Zhou, Nan Bao, Jinku Ning, Yuping
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BMC Bioinformatics
BackgroundThe ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic is caused by SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus first discovered at the end of 2019. It has led to more than 50 million confirmed cases and more than 1 million deaths across 219 countries as of 11 November 2020, according to WHO statistics. SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV are similar. They are highly p...
Zanetti, Federica Alberghini, Barbara Marjanović Jeromela, Ana Grahovac, Nada Rajković, Dragana Kiprovski, Biljana Monti, Andrea
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Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Promoting crop diversification in European agriculture is a key pillar of the agroecological transition. Diversifying crops generally enhances crop productivity, quality, soil health and fertility, and resilience to pests and diseases and reduces environmental stresses. Moreover, crop diversification provides an alternative means of enhancing farme...
Pham, Thi-Phuong-Thao Alou, Maryam Tidjani Golden, Michael H Million, Matthieu Raoult, Didier
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Microbial pathogenesis
Kwashiorkor and marasmus are two clinical syndromes observed in severe acute malnutrition. In this review, we highlighted the differences between these two syndromes by reviewing the data comparing kwashiorkor and marasmus in literature, combined with recent microbiological findings and meta-analysis. Depletion of antioxidants, vitamins and mineral...
Li, Hai-Teng Li, Zaifen Fox, Glen P Gidley, Michael J Dhital, Sushil
Wheat flour, consisting of a complex matrix of starch and protein, is used as a representative model of whole food here to investigate the binary interaction in relation to amylose level and hydrothermal treatment in noodles as a food exemplar. Noodle made of high-amylose wheat (HAW) flour showed an eight-fold higher resistant starch content, compa...
Mohamed, Huda Nagy, Peter Agbaba, Jelena Kamal-Eldin, Afaf
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Food chemistry
Milk samples (150 cow and 217 camel milk samples) were analyzed for protein, fat, lactose and total solids by near and mid-infrared transmission spectroscopy. Excellent positive correlations between the two methods were obtained for both types of milk (p
Davis, Justin B Andes, Sydney Espina, Virginia
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Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Reverse phase protein arrays (RPPA) are used to quantify proteins and protein posttranslational modifications in cellular lysates and body fluids. RPPA technology is suitable for biomarker discovery, protein pathway profiling, functional phenotype analysis, and drug discovery mechanism of action. The principles of RPPA technology are (a) immobilizi...
PALHARES, J. C. P. NOVELLI, T. I. MORELLI, M.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the nutrient fluxes for lactating cows in a pasture-based dairy system and the impact of a nutritional management strategy on the environmental performance indicators. Fourteen lactating cows were divided into two experimental groups with seven animals each. The nutritional managements were a diet containing 20...
Suh, DaeHee Kim, Su Yeon Yoo, Byunghoon Lee, Sangseok
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Anesthesia and pain medicine
Perioperative patients are potentially at risk for pressure injuries due to anesthetic agents and surgical positioning. Pressure injury increases discomfort and pain in patients and causes complications, which lead to an increase in mortality and hospitalization duration. Most previous studies did not focus on specific types of surgery or surgical ...
Friedrich, Jussara C C Silva, Otavio A Faria, Maria G I Colauto, Nelson B Gazzin, Zilda C Colauto, Giani A L Caetano, Josiane Dragunski, Douglas C
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International journal of biological macromolecules
The incorporation of plant-based extracts into polymer-based coatings is an efficient alternative to increase the shelf-life of stored fruit and to decrease or even prevent bacterial growth. Considering strawberries, it is also important to preserve their high antioxidant activity. Hence, this work evaluated the efficiency of a coating based on nat...
Sifat, Nazifa Lovely, Farhana Zihad, S. M. Neamul Kabir Hossain, Md. Golam Shilpi, Jamil A. Grice, I. Darren Mubarak, Mohammad S. Uddin, Shaikh Jamal
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Clinical Phytoscience
BackgroundMushrooms have been recognized both as medicine and nutritional food in many countries for thousands of years, owing to the presence of significant amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, fibers, and antioxidants. This study aims at evaluating the nutritional contents and antioxidant potentials of seven types of mushrooms cultivated i...