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Effects of cyanobacterial toxins on the human gastrointestinal tract and the ...
Abstract Background Cyanobacterial blooms occur with increasing frequency in freshwater ecosystems, posing a hazard to human and environmental health. Exposure of human to... -
OhsR acts as an organic peroxide-sensing transcriptional activator using an S...
Abstract Background Corynebacterium glutamicum is a well-known producer of various l-amino acids in industry. During the fermenting process, C. glutamicum unavoidably encounters... -
Magnitude and influence of atmospheric phosphorus deposition on the southern ...
Abstract Background There are various ways for nutrients to enter aquatic ecosystems causing eutrophication. Phosphorus deposition through precipitation can be one pathway,... -
Global transcriptional landscape and promoter mapping of the gut commensal Bi...
Abstract Background Bifidobacterium breve represents a common member of the infant gut microbiota and its presence in the gut has been associated with host well being. For this... -
Oligo-carrageenan kappa increases glucose, trehalose and TOR-P and subsequent...
Abstract Background It has been previously shown that oligo-carrageenan (OC) kappa increases growth, photosynthesis and activities of enzymes involved in basal and secondary... -
Genome-scale metabolic model analysis indicates low energy production efficie...
Abstract Marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) play an important role in the global nitrogen cycle by obtaining energy for biomass production from CO2 via oxidation of... -
Subnanometer optical coherence tomographic vibrography
The ability to quantify and visualize submicrometer-scale oscillatory motions of objects in three dimensions has a wide range of application in acoustics, materials sciences,... -
A comparison of intestinal microbiota in a population of low-risk infants exp...
Abstract Background The intestinal microbiota influences metabolic, nutritional, and immunologic processes and has been associated with a broad range of adverse health outcomes... -
Light scattering calculations from oleic-acid droplets with water inclusions
We present modeling results in video format showing the changes that occur in the light scattered by a spherical oleic-acid host droplet containing a spherical water inclusion... -
Association between heat stress and oxidative stress in poultry; mitochondria...
Abstract Heat as a stressor of poultry has been studied extensively for many decades; it affects poultry production on a worldwide basis and has significant impact on well-being... -
Evidence of metachronous development of ovarian teratomas: a case report of b...
Abstract Background Mature cystic teratomas are usually found in the ovaries. They are bilateral in 10 to 15% of cases and multiple cystic teratomas may be present in one ovary.... -
Rough surface Au@Ag core–shell nanoparticles to fabricating high sensitivity ...
Abstract Immunochromatographic sensors (ICSs) are inexpensive, simple, portable, and robust, thus making ICSs commonplace in clinical diagnoses, food testing, and environmental... -
New insights on serodiagnosis of trichinellosis during window period: early d...
Abstract The clinical diagnosis of trichinellosis is difficult because its clinical manifestations are nonspecific. Detection of anti-Trichinella IgG by ELISA using T. spiralis... -
Probabilistic modelling of prospective environmental concentrations of gold n...
Abstract Background The use of gold nanoparticles (Au-NP) based medical applications is rising due to their unique physical and chemical properties. Diagnostic devices based on... -
Electron wave-packet dynamics in a relativistic electromagnetic field: 3-D an...
A solution to the Klein Gordon equation for a laser-driven electron is constructed from a superposition of Volkov states. The time-and space-dependent three-dimensional... -
Can tryptophan supplement intake at breakfast enhance melatonin secretion at ...
Abstract Background Tryptophan (TRP) is an essential amino acid, and it has been suggested that TRP intake at breakfast combined with daytime bright light exposure can increase... -
De novo transcriptome sequencing of radish (Raphanus sativus L.) fleshy roots...
Abstract Background The HongXin radish (Raphanus sativus L.), which contains the natural red pigment (red radish pigment), is grown in the Fuling district of Chongqing City.... -
Temperature-related mortality estimates after accounting for the cumulative e...
Abstract Background To propose a new method for including the cumulative mid-term effects of air pollution in the traditional Poisson regression model and compare the... -
Use of meat juice and blood serum with a miniaturised protein microarray assa...
Abstract Background Serological screening of pig herds at the abattoir is considered a potential tool to improve meat inspection procedures and herd health management.... -
Faster and less phototoxic 3D fluorescence microscopy using a versatile compr...
Three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy based on Nyquist sampling of focal planes faces harsh trade-offs between acquisition time, light exposure, and signal-to-noise. We...
