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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Brazilian dietary patterns and the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (D...
Abstract Background Studies evaluating dietary patterns, including the DASH diet, and their relationship with the metabolic syndrome and diabetes may help to understand the role... -
Applying a cumulative risk framework to drinking water assessment: a commentary
Abstract The health risks of drinking water contaminants and the economic benefits of drinking water standards are typically assessed one chemical at a time, an approach that... -
Mineral precipitation-induced porosity reduction and its effect on transport ...
Abstract Background In geochemically perturbed systems where porewater and mineral assemblages are unequilibrated the processes of mineral precipitation and dissolution may... -
Whether vitamin D was associated with clinical outcome after IVF/ICSI: a syst...
Abstract Background There exist contradictive views on whether the vitamin D has association with clinical outcome of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and/or intracytoplasmic sperm... -
Bacterial metabolites directly modulate farnesoid X receptor activity
Abstract Background The farnesoid X receptor (FXR), a ligand-activated transcription factor belonging to the adopted orphan receptor, plays an important role in maintaining...
