Mothers and children without bread. Hunger in the Auxilio Social Cocinas de Hermandad and Comedores Infantiles during post-war Francoism (1939-1940) by Gloria Román Ruiz

“…Moreover, since the facilities did not meet the minimum conditions of size, cleanliness, ventilation, and kitchen utensils, the attendees were exposed to infectious diseases. It is also argued that, beyond the food supply problems of those famine years, the ineffectiveness of the Comedores and Cocinas was often due to the staff who worked in them, as they often used to steal food for their own consumption or to sell on the black market. …”
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Ilex paraguariensis extract as an alternative to pain medications by Nowacki Luciana C., Stechman-Neto José, Schiefer Elberth M., Santos Andressa F., Stinghen Andréa E. M., Sassaki Guilherme L., De Souza Lauro M., Cristoff Killian E., De Souza Wesley M.

“…Pain is a common and distressing symptom of many diseases and its clinical treatment generally involves analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs. …”
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Routh–Hurwitz Stability and Quasiperiodic Attractors in a Fractional-Order Model for Awareness Programs: Applications to COVID-19 Pandemic by Taher S. Hassan, E. M. Elabbasy, A.E. Matouk, Rabie A. Ramadan, Alanazi T. Abdulrahman, Ismoil Odinaev

“…In conclusion, the findings indicate the effectiveness of fractional-order calculus to simulate, predict, and control the spread of epidemiological diseases.…”
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Purinergic Receptors of the Central Nervous System: Biology, PET Ligands, and Their Applications by Hamideh Zarrinmayeh PhD, Paul R. Territo PhD

“…Imaging of the purinergic receptors with selective Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radioligands has advanced our understanding of the functional roles of some of these receptors in healthy and diseased brains. In this review, we have accumulated a list of currently available PET radioligands of the purinergic receptors that are used to elucidate the receptor functions and participations in CNS disorders. …”
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Immunobiotics Beneficially Modulate TLR4 Signaling Triggered by Lipopolysaccharide and Reduce Hepatic Steatosis In Vitro by Paulraj Kanmani, AbuZar Ansari, Julio Villena, Hojun Kim

“…Probiotics attenuate hepatic diseases related to inflammation by exhibiting immunoregulatory effects. …”
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Malignant Catatonia Mimicking Pheochromocytoma by Sophia Wong, Barbara Hughes, Morris Pudek, Dailin Li

“…Differentiating between the two diseases is essential as management options greatly diverge. …”
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Wound Healing Using Electrical Stimulation: A Review by Farah Jala Jaseem, Jameel Kadhim Abed, Ahmed Rashid Ajel, Noaman Mohammad Noaman

“… The wound healing process is considered one of the most important elements of progress in the health and medical reality alike, because it has a direct impact on the patient’s life, especially those who suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and others. All over the world, especially in developing countries, many people are exposed to afflictions due to the lack of ability to heal wounds or the delay in their recovery. …”
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Genetic, Functional, and Immunological Study of ZnT8 in Diabetes by Qiong Huang, Jie Du, Chengfeng Merriman, Zhicheng Gong

“…Dysregulation of zinc metabolism may induce a variety of diseases, e.g., diabetes. Zinc participates in insulin synthesis, storage, and secretion by functioning as a “cellular second messenger” in the insulin signaling pathway and glucose homeostasis. …”
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When a sore throat turns into deadly multiple serous cavity effusions: the role of Prevotella oris in rapidly progressing infection—a case report by Fangqi Zhang, Juan-Li Wang, Jian Zhu, Shaokui Si, Hao Guo, Xiang Yue, Wei Wen

“…This case is unique because it is the first to show that normally colonizing Prevotella can also cause fatal multiorgan infection as an opportunistic pathogen in a previously healthy young person with no immune-related diseases. The aim of this study is to expand clinical awareness of this common symptom and its potentially fatal outcome.…”
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A reduction-secretion system contributes to roxarsone (V) degradation and efflux in Brevundimonas sp. M20 by Xuehui Zong, Xuyang Wang, Minghui Yu, Jiahui Wang, Congcong Li, Bing Wang, Yongan Wang

“…Abstract Roxarsone (V) (Rox(V)) is an organoarsenical compound that poses significant risks to aquatic ecosystems and various diseases. Reducing trivalent 3-amino-4-hydroxyphenylarsonic acid (HAPA(III)) offers a competitive advantage; however, it leads to localized arsenic contamination, which can disrupt the soil microbiome and impede plant growth. …”
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Design and Performance Investigation of a Robot-Assisted Flexible Ureteroscopy System by Jianchang Zhao, Jianmin Li, Liang Cui, Chaoyang Shi, Guowu Wei

“…Flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) has been developed and has become a preferred routine procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones and other renal diseases inside the urinary tract. The traditional manual FURS procedure is highly skill-demanding and easily brings about physical fatigue and burnout for surgeons. …”
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IoT-Based Water Quality Monitoring System for Koi Fish Quarantine by Rizki Novan Andiyansyah, Onny Setyawati, Fakhriy Hario Partiansyah

“…The quarantine process is necessary because Koi fish are taken from paddy field ponds, where diseases from the external environment, such as fungi, bacteria, and parasites, may still be present. …”
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A Study of Epstein-Barr Virus BRLF1 Activity in a Drosophila Model System by Amy Adamson, Dennis LaJeunesse

“…Epstein-Barr virus, a member of the herpesvirus family, infects a large majority of the human population and is associated with several diseases, including cancer. We have created Drosophila model systems to study the interactions between host cellular proteins and the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) immediate-early genes BRLF1 and BZLF1. …”
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Obtaining Thickness Maps of Corneal Layers Using the Optimal Algorithm for Intracorneal Layer Segmentation by Hossein Rabbani, Rahele Kafieh, Mahdi Kazemian Jahromi, Sahar Jorjandi, Alireza Mehri Dehnavi, Fedra Hajizadeh, Alireza Peyman

“…Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is one of the most informative methodologies in ophthalmology and provides cross sectional images from anterior and posterior segments of the eye. Corneal diseases can be diagnosed by these images and corneal thickness maps can also assist in the treatment and diagnosis. …”
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Magnetic Nanoparticles of Chitosan for Targeted Delivery System of Plasmids to the Lungs by Cynthia Aracely Alvizo Báez, Itza Eloisa Luna Cruz, Maria Cristina Rodríguez Padilla, Juan Manuel Alcocer González

“…The specific targeted delivery of genes to the lung offers the possibility to treat a variety of specific diseases. We developed chitosan nanoparticles with the plasmid pCEM-Luc, which contains a promoter activated by magnetic field. …”
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(Mesenchymal) Stem Cell-Based Therapy in Cisplatin-Induced Acute Kidney Injury Animal Model: Risk of Immunogenicity and Tumorigenicity by Ž. Večerić-Haler, A. Cerar, M. Perše

“…In the last decade mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been proposed as a potentially useful therapeutic strategy in various diseases, including acute kidney injury. Although MSCs have potent immunosuppressive properties, animal studies also suggest that transplanted MSCs may elicit immune response. …”
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Quantifying the survival uncertainty of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in a spatial model by Martin Strugarek, Nicolas Vauchelet, Jorge P. Zubelli

“…Artificial releases of Wolbachia-infected Aedes mosquitoes have been under study in the past yearsfor fighting vector-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and zika.Several strains of this bacterium cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) and can also affect their host's fecundity or lifespan, while highly reducing vector competence for the main arboviruses. …”
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Association of Acinetobacter baumannii EF-Tu with Cell Surface, Outer Membrane Vesicles, and Fibronectin by Shatha F. Dallo, Bailin Zhang, James Denno, Soonbae Hong, Anyu Tsai, Williams Haskins, Jing Yong Ye, Tao Weitao

“…Here we investigated it with Acinetobacter baumannii, an emerging opportunistic pathogen associated with a wide spectrum of infectious diseases. The gene for A. baumannii EF-Tu was sequenced, and recombinant EF-Tu was purified for antibody development. …”
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Development and validation of a simple and sensitive size-exclusion chromatography method for quantitative determination of heparin in pharmaceuticals by Matanović Maja Radivojša, Grabnarm Iztok, Grabnar Pegi Ahlin, Roškar Robert

“…Heparin is widely used as an anticoagulant for the treatment and prevention of various thrombotic diseases. However, due to its high anionic charge, heterogeneity in size distribution and high polarity, its analysis is very challenging. …”
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Pitfalls in Diagnosis: JMML versus KMT2A Rearranged Juvenile AML by Liesbeth Vanheeswijck, Sanjay Tewari, Robin Dowse, Nicola Potter, Jelena Jovanovic, Caroline L. Furness, Elsje Van Rijswijk

“…Lysine methyltransferase 2A (KMT2A) rearrangements are commonly found in juvenile acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Although distinct diseases, there is a known clinical overlap between KMT2A-rearranged AML and juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML). …”
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