Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 380: Polarity Control of ZnO Films Grown on Ferroelectric (0001) LiNbO3 Substrates without Buffer Layers by Pulsed-Laser Deposition Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020380 Authors: Im Taek Yoon Juwon Lee Ngoc Cuong Tran Woochul Yang For this study, polarity-controlled ZnO films were grown on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) substrates without buffer layers using the pulsed-laser deposition technique. The interfacial structure between the ZnO films and the...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 378: Carbon Sphere Template Derived Hollow Nanostructure for Photocatalysis and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020378 Authors: Zirui Lou Yichen Wang Yingchen Yang Yanwen Wang Chao Qin Rong Liang Xuehua Chen Zhizhen Ye Liping Zhu As a green and preferred technology for energy crisis and environmental issues, continuous research on photocatalysis and gas sensing has come forth at an explosive rate. Thus far, promising...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 379: Potential Role of Soluble Metal Impurities in the Acute Lung Inflammogenicity of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020379 Authors: Lee Jeon Jeong Yu Song Kang Yun Kim Cho Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have variable metal impurities, but little is known about the impact of soluble metal impurities on the toxicity of MWCNTs. Here, we evaluated the role of soluble metal impurities to...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 376: Graphene Oxide–Silver Nanoparticle Nanohybrids: Synthesis, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Properties Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020376 Authors: Mónica Cobos Iker De-La-Pinta Guillermo Quindós M. Jesús Fernández M. Dolores Fernández Drug resistance of pathogenic microorganisms has become a global public health problem, which has prompted the development of new materials with antimicrobial properties. In this context, antimicrobial...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 377: Supramolecular Gold Chemistry: From Atomically Precise Thiolate-Protected Gold Nanoclusters to Gold-Thiolate Nanostructures Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020377 Authors: Antoine Supramolecular chemistry is defined as chemistry beyond the molecule [...]
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 375: Graphene Quantum Dots with High Yield and High Quality Synthesized from Low Cost Precursor of Aphanitic Graphite Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10020375 Authors: Shuling Shen Junjie Wang Zhujun Wu Zheng Du Zhihong Tang Junhe Yang It is difficult to keep the balance of high quality and high yield for graphene quantum dots (GQDs). Because the quality is uncontrollable during cutting large 2D nanosheets to small 0D nanodots by top-down methods...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 591: The Clustering of Low Diet Quality, Low Physical Fitness, and Unhealthy Sleep Pattern and Its Association with Changes in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020591 Authors: Xianwen Shang Yanping Li Haiquan Xu Qian Zhang Ailing Liu Guansheng Ma The clustering of diet quality, physical activity, and sleep and its association with cardiometabolic risk (CMR) factors remains to be explored. We included 5315 children...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 590: The Association of Vitamin D Status with Lipid Profile and Inflammation Biomarkers in Healthy Adolescents Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020590 Authors: Yarparvar Elmadfa Djazayery Abdollahi Salehi Background: The association between vitamin D status and inflammatory biomarkers and lipid profile is not well known, especially in adolescents. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to investigate the association of vitamin D status with serum...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 588: Positive Association of Dietary Inflammatory Index with Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease: Findings from a Korean Population-Based Prospective Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020588 Authors: Imran Khan Minji Kwon Nitin Shivappa James R. Hébert Mi Kyung Kim Recently, diets with higher inflammatory potentials based on the dietary inflammatory index (DII®) have been shown to be associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 587: Smartphone-Based Maternal Education for the Complementary Feeding of Undernourished Children Under 3 Years of Age in Food-Secure Communities: Randomised Controlled Trial in Urmia, Iran Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020587 Authors: Navisa Seyyedi Bahlol Rahimi Hamid Reza Farrokh Eslamlou Hadi Lotfnezhad Afshar Armin Spreco Toomas Timpka The mothers’ nutritional literacy is an important determinant of child malnourishment. We assessed the effect...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 589: Supplementation of Mother’s Own Milk with Donor Milk in Infants with Gastroschisis or Intestinal Atresia: A Retrospective Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020589 Authors: Rebecca Hoban Supriya Khatri Aloka Patel Sharon L. Unger Background: Mother’s own milk (MOM) improves in-hospital outcomes for preterm infants. If unavailable, donor milk (DM) is often substituted. It is unclear if DM vs. formula to supplement MOM is associated with...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 586: Vitamin C for Cardiac Surgery Patients: Several Errors in a Published Meta-Analysis. Comment on “Effects of Vitamin C on Organ Function in Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients 2019, 11, 2103” Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020586 Authors: Harri Hemilä Elizabeth Chalker We recently published a meta-analysis on vitamin C and the length of intensive care unit [ICU] stay [...]
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 585: Current Evidence of Natural Agents in Oral and Periodontal Health Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020585 Authors: Gaetano Isola Oral and periodontal diseases, chewing disorders, and many destructive inflammatory diseases of the supporting tissues of the teeth are usually caused by an imbalance between host defense and environmental factors like smoking, poor nutrition, and a high percentage of periodontopathogenic bacteria. For these reasons, it is important...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 584: Effects of Beetroot Juice Ingestion on Physical Performance in Highly Competitive Tennis Players Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020584 Authors: López-Samanes Pérez-López Moreno-Pérez Nakamura Acebes-Sánchez Quintana-Milla Sánchez-Oliver Moreno-Pérez Fernández-Elías Domínguez Beetroot juice (BJ) contains high levels of inorganic nitrate (NO3−) and its intake has good evidence in increasing blood nitrate/nitrite...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 583: The Inhibitory Roles of Vitamin K in Progression of Vascular Calcification Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020583 Authors: Atsushi Shioi Tomoaki Morioka Tetsuo Shoji Masanori Emoto Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin that is indispensable for the activation of vitamin K-dependent proteins (VKDPs) and may be implicated in cardiovascular disease (CVD). Vascular calcification is intimately associated with CV events and mortality and is a chronic inflammatory...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 581: Bioactive Factors in Human Breast Milk Attenuate Intestinal Inflammation during Early Life Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020581 Authors: Julie D. Thai Katherine E. Gregory Human breast milk is well known as the ideal source of nutrition during early life, ensuring optimal growth during infancy and early childhood. Breast milk is also the source of many unique and dynamic bioactive components that play a key role in the development of the immune system....
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 582: Targeting Abdominal Obesity and Its Complications with Dietary Phytoestrogens Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020582 Authors: Alina Kuryłowicz Marta Cąkała-Jakimowicz Monika Puzianowska-Kuźnicka In the assessment of the health risk of an obese individual, both the amount of adipose tissue and its distribution and metabolic activity are essential. In adults, the distribution of adipose tissue differs in a gender-dependent manner and is regulated by sex...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 578: Hemoglobin A1c Levels Modify Associations between Dietary Acid Load and Breast Cancer Recurrence Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020578 Authors: Tianying Wu Fang-Chi Hsu Shunran Wang David Luong John P. Pierce Background: Metabolic acidosis promotes cancer metastasis. No prospective studies have examined the association between dietary acid load and breast cancer recurrence among breast cancer survivors, who are susceptible to metabolic acidosis....
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 580: Duality of Tocopherol Isoforms and Novel Associations with Vitamins Involved in One-Carbon Metabolism: Results from an Elderly Sample of the LifeLines Cohort Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020580 Authors: Camilo G. Sotomayor Isidor Minović Manfred L. Eggersdorfer Ineke J. Riphagen Martin H. de Borst Louise H. Dekker Ilja M. Nolte Jan Frank Sander K.R. van Zon Sijmen A. Reijneveld Jan C. van der Molen Michel J. Vos Jenny E....
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 579: Role of Vitamin D in Athletes and Their Performance: Current Concepts and New Trends Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020579 Authors: Mirian de la Puente Yagüe Luis Collado Yurrita Maria J. Ciudad Cabañas Marioa A. Cuadrado Cenzual We are currently experiencing a vitamin D (VITD) deficiency pandemic across the world. Athletes have the same predisposition to low levels of vitamin D, the majority of its concentrations being below 20 ng/mL in a wide range...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 577: Zinc Burden Evokes Copper Deficiency in the Hypoalbuminemic Hemodialysis Patients Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020577 Authors: Keizo Nishime Morihiro Kondo Kazuhiro Saito Hisashi Miyawaki Takahiko Nakagawa Background: Recent research has focused on the roles of trace minerals such as zinc and copper. In 2017, oral zinc acetate was approved to treat zinc deficiency, and the next year, the Japanese Society for Clinical Nutrition developed the guidelines...
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 576: Evidence for Dietary Agmatine Sulfate Effectiveness in Neuropathies Associated with Painful Small Fiber Neuropathy. A Pilot Open-Label Consecutive Case Series Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020576 Authors: Michael L. Rosenberg Vahid Tohidi Karna Sherwood Sujoy Gayen Rosina Medel Gad M. Gilad Peripheral neuropathies associated with painful small fiber neuropathy (SFN) are complex conditions, resistant to treatment with conventional medications....
Sun Feb 23, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 575: Vitamin D and Endothelial Function Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020575 Authors: Do-Houn Kim Cesar A. Meza Holly Clarke Jeong-Su Kim Robert C. Hickner Vitamin D is known to elicit a vasoprotective effect, while vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for endothelial dysfunction (ED). ED is characterized by reduced bioavailability of a potent endothelium-dependent vasodilator, nitric oxide (NO), and is an early event in the development of atherosclerosis....
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 573: Study of Magnesium Formulations on Intestinal Cells to Influence Myometrium Cell Relaxation Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020573 Authors: Francesca Uberti Vera Morsanuto Sara Ruga Rebecca Galla Mahitab Farghali Felice Notte Chiarella Bozzo Corrado Magnani Antonio Nardone Claudio Molinari Background: Magnesium is involved in a wide variety of physiological processes including direct relaxation of smooth muscle. A magnesium imbalance...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 571: Maternal Consumption of a Low-Isoflavone Soy Protein Isolate Diet Accelerates Chemically Induced Hepatic Carcinogenesis in Male Rat Offspring Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020571 Authors: Jihye Choi Sae Bom Won Young Hye Kwon It has been reported that maternal nutrition determines the offspring’s susceptibility to chronic diseases including cancer. Here, we investigated the effects of maternal diets differing in protein source on diethylnitrosamine...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 574: Gut–Joint Axis: The Role of Physical Exercise on Gut Microbiota Modulation in Older People with Osteoarthritis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020574 Authors: Alessandro de Sire Roberto de Sire Valentina Petito Letizia Masi Carlo Cisari Antonio Gasbarrini Franco Scaldaferri Marco Invernizzi Osteoarthritis (OA) is considered one of the most common joint disorders worldwide and its prevalence is constantly increasing due to the global longevity...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 572: The Effects of Ethanol on the Heart: Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020572 Authors: Fernández-Solà Alcoholic-dilated Cardiomyopathy (ACM) is the most prevalent form of ethanol-induced heart damage. Ethanol induces ACM in a dose-dependent manner, independently of nutrition, vitamin, or electrolyte disturbances. It has synergistic effects with other heart risk factors. ACM produces a progressive reduction in myocardial contractility...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 569: Experimental Studies of Front-of-Package Nutrient Warning Labels on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Ultra-Processed Foods: A Scoping Review Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020569 Authors: Lindsey Smith Taillie Marissa G. Hall Barry M. Popkin Shu Wen Ng Nandita Murukutla Policies that require front-of-package (FoP) nutrient warnings are becoming increasingly common across the globe as a strategy to discourage excess consumption of sugary drinks and...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 567: Adherence to Mediterranean Diet Related with Physical Fitness and Physical Activity in Schoolchildren Aged 6–13 Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020567 Authors: José Francisco López-Gil Javier Brazo-Sayavera Antonio García-Hermoso Juan Luis Yuste Lucas The relationship between adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MD) and both physical fitness (PF) and physical activity (PA) level has been analysed in several studies. The aim of this research was to describe,...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 570: The Effects of Early Life Stress, Postnatal Diet Modulation, and Long-Term Western-Style Diet on Later-Life Metabolic and Cognitive Outcomes Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020570 Authors: Maralinde R. Abbink Lidewij Schipper Eva F.G. Naninck Cato M.H. de Vos Romy Meier Eline M. van der Beek Paul J. Lucassen Aniko Korosi Early life stress (ES) increases the risk to develop metabolic and brain disorders in adulthood. Breastfeeding (exclusivity...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 568: Dietary Habits of Saharawi Type II Diabetic Women Living in Algerian Refugee Camps: Relationship with Nutritional Status and Glycemic Profile Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020568 Authors: Alessandro Leone Alberto Battezzati Sara Di Lello Stefano Ravasenghi Babahmed Mohamed-Iahdih Saleh Mohamed Lamin Saleh Simona Bertoli Diabetes is one of the main health problems among Saharawi refugees living in Algerian camps, especially for women. As is...
Sat Feb 22, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 565: Effects of Timing of Acute and Consecutive Catechin Ingestion on Postprandial Glucose Metabolism in Mice and Humans Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020565 Authors: Masaki Takahashi Mamiho Ozaki Miku Tsubosaka Hyeon-Ki Kim Hiroyuki Sasaki Yuji Matsui Masanobu Hibi Noriko Osaki Masashi Miyashita Shigenobu Shibata We examined the effects of the timing of acute and consecutive epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and catechin-rich green tea...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 566: Direct-to-Consumer Nutrigenetics Testing: An Overview Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020566 Authors: Matteo Floris Antonella Cano Laura Porru Roberta Addis Antonio Cambedda Maria Laura Idda Maristella Steri Carlo Ventura Margherita Maioli At present, specialized companies offering genetic testing services without the involvement of clinicians are growing; this development is a direct consequence of the significant decrease in genotyping...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 562: Prognostic Nutritional Index is a Predictor of Free Flap Failure in Extremity Reconstruction Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020562 Authors: Jihion Yu Joon Pio Hong Hyunsuk Peter Suh Jun-Young Park Doo-Hwan Kim Seungsoo Ha Joonho Lee Jai-Hyun Hwang Young-Kug Kim The nutritional condition of patients is an important prognostic factor in various diseases. Free flap failure is a serious complication in patients undergoing free flap reconstruction,...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 563: Comparison of Footsteps Using Connected Bracelets with the Timed Up-and-Go Test and the 6-Minutes Walking Test in a Prospective Colorectal Surgery Cohort Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020563 Authors: Benoît Romain David Martin Thibaut Fabacher Basile Pache Dieter Hahnloser Nicolas Demartines Martin Hübner Preoperative physical activity and early postoperative mobilization are key components of enhanced recovery programs but both difficult...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 564: Increased Colonic Permeability and Lifestyles as Contributing Factors to Obesity and Liver Steatosis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020564 Authors: Di Palo Garruti Di Ciaula Molina-Molina Shanmugam De Angelis Portincasa Intestinal permeability (IP) is essential in maintaining gut-metabolic functions in health. An unequivocal evaluation of IP, as marker of intestinal barrier integrity, however, is missing in health and in several diseases....
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 561: Net Absorption and Metabolism of β-Hydroxy- β-Methyl Butyrate during Late Gestation in a Pig Model Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020561 Authors: Liang Hu Niels Bastian Kristensen Uffe Krogh Peter Kappel Theil The leucine metabolite, β-hydroxy-β-methyl butyrate (HMB), is widely used in human nutrition and animal production as a nutritional supplement. Although the HMB usage during late gestation has been demonstrated to have a positive...
Fri Feb 21, 2020 02:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 153: Phenotypic and Molecular Detection of Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Different Sources in Algeria Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020153 Authors: Achek Hotzel Nabi Kechida Mami Didouh Tomaso Neubauer Ehricht Monecke El-Adawy Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic bacterium causing a wide variety of diseases. Biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus is of primary public and animal health...
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 151: First Case of Typhoid Fever due to Extensively Drug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in Italy Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020151 Authors: Michela Procaccianti Alice Motta Stefano Giordani Sara Riscassi Battista Guidi Monica Ruffini Valentina Maffini Susanna Esposito Icilio Dodi Typhoid fever is a potentially severe and occasionally life-threatening bacteraemic illness caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S....
Mon Feb 24, 2020 02:00
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