Foods, Vol. 9, Pages 664: Effect of Controlled Hydrothermal Treatments on Mung Bean Starch Structure and Its Relationship with Digestibility Foods doi: 10.3390/foods9050664 Authors: Muhammad Awais Jawad Ashraf Lili Wang Liya Liu Xiaoxue Yang Li-Tao Tong Xianrong Zhou Sumei Zhou The changes in structure and digestion properties of mung bean starch due to hydrothermal treatment at various controlled temperatures were investigated. Results showed the increase in onset...
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Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 2384: Discovery of a Natural Product That Binds to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein Rv1466 Using Native Mass Spectrometry Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules25102384 Authors: Ali R. Elnaas Darren Grice Jianying Han Yunjiang Feng Angela Di Capua Tin Mak Joseph A. Laureanti Garry W. Buchko Peter J. Myler Gregory Cook Ronald J. Quinn Miaomiao Liu Elucidation of the mechanism of action of compounds with cellular bioactivity is...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 982: Electrospun Nanofibers for Chemical Separation Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050982 Authors: Mesbah Najafi Margaret W. Frey The separation and purification of specific chemicals from a mixture have become necessities for many environments, including agriculture, food science, and pharmaceutical and biomedical industries. Electrospun nanofiber membranes are promising materials for the separation of various species such as particles, biomolecules,...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 336: Introduction to the Toxins Special Issue on Identification and Functional Characterization of Novel Venom Components Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12050336 Authors: Steven D. Aird Throughout most of the 20th century, the toxinological literature consisted largely of pharmacological and functional characterizations of crude venoms and venom constituents, often constituents that could not be identified unambiguously [...]
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 335: Delayed Release of Intracellular Microcystin Following Partial Oxidation of Cultured and Naturally Occurring Cyanobacteria Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12050335 Authors: Katherine E. Greenstein Arash Zamyadi Caitlin M. Glover Craig Adams Erik Rosenfeldt Eric C. Wert Oxidation processes can provide an effective barrier to eliminate cyanotoxins by damaging cyanobacteria cell membranes, releasing intracellular cyanotoxins, and subsequently oxidizing...
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Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 334: Behavioral, Physiological, Demographic and Ecological Impacts of Hematophagous and Endoparasitic Insects on an Arctic Ungulate Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12050334 Authors: Joly Couriot Cameron Gurarie Animals that deliver a toxic secretion through a wound or to the body surface without a wound are considered venomous and toxungenous, respectively. Hematophagous insects, such as mosquitoes (Aedes spp.), meet the criteria for venomous, and some endoparasitic...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 238: Measures to Improve Influenza Vaccination Coverage in Spanish Medical Students Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020238 Authors: Hernández-García Aibar-Remón Objective: To find out what measures medical students believe could help improve their influenza vaccination coverage. Method: On 5 November, 2019, the Dean of the Zaragoza Medical School sent an e-mail to the students asking them to fill out a questionnaire through Google Forms, in which they were...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 237: Nanotechnology-Based Vaccines for Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy: Potentials and Challenges of Conventional and Novel Adjuvants under Research Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020237 Authors: Litty Johnson Albert Duschl Martin Himly The increasing prevalence of allergic diseases demands efficient therapeutic strategies for their mitigation. Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is the only causal rather than symptomatic treatment method available for...
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Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 67: Thalidomide Reduces Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Immunostaining in Canine Splenic Hemangiosarcoma Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7020067 Authors: Jonathan P. Bray John S. Munday Hemangiosarcomas (HSA) are common neoplasms of dogs that often metastasize and are typically fatal. Recently it was demonstrated that thalidomide extends the survival time of dogs with HSA, potentially due to thalidomide-induced inhibition of vascular endothelial...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 565: Hepatitis B Virus-X Downregulates Expression of Selenium Binding Protein 1 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12050565 Authors: Young-Man Lee Soojin Kim Ran-Young Park Yeon-Soo Kim Selenium binding protein 1 (SELENBP1) has been known to be reduced in various types cancer, and epigenetic change is shown to be likely to account for the reduction of SELNEBP1 expression. With cDNA microarray comparative analysis, we found that SELENBP1 is markedly decreased in hepatitis...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 564: An Elvitegravir Nanoformulation Crosses the Blood–Brain Barrier and Suppresses HIV-1 Replication in Microglia Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12050564 Authors: Yuqing Gong Kaining Zhi Prashanth K.B. Nagesh Namita Sinha Pallabita Chowdhury Hao Chen Santhi Gorantla Murali M. Yallapu Santosh Kumar Even with an efficient combination of antiretroviral therapy (ART), which significantly decreases viral load in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-positive...
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Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 563: The gp44 Ejection Protein of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophage 80α Binds to the Ends of the Genome and Protects It from Degradation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12050563 Authors: Keith A Manning Terje Dokland Bacteriophage 80α is a representative of a class of temperate phages that infect Staphylococcus aureus and other Gram-positive bacteria. Many of these phages carry genes encoding toxins and other virulence factors. This phage, 80α,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1457: Evaluation of Long-Term Impacts of CO2 Leakage on Groundwater Quality Using Hydrochemical Data from a Natural Analogue Site in South Korea Water doi: 10.3390/w12051457 Authors: Hyun-Kwon Do Seong-Taek Yun Soonyoung Yu Yon-Gyung Ryuh Hyeon-Su Choi Three hydrochemical types of CO2-rich water (i.e., Na-HCO3, Ca-Na-HCO3 and Ca-HCO3) occur together in the silicate bedrock (granite and gneiss) of Gangwon Province in South Korea. As a natural analogue...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1462: Integrated Hydrologic and Hydrodynamic Models to Improve Flood Simulation Capability in the Data-Scarce Three Gorges Reservoir Region Water doi: 10.3390/w12051462 Authors: Zhang Zhou Hu Lu One-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling approaches are useful for flood simulations; however, most studies often neglect intermediate discharges due to difficulties in obtaining the associated data. Herein, we produced the XAJ-H1DM model by coupling the Xinanjiang...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1461: Dissolution-Desorption Dynamics of Strontium During Elution Following Evaporation: pH and Ionic Strength Effects Water doi: 10.3390/w12051461 Authors: William C. Weaver Tohren C. G. Kibbey Charalambos Papelis Radioactive strontium-90 (90Sr2+) is a fission byproduct of uranium and plutonium production, and therefore understanding its environmental fate is of particular importance for predicting the evolution of long-term risk from historical releases....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1454: Identification of Key Factors Affecting the Trophic State of Four Tropical Small Water Bodies Water doi: 10.3390/w12051454 Authors: Homero Cuevas Madrid Alfonso Lugo Vázquez Laura Peralta Soriano Josué Morlán Mejía Gloria Vilaclara Fatjó María del Rosario Sánchez Rodríguez Marco Antonio Escobar Oliva Javier Carmona Jiménez Due to their dimensions, small and shallow water bodies are more sensitive to changes in nutrient load, water flow,...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1459: Long-Term Consequences of Water Pumping on the Ecosystem Functioning of Lake Sekšu, Latvia Water doi: 10.3390/w12051459 Authors: Izabela Zawiska Inta Dimante-Deimantovica Tomi P. Luoto Monika Rzodkiewicz Saija Saarni Normunds Stivrins Wojciech Tylmann Anna Lanka Martins Robeznieks Tom Jilbert Cultural eutrophication, the process by which pollution due to human activity speeds up natural eutrophication, is a widespread and consequential...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1455: Assessment and Valuation of Groundwater Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Handan City, China Water doi: 10.3390/w12051455 Authors: Yang Liu Groundwater is important for maintaining ecosystem balance. However, the ecological value of groundwater is always undervalued, while its value as water resources is emphasized. Thus, this paper divided the systematic valuation of groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) into three categories, and its services into...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1460: Quantification and Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistance in Greywater Discharged to the Environment Water doi: 10.3390/w12051460 Authors: Seema Porob Hillary A. Craddock Yair Motro Orly Sagi Michael Gdalevich Zubaida Ezery Nadav Davidovitch Zeev Ronen Jacob Moran-Gilad In disenfranchised communities, untreated greywater (wastewater without sewage) is often environmentally discharged, resulting in potential human exposure to antimicrobial-resistant...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1456: Green Infrastructures for Urban Water System: Balance between Cities and Nature Water doi: 10.3390/w12051456 Authors: Robert Sitzenfrei Manfred Kleidorfer Peter M. Bach Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin Urban water systems face severe challenges such as urbanisation, population growth and climate change. Traditional technical solutions, i.e., pipe-based, grey infrastructure, have a single purpose and are proven to be unsustainable compared to multi-purpose...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1458: Ecosystem Metabolism in Small Ponds: The Effects of Floating-Leaved Macrophytes Water doi: 10.3390/w12051458 Authors: Hornbach Schilling Kundel Small ponds constitute a significant number of standing water bodies on earth and may contribute to CO2 uptake or release into the atmosphere. Despite their importance, few studies have examined ecosystem metabolism in ponds, especially in ponds that may be dominated by floating-leaved macrophytes. In this...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1453: Towards the Removal of Antibiotics Detected in Wastewaters in the POCTEFA Territory: Occurrence and TiO2 Photocatalytic Pilot-Scale Plant Performance Water doi: 10.3390/w12051453 Authors: Samuel Moles Rosa Mosteo Jairo Gómez Joanna Szpunar Sebastiano Gozzo Juan R. Castillo María P. Ormad This research aims to assess the presence of four antibiotic compounds detected in the influent and effluent of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in the...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1463: Evaluation of Thirty-Eight Models of Drippers Using Reclaimed Water: Effect on Distribution Uniformity and Emitter Clogging Water doi: 10.3390/w12051463 Authors: Rafael Baeza Juana I. Contreras Emitter clogging is a problem in drip irrigation systems, and it is accentuated when using reclaimed water. The objective of this work was to evaluate the different commercial models of drippers used for irrigation with reclaimed water in greenhouse horticultural...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1452: Differences in the Effects of Storms on Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in Boreal Lakes during an Early Summer Storm and an Autumn Storm Water doi: 10.3390/w12051452 Authors: Kate A. Warner Rachel A. Fowler Jasmine E. Saros In boreal lakes, increased precipitation events have been linked to increased concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), however the effects of seasonal differences on DOC and how this may impact storm response remain unclear....
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1450: Possibility of Using Selected Rainfall-Runoff Models for Determining the Design Hydrograph in Mountainous Catchments: A Case Study in Poland Water doi: 10.3390/w12051450 Authors: Dariusz Młyński Andrzej Wałęga Leszek Książek Jacek Florek Andrea Petroselli The aim of the study was to analyze the possibility of using selected rainfall-runoff models to determine the design hydrograph and the related peak flow in a mountainous catchment. The basis...
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Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1451: Analysis of Streamflow Variability and Trends in the Meta River, Colombia Water doi: 10.3390/w12051451 Authors: Marco Arrieta-Castro Adriana Donado-Rodríguez Guillermo J. Acuña Fausto A. Canales Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu Bartosz Kaźmierczak The aim of this research is the detection and analysis of existing trends in the Meta River, Colombia, based on the streamflow records from seven gauging stations in its main course, for the period between...
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