Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 791: Protein Expression Knockdown in Cancer Cells Induced by a Gemini Cationic Lipid Nanovector with Histidine-Based Polar Heads Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090791 Authors: Natalia Sánchez-Arribas María Martínez-Negro Eva M. Villar Lourdes Pérez José Osío Barcina Emilio Aicart Pablo Taboada Andrés Guerrero-Martínez Elena Junquera A histidine-based gemini cationic lipid, which had already demonstrated its efficiency as...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 790: Enteroendocrine Hormone Secretion and Metabolic Control: Importance of the Region of the Gut Stimulation Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12090790 Authors: Cong Xie Karen L. Jones Christopher K. Rayner Tongzhi Wu It is now widely appreciated that gastrointestinal function is central to the regulation of metabolic homeostasis. Following meal ingestion, the delivery of nutrients from the stomach into the small intestine (i.e., gastric...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 152: Preliminary Investigation of the Usability Characteristics Required for Wound Management Products by Semi-Structural Interview of Medical Staff Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8030152 Authors: Kaoru Hirose Yayoi Kawano Nahoko Shigeno Yoshikatsu Mizutani Hiraku Onishi Takehisa Hanawa Consideration of drug usability characteristics is important during the design process. Although many wound management products have been developed in recent years,...
Sat Aug 22, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1081: Effects of Interspecific Chromosome Substitution in Upland Cotton on Cottonseed Micronutrients Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091081 Authors: Nacer Bellaloui Sukumar Saha Jennifer L. Tonos Jodi A. Scheffler Johnie N. Jenkins Jack C. McCarty David M. Stelly Micronutrients are essential for plant growth and development, and important for human health nutrition and livestock feed. Therefore, the discovery of novel germplasm with significant variability...
Sun Aug 23, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1082: Evaluation of Mchare and Matooke Bananas for Resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Race 1 Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091082 Authors: Privat Ndayihanzamaso Diane Mostert Megan Ceris Matthews George Mahuku Kennedy Jomanga Happyness Justine Mpanda Hassan Mduma Allan Brown Brigitte Uwimana Rony Swennen Robooni Tumuhimbise Altus Viljoen Fusarium wilt, caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc)...
Sun Aug 23, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1080: Transcriptome-Wide N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) Methylome Profiling of Heat Stress in Pak-choi (Brassica rapa ssp. chinensis) Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091080 Authors: Gaofeng Liu Jin Wang Xilin Hou Background: In higher eukaryotes, N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most common internal form of messenger RNA modification. By mapping the m6A methyl genome in multiple species, the potential regulatory function of reversible m6A methylation on mRNA is revealed....
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1079: Synthetic Seed Technology Development and Production Studies for Storage, Transport, and Industrialization of Bracken Spores Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091079 Authors: Bo Kook Jang Ju Sung Cho Cheol Hee Lee Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum (Desv.) Underw. ex A. Heller) has long been grown industrially in South Korea. Conventional propagation methods, including planting rhizomes and in vitro seedling culture, are labor intensive and...
Sat Aug 22, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1078: Isolation and Analysis of Anthocyanin Pathway Genes from Ribes Genus Reveals MYB Gene with Potent Anthocyanin-Inducing Capabilities Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091078 Authors: Pavel Starkevič Aušra Ražanskienė Urtė Starkevič Vaiva Kazanavičiūtė Erna Denkovskienė Vidmantas Bendokas Tadeušas Šikšnianas Rytis Rugienius Vidmantas Stanys Raimundas Ražanskas Horticultural crops of the Ribes genus are valued for their anthocyanin-rich fruits,...
Sat Aug 22, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1077: Comparative Metabolomics Profiling of Polyphenols, Nutrients and Antioxidant Activities of Two Red Onion (Allium cepa L.) Cultivars Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091077 Authors: Rita Metrani Jashbir Singh Pratibha Acharya Guddadarangavvanahally K. Jayaprakasha Bhimanagouda S. Patil Onion is among the most widely cultivated and consumed economic crops. Onions are an excellent dietary source of polyphenols and nutrients. However, onions phytonutrient...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1075: Turkish Propolis and Its Nano Form Can Ameliorate the Side Effects of Cisplatin, Which Is a Widely Used Drug in the Treatment of Cancer Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091075 Authors: Pinar Tatli Seven Ismail Seven Selcan Karakus Seda Iflazoglu Mutlu Gozde Arkali Yesim Muge Sahin Ayben Kilislioglu This study was performed to determine the effects of chitosan-coated nano-propolis (NP), which is synthesized via a green sonochemical method, and propolis...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1074: AtPPRT1, an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase, Enhances the Thermotolerance in Arabidopsis Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091074 Authors: Yu Liu Shuya Xiao Haoran Sun Linsen Pei Yingying Liu Lu Peng Xuemeng Gao Yu Liu Jianmei Wang E3 ubiquitin ligase plays a vital role in the ubiquitin-mediated heat-related protein degradation pathway. Herein, we report that the expression of AtPPRT1, a C3HC4 zinc-finger ubiquitin E3 ligase gene, was induced by heat...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 1076: Anti-Melanoma Activities and Phytochemical Compositions of Sorbus commixta Fruit Extracts Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9091076 Authors: Sora Jin Kyeoung Cheol Kim Ju-Sung Kim Keum-Il Jang Tae Kyung Hyun Sorbus commixta Hedl. (Rosaceae family) has a long history as a medicinal plant in East Asian countries. In this study, we evaluated the effect of S. commixta fruit extracts prepared with different ethanol concentrations on anti-melanoma activity,...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Plasma, Vol. 3, Pages 117-152: Ion Acceleration in Multi-Fluid Plasma: Including Charge Separation Induced Electric Field Effects in Supersonic Wave Layers Plasma doi: 10.3390/plasma3030010 Authors: Ross Burrows The need to understand the process by which particles, including solar wind and coronal ions as well as pickup ions, are accelerated to high energies (ultimately to become anomalous cosmic rays) motivate a multi-fluid shock wave model which includes kinetic effects (e.g., ion...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Prosthesis, Vol. 2, Pages 225-236: Finite Element Analysis of a New Dental Implant Design Optimized for the Desirable Stress Distribution in the Surrounding Bone Region Prosthesis doi: 10.3390/prosthesis2030019 Authors: Luigi Paracchini Christian Barbieri Mattia Redaelli Domenico Di Croce Corrado Vincenzi Renzo Guarnieri Dental implant macro- and micro-shape should be designed to maximize the delivery of optimal favorable stresses in the surrounding bone region. The present...
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Proteomes, Vol. 8, Pages 21: PeptideWitch–A Software Package to Produce High-Stringency Proteomics Data Visualizations from Label-Free Shotgun Proteomics Data Proteomes doi: 10.3390/proteomes8030021 Authors: David C. L. Handler Flora Cheng Abdulrahman M. Shathili Paul A. Haynes PeptideWitch is a python-based web module that introduces several key graphical and technical improvements to the Scrappy software platform, which is designed for label-free quantitative shotgun proteomics...
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Proteomes, Vol. 8, Pages 20: Rapid Liquid AP-MALDI MS Profiling of Lipids and Proteins from Goat and Sheep Milk for Speciation and Colostrum Analysis Proteomes doi: 10.3390/proteomes8030020 Authors: Cristian Piras Carlotta Ceniti Evita Hartmane Nicola Costanzo Valeria Maria Morittu Paola Roncada Domenico Britti Rainer Cramer Rapid profiling of the biomolecular components of milk can be useful for food quality assessment and for food fraud detection. Differences in...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 432: Sámi indigenous(?) Religion(s)(?)—Some Observations and Suggestions Concerning Term Use Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090432 Authors: Konsta Kaikkonen When writing about politically and culturally sensitive topics, term use is of great relevance. Sámi religion is a case in point. Words organise and create the world around us, and labels have direct consequences on how religious phenomena are perceived. Even labelling a phenomenon or an action “religious”...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 431: Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Spiritual Resilience in Marginalised Older Adults Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090431 Authors: Holly Nelson-Becker Michael Thomas Spiritual and religious struggles emerge in times where life meaning is unclear, has changed or is challenged. Resilience has been addressed in terms of psychological, social, emotional and physical capacity or competence related to struggle. However, there is a relatively sparse literature...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 430: Religion-Making in the Disney Feature Film, Frozen II: Indigenous Religion and Dynamics of Agency Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090430 Authors: Trude Fonneland This paper explores the religion-making potential of a particular secular institution, namely the Walt Disney Studios. Focusing on the animation film Frozen II that was launched in November 2019, the current article enters into debates about the manner in which indigenous religion is part of the commodity...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 429: Souvenirs and the Commodification of Sámi Spirituality in Tourism Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090429 Authors: Stein R. Mathisen Tangible, material objects sold in tourism contexts are often seen as problematic examples of commercialization, especially when they are marketed as examples of intangible Indigenous cultural heritages, representing Indigenous religion or spirituality. Taking the in situ presentations of examples of Sámi souvenirs connected...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 428: Meanings and Interpretations of Spirituality in Nursing and Health Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11090428 Authors: Nasreen Lalani Numerous spirituality models and tools have been developed in health education and research, but a gap still exists around the conceptual clarity and articulation of spirituality among nurses and healthcare providers. Nurses and healthcare providers still find it difficult to interpret and apply the concepts of spirituality in their...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Resources, Vol. 9, Pages 100: Changes in the Environmental Sustainability of the Urban Transport System When Introducing Paid Parking for Private Vehicles Resources doi: 10.3390/resources9090100 Authors: Zakharov Fadyushin Chainikov The work proposes a methodological approach to studying and assessing the environmental sustainability of the transport system of the city. The authors have selected parameters for assessing the environmental sustainability of the transport system...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Risks, Vol. 8, Pages 87: Comparison of Home Advantage in European Football Leagues Risks doi: 10.3390/risks8030087 Authors: Patrice Marek František Vávra Home advantage in sports is important for coaches, players, fans, and commentators and has a key role in sports prediction models. This paper builds on results of recent research that—instead of points gained—used goals scored and goals conceded to describe home advantage. This offers more detailed look at this...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 65: Workspace and Stiffness Analysis of 3D Printing Cable-Driven Parallel Robot with a Retractable Beam-Type End-Effector Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9030065 Authors: Jinwoo Jung 3D printing is a widely used technology that has been recently applied in construction to reduce construction time significantly. A large 3D printer often uses a traditional Cartesian robot with inherent problems, such as position errors and printing nozzle vibrations, due to the long,...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 64: Classifying Intelligence in Machines: A Taxonomy of Intelligent Control Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9030064 Authors: Callum Wilson Francesco Marchetti Marilena Di Carlo Annalisa Riccardi Edmondo Minisci The quest to create machines that can solve problems as humans do leads us to intelligent control. This field encompasses control systems that can adapt to changes and learn to improve their actions—traits typically associated with human...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 68: Perspectives on Topical Medical Research in the COVID-19 Era Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2030068 Authors: Michael McAleer The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 disease has wreaked havoc on the world community in terms of every imaginable parameter. The research output on COVID-19 has been nothing short of phenomenal, especially in the medical and biomedical sciences, where the search for a potential vaccine is being conducted in earnest. Much of the advanced research...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Sci, Vol. 2, Pages 67: Global Significance of Mangrove Blue Carbon in Climate Change Mitigation Sci doi: 10.3390/sci2030067 Authors: Daniel M. Alongi Mangrove forests store and sequester large area-specific quantities of blue carbon (Corg). Except for tundra and peatlands, mangroves store more Corg per unit area than any other ecosystem. Mean mangrove Corg stock is 738.9 Mg Corg ha−1 and mean global stock is 6.17 Pg Corg, which equates to only 0.4–7% of terrestrial...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Societies, Vol. 10, Pages 62: What Matters in a Job? A Multi-Level Study of Job Preference Orientations and the Intrinsic Quality of Work in 25 Societies Societies doi: 10.3390/soc10030062 Authors: Michal Kozák This paper examines cross-national differences in job preference orientations from the perspective of job quality. In particular, it investigates the extent to which preferences of workers in 25 developed societies are shaped by the intrinsic quality of jobs and its institutional...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 117: Reliability of the Polar Vantage M Sports Watch when Measuring Heart Rate at Different Treadmill Exercise Intensities Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8090117 Authors: Mike Climstein Jessica L. Alder Alyce M. Brooker Elissa J. Cartwright Kevin Kemp-Smith Vini Simas James Furness Background: Usage of wrist-worn activity monitors has rapidly increased in recent years, and these devices are being used by both fitness enthusiasts and in clinical populations....
Sun Aug 23, 2020 03:00
Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 116: Physiological and Race Pace Characteristics of Medium and Low-Level Athens Marathon Runners Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8090116 Authors: Aristides Myrkos Ilias Smilios Eleni Maria Kokkinou Evangelos Rousopoulos Helen Douda This study examined physiological and race pace characteristics of medium- (finish time < 240 min) and low-level (finish time > 240 min) recreational runners who participated in a challenging marathon route with rolling...
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Stats, Vol. 3, Pages 284-329: Recovering Yield Curves from Dynamic Term Structure Models with Time-Varying Factors Stats doi: 10.3390/stats3030020 Authors: Hiroyuki Kawakatsu A dynamic version of the Nelson-Siegel-Svensson term structure model with time-varying factors is considered for predicting out-of-sample maturity yields. Simple linear interpolation cannot be applied to recover yields at the very short- and long- end of the term structure where data are often missing. This motivates...
Sat Aug 22, 2020 03:00
Toxics, Vol. 8, Pages 62: Use of Personal Care Products and Semen Quality: A Cross-Sectional Study in Young Danish Men Toxics doi: 10.3390/toxics8030062 Authors: Kajsa Ugelvig Petersen Ahmad Mahmoud Balkiss Katia Keglberg Hærvig Jens Peter Ellekilde Bonde Karin Sørig Hougaard Gunnar Toft Cecilia Høst Ramlau-Hansen Sandra Søgaard Tøttenborg Personal care products (PCPs) may contain multiple chemicals capable of harming male reproductive function. The aim of this study...
Sat Aug 22, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 545: Toll-Like Receptor 4 Signaling in the Ileum and Colon of Gnotobiotic Piglets Infected with Salmonella Typhimurium or Its Isogenic ∆rfa Mutants Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090545 Authors: Igor Splichal Ivan Rychlik Iva Splichalova Daniela Karasova Alla Splichalova Salmonella Typhimurium is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes enterocolitis in humans and pigs. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a component of the outer leaflet of Gram-negative bacteria...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 543: Baculovirus Expression and Functional Analysis of Vpa2 Proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090543 Authors: Oihane Simón Leopoldo Palma Ana Beatriz Fernández Trevor Williams Primitivo Caballero The mode of action underlying the insecticidal activity of the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) binary pesticidal protein Vpa1/Vpa2 is uncertain. In this study, three recombinant baculoviruses were constructed using Bac-to-Bac technology...
Sat Aug 22, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 542: Unexpected Toxicity of Green Tea Polyphenols in Combination with the Sambucus RIL Ebulin Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090542 Authors: M. Ángeles Rojo Manuel Garrosa Pilar Jiménez Tomás Girbés Verónica Garcia-Recio Manuel Cordoba-Diaz Damián Cordoba-Diaz The safety of concentrated food complements intake is a major health concern. It has been well established that green tea polyphenols (GTPs) consumption promotes healthy effects. However, the...
Sat Aug 22, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 541: High Levels of Anabaenopeptins Detected in a Cyanobacteria Bloom from N.E. Spanish Sau-Susqueda-El Pasteral Reservoirs System by LC–HRMS Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090541 Authors: Cintia Flores Josep Caixach The appearance of a bloom of cyanobacteria in the Sau-Susqueda-El Pasteral system (River Ter, NE Spain) in the autumn of 2015 has been the most recent episode of extensive bloom detected in Catalonia. This system is devoted mainly to urban supply,...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 544: Spatiotemporal Regulation of Vibrio Exotoxins by HlyU and Other Transcriptional Regulators Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090544 Authors: Byoung Sik Kim After invading a host, bacterial pathogens secrete diverse protein toxins to disrupt host defense systems. To ensure successful infection, however, pathogens must precisely regulate the expression of those exotoxins because uncontrolled toxin production squanders energy. Furthermore, inappropriate toxin secretion...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 540: Betulinic Acid Attenuates Oxidative Stress in the Thymus Induced by Acute Exposure to T-2 Toxin via Regulation of the MAPK/Nrf2 Signaling Pathway Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090540 Authors: Lijuan Zhu Xianglian Yi Chaoyang Ma Chenxi Luo Li Kong Xing Lin Xinyu Gao Zhihang Yuan Lixin Wen Rongfang Li Jing Wu Jine Yi T-2 toxin, the most toxic of the trichothecenes, is widely found in grains and feeds, and its intake poses serious...
Sat Aug 22, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 538: Primary Sequence and 3D Structure Prediction of the Plant Toxin Stenodactylin Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12090538 Authors: Rosario Iglesias Letizia Polito Massimo Bortolotti Manuela Pedrazzi Lucía Citores José M. Ferreras Andrea Bolognesi Stenodactylin is one of the most potent type 2 ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs); its high toxicity has been demonstrated in several models both in vitro and in vivo. Due to its peculiarities, stenodactylin...
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