Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 856: Hybrid Electro-Optical Pumping of Active Plasmonic Nanostructures
Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 856: Hybrid Electro-Optical Pumping of Active Plasmonic Nanostructures Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050856 Authors: Andrey A. Vyshnevyy Dmitry Yu. Fedyanin Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) offer a unique opportunity to overcome the diffraction limit of light. However, this opportunity comes at the cost of the strong absorption of the SPP field in a metal, which unavoidably limits the SPP propagation length to a few tens of micrometers in nanostructures...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1269: Effects of a Ketogenic Diet Containing Medium-Chain Triglycerides and Endurance Training on Metabolic Enzyme Adaptations in Rat Skeletal Muscle Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051269 Authors: Ayumi Fukazawa Atsuko Koike Takuya Karasawa Momoko Tsutsui Saki Kondo Shin Terada Long-term intake of a ketogenic diet enhances utilization of ketone bodies, a particularly energy-efficient substrate, during exercise. However, physiological adaptation to...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1268: Efficiency of Vitamin D Supplementation in Healthy Adults is Associated with Body Mass Index and Baseline Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051268 Authors: Katja Žmitek Maša Hribar Hristo Hristov Igor Pravst Vitamin D (VitD) has a critical role in phosphorous–calcium metabolism as well as an important role in the immune system. In the human body, VitD is synthesized as cholecalciferol in the skin, but this process...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1267: Beneficial Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Metabolic Diseases: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051267 Authors: Moon Kang Kim Chung Kim Yu Cho Oh Kim Various behavioral and physiological pathways follow a pre-determined, 24 hour cycle known as the circadian rhythm. Metabolic homeostasis is regulated by the circadian rhythm. Time-restricted eating (TRE) is a type of intermittent fasting...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1260: Association of the SH2B1 rs7359397 Gene Polymorphism with Steatosis Severity in Subjects with Obesity and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051260 Authors: Nuria Perez-Diaz-del-Campo Itziar Abete Irene Cantero Bertha Araceli Marin-Alejandre J. Ignacio Monreal Mariana Elorz José Ignacio Herrero Alberto Benito-Boillos Jose I. Riezu-Boj Fermín I. Milagro Josep A. Tur J. Alfredo Martinez M. Angeles Zulet...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1266: Correction: Sartorius et al. “Postprandial Effects of a Proprietary Milk Protein Hydrolysate Containing Bioactive Peptides in Prediabetic Subjects” Nutrients 2019, 11, 1700 Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051266 Authors: Sartorius Weidner Dharsono Boulier Wilhelm Schön Milk proteins have been hypothesized to protect against type 2 diabetes (T2DM) by beneficially modulating glycemic response, predominantly in the postprandial status. This...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1264: Association between Serum Mg2+ Concentrations and Cardiovascular Organ Damage in a Cohort of Adult Subjects Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051264 Authors: Mancuso Perticone Spiga Averta Rubino Fiorentino Miceli Mannino Sciacqua Succurro Perticone Sesti Andreozzi Magnesium (Mg2+) levels are associated with insulin resistance, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and type 2 diabetes (T2DM). We evaluated the clinical...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1263: Correction: Marah Aqeel et al. “The Effect of Timing of Exercise and Eating on Postprandial Response in Adults: A Systematic Review”. Nutrients 2020, 12, 221 Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051263 Authors: Aqeel Forster Richards Hennessy McGowan Bhadra Guo Gelfand Delp Eicher-Miller In the original paper, the total number of included studies was n = 20 and is n = 17 in the revised version. Also, in the original paper, the...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1265: Deciphering the Role of Polyphenols in Sports Performance: From Nutritional Genomics to the Gut Microbiota toward Phytonutritional Epigenomics Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051265 Authors: Sorrenti Fortinguerra Caudullo Buriani The individual response to nutrients and non-nutrient molecules can be largely affected by three important biological layers. The gut microbiome can alter the bioavailability of nutrients and other substances, the genome...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1262: Nonalcoholic Beverages as Sources of Nutrients in the Average Polish Diet Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051262 Authors: Krystyna Rejman Hanna Górska-Warsewicz Maksymilian Czeczotko Wacław Laskowski The aim of the study was to analyze the sources of energy, carbohydrates, 10 minerals, and 9 vitamins from nonalcoholic beverages in the average Polish diet. For the analysis, we used data from the 2016 Household Budget Survey conducted on the representative...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1261: Anti-Obesity Effects of Petasites japonicus (Meowi) Ethanol Extract on RAW 264.7 Macrophages and 3T3-L1 Adipocytes and Its Characterization of Polyphenolic Compounds Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051261 Authors: Eun Mi Ahn Gelila Asamenew Heon Woong Kim Sang Hoon Lee Seon-Mi Yoo Soo-Muk Cho Youn-Soo Cha Min-Sook Kang Koreans have been consuming Petasites Japonicus (PJ) as food. Although the therapeutic effect of PJ on allergic or inflammatory...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1259: Complementary Feeding in Preterm Infants: Where Do We Stand? Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051259 Authors: Maria Elisabetta Baldassarre Maria Lorella Giannì Antonio Di Mauro Fabio Mosca Nicola Laforgia Currently, about 15 million preterm births occur annually worldwide; over 500,000 in Europe and 32,000 in Italy, accounting for 7–11% of total births, with the highest incidence in low-income states [...]
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 333: Effect of Litter Treatment on Campylobacter jejuni in Broilers and on Cecal Microbiota Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9050333 Authors: Thépault Roulleau Loiseau Cauquil Poezevara Hyronimus Quesne Souchaud Keita Chemaly Guyard-Nicodème Since 2018, when a process hygiene criterion for Campylobacter in broilers at the slaughterhouse was implemented across Europe, efforts to reduce Campylobacter at farm level have increased....
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 332: Serological Survey and Molecular Typing Reveal New Leptospira Serogroup Pomona Strains among Pigs of Northern Italy Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9050332 Authors: Cristina Bertasio Alice Papetti Erika Scaltriti Silvia Tagliabue Mario D’Incau Maria Beatrice Boniotti Swine act as both maintenance and incidental hosts of pathogenic Leptospira spp. Here, a serological test was performed on 131,660 pig sera collected between 2002 and 2017 from...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 331: The Human Coronavirus Disease COVID-19: Its Origin, Characteristics, and Insights into Potential Drugs and Its Mechanisms Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9050331 Authors: Lo’ai Alanagreh Foad Alzoughool Manar Atoum The emerging coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swept across the world, affecting more than 200 countries and territories. Genomic analysis suggests that the COVID-19 virus originated in bats and transmitted to humans through unknown intermediate...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 84: A Polyphenol-Rich Fraction from Eugenia uniflora Exhibits Antioxidant and Hepatoprotective Activities In Vivo Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13050084 Authors: Mansour Sobeh Marwa S. Hamza Mohamed L. Ashour Mona Elkhatieb Mohamed A El Raey Ashraf B. Abdel-Naim Michael Wink Leaves from Eugenia uniflora, the red Brazilian cherry, have a high content of flavonoids that possess several biological effects such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant,...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 83: Polymyxin Delivery Systems: Recent Advances and Challenges Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13050083 Authors: Natallia V. Dubashynskaya Yury A. Skorik Polymyxins are vital antibiotics for the treatment of multiresistant Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogen infections. However, their clinical value is limited by their high nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity, as well as their poor permeability and absorption in the gastrointestinal tract. This review focuses...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 408: Towards a Quantitative Mechanistic Understanding of Localized Pulmonary Tissue Retention—A Combined In Vivo/In Silico Approach Based on Four Model Drugs Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050408 Authors: Himstedt Braun Wicha Borghardt Increasing affinity to lung tissue is an important strategy to achieve pulmonary retention and to prolong the duration of effect in the lung. As the lung is a very heterogeneous organ, differences in...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 409: Quality by Design for the Development and Analysis of Enhanced In-Situ Forming Vesicles for the Improvement of the Bioavailability of Fexofenadine HCl in Vitro and in Vivo Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050409 Authors: Nasr Qushawy Elkhoudary Gawish Elhady Swidan Drug absorption from the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is one of the major problems affecting the bioavailability of orally absorbed drugs. This work aims to...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 410: Repurposing Old Drugs into New Epigenetic Inhibitors: Promising Candidates for Cancer Treatment? Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050410 Authors: Moreira-Silva Camilo Gaspar Mano Henrique Jerónimo Epigenetic alterations, as a cancer hallmark, are associated with cancer initiation, progression and aggressiveness. Considering, however, that these alterations are reversible, drugs that target epigenetic machinery may have...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 407: Design and Characterization of Phosphatidylcholine-Based Solid Dispersions of Aprepitant for Enhanced Solubility and Dissolution Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050407 Authors: Sooho Yeo Jieun An Changhee Park Dohyun Kim Jaehwi Lee This study aimed to improve the solubility and dissolution of aprepitant, a drug with poor aqueous solubility, using a phosphatidylcholine (PC)-based solid dispersion system. When fabricating the PC-based...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 406: Polymer-Drug Conjugate, a Potential Therapeutic to Combat Breast and Lung Cancer Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050406 Authors: Sibusiso Alven Xhamla Nqoro Buhle Buyana Blessing A. Aderibigbe Cancer is a chronic disease that is responsible for the high death rate, globally. The administration of anticancer drugs is one crucial approach that is employed for the treatment of cancer, although its therapeutic status is not presently...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 569: Putative Silicon Transporters and Effect of Temperature Stresses and Silicon Supplementation on Their Expressions and Tissue Silicon Content in Poinsettia Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050569 Authors: Jiangtao Hu Yali Li Byoung Ryong Jeong Silicon (Si) is a beneficial element for plants. To understand Si uptake and accumulation in poinsettia, the Si transporters and their expression patterns were investigated. Nodulin 26-like intrinsic membrane proteins...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 571: Non-Destructive Measurement of Three-Dimensional Plants Based on Point Cloud Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050571 Authors: Yawei Wang Yifei Chen In agriculture, information about the spatial distribution of plant growth is valuable for applications. Quantitative study of the characteristics of plants plays an important role in the plants’ growth and development research, and non-destructive measurement of the height of plants based on machine vision...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 570: Molecular Properties and New Potentials of Plant Nepenthesins Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050570 Authors: Bekalu Dionisio Brinch-Pedersen Nepenthesins are aspartic proteases (APs) categorized under the A1B subfamily. Due to nepenthesin-specific sequence features, the A1B subfamily is also named nepenthesin-type aspartic proteases (NEPs). Nepenthesins are mostly known from the pitcher fluid of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes, where they are availed for...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 566: Taxonomic Implications of Leaf Micromorphology Using Microscopic Analysis: A Tool for Identification and Authentication of Korean Piperales Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050566 Authors: Song Yang Choi A comparative study of the leaf micromorphology of Korean Piperales, including medicinal materials, was performed through light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, to evaluate their taxonomic significance. Piperales possessed both amphistomatic...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 568: Comparative Analysis of the Complete Chloroplast Genome of Mainland Aster spathulifolius and Other Aster Species Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050568 Authors: Swati Tyagi Jae-A Jung Jung Sun Kim So Youn Won Aster spathulifolius, a common ornamental and medicinal plant, is widely distributed in Korea and Japan, and is genetically classified into mainland and island types. Here, we sequenced the whole chloroplast genome of mainland A. spathulifolius and...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 565: Screening for Drought Tolerance in Maize (Zea mays L.) Germplasm Using Germination and Seedling Traits under Simulated Drought Conditions Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050565 Authors: Abdelfattah Badr Hanaa H. El-Shazly Rasha A. Tarawneh Andreas Börner Maize is known to be susceptible to drought stress, which negatively affects vegetative growth and biomass production, as well as the formation of reproductive organs and yield parameters. In this study,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 567: RgC3H Involves in the Biosynthesis of Allelopathic Phenolic Acids and Alters Their Release Amount in Rehmannia glutinosa Roots Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050567 Authors: Yan Hui Yang Zhong Yi Zhang Rui Fang Li Yan Jie Yi Heng Yang Chao Jie Wang Zu Shiqi Wang Yun Yi Liu Rehmannia glutinosa production is affected by replanting disease, in which autotoxic harm to plants is mediated by endogenous phenolic acids as allelopathic compounds found...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 562: Zinc Hyperaccumulation in Plants: A Review Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050562 Authors: Habiba Balafrej Didier Bogusz Zine-El Abidine Triqui Abdelkarim Guedira Najib Bendaou Abdelaziz Smouni Mouna Fahr Zinc is an essential microelement involved in many aspects of plant growth and development. Abnormal zinc amounts, mostly due to human activities, can be toxic to flora, fauna, and humans. In plants, excess zinc causes morphological, biochemical,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 563: Seed Transmission of Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus from Zucchini Squash in Italy Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050563 Authors: Eui-Joon Kil Thuy Thi Bich Vo Chairina Fadhila Phuong Thi Ho Aamir Lal Elisa Troiano Giuseppe Parrella Sukchan Lee Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV) is a bipartite begomovirus affecting tomato cultivation on the Indian subcontinent. Recently, however, a new strain of the virus, named ToLCNDV-ES, has spread...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 564: Chromium Morpho-Phytotoxicity Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9050564 Authors: Abdul Wakeel Ming Xu Chromium (Cr) is considered as one of the chronic pollutants that cause damage to all living forms, including plants. Various industries release an excessive amount of Cr into the environment. The increasing accumulation of Cr in agricultural land causes a significant decrease in the yield and quality of economically important crops. The Cr-induced biochemical,...
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Psych, Vol. 2, Pages 97-113: Do the Mega and Titan Tests Yield Accurate Results? An Investigation into Two Experimental Intelligence Tests Psych doi: 10.3390/psych2020010 Authors: Redvaldsen The Mega and Titan Tests were designed by Ronald K. Hoeflin to make fine distinctions in the intellectual stratosphere. The Mega Test purported to measure above-average adult IQ up to and including scores with a rarity of one in a million of the general population. The Titan Test was billed as being...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 220: Fuad Nahdi, Q-News, and the Forging of British Islam: Some Personal Reflections Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11050220 Authors: Yahya Birt This obituary offers some personal memories of Fuad Nahdi (1957–2020), based on my interactions with him, as well as some reflections on the historic importance of Q-News, the British Muslim periodical Nahdi founded, which was published between 1992 and 2006, partly based on short impromptu interviews done with...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 219: Religion and Peace—Anatomy of a Love–Hate Relationship Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11050219 Authors: Christine Schliesser Human history is filled with numerous examples—both past and present—that make religion and violence appear to be best friends. Ever since the events surrounding 9/11, religiously inspired violence has been considered one of the most pressing issues of our times (cf. Juergensmeyer 2017; Kimball 2008). While the conflictive...
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Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 42: Erratum: Hui Ye, Anthony Bellotti. Modelling Recovery Rates for Non-Performing Loans. Risks 7 (2019): 19 Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8020042 Authors: Hui Ye Anthony Bellotti The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper (Ye and Bellotti 2019): [...]
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 285: The Role of Gut Dysbiosis in the Bone–Vascular Axis in Chronic Kidney Disease Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12050285 Authors: Pieter Evenepoel Sander Dejongh Kristin Verbeke Bjorn Meijers Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk of bone mineral density loss and vascular calcification. Bone demineralization and vascular mineralization often concur in CKD, similar to what observed in the general population. This contradictory association...
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TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 65: Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy Was Used to Validate the Presence of Burkholderia Pseudomallei or B. Mallei in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded Tissues Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020065 Authors: Kei Amemiya Xiankun Zeng Jeremy J. Bearss Christopher K. Cote Carl Soffler Robert C. Bernhards Jennifer L. Dankmeyer Wilson J. Ribot Sylvia R. Trevino Susan L. Welkos Patricia L. Worsham David...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 206: Sendai Virus, a Strong Inducer of Anti-Lentiviral State in Ovine Cells Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020206 Authors: Lorena de Pablo-Maiso Irache Echeverría Sergio Rius-Rocabert Lluís Luján Dominique Garcin Damián de Andrés Estanislao Nistal-Villán Ramsés Reina Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs) are widely spread in the ovine and caprine populations, causing an incurable disease affecting animal health and production. Vaccine development...
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