Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 474: Hydroxyvitamin D Serum Levels are Negatively Associated with Platelet Number in a Cohort of Subjects Affected by Overweight and Obesity Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020474 Authors: Zupo Castellana Sardone Lampignano Di Noia Savastano Giannelli De Pergola Background: Hypovitaminosis D and higher platelet numbers are emerging as cardiovascular risk factors, in particular in obese subjects. Methods: This observational study was aimed...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 473: Impact on Isoleucine and Valine Supplementation When Decreasing Use of Medical Food in the Nutritional Management of Methylmalonic Acidemia Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020473 Authors: Bernstein Burns Drumm Gaughan Sailer Baker Background: Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder treated with precursor-free medical food while limiting natural protein. This retrospective chart review was to determine if there was...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 472: Incendiary Leptin Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020472 Authors: Seoane-Collazo Martínez-Sánchez Milbank Contreras Leptin is a hormone released by adipose tissue that plays a key role in the control of energy homeostasis through its binding to leptin receptors (LepR), mainly expressed in the hypothalamus. Most scientific evidence points to leptin’s satiating effect being due to its dual capacity to promote the expression of anorexigenic...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 475: Effect of High Versus Low Carbohydrate Intake in the Morning on Glycemic Variability and Glycemic Control Measured by Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus—A Randomized Crossover Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020475 Authors: Louise Rasmussen Maria Lund Christensen Charlotte Wolff Poulsen Charlotte Rud Alexander Sidelmann Christensen Jens Rikardt Andersen Ulla Kampmann Per Glud Ovesen Carbohydrate...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 471: β-hydroxybutyrate Impedes the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease and Atherosclerosis in ApoE-Deficient Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020471 Authors: Krishnan Hwang Kim Kim Seo Jung Ha β-hydroxybutyrate (β-OHB) has been shown to exert an anti-inflammatory activity. Apolipoprotein-E (ApoE) is strongly associated with atherosclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This study aimed to explore the therapeutic...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 478: Weight Status, Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, Physical Activity Level, and Sleep Behavior of Italian Junior High School Adolescents Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020478 Authors: Alice Rosi Francesca Giopp Giulia Milioli Gabriele Melegari Matteo Goldoni Liborio Parrino Francesca Scazzina Inadequate diet, physical activity, and sleep-related behaviors are potential risk factors for overweight and obese, therefore we investigated the relations...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 476: Enhanced GIP Secretion in Obesity Is Associated with Biochemical Alteration and miRNA Contribution to the Development of Liver Steatosis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020476 Authors: Joanna Góralska Urszula Raźny Anna Polus Agnieszka Dziewońska Anna Gruca Anna Zdzienicka Aldona Dembińska-Kieć Bogdan Solnica Agnieszka Micek Maria Kapusta Krystyna Słowińska-Solnica Małgorzata Malczewska-Malec Nutrient excess enhances glucose-dependent...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 477: Protective Role of Shiitake Mushroom-Derived Exosome-Like Nanoparticles in D-Galactosamine and Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Liver Injury in Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020477 Authors: Baolong Liu Yizhu Lu Xingyi Chen Philma Glora Muthuraj Xingzhi Li Mahesh Pattabiraman Janos Zempleni Stephen D. Kachman Sathish Kumar Natarajan Jiujiu Yu Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is a rare, life-threatening liver disease with a poor...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 470: Food Insecurity and Micronutrient Status among Ghanaian Women Planning to Become Pregnant Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020470 Authors: Ruth Adisetu Pobee Sixtus Aguree Esi Komeley Colecraft Alison D. Gernand Laura E. Murray-Kolb We examined the association between food insecurity (FIS) and micronutrient status among Ghanaian women planning to become pregnant. A cross-sectional analysis was completed of 95 women aged 18–35 years, living...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 469: Nutrients and Microbiota in Lung Diseases of Prematurity: The Placenta-Gut-Lung Triangle Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020469 Authors: Fiammetta Piersigilli Bénédicte Van Grambezen Catheline Hocq Olivier Danhaive Cardiorespiratory function is not only the foremost determinant of life after premature birth, but also a major factor of long-term outcomes. However, the path from placental disconnection to nutritional autonomy is enduring and challenging...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 468: Associations between the Intake of Different Types of Dairy and Cognitive Performance in Dutch Older Adults: The B-PROOF Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020468 Authors: Liesbeth C. de Goeij Ondine van de Rest Edith J. M. Feskens Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot Elske M. Brouwer-Brolsma Various dairy nutrients have been associated with cognitive performance. Several observational studies have explored associations between the intake of total dairy...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 467: Intestinal TG3- and TG2-Specific Plasma Cell Responses in Dermatitis Herpetiformis Patients Undergoing a Gluten Challenge Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020467 Authors: Hanna Sankari Minna Hietikko Kalle Kurppa Katri Kaukinen Eriika Mansikka Heini Huhtala Kaija Laurila Timo Reunala Kaisa Hervonen Teea Salmi Katri Lindfors Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH), a cutaneous manifestation of coeliac disease, is characterized by transglutaminase...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 120: Dynamic Network of Interactions in the Wildlife-Livestock Interface in Mediterranean Spain: An Epidemiological Point of View Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020120 Authors: Triguero-Ocaña Martínez-López Vicente Barasona Martínez-Guijosa Acevedo The correct management of diseases that are transmitted between wildlife and livestock requires a reliable estimate of the pathogen transmission rate. The calculation of this parameter is a challenge...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 118: The Mediterranean Mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) as Intermediate Host for the Anisakid Sulcascaris sulcata (Nematoda), a Pathogen Parasite of the Mediterranean Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020118 Authors: Santoro Marchiori Palomba Uberti Marcer Mattiucci Sulcascaris sulcata (Anisakidae), a pathogenic nematode of sea turtles, may cause ulcerous gastritis with different degrees of severity. Previous...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 109: Human Metapneumovirus: A Largely Unrecognized Threat to Human Health Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020109 Authors: Russell Penkert Kim Hurwitz Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infects most children by five years of age. The virus can cause both upper and lower respiratory tract disease and can be life threatening. High-risk populations include young children who are exposed to virus for the first time and the elderly. Currently, there is no standard...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 117: Potential of Bioremediation and PGP Traits in Streptomyces as Strategies for Bio-Reclamation of Salt-Affected Soils for Agriculture Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020117 Authors: Romano-Armada Yañez-Yazlle Irazusta Rajal Moraga Environmental limitations influence food production and distribution, adding up to global problems like world hunger. Conditions caused by climate change require global efforts to be improved, but others like soil...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 119: Dynamics of Classical Swine Fever Spread in Wild Boar in 2018–2019, Japan Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020119 Authors: Norikazu Isoda Kairi Baba Satoshi Ito Mitsugi Ito Yoshihiro Sakoda Kohei Makita The prolongation of the classic swine fever (CSF) outbreak in Japan in 2018 was highly associated with the persistence and widespread of the CSF virus (CSFV) in the wild boar population. To investigate the dynamics of the CSF outbreak in wild...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 152: Alternatives to Biological Skin in Permeation Studies: Current Trends and Possibilities Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020152 Authors: Neupane Boddu Renukuntla Babu Tiwari : The transdermal route of drugs has received increased attention in recent years due to numerous advantages over the oral and injectable routes, such as avoidance of the hepatic metabolism, protection of drugs from the gastrointestinal tract, sustained...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 153: Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Degradation-Dependent Processing in Cross-Presentation and Its Potential for Dendritic Cell Vaccinations: A Review Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020153 Authors: Imai Ohashi Sakai While the success of dendritic cell (DC) vaccination largely depends on cross-presentation (CP) efficiency, the precise molecular mechanism of CP is not yet characterized. Recent research revealed that endoplasmic reticulum...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 151: Evaluation of Formulation Parameters on Permeation of Ibuprofen from Topical Formulations Using Strat-M® Membrane Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020151 Authors: Pradeep Kumar Bolla Bradley A. Clark Abhishek Juluri Hanumanth Srikanth Cheruvu Jwala Renukuntla Topical drug delivery is an attractive alternative to conventional methods because of advantages such as non-invasive delivery, by-pass of first pass metabolism, and improved...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 244: Structure, Function, Diversity, and Composition of Fungal Communities in Rhizospheric Soil of Coptis chinensis Franch under a Successive Cropping System Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020244 Authors: Alami Xue Ma Zhu Abbas Gong Wang Soil types and cropping systems influence the diversity and composition of the rhizospheric microbial communities. Coptis chinensis Franch is one of the most important medicinal plants in China. In the current...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 243: Quantitative and Qualitative Genetic Studies of Some Acacia Species Grown in Egypt Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020243 Authors: Abdelsalam Ali Salem El-Wakil The objective of the current work is to study the genetic differentiation between Acacia species growing in Egypt as plant genetic resources based on morphological, biochemical, and molecular markers. The 20 replicates of Acacia tree collected from four localities from Egypt were A. tortilis...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 245: Physiological and Biochemical Mechanisms Mediated by Allelochemical Isoliquiritigenin on the Growth of Lettuce Seedlings Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020245 Authors: Zhang Sun Shi Zhao Wang Liu Liu Wang Isoliquiritigenin, a natural chalcone-type flavonoid, has been recognized as an allelochemical with phytotoxicity to lettuce; however, not enough attention has been paid to the mechanisms of this secondary metabolite. In this work,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 241: β-Aminobutyric Acid Pretreatment Confers Salt Stress Tolerance in Brassica napus L. by Modulating Reactive Oxygen Species Metabolism and Methylglyoxal Detoxification Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020241 Authors: Mahmud Hasanuzzaman Khan Nahar Fujita Salinity is a serious environmental hazard which limits world agricultural production by adversely affecting plant physiology and biochemistry. Hence, increased tolerance against salt stress is very...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 242: Green Extraction of Alkaloids and Polyphenols from Peumus boldus Leaves with Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents and Profiling by HPLC-PDA-IT-MS/MS and HPLC-QTOF-MS/MS Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020242 Authors: Jeniffer Torres-Vega Sergio Gómez-Alonso José Pérez-Navarro Edgar Pastene-Navarrete Peumus boldus Mol., is a Chilean medicinal tree used for gastrointestinal and liver diseases. Such medicinal properties are associated with the presence of bioactive...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 240: Genome-Wide Analysis of Gene Expression Provides New Insights into Waterlogging Responses in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020240 Authors: Ana Borrego-Benjumea Adam Carter James R. Tucker Zhen Yao Wayne Xu Ana Badea Waterlogging is a major abiotic stress causing oxygen depletion and carbon dioxide accumulation in the rhizosphere. Barley is more susceptible to waterlogging stress than other cereals. To gain a better understanding,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 239: Homologous Proteins of the Manganese Transporter PAM71 Are Localized in the Golgi Apparatus and Endoplasmic Reticulum Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020239 Authors: Natalie Hoecker Anna Honke Katharina Frey Dario Leister Anja Schneider Chloroplast manganese transporter 1 (CMT1) and photosynthesis-affected mutant 71 (PAM71) are two membrane proteins that function sequentially to mediate the passage of manganese across the chloroplast envelope and the...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 87: The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem and Ben Ammi’s Theology of Marginalisation and Reorientation Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11020087 Authors: Miller This paper will look at the way the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem have utilised the theological narrative of marginalisation in their quest for identity and self-determination. The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are an expatriate black American group who have lived in Israel since 1969,...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 86: From Religious to Cultural and Back Again: Tourism Development, Heritage Revitalization, and Religious Transnationalizations among the Samaritans Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11020086 Authors: Urien-Lefranc The Samaritans form a community of about 810 people split between Mount Gerizim (West Bank) and Holon (Israel). Through tourism of holy sites and cultural heritage promotion, this article examines different ways in which religion can be used as a cultural...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 88: Women’s Ijtihad and Lady Amin’s Islamic Ethics on Womanhood and Motherhood Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11020088 Authors: Rahbari Women’s position, identity, and value in Islam have been affected by androcentric interpretations of the Qur’an and hadith throughout Islamic history. Women’s roles in society, as well as their position vis-à-vis Islamic sources and authority, have been shaped by these interpretations. In...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 16: Small Houses, Big Community: Tiny Housers’ Desire for More Cohesive and Collaborative Communities Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9020016 Authors: Willoughby Mangold Zschau Past research on the tiny house movement has primarily focused on understanding the individual motivations behind adopting the tiny house lifestyle. While some studies have suggested that tiny housers do entertain an interest in community, no systematic research exists...
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 21: Injuries in Novice Participants during an Eight-Week Start up CrossFit Program—A Prospective Cohort Study Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8020021 Authors: Rasmus Tolstrup Larsen Andreas Lund Hessner Lasse Ishøi Henning Langberg Jan Christensen Background: Previously published studies have reported injury rates ranging from 0.74 to 3.3 per 1000 h of exposure in CrossFit participants. However, the existing body of evidence is mainly based on experienced...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 118: Food Consumption Data as a Tool to Estimate Exposure to Mycoestrogens Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020118 Authors: Martins Torres Lopes Correia Goios Assunção Alvito Vidal De Boevre De Saeger Nunes Zearalenone and alternariol are mycotoxins produced by Fusarium and Alternaria species, respectively, that present estrogenic activity and consequently are classified as endocrine disruptors. To estimate the exposure of the...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 117: Zearalenone Removal from Corn Oil by an Enzymatic Strategy Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020117 Authors: Chang Liu Sun Wang Zhao Zhang Zhang Sun The estrogen-like mycotoxin zearalenone (ZEN) is one of the most widely distributed contaminants especially in maize and its commodities, such as corn oil. ZEN degrading enzymes possess the potential for counteracting the negative effect of ZEN and its associated high safety risk in corn...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 116: Mitochondria and Lysosomes Participate in Vip3Aa-Induced Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 Cell Apoptosis Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12020116 Authors: Hou Han An Zhang Cao Zhan Cai Yan Cai Vip3Aa, a soluble protein produced by certain Bacillus thuringiensis strains, is capable of inducing apoptosis in Sf9 cells. However, the apoptosis mechanism triggered by Vip3Aa is unclear. In this study, we found that Vip3Aa induces mitochondrial...
Thu Feb 13, 2020 02:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 25: First Draft Genome of the Trypanosomatid Herpetomonas muscarum ingenoplastis through MinION Oxford Nanopore Technology and Illumina Sequencing Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010025 Authors: d’Avila-Levy Bearzatto Ambroise Helaers Butenko Yurchenko Morelli Santos Brouillard Grellier Gala Vikkula Here, we present first draft genome sequence of the trypanosomatid Herpetomonas muscarum...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 85: Strategies to Increase Flu Vaccination Coverage among Healthcare Workers: A 4 Years Study in a Large Italian Teaching Hospital Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010085 Authors: Andrea Barbara Daniele Ignazio La Milia Marcello Di Pumpo Alessia Tognetto Andrea Tamburrano Doriana Vallone Carlo Viora Silvia Cavalieri Andrea Cambieri Umberto Moscato Filippo Berloco Gianfranco Damiani Walter Ricciardi Giovanni Capelli Patrizia Laurenti...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 210: The Impact and Applications of Phages in the Food Industry and Agriculture Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020210 Authors: Mahony Casey van Sinderen Food security is currently a global socio‐political pressure point that is exacerbated by the everincreasing world population[...]
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 209: MicroRNA-7 Inhibits Rotavirus Replication by Targeting Viral NSP5 In Vivo and In Vitro Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020209 Authors: Yan Zhou Linlin Chen Jing Du Xiaoqing Hu Yuping Xie Jinyuan Wu Xiaochen Lin Na Yin Maosheng Sun Hongjun Li Rotavirus (RV) is the major causes of severe diarrhea in infants and young children under five years of age. There are no effective drugs for the treatment of rotavirus in addition to preventive live...
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