes in the organization of nursing services. Our aims are to assess the health status of patients discharged from nursing hospitals...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Medicina, Vol. 56, Pages 59: Impact of Tree Pollen Distribution on Allergic Diseases in Serbia: Evidence of Implementation of Allergen Immunotherapy to Betula verrucosa Medicina doi: 10.3390/medicina56020059 Authors: Minić Josipović Tomić Spirić Gavrović-Jankulović Perić Popadić Prokopijević Ljubičić Stamenković Burazer Background and objectives: The relationship between air pollen quantity and the sensitization of allergic patients is crucial for both...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Membranes, Vol. 10, Pages 24: A Review on the Mechanism, Impacts and Control Methods of Membrane Fouling in MBR System Membranes doi: 10.3390/membranes10020024 Authors: Xianjun Du Yaoke Shi Veeriah Jegatheesan Izaz Ul Haq Compared with the traditional activated sludge process, a membrane bioreactor (MBR) has many advantages, such as good effluent quality, small floor space, low residual sludge yield and easy automatic control. It has a promising prospect in wastewater treatment...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 210: Early stage root-Associated fungi show a high temporal turnover, but Are independent of beech progeny Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8020210 Authors: Goldmann Ammerschubert Pena Polle Wu Wubet Buscot The relationship between trees and root-associated fungal communities is complex. By specific root deposits and other signal cues, different tree species are able to attract divergent sets of fungal species. Plant intraspecific...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 209: Fungal and Bacterial Microbiome Associated with the Rhizosphere of Native Plants from the Atacama Desert Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8020209 Authors: Fuentes Herrera Charles Arriagada The rhizosphere microbiome is key in survival, development, and stress tolerance in plants. Salinity, drought, and extreme temperatures are frequent events in the Atacama Desert, considered the driest in the world. However, little information...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 668: The Interaction of Cyclic Naphthalene Diimide with G-Quadruplex under Molecular Crowding Condition Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030668 Authors: Tingting Zou Shinobu Sato Rui Yasukawa Ryusuke Takeuchi Shunsuke Ozaki Satoshi Fujii Shigeori Takenaka G-quadruplex specific targeting molecules, also termed as G4 ligands, are attracting increasing attention for their ability to recognize and stabilize G-quadruplex and high potentiality for...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 666: Biological Evaluation and In Silico Study of Benzoic Acid Derivatives from Bjerkandera adusta Targeting Proteostasis Network Modules Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030666 Authors: Georgousaki Tsafantakis Gumeni Lambrinidis González-Menéndez Tormo Genilloud Trougakos Fokialakis Abstract: A main cellular functional module that becomes dysfunctional during aging is the proteostasis network. In the present study, we show...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 667: Theoretical Studies of Photophysical Properties of D−π−A−π−D-Type Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Molecules for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and Organic Solar Cells Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030667 Authors: Jin Zhang Xiao A series of D–π–A diketopyrrolopyrrole(DPP)-based small molecules were designed for organic light-emitting diode(OLEDs) and organic solar cell(OSCs) applications. Applying the PBE0/6-31G(d,p) method,...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 669: Comparison of Different Categories of Slovak Tokaj Wines in Terms of Profiles of Volatile Organic Compounds Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030669 Authors: Katarína Furdíková Andrea Machyňáková Tereza Drtilová Ivan Špánik The present work deals with the characterization of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in wines from the Slovak Tokaj wine region. Studied wine samples were divided into three groups—varietal wines from registered Tokaj...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 664: Biostimulant Potential of Scenedesmus obliquus Grown in Brewery Wastewater Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030664 Authors: Navarro-López Ruíz-Nieto Ferreira Acién Gouveia Microalgae are microorganisms with the capacity to contribute to the sustainable and healthy food production, in addition to wastewater treatment. The subject of this work was to determine the potential of Scenedesmus obliquus microalga grown in brewery wastewater to...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 663: A Novel Eye Drop Candidate for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatment: Studies on its Pharmacokinetics and Distribution in Rats and Rabbits Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030663 Authors: Choi Choi Kim Jang Lee Bae Kim Lee Cho Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is wearing down of macula of retina, causing a blur or loss of vision in the center of the visual field. It can be categorized into dry or wet AMD. Until...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 662: Design and Synthesis of a Compound Library Exploiting 5-Methoxyleoligin as Potential Cholesterol Efflux Promoter Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030662 Authors: Linder Geyrhofer Papaplioura Wang Atanasov Stuppner Dirsch Schnürch Mihovilovic 5-Methoxyleoligin and leoligin are natural occurring lignans derived from Edelweiss (Leontopodium nivale ssp. alpinum), displaying potent pro-angiogenic and pro-arteriogenic activity....
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 665: In Silico Strategies in Tuberculosis Drug Discovery Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030665 Authors: Stephani Joy Y. Macalino Junie B. Billones Voltaire G. Organo Maria Constancia O. Carrillo Tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious threat to global public health, responsible for an estimated 1.5 million mortalities in 2018. While there are available therapeutics for this infection, slow-acting drugs, poor patient compliance, drug toxicity, and drug...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 660: Synthesis of Combretastatin A-4 and 3′-Aminocombretastatin A-4 derivatives with Aminoacid Containing Pendants and Study of Their Interaction with Tubulin and as Downregulators of the VEGF, hTERT and c-Myc Gene Expression Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030660 Authors: Agut Falomir Murga Martín-Beltrán Gil-Edo Pla Carda Marco Natural product combretastatin A-4 (CA-4) and its nitrogenated analogue 3′-aminocombretastatin...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 657: Comparison of an Offline SPE–GC–MS and Online HS–SPME–GC–MS Method for the Analysis of Volatile Terpenoids in Wine Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030657 Authors: Williams Buica The aroma profile is an important marker for wine quality. Various classes of compounds are responsible for the aroma of wine, and one such class is terpenoids. In the context of this work, a validated gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) method...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 656: Marine Microorganism-Derived Macrolactins Inhibit Inflammatory Mediator Effects in LPS-Induced Macrophage and Microglial Cells by Regulating BACH1 and HO-1/Nrf2 Signals through Inhibition of TLR4 Activation Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030656 Authors: Eun-Nam Kim Ming Gao Hyukjae Choi Gil-Saeng Jeong Recently, many natural products with unique structure and promising pharmacological potential have been reported from marine-derived microorganisms....
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 658: Antagonistic Effects of CAPE (a Component of Propolis) on the Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of Irinotecan and SN38 in Human Gastrointestinal Cancer Cells In Vitro Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030658 Authors: Gajek Marciniak Lewkowski Kontek The incidence of gastrointestinal cancers is increasing every year. Irinotecan (CPT-11), a drug used in the treatment of colorectal cancer and gastric cancer, is metabolized by carboxylesterases to...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 659: Impact Mineralization of Chokeberry and Cranberry Fruit Juices Using a New Functional Additive on the Protection of Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidative Properties Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030659 Authors: Lachowicz Oszmiański Wilczyńska Zaguła Saletnik Puchalski Chicken eggshells can be used as an attractive dietary source of mineral compounds, including calcium (Ca). However, the effects of chicken eggshell powder (CESP)...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 661: Hydrocarbon Removal by Two Differently Developed Microbial Inoculants and Comparing Their Actions with Biostimulation Treatment Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030661 Authors: Brzeszcz Kapusta Steliga Turkiewicz Bioremediation of soils polluted with petroleum compounds is a widely accepted environmental technology. We compared the effects of biostimulation and bioaugmentation of soil historically contaminated with aliphatic and polycyclic...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 655: Synthesis of New Cisplatin Derivatives from Bile Acids Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030655 Authors: Barbara Seroka Zenon Łotowski Agnieszka Hryniewicka Lucie Rárová Rafal R. Sicinski Aneta M. Tomkiel Jacek W. Morzycki A series of bile acid derived 1,2- and 1,3-diamines as well as their platinum(II) complexes were designed and synthesized in hope to get a highly cytotoxic compound by the combination of two bioactive moieties. All complexes...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 654: Preparation and Characterization of Octenyl Succinate β-Cyclodextrin and Vitamin E Inclusion Complex and Its Application in Emulsion Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030654 Authors: Dongmei Ke Wenxue Chen Weijun Chen Yong-Huan Yun Qiuping Zhong Xiaotang Su Haiming Chen Vitamin E (VE) and β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) can form an inclusion complex; however, the inclusion rate is low because of the weak interaction between VE...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 653: SiO2-PVA-Fe(acac)3 Hybrid Based Superparamagnetic Nanocomposites for Nanomedicine: Morpho-textural Evaluation and In Vitro Cytotoxicity Assay Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030653 Authors: Putz Ianăși Dudás Coricovac Watz Len Almásy Sacarescu Dehelean A facile sol-gel route has been applied to synthesize hybrid silica-PVA-iron oxide nanocomposite materials. A step-by-step calcination (processing temperatures up to 400...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 652: Cannabinoids in the Pathophysiology of Skin Inflammation Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25030652 Authors: Cristian Scheau Ioana Anca Badarau Livia-Gratiela Mihai Andreea-Elena Scheau Daniel Octavian Costache Carolina Constantin Daniela Calina Constantin Caruntu Raluca Simona Costache Ana Caruntu Cannabinoids are increasingly-used substances in the treatment of chronic pain, some neuropsychiatric disorders and more recently, skin...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 264: Biocompatibility and Carcinogenicity of Carbon Nanotubes as Biomaterials Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020264 Authors: Kaoru Aoki Naoto Saito With the development of nanotechnology in recent years, there have been concerns about the health effects of nanoparticles. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are fibrous nanoparticles with a micro-sized length and nano-sized diameter, which exhibit excellent physical properties and are widely studied for their potential...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 263: Continuous Carbonation for Synthesis of Pseudo-Boehmite by using Cross-Flow Rotating Packed Bed through the Reaction of NaAlO2 Solution with CO2 Gas Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020263 Authors: Ren Liu Miao This research established a novel method for the preparation of pseudo-boehmite (PB) via a continuous carbonation of CO2 gas and a NaAlO2 solution in a cross-flow rotating packed bed (CF-RPB). In the CF-RPB, the NaAlO2 solution can be...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 261: Origin of the Photoluminescence of Metal Nanoclusters: From Metal-Centered Emission to Ligand-Centered Emission Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020261 Authors: Yang Peng Shan Zong Jiang Wu Zhang Recently, metal nanoclusters (MNCs) emerged as a new class of luminescent materials and have attracted tremendous interest in the area of luminescence-related applications due to their excellent luminous properties (good photostability,...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 262: Green Technology for Remediation of Water Polluted with Petroleum Crude Oil: Using of Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms Combined with Magnetic Nanoparticles Capped with Myrrh Resources of Saudi Arabia Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020262 Authors: Atta Mohamed Hegazy Moustafa Mohamed Safwat Diab Crude oil pollution of water bodies is a worldwide problem that affects water ecosystems and is detrimental to human health and...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 408: Beneficial Effects of a Low-dose of Conjugated Linoleic Acid on Body Weight Gain and other Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Cafeteria Diet-fed Rats Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020408 Authors: Martín-González Palacios Rodríguez Arola Aragonès Muguerza Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a dietary supplement that has been shown to improve obesity. However, some authors have associated high doses of CLA supplementation with liver impairment...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 409: Taste Changes in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Associations with PROP Phenotypes and polymorphisms in the salivary protein, Gustin and CD36 Receptor Genes Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020409 Authors: Melis Mastinu Sollai Paduano Chicco Magrì Usai Crnjar Tepper Barbarossa Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract resulting from interactions among various...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 407: Consumption of Lactose, Other FODMAPs and Diarrhoea during Adjuvant 5-Fluorouracil Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020407 Authors: Reetta Holma Reijo Laatikainen Helena Orell Heikki Joensuu Katri Peuhkuri Tuija Poussa Riitta Korpela Pia Österlund Chemotherapy-induced mucosal injury of the small intestine may interfere with the enzymes and transporters responsible for the hydrolysis and absorption of dietary...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 406: Acute Caffeine Intake Enhances Mean Power Output and Bar Velocity during the Bench Press Throw in Athletes Habituated to Caffeine Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020406 Authors: Michal Wilk Aleksandra Filip Michal Krzysztofik Mariola Gepfert Adam Zajac Juan Del Coso Background: The main objective of the current investigation was to evaluate the effects of caffeine on power output and bar velocity during an explosive bench press throw in athletes...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 405: A Randomized Study of the Effect of Replacing Sugar-Sweetened Soda by Reduced Fat Milk on Cardiometabolic Health in Male Adolescent Soda Drinkers Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020405 Authors: Sally Chiu Patty Siri-Tarino Nathalie Bergeron Jung H. Suh Ronald M. Krauss Soda consumption in adolescents has been linked to poorer metabolic outcomes. We tested whether replacing soda with reduced fat milk would improve features of atherogenic dyslipidemia...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 404: Infants’ Vitamin D Nutritional Status in the First Year of Life in Northern Taiwan Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020404 Authors: Chen Mu Chen Tsai Kuo Cheong Chang Li Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) and insufficiency (VDI) are common among exclusively breastfeeding infants. However, epidemiological evidence for the prevalence of VDD in infants during their first year of life in Taiwan has never been found. This trial determined the...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Particles, Vol. 3, Pages 80-86: The Dirac spectrum and the BEC-BCS crossover in QCD at nonzero isospin asymmetry Particles doi: 10.3390/particles3010007 Authors: Bastian B. Brandt Francesca Cuteri Gergely Endrodi Sebastian Schmalzbauer For large isospin asymmetries, perturbation theory predicts the quantum chromodynamic (QCD) ground state to be a superfluid phase of u and d ¯ Cooper pairs. This phase, which is denoted as the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) phase,...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 96: Map3k14 as a Regulator of Innate and Adaptive Immune Response during Acute Viral Infection Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020096 Authors: Thamer A. Hamdan Hilal Bhat Lamin B. Cham Tom Adomati Judith Lang Fanghui Li Ali Murtaza Cornelia Hardt Philipp A. Lang Vikas Duhan Karl S. Lang The replication of virus in secondary lymphoid organs is crucial for the activation of antigen-presenting cells. Balanced viral replication ensures...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 95: Characterization of Salmonella enterica Isolates from Diseased Poultry in Northern China between 2014 and 2018 Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020095 Authors: Jun Wang Jinxin Li Fengli Liu Yongyou Cheng Jingliang Su Salmonella infection not only causes acute and chronic diseases in poultry flocks, but the infected poultry are among the most important reservoirs for a variety of Salmonella serovars frequently transmitted to humans. This study...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 94: The Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) and its Virulence Determinants: What is Known and What Should be Known Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020094 Authors: Carlos P. Dopazo Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is a disease of great concern in aquaculture, mainly among salmonid farmers, since losses in salmonid fish—mostly very young rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnery) fry and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) post-smolt—frequently reach 80–90% of stocks....
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 131: A Smart Drug Delivery System Based on Biodegradable Chitosan/Poly(allylamine hydrochloride) Blend Films Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020131 Authors: Sarwar Huang Ghaffar Abid Zafar Khurshid Latif The amalgamation of natural polysaccharides with synthetic polymers often produces fruitful results in the area of drug delivery due to their biodegradable and biocompatible nature. In this study, a series of blend films...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 190: Transcriptome-Wide Identification, Evolutionary Analysis, and GA Stress Response of the GRAS Gene Family in Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020190 Authors: Wang Wang Li Jiang Li Zhao Jiang Zhu Wang Su Wang Zhang GRAS transcription factors are a kind of plant-specific transcription factor that have been found in a variety of plants. According to previous studies, GRAS proteins are widely involved...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 192: Carbon Transfer from the Host Diatom Enables Fast Growth and High Rate of N2 Fixation by Symbiotic Heterocystous Cyanobacteria Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020192 Authors: Inomura Follett Masuda Eichner Prášil Deutsch Diatom–diazotroph associations (DDAs) are symbioses where trichome-forming cyanobacteria support the host diatom with fixed nitrogen through dinitrogen (N2) fixation. It is inferred that the growth of the trichomes...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 191: Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation of the Medicinal Plant Veratrum dahuricum Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020191 Authors: Rui Ma Zhijing Yu Qinan Cai Haiyun Li Yingshan Dong Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey Heiko Rischer Veratrum dahuricum L. (Liliaceae), a monocotyledonous species distributed throughout the Changbai mountains of Northeast China, is pharmaceutically important, due to the capacity to produce the anticancer drug cyclopamine....
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 188: Modulation of Cadmium Tolerance in Rice: Insight into Vanillic Acid-Induced Upregulation of Antioxidant Defense and Glyoxalase Systems Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020188 Authors: Bhuyan Parvin Mohsin Mahmud Hasanuzzaman Fujita Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal that enters the human food chain from the soil via plants. Increased Cd uptake and translocation in plants alters metabolism andreduces crop production. Maintaining crop yield therefore...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 189: Transgenerational Effects of Water-Deficit and Heat Stress on Germination and Seedling Vigour—New Insights from Durum Wheat microRNAs Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020189 Authors: Liu Able Able Water deficiency and heat stress can severely limit crop production and quality. Stress imposed on the parents during reproduction could have transgenerational effects on their progeny. Seeds with different origins can vary significantly in their germination and...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 187: Chemical Analysis of the Essential Oil from Siparuna echinata (Kunth) A. DC. (Siparunaceae) of Ecuador and Isolation of the Rare Terpenoid Sipaucin A Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020187 Authors: Jessica García Gianluca Gilardoni Nixon Cumbicus Vladimir Morocho The phytochemical research on the species Siparuna echinata, collected in the Province of Loja (Ecuador), led to the isolation of a rare sesquiterpenoid, called Sipaucin A. The structure was confirmed...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 70: Mute Sacrum. Faith and Its Relation to Heritage on Camino de Santiago Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11020070 Authors: Piotr Roszak The problem of recognizing the true motivations of secular pilgrims is often experienced on the Camino de Santiago. The faith of pilgrims seems to be hidden under the cover of many behaviors of contemporary pilgrims. At the same time on the Camino de Santiago, there could be observed a significant change in how the sacred is perceived...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 16: Mine Machine Radar Sensor for Emergency Escape Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9020016 Authors: Hargrave Munday Kennedy Kock This paper presents the results of recent work to develop and trial a mine machine radar sensor for underground coal mine vehicles. There is an urgent industry need for an integrated solution to the problem of operating an underground vehicle in conditions of dense ambient dust and/or smoke, such as may occur in underground...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 11: Academic Causes of School Failure in Secondary Education in Spain: The Voice of the Protagonists Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9020011 Authors: Martínez-Valdivia Burgos-Garcia School failure is, at the international level, a problem that affects, most educational systems. In Spain, it is currently a current problem that remains unresolved. Therefore, our research aims to discover and analyze situations of school failure experienced by different...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 17: The Prevalence and Severity of External Auditory Exostosis in Young to Quadragenarian-Aged Warm-Water Surfers: A Preliminary Study Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8020017 Authors: Vini Simas Wayne Hing James Furness Joe Walsh Mike Climstein External auditory exostosis (EAE) has previously only been shown to occur in cold water surfers. We assessed young surfers living and surfing in Queensland, Australia, for EAE in water temp ranges from 20.6 °C...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 99: Domain Shuffling between Vip3Aa and Vip3Ca: Chimera Stability and Insecticidal Activity against European, American, African, and Asian Pests Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020099 Authors: Gomis-Cebolla Ferreira dos Santos Wang Caballero Caballero He Jurat-Fuentes Ferré The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis produces insecticidal Vip3 proteins during the vegetative growth phase with activity against several lepidopteran pests. To date,...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 100: Aflatoxin M1 Determination in Infant Formulae Distributed in Monterrey, Mexico Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020100 Authors: Quevedo-Garza Amador-Espejo Salas-García Ramos-Peña Trujillo The occurrence of aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) in infant formulae commercialized in the metropolitan area of Monterrey (Nuevo León, Mexico) was determined by using immunoaffinity column clean-up followed by HPLC determination with fluorimetric detection. For...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 21: Prevalence of Eye Problems among Young Infants of Rohingya Refugee Camps: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010021 Authors: AHM Enayet Hussain Zunayed Al Azdi Khaleda Islam ANM Ehtesham Kabir Rumana Huque Early detection of pediatric eye problems can prevent future vision loss. This study was to estimate the prevalence of common eye problems among infants born in a resource-constrained...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 67: RNA Sensing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Its Impact on TB Vaccination Strategies Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010067 Authors: Sanne Burkert Ralf R. Schumann Tuberculosis (TB) is still an important global threat and although the causing organism has been discovered long ago, effective prevention strategies are lacking. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a unique pathogen with a complex host interaction. Understanding the immune responses upon infection...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 175: Impact of the Interaction of Hepatitis B Virus with Mitochondria and Associated Proteins Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020175 Authors: Hossain Akter Ohsaki Ueda Around 350 million people are living with hepatitis B virus (HBV), which can lead to death due to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Various antiviral drugs/nucleot(s)ide analogues are currently used to reduce or arrest the replication of this virus. However, many studies have...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 176: Antiviral Effect of Epigallocatechin Gallate via Impairing Porcine Circovirus Type 2 Attachment to Host Cell Receptor Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020176 Authors: Li Song Wang Dai Zhou Gu The green tea catechin epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) exhibits antiviral activity against various viruses. Whether EGCG also inhibits the infectivity of circovirus remains unclear. In this study, we demonstrated the antiviral effect of EGCG on porcine circovirus...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 174: ABCE1 Acts as a Positive Regulator of Exogenous RNA Decay Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020174 Authors: Nogimori Ogami Oishi Goda Hosoda Kitamura Kitade Hoshino The 2′-5′-oligoadenylate synthetase (OAS)/RNase L system protects hosts against pathogenic viruses through cleavage of the exogenous single-stranded RNA. In this system, an evolutionally conserved RNA quality control factor Dom34 (known as Pelota (Pelo) in...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 173: The Susceptibility of Human Melanoma Cells to Infection with the Leningrad-16 Vaccine Strain of Measles Virus Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020173 Authors: Ammour Ryabaya Shchetinina Prokofeva Gavrilova Khochenkov Vorobyev Faizuloev Shohin Zverev Svitich Nasedkina Oncolytic viruses, including live attenuated measles virus (MV) vaccine strains, have recently been shown as promising therapeutic agents against human malignancies....
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 415: Variability of the Initial Abstraction Ratio in an Urban and an Agroforested Catchment Water doi: 10.3390/w12020415 Authors: Krajewski Sikorska-Senoner Hejduk Hejduk The Curve Number method is one of the most commonly applied methods to describe the relationship between the direct runoff and storm rainfall depth. Due to its popularity and simplicity, it has been studied extensively. Less attention has been given to the dimensionless initial abstraction...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 416: Uncertainty Quantification of Landslide Generated Waves Using Gaussian Process Emulation and Variance-Based Sensitivity Analysis Water doi: 10.3390/w12020416 Authors: Branwen Snelling Stephen Neethling Kevin Horsburgh Gareth Collins Matthew Piggott Simulations of landslide generated waves (LGWs) are prone to high levels of uncertainty. Here we present a probabilistic sensitivity analysis of an LGW model. The LGW model was realised through a smooth...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 414: Trend Analyses of Meteorological Variables and Lake Levels for Two Shallow Lakes in Central Turkey Water doi: 10.3390/w12020414 Authors: Ozlem Yagbasan Vahdettin Demir Hasan Yazicigil Trend analyses of meteorological variables play an important role in assessing the long-term changes in water levels for sustainable management of shallow lakes that are extremely vulnerable to climatic variations. Lake Mogan and Lake Eymir are shallow lakes offering aesthetic,...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 417: Mapping Paleohydrologic Features in the Arid Areas of Saudi Arabia Using Remote-Sensing Data Water doi: 10.3390/w12020417 Authors: Abdelkareem Abdalla Mohamed El-Baz At present, the Arabian Peninsula is one of the driest regions on Earth; however, this area experienced heavy rainfall in the past thousand years. During this period, catchments received substantial amounts of surface water and sustained vast networks of streams and paleolakes, which...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 410: Comparative Analysis of Bioenergy Crop Impacts on Water Quality Using Static and Dynamic Land Use Change Modeling Approach Water doi: 10.3390/w12020410 Authors: Kumar Saraswat Singh Researchers and federal and state agency officials have long been interested in evaluating location-specific impact of bioenergy energy crops on water quality for developing policy interventions. This modeling study examines long-term impact of giant miscanthus and switchgrass...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 412: Rethinking the Framework of Smart Water System: A Review Water doi: 10.3390/w12020412 Authors: Li Yang Sitzenfrei Throughout the past years, governments, industries, and researchers have shown increasing interest in incorporating smart techniques, including sensor monitoring, real-time data transmitting, and real-time controlling into water systems. However, the design and construction of such a smart water system are still not quite standardized for...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 411: Contamination of Arctic Lakes with Persistent Toxic PAH Substances in the NW Part of Wedel Jarlsberg Land (Bellsund, Svalbard) Water doi: 10.3390/w12020411 Authors: Lehmann-Konera Ruman Franczak Polkowska The expansion of glacier-free areas in polar regions favours the appearance of lakes in the non-glaciated parts of glacier basins. This paper presents the differentiation of organic compound concentrations in fifty-four Arctic lakes collected...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 413: IberWQ: A GPU Accelerated Tool for 2D Water Quality Modeling in Rivers and Estuaries Water doi: 10.3390/w12020413 Authors: García-Feal Cea González-Cao Domínguez Gómez-Gesteira Numerical models are useful tools to analyze water quality by computing the concentration of physical, chemical and biological parameters. The present work introduces a two-dimensional depth-averaged model that computes the most relevant and frequent parameters used...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 409: Natural Nitrogen Isotope Ratios as a Potential Indicator of N2O Production Pathways in a Floodplain Fen Water doi: 10.3390/w12020409 Authors: Masta Sepp Pärn Kirsimäe Mander Nitrous oxide (N2O), a major greenhouse gas and ozone depleter, is emitted from drained organic soils typically developed in floodplains. We investigated the effect of the water table depth and soil oxygen (O2) content on N2O fluxes and their nitrogen isotope composition...
Tue Feb 04, 2020 02:00
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