Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 506: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Treatment Schemes Modify Maternal Plasma Cholesterol Levels Dependent to Women´s Weight: Possible Impact on Feto-Placental Vascular Function Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020506 Authors: Contreras-Duarte Carvajal Garchitorena Subiabre Fuenzalida Cantin Farías Leiva : Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) associates with fetal endothelial dysfunction (ED), which occurs independently of adequate glycemic...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 504: Potential Health Claims of Durum and Bread Wheat Flours as Functional Ingredients Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12020504 Authors: María Ciudad-Mulero Lillian Barros Ângela Fernandes Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira Mª Jesús Callejo Mª Cruz Matallana-González Virginia Fernández-Ruiz Patricia Morales José M. Carrillo Wheat is an important cereal with a key role in human nutrition. In this study, dietary fiber (DF) and arabinoxylans of different durum...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 129: Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Lacking the Leader Protein and Containing Two Negative DIVA Markers (FMDV LL3B3D A24) Is Highly Attenuated in Pigs Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020129 Authors: Eschbaumer Dill Carlson Arzt Stenfeldt Krug Hardham Stegner Rodriguez Rieder Inactivated whole-virus vaccines are widely used for the control of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Their production requires the growth of large quantities...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 128: Will Nigerians Win the War Against Urinary Schistosomiasis? Prevalence, Intensity, Risk Factors and Knowledge Assessment among Some Rural Communities in Southwestern Nigeria Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020128 Authors: Oluwaseun B. Awosolu Yahaya Z. Shariman Farah Haziqah M. T. Titus A. Olusi Urinary schistosomiasis is a devastating parasitic disease in Nigeria. This study was carried out to investigate the current prevalence, intensity, risk...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 127: Therapeutic Effects of Atranorin towards the Proliferation of Babesia and Theileria Parasites Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9020127 Authors: Amany Magdy Beshbishy Gaber El-Saber Batiha Luay Alkazmi Eman Nadwa Eman Rashwan Ahmed Abdeen Naoaki Yokoyama Ikuo Igarashi Atranorin (ATR), is a compound with multidirectional biological activity under different in vitro and in vivo conditions and it is effective as an antibacterial, antiviral,...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 168: Impact of Mucin on Drug Diffusion: Development of a Straightforward in Vitro Method for the Determination of Drug Diffusivity in the Presence of Mucin Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020168 Authors: Falavigna Stein Flaten di Cagno Mucosal drug delivery accounts for various administration routes (i.e., oral, vaginal, ocular, pulmonary, etc.) and offers a vast surface for the permeation of drugs. However, the mucus layer which shields...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 167: Transport Mechanisms of Polymannuronic Acid and Polyguluronic Acid Across Caco-2 Cell Monolayers Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020167 Authors: Wang Bai Hu Xing Cao Ji Song Detailed knowledge of the intestinal transport of polymannuronic acid (PM) and polyguluronic acid (PG) is critical for understanding their biological activities. To investigate the transport in the gastrointestinal tract, PM and PG were chemically...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 164: A Pediatrics Utilization Study in The Netherlands to Identify Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Suitable for Inkjet Printing on Orodispersible Films Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020164 Authors: J. Carolina Visser Lisa Wibier Olga Kiefer Mine Orlu Jörg Breitkreutz Herman J. Woerdenbag Katja Taxis Background: The use of medication in pediatrics, children aged 0–5 years, was explored so as to identify active pharmaceutical...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 165: Achyranthis radix Extract-Loaded Eye Drop Formulation Development and Novel Evaluation Method for Dry Eye Treatment Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020165 Authors: Sung-Jin Kim Bongkyun Park Hyun Wook Huh Young-Guk Na Minki Kim Mingu Han Hyunmin Lee Thi Mai Anh Pham Hong-Ki Lee Jae-Young Lee Chan-Sik Kim Jong-Suep Baek Cheong-Weon Cho Recently, Achyranthis radix extract has been studied as a therapeutic...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 166: A 3D Bioprinted Pseudo-Bone Drug Delivery Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020166 Authors: Pariksha Jolene Kondiah Pierre P. D. Kondiah Yahya E. Choonara Thashree Marimuthu Viness Pillay A 3D bioprinted pseudo-bone drug delivery scaffold was fabricated to display matrix strength, matrix resilience, as well as porous morphology of healthy human bone. Computer-aided design (CAD) software was employed...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 163: Improved Biosafety and Transdermal Delivery of Aconitine via Diethylene Glycol Monoethyl Ether-Mediated Microemulsion Assisted with Microneedles Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020163 Authors: Yongtai Zhang Hongmei Hu Qian Jing Zhi Wang Zehui He Tong Wu Nian-Ping Feng In the current study, diethylene glycol monoethyl ether-mediated microemulsions were combined with microneedles for enhanced transdermal aconitine delivery....
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 258: Jute: A Potential Candidate for Phytoremediation of Metals—A Review Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020258 Authors: Saleem Ali Rehman Hasanuzzaman Rizwan Irshad Shafiq Iqbal Alharbi Alnusaire Qari Jute (Corchorus capsularis) is a widely cultivated fibrous species with important physiological characteristics including biomass, a deep rooting system, and tolerance to metal stress. Furthermore, Corchorus species are indigenous...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 256: Advances in Plant Sulfur Research Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020256 Authors: Bouranis Malagoli Avice Bloem As an essential nutrient required for plant growth and development, sulfur (S) deficiency in productive systems limits yield and quality. This special issue hosts a collection of original research articles, mainly based on contributions from the 11th International Plant Sulfur Workshop held on 16–20 September 2018 in Conegliano,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 257: Regulation of Ammonium Cellular Levels is An Important Adaptive Trait for the Euhalophytic Behavior of Salicornia europaea Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020257 Authors: Ma Cirillo Zhang Maggio Wang Xiao Yao Salinization of agricultural land is a devastating phenomenon which will affect future food security. Understanding how plants survive and thrive in response to salinity is therefore critical to potentiate tolerance traits in crop species....
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 255: Erratum: The Cytoskeleton and Its Role in Determining Cellulose Microfibril Angle in Secondary Cell Walls of Woody Tree Species. Plants 2020, 9, 90. Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020255 Authors: Plants Editorial Office The Editorial Office of Plants wants to make the following corrections to the paper by Tobias, L.M., et al. (2020)[...]
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 254: A Molecular Phylogenetic Study of the Genus Phedimus for Tracing the Origin of “Tottori Fujita” Cultivars Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020254 Authors: Han Kim Kim It is very important to confirm and understand the genetic background of cultivated plants used in multiple applications. The genetic background is the history of crossing between maternal and paternal plants to generate a cultivated plant. If the plant in question was generated from a simple...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 253: Modulation of Arabidopsis Flavonol Biosynthesis Genes by Cyst and Root-Knot Nematodes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9020253 Authors: Noureddine Hamamouch Brenda S. J. Winkel Chunying Li Eric L. Davis Although it is well established that flavonoid synthesis is induced in diverse plant species during nematode parasitism, little is known about the regulation of genes controlling flavonol biosynthesis during the plant–nematode interaction. In this...
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Recycling, Vol. 5, Pages 3: Elastomeric Composites Containing SBR Industrial Scraps Devulcanized by Microwaves: Raw Material, Not a Trash Recycling doi: 10.3390/recycling5010003 Authors: Aline Zanchet Fabiula Danielli Bastos de Sousa Environmental concerns about waste management systems have stimulated the search for technological and economical alternatives that introduce waste as raw material for production cycles. In this sense, this study aimed to develop and characterize styrene-butadiene...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 91: Women and Sikhism in Theory and Practice: Normative Discourses, Seva Performances, and Agency in the Case Study of Some Young Sikh Women in Northern Italy Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11020091 Authors: Barbara Bertolani The paper reflects on the role of women in Sikhism in theory and social practice, starting from a case study in northern Italy. Although the normative discourse widely shared in mainstream Sikhism affirms the equality between man and woman and...
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Smart Cities, Vol. 3, Pages 48-73: A Study of the Interaction of Human Smart Characteristics with Demographic Dynamics and Built Environment: The Case of Limassol, Cyprus Smart Cities doi: 10.3390/smartcities3010004 Authors: Maroula N. Alverti Kyriakos Themistocleous Phaedon C. Kyriakidis Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis The smart city notion provides an integrated and systematic answer to challenges facing cities today. Smart city policy makers and technology vendors are increasingly...
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TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 28: Anti-Trypanosomal Proteasome Inhibitors Cure Hemolymphatic and Meningoencephalic Murine Infection Models of African Trypanosomiasis Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5010028 Authors: Srinivasa P S Rao Suresh B Lakshminarayana Jan Jiricek Marcel Kaiser Ryan Ritchie Elmarie Myburgh Frantisek Supek Tove Tuntland Advait Nagle Valentina Molteni Pascal Mäser Jeremy C Mottram Michael P Barrett Thierry...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 89: Modeling Human Cytomegalovirus in Humanized Mice for Vaccine Testing Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010089 Authors: Koenig Theobald Stripecke Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV or HHV-5) is a globally spread pathogen with strictly human tropism that establishes a lifelong persistence. After primary infection, high levels of long-term T and B cell responses are elicited, but the virus is not cleared. HCMV persists mainly in hematopoietic reservoirs, whereby...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 90: Hepatitis C Virus Vaccine: Challenges and Prospects Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8010090 Authors: Duncan Urbanowicz Tarr Ball The hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes both acute and chronic infection and continues to be a global problem despite advances in antiviral therapeutics. Current treatments fail to prevent reinfection and remain expensive, limiting their use to developed countries, and the asymptomatic nature of acute infection can result in...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 24: African Swine Fever in Mongolia: Course of the Epidemic and Applied Control Measures Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7010024 Authors: Heilmann Lkhagvasuren Adyasuren Khishgee Bold Ankhanbaatar Fusheng Raizman Dietze African swine fever (ASF) is spreading rapidly in Asia and was confirmed in Mongolia on 10 January 2019. Following the outbreak confirmation, a state emergency committee was established with representation...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 223: Quality Assessment of Virus-Like Particles at Single Particle Level: A Comparative Study Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020223 Authors: González-Domínguez Puente-Massaguer Cervera Gòdia Virus-like particles (VLPs) have emerged as a powerful scaffold for antigen presentation and delivery strategies. Compared to single protein-based therapeutics, quality assessment requires a higher degree of refinement due to the structure of VLPs and their similar properties...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 222: Late-Relapsing Hepatitis after Yellow Fever Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12020222 Authors: Izabela Maurício Rezende Leonardo Soares Pereira Jordana Rodrigues Barbosa Fradico Marcelo Antônio Pascoal Xavier Pedro Augusto Alves Ana Carolina Campi-Azevedo Elaine Speziali Lívia Zignago Moreira dos Santos Natalia Soares Albuquerque Indiara Penido Tayrine Araujo Santos Ana Paula Dinis Ano Bom Andrea Marques Vieira da Silva Camilla Bayma...
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Vision, Vol. 4, Pages 13: Exogeneous Spatial Cueing beyond the Near Periphery: Cueing Effects in a Discrimination Paradigm at Large Eccentricities Vision doi: 10.3390/vision4010013 Authors: Weiß Although visual attention is one of the most thoroughly investigated topics in experimental psychology and vision science, most of this research tends to be restricted to the near periphery. Eccentricities used in attention studies usually do not exceed 20° to 30°, but most studies...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 558: Social Vulnerability Assessment for Flood Risk Analysis Water doi: 10.3390/w12020558 Authors: Tascón-González Ferrer-Julià Ruiz García-Meléndez This paper proposes a methodology for the analysis of social vulnerability to floods based on the integration and weighting of a range of exposure and resistance (coping capacity) indicators. It focuses on the selection and characteristics of each proposed indicator and the integration procedure based on...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 556: Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Assessment of Drinking Water Quality in the Urban Area of Zamora, Mexico Water doi: 10.3390/w12020556 Authors: Claudia Alejandra Reyes-Toscano Ruth Alfaro-Cuevas-Villanueva Raúl Cortés-Martínez Ofelia Morton-Bermea Elizabeth Hernández-Álvarez Otoniel Buenrostro-Delgado Jorge Alejandro Ávila-Olivera This work assessed the groundwater hydrogeochemistry and the drinking water quality of 10 wells supplying...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 557: The Transition to Improved Water-Related Energy Management: Enabling Contexts for Policy Innovation Water doi: 10.3390/w12020557 Authors: Binks Head Lant Kenway We explored the potential for improved policy and regulation with a direct focus on household water-related energy (WRE) management in urban Victoria (Australia). Semi-structured interviews were employed to understand the perspectives of relevant actors within the existing institutional...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 555: Criteria for HydroSOS Quality Index. Application to Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Processed Table Olives Water doi: 10.3390/w12020555 Authors: Paola Sánchez-Bravo Jacinta Collado-González Mireia Corell Luis Noguera-Artiaga Alejandro Galindo Esther Sendra Francisca Hernández María José Martín-Palomo Ángel Antonio Carbonell-Barrachina Water, especially in arid and semiarid regions, is increasingly a disputed commodity among different productive...
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