Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 937: Application of the Metal Reflector for Redistributing the Focusing Intensity of SPPs Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050937 Authors: Ji Xu Lin Chen Li Meng The near-field photolithography system has attracted increasing attention in the micro- and nano-manufacturing field, due to the high efficiency, high resolution, and the low cost of the scheme. Nevertheless, the low quality of the nano-patterns significantly limits the industrial...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 936: Dopant-Free Triazatruxene-Based Hole Transporting Materials with Three Different End-Capped Acceptor Units for Perovskite Solar Cells Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050936 Authors: Da Rim Kil Chunyuan Lu Jung-Min Ji Chul Hoon Kim Hwan Kyu Kim A series of dopant-free D-π-A structural hole-transporting materials (HTMs), named as SGT-460, SGT-461, and SGT-462, incorporating a planner-type triazatruxene (TAT) core, thieno[3,2-b]indole...
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Nanomaterials, Vol. 10, Pages 935: Seed-Assisted Growth of TiO2 Nanowires by Thermal Oxidation for Chemical Gas Sensing Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano10050935 Authors: Hashitha M. M. Munasinghe Arachchige Dario Zappa Nicola Poli Nanda Gunawardhana Nuwan H. Attanayake Elisabetta Comini Herein, we report the catalyst assisted growth of TiO2 one-dimensional (1D) nanowires (NWs) on alumina substrates by the thermal oxidation technique. RF magnetron sputtering was used to...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1415: A Serious Game Approach to Improve Food Behavior in Families—A Pilot Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051415 Authors: Sigrid Skouw Anja Suldrup Annemarie Olsen The objective of this pilot study was to investigate the effect of a specially developed serious game to improve food behavior in families with children aged 5–13 years using mixed methods. Fourteen families were randomized into a game-group and a non-game-group and divided into...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1414: Histidine: A Systematic Review on Metabolism and Physiological Effects in Human and Different Animal Species Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051414 Authors: Joanna Moro Daniel Tomé Philippe Schmidely Tristan-Chalvon Demersay Dalila Azzout-Marniche Histidine is an essential amino acid (EAA) in mammals, fish, and poultry. We aim to give an overview of the metabolism and physiological effects of histidine in humans and different animal species through...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1413: Traditional Brazilian Diet and Olive Oil Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Severely Obese Individuals: A Randomized Trial Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051413 Authors: Annelisa Silva e Alves de Carvalho Santos Ana Paula dos Santos Rodrigues Lorena Pereira de Souza Rosa Matias Noll Erika Aparecida Silveira Cardioprotective effects associated with extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) have been studied within the Mediterranean diet. However, little...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1410: The Effect of Ursodeoxycholic Acid on Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Patients with Functional Dyspepsia: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051410 Authors: Kim Kim Kim Functional dyspepsia (FD) is associated with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Several animal studies have reported that ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects in the intestine. We hypothesized...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1411: Is There an Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Erectile Dysfunction? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051411 Authors: Crafa Cannarella Condorelli La Vignera Calogero Erectile dysfunction (ED) is found very frequently in the male population, in particular in its arteriogenic form, which also represents an important predictor of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Some evidence suggests that vitamin...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1409: Utilization of Current Diagnostic Indicators to Characterize Pediatric Undernutrition among US Children Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051409 Authors: Alyssa Archdeacon Price Jennifer A. Williams Holly Estes Doetsch Colleen K. Spees Christopher A. Taylor The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of pediatric undernutrition in the US general population using the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/American Society for Parenteral and...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1412: Association of Dietary Fatty Acid Consumption Patterns with Risk of Hyper-LDL Cholesterolemiain Korean Adults Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051412 Authors: Choi Ahn Joung This study aimed to identify the association between the risk of hyper-LDL cholesterolemia (hyper-LDLC) and fatty acid consumption patterns (FACPs) using the data from the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES) prospective cohort. A total of 6542 middle-aged Korean adults...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1408: Eating Habits Associated with Nutrition-Related Knowledge among University Students Enrolled in Academic Programs Related to Nutrition and Culinary Arts in Puerto Rico Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051408 Authors: Christian Rivera Medina Mercedes Briones Urbano Aixa de Jesús Espinosa Ángel Toledo López University students frequently develop unhealthy eating habits. However, it is unknown if students enrolled in academic programs related to nutrition...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1407: Urinary Metabolomic Profiling Analysis and Evaluation of the Effect of Ecklonia cava Extract Intake Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051407 Authors: Juyeon Kim Youngae Jung Eunok Lee Seoyeong Jang Do Hyun Ryu Oran Kwon Geum-Sook Hwang Metabolomics is a powerful tool for the investigation of interactions between diet, nutrients, and human metabolism. Ecklonia cava is an edible brown alga that is abundantly found in Korea and Japan and contains...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1406: Brazilian Vegetarian Population—Influence of Type of Diet, Motivation and Sociodemographic Variables on Quality of Life Measured by Specific Tool (VEGQOL) Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051406 Authors: Shila Minari Hargreaves Eduardo Yoshio Nakano Renata Puppin Zandonadi The adoption of a vegetarian diet has been associated with positive health outcomes. However, few studies evaluate the effect of this eating pattern on quality of life. Moreover, no...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1404: The Comparison of Nutritional Value of Human Milk with Other Mammals’ Milk Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051404 Authors: Renata Pietrzak-Fiećko Anna M. Kamelska-Sadowska (1) Background: The variation in the concentration of different components found in milk depends on mammalian species, genetic, physiological, nutritional factors, and environmental conditions. Here, we analyse, for the first time, the content of different components (cholesterol concentration...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1405: A Diet Rich in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Aggravates the Effect of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide on Alveolar Bone Loss in a Rabbit Model of Periodontal Disease Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051405 Authors: Alfonso Varela-López Pedro Bullón César L. Ramírez-Tortosa María D. Navarro-Hortal María Robles-Almazán Beatriz Bullón Mario D. Cordero Maurizio Battino José L. Quiles Increasing evidence connects periodontitis with a variety of...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1403: Possibility of Amino Acid Treatment to Prevent the Psychiatric Disorders via Modulation of the Production of Tryptophan Metabolite Kynurenic Acid Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051403 Authors: Fukuwatari Kynurenic acid, a metabolite of the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan catabolism, acts as an antagonist for both the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and glycine coagonist sites of the N-methyl-d-aspartic acid receptor at endogenous brain concentrations....
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1400: Low Vitamin D Levels Predict Mortality in Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051400 Authors: Ben-Shabat Watad Shabat Bragazzi Comaneshter Cohen Amital In this study, we aimed to examine the effect of vitamin D deficiency on all-cause mortality in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients and in the general population. This is a retrospective-cohort study based on the...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1401: Influence of In Vitro Digestion on Composition, Bioaccessibility and Antioxidant Activity of Food Polyphenols—A Non-Systematic Review Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051401 Authors: Wojtunik-Kulesza Oniszczuk Oniszczuk Combrzyński Nowakowska Matwijczuk There is increased interest in following a healthy lifestyle and consuming a substantial portion of secondary plant metabolites, such as polyphenols, due to their benefits for the human body....
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1399: Dietary Betaine Addition Promotes Hepatic Cholesterol Synthesis, Bile Acid Conversion, and Export in Rats Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051399 Authors: Sisi Li Shuyi Xu Yang Zhao Haichao Wang Jie Feng It is widely reported how betaine addition regulates lipid metabolism but how betaine affects cholesterol metabolism is still unknown. This study aimed to investigate the role of betaine in hepatic cholesterol metabolism of Sprague-Dawley rats. Rats...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1398: It’s No Has Bean: A Review of the Effects of White Kidney Bean Extract on Body Composition and Metabolic Health Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051398 Authors: Nolan Shannon Robinson Joel Houghton Malcomson The rising prevalence of overweight and obesity is a global concern, increasing the risk of numerous non-communicable diseases and reducing quality of life. A healthy diet and exercise remain the cornerstone treatments for obesity. However,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1396: Thiamine Deficiency in Adolescents with Eating Disorders: A Prospective Cohort Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051396 Authors: Hilla Bahat Gad Reisler Nurit Brandriss Adina Bar-Chaim Michael Goldman Background: Pediatric eating disorders (PED) patients are prone to nutritional deficiencies. Thiamine deficiency is well described in other malnutrition states but is not routinely screened for in PED. In the current study we evaluated the prevalence...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1397: Potential Nutrition and Health Claims in Deastringed Persimmon Fruits (Diospyros kaki L.), Variety ‘Rojo Brillante’, PDO ’Ribera del Xúquer’ Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051397 Authors: Laura Domínguez Díaz Eva Dorta Sarita Maher Patricia Morales Virginia Fernández-Ruiz Montaña Cámara María-Cortes Sánchez-Mata In Europe, nutrition and health claims made on food must be based on scientific evidence, which means a comprehensive evaluation...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1395: Dietary Protein, Fiber and Coffee Are Associated with Small Intestine Microbiome Composition and Diversity in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051395 Authors: Hussain Dong Agopian Pisegna Durazo Enayati Sundaram Benhammou Noureddin Choi Ayoub Lagishetty Elashoff Goodman Jacobs : The gut microbiome is a key factor in chronic liver disease progression. In prior research, we...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1394: Dietary Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Are Not Associated with the Metabolic Syndrome in Lebanese Healthy Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051394 Authors: Cecile Borgi Mandy Taktouk Mona Nasrallah Hussain Isma’eel Hani Tamim Lara Nasreddine High dietary glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) were suggested to increase the risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS). This study aims to estimate dietary GI and GL in a...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1393: Mixing of Apples and Oranges in Milk Research: A Cohort Analysis of Non-Fermented Milk Intake and All-Cause Mortality Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051393 Authors: Karl Michaëlsson Liisa Byberg Mortality in relation to type of milk intake is unclear. We present mortality rates by intake of non-fermented milk fat content type and examine the degree of bias when other fat content types of non-fermented milk are kept in the reference category. For this purpose,...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1391: Markers Indicating Body Vitamin D Stores and Responses of Liver and Adipose Tissues to Changes in Vitamin D Intake in Male Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051391 Authors: Mikis Kiourtzidis Julia Kühn Corinna Brandsch Anja-Christina Baur Monika Wensch-Dorendorf Gabriele I. Stangl Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) is regarded as the most reliable biomarker of vitamin D status. However, limited data exist concerning the suitability...
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Nutrients, Vol. 12, Pages 1392: Vitamin D Status and Vitamin D-Dependent Apoptosis in Obesity Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu12051392 Authors: Igor N. Sergeev The role of vitamin D in obesity appears to be linked to vitamin D insufficient/deficient status. However, mechanistic understanding of the role of vitamin D in obesity is lacking. We have shown earlier that the vitamin D hormonal form, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3), induces cell death by apoptosis in mature adipocytes. This...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 375: Autotransporter-Mediated Display of Complement Receptor Ligands by Gram-Negative Bacteria Increases Antibody Responses and Limits Disease Severity Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9050375 Authors: Kristen M Holland-Tummillo Lauren E Shoudy Donald Steiner Sudeep Kumar Sarah J Rosa Prachi Namjoshi Anju Singh Timothy J Sellati Edmund J Gosselin Karsten RO Hazlett The targeting of immunogens/vaccines to specific immune cells is a promising...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 374: Update on Streptococcus suis Research and Prevention in the Era of Antimicrobial Restriction: 4th International Workshop on S. suis Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9050374 Authors: Mariela Segura Virginia Aragon Susan Brockmeier Connie Gebhart Astrid Greeff Anusak Kerdsin Mark O’Dea Masatoshi Okura Mariette Saléry Constance Schultsz Peter Valentin-Weigand Lucy Weinert Jerry Wells Marcelo Gottschalk Streptococcus suis...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 373: Early Pathogenesis of Wesselsbron Disease in Pregnant Ewes Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9050373 Authors: Judith Oymans Lucien van Keulen Paul J. Wichgers Schreur Jeroen Kortekaas Wesselsbron virus (WSLV) is a neglected, mosquito-borne flavivirus that is endemic to the African continent. The virus is teratogenic to ruminants and causes a self-limiting febrile illness in humans. Wesselsbron disease manifests with similar clinical signs and occurs...
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Pathogens, Vol. 9, Pages 372: Preclinical Evidence of Nanomedicine Formulation to Target Mycobacterium tuberculosis at Its Bone Marrow Niche Pathogens doi: 10.3390/pathogens9050372 Authors: Jaishree Garhyan Surender Mohan Vinoth Rajendran Rakesh Bhatnagar One-third of the world’s population is estimated to be latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Recently, we found that dormant Mtb hides in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) post-chemotherapy...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 97: Mantonico and Pecorello Grape Seed Extracts: Chemical Characterization and Evaluation of In Vitro Wound-Healing and Anti-Inflammatory Activities Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13050097 Authors: Gabriele Carullo Fabio Sciubba Paolo Governa Sarah Mazzotta Luca Frattaruolo Giorgio Grillo Anna Rita Cappello Giancarlo Cravotto Maria Enrica Di Cocco Francesca Aiello The winemaking process produces a huge number of pomaces that...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 96: The Rationale for Potential Pharmacotherapy of COVID-19 Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13050096 Authors: Maha Saber-Ayad Mohamed A. Saleh Eman Abu-Gharbieh On 11 March 2020, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was defined by the World Health Organization as a pandemic. Severe acute respiratory syndrome-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the newly evolving human coronavirus infection that causes COVID-19, and it first appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 98: COVID-19: An Update About the Discovery Clinical Trial Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13050098 Authors: Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde Finding efficacious and safe treatments for COVID-19 emerges as a crucial need in order to control the spread of the pandemic. Whereas plasma therapy attracts much interest, the European project Discovery focuses on the potentialities of small molecules like remdesivir, the combination of lopinavir/ritonavir, hydroxychloroquine,...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 95: Molecular Mechanisms of the Teratogenic Effects of Thalidomide Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13050095 Authors: Tomoko Asatsuma-Okumura Takumi Ito Hiroshi Handa Thalidomide was sold worldwide as a sedative over 60 years ago, but it was quickly withdrawn from the market due to its teratogenic effects. Thalidomide was later found to have therapeutic effects in several diseases, although the molecular mechanisms remained unclear. The discovery of...
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Pharmaceuticals, Vol. 13, Pages 94: Antiproliferative and Carbonic Anhydrase II Inhibitory Potential of Chemical Constituents from Lycium shawii and Aloe vera: Evidence from In Silico Target Fishing and In Vitro Testing Pharmaceuticals doi: 10.3390/ph13050094 Authors: Najeeb Ur Rehman Sobia Ahsan Halim Majid Khan Hidayat Hussain Husain Yar Khan Ajmal Khan Ghulam Abbas Kashif Rafiq Ahmed Al-Harrasi Lycium shawii Roem. & Schult and resin of Aloe vera (L.)...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 451: Nanostructured Lipid Carriers to Mediate Brain Delivery of Temazepam: Design and In Vivo Study Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050451 Authors: Nermin E. Eleraky Mahmoud M. Omar Hemat A. Mahmoud Heba A. Abou-Taleb The opposing effect of the blood–brain barrier against the delivery of most drugs warrants the need for an efficient brain targeted drug delivery system for the successful management of neurological disorders. Temazepam-loaded...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 450: Recombinant Protein-Based Nanoparticles: Elucidating their Inflammatory Effects In Vivo and their Potential as a New Therapeutic Format Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050450 Authors: Gifre-Renom Ugarte-Berzal Martens Boon Cano-Garrido Martínez-Núñez Luque Roca-Pinilla Conchillo-Solé Ferrer-Miralles Villaverde Opdenakker Garcia-Fruitós Arís Bacterial inclusion bodies (IBs) are protein-based...
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Pharmaceutics, Vol. 12, Pages 449: New Trends in Bio-Based Aerogels Pharmaceutics doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12050449 Authors: Nita Ghilan Rusu Neamtu Chiriac (1) Background: The fascinating properties of currently synthesized aerogels associated with the flexible approach of sol-gel chemistry play an important role in the emergence of special biomedical applications. Although it is increasingly known and mentioned, the potential of aerogels in the medical field is not...
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