Ranakinestatin-PPF from the Skin Secretion of the Fukien Gold-Striped Pond Frog, Pelophylax plancyi fukienensis: A Prototype of a Novel Class of Bradykinin B2 Receptor Antagonist P... by Jie Ma, Yu Luo, Lilin Ge, Lei Wang, Mei Zhou, Yingqi Zhang, Jinao Duan, Tianbao Chen, Chris Shaw

“…The defensive skin secretions of many amphibians are a rich source of bradykinins and bradykinin-related peptides (BRPs). …”
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Assessment of the Photosynthetic Response of Potato Plants Inoculated with <i>Rhizoctonia solani</i> and Treated with Flesh-Colored Potato Extracts Nanoencapsulated with Solid Lipi... by Sheina Rivas, Paola Fincheira, Felipe González, Christian Santander, Sebastián Meier, Cledir Santos, Boris Contreras, Antonieta Ruiz

“…During inoculation and commercial fungicide application, stomatal conductance, the photosynthetic rate, and the internal CO₂ concentration increased compared with those of the non-inoculated control (NT), whereas the nanoencapsulated extract maintained levels similar to those of the NT, suggesting the possible regulation of the photosynthetic defense system. In terms of photosynthetic pigments, SLN + FCP maintained chlorophyll concentrations, unlike those in inoculated plants, which significantly decreased. …”
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Nanoparticles as catalysts of agricultural revolution: enhancing crop tolerance to abiotic stress: a review by Yahan Cao, Khalid Turk, Nabila Bibi, Abdul Ghafoor, Nazeer Ahmed, Muhammad Azmat, Roshaan Ahmed, Muhammad Imran Ghani, Muhammad Abass Ahanger

“…The main emphasis is on the potential of NPs potential to boost plant stress tolerance by triggering the plant defense mechanisms, improving growth under stress, and increasing agricultural yield. …”
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Phages adapt to recognize an O-antigen polysaccharide site by mutating the “backup” tail protein ORF59, enabling reinfection of phage-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by Ping Li, Wenjie Ma, Jun Cheng, Cuixing Zhan, Hongzhou Lu, Jiayin Shen, Xin Zhou

“…In response to these host defense mechanisms, the adaptive mutant phages have evolved to utilize an alternative binding site located on an O-antigen site of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) through a mutation in the backup RBP ORF59. …”
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The Effect of Airflow-Assisted Parameters on Droplet Deposition on Soybean Leaves at the V7 Growth Stage by Yuefu Guo, Hao Wang, Wenfeng Sun, Yongli Sun, Rui Xing, Kaige Zhang, Xiaocheng Fang, Bin Sui, Jiehao Xu

“…The results indicated that the optimal operational parameters were an initial airflow speed of 20 m/s, an outlet-to-canopy distance of 0.45 m, and a forward airflow deflection angle of 32°. This optimal parameter combination improved droplet deposition. …”
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Comparison of different developmental stages of jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) fruit and identification of Hub genes by Li Yalan, Ren Tian, Qu Siyu, Hao Qing, Fan Dingyu, Alimire Alimu

“…The number of DEGs in the four group comparisons WM vs FE, ER vs WM, FR vs ER and FR vs FE groups were 1576, 8561, 1073 and 7884 DEGs, respectively, and mainly involved in biological processes such as stimulation, defence, immunity, ADP binding, DNA-binding transcription factor activity, secondary active transmembrane transporter activity, etc. …”
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A Simplified Method of Flexible Conductors Mechanic Calculation in Switchgears without Restrictions on the Number of Taps by Yu. V. Bladyko, E. G. Ponomarenko, P. I. Klimkovich

“…Formulas for calculating sag and horizontal deflections of conductors are given, too. The MR21 computer program, tested earlier, has been used in this work as a tool for checking the calculation results using the proposed simplified method.…”
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Hybrid Modification of Stone Mastic Asphalt with Cellulose and Basalt Fiber by You Huang, Zhaohui Liu, Li Liu, Yunbao Zhang, Qingxiang Xu

“…Specifically, cellulose fiber improved draindown, ductility, and fatigue more significantly, whilst basalt fiber has more influence on improving permanent deformation, deflection strength, and stress sensitivity. Equal portion of cellulose and basalt fiber has the best moisture damage resistance. …”
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Deformation and Failure Mechanism of Surrounding Rock in Mining-Influenced Roadway and the Control Technology by Jicheng Feng, Shuaifeng Yin, Zhiheng Cheng, Jianjun Shi, Haoyu Shi, Haitao Xu, Shuying Guo

“…Taking the boundary of η valuing 1, the larger or smaller η value was, the more serious the deformation and failure of surrounding rock would be; the morphology of the plastic zone changed with the deflection of the principal stress, with the location of the maximum plastic zone influenced by the principal stress direction. …”
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Geotouristic Coastal Itinerary in the South Coast of Paraíba (Northeast of Brazil) by Luciano Pereira, Arilde Alves

“…The places of interest are Amor Rock, Tombolo of Coqueirinho, Canyon of Coqueirinho, Cones of Dejection of Coqueirinho, Coqueirinho Structural High, Tambaba Beach and ‘Maceió’ of Mucatu. …”
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Caerin 1.1/1.9-mediated antitumor immunity depends on IFNAR-Stat1 signalling of tumour infiltrating macrophage by autocrine IFNα and is enhanced by CD47 blockade by Junjie Li, Yuandong Luo, Quanlan Fu, Shuxian Tang, Pingping Zhang, Ian H. Frazer, Xiaosong Liu, Tianfang Wang, Guoying Ni

“…Abstract Previously, we demonstrated that natural host-defence peptide caerin 1.1/caerin 1.9 (F1/F3) increases the efficacy of anti-PD-1 and therapeutic vaccine, in a HPV16 + TC-1 tumour model, but the anti-tumor mechanism of F1/F3 is still unclear. …”
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Asociación entre bajo peso al nacer y malformaciones congénitas by Guillermo Insfran, Raúl Aveiro, Alejandra Gomez, Pedro Melgarejo, Jeanine Bazzano, Federico Martinez, Laura Aria-Zaya, Luciana D. Garlisi-Torales, Gustavo Hernández-Córdova, Virgilio E. Failoc-Rojas, Mario J. Valladares-Garrido

“…Introducción: Las anomalías congénitas son defectos estructurales o funcionales durante la vida intrauterina. …”
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Temperature Adaptability of Asphalt Pavement to High Temperatures and Significant Temperature Differences by Xueying Zhao, Aiqin Shen, Baofu Ma

“…Moreover, when rutting depth, maximum shear stress of the asphalt course, deflection on the pavement surface, and compressive strains at the subgrade top surface were taken as the evaluation indices, the adaptability of asphalt pavements using compound base courses had obvious advantage due to their strong absorption and reflection of load impact. …”
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Professional experiences on use of the mental health act in ethnically diverse populations: a photovoice study by Roisin Mooney, Paul McCrone, Rose McCabe, Kamaldeep Bhui, Brian Brown, Colin King, Andrew Molodynski, Nusrat Husain, Jacqueline Sin, Karen Newbigging, Michael Larkin, Neil Caton, Raghu Raghavan, Doreen Joseph, Anthony Zigmond, Michelle Yeung, Julie Carr, Phuong Hua, Frank Keating, Tara Morey, Claire Dempsey, Rahul Battacharya, Nuwan Dissanyake, Rochelle Ramkisson, Laura Dixon, Kopal Tandon, Gary Roberts, Paul Illingworth, Jo White, Karen Persaud, Sayeeda Basharat, Tripti Kandia, Sandra Griffiths, Michael Molete

“…The legislation created an inflexible, risk-averse and defensive process in care. Police involvement added to concerns about criminalisation and stigma. …”
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A Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Diverse Regulatory Networks That Respond to Cold Stress in Strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa) by Yong Zhang, Yunting Zhang, Yuanxiu Lin, Ya Luo, Xiaorong Wang, Qing Chen, Bo Sun, Yan Wang, Mengyao Li, Haoru Tang

“…The cold signaling initiated expression of downstream cold-responsive (COR) genes with cis-acting element ABRE or CRT/DRE in the ABA-independent or ABA-dependent pathway to impel plant defense against the stress. Strikingly, GIGANTEA (gene id 101308922), two-component response regulator-like PRR95 (gene id 101295449), and ethylene-responsive transcription factor ERF105-like (gene id 101295082) were dramatically induced under low-temperature treatment, indicating that they played an important role in response to cold stress in strawberry.…”
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Correlation of Surface Toll-Like Receptor 9 Expression with IL-17 Production in Neutrophils during Septic Peritonitis in Mice Induced by E. coli by Yunjia Ren, Li Hua, Xiuping Meng, Yue Xiao, Xu Hao, Sheng Guo, Peiyan Zhao, Luowei Wang, Boqi Dong, Yongli Yu, Liying Wang

“…Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) are the first line of defense in bacterial infection and express surface Toll-like receptor 9 (sTLR9). …”
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Convergent origin and accelerated evolution of vesicle-associated RhoGAP proteins in two unrelated parasitoid wasps by Colinet, Dominique, Cavigliasso, Fanny, Leobold, Matthieu, Pichon, Apolline, Urbach, Serge, Cazes, Dominique, Poullet, Marine, Belghazi, Maya, Volkoff, Anne-Nathalie, Drezen, Jean-Michel, Gatti, Jean-Luc, Poirié, Marylène

“…Animal venoms and other protein-based secretions that perform a variety of functions, from predation to defense, are highly complex cocktails of bioactive compounds. …”
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Design and Characteristics of a Single-Story Building Model Incorporating Waste by Mohamed Darwish, Mohamed Elnakeb, Marina Moawad, Marwan Mohamed Shawki, Ehab Abdelhamid, Donia Eldwib, Mohamed Nagib Abouzeid, Maram Saudy, Safwan Khedr, Khaled Nassar

“…The structural soundness of the system was tested by loading it with a load surpassing its design load in addition to measuring the deflection and checking its abidance to the code limitations. …”
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Electronic Vaping-Induced Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus Pneumonia and Empyema by Sachin M. Patil, Phillip Paul Beck, Tarang Pankaj Patel, Richard Dale Swaney, Dima Dandachi, Armin Krvavac

“…MSSA pneumonia in immunocompetent young patients is uncommon due to healthy host defense mechanisms. However, certain individual risk factors promote infection, such as intravenous drug abuse. …”
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Early and delayed STAT1-dependent responses drive local trained immunity of macrophages in the spleen by Aryeh Solomon, Noa Bossel Ben-Moshe, Dotan Hoffman, Sébastien Trzebanski, Dror Yehezkel, Leia Vainman, Mihai G Netea, Roi Avraham

“…Using lineage tracing, we find that tissue-resident red pulp macrophages (RPM), initially depleted by BCG exposure, are restored from both tissue-trained, self-renewing macrophages and from bone marrow-derived progenitors, fostering long lasting local defense. Early inhibition of STAT1 activation, using specific JAK-STAT inhibitors, reduces both RPM loss and recruitment of trained monocytes. …”
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