Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 474: Contact Effect of a Methylobacterium sp. Extract on Biofilm of a Mycobacterium chimaera Strain Isolated from a 3T Heater-Cooler System Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9080474 Authors: Inés Pradal Jaime Esteban Arancha Mediero Marta García-Coca John Jairo Aguilera-Correa Mycobacterium chimaera is an opportunistic slowly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteriumof increasing importance due to the outbreak of cases associated with contaminated...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 473: Country Income Is Only One of the Tiles: The Global Journey of Antimicrobial Resistance among Humans, Animals, and Environment Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9080473 Authors: Pieri Aschbacher Fasani Mariella Brusetti Pagani Sartelli Pagani Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most complex global health challenges today: decades of overuse and misuse in human medicine, animal health, agriculture, and dispersion...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 468: High Prevalence and Diversity of Cephalosporin-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Including Extraintestinal Pathogenic E. coli CC648 Lineage in Rural and Urban Dogs in Northwest Spain Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9080468 Authors: Fátima Abreu-Salinas Dafne Díaz-Jiménez Isidro García-Meniño Pilar Lumbreras Ana María López-Beceiro Luis Eusebio Fidalgo María Rosario Rodicio Azucena Mora Javier Fernández The aim of this work was to...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 472: Spectrum and Antibiotic Resistance of Uropathogens in Romanian Females Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9080472 Authors: Răzvan-Cosmin Petca Cristian Mareș Aida Petca Silvius Negoiță Răzvan-Ionuț Popescu Mihaela Boț Enikő Barabás Călin Bogdan Chibelean Urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women represent a common bacteriological finding, with negligible recent and consistent research on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the female...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 471: New Insights into Antibacterial Compounds: From Synthesis and Discovery to Molecular Mechanisms of Action Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9080471 Authors: Leitão The worldwide emergence of microbial resistance to available antibiotics presents a global threat to public health and health systems. This special issue aimed to gather papers describing novel antibiotics, originating form chemical synthesis, repurposing of existent drugs, or from natural...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 470: Practice-Level Association between Antibiotic Prescribing and Resistance: An Observational Study in Primary Care Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9080470 Authors: Batenburg Verheij van ’t Veen van der Velden A direct relation between antibiotic use and resistance has been shown at country level. We aim to investigate the association between antibiotic prescribing for patients from individual Dutch primary care practices and antibiotic resistance...
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Antibiotics, Vol. 9, Pages 469: Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, and Escherichia coli Isolated from Mastitic Dairy Cattle in Ukraine Antibiotics doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9080469 Authors: Elias Balasubramanyam Ayshpur Mushtuk Sheremet Gumeniuk Musser Rogovskyy Bovine mastitis is the predominant cause for antimicrobial use on dairy farms and is a major source of economic losses in the dairy industry. In this study,...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 691: The Role of Dietary Phenolic Compounds in Epigenetic Modulation Involved in Inflammatory Processes Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9080691 Authors: Milan Číž Adéla Dvořáková Veronika Skočková Lukáš Kubala A better understanding of the interactions between dietary phenolic compounds and the epigenetics of inflammation may impact pathological conditions and their treatment. Phenolic compounds are well-known for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory,...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 689: D-Galactose Decreases Anion Exchange Capability through Band 3 Protein in Human Erythrocytes Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9080689 Authors: Alessia Remigante Rossana Morabito Sara Spinelli Vincenzo Trichilo Saverio Loddo Antonio Sarikas Silvia Dossena Angela Marino d-Galactose (d-Gal), when abnormally accumulated in the plasma, results in oxidative stress production, and may alter the homeostasis of erythrocytes, which are particularly...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 688: Squalene: More than a Step toward Sterols Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9080688 Authors: Marco Micera Alfonso Botto Federica Geddo Susanna Antoniotti Cinzia Margherita Bertea Renzo Levi Maria Pia Gallo Giulia Querio Squalene (SQ) is a natural triterpene widely distributed in nature. It is a metabolic intermediate of the sterol biosynthetic pathway and represents a possible target in different metabolic and oxidative stress-related...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 687: Effect of Wine Lees as Alternative Antioxidants on Physicochemical and Sensorial Composition of Deer Burgers Stored during Chilled Storage Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9080687 Authors: Marina Alarcón Manuel López-Viñas Maria Soledad Pérez-Coello Maria Consuelo Díaz-Maroto Maria Elena Alañón Almudena Soriano Wine lees from two grape varieties (Vitis vinifera L. Cv. “verdejo” and “palomino”) were...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 690: Phenolic Composition and Skin-Related Properties of the Aerial Parts Extract of Different Hemerocallis Cultivars Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9080690 Authors: Katarzyna Szewczyk Małgorzata Miazga-Karska Wioleta Pietrzak Łukasz Komsta Barbara Krzemińska Anna Grzywa-Celińska Hemerocallis plants are important vegetables with nutritional and health value, especially in eastern Asia, where they have been used as medicines to cure disease...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 686: Protective Effects of Glucose-Related Protein 78 and 94 on Cisplatin-Mediated Ototoxicity Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9080686 Authors: Junyeong Yi Tae Su Kim Jhang Ho Pak Jong Woo Chung Cisplatin is a widely used chemotherapeutic drug for treating various solid tumors. Ototoxicity is a major dose-limiting side effect of cisplatin, which causes progressive and irreversible sensorineural hearing loss. Here, we examined the protective effects...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 685: Structure–Biological Activity Relationships of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Phenolic Compounds: Health Properties and Bioavailability Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9080685 Authors: Paloma Rodríguez-López Jesús Lozano-Sanchez Isabel Borrás-Linares Tatiana Emanuelli Javier A. Menéndez Antonio Segura-Carretero Extra-virgin olive oil is regarded as functional food since epidemiological studies and multidisciplinary research have reported convincing...
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Antioxidants, Vol. 9, Pages 684: Antioxidant Enzymes Haplotypes and Polymorphisms Associated with Obesity in Mexican Children Antioxidants doi: 10.3390/antiox9080684 Authors: Paula Costa-Urrutia Aline Mariana Flores-Buendía Iván Ascencio-Montiel Jacqueline Solares-Tlapechco Omar Noel Medina-Campos José Pedraza-Chaverri Julio Granados Angélica Saraí Jiménez-Osorio Martha Eunice Rodríguez-Arellano Obesity is a major health problem worldwide and constitutes a sanitary...
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Arts, Vol. 9, Pages 86: Women Architects in Portugal: Working in Colonial Africa before the Carnation Revolution (1950–1974) Arts doi: 10.3390/arts9030086 Authors: Vaz Milheiro Fiúza How did women architects shape a modern world in the late period of Portuguese colonial Africa, just before the Carnation Revolution? The specific role of women in Portugal working in colonial African architectural culture has now started to be addressed by Portuguese and Lusophone-African historiography....
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 814: Correction: Yu, L., et al. Evaluation of Moist Static Energy in a Simulated Tropical Cyclone. Atmosphere 2019, 10, 319/doi:10.3390/atmos10060319 Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11080814 Authors: Lijun Yu Shuhui Wu Zhanhong Ma The authors wish to make the following corrections to this paper: [...]
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 813: Updated Assessment of Temperature Extremes over the Middle East–North Africa (MENA) Region from Observational and CMIP5 Data Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11080813 Authors: Athanasios Ntoumos Panos Hadjinicolaou George Zittis Jos Lelieveld The objective of this analysis is to provide an up-to-date observation-based assessment of the evolution of temperature extremes in the Middle East–North Africa (MENA) region and evaluate the performance...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 812: Anthropogenic Photolabile Chlorine in the Cold-Climate City of Montreal Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11080812 Authors: Ryan Hall Oleg Nepotchatykh Evguenia Nepotchatykh Parisa A. Ariya Chlorine atoms play a key role in the oxidative potential of the atmosphere and biogeochemical cycling of selected elements. This study provides a decadal analysis (2010−2019) of chloride ions in PM2.5 particles in the city of Montreal, where these are...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 811: Mesoscale Model Simulation of a Severe Summer Thunderstorm in The Netherlands: Performance and Uncertainty Assessment for Parameterised and Resolved Convection Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11080811 Authors: Gert-Jan Steeneveld Esther E.M. Peerlings On the evening of 23 June 2016 around 18:00 UTC, a mesoscale convective system (MCS) with hail and wind gusts passed the southern province Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, and caused 675 millions of euros...
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Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Pages 810: Achieving Carbon Neutrality for A Future Large Greenhouse Gas Emitter in Quebec, Canada: A Case Study Atmosphere doi: 10.3390/atmos11080810 Authors: Patrick Faubert Sylvie Bouchard Rémi Morin Chassé Hélène Côté Pierre-Luc Dessureault Claude Villeneuve To reach the Paris Agreement targets of holding the global temperature increase below 2 °C above the preindustrial levels, every human activity will need to be carbon neutral by 2050....
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Beverages, Vol. 6, Pages 49: A Brief History of Whiskey Adulteration and the Role of Spectroscopy Combined with Chemometrics in the Detection of Modern Whiskey Fraud Beverages doi: 10.3390/beverages6030049 Authors: Aoife C. Power Caoimhe Ní Néill Sive Geoghegan Sinéad Currivan Mary Deasy Daniel Cozzolino Food fraud and adulteration is a major concern in terms of economic and public health. Multivariate methods combined with spectroscopic techniques have shown promise as...
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Beverages, Vol. 6, Pages 48: Impact of Copper Fungicide Use in Hop Production on the Total Metal Content and Stability of Wort and Dry-Hopped Beer Beverages doi: 10.3390/beverages6030048 Authors: Benjamin J. Chrisfield Helene Hopfer Ryan J. Elias Transition metals, including copper, iron, and manganese, are known to catalyze the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in beer leading to reduced product stability. Metals in beer are generally derived from raw ingredients. The...
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Bioengineering, Vol. 7, Pages 85: Skeletal Muscle Tissue Engineering: Biomaterials-Based Strategies for the Treatment of Volumetric Muscle Loss Bioengineering doi: 10.3390/bioengineering7030085 Authors: Meagan E. Carnes George D. Pins Millions of Americans suffer from skeletal muscle injuries annually that can result in volumetric muscle loss (VML), where extensive musculoskeletal damage and tissue loss result in permanent functional deficits. In the case of small-scale injury skeletal...
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Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 202: Liposome-Based Bioassays Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9080202 Authors: Sforzi Palagi Aime This review highlights the potential of using liposomes in bioassays. Liposomes consist of nano- or micro-sized, synthetically constructed phospholipid vesicles. Liposomes can be loaded with a number of reporting molecules that allow a dramatic amplification of the detection threshold in bioassays. Liposome-based sensors bind or react with the biological components...
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Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 201: Unravelling the Role of miR-20b-5p, CCNB1, HMGA2 and E2F7 in Development and Progression of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9080201 Authors: Arora Singh Rahmani Almatroodi Dohare Syed Lung cancer is a prime cause of worldwide cancer deaths, with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as a frequent subtype. Surgical resection, chemotherapy are the currently used treatment methods. Delayed detection, poor prognosis,...
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Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 200: Which Zebrafish Strains Are More Suitable to Perform Behavioral Studies? A Comprehensive Comparison by Phenomic Approach Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9080200 Authors: Audira Siregar Strungaru Huang Hsiao Wild-type (WT) zebrafish are commonly used in behavioral tests, however, the term WT corresponds to many different strains, such as AB, Tübingen long fin (TL), and Wild Indian Karyotype (WIK). Since these strains are widely used, there...
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Biology, Vol. 9, Pages 199: Spatial Phylogenetics, Biogeographical Patterns and Conservation Implications of the Endemic Flora of Crete (Aegean, Greece) under Climate Change Scenarios Biology doi: 10.3390/biology9080199 Authors: Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis Ioannis P. Kokkoris Maria Panitsa Panayiotis Trigas Arne Strid Panayotis Dimopoulos Human-induced biodiversity loss has been accelerating since the industrial revolution. The climate change impacts will severely alter...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 260: Organoarsenic Compounds with In Vitro Activity against the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8080260 Authors: Sofia Basova Nathalie Wilke Jan Christoph Koch Aram Prokop Albrecht Berkessel Gabriele Pradel Che Julius Ngwa The rapid development of parasite drug resistance as well as the lack of medications targeting both the asexual and the sexual blood stages of the malaria parasite necessitate...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 262: Lipid Metabolism in Macrophages: Focus on Atherosclerosis Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8080262 Authors: Vasily N. Sukhorukov Victoria A. Khotina Yegor S. Chegodaev Ekaterina Ivanova Igor A. Sobenin Alexander N. Orekhov Mechanisms of lipid homeostasis and its impairment are of crucial importance for atherogenesis, and their understanding is necessary for successful development of new therapeutic approaches. In the arterial wall,...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 258: Combined Treatment with Fasudil and Menthol Improves Functional Recovery in Rat Spinal Cord Injury Model Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8080258 Authors: JeongHoon Kim Hari Prasad Joshi Kyoung-Tae Kim Yi Young Kim Keundong Yeo Hyemin Choi Ye Won Kim Un-Yong Choi Hemant Kumar Seil Sohn Dong Ah Shin In-Bo Han Neuroprotective measures by preventing secondary spinal cord injury (SCI) are one of the main strategies for...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 261: Resveratrol Modulates Transforming Growth Factor-Beta (TGF-β) Signaling Pathway for Disease Therapy: A New Insight into Its Pharmacological Activities Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8080261 Authors: Milad Ashrafizadeh Masoud Najafi Sima Orouei Amirhossein Zabolian Hossein Saleki Negar Azami Negin Sharifi Kiavash Hushmandi Ali Zarrabi Kwang Seok Ahn Resveratrol (Res) is a well-known natural product that can exhibit important...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 259: Small Molecules in the Venom of the Scorpion Hormurus waigiensis Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8080259 Authors: Edward R. J. Evans Lachlan McIntyre Tobin D. Northfield Norelle L. Daly David T. Wilson Despite scorpion stings posing a significant public health issue in particular regions of the world, certain aspects of scorpion venom chemistry remain poorly described. Although there has been extensive research into the identity and...
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Biomedicines, Vol. 8, Pages 257: The First Human Clinical Trial on the Skin Depigmentation Efficacy of Glycinamide Hydrochloride Biomedicines doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8080257 Authors: Yong Chool Boo Da Jung Jo Chang Min Oh Shin Young Lee Young Mi Kim A previous study identified certain low molecular anti-melanogenic peptides that share a common sequence with α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH) and end with a glycinamide moiety. Glycinamide itself also showed...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 1138: Matrix Metalloproteinases in Health and Disease Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10081138 Authors: Raffaele Serra Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are members of an enzyme family and, under normal physiological conditions, are critical for maintaining tissue allostasis [...]
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 1137: Viral Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-Like Deconjugases—Swiss Army Knives for Infection Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10081137 Authors: Masucci Posttranslational modifications of cellular proteins by covalent conjugation of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like polypeptides regulate numerous cellular processes that are captured by viruses to promote infection, replication, and spreading. The importance of these protein modifications for the viral life cycle is underscored...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 1136: Heparin Administered to Anopheles in Membrane Feeding Assays Blocks Plasmodium Development in the Mosquito Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10081136 Authors: Elena Lantero Jessica Fernandes Carlos Raúl Aláez-Versón Joana Gomes Henrique Silveira Fatima Nogueira Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets Innovative antimalarial strategies are urgently needed given the alarming evolution of resistance to every single drug developed against Plasmodium parasites....
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 1135: A Shift in Glycerolipid Metabolism Defines the Follicular Fluid of IVF Patients with Unexplained Infertility Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10081135 Authors: Albert Batushansky Anish Zacharia Alaa Shehadeh Reut Bruck-Haimson Daniel Saidemberg Natalya M. Kogan Chanchal Thomas Mannully Shmuel Herzberg Assaf Ben-Meir Arieh Moussaieff Follicular fluid (FF) constitutes the microenvironment of the developing oocyte. We recently characterized...
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Biomolecules, Vol. 10, Pages 1134: Is Memantine Effective as an NMDA-Receptor Antagonist in Adjunctive Therapy for Schizophrenia? Biomolecules doi: 10.3390/biom10081134 Authors: Tetsuro Kikuchi Memantine, an n-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist approved for treating Alzheimer’s disease, has a good safety profile and is increasingly being studied for possible use in a variety of non-dementia psychiatric disorders. There is an abundance of basic and clinical data that...
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