Alterations of the Biochemical Pathways of Plants by the Air Pollutant Ozone: Which are the True Gauges of Injury? by Robert L. Heath

“…If these processes fail, past observations of ozone injury have indicated many physiological and metabolic changes then occur; most of these changes are likely to have been initiated at the level of gene expression, suggesting signal transduction. …”
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Venom of the Endoparasitoid Wasp Pteromalus puparum: An Overview by Jia-Ying Zhu, Gong-Yin Ye, Cui Hu

“…Parasitoid venom is a focal research point in the biological control area, which aims to explore its physiological functions and nature. Pteromalus puparum is a gregarious pupal endoparasitoid wasp which has evolved unique means to adopt the host's immune system, as no other parasitoid-associated factors other than venom are injected into its hosts during oviposition. …”
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What the Agricultural Sector in Florida Needs to Know about Heat-Related Illness (HRI) by Paul Monaghan, Karissa Raskin, Maria Morera, Jose Antonio Tovar Aguilar, Valerie Mac, Joan Flocks

“…This new 6-page publication of the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication provides basic information on how to recognize the symptoms of HRI, on the underlying physiological processes and related risk factors, and on how to treat it.  …”
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What the Agricultural Sector in Florida Needs to Know about Heat-Related Illness (HRI) by Paul Monaghan, Karissa Raskin, Maria Morera, Jose Antonio Tovar Aguilar, Valerie Mac, Joan Flocks

“…This new 6-page publication of the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication provides basic information on how to recognize the symptoms of HRI, on the underlying physiological processes and related risk factors, and on how to treat it.  …”
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Protocol to develop A 3D tumor model for drug testing applications by Prasiddha Guragain, Sunil Singh, Hossein Tavana

“…Three-dimensional (3D) tumor models provide physiologically relevant tumor environments and have become a major tool in cancer research and drug discovery. …”
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Recent Status on Lactate Monitoring in Sweat Using Biosensors: Can This Approach Be an Alternative to Blood Detection? by Leonardo Messina, Maria Teresa Giardi

“…Recent studies have shown that lactate is a molecule that plays an indispensable role in various physiological cellular processes, such as energy metabolism and signal transductions related to immune and inflammatory processes. …”
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Low Tidal Volume Ventilation in Patients without Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Paradigm Shift in Mechanical Ventilation by Jed Lipes, Azadeh Bojmehrani, Francois Lellouche

“…We will briefly review the physiologic rationale for low tidal volume ventilation and explore the current evidence for protective ventilation in patients without lung injury. …”
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Clinical approach to palpitations in pregnancy by Ferha Saeed, Kirun Gunganah, Anna S. Herrey

“…Patients with structural or functional abnormalities or inherited cardiovascular disease are more likely to develop arrhythmia, especially during pregnancy when the mother’s body undergoes extensive physiological adaptations, which further contribute to an increased arrhythmia risk. …”
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Propylene Glycol Toxicity in Adolescent with Refractory Myoclonic Status Epilepticus by Kara A. Bjur, Bryan C. Cannon, Anthony L. Fine, Matthew J. Ritter, Kerry E. Schueler, Michael E. Nemergut

“…We describe a case and the physiologic sequelae of propylene glycol toxicity manifested in a critically ill adolescent male with refractory myoclonic status epilepticus aggressively treated with multiple PG-containing medications (lorazepam, phenobarbital, and pentobarbital)—all within accepted dosing guidelines and a total daily PG exposure previously recognized to be safe. …”
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3D Dynamic Modeling of the Head-Neck Complex for Fast Eye and Head Orientation Movements Research by Daniel A. Sierra, John D. Enderle

“…The soft tissues, namely, the ligaments, intervertebral disks, and facet joints, are modeled considering their physiological roles and dynamics. In contrast with other head and neck models developed for safety research, the model is aimed to study the neural control of the complex during fast eye and head movements, such as saccades and gaze shifts. …”
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AhR governs lipid metabolism: the role of gut microbiota by Wanru Zheng, Mengkuan Liu, Xinyu Lv, Cuimei He, Jie Yin, Jie Ma

“…The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) is widely present in mammalian bodies, showing high affinity for various exogenous substances such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and coumarin. Under physiological conditions, AhR mainly participates in regulating the body’s immune response, cell proliferation, and apoptosis among a series of processes. …”
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Targeting Chondrocyte Hypertrophy as Strategies for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis by Da-Long Dong, Guang-Zhen Jin

“…During normal bone development, chondrocyte hypertrophy is a natural physiological process. However, in the progression of OA, chondrocyte hypertrophy becomes one of its key pathological features. …”
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Contribution of Cell Surface Hydrophobicity in the Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus against Antimicrobial Agents by Puja Lather, A. K. Mohanty, Pankaj Jha, Anita Kumari Garsa

“…Staphylococcus aureus is found in a wide variety of habitats, including human skin, where many strains are commensals that may be clinically significant or contaminants of food. To determine the physiological characteristics of resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus against pediocin, a class IIa bacteriocin, a resistant strain was compared with wild type in order to investigate the contribution of hydrophobicity to this resistance. …”
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Towards Emotion Detection in Educational Scenarios from Facial Expressions and Body Movements through Multimodal Approaches by Mar Saneiro, Olga C. Santos, Sergio Salmeron-Majadas, Jesus G. Boticario

“…The ultimate goal is to combine these annotations with additional affective information collected during experimental learning sessions from different sources such as qualitative, self-reported, physiological, and behavioral information. These data altogether are to train data mining algorithms that serve to automatically identify changes in the learners’ affective states when dealing with cognitive tasks which help to provide emotional personalized support.…”
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Healthy function and high valued utilization of edible fungi by Yanrong Zhang, Dawei Wang, Yuetong Chen, Tingting Liu, Shanshan Zhang, Hongxiu Fan, Hongcheng Liu, Yu Li

“…In addition, edible fungi contain a variety of bioactive substances, such as polysaccharides, dietary fiber, steroids, polyphenols, and most of these compounds have antioxidant, anti-tumor and other physiological functions. This review comprehensively discusses the bioactive components and functional characteristics of edible fungi (such as antioxidant, anti-aging, hypolipidemic activities, etc.). …”
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Climate mitigation and human comfort – A decision-support modeling and simulation tool by Roberta Zarcone, Federica Nava, Fabrizio Tucci

“…The methodology is applied to three pilot cases in order to analyse the influence of different parameters of the urban built environment on physiological stress: the Quarticciolo neighbourhood (former borough) in Rome (Italy), the Westside San Antonio neighbourhood in Texas (USA), and the Shuangta Suzhou neighbourhood in China.   …”
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Anti- and Protumorigenic Effects of PPARγ in Lung Cancer Progression: A Double-Edged Sword by Howard Li, Mary C. M. Weiser-Evans, Raphael Nemenoff

“…Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily of ligand-activated transcription factors that plays an important role in the control of gene expression linked to a variety of physiological processes, including cancer. Ligands for PPARγ include naturally occurring fatty acids and the thiazolidinedione class of antidiabetic drugs. …”
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Recent Advances on Bacterial Cellulose-Based Wound Management: Promises and Challenges by Hedaiat Moradpoor, Hossein Mohammadi, Mohsen Safaei, Hamid Reza Mozaffari, Roohollah Sharifi, Pourya Gorji, Abu Bakar Sulong, Norhamidi Muhamad, Mona Ebadi

“…Various wounds could cause severe physiological trauma and bring social and economic burdens to the patient. …”
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Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential of GPX4 in Pain Modulation by Shiwen Fan, Kaixin Wang, Tianhao Zhang, Daling Deng, Jiwei Shen, Bowen Zhao, Daan Fu, Xiangdong Chen

“…Specifically, the focus includes GPX4’s physiological roles, antioxidant defense mechanisms, regulation of ferroptosis, involvement in signal transduction pathways, and metabolic regulation. …”
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Polycystic Diseases in Visceral Organs by Shakila Abdul-Majeed, Surya M. Nauli

“…In addition, although gender and sex hormones are known to regulate cyst formation, their roles in regulating physiological functions of cilia need to be further explored.…”
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