The effects of Fraxini cortex and Andrographis herba on Escherichia coli-induced diarrhea in chicken by Yunying Wang, Zhenwei Sheng, Huicong Li, Xuewen Tan, Yingqiu Liu, Weimin Zhang, Wuren Ma, Lin Ma, Yunpeng Fan

“…Fraxini cortex and Andrographis herba significantly boosted the abundance of Bacteroidetes (P < 0.05) and mainly enhanced cysteine and methionine metabolic pathways. …”
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Geohazard features of the Gulf of Naples and Pontine Islands (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea) by Francesca Budillon, Eleonora Martorelli, Alessandro Conforti, Giovanni De Falco, Alessandro Bosman, Gabriella Di Martino, Marco Firetto Carlino, Martina Misuraca, Sara Innangi, Martina Pierdomenico, Andrea Sposato, Renato Tonielli, Daniele Casalbore, Roberto Capperucci, Aida Maria Conte, Francesco G. Falese, Michela Ingrassia, Ennio Marsella, Cristian Montanaro, Eleonora Morelli, Roberto Sisinni, Francesco L. Chiocci

“…Additionally, bedforms, fluid seepages and creeping phenomena in the prodelta slopes suggest high morpho-tectonic and environmental dynamics.HighlightsThis article reports on the thematic maps developed along the Lazio – Campania offshore (Central-eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) within the framework of the Magic Project, based on geomorphological analysis of the HR Digital Elevation Model of the seafloor.Several classes of hazard-related elements have been identified offshore, mainly associated with high-gradient slopes, volcanic activity and intense morphodynamic processes.The entire suite of maps created in the context of the Magic Project serves as a valuable base of knowledge, extending to the national scale and benchmarks for future monitoring of critical sites and geo-hazard-related features, as well as for maritime spatial planning actions.…”
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Effect of ocean acidification on the oxygen consumption of the sea urchins Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) and Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758) living in CO2 natural gradients by Robert Fernández-Vilert, Robert Fernández-Vilert, Vanessa Arranz, Vanessa Arranz, Marta Martín-Huete, Marta Martín-Huete, José Carlos Hernández, Sara González-Delgado, Sara González-Delgado, Rocío Pérez-Portela, Rocío Pérez-Portela

“…Ocean acidification (OA) stands out as one of the main threats to marine ecosystems. OA leads to a reduction in the availability of carbonate ions, which are essential for marine calcifiers such as echinoderms. …”
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Circulating Regulatory T-Cells in Monoclonal Gammopathies of Uncertain Significance and Multiple Myeloma: In Search of a Role by Giovanni D’Arena, Giovanni Rossi, Luca Laurenti, Teodora Statuto, Fiorella D’Auria, Luciana Valvano, Vittorio Simeon, Aldo Giudice, Idanna Innocenti, Vincenzo De Feo, Rosanna Filosa, Pellegrino Musto

“…With respect to MM patients and after a median follow-up of 33 months, Tregs did not show any significant correlation with main clinical and laboratory characteristics. Finally, from a functional point of view, Tregs displayed an effective suppressor function, irrespective of disease status. …”
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Prenatal and neonatal factors for the development of childhood visual impairment in primary and middle school students: a cross-sectional survey in Guangzhou, China by Wen Sun, Lijuan Dai, Dunjin Chen, Lili Du, Bolan Yu, Juanjuan Chen, Jingsi Chen, Nali Deng

“…In conclusion, prenatal and perinatal factors can affect the onset of childhood VIUC, but parental myopia and postnatal factors are the main factors.…”
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Performance of sulfur/steel slag composite matrix in removing nitrate from surface water with low-carbon content by PENG Xianchun, ZHENG Lili, LU Haoran, WANG Zhefeng, ZHU Zheng, LIANG Wenyan

“…The accumulation of nitrogen pollutants can easily lead to eutrophication of water bodies, and NO3--N is one of the main nitrogen pollutants. A composite matrix of steel slag and elemental sulfur was used for sulfur autotrophic denitrification. …”
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Ginsenoside Rg1 Regulates SIRT1 to Ameliorate Sepsis-Induced Lung Inflammation and Injury via Inhibiting Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Inflammation by Qian-Lu Wang, Lei Yang, Yue Peng, Min Gao, Ming-Shi Yang, Wei Xing, Xian-Zhong Xiao

“…Our results showed that ginsenoside Rg1 treatment effectively relieved sepsis-induced lung injury in vitro and in vivo, mainly via upregulating SIRT1 to relieve ER stress and inflammation. …”
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Performance of the AmpliSeq NGS panel in thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology by Wiame Potonnier, Erell Guillerm, Claude Bigorgne, Cécile Ghander, Malanie Roy, Florence Coulet, François Ansart, Fabrice Menegaux, Laurence Leenhardt, Isabelle Brocheriou, Gabrielle Deniziaut, Camille Buffet

“…Methods: Retrospective, monocentric study including 121 patients with cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules (Bethesda III, IV and V) who underwent a routine FNA procedure for molecular testing using the AmpliSeq general cancer NGS panel, with an available final histological diagnosis. The main objective was to estimate the negative predictive value (NPV) of malignancy of the AmpliSeq panel in Bethesda III and IV thyroid nodules. …”
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A lipidated peptide derived from the C-terminal tail of the vasopressin 2 receptor shows promise as a new β-arrestin inhibitor by Rebecca L. Brouillette, Christine E. Mona, Michael Desgagné, Malihe Hassanzedeh, Émile Breault, Frédérique Lussier, Karine Belleville, Jean-Michel Longpré, Michel Grandbois, Pierre-Luc Boudreault, Élie Besserer-Offroy, Philippe Sarret

“…To study their functional role in regulating specific receptor systems, current research relies mainly on genetic tools, as few pharmacological options are available. …”
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Spray-Induced Gene Silencing (SIGS): Nanocarrier-Mediated dsRNA Delivery Improves RNAi Efficiency in the Management of Lettuce Gray Mold Caused by <i>Botrytis cinerea</i> by Maria Spada, Claudio Pugliesi, Marco Fambrini, Diego Palpacelli, Andrea Caneo, Susanna Pecchia

“…The management of gray mold disease is still mainly based on the use of chemicals, which could have harmful effects not only due to impacts on the environment and human health, but also because they favor the development of fungicide-resistant strains. …”
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Effects of orally administered clioquinol on the fecal microbiome of horses by Mikaila Z. Smith, Mary York, Kile S. Townsend, Lynn M. Martin, Tamara Gull, Lyndon M. Coghill, Aaron C. Ericsson, Philip J. Johnson

“…Multiple horses had Salmonella cultured from feces. Main Limitations Limitations including lack of control group and modest sample size are obviated by robust longitudinal study design and strong effect size associated with drug exposure. …”
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Multi-UE 5G RAN Measurements: A Gamut of Architectural Options by Andreas Ingo Grohmann, Mauri Seidel, Sebastian A. W. Itting, Ray-Guang Cheng, Martin Reisslein, Frank H. P. Fitzek

“…Existing measurement studies have mainly considered a single User Equipment (UE); however, practical networks typically operate with multiple UEs. …”
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Multiomics unravels the complexity of male obesity: a prospective observational study by Georgios E. Papadakis, Lucie Favre, Yassine Zouaghi, Nathalie Vionnet, Nicolas J. Niederländer, Michela Adamo, James S. Acierno, Dassine Berdous, Alexia Boizot, Jenny Meylan, Julijana Ivanisevic, Emmanuelle Paccou, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Tim Reyns, Elise Van Caeneghem, Bruno Lapauw, Jérôme Pasquier, Yasser Aleman, Styliani Mantziari, Olivier Salamin, Raul Nicoli, Tiia Kuuranne, Tom Fiers, Patric Hagmann, Federico Santoni, Andrea Messina, Nelly Pitteloud

“…The upregulated genes were involved mainly in inflammation, mitochondrial function, and protein translation. …”
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Comparison of dairy production based on feed of Pennisetum sp., Pennisetum purpureum and CIAT 36087 by Noel Ernesto Blanco–Roa, Hernaldo Ramón Novoa–Novoa, Eveling Cristina Berríos, Omar Alfredo Soto–Gutiérrez, Carlos Alberto Zúniga–González, Silvio Javier Sáenz–Rojas, José de Jesús Nuñez–Rodriguez

“…Highly significant differences (P<0.01) were observed among the three studied groups from the second week onward. The main difference was observed between SG1 and SG3. …”
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Effect of dietary starch inclusion, feeding level and their combination on nutrient digestibility, bile acid balance, faecal waste production and characteristics of yellowtail king... by Yaqing Zhang, Roel M. Maas, Peter Horstmann Zuther, Jeroen Kals, Satya Prakash, Thomas W.O. Staessen, Fotini Kokou, Johan W. Schrama

“…Faecal bile acid loss increased with both increasing feeding level and increasing dietary starch level, which was mainly caused by increased faecal waste production. …”
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Long-term cardiovascular outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with systemic sclerosis by Kazutoshi Hirose, Hiroyuki Kiriyama, Shun Minatsuki, Yugo Nagae, Tatsuki Furusawa, Takashi Hiruma, Atsushi Kobayashi, Masataka Sato, Shinnosuke Sawano, Tatsuya Kamon, Hiroki Shinohara, Mizuki Miura, Akihito Saito, Satoshi Kodera, Junichi Ishida, Norifumi Takeda, Hiroyuki Morita, Issei Komuro, Norihiko Takeda

“…However, CAD tended to be more complex in the SSc group because of the higher proportion of left main trunk lesions (p = 0.100) and higher SYNergy between PCI with TAXUS™ and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) score (p = 0.030). …”
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Metabolomic approach to investigate <i>Dactylis glomerata</i> L. from the VIR collection by N. Yu. Malysheva, T. V. Shelenga, A. E. Solovyeva, T. B. Nagiev, N. V. Kovaleva, L. L. Malyshev

“…Statistical processing included the calculation of the main parameters of variability, factor analysis of the correlation system (Qand R-technique), cluster analysis by Ward’s method and discriminant analysis. …”
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Fitness costs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to rifampicin is compensated by rapid Th2 polarization mediated by early and high IL-4 production during mice infection by Ma. Fernanda Arce-Aceves, Roberto Espinosa-Neira, Dulce A. Mata-Espinosa, Jorge A. Barrios-Payan, Hugo G. Castelán-Sánchez, Sofía L. Alcaraz-Estrada, Mauricio Castañón-Arreola, Rogelio Hernández-Pando

“…Some of them are immunodominant antigens, such as LpqH lipoprotein that induces IL-4 secretion in cell suspensions from the lung and spleen of mice infected with Mtb A96 at 28 days postinfection, suggesting that LpqH could be one of the main antigens involved in the Th2 polarization. The reduction of Mtb A96 hypervirulence in IL-4Rα−/− BALB/c mice highlights the importance of IL-4 induction and Th2 response polarization and the immunopathological response. …”
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Determinants of Work-Related Risks among Veterinary Clinical Students in South West Nigeria by Oluwawemimo O. Adebowale, Monsurat O. Afolabi, Hezekiah K. Adesokan, Olubunmi G. Fasanmi, Olanike K. Adeyemo, Olajoju J. Awoyomi, Folorunso O. Fasina

“…Allergies (35.9%) and acute gastrointestinal infection (25.6%) mainly after contact with dogs presented with parvoviral enteritis were reported. …”
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The Role of Deep Geofluids in the Enrichment of Sedimentary Organic Matter: A Case Study of the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian in the Upper Yangtze Region and Early Cambrian in the... by Kun Zhang, Jun Peng, Weiwei Liu, Bin Li, Qingsong Xia, Sihong Cheng, Yiming Yang, Yao Zeng, Ming Wen, Dongmei Liu, Yizhou Huang, Li Zhong, Pei Liu, Xiaojun Jiang

“…Organic matter is the material basis for shales to generate hydrocarbon, as well as the main reservoir space and seepage channel for shale gas. …”
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