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It is difficult to achieve deep dehalogenation or mineralization for halogenated antibiotics using traditional reduction or oxidation processes, posing the risk of microbial activity inhibition and bacterial resistance. Herein, an efficient electrocatalytic process coupling atomic hydrogen (H*) reduction with hydroxyl ...
An artificial T-cell immunogen consisting of conserved fragments of different proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its immunogenic properties were studied in BALB/c mice. To create a T-cell immunogen, we used an approach based on the design of artificial antigens that combine many epitopes from the main proteins of the...
In the cerebellum, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex of mature male Wistar rats with trained spatial navigational skill in the Morris water maze, the transcriptional activity the NAPA gene that regulates the transport and secretion of synaptic vesicles, release of neurotransmitters, and protein degradation was determi...
A comprehensive morphofunctional study of the lungs and alveolar macrophages was carried out in Sprague-Dawley rats with acute respiratory distress syndrome (n=10) induced by intratracheal administration of E. coli LPS 0111:B4 in a dose of 15 mg/kg. On the first day after LPS administration, bronchopneumonia was observ...
We studied the influence of epiphysectomy and administration of melatonin to epiphysectomized outbred white rats on the level and daily dynamics of damage to the genetic material of developing male germ cells. Epiphysectomy leads to an increase in the level of damage in the DNA structure and the disappearance of the ci...
Aleuroglyphus ovatus (Acari: Acaridae) is a major pest mite of stored grains that is distributed worldwide. Paeonol, a phenolic component of the essential oil extracted from the Chinese herb Paeonia moutan, possesses a range of biological activities, including antiviral, antifungal and acaricidal activity. This study i...
Whole-genome duplication (WGD) followed by speciation allows us to examine the parallel evolution of ohnolog pairs. In the yeast family Saccharomycetaceae, HRR25 is a rare case of repeated ohnolog maintenance. This gene has reverted to a single copy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae where it is now essential, but has been ma...
Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) or progeria is a rare genetic disease that causes premature aging, leading to a drastic reduction in the life expectancy of patients. Progeria is mainly caused by the intracellular accumulation of a defective protein called progerin, generated from a mutation in the LMNA gene...
UPLC-TOF-MS/MDF directed phytochemical research of Chloranthus japonicus led to the isolation of 46 lindenane sesquiterpenoid dimers, which included 13 new analogs. Their structures with absolute configurations were elucidated by analysis of spectroscopic data. Fourteen compounds with ester chains significantly decreas...
Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 is an important multifunctional cytokine in the TGF-β signaling pathway, which is involved in the molecular regulation of multiple activities, including follicle development and ovulation in female reproductive physiology. However, the biological function of TGF-β1 in follicular deve...
UBE2T is an E2 ubiquitin ligase critical for ubiquitination of substrate and plays important roles in many diseases. Despite the important function, UBE2T is considered as an undruggable target due to lack of a pocket for binding to small molecules with satisfied properties for clinical applications. To develop potent ...
Cadmium (Cd) stress in crops has been serious concern while little is known about the copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) effects on Cd accumulation by crops. This study investigated the effectiveness of CuO NPs in mitigating Cd contamination in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivation through a pot experiment, presen...
Ivermectin (IVM) is a dewormer commonly utilized in animal farming. Nevertheless, there is a deficiency of research on the bioecotoxicity of IVM in soil. In this study, earthworms were utilized as test animals to investigate the ecotoxicological impacts of IVM. The experiment lasted 28 days and involved adding varied d...
Poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT) is among the most widely applied synthetic polyesters that are utilized in the packaging and agricultural industries, but the accumulation of PBAT wastes has posed a great burden to ecosystems. Using renewable enzymes to decompose PBAT is an eco-friendly solution to tackle...
Poplar, as a typical woody plant, is an ideal raw material for the production of lignocellulose biofuel. However, the longer life cycle is not conducive to the rapid identification of poplar genes. At present, protoplasts have been used for gene function identification and high-throughput analysis in many model plants....
Heme oxygenase 1 (Hmox1), the inducible form of heme degrading enzymes Hmoxs, is important for establishment and maintenance of pregnancy. A growing body of evidence suggests an association between Hmox1 and angiogenesis, including placental angiogenesis. In this study, we examined the expression of two angiogenic fact...
LN005, as a peptide-drug conjugate (PDC), is a conjugate of the homing peptide VAP and doxorubicin (DOX). The exceptional targeting ability of the homing peptide VAP is directed toward glucose-regulated protein (GRP78), a highly expressed protein primarily found in the endoplasmic reticulum of various solid tumors. How...
A simple and sensitive homogeneous protein detection system is required for the early detection of biomarkers. Thermo-responsive magnetic particles (TM) have already been developed to achieve easy bound/free separation at the homogeneous protein detection system, but they are still limited owing to the requirement of s...
Drought stress is a common abiotic factor and restricts plant growth and development. Exploring maize stress-related genes and their regulatory mechanisms is crucial for ensuring agricultural productivity and food security. The BRI1-EMS1 suppressor (BES1)/brassinazole-resistant 1 (BZR1) transcription factors (TFs) play...
Mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) monitors cellular amino acid changes for function, but the molecular mediators of this process remain to be fully defined. Here, we report that depletion of cellular amino acids, either alone or in combination, leads to the ubiquitination of mTOR, which inhibits mTORC1 k...
Antibody-mediated targeting is an efficient strategy to enhance the specificity and selectivity of polymer nanomedicines towards the target site, typically a tumor. However, direct covalent coupling of an antibody with a polymer usually results in a partial damage of the antibody binding site accompanied with a comprom...
Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer, making it important to investigate new mechanisms and approaches to enhance the effectiveness of treatment. Here, we establish a positive correlation between the human rhomboid family-1 (RHBDF1) protein and melanoma malignancy. We demonstrate that the melanoma RHBDF1 decreas...
The microecological effects of plateau uranium mining are still unknown. In this study, we used 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing to analyze the impact of plateau uranium mining on the microbial diversity and community structure of tailings soil, tunnel soil, and soil at different depths in an open pit. The results s...
In recent years, photocatalytic technology has been increasingly used for the treatment of algal blooms in water bodies due to its high efficiency and environmental advantages. However, conventional semiconductor materials suffer from high electron-hole recombination rate, low carrier mobility and weak surface adsorpti...
In this study, we demonstrate the preparation of laser-cum KOH-activated porous carbon with tunable ionic states, unique surface chemistry, and physical texture from renewable and environmentally friendly precursors (waste cardboard boxes). The adsorption performance of the engineered adsorbents is examined on the adso...
Broadcast spawners, like the blue mussel Mytilus edulis, experience substantial energy expenditure during spawning due to extensive gamete release that can divert energy from other functions. This energetic cost might be intensified by environmental stressors, including hypoxia that suppress aerobic metabolism. However...
Nutrient deficiency is the primary obstacle in tailing ecological restoration besides high heavy metal content. Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are known for their C and N fixation capabilities and play a crucial role in soil P cycle. BSCs are widespread in tailings and provide a potential ecological restoration approach...
Glutamine synthetase (GS) is an enzyme that converts ammonia and glutamate to glutamine using adenosine triphosphate. GS is expressed in the brain, kidney, and liver tissues under normal physiological conditions. GS is involved in abnormal lipid metabolism of the liver by catalyzing de novo synthesis of glutamine, ther...
The biological signaling properties of lectins, which are carbohydrate-binding proteins, are due to their ability to bind and cross-link multivalent glycoprotein receptors on the surface of normal and transformed cells. While the cross-linking properties of lectins with multivalent carbohydrates and glycoproteins are r...
Ethylene thiourea (ETU) converted from ethylene bisdithiocarbamate (EBDC) fungicides has aroused great concern because of its prevalence and harmful effects. Although ETU-induced neurotoxicity has been reported, the potential mechanisms remain unclear. This study provided insights into its neurotoxic effects at environ...
The monoaminotrinitro iron phthalocyanine (FeMATNPc) is used to connect with isonicotinic acid (INA) for amide bonding and axial coordination to synthetic a unique catalyst FeMATNPc-INA, which is loaded in polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers by electrospinning. The introduction of INA destroys the π-π conjugat...
The synthesis process of conventional Mn-based denitrification catalysts is relatively complex and expensive. In this paper, a resource application of chlorella was proposed, and a Chlorella@Mn composite denitrification catalyst was innovatively synthesized by electrostatic interaction. The Chlorella@Mn composite denit...
Pesticides and its degradation products, being well-known residues in soil, have recently been detected in many water bodies as pollutants of emerging concerns, and thus there is a contemporary demand to develop viable and cost-effective techniques for the removal of related organic pollutants in aqueous phases. Herein...
The multiple metal catalyst as a promising nanomaterial has shown excellent activity in the peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation for pollutant degradation. However, the role of special sites and in-depth understanding of the PMS activation mechanism are not fully studied. In this study, a Cu-doped CoFe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4...
Industrial-use VOx-based catalysts usually have a higher active temperature window (&gt; 250-300&#176;C), which becomes a "bottleneck" for the practical application of PCDD/Fs catalytic degradation technology. In this work, VOx-FeOx/TiO<sub>2</sub> catalyst prepared via mechanochemically method was investigated for the...
Kenaf is considered to have great potential for remediation of heavy metals in ecosystems. However, studies on molecular mechanisms of root Cd accumulation and tolerance are still inadequate. In this study, two differently tolerant kenaf cultivars were selected as materials and the physiological and transcriptomic effe...
As an ultrasmall derivative of black phosphorus (BP) sheets, BP quantum dots (BP-QDs) have been effectively used in many fields. Currently, information on the cardiotoxicity induced by BP-QDs remains limited. We aimed to evaluate BP-QD-induced cardiac toxicity in mice. Histopathological examination of heart tissue sect...
Nanoplastics-induced developmental and reproductive toxicity, neurotoxicity and immunotoxicity are a focus of widespread attention. However, the effects of nanoplastics (NPs) on glycolipid metabolism and the precise underlying mechanisms are unclear at present. Here, we showed that oral administration of polystyrene na...
The design of efficient heterogeneous catalysts in bicarbonate-activated hydrogen peroxide systems (BAP) is a hot topic in wastewater treatment. In this work, Cu<sub>2</sub>O nanoparticles with different morphologies including cubic shape (c-Cu<sub>2</sub>O), octahedron shape (o-Cu<sub>2</sub>O) and spherical shape (s-...
Light-induced electron transfer can broaden the substrate range of metalloenzyme. However, the efficiency of photo-enzyme coupling is limited by the poor combination of photosensitizer or photocatalyst with enzyme. Herein, we prepared the nano-photocatalyst MIL-125-NH<sub>2</sub>@Ru(bpy) by in site embedding ruthenium ...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) with thermal hydrolysis (TH) pretreatment is a promising process for excess sludge treatment, while there lacks of the knowledge from full-scale process about the impact of sludge composition and characteristics on microbial community and performance. The sludge physiochemical indices, microbia...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can cause significant disability to patients via relapse-associated worsening and progression independent of relapses. The causes of neuronal and myelin damage can include lymphocyte-mediated inflammation and microglial activation. Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is an enzyme that mediates B cell...
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the digestive system, and its high incidence and metastasis rate make it a terrible killer that threatens human health. In-depth exploration of the targets affecting the progression of colorectal cancer cells and the development of specific targeted drugs ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae having almost 98 serotypes and being common cause of acute otitis media, pneumonia, bacteremia, meningitis etc., which results in high mortality and morbidity globally. Although vaccines like PCV-13 and PPV-23 are available, some problems like serotype replacement and poor immunogenicity in chi...
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts without coding potential that are pervasively expressed from the genome and have been increasingly reported to play crucial roles in all aspects of cell biology. They have been also heavily implicated in cancer development and progression, with both oncogenic and tumor sup...
Baculovirus Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) has been widely used as a bioinsecticide and a protein expression vector. Despite their importance, very little is known about the structure of most baculovirus proteins. Here, we show a 3.2 Å resolution structure of helical cylindrical body of t...
Glioblastoma (GBM) ranks among the most lethal of human cancers, containing glioma stem cells (GSCs) that display therapeutic resistance. Here, we report that the lncRNA INHEG is highly expressed in GSCs compared to differentiated glioma cells (DGCs) and promotes GSC self-renewal and tumorigenicity through control of r...
Asymmetric distribution of phospholipids in eukaryotic membranes is essential for cell integrity, signaling pathways, and vesicular trafficking. P4-ATPases, also known as flippases, participate in creating and maintaining this asymmetry through active transport of phospholipids from the exoplasmic to the cytosolic leaf...
The elimination of synapses during circuit remodeling is critical for brain maturation; however, the molecular mechanisms directing synapse elimination and its timing remain elusive. We show that the transcriptional regulator DVE-1, which shares homology with special AT-rich sequence-binding (SATB) family members previ...
Bacteria develop a variety of extracellular fibrous structures crucial for their survival, such as flagella and pili. In this study, we use cryo-EM to identify protein fibrils surrounding lab-cultured Bacillus amyloiquefaciens and discover an unreported fibril species in addition to the flagellar fibrils. These previou...
The formation of biofilms is closely associated with persistent and chronic infections, and physiological heterogeneity such as pH and oxygen gradients renders biofilms highly resistant to conventional antibiotics. To date, effectively treating biofilm infections remains a significant challenge. Herein, we report the f...
The pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis is driven by dysregulated metabolism precipitated by chronic inflammation. Rho-associated coiled-coil-containing protein kinases (ROCKs) have been implicated in these processes, however the ability of selective ROCK2 inhibition to target simultaneously profibrotic, pro-inflammatory ...
Out-of-hospital reduction of shoulder dislocations using the Campell method is recommended by the International Commission for Alpine Rescue and applied in the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service (Bergwacht Bayern, BWB) protocols. This prospective observational study includes patients out-of-hospital with suspected should...
Abiotic stress of plants has serious consequences on the development of the apple industry. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) control nucleoplasmic transport and play an important role in the regulation of plant abiotic stress response. However, the effects of NPCs on apple salt and osmotic stress responses have not been r...
TAZ::CAMTA1 is a fusion protein found in over 90% of Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma (EHE), a rare vascular sarcoma with an unpredictable disease course. To date, how TAZ::CAMTA1 initiates tumour formation remains unexplained. To study the oncogenic mechanism leading to EHE initiation, we developed a model system wher...
Cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) is a second messenger that transduces extracellular stimuli into cellular responses and regulates various biological processes in bacteria. H-NS is a global regulatory protein that represses expression of many genes, but how H-NS activity is modulated by environmental signals remains largely un...
Pathogenic variants in BRCA2 are known to significantly increase the lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers. Sequencing-based genetic testing has resulted in the identification of thousands of BRCA2 variants that are considered to be variants of uncertain significance (VUS) because the disease risk asso...
Cognitive impairment (CI) is very common in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and progressively develops on a spectrum from mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) to full dementia (PDD). Identification of PD patients at risk of developing cognitive decline, therefore, is unmet need in the clinic to manage the disease....
The presynaptic release apparatus can be specialized to enable specific synaptic functions. Habituation is the diminishing of a physiological response to a frequently repeated stimulus and in Aplysia, habituation to touch is mediated by a decrease in transmitter release from the sensory neurons that respond to touch ev...
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the most common chronic diseases and the main risk factors for T2D consist of a combination of lifestyle, unhealthy diet, and genetic factors. Amino acids are considered to be a major component of dietary sources for many of the associations between dietary protein and chronic disease. T...
Multi-epitope polypeptide vaccines, a fusion protein, often have a string-of-beads system composed of various specific peptide epitopes, potential adjuvants, and linkers. When choosing the sequence of various segments and linkers, many alternatives are available. These variables can influence the vaccine's effectivenes...
The immunogenicity and effectiveness of oral rotavirus vaccines (ORVs) against severe rotavirus-associated gastroenteritis are impaired in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the burden of disease is highest. Determining risk factors for impaired ORV response may help identify strategies to enhance vaccine e...
Elastin-driven genetic diseases are a group of complex diseases driven by elastin protein insufficiency and dominant-negative production of aberrant protein, including supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS) and autosomal dominant cutis laxa. Here, a Chinese boy with a novel nonsense mutation in the ELN gene is reported.
Glycolytic metabolic reprogramming is a phenomenon in which cells undergo altered metabolic patterns during malignant transformation, mainly involving various aspects of glycolysis, electron transport chain, oxidative phosphorylation, and pentose phosphate pathway. This reprogramming phenomenon can be used as one of th...
The Interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeat (IFIT) family, IFIT1/2/3/5, play an important role in different tumors progression. However, the prognosis significance and biological role of IFIT family members in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains unclear.
Human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) are a major source of osteoblast precursor cells and are directly involved in osteoporosis (OP) progression. Bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) is an important regulator for osteogenic differentiation. Therefore, its role and mechanism in osteogenic differentiation...
UFMylation is a ubiquitination-like modification that is related to endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein response. A recent study reported that Ufl1, a key enzyme of UFMylation, protects against heart failure, indicating that UFMylation may be associated with heart function regulation. In the present study...
The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 addresses life below the waters, an important source of protein and contributor to global food security and economic development. Our aim was to explore possible evidence on the links between life below water and early childhood caries (ECC).
Protein kinases are responsible for protein phosphorylation and are involved in important intracellular signal transduction pathways in various cells, including neurons; however, a considerable number of poorly characterized kinases may be involved in neuronal development. Here, we considered mitogen-activated protein ...
The lack of functional dystrophin protein in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes chronic skeletal muscle inflammation and degeneration. Therefore, the restoration of functional dystrophin levels is a fundamental approach for DMD therapy. Electrical impedance myography (EIM) is an emerging tool that provides noninv...
Objective To investigate the potential mechanism of Cheng's Juanbi Decoction (JBT) for treating collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in rats. Methods Female SD rats were divided into normal group, CIA model group, methotrexate (MTX) group, JBT group with different doses, and LY294002 (PI3K blocker) group. The effects of JB...
Objective To investigate the therapeutic effects of eriodictyol on transgenic mice with five familial Alzheimer's disease (5×FAD) and the modulation of NOD-like receptor-pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome in microglia. Methods The 8-month-old 5×FAD mice were randomly divided into AD model group and eriodict...
Objective To investigate the effect of dexamethasone (DEX) combined with glutamine (Gln) on lung inflammation and pulmonary edema in rats with acute lung injury induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and its related mechanisms. Methods Fifty Wistar rats were randomly divided into control group, model group, dexamethasone ...
Objective To investigate the effect of adipocytokine Apelin-13 (AP13) on mitochondrial autophagy in myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury (MIRI) and its mechanism. Methods MIRI model was established by ligating the coronary artery branches of rats. The rats are divided into sham group, AP13-treated sham group, MIRI gr...
Objective To observe the effect of Mongolian medicine Zhenbao Pill (Eridon Uril, EU) on inflammation and apoptosis of HT22 mouse hippocampal neurons cells under oxygen glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/R), and to explore its potential mechanism. Methods Three-gas incubator and sugar-free anaerobic medium were used...
Objective Machine learning was used to screen the key characteristic genes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and analyze their correlation with immune cells. Methods Download the NPC training datasets (GSE12452 and GSE13597) and the validation dataset (GSE53819) from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). Firstly, the trai...
Objective To generate the phage display nanobody library immunized by lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3) and to validate the functional activity of obtained anti-LAG-3 nanobodies. Methods The peripheral blood cDNA library was isolated from the adult llama which was immunized by human LAG-3 protein. The nanobodies seq...
Macrophages are a class of innate immune cells with strong plasticity. They can polarize into different phenotypes, serving with various functions, such as phagocytosis and chemotaxis, which is involved in the development of diseases. RNA-binding protein quaking (QKI) regulates monocyte differentiation, macrophage pola...
Misfolded endoplasmic reticulum (ER) proteins are degraded through a process called ER-associated degradation (ERAD). Soluble, lumenal ERAD targets are recognized, retrotranslocated across the ER membrane, ubiquitinated, extracted from the membrane, and degraded by the proteasome using an ERAD pathway containing a ubiq...
Hotspot mutations occurring in the p110α domain of the PIK3CA gene, specifically p110αH1047R/L increase tumor metastasis and cell motility in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). These mutations also affect the transcriptional regulation of ΔNp63α, a significant isoform of the p53 protein involved in cancer progressio...
Niemann-Pick disease is a rare, autosomal recessive inherited lysosomal storage disorder. The pathophysiological background for this condition is the deficiency or reduced function of the enzyme sphingomyelinase, as well as a deficiency in the intracellular cholesterol transporter protein. Due to the breakdown defect, ...
This review addresses the involvement of DNA supercoiling in the development of virulence and antibiotic profiles for uropathogenic Escherichia coli and the emergence of new pathotypes such as strain ST131 (serotype O25:H4). The mechanism suggests a role for topoisomerase enzymes and associated mutations in altering th...
Currently, interventions from the preclinical stage are considered necessary for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Previous studies have reported that vacuolar protein-sorting protein (VPS), a retromer construct, is involved in the pathogenic mechanisms of AD and Parkinson's disease. This study evaluated VPS26...
In this study, the persistent effects of embryonic exposure to fenbuconazole (FBZ), a triazole fungicide, on neurobehaviour in zebrafish were investigated. After exposure of fertilized eggs to FBZ for 72&#160;h (h), the larvae were cultured to adulthood in clean water. In adult zebrafish embryonically exposed to 50 and...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) becomes a challenging issue that limits the therapeutic options for both veterinary and public health professionals. The current study aimed to investigate the on-farm epidemiology, antibiotics resisting profiling, virulence analysis, and molecular detection of methicillin-resistant Staph...
Although microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) have become a global concern because of their possible hazards to marine organisms, few studies have investigated the effects of MPs/NPs on the nutritional quality of marine economic species, and the toxicity mechanisms remain unclear. We therefore investigated the ef...
Aldose reductase (AR) is an important enzyme involved in the reduction of various aldehyde and carbonyl compounds, including the highly reactive and toxic 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE), which has been linked to the progression of various pathologies such as atherosclerosis, hyperglycemia, inflammation, and tumors. AR inhibi...
Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) is a highly conserved protein serine/threonine kinase that plays a central role in a wide variety of cellular processes to coordinate catabolic and anabolic pathways and regulate cell growth and fate. There is increasing evidence showing that abnormal glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3...
This work aims to analyze the protein profile and volatile compounds of coffees fermented with the indigenous microbiota and with the co-inoculation of three yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Torulaspora delbrueckii, and Candida parapsilosis). Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE), MALDI-ToF/ToF (MS/MS), and ga...
In general, dietary habits of pastoralists are livestock-derived, but are also influenced by external food sources under globalization. We hypothesized that dietary habits of pastoralists would be influenced by their remoteness, and that changes from the traditional diet would result in deviations in the local ecologic...
This study aimed to evaluate the contribution and mechanisms of Lactobacillus plantarum and Zygosaccharomyces mellis inoculation to the enhancement of protein-derived volatile flavor compounds (PVFCs) in low-salt dry-cured mackerel (LDCM). The contents of PVFCs (3-methylbutanal and phenylacetaldehyde), intermediates (α...
Extrusion-based 3D food printing can be used as an alternative structuring technique to traditional extrusion processing for creating meat-like structures. This study focused on 3-D food printing to generate structures analogous to meat by using various combinations of texturized pea protein fibrils, microbial Single C...
Despite the relatively high occurrence of bovine meat with intermediate to high ultimate pH (pHu), there is a lack of studies focused on the effects of long-term conventional air-blasting freezing storage on quality parameters of commercial beefs of Zebu Nellore (Bos indicus) with varying pHu ranges. The objective of t...
The production of egg yolk powder often involves critical processes such as pasteurization and spray drying, however, these thermal processes will inevitably affect the functional properties of egg yolk (especially gelation and emulsification). The aim of this study was to elucidate the mechanism of the effect of paste...
As outbreaks of foodborne illness caused by the opportunistic pathogen Cronobacter sakazakii (Cs) continue to occur, particularly in infants consuming powdered infant formula (PIF), the need for sensitive, rapid, and easy-to-use detection of Cs from food and food processing environments is increasing. Here, we develope...
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of long-term exposure to blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on the accumulation of indolic glucosinolates and carotenoids, as well as the plant growth and antioxidant activities in both orange and common Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis). Blue light tr...
The epidermis, the keratinized stratified squamous epithelium surrounding the body surface, offers a valuable framework to investigate how terrestrial animals overcome environmental stresses. However, the mechanisms underlying epidermal barrier function remain nebulous. In this study, we examined genes highly expressed...
The efficacy of approved vaccines has been diminishing due to the increasing advent of SARS-CoV-2 variants with diverse mutations that favor sneak entry. Nonetheless, these variants recognize the conservative host receptors angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and neuropilin-1 (NRP1) for entry, rendering the dual blo...
Sex differences in cognitive function exist, but they are not stable and undergo dynamic change during the lifespan. However, our understanding of how sex-related neural information transmission evolves with age is still in its infancy. This study utilized the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and the label-free prote...
Post-acute COVID-19 (PACS) are associated with cardiovascular dysfunction, especially postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Patients with PACS, both in the absence or presence of POTS, exhibit a wide range of persisting symptoms long after the acute infection. Some of these symptoms may stem from alteration...