Influence of nutritional status on rehabilitation efficacy of patients after stroke—a scoping review by Huan Chen, Caihong Fu, Weihao Fang, Zhenyao Wang, Dawei Zhang, Hu Zhang

“…The findings indicate that supplementation with nutrients such as proteins, vitamins, essential amino acids, and antioxidants can enhance activities of daily living, improve balance function, and reduce neurological deficits in post-stroke patients. …”
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Effects of exogenous selenium application on quality characteristics, selenium speciation, and in vitro bioaccessibility of rice pancakes by Feiran An, Kun Zhuang, Lingling Shangguan, Lan Yao, Jun Dai

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Minimization of the Bacillus subtilis divisome suggests FtsZ and SepF can form an active Z-ring, and reveals the amino acid transporter BraB as a new cell division influencing fact... by Ilkay Celik Gulsoy, Terrens N V Saaki, Michaela Wenzel, Simon Syvertsson, Taku Morimoto, Tjalling K Siersma, Leendert W Hamoen

“…After extensive phenotypic testing of these mutations, we found an unexpected cell division regulation function for the branched chain amino acid transporter BraB, which may be related to a change in fatty acid composition. …”
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Freezing Treatments for Ectomyelois ceratoniae Mortality and Maintenance of Deglet Noor Palm Date Quality by Rihab Ben-Amor, María Dolores de Miguel-Gómez, Dhouibi Mohamed Habib, Hermi Nouha, Encarna Aguayo

“…However, other parameters such as color, amino acids, total phenolic content, and microbial and sensorial quality were not affected by that treatment. …”
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Clinical Features, Treatment, and Surveillance of Hyperparathyroidism-Jaw Tumor Syndrome: An Up-to-Date and Review of the Literature by Francesca Torresan, Maurizio Iacobone

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Response of Date Palm Trees (Phoenix dactylifera L.) to Treatment with Boron and Silica Sol Nutrient Solution under Saline Growing Conditions by Hassan A. Faisal, Abdul Samad Aboud Abdullah, Ahmed Y. Lafta Hzaa

“…The treatments (boron at 200 mg L-1 and silica sol 6 mL L-1) decreased significantly, recording the lowest values in the concentration of sodium, chlorine, amino acids, proline, and ionic leakage of potassium ions in the leaves, while the comparison treatment recorded the highest values for the same traits. …”
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Fodder qualities of heterotic hybrids from intergeneric crosses between maize and eastern gamagrass by P. A. Panikhin, V. A. Sokolov

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Microscopy and spatial-metabolomics identify tissue-specific metabolic pathways uncovering salinity and drought tolerance mechanisms in Avicennia marina and Phoenix dactylifera roo... by Paula Oyarce, Ting Ting Xiao, Corinna Henkel, Signe Frost Frederiksen, Jose Kenyi Gonzalez-Kise, Wouter Smet, Jian You Wang, Salim Al-Babili, Ikram Blilou

“…Our metabolomic analysis shows that date palm roots are enriched in metabolites involved in amino acid biosynthesis, whereas compounds involved in lignin and suberin production were more abundant in mangrove roots. …”
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Physiological, biochemical and genetic bases of amaranth (Amaranthus L.) breeding for food and feed purposes (a review) by A. B. Shcherban

“…It is characterized by a high content of protein saturated with essential amino acids, especially lysine, and a large number of bioactive compounds, such as vitamin C, amaranthine, rutin, carotenoids, etc. …”
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Acute Psychological Stress Modulates the Expression of Enzymes Involved in the Kynurenine Pathway throughout Corticolimbic Circuits in Adult Male Rats by Haley A. Vecchiarelli, Chaitanya P. Gandhi, Matthew N. Hill

“…Tryptophan is an essential dietary amino acid that is necessary for protein synthesis, but also serves as the precursor for serotonin. …”
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Fucoxanthin Inhibits the NMDA and AMPA Receptors Through Regulating the Calcium Response on Substantia Gelatinosa Neurons of the Trigeminal Subnucleus Caudalis in Juvenile Mice by Nhung Ha Thuy Le, Seon Ah Park, Yu Mi Kim, Dong Kuk Ahn, Won Jung, Seong Kyu Han

“…Specifically, the N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA)- and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)-induced responses but not the kainic acid receptor (KAR)-mediated response were suppressed by FCX in standard extracellular solution. …”
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Engineering of l-threonine and l-proline biosensors by directed evolution of transcriptional regulator SerR and application for high-throughput screening by Wei Pu, Jinhui Feng, Jiuzhou Chen, Jiao Liu, Xuan Guo, Lixian Wang, Xiaojia Zhao, Ningyun Cai, Wenjuan Zhou, Yu Wang, Ping Zheng, Jibin Sun

“…Abstract Amino acids are important bio-based products with a multi-billion-dollar market. …”
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Promising role of voxelotor in managing sickle cell disease in children: a narrative review by Amit Agrawal, Gaurav Jadon, Japna Singh, Dalwinder Janjua

“…Sickle cell disease (SCD) is characterized by chronic hemolytic anemia and intermittent vasoocclusive crises. To date, 4 disease-modifying drugs have been approved for the treatment of SCD: hydroxyurea (an S-phase inhibitor), L-glutamine (an amino acid), crizanlizumab (a P-selectin inhibitor), and voxelotor (a hemoglobin S polymerization inhibitor). …”
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New Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy in Gastroenterology by SG Bown, AZ Rogowska

“…The photosensitizing agent 5-amino levulinic acid, converted in vivo into the photoactive derivative protoporphyrin IX, sensitizes the mucosa much more than the underlying layers. …”
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High-resolution isotope dietary analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic humans from Franchthi Cave, Greece. by Valentina Martinoia, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Sahra Talamo, Rebecca MacDonald, Michael P Richards

“…High-resolution compound specific amino acid isotope analysis reported here from humans from the Lower Mesolithic and Middle Neolithic periods confirms the previous bulk isotope results in showing little or no consumption of marine foods in either time period. …”
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D-Serine Production, Degradation, and Transport in ALS: Critical Role of Methodology by John P. Crow, John C. Marecki, Misty Thompson

“…In mammalian systems, D-serine is perhaps the most biologically active D-amino acid described to date. D-serine is a coagonist at the NMDA-receptor, and receptor activation is dependent on D-serine binding. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of the LRR-RLK Gene Family in Two Vernicia Species by Huiping Zhu, Yangdong Wang, Hengfu Yin, Ming Gao, Qiyan Zhang, Yicun Chen

“…The conserved motif of the LRR domain in Vf/VmLRR-RLKs matched well the known plant LRR consensus sequence but differed at the third last amino acid (W or L). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that Vf/VmLRR-RLKs were grouped into 16 subclades. …”
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Proline and ROS: A Unified Mechanism in Plant Development and Stress Response? by Marco Renzetti, Dietmar Funck, Maurizio Trovato

“…The proteinogenic amino acid proline plays crucial roles in both plant development and stress responses, far exceeding its role in protein synthesis. …”
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Epigene functional diversity: isoform usage, disordered domain content, and variable binding partners by Leroy Bondhus, Aileen A. Nava, Isabelle S. Liu, Valerie A. Arboleda

“…Epigenes’ unique functions that require the assembly of pools within the nucleus suggest that their structure and amino acid composition would have been enriched for features that enable efficient assembly of chromatin and DNA for transcription, splicing, and post-translational modifications. …”
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Complete Genome Sequence Analysis of the First Imported Mpox Virus Clade Ib Variant in China by Yin Song, Yong Yan, Jingyu Xu, Shencong Lv, Ganglin Ren, Yamei Zhou, Wanchen Song, Rui Ge, Peihua Xu, Guoying Zhu, Zhongwen Chen

“…Compared with the MPXV clade Ib reference strain DQ011155.1, there are 127 nucleotide alterations and 57 amino acid mutations in the MPXV genome of this case. …”
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