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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yinan Zeng, Min Zhang, Lei Ding, Shilei Xie, Peng Liu, Dong Xie, Shoushan Wang, Faliang Cheng
Widely used organophosphorus pesticide triazophos (TAP) can easily cumulate in aquatic system due to its high stability chemically and photochemically and thus posing significant threat to aquatic creatures and humans' health. Urging demand for rapid determining TAP in water has risen. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensing turns out to be a good candidate for its simplicity in fabrication and swiftness in detection. Nevertheless, traditional PEC sensors often lack selectivity as their signal generation primarily relies on the oxidation of organic compounds in the electrolyte by photo-induced holes...
April 22, 2024: Mikrochimica Acta
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jingyi Han, Xue Zhang, Menghua Cai, Feng Tian, Yi Xu, Hui Chen, Wei He, Jianmin Zhang, Hui Tian
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common cause of respiratory failure in many critically disease patients. Although inflammasome activation plays an important role in the induction of acute lung injury (ALI) and ARDS, the regulatory mechanism of this process is still unclear. When cells are stimulated by inflammation, the integrity and physiological function of mitochondria play a crucial part in pyroptosis. However, the underlying mechanisms and function of mitochondrial proteins in the process of pyroptosis are largely not yet known...
April 19, 2024: Chinese Medical Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zhi Yang, Long Zhang, Wenqing Zhang, Xinhua Tian, Wenyuan Lai, Dawei Lin, Yuxin Feng, Wenwen Jiang, Zhengrui Zhang, Zhifeng Zhang
BACKGROUND: Larval settlement and metamorphosis represent critical events in the life history of marine benthic animals. Myoinhibitory peptide (MIP) plays a pivotal role in larval settlement of marine invertebrates. However, the molecular mechanisms of MIP involved in this process are not well understood. RESULTS: In this study, we evaluated the effects of thirteen MIP mature peptides on triggering the larval settlement of Urechis unicinctus (Xenopneusta, Urechidae), and determined that MIP2 was the principal neuropeptide...
April 3, 2024: BMC Genomics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yumin Yang, Daojin Li, Bingqian Liu
Shikimic acid (SA) is one of the most effective drugs against the A (H1N1) virus and has high medicinal value. Additionally, it has the ability to generate non-toxic herbicides and antimicrobial medications. The extraction from plants has proven to be the main route of production of SA with economic benefits and environmental efficiency. Therefore, it is necessary to perform purification of SA from these herbal medicines before quantifying it. In this study, researchers employed a boronate affinity-based controlled oriented surface imprinting technique to produce molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) as highly effective solid phase extraction (SPE) adsorbents for the isolation and purification of SA...
April 19, 2024: Analytical Methods: Advancing Methods and Applications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hita Rangarajan, Irfan Ismail Ayub, Sridevi Padmanabhan
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate maximal inspiratory (MIP) and expiratory (MEP) pressures, which are reflective of respiratory muscle strength, in skeletal Class II patients with different growth patterns (horizontal, average, and vertical) and to correlate those with airway dimension. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with a Class II skeletal base seeking orthodontic treatment were assigned to the following groups: average, horizontal, and vertical growth pattern. The control group (n = 14) comprised patients with a Class I skeletal base and average growth pattern...
May 1, 2024: Angle Orthodontist
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Silvana V Paula-Moraes, Eduardo S Calixto, Abraão A Santos, Francis P F Reay-Jones, Dominic D Reisig, Yasmine Farhan, Jocelyn L Smith, William D Hutchison
Insect migrations have ecological and economic impacts, particularly in agriculture. However, there is limited knowledge about the migratory movements of pests at the continental scale, which is an important factor influencing the spread of resistance genes. Understanding the migratory patterns of economic pests, like Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), is essential for improving Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Insect Resistance Management (IRM) strategies. In this study, we used stable hydrogen isotopic ratios in wing tissue as a biogeochemical marker to examine migratory patterns and estimate the native origins of H...
April 18, 2024: Environmental Entomology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rong Yong, Ruoyu Mu, Congwei Han, Tzuwei Chao, Yu Liu, Lei Dong, Chunming Wang
The treatment of non-healing wounds, such as diabetic ulcers, remains a critical clinical challenge. Recent breakthroughs in cell therapy have shown great promise, with one primary focus on preparing cells with comprehensive reparative functions and foreseeable safety. In our previous study, we recapitulated the pro-regenerative and immunosuppressive functions of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in non-tumor-derived macrophages, endowing the latter with characteristics for promoting diabetic wound healing - termed TAMs-educated macrophages (TAMEMs)...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Leukocyte Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Qian Wu, Li Tian, Xiangyu Shan, Huiling Li, Shuning Yang, Chao Li, Yujia Song, Ruidan Li, Yanjia Guo, Juan Lu
A molecularly-imprinted electrochemiluminescence sensor was constructed for the determination of fenpropathrin (FPT) by molecular imprinting technology. In this sensing platform, the introduction of CdS@MWCNTs significantly enhanced the initial ECL signal of the luminol-O2 system. Specifically, MWCNTs was used as a carrier to adsorb more CdS, in which CdS acted as a co-reaction promoter for luminescence. Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) containing specific recognition sites of FPT was used as the material for selective recognition...
April 17, 2024: Mikrochimica Acta
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ahmet Cetinkaya, M Altay Unal, Hasan Nazır, M Emin Çorman, Lokman Uzun, Sibel A Ozkan
A comparative analysis of molecularly imprinted polymers based on different synthesis techniques was performed for the recognition of molnupiravir (MOL). The polymerizations were performed with 3-thienyl boronic acid (3-TBA) as a functional monomer by electropolymerization (EP) and with guanine methacrylate (GuaM) as a functional monomer by photopolymerization (PP). Morphological and electrochemical characterizations of the developed sensors were investigated to verify the constructed sensors. Moreover, quantum chemical calculations were used to evaluate changes on the electrode surface at the molecular and electronic levels...
April 17, 2024: Mikrochimica Acta
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gang Li, Yahan Cui, Xiaonan Yang, Xuelian Xin, Hongyuan Yan, Dandan Han
It is extremely significant while challenging to accurately detect low-levels of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acid compounds (PFCAs) in environmental water. Herein, adopting perfluorotetradecanoic acid as the dummy template, selective molecularly imprinted composites (CNTs@ILs@MIPs) grafted carbon nanotubes integrating hydrophilic ionic liquids were successfully prepared via surface imprinting and dummy-template imprinting techniques. The obtained CNTs@ILs@MIPs were applied as selective extraction adsorbent for specifically extract PFCAs in environmental water coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry quantification...
April 4, 2024: Talanta
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sara Hayatimehr, Shiva Mirkalantari, Nour Amirmozafari, Faramarz Masjedian Jazi, Majid Taati Moghadam
Legionella pneumophila can be transmitted to people, especially immunocompromised patients, via hospital water pipe systems and cause severe pneumonia. The aim of our study was to investigate the presence of major virulence factor genes, ability of biofilms formation, and correlation between presence of Legionella isolates and temperature, pH, and residual chlorine of water. Hundred water samples were collected from nine hospitals in Tehran, Iran. Temperature, pH, and residual chlorine were determined during sampling...
April 16, 2024: Current Microbiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anthony D Jimenez, Margaret Gopaul, Hannah Asbell, Seyhmus Aydemir, Maysaa M Basha, Ayush Batra, Charlotte Damien, Gregory S Day, Onome Eka, Krista Eschbach, Safoora Fatima, Madeline C Fields, Brandon Foreman, Elizabeth E Gerard, Teneille E Gofton, Hiba A Haider, Stephen T Hantus, Sara Hocker, Amy Jongeling, Mariel Kalkach Aparicio, Padmaja Kandula, Peter Kang, Karnig Kazazian, Marissa A Kellogg, Minjee Kim, Jong Woo Lee, Lara V Marcuse, Christopher M McGraw, Wazim Mohamed, Janet Orozco, Cederic Pimentel, Vineet Punia, Alexandra M Ramirez, Claude Steriade, Aaron F Struck, Olga Taraschenko, Andrew K Treister, Ji Yeoun Yoo, Sahar Zafar, Daniel J Zhou, Deepti Zutshi, Nicolas Gaspard, Lawrence J Hirsch, Aurelie Hanin
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is a subset of new onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) that involves a febrile infection prior to the onset of the refractory status epilepticus. It is unclear whether FIRES and non-FIRES NORSE are distinct conditions. Here, we compare 34 patients with FIRES to 30 patients with non-FIRES NORSE for demographics, clinical features, neuroimaging, and outcomes. Because patients with FIRES were younger than patients with non-FIRES NORSE (median = 28 vs...
April 16, 2024: Epilepsia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Clênia Oliveira Araújo, Carla Cristina Araújo Alves, Francisco R A Santos, Lawrence P Cahalin, Graziella França Bernardelli Cipriano, Gerson Cipriano
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the effects of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) on exercise capacity, respiratory muscle strength, length of hospital stay (LOS), and quality of life (QOL) following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. METHODS: The search was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) and the Cochrane Handbook and included the databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Scopus, and CENTRAL...
April 16, 2024: Physical Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Takuya Kubo, Mayuko Yagishita, Tetsuya Tanigawa, Sayaka Konishi-Yamada, Daisuke Nakajima
Molecular imprinting technology has been widely studied as a technique to obtain molecular recognition by artificial means. Selecting functional monomers or polymerization conditions plays a key role to optimize molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) synthesis. To date, there have been few reports well exploiting the effect of crosslinkers. Here, in this study, we synthesized the MIPs using poly(ethyleneglycol) dimethacrylate with different units of ethylene oxide ( n = 1 to 23) as crosslinkers to observe the molecular recognition abilities...
April 10, 2024: RSC Advances
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cecilia Yip, Steven C Wyler, Katrina Liang, Shin Yamazaki, Tyler Cobb, Maryam Safdar, Aarav Metai, Warda Merchant, Robert Wessells, Adrian Rothenfluh, Syann Lee, Joel Elmquist, Young-Jai You
Metamorphosis is a transition from growth to reproduction, through which an animal adopts adult behavior and metabolism. Yet the neural mechanisms underlying the switch is unclear. Here we report that neuronal E93, a transcription factor essential for metamorphosis, regulates the adult metabolism, physiology, and behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Identified from a screen designed to find new neuronal regulators of metabolism, E93 is required to control appetite, metabolism, exercise endurance, and circadian rhythms...
April 13, 2024: Molecular Metabolism
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sungwoo Park, Mi Ae Kim, Young Chang Sohn
Myoinhibitory peptides (MIPs) affect various physiological functions, including juvenile hormone signaling, muscle contraction, larval development, and reproduction in invertebrates. Although MIPs are ligands for MIP and/or sex peptide receptors (MIP/SPRs) in diverse arthropods and model organisms belonging to Lophotrochozoa, the MIP signaling system has not yet been fully investigated in mollusks. In this study, we identified the MIP signaling system in the Pacific abalone Haliotis discus hannai (Hdh). Similar to the invertebrate MIPs, a total of eight paracopies of MIPs (named Hdh-MIP1 to Hdh-MIP8), harboring a WX5-7 Wamide motif, except for Hdh-MIP2, were found in the Hdh-MIP precursor...
April 13, 2024: General and Comparative Endocrinology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nadia Bihari Padhan, Kolluru Venkata Kiran, Rahul Pandit
We uncover a new type of turbulence - activity-induced homogeneous and isotropic turbulence - in a model that has been employed to investigate motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) in a system of microswimmers. The active Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations, also called active model H, provide a natural theoretical framework for our study. In this CHNS model, a single scalar order parameter ϕ , positive (negative) in regions of high (low) microswimmer density, is coupled with the velocity field u ...
April 15, 2024: Soft Matter
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ryan C Gettler, Shima Mehregan, Henry D Koenig, Andie M Kaess, Matthias J Young
Low-cost and portable nitrate and phosphate sensors are needed to improve farming efficiency and reduce environmental and economic impact arising from the release of these nutrients into waterways. Ion selective electrodes (ISEs) could provide a convenient platform for detecting nitrate and phosphate, but existing ionophore-based nitrate and phosphate selective membrane layers used in ISEs are high cost, and ISEs using these membrane layers suffer from long equilibration time, reference potential drift, and poor selectivity...
April 9, 2024: ACS Omega
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Iliya LariMojarad, MirBehrad Mousavi, Mohammad Mahdi Moeini Manesh, Mohammadjavad Bouloorchi Tabalvandani, Majid Badieirostami
In this study, an electric-field-assisted molecularly imprinted polymer (EFAMIP) as an enhanced form of MIP was developed to improve the MIP-modified quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) biosensors. While exerting a vertical electric field, polymerization of methacrylic acid in the presence of immunoglobulin G (IgG) as the template was initiated, and later, after the template removal process, the EFAMIPs were obtained. The polymer surface characterization was conducted by using a scanning electron microscope. The impact of electric field direction on IgG binding sites, forming either EFAMIP-Fab or EFAMIP-Fc , was assessed...
April 9, 2024: ACS Omega
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rajendran Ramaswamy, Samir Morsi Hegab, Hany Fawsy, Saif Saeed Ghalib, Mohamed Shawky, Ghazi Mukattash
AIMS: The aim of the study was to perform a detailed analysis of the clinical characteristics of megameatus with intact prepuce (MIP) and to audit our results of reconstructive surgeries on MIP. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Design: Retrospective analysis. Setting: Pediatric surgery department of tertiary level. Subjects, methods: Hospital records and pictures of MIP operated over a 9-year period. Age, size of penis, circumcised or not, shape of glans, external urethral meatus (EUM), urethral plate (UP), chordee, distal urethra, reconstructive surgery, and complications were analyzed...
2024: Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
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