Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2073: A Review of Dietary (Phyto)Nutrients for Glutathione Support Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092073 Authors: Deanna M. Minich Benjamin I. Brown Glutathione is a tripeptide that plays a pivotal role in critical physiological processes resulting in effects relevant to diverse disease pathophysiology such as maintenance of redox balance, reduction of oxidative stress, enhancement of metabolic detoxification, and regulation of immune system function. The diverse...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2065: Variations in 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Countries from the Middle East and Europe: The Roles of UVB Exposure and Diet Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092065 Authors: William B. Grant Hana M. A. Fakhoury Spyridon N. Karras Fatme Al Anouti Harjit P. Bhattoa Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) has been largely associated with latitude and sunshine exposure across several regions. According to previous results, 25(OH)D concentrations are, on average, relatively...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2068: Evaluation of an Eight-Week Whole-Food Plant-Based Lifestyle Modification Program Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092068 Authors: Erin K. Campbell Mohammad Fidahusain Thomas M. Campbell II Poor diet quality is the leading cause of death both in the United States and worldwide, and the prevalence of obesity is at an all-time high and is projected to significantly worsen. Results from an eight-week group program utilizing an ad-libitum whole-food plant-based...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2067: Thrombomodulin and Thrombopoietin, Two Biomarkers of Hemostasis, Are Positively Associated with Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research Recommendations for Cancer Prevention in a Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092067 Authors: Mirja Grafetstätter Laura Pletsch-Borba Disorn Sookthai Nena Karavasiloglou Theron Johnson Verena A. Katzke Michael Hoffmeister Peter Bugert...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2066: Chilled Potatoes Decrease Postprandial Glucose, Insulin, and Glucose-dependent Insulinotropic Peptide Compared to Boiled Potatoes in Females with Elevated Fasting Glucose and Insulin Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092066 Authors: Mindy A Patterson Joy Nolte Fong Madhura Maiya Stephanie Kung Araz Sarkissian Nezar Nashef Wanyi Wang Resistant starch (RS) has been shown to improve postprandial glycemia and insulin sensitivity in adults with metabolic...
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Nutrients, Vol. 11, Pages 2069: Increase of the Adiponectin/Leptin Ratio in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu11092069 Authors: Xabier Unamuno Maitane Izaguirre Javier Gómez-Ambrosi Amaia Rodríguez Beatriz Ramírez Sara Becerril Víctor Valentí Rafael Moncada Camilo Silva Javier Salvador Piero Portincasa Gema Frühbeck Victoria Catalán Bariatric surgery remains the most effective option for...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 457: PVP-H2O2 Complex as a New Stressor for the Accelerated Oxidation Study of Pharmaceutical Solids Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090457 Authors: Dattatray Modhave Brenda Barrios Amrit Paudel Reactive impurities, such as hydrogen peroxide in excipients, raise a great concern over the chemical stability of pharmaceutical products. Traditional screening methods of spiking impurities into solid drug-excipient mixtures oversimplify the micro-environment...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 458: Intracellular Delivery of siRNAs Targeting AKT and ERBB2 Genes Enhances Chemosensitization of Breast Cancer Cells in a Culture and Animal Model Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090458 Authors: Fatemian Moghimi Chowdhury : Pharmacotherapy as the mainstay in the management of breast cancer suffers from various drawbacks, including non-targeted biodistribution, narrow therapeutic and safety windows, and also resistance to treatment. Thus,...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 11, Pages 456: Increased Efficacy of Oral Fixed-Dose Combination of Amphotericin B and AHCC® Natural Adjuvant against Aspergillosis Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11090456 Authors: Alba Pérez-Cantero Dolores R. Serrano Patricia Navarro-Rodríguez Andreas G. Schätzlein Ijeoma F. Uchegbu Juan J. Torrado Javier Capilla Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis represents one of the most serious fungal infections among immunocompromised patients. In this...
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Pharmacy, Vol. 7, Pages 130: Topic Analysis of UK Fitness to Practise Cases: What Lessons Can Be Learnt? Pharmacy doi: 10.3390/pharmacy7030130 Authors: Alan Hanna Lezley-Anne Hanna Background: Fitness to practise (FtP) impairment (failure of a healthcare professional to demonstrate skills, knowledge, character and/or health required for their job) can compromise patient safety, the profession’s reputation, and an individual’s career. In the United Kingdom (UK),...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 323: Genetically Modified Heat Shock Protein90s and Polyamine Oxidases in Arabidopsis Reveal Their Interaction under Heat Stress Affecting Polyamine Acetylation, Oxidation and Homeostasis of Reactive Oxygen Species Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090323 Authors: Imene Toumi Marianthi G. Pagoulatou Theoni Margaritopoulou Dimitra Milioni Kalliopi A. Roubelakis-Angelakis The chaperones, heat shock proteins (HSPs), stabilize proteins to minimize proteotoxic stress,...
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Plants, Vol. 8, Pages 322: Roles of Hardened Husks and Membranes Surrounding Brachypodium hybridum Grains on Germination and Seedling Growth Plants doi: 10.3390/plants8090322 Authors: Ali El-Keblawy Masarra Elgabra Kareem A. Mosa Amal Fakhry Sameh Soliman Several studies have assessed the function and significance of the presence of dead, hardened husks on germination and seedling growth in several grass species and reached to inconsistent results. Here, we assess the roles...
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Religions, Vol. 10, Pages 512: Between the Center and the Margins: Young Catholics, “Sorta-Catholics,” and Baptismal Identity Religions doi: 10.3390/rel10090512 Authors: Rhodora Beaton Increased pastoral and theological attention to the vocational implications of baptism is sorely needed. As a small contribution to this conversation, this article will examine the insights of young Catholics and their self-described “former Catholic” peers (ages 15–29) regarding...
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Resources, Vol. 8, Pages 154: The Development of Legislation on the Social Economy in Continental Western Europe Resources doi: 10.3390/resources8030154 Authors: Antonio José Macías Ruano José Ramos Pires Manso One of the main instruments for local development is the regulatory legal framework of the so-called Social Economy, a term and concept that is yet to be fully defined. The society’s approach to the generation of wealth encompasses different concepts, movements, approaches,...
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Robotics, Vol. 8, Pages 76: An Architecture for the Integration of Robots and Sensors for the Care of the Elderly in an Ambient Assisted Living Environment Robotics doi: 10.3390/robotics8030076 Authors: David Loza-Matovelle Alexandra Verdugo Eduardo Zalama Jaime Gómez-García-Bermejo In this paper, the development of an assistance system for the elderly that combines robots with a network of sensors and actuators is described. The architecture was developed with the aim of interaction....
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Sci. Pharm., Vol. 87, Pages 23: Structural Insight into the In Vitro Anti-Intravasative Properties of Flavonoids Scientia Pharmaceutica doi: 10.3390/scipharm87030023 Authors: Julia Eichsteininger Kerstin Kirisits Claudia Smöch Christa Stadlbauer Chi Huu Nguyen Walter Jäger Ali Özmen Gerhard Ecker Georg Krupitza Liselotte Krenn We investigated the effect of 21 flavonoids in a three-dimensional in vitro system for their ability to inhibit gap formation by MCF-7...
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Societies, Vol. 9, Pages 63: “Old Church Women”: An Insight into the Less Understood and Their Contribution to the Life of the Orthodox Church Societies doi: 10.3390/soc9030063 Authors: Lavinia Țânculescu In this study, I aim to explore the role of old women in the life of the Christian Orthodox Church in the Romanian space. The analysis is based on empirical evidence (qualitative fieldwork and case studies) gathered between 2017 and 2019, and it mainly employs the framework of theory...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 514: Comparative Structure–Activity Analysis of the Antimicrobial Activity, Cytotoxicity, and Mechanism of Action of the Fungal Cyclohexadepsipeptides Enniatins and Beauvericin Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090514 Authors: Hamza Olleik Cendrine Nicoletti Mickael Lafond Elise Courvoisier-Dezord Peiwen Xue Akram Hijazi Elias Baydoun Josette Perrier Marc Maresca Filamentous fungi, although producing noxious molecules such as mycotoxins, have...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 515: Updates on the Effect of Mycotoxins on Male Reproductive Efficiency in Mammals Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090515 Authors: Diala El. Khoury Salma Fayjaloun Marc Nassar Joseph Sahakian Pauline Y. Aad Mycotoxins are ubiquitous and unavoidable harmful fungal products with the ability to cause disease in both animals and humans, and are found in almost all types of foods, with a greater prevalence in hot humid environments. These mycotoxins vary greatly...
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Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 513: Molecular Determinants of Brevetoxin Binding to Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11090513 Authors: Keiichi Konoki Daniel G. Baden Todd Scheuer William A. Catterall Brevetoxins are produced by dinoflagellates such as Karenia brevis in warm-water red tides and cause neurotoxic shellfish poisoning. They bind to voltage-gated sodium channels at neurotoxin receptor 5, making the channels more active by shifting the voltage-dependence...
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Urban Science, Vol. 3, Pages 98: Sequent Occupance and Toponymy in Singapore: The Diachronic and Synchronic Development of Urban Place Names Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci3030098 Authors: Francesco Cavallaro Francesco Perono Cacciafoco Zhi Xuan Tan This paper is aimed at investigating the applicability of the notion of Sequent Occupance to the Singapore context. Sequent Occupance as a phenomenon in Human Geography was first theorized by Derwent Whittlesey in 1929 in order...
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Urban Science, Vol. 3, Pages 97: The Network of Protected Areas (NPA) as an Instrument to Implement Cross-Border Public Services Urban Science doi: 10.3390/urbansci3030097 Authors: Maria Coronato Maria Prezioso Polycentric development, territorial cohesion, and territorial diversity are some of the main principles supported at the European level for reducing regional disparities and for making territories more resilient and diversified, which strengthens the competitiveness of Europe...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 6, Pages 72: Evaluation of the Effects of Undenatured Type II Collagen (UC-II) as Compared to Robenacoxib on the Mobility Impairment Induced by Osteoarthritis in Dogs Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci6030072 Authors: Marzia Stabile Rossella Samarelli Paolo Trerotoli Laura Fracassi Luca Lacitignola Antonio Crovace Francesco Staffieri Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic disease that requires a multimodal therapeutic approach. The aim of this...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 6, Pages 71: A Cellular Model of Infection with Brucella melitensis in Ovine Macrophages: Novel Insights for Intracellular Bacterial Detection Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci6030071 Authors: Garyfalia Karponi Spyridon K. Kritas Eleni Papanikolaou Evanthia Petridou Intracellular bacteria provoking zoonoses, such as those of the genus Brucella, present a host cell tropism mostly limited to the monocyte/macrophage lineage, leading to chronic inflammatory...
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Vibration, Vol. 2, Pages 271-284: Dynamic Analysis and Design of a Novel Ring-Based Vibratory Energy Harvester Vibration doi: 10.3390/vibration2030017 Authors: Ibrahim F. Gebrel Ligang Wang Samuel F. Asokanthan This paper aims to focus on the design and analysis of a novel ring-based mono-stable energy-harvesting device that is considered as an alternative to the beam and tube models used thus far. The highly sensitive ring second flexural mode, when combined with the nonlinear...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 815: Molecular Regulation of Host Defense Responses Mediated by Biological Anti-TMV Agent Ningnanmycin Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090815 Authors: Mengnan An Tao Zhou Yi Guo Xiuxiang Zhao Yuanhua Wu Ningnanmycin (NNM) belongs to microbial pesticides that display comprehensive antiviral activity against plant viruses. NNM treatment has been shown to efficiently delay or suppress the disease symptoms caused by tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) infection in local-inoculated...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1828: An Enhanced System with Macrophytes and Polyurethane Sponge as an Eco-Technology for Restoring Eutrophic Water: A Pilot Test Water doi: 10.3390/w11091828 Authors: Yijie Wang Xinan Yin Yanpeng Cai Zhifeng Yang Water eutrophication is one of the most serious environmental problems in urban lakes and ponds due to the excessive nutrients. To deal with this problem, the development of methods for supporting ecological rehabilitation has been undertaken....
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1831: The Long-Term Effects of Land Use and Climate Changes on the Hydro-Morphology of the Reno River Catchment (Northern Italy) Water doi: 10.3390/w11091831 Authors: Donatella Pavanelli Claudio Cavazza Stevo Lavrnić Attilio Toscano Anthropogenic activities, and in particular land use/land cover (LULC) changes, have a considerable effect on rivers’ flow rates and their morphologies. A representative example of those changes and resulting impacts...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1832: Using High-Density LiDAR Data and 2D Streamflow Hydraulic Modeling to Improve Urban Flood Hazard Maps: A HEC-RAS Multi-Scenario Approach Water doi: 10.3390/w11091832 Authors: Alin Mihu-Pintilie Cătălin Ioan Cîmpianu Cristian Constantin Stoleriu Martín Núñez Pérez Larisa Elena Paveluc The ability to extract streamflow hydraulic settings using geoinformatic techniques, especially in high populated territories like urban and peri-urban areas, is an...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1830: Reusing Treated Waste-Water from a Circular Economy Perspective—The Case of the Real Acequia de Moncada in Valencia (Spain) Water doi: 10.3390/w11091830 Authors: Joep Hagenvoort Mar Ortega-Reig Salut Botella Carla García Ana de Luis Guillermo Palau-Salvador One of the most important challenges that agriculture faces is sustainable water management and its adaptation to climate change. This adaptation is more important in regions where recurrent...
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