Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2032: Nerolidol Mitigates Colonic Inflammation: An Experimental Study Using both In Vivo and In Vitro Models Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12072032 Authors: Vishnu Raj Balaji Venkataraman Saeeda Almarzooqi Sanjana Chandran Shreesh K. Ojha Samir Attoub Thomas E. Adrian Sandeep B. Subramanya Nerolidol (NED) is a naturally occurring sesquiterpene alcohol present in various plants with potent anti-inflammatory effects. In the current study, we investigated...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2031: The Relationship between Protein Intake and Source on Factors Associated with Glycemic Control in Individuals with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12072031 Authors: Neda S. Akhavan Shirin Pourafshar Sarah A. Johnson Elizabeth M. Foley Kelli S. George Joseph Munoz Shalom Siebert Elizabeth A. Clark Raedeh Basiri Robert C. Hickner Negin Navaei Cathy W. Levenson Lynn B. Panton Bruce P. Daggy Bahram...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2030: D-Pinitol from Ceratonia siliqua Is an Orally Active Natural Inositol That Reduces Pancreas Insulin Secretion and Increases Circulating Ghrelin Levels in Wistar Rats Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12072030 Authors: Juan A. Navarro Juan Decara Dina Medina-Vera Rubén Tovar Juan Suarez Javier Pavón Antonia Serrano Margarita Vida Alfonso Gutierrez-Adan Carlos Sanjuan Elena Baixeras Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca To characterize the...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2029: The Effects of Prebiotic Supplementation with OMNi-LOGiC® FIBRE on Fecal Microbiome, Fecal Volatile Organic Compounds, and Gut Permeability in Murine Neuroblastoma-Induced Tumor-Associated Cachexia Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12072029 Authors: Beate Obermüller Georg Singer Bernhard Kienesberger Ingeborg Klymiuk Daniela Sperl Vanessa Stadlbauer Angela Horvath Wolfram Miekisch Peter Gierschner Reingard Grabherr Hans-Jürgen Gruber Maria...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2028: Cognitive Impairment in Coeliac Disease with Respect to Disease Duration and Gluten-Free Diet Adherence: A Pilot Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12072028 Authors: Iain D Croall Claire Tooth Annalena Venneri Charlotte Poyser David S Sanders Nigel Hoggard Marios Hadjivassiliou Cognitive deficit has been reported in coeliac disease (CD), but previous reports often study heterogenous samples of patients at multiple stages of the disease, or...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2027: Exploring the Diets of Adults with Obesity and Type II Diabetes from Nine Diverse Countries: Dietary Intakes, Patterns, and Quality Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12072027 Authors: Jade Willey Marian Wakefield Heidi J. Silver Background: Calorie-dense diet is a main driver of the global epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2DM). While various dietary strategies and patterns are efficacious in reducing risk and improving glycemic control, dietary...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2026: Correcting for Intra-Individual Variability in Sodium Excretion in Spot Urine Samples Does Not Improve the Ability to Predict 24 h Urinary Sodium Excretion Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12072026 Authors: Karen Elizabeth Charlton Aletta Elisabeth Schutte Leanda Wepener Barbara Corso Paul Kowal Lisa Jayne Ware Given a global focus on salt reduction efforts to reduce cardiovascular risk, it is important to obtain accurate measures of salt intake...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 2025: Dietary Pattern and Its Correlates among Lithuanian Young Adults: Mediterranean Diet Approach Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12072025 Authors: Brigita Mieziene Arunas Emeljanovas Natalja Fatkulina Rimantas Stukas A poor diet leads to serious health risks and accounts for a significant proportion of deaths. Young adults are the population whose health behaviors particularly need to be studied in terms of nutrition because they are in a period of life...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 548: Spatial and Temporal Evolutionary Patterns in Puumala Orthohantavirus (PUUV) S Segment Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9070548 Authors: Florian Binder René Ryll Stephan Drewes Sandra Jagdmann Daniela Reil Melanie Hiltbrunner Ulrike M. Rosenfeld Christian Imholt Jens Jacob Gerald Heckel Rainer G. Ulrich The S segment of bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus)-associated Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV) contains two overlapping open...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 549: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Diabetic Foot Crossed Infection: A Case Report Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9070549 Authors: María Reina-Bueno Inmaculada C. Palomo-Toucedo Aurora Castro-Méndez Gabriel Domínguez-Maldonado María del Carmen Vázquez-Bautista This work presents a protocol to prevent the transmission of multidrug-resistant infections. We focus on the Diabetic Foot Unit Podiatry Clinic Area attached to the University...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 644: Acemannan Used as An Implantable Biomaterial for Vital Pulp Therapy of Immature Permanent Teeth Induced Continued Root Formation Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070644 Authors: Tien Thuy Vu Minh Truong Nguyen Polkit Sangvanich Quang Ngoc Nguyen Pasutha Thunyakitpisal Direct pulp-capping, a vital pulp therapy, is used to protect and preserve pulp vitality by applying a biomaterial on the pulp exposure site. Acemannan, a polysaccharide...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 642: A Novel Vitamin E TPGS-Based Formulation Enhances Chlorhexidine Bioavailability in Corneal Layers Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070642 Authors: Ciro Caruso Amalia Porta Alessandra Tosco Daniela Eletto Luigi Pacente Silvia Bartollino Ciro Costagliola Keratitis is a severe condition characterized by inflammation of the cornea following a local trauma. The most common ocular disease is the bacterial one, which requires an...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 643: Nucleic Acid Hybrids as Advanced Antibacterial Nanocarriers Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12070643 Authors: Sybil Obuobi Nataša Škalko-Basnet Conventional antibiotic therapy is often challenged by poor drug penetration/accumulation at infection sites and poses a significant burden to public health. Effective strategies to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of our existing arsenal include the use of nanoparticulate delivery platforms to improve...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 113: The Impact of a Primary Care, Pharmacist-Driven Intervention in Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain—A Pilot Study Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8030113 Authors: Mo Chen Tejal Patel Feng Chang Background: Chronic pain is a prevalent condition, experienced by 15.3% to 55% of Canadians, that is difficult to manage. With their broad accessibility and expertise on drugs, primary care pharmacists can help patients optimize their pain management. Methods:...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 8, Pages 112: Pharmacist Prescriptive Authority: Lessons from Idaho Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy8030112 Authors: Alex J. Adams Pharmacist prescriptive authority continues to increase at the state level in the United States. Recently, the Idaho Board of Pharmacy (BOP) finalized regulations that expanded autonomous prescriptive authority in its state to a range of preventative care as well as acute and chronic conditions. This manuscript reviews the key decision points...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 868: In vivo Reporters for Visualizing Alternative Splicing of Hormonal Genes Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070868 Authors: Ivan Kashkan Ksenia Timofeyenko Eva Kollárová Kamil Růžička Rapid progress in plant molecular biology in recent years has uncovered the main players in hormonal pathways and characterized transcriptomic networks associated with hormonal response. However, the role of RNA processing, in particular alternative splicing (AS), remains largely...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 865: Comparative Chromosomal Localization of 45S and 5S rDNA Sites in 76 Purple-Fleshed Sweet Potato Cultivars Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070865 Authors: Dan Su Lei Chen Jianying Sun Luyue Zhang Runfei Gao Qiang Li Yonghua Han Zongyun Li In recent years, the purple-fleshed sweet potato has attracted more attention because of its high nutritional value. The cytogenetics of this crop is relatively unexplored, limiting our knowledge on its genetic...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 866: Verticillium Wilt in Oilseed Rape—the Microbiome is Crucial for Disease Outbreaks as Well as for Efficient Suppression Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070866 Authors: Daria Rybakova Mariann Wikström Fia Birch-Jensen Joeke Postma Ralf Udo Ehlers Maria Schmuck René Kollmann Jürgen Köhl Gabriele Berg Microbiome management is a promising way to suppress verticillium wilt, a severe disease in Brassica caused by Verticillium longisporum. In order...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 864: Exploring Mechanisms of Quantitative Resistance to Leptosphaeria maculans (Blackleg) in the Cotyledons of Canola (Brassica napus) Based on Transcriptomic and Microscopic Analyses Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070864 Authors: Michelle Hubbard Chun Zhai Gary Peng Using resistant cultivars is a common approach to managing blackleg of canola/rapeseed caused by Leptosphaeria maculans (Lm). Quantitative resistance (QR), as opposed to major-gene resistance, is...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 867: Lake Drainage in Permafrost Regions Produces Variable Plant Communities of High Biomass and Productivity Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070867 Authors: Loiko Klimova Kuzmina Pokrovsky Climate warming, increased precipitation, and permafrost thaw in the Arctic are accompanied by an increase in the frequency of full or partial drainage of thermokarst lakes. After lake drainage, highly productive plant communities on nutrient-rich sediments may develop,...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 863: Elemental Composition and Some Nutritional Parameters of Sweet Pepper from Organic and Conventional Agriculture Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070863 Authors: Rosa Guilherme Fernando Reboredo Mauro Guerra Sandrine Ressurreição Nuno Alvarenga The increasing demand of organic agriculture (OA) is based on the consumer’s belief that organic agricultural products are healthier, tastier and more nutritious. The effect of OA and conventional agriculture...
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Plants, Vol. 9, Pages 862: Does Acid Rain Alter the Leaf Anatomy and Photosynthetic Pigments in Urban Trees? Plants doi: 10.3390/plants9070862 Authors: Verónica M. Rodríguez-Sánchez Ulises Rosas Germán Calva-Vásquez Estela Sandoval-Zapotitla Megapolis such as Mexico City, have atmospheric pollutants that interact with the humidity and solar radiation. The topography of this city promotes air stagnation, generating atmospheric pollutants and episodes of acid rain, a phenomenon...
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Proteomes, Vol. 8, Pages 15: Precursor Intensity-Based Label-Free Quantification Software Tools for Proteomic and Multi-Omic Analysis within the Galaxy Platform Proteomes doi: 10.3390/proteomes8030015 Authors: Subina Mehta Caleb W. Easterly Ray Sajulga Robert J. Millikin Andrea Argentini Ignacio Eguinoa Lennart Martens Michael R. Shortreed Lloyd M. Smith Thomas McGowan Praveen Kumar James E. Johnson Timothy J. Griffin Pratik D. Jagtap For mass spectrometry-based...
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Publications, Vol. 8, Pages 36: An Overview of the Dynamics of Relative Research Performance in Central-Eastern Europe using a Ranking-Based Analysis derived from SCImago Data Publications doi: 10.3390/publications8030036 Authors: Ioan Ianoş Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor In recent times, rankings seem to play an increasingly important role, influencing the lives of individual researchers or academics and their institutions. Individual and institutional rankings used for promotion and research...
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Religions, Vol. 11, Pages 339: The Legal Cause of “Holding Value” and Its Impact on Islamic Provisions Regarding Virtual Currencies Religions doi: 10.3390/rel11070339 Authors: Man Baker Muhammed Semai This article discusses the Islamic juristic position of virtual currencies. In the classical period, jurists differed on the reason behind Islam’s prohibition of usury when dealing with precious metals and their derivatives, with the majority arguing that this is because they...
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Robotics, Vol. 9, Pages 53: Synthesis and Analysis of a Novel Linkage Mechanism with the Helical Motion of the End-Effector Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics9030053 Authors: Alexey Fomin Daniil Petelin Andreas Jahr The proposed study is focused on the development of a novel modification of the slider-crank mechanism, the kinematic scheme of which is organized by coupling planar and spatial (screw) kinematic chains. The structure of this mechanism provides the end-effector with a cyclic...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 9, Pages 118: How Good are Child Vulnerability Assessment Tools in China? Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci9070118 Authors: Di Qi Shiyou Wu Accurately assessing children’s vulnerabilities and needs is important for child service delivery in social work. In China, different agencies (including international non-governmental organizations, government sectors and social organizations) utilize different tools for assessing children’s needs....
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Sports, Vol. 8, Pages 97: Evolution of Physical Fitness in Formative Female Basketball Players: A Case Study Sports doi: 10.3390/sports8070097 Authors: David Mancha-Triguero Nicolás Martín-Encinas Sergio J. Ibáñez Over the last few years, team sports increased the amount of physical demand and its importance. Therefore, work related to physical fitness and its assessment is essential to achieving success. However, there are few studies on this subject at the formative stage. The...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 444: Anti-Biofilm Activity of the Fungal Phytotoxin Sphaeropsidin A Against Clinical Isolates of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12070444 Authors: Emanuela Roscetto Marco Masi Matilde Esposito Roberta Di Di Lecce Antonella Delicato Lucia Maddau Viola Calabrò Antonio Evidente Maria Rosaria Catania Many pathogens involved in human infection have rapidly increased their antibiotic resistance, reducing the effectiveness...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 443: Detection of Chaetomium globosum, Ch. cochliodes and Ch. rectangulare during the Diversity Tracking of Mycotoxin-Producing Chaetomium-Like Isolates Obtained in Buildings in Finland Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12070443 Authors: Johanna M. Salo Orsolya Kedves Raimo Mikkola László Kredics Maria A. Andersson Jarek Kurnitski Heidi Salonen The diversity of Chaetomium-like isolates in buildings in Finland is poorly documented. This paper describes...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 366: Epidemiological Impact of Novel Preventive and Therapeutic HSV-2 Vaccination in the United States: Mathematical Modeling Analyses Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8030366 Authors: Ayoub Chemaitelly Abu-Raddad This study aims to inform herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) vaccine development, licensure, and implementation by delineating the population-level impact of vaccination. Mathematical models were constructed to describe the transmission dynamics...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 738: Phosphorylation of the Arginine-Rich C-Terminal Domains of the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Core Protein as a Fine Regulator of the Interaction between HBc and Nucleic Acid Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070738 Authors: Hugues de Rocquigny Virgile Rat Florentin Pastor Jean Luc Darlix Christophe Hourioux Philippe Roingeard The morphogenesis of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) viral particles is nucleated by the oligomerization of HBc protein molecules, resulting...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 737: Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophages That Infect Citrobacter rodentium, a Model Pathogen for Intestinal Diseases Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12070737 Authors: Carolina M. Mizuno Tiffany Luong Robert Cederstrom Mart Krupovic Laurent Debarbieux Dwayne R. Roach Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a major pathogen for diarrheal diseases among children. Antibiotics, when used appropriately, are effective; however, their overuse and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1944: Ten Principles to Determine Environmental Flow Requirements for Temporarily Closed Estuaries Water doi: 10.3390/w12071944 Authors: Adams Van Niekerk Temporarily closed estuaries require seasonal opening to tidal flows to maintain normal ecological processes. Each estuary has specific environmental flow (EFlow) requirements based on the relationship between freshwater inflow, coastal dynamics, rate of sandbar formation, and the open/closed state of the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1940: Characterization of the Recharge-Storage-Runoff Process of the Yangtze River Source Region under Climate Change Water doi: 10.3390/w12071940 Authors: Haochun Du Hok Sum Fok Yutong Chen Zhongtian Ma Storage and runoff are the two fundamental surface hydrological variables of a catchment. Research studies have been focused on the storage-runoff (S-R) hysteretic relationship of a catchment and its explanation very recently, thanks to satellite gravimetry....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1943: Design Thinking Methodology to Achieve Household Engagement in Urban Water Sustainability in the City of Huelva (Andalusia) Water doi: 10.3390/w12071943 Authors: Gustavo Bermejo-Martín Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy To advance to water sensitive cities (WSC) it will be necessary to achieve the commitment of the citizens, involving them in this transition. Citizen participation is considered essential, and one of the possible approaches to achieve this is through...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1941: Socio-Hydrology: A New Understanding to Unite or a New Science to Divide? Water doi: 10.3390/w12071941 Authors: Madani Shafiee-Jood The socio-hydrology community has been very successful in promoting the need for taking the human factor into account in the mainstream hydrology literature since 2012. However, the interest in studying and modeling human-water systems is not new and pre-existed the post-2012 socio-hydrology. So, it is critical to ask what...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1942: Prediction of Heavy Rain Damage Using Deep Learning Water doi: 10.3390/w12071942 Authors: Lee Choi Shin Kim Heavy rain damage prediction models were developed with a deep learning technique for predicting the damage to a region before heavy rain damage occurs. As a dependent variable, a damage scale comprising three categories (minor, significant, severe) was used, and meteorological data 7 days before the damage were used as independent variables....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1939: Insights onto Hydrologic and Hydro-Chemical Processes of Riparian Groundwater Using Environmental Tracers in the Highly Disturbed Shaying River Basin, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12071939 Authors: Baoling Li Xianfang Song Lihu Yang Dongxu Yao Yingchun Xu Understanding the hydrologic and hydrochemistry processes in the riparian area is of great importance for managing and protecting riparian water resources. This paper took a highly disturbed and...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1938: Drought Risk Analysis in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa: The Copula Lens Water doi: 10.3390/w12071938 Authors: Christina M. Botai Joel O. Botai Abiodun M. Adeola Jaco P. de Wit Katlego P. Ncongwane Nosipho N. Zwane This research study was carried out to investigate the characteristics of drought based on the joint distribution of two dependent variables, the duration and severity, in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The drought...
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