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... BACKGROUND: Creeping bentgrass (Agrostis soionifera) is a perennial grass of Gramineae, belonging to cold season turfgrass, but has poor disease resistance. Up to now, little is known about the induced systemic resistance (ISR) mechanism, especially the relevant functional proteins, which is important to disease resistance of turfgrass. Achieving more information of proteins of infected creeping b ...
... Food insecurity and malnutrition remain a challenge globally. The United Nation's “Scaling-up Nutrition” program emphasized the importance of women in national efforts to scale up nutrition. Many studies have explored this phenomenon, and several review studies have been published. However, there has been no report on the comprehensive analysis of the trends and key findings of these review articl ...
circular economy; energy; energy recovery; greenhouse gas emissions; landfills; life cycle assessment; management systems; material flow analysis; municipal solid waste
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... European Commission has promulgated a series of directives to divert MSW from landfills to more sustainable management options. To investigate whether the directives affect the MSW management practice locally, the transition of MSW management in Nottingham, UK, since the enforcement of the EU Landfill Directive, has been assessed by combining materials flow analysis (MFA) and life cycle assessment ...
... Poisson's ratio has been considered as an important parameter for the analysis of a geotechnical structure under both static and dynamic loads by many researchers. However, most of the studies have been performed using laboratory test such as resonant column and bender element, or the field test without seismic data such as suspension logging, seismic cross-hole and seismic cone penetration, the s ...
byproducts; liquids; ozone; ozone depletion; solar radiation; stratosphere
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... Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), of which the surface is a dynamic liquid water layer and might consist of aqueous HNO₃ and H₂O₂, is a well-known key meteorological condition contributing to the ozone hole in the polar stratosphere. PSCs has been considered to provide abundant surface for the heterogeneous reactions causing the formation of the Cl₂ and HOCl, which are further photolyzed into Cl ...
... Sialyllactose (SL) is an abundant carbohydrate in sow’s colostrum, but decreases during the first few days of lactation. Here, we investigated its effect on growth performance and intestinal epithelium development in pigs during the suckling period. Sixteen litters of suckling piglets were divided into two groups (Control and SL group). All piglets were breast fed and the SL group was orally admin ...
alginates; anisotropy; hydrogels; meat products; tensile strength; water content
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... Jerky is a type of meat product traditionally produced using a hang-drying process to achieve desirable textural properties. Inspired by the jerky processing, we present a strategy for fabricating strong alginate hydrogels with highly anisotropic structures via stretching and drying under constant stress. The tunable stretching process endowed the alginate hydrogels with adjustable mechanical prop ...
Spatholobus; anemia; anti-inflammatory activity; antimicrobial properties; antineoplastic activity; antioxidant activity; drugs; flavonoids; health services; neuroprotective effect; pain; paralysis; structure-activity relationships; taxon descriptions; therapeutics; toxicity; traditional medicine
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... Edible medicinal plants are important sources for the development of health beneficial products and drugs. Several species of the genus Spatholobus are considered as medicinal and food homologous plants in various Asian countries for the treatment of menstrual pain, anemia, paralysis, arthralgia, etc. Regarding this genus, mounting investigations on different aspects have been conducted; however, ...
... This paper investigates the properties of cement mortar containing recycled concrete powder (RCP) as sand replacement. Two types of model RCP prepared with designated water-to-cement (W/C) ratios in the laboratory, including recycled cement paste powder (RCPP) and recycled cement mortar powder (RCMP), were utilised in the mortar. The physical, mechanical and drying shrinkage properties of the mort ...
angiogenesis; apoptosis; biotechnology; bone marrow; cell movement; females; humans; menopause; protein synthesis
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... Estrogen is an important hormone affecting angiogenesis in women and is important for female physical development. Menopausal women are prone to serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases when estrogen is significantly reduced. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSC) have potential roles in processes such as angiogenesis and remodeling. This study is to investigate the effect of 17β-est ...
... Due to the technical barriers and complexity of biological detection equipment, the intensive study of the toxicokinetics of uranium has been limited. In other words, efficient biodetection system for accurately and conveniently uranium analysis is the core demand. In this study, an efficient monitoring system was developed for rapid visual detection of trace UO₂²⁺ in biological samples by using e ...
... The reactive iodine species may exhibit significant impacts on many global atmospheric issues and the I•/I₂•⁻ radicals play key roles for inducing the formation of these reactive iodine species. However, the current understanding on the formation of I•/I₂•⁻ radicals in atmospheric aqueous aerosol is still quite limited. The results reported herein suggest that I•/I₂•⁻ can be produced simultaneousl ...
Western blotting; angiogenesis; apoptosis; biomarkers; breast neoplasms; cell proliferation; flow cytometry; mice; neoplasm progression; precipitin tests; protein content; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; xenotransplantation
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... BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence has suggested that circular RNAs (circRNAs) play critical roles in breast cancer (BC) progression. However, the expression level and potential functional role of circRNA centrosomal protein 85 (circCEP85) in BC remains largely unknown. Here, we aimed to explore the role of circCEP85 in BC. METHODS: The levels of circCEP85, insuline-like growth factor I (IGF1) mRNA a ...
... The inhibition of anaerobic digestion (AD) by phenolic compounds is an obstacle to the efficient treatment of organic wastes. Besides, hydrochar produced from hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass has been previously reported to enhance AD. The present study aimed to provide deep insights into the microbial shifts at the species level to phenol (0–1.5 g/L) inhibition in AD of glucose with and witho ...
COVID-19 infection; air; air pollution; air quality; anthropogenic activities; environment; geomorphology; pandemic; pollution control; prediction; public health; transportation; China
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... Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the lockdown policy across the globe has brought improved air quality while fighting against the coronavirus. After the closure, urban air quality was subject to emission reduction of air pollutants and rebounded to the previous level after the potency period of recession. Different response patterns exhibit divergent sensitivities of urban resilience in re ...
energy conversion; environmental governance; light; nanocatalysts; photocatalysis; photocatalysts; semiconductors; solar energy
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... Photocatalytic technology exhibits great potential in environmental governance and solar energy conversion. However, it is difficult for a single material to achieve such a satisfying practical photocatalytic effect. CdS is an outstanding semiconductor, but the actual photocatalytic application of CdS has been severely constrained due to its poor optical stability and high carrier recombination ra ...
Dendrobium; Oriental traditional medicine; alkaloids; biochemical pathways; biosynthesis; chemical structure; cough; drug development; drugs; food safety; heat; lungs; phenanthrenes; phytochemicals; polysaccharides; stomach; terpenoids; toxicity; toxicology
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... Dendrobium Sw. has been used for thousands of years in China as a precious traditional Chinese medicine. It is derived from stems of various Dendrobium plants and has the functions of nourishing Yin and clearing heat, activating water and nourishing the stomach, moistening the lung and relieving cough. Modern phytochemical studies show that the main components of Dendrobium include alkaloids, poly ...
... This objective was to investigate the effect of fermented soybean meal (FSM) on growth performance, meat quality, and antioxidant capacity in finishing pigs. Results showed that dietary FSM significantly increased (P < 0.05) the average daily gain (ADG) and nutrient digestibility. FSM-containing diet increased serum antioxidant capacity, but decreased the malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration in lon ...
... The management of regional eco-environmental risks is the key to promoting regional economic sustainability from the macro level, and accurate evaluation of the evolutionary trends of regional ecological risk in the future is of high importance. In order to clearly identify the possible impact of future development scenario selection for the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone (C-C E Zone) on the evol ...
coronary disease; drug therapy; experimental design; genes; genomics; human health; humans; pharmacokinetics; regression analysis; risk; China
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... BACKGROUND: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a disease that seriously harms human health. Genetic factors seriously affect the CHD susceptibility. The CYP20A1, CYP4F2 and CYP2D6 are important drug metabolism enzymes in the human body. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to explore the association between CYP20A1, CYP4F2, CYP2D6 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and CHD risk in the Chinese Southern Han populat ...