Medical Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 22: Serum Chloride Levels at Hospital Discharge and One-Year Mortality among Hospitalized Patients Medical Sciences doi: 10.3390/medsci8020022 Authors: Tananchai Petnak Charat Thongprayoon Wisit Cheungpasitporn Tarun Bathini Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula Api Chewcharat Kianoush Kashani This study aimed to assess the one-year mortality risk based on discharge serum chloride among the hospital survivors. We analyzed a cohort of adult hospital...
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Medicina, Vol. 56, Pages 243: Artificial Neural Network and Cox Regression Models for Predicting Mortality after Hip Fracture Surgery: A Population-Based Comparison Medicina doi: 10.3390/medicina56050243 Authors: Chen Chen Chen Hung Shi This study purposed to validate the accuracy of an artificial neural network (ANN) model for predicting the mortality after hip fracture surgery during the study period, and to compare performance indices between the ANN model and a Cox...
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Medicina, Vol. 56, Pages 242: Inherited Risk Factors of Thromboembolic Events in Patients with Primary Nephrotic Syndrome Medicina doi: 10.3390/medicina56050242 Authors: Ismail Obrișcă Jurubiță Andronesi Sorohan Hârza Background and objectives. Venous thromboembolic events (VTEs) are among the most important complications of nephrotic syndrome (NS). We conducted a study that aimed to determine the prevalence of inherited risk factors for VTE in NS and to identify...
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Medicines, Vol. 7, Pages 29: Addition of Multimodal Immunotherapy to Combination Treatment Strategies for Children with DIPG: A Single Institution Experience Medicines doi: 10.3390/medicines7050029 Authors: Van Gool Makalowski Bonner Feyen Domogalla Prix Schirrmacher Nazarian Stuecker Background: The prognosis of children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) remains dismal despite radio- and chemotherapy or molecular-targeted therapy. Immunotherapy...
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Medicines, Vol. 7, Pages 28: Silicone Implant Versus Silicone Implant Assisted by Stromal Enriched Lipograft Breast Augmentation: A Prospective Comparative Study Medicines doi: 10.3390/medicines7050028 Authors: Aris Sterodimas Background: Implant-assisted breast augmentation is among the most performed surgeries performed by plastic surgeons today. This prospective study evaluated the patient satisfaction and complication rates using high-profile round silicone implant alone (traditional...
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Membranes, Vol. 10, Pages 105: An Experimental Study of Membrane Contactor Modules for Recovering Cyanide through a Gas Membrane Process Membranes doi: 10.3390/membranes10050105 Authors: Quilaqueo Seriche Valetto Barros Díaz-Quezada Ruby-Figueroa Troncoso Estay Cyanide is one of the main reagents used in gold mining that can be recovered to reduce operational costs. Gas membrane technology is an attractive method for intensifying both the stripping and absorption...
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Metabolites, Vol. 10, Pages 209: Cross-Species Comparison of Fruit-Metabolomics to Elucidate Metabolic Regulation of Fruit Polyphenolics Among Solanaceous Crops Metabolites doi: 10.3390/metabo10050209 Authors: Calumpang Saigo Watanabe Tohge Many solanaceous crops are an important part of the human daily diet. Fruit polyphenolics are plant specialized metabolites that are recognized for their human health benefits and their defensive role against plant abiotic and biotic...
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Metabolites, Vol. 10, Pages 208: Tryptophan Metabolism, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Patients with Neurovascular Disease Metabolites doi: 10.3390/metabo10050208 Authors: Martin Hajsl Alzbeta Hlavackova Karolina Broulikova Martin Sramek Martin Maly Jan E. Dyr Jiri Suttnar Atherosclerosis is a leading cause of major vascular events, myocardial infarction, and ischemic stroke. Tryptophan (TRP) catabolism was recognized as an important player in inflammation and...
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Metabolites, Vol. 10, Pages 207: Systems Biology ARDS Research with a Focus on Metabolomics Metabolites doi: 10.3390/metabo10050207 Authors: Sayed M. Metwaly Brent W. Winston Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a clinical syndrome that inflicts a considerably heavy toll in terms of morbidity and mortality. While there are multitudes of conditions that can lead to ARDS, the vast majority of ARDS cases are caused by a relatively small number of diseases, especially sepsis...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 761: Assessment of the Presence of Hepatitis E virus in Surface Water and Drinking Water in Portugal Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8050761 Authors: Salvador Neto Benoliel Caeiro Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a non-enveloped single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus, belonging to the Hepeviridae family, resistant to environmental conditions, and transmitted by the consumption of contaminated water. This virus is responsible for both sporadic...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 760: Donated Human Milk as a Determinant Factor for the Gut Bifidobacterial Ecology in Premature Babies Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8050760 Authors: Arboleya Saturio Suárez Fernández Mancabelli de los Reyes-Gavilán Ventura Solís Gueimonde Correct establishment of the gut microbiome is compromised in premature babies, with Bifidobacterium being one of the most affected genera. Prematurity often entails the inability...
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Microorganisms, Vol. 8, Pages 759: Proteome Cold-Shock Response in the Extremely Acidophilic Archaeon, Cuniculiplasma divulgatum Microorganisms doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8050759 Authors: Bargiela Lanthaler Potter Ferrer Yakunin Paizs Golyshin Golyshina The archaeon Cuniculiplasma divulgatum is ubiquitous in acidic environments with low-to-moderate temperatures. However, molecular mechanisms underlying its ability to thrive at lower temperatures remain unexplored....
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2363: Foliar Application of Bio-Stimulants Enhancing the Production and the Toxicity of Origanum majorana Essential Oils Against Four Rice Seed-Borne Fungi Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102363 Authors: Abeer A. Mohamed Mervat El-Hefny Nader A. El-Shanhorey Hayssam M. Ali In the present study, the enhancement of the production of Origanum majorana essential oils (EOs) was studied by treating plants with ascorbic acid (AA) and tryptophan (Trp) at...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2364: Two-Phase Dibromocyclopropanation of Unsaturated Alcohols Using Flow Chemistry Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102364 Authors: Runa Berg Østby Terje Didriksen Simen Gjelseth Antonsen Steinar Sollien Nicolaisen Yngve Stenstrøm Dibromocyclopropanations are conventionally done by addition of dibromocarbene to alkenes under phase-transfer conditions in batch reactions using a strong base (50% NaOH (aq)), vigorous stirring and long reaction times....
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2362: Carbonic Anhydrase-IX Guided Albumin Nanoparticles for Hypoxia-mediated Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cell Killing and Imaging of Patient-derived Tumor Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102362 Authors: Katyayani Tatiparti Mohd Ahmar Rauf Samaresh Sau Arun K. Iyer Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is considered as the most onerous cancer subtype, lacking the estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 receptors. Evaluating new markers is an unmet need...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2361: Protective Effects of Fucoidan Isolated from Celluclast-Assisted Extract of Undaria pinnatifida Sporophylls against AAPH-Induced Oxidative Stress In Vitro and In Vivo Zebrafish Model Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102361 Authors: Jae-Young Oh Eun-A Kim Sang In Kang Hye-Won Yang Bomi Ryu Lei Wang Jung-Suck Lee You-Jin Jeon Fucoidan is a fucose-enriched polysaccharide, obtained from brown algae, with demonstrated antioxidant properties....
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2360: Self-Healing Properties of Bioinspired Amorphous CaCO3/Polyphosphate-Supplemented Cement Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102360 Authors: Emad Tolba Shunfeng Wang Xiaohong Wang Meik Neufurth Maximilian Ackermann Rafael Muñoz-Espí Bothaina M. Abd El-Hady Heinz C. Schröder Werner E. G. Müller There is a strong interest in cement additives that are able to prevent or mitigate the adverse effects of cracks in concrete that cause corrosion...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2359: Alkalinity and Its Consequences for the Performance of Steel-Reinforced Geopolymer Materials Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102359 Authors: Andreas Koenig Hitham Mahmoud Oliver Baehre Frank Dehn This paper investigates the development of the alkalinity and its impact on carbon steel reinforcement embedded in alkali-activated fly ashes (AAFA) and alkali-activated fly ashes with ten percentage mass (wt%) of blast furnace slag (AAFAS)-based materials...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2358: Chemical, Bioactivity, and Biosynthetic Screening of Epiphytic Fungus Zasmidium pseudotsugae Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102358 Authors: Gisela A. González-Montiel Elizabeth N. Kaweesa Nicolas Feau Richard C. Hamelin Jeffrey K. Stone Sandra Loesgen We report the first secondary metabolite, 8,8′-bijuglone, obtained from pure cultures of the slow growing Douglas fir- (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) foliage-associated...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2357: Transfer Learning: Making Retrosynthetic Predictions Based on a Small Chemical Reaction Dataset Scale to a New Level Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102357 Authors: Renren Bai Chengyun Zhang Ling Wang Chuansheng Yao Jiamin Ge Hongliang Duan Effective computational prediction of complex or novel molecule syntheses can greatly help organic and medicinal chemistry. Retrosynthetic analysis is a method employed by chemists to predict synthetic...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 978: Electrospun PCL/PGS Composite Fibers Incorporating Bioactive Glass Particles for Soft Tissue Engineering Applications Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050978 Authors: Marina Luginina Katharina Schuhladen Roberto Orrú Giacomo Cao Aldo R. Boccaccini Liliana Liverani Poly(glycerol-sebacate) (PGS) and poly(epsilon caprolactone) (PCL) have been widely investigated for biomedical applications in combination with the electrospinning process....
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 977: Seedless Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanorods as a Promising Route for Flexible Tactile Sensors Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050977 Authors: Cesini Kowalczyk Lucantonio D’Alesio Kumar Camboni Massari Pingue DeSimone Morgera Oddo Hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanorods has been widely used for the development of tactile sensors, with the aid of ZnO seed layers, favoring the growth of dense and vertically aligned...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 975: Microcrystalline Cellulose Extracted from Native Plants as an Excipient for Solid Dosage Formulations in Drug Delivery Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050975 Authors: Camila Viera-Herrera Javier Santamaría-Aguirre Karla Vizuete Alexis Debut Daniel C. Whitehead Frank Alexis Excipients represent the complement of the active principle in any pharmaceutical form. Their function is to provide stability, protection, and to ensure absorption...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 976: Remarkable Stability Improvement of ZnO TFT with Al2O3 Gate Insulator by Yttrium Passivation with Spray Pyrolysis Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050976 Authors: Jewel Kumer Saha Ravindra Naik Bukke Narendra Naik Mude Jin Jang We report the impact of yttrium oxide (YOx) passivation on the zinc oxide (ZnO) thin film transistor (TFT) based on Al2O3 gate insulator (GI). The YOx and ZnO films are both deposited by spray pyrolysis at 400 and 350...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1477: Commiphora Extract Mixture Ameliorates Monosodium Iodoacetate-Induced Osteoarthritis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051477 Authors: Donghun Lee Mi-Kyoung Ju Hocheol Kim Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease that affects millions of elderly people around the world. The conventional treatments for OA consisting of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and steroid have negative health consequences, such as gastrointestinal, renal, and...
Tue May 19, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1478: Fiction Is Sweet. The Impact of Media Consumption on the Development of Children’s Nutritional Knowledge and the Moderating Role of Parental Food-Related Mediation. A Longitudinal Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051478 Authors: Alice Binder Brigitte Naderer Jörg Matthes Ines Spielvogel Nutritional knowledge is an important cognitive facilitator that potentially helps children to follow a healthy diet. Two main information agents influence children’s...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1476: Proteomic and Metabolomic Correlates of Healthy Dietary Patterns: The Framingham Heart Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051476 Authors: Maura E. Walker Rebecca J. Song Xiang Xu Robert E. Gerszten Debby Ngo Clary B. Clish Laura Corlin Jiantao Ma Vanessa Xanthakis Paul F. Jacques Ramachandran S. Vasan Data on proteomic and metabolomic signatures of healthy dietary patterns are limited. We evaluated the cross-sectional association...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1475: Effect of a Combination of Citrus Flavones and Flavanones and Olive Polyphenols for the Reduction of Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Exploratory Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study in Healthy Subjects Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051475 Authors: Maravillas Sánchez Macarro Juan Pablo Martínez Rodríguez Enrique Bernal Morell Silvia Pérez-Piñero Desirée Victoria-Montesinos Ana María García-Muñoz Fernando Cánovas García Julián Castillo...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1472: Dietary Supplements for Male Infertility: A Critical Evaluation of Their Composition Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051472 Authors: Garolla Petre Francini-Pesenti De Toni Vitagliano Di Nisio Foresta Dietary supplements (DS) represent a possible approach to improve sperm parameters and male fertility. A wide range of DS containing different nutrients is now available. Although many authors demonstrated benefits from some nutrients...
Tue May 19, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1467: The Effects of Two Intervention Strategies to Reduce the Intake of Salt and the Sodium-To-Potassium Ratio on Cardiovascular Risk Factors. A 4-Month Randomised Controlled Study among Healthy Families Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051467 Authors: Ulla Toft Nanna Louise Riis Anne Dahl Lassen Ellen Trolle Anne Helms Andreasen Amalie Kruse Sigersted Frederiksen Niklas Rye Joergensen Jens Kristian Munk Kirsten Schroll Bjoernsbo The aim was...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1474: The Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes Ratio: A Relevant Marker of Gut Dysbiosis in Obese Patients? Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051474 Authors: Fabien Magne Martin Gotteland Lea Gauthier Alejandra Zazueta Susana Pesoa Paola Navarrete Ramadass Balamurugan The gut microbiota is emerging as a promising target for the management or prevention of inflammatory and metabolic disorders in humans. Many of the current research efforts are focused on the identification...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1471: Vitamin D Deficiency and Oral Health: A Comprehensive Review Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051471 Authors: Botelho Machado Proença Delgado Mendes Vitamin D (VD) levels have been gaining growing attention in Oral Health. During growth and adulthood, VD deficiency (VDD) is associated with a wide variety of oral health disorders, and impaired VD synthesis may expedite some of these conditions. In children, severe VDD can induce defective tooth...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1470: Metabolites, Nutrients, and Lifestyle Factors in Relation to Coffee Consumption: An Environment-Wide Association Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051470 Authors: Elhadad Karavasiloglou Wulaningsih Tsilidis Tzoulaki Patel Rohrmann Coffee consumption has been inversely associated with various diseases; however, the underlying mechanisms are not entirely clear. We used data of 17,752 Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1468: Recipe for a Healthy Gut: Intake of Unpasteurised Milk Is Associated with Increased Lactobacillus Abundance in the Human Gut Microbiome Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051468 Authors: Mary I. Butler Thomaz F. S. Bastiaanssen Caitriona Long-Smith Kirsten Berding Sabrina Morkl Anne-Marie Cusack Conall Strain Kizkitza Busca Penny Porteous-Allen Marcus J. Claesson Catherine Stanton John F. Cryan Darina Allen Timothy G. Dinan ...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1469: Effect of Supplementation with Saccharomyces Boulardii on Academic Examination Performance and Related Stress in Healthy Medical Students: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051469 Authors: Michał Seweryn Karbownik Joanna Kręczyńska Paulina Kwarta Magdalena Cybula Anna Wiktorowska-Owczarek Edward Kowalczyk Tadeusz Pietras Janusz Szemraj In recent years, bacterial probiotic dietary supplementation...
Tue May 19, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1473: Promising Effect of a New Ketogenic Diet Regimen in Patients with Advanced Cancer Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051473 Authors: Hagihara Kajimoto Osaga Nagai Shimosegawa Nakata Saito Nakano Takeuchi Kanki Kagitani-Shimono Kijima A ketogenic diet is expected to be an effective support therapy for patients with cancer, but the degree and duration of carbohydrate restriction are unclear. We performed a case series...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1465: Best Evidence to Best Practice: Implementing an Innovative Model of Nutrition Care for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer Improves Outcomes Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051465 Authors: Merran Findlay Nicole M. Rankin Tim Shaw Kathryn White Michael Boyer Christopher Milross Richard De Abreu Lourenço Chris Brown Gemma Collett Philip Beale Judith D. Bauer Malnutrition is prevalent in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC), impacting...
Tue May 19, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1466: COVID-19: The Inflammation Link and the Role of Nutrition in Potential Mitigation Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051466 Authors: Ioannis Zabetakis Ronan Lordan Catherine Norton Alexandros Tsoupras The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has engulfed the world, affecting more than 180 countries. As a result, there has been considerable economic distress globally and a...
Tue May 19, 2020 03:00
Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1462: Maternal Diet Influences the Reinstatement of Cocaine-Seeking Behavior and the Expression of Melanocortin-4 Receptors in Female Offspring of Rats Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051462 Authors: Dawid Gawliński Kinga Gawlińska Małgorzata Frankowska Małgorzata Filip Recent studies have emphasized the role of the maternal diet in the development of mental disorders in offspring. Substance use disorder is a major global health and economic burden. Therefore,...
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