Hantavirus antibody seroprevalence and risk factors among adults in West Kazakhstan, 2023 by Ulyana Gubareva, Ulyana Gubareva, Ulyana Gubareva, Roberta Horth, Roberta Horth, Dilyara Nabirova, Dilyara Nabirova, Nur Tukhanova, Nur Tukhanova, Elmira Utegenova, Elmira Utegenova, Zhanna Shapiyeva, Zangar Turliyev, Nazym Tleumbetova, Nurbek Maykanov, Manar Smagul, Alan L. Landay, Gavin Cloherty, Gavin Cloherty, Francisco Averhoff, Francisco Averhoff, Edmond F. Maes

“…In endemic regions of Kazakhstan, no confirmed HFRS cases were detected between 2020 and 2022 raising concerns about detection. …”
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Competencia sindical y disputas laborales. Un análisis aplicado para el caso español by Santos M. Ruesga Benito, Laura Pérez Ortiz, Manuel Pérez Trujillo

“…Antecedentes: los representantes de los trabajadores, organizados en sindicatos, son los encargados de encarnar la voz colectiva de éstos para defender sus intereses y propuestas en el entorno productivo. …”
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5-Lipoxygenase-Dependent Recruitment of Neutrophils and Macrophages by Eotaxin-Stimulated Murine Eosinophils by Ricardo Alves Luz, Pedro Xavier-Elsas, Bianca de Luca, Daniela Masid-de-Brito, Priscila Soares Cauduro, Luiz Carlos Gondar Arcanjo, Ana Carolina Cordeiro Faria dos Santos, Ivi Cristina Maria de Oliveira, Maria Ignez Capella Gaspar-Elsas

“…The roles of eosinophils in antimicrobial defense remain incompletely understood. In ovalbumin-sensitized mice, eosinophils are selectively recruited to the peritoneal cavity by antigen, eotaxin, or leukotriene(LT)B4, a 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) metabolite. 5-LO blockade prevents responses to both antigen and eotaxin. …”
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CD8 Knockout Mice Are Protected from Challenge by Vaccination with WR201, a Live Attenuated Mutant of Brucella melitensis by Samuel L. Yingst, Mina Izadjoo, David L. Hoover

“…CD8+ T cells have been reported to play an important role in defense against B. abortus infection in mouse models. …”
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Enhancement of punching shear behavior of reinforced concrete flat slabs using GFRP grating by Ahmed Mahmoud, Haitham Mostafa, Tarek Mostafa, Ahmed Khater

“…A Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis (NLFEA) was carried out using the ANSYS program with correlational evaluation using load-deflection response and cracking pattern, which resulted in a good convergence of numerical simulations and experimental performance results ranging from 1.0% to 8.0%. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Glued-Laminated Timber with Different Assembly Patterns by Shan Gao, Man Xu, Nan Guo, Ying Zhang

“…The grade of the second bottom lamina in tensile has little influence on the performance of glued-laminated timber, while lower grade laminae in compressive area of the section would cause a bending stiffness reduction at smaller deflection.…”
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Intravenous Laser Blood Irradiation and Tocilizumab in a Patient with Juvenile Arthritis by Dragos Andrei Chiran, Michael Weber, Laura Marinela Ailioaie, Eovelina Moraru, Constantin Ailioaie, Daniela Litscher, Gerhard Litscher

“…Biological agents induce JIA remission, but some patients do not respond favorably to this final therapeutic line of defense. ILBI was performed in a 16-year-old male patient, with JIA and transient immunodeficiency. …”
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Psychological Stress and the Cutaneous Immune Response: Roles of the HPA Axis and the Sympathetic Nervous System in Atopic Dermatitis and Psoriasis by Jessica M. F. Hall, desAnges Cruser, Alan Podawiltz, Diana I. Mummert, Harlan Jones, Mark E. Mummert

“…Skin provides a first line of defense against many environmental insults. A number of investigations have indicated that the skin is especially sensitive to psychological stress, and experimental evidence shows that the cutaneous innate and adaptive immune systems are affected by stressors. …”
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Root exudates regulate soil antibiotic resistance genes via rhizosphere microbes under long-term fertilization by Xiujing Guan, Yuhui Li, Yanying Yang, Zihua Liu, Rongguang Shi, Yan Xu

“…The metabolome analysis evidenced that significant correlations were found between defensive root exudates and most ARGs abundance (p < 0.05), like, luteolin-7-glucoside was negatively correlated with tetA(58). …”
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MOLECULAR AND GENETIC INSIGHTS OF ROOT-KNOT NEMATODES PATHOGENICITY: A REVIEW by Prabina Bhandari, Anjali Thapa, Anusha Ghimire, Sunil Ojha, Srijana Saud, Sanju Aryal

“…Plant parasitic nematode must develop molecular strategies to get around the plants defense mechanism in order to successfully enter and infect their host plants. …”
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CME Evolution in the Structured Heliosphere and Effects at Earth and Mars During Solar Minimum by Erika Palmerio, Christina O. Lee, Ian G. Richardson, Teresa Nieves‐Chinchilla, Luiz F. G. Dos Santos, Jacob R. Gruesbeck, Nariaki V. Nitta, M. Leila Mays, Jasper S. Halekas, Cary Zeitlin, Shaosui Xu, Mats Holmström, Yoshifumi Futaana, Tamitha Mulligan, Benjamin J. Lynch, Janet G. Luhmann

“…Analysis of remote‐sensing and in‐situ data supported by heliospheric modeling suggests that CME–HSS interaction resulted in the second CME rotating and deflecting in interplanetary space, highlighting that accurately reproducing the ambient solar wind is crucial even during “simpler” solar minimum periods. …”
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Movement of the South Russian Frontier in the 17th – First Half of the 19th Centuries as the Development of the “Wild Fields” by Valery V. Kanishchev, Yuri A. Mizis

“…In particular, it concerns the economic development of apicultural and other areas, hundreds of which at the end of the 16th – 17th centuries were located in the part of the “Wild Fields” that had not yet been subordinated to the Russian state, as well as the traces of agricultural hike on the territories south of the frontier of the 17th century developed there long before the construction of fortresses and defensive ramparts, – the facts identified recently in collaboration with soil scientists.…”
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Role of ginsenoside Rg1 as a PPAR-γ activator in protecting against manganese-induced hepatotoxicity: Insights into the TLR4/MyD88/MAPK signaling pathway by Mengjing Zhao, Min Zhang, Shoudong Ni

“…Rg1 markedly enhances the activities of SOD, GSH, and CAT, while reducing levels of MDA and ROS, indicating an improvement in antioxidant defense capacity. Furthermore, Rg1 decreases inflammatory markers iNOS, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-12 and NO levels, underscoring its strong anti-inflammatory effects. …”
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Encapsulation of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) using self-assembling food-derived proteins for efficient biological functions by Yumeng Liu, Kaixin Cao, Tong Li, Delun Mu, Naiqi Zhang, Ying Wang, Rina Wu, Junrui Wu

“…Encapsulation in micelles increased DHA aqueous solubility and uptake, which enhanced cellular endogenous antioxidant defense. Meanwhile, increased uptake of DHA was verified by HepG2 cells, and O, M, S, and β micelles were proven to increase DHA uptake to reduce lipid deposition. …”
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Genomic insights into ecological adaptation of oaks revealed by phylogenomic analysis of multiple species by Tian-Rui Wang, Xin Ning, Si-Si Zheng, Yu Li, Zi-Jia Lu, Hong-Hu Meng, Bin-Jie Ge, Gregor Kozlowski, Meng-Xiao Yan, Yi-Gang Song

“…In addition, we identified expansion and tandem repetitions within gene families that contribute to plant physical and chemical defense (e.g., cuticle biosynthesis and oxidosqualene cyclase genes), which may represent the foundation for the ecological adaptation of oak species. …”
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The Role of Antioxidant Enzymes in Adaptive Responses to Sheath Blight Infestation under Different Fertilization Rates and Hill Densities by Wei Wu, Xuejie Wan, Farooq Shah, Shah Fahad, Jianliang Huang

“…Identifying antioxidant enzymes activities (activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), and catalase (CAT)) and malondialdehyde content (MDA) responding to sheath blight infestation is imperative to understand the defensive mechanism systems of rice. In the present study, two inoculation methods (toothpick and agar block method) were tested in double-season rice. …”
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Secretory Leukocyte Protease Inhibitor Is an Inducible Antimicrobial Peptide Expressed in Staphylococcus aureus Endophthalmitis by Victor E. Reviglio, Ruben H. Sambuelli, Alejandra Olmedo, Micaela Falco, Jose Echenique, Terrence P. O'Brien, Irene C. Kuo

“…Release of SLPI by inflammatory cells in the anterior and posterior segments may contribute to the host defense response against infectious endophthalmitis.…”
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Investigation of mixed mode - I/II fracture problems - Part 1: computational and experimental analyses by O. Demir, S. İriç, A. O. Ayhan, H. Lekesiz

“…Results from finite element analyses and fracture loads, crack deflection angles obtained from the experiments are presented. …”
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Proinflammatory Responses of Heme in Alveolar Macrophages: Repercussion in Lung Hemorrhagic Episodes by Rafael L. Simões, Maria Augusta Arruda, Cláudio Canetti, Carlos H. Serezani, Iolanda M. Fierro, Christina Barja-Fidalgo

“…With alveolar macrophages (AM) being the main line of defense in lung environments, the influence of free heme on AM activity and function was investigated. …”
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Systematic qualitative proteome-wide analysis of lysine malonylation profiling in Platycodon grandiflorus by Qingshan Yang, Shaowei Xu, Weimin Jiang, Fei Meng, Shuting Wang, Zongping Sun, Na Chen, Daiyin Peng, Juan Liu, Shihai Xing

“…Moreover, malonylated proteins are also involved in stress and defense responses. This study shows that lysine malonylation can affect a variety of biological processes and metabolic pathways, and the contents are reported for the first time in P. grandiflorus, which can provide important information for further research on P. grandiflorus and lysine malonylation’s role in environment stress, photosynthesis, and secondary metabolites enrichment.…”
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