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Po-Kai Pan, Tsung-Meng Wu, Chiu-Ming Wen, Yin-Yu Chen and Yu-Sheng Wu
Sarcodia suieae acetyl-xylogalactan was reported to induce macrophage polarisation, and could positively regulate macrophage activation. In this study, we evaluated the effect of Sarcodia suieae acetyl-xylogalactan on the Nile tilapia. First, we assessed...
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Mingli Chen, Siyu Shen, Zhiyuan Li, Huashun Wang, Jin Wang, Guangyu Yang, Wenwu Yang, Lele Deng, Daping Gong and Jianduo Zhang
2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2AP) is a highly effective volatile compound that gives fragrance to numerous plant species and food. Mutation(s) in the betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (BADH2) gene results in the accumulation of 2AP. However, the function of BADH...
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Tengfei Zhan, Xin Guo, Lu Ma, Shengyong Mao and Dengpan Bu
The odd- and branched-chain fatty acids (OBCFA) accumulated in ruminant products are a class of beneficial fatty acids for human health. Since biotin and leucine are involved in OBCFA synthesis, this study aimed to evaluate their effect on OBCFA synthesi...
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Carlos Sousa-Ortega, José Luis Fernandez and Mino Sportelli
Wild oats are worldwide grassy weeds that cause substantial yield losses, particularly in winter cereal crops. In addition, wild oat herbicide resistant cases have increased; indeed, up to 52 cases have been registered. Despite this, no wild oat herbicid...
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Alina Madalina Ple?oianu and Violeta Nour
This study investigated the effects of pectin, chitosan, sodium alginate, and carboxymethyl cellulose-based edible coatings, individually and/or in combination with N-acetyl cysteine as an antibrowning agent, on some physical, chemical, and antioxidant p...
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Noa Miguez, Peter Kidibule, Paloma Santos-Moriano, Antonio O. Ballesteros, Maria Fernandez-Lobato and Francisco J. Plou
Chitooligosaccharides (COS) are homo- or hetero-oligomers of D-glucosamine (GlcN) and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) that can be obtained by chitosan or chitin hydrolysis. Their enzymatic production is preferred over other methodologies (physical, chemi...
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Injung Lee, Anantha-Iyengar Gopalan and Kwang-Pill Lee
The separation of chiral compounds is an interesting and challenging topic in analytical chemistry, especially in environmental fields. Enantioselective degradation or bioaccumulation has been observed for several chiral pollutants. Polycyclic musks are ...
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Dalila Scaturro, Fabio Vitagliani, Vito Emanuele Di Bella, Vincenzo Falco, Sofia Tomasello, Lorenza Lauricella and Giulia Letizia Mauro
Post-COVID syndrome is characterized by the persistence of nonspecific disabling symptoms, even several months after the resolution of the infection, with clinical characteristics similar to fibromyalgia (FM) and a prevalence of 31%. We evaluated the eff...
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Pawel Solarczyk, Marcin Golebiewski, Jan Slósarz and Kamila Puppel
The aim of the experiment was to study the relationship between the age of cows, blood BHBA content, and CLA isomer (C18:2 cis9,trans11, CLA9; C18:2 trans10,cis12, CLA10) content during the first three weeks post-partum. For the experiment, 105 cows were...
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Xiaozhou Xue, Qi Liang, Qunyu Gao and Zhigang Luo
Cross-linked esterified starch (CES) was prepared using a one-step method, where maize starch was selected as the raw material, sodium trimetaphosphate as the cross-linking agent, and acetic anhydride as the esterifying agent, respectively. A response su...
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Daniel Krah, Ann-Kathrin Ghattas, Arne Wick, Kathrin Bröder, Thomas A. Ternes
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A procedure was developed to assess the biodegradation of micropollutants in cell-free lysates produced from activated sludge of a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). This proof-of-principle provides the basis for further investigations of micro...
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Robert Siblerud, Joachim Mutter, Elaine Moore, Johannes Naumann and Harald Walach
Mercury is one of the most toxic elements and causes a multitude of health problems. It is ten times more toxic to neurons than lead. This study was created to determine if mercury could be causing Alzheimer?s disease (AD) by cross referencing the effect...
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Michalis Rasoulis and Dimitra Vernardou
Electrodeposition of vanadium pentoxide coatings was performed at room temperature and a short growth period of 15 min based on an alkaline solution of methanol and vanadyl (III) acetyl acetonate. All samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Rama...
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Panpan Liu, Dong Wang, Yue Li, Ji Liu, Yongxing Cui, Guopeng Liang, Chaoqun Wang, Chao Wang, Daryl L. Moorhead and Ji Chen
Although crop conversion from annual to perennial crops has been considered as one path towards climate-smart and resource-efficient agriculture, the effects of this conversion on soil multifunctionality and biomass yields remain unclear. The objective o...
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Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Kalarani M. Karuppasami, Senthil Alagarswamy, Kavitha P. Shanmugam, Sivakumar Rathinavelu, Geethalakshmi Vellingiri, Umapathi Muniyappan, Thirukumaran Kanthan, Anitha Kuppusamy, Megala Rajendran, Arunkumar Kathirvel and Selvaraju Kanagarajan
Melatonin (MT), a naturally occurring compound, is found in various species worldwide. In 1958, it was first identified in the pineal gland of dairy cows. MT is an ?old friend? but a ?new compound? for plant biology. It brings experts and research minds ...
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Dobroslava Bujnáková, Katarína Kucková, Zora Váradyová, Iveta Plachá, Viola Strompfová, Jan Bohm, Lenka Micenková and Klaudia Cobanová
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the impact of feed supplementation with organic zinc and/or a medicinal plants mixture on the composition and enzymatic activity of intestinal microflora as well as on the duodenal and jejunal barrier integ...
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En-Shyh Lin and Cheng-Yang Huang
Plinia cauliflora has been associated with numerous ethnobotanical applications. In this study, we uncovered that the fruit extract of P. cauliflora, obtained using 50% ethanol, possesses inhibition activity against the Klebsiella pneumoniae single-stran...
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Mohammed Saeed Alkaltham, Khizar Hayat, Ahmad Mohammad Salamatullah, Mohammed Asif Ahmed and Amro B. Hassan
Leptadenia pyrotechnica is considered a wild herb used to enhance the palatability of food, particularly in the Gulf region. The effect of microwave (5, 8, and 10 min at 900 W) and hot-air heating (60, 120, and 180 min at 100 °C) on the phenolic compound...
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Qian Zhang, Yanrong Li, Kai Liao, Deshui Chen, Yangyang Qiu, Xiaojun Yan and Jilin Xu
The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) has been shown to play a central role in regulating cell growth and metabolism. However, little is known about the function of mTOR in nutrient metabolism in bivalve mollusks. In this study, the role of mTOR in th...
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Emannuel Omenna,Bukola Victoria Ailenokhuoria
Inadequate information on the binding characteristics of kenaf biomass at the molecular level has adversely affected the modifications of its cellulose-hemicellulose-lignin structure. This study was undertaken to assess the characteristic features and ch...
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