Comments and corrections on 3D modeling studies of locomotor muscle moment arms in archosaurs.

abstract：Background:In idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL), the relationship between the administration duration of vitamin B12 (vit B12) with adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and their therapeutic effect is not fully understood. Objective:To investigate the therapeutic effect of long-term 16 (≥weeks) administrat...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kurioka T,Sano H,Furuki S,Yamashita T

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Climatic fluctuations during the Quaternary significantly affect many species in their intraspecific divergence and population structure across northwest China. In order to investigate the impact of climate change on herbaceous plants, we studied Panzerina lanata (Lamiaceae), a widely distributed species. Sequences of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhao Y,Zhang H,Pan B,Zhang M

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoamines serotonin and dopamine are important neuromodulators present in the central nervous system, known to be active regulators of social behaviour in fish as in other vertebrates. Our aim was to investigate the region-specific brain monoaminergic differences arising when individual cleaners face a client (mu...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： de Abreu MS,Messias JPM,Thörnqvist PO,Winberg S,Soares MC

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are globally distributed arthropods and a public health concern due to the many human pathogens they carry and transmit, including the causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi. As tick species' ranges increase, so do the number of reported tick related illnesses. The microbiome is a critical part of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gil JC,Helal ZH,Risatti G,Hird SM

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A key step in embryo implantation is the adhesion to and invasion of the endometrium by the blastocyst trophectoderm. The envelope proteins of HERV-W and -FRD (human endogenous retrovirus-W and -FRD), syncytin-1 and syncytin-2, are mainly distributed in the placenta, and play important roles in the developme...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo L,Gu F,Xu Y,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine (Met) is an essential sulfur-containing amino acid in animals. Cereal and legume crops with limiting levels of Met represent the major food and feed sources for animals. In plants, cystathionine gamma-synthase (CGS), methionine methyltransferase (MMT) and homocysteine methyltransferase (HMT) are committing ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhao M,Wang W,Wei L,Chen P,Yuan F,Wang Z,Ying X

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hydroporus memnonius species group includes both widespread and range restricted diving beetle taxa in the western Palaearctic, some of which have been divided into a number of geographical subspecies. Of these, Hydroporus necopinatus is distributed in the far west of Europe, from central Spain to southern Britain...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bilton DT,Turner L,Foster GN

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines are described as neuronal protrusions. The morphology of dendritic spines and dendrites has a strong relationship to its function, as well as playing an important role in understanding brain function. Quantitative analysis of dendrites and dendritic spines is essential to an understanding of the forma...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang S,Chen M,Li Y,Shao Y,Zhang Y,Du S,Wu J

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The partitioning of production forests into discretely managed forest stands confronts animals with diversity in forest attributes at scales from point-level tree assemblages to distinct forest patches and range-level forest cover. We have investigated the movement and ranging patterns of male Common Chaffinches, Frin...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kubiczek K,Renner SC,Böhm SM,Kalko EK,Wells K

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened the threat to the health and lives of patients with comorbid diseases. Infection by COVID-19 is especially detrimental to patients on hemodialysis. In this study, we evaluated the clinical characteristics, laboratory findings, treatments and prognoses of ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Luo Y,Li J,Liu Z,Yu H,Peng X,Cao C

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Much genomic-scale, especially transcriptomic, data on spider phylogeny has accumulated in the last few years. These data have recently been used to investigate the diverse architectures and the origin of spider webs, concluding that the ancestral spider spun no foraging web, that spider webs evolved de novo 10-14 tim...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Coddington JA,Agnarsson I,Hamilton CA,Bond JE

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephila clavata L Koch, known as the Joro spider and native to East Asia (Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan), is newly reported from North America. Specimens from several locations in northeast Georgia were collected from around residential properties in Barrow, Jackson, and Madison counties in late October and early No...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hoebeke ER,Huffmaster W,Freeman BJ

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are of great potential as novel antibiotics for the treatment of broad spectrum of pathogenic microorganisms including resistant bacteria. In this study, the mechanisms of action and the therapeutic efficacy of the hybrid peptides were examined. METHODS:TEM, SEM and ATP efflux ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jindal HM,Zandi K,Ong KC,Velayuthan RD,Rasid SM,Samudi Raju C,Sekaran SD

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:During their long evolution, Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 developed a remarkable capacity to acclimate to diverse environmental conditions. In this study, Raman spectroscopy and Raman chemometrics tools (RametrixTM) were employed to investigate the phenotypic changes in response to external stressors and correl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tanniche I,Collakova E,Denbow C,Senger RS

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Overweight (OW) is considered a risk for various metabolic diseases. However, its effects as a mechanism that alters the metabolite profiles remain unclear. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects that OW has on the lipid and metabolite profiles in young adults. Methods:The serum metabolite ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pasanta D,Chancharunee S,Tungjai M,Kim HJ,Kothan S

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Avoidance behavior involves learning responses that prevent upcoming aversive events; these responses typically extinguish when the aversive events stop materializing. Stimuli that signal safety from aversive events can paradoxically inhibit extinction of avoidance behavior. In animals, males and females process safet...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Radell ML,Beck KD,Pang KC,Myers CE

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:The study aimed to explore factors contributing to body weight change over time in gastric cancer patients after gastrectomy, in order to find risk factors to implement nutritional intervention beforehand. Methods:A cohort of gastric cancer patients who were treated with gastrectomy from January to March 2019 at ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tian Q,Qin L,Zhu W,Xiong S,Wu B

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Cyclin A overexpression is found in a variety of human tumors and correlates with unfavorable outcome. We analyzed immunohistochemical expression of cyclin A in Wilms tumor (WT) in relation to clinicopathological characteristics, preoperative chemotherapy (PrOpChTh), and overall survival (OS). Methods:This ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Radojević-Škodrić S,Brašanac D,Đuričić SM,Glumac S,Lončar Z,Pavlović I,Todorović A,Nikolić G,Baralić I,Pejić S

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Stellera chamaejasme Linn, an important poisonous plant of the China grassland, is toxic to humans and livestock. The rapid expansion of S. chamaejasme has greatly damaged the grassland ecology and, consequently, seriously endangered the development of animal husbandry. To draft efficient prevention and cont...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu X,Guan H,Song M,Fu Y,Han X,Lei M,Ren J,Guo B,He W,Wei Y

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ichthyosaur fossils are abundant in Lower Jurassic sediments with nine genera found in the UK. In this paper, we describe the partial skeleton of a large ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic (lower Sinemurian) of Warwickshire, England, which was conserved and rearticulated to form the centrepiece of a new permanent gal...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lomax DR,Porro LB,Larkin NR

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimating volumes and masses of total body components is important for the study and treatment monitoring of nutrition and nutrition-related disorders, cancer, joint replacement, energy-expenditure and exercise physiology. While several equations have been offered for estimating total body components from M...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lacoste Jeanson A,Dupej J,Villa C,Brůžek J

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The interconversion of hexose-6-phosphate and hexose-1-phosphate can be directly analyzed by high-performance anion-exchange chromatography coupled with an electrochemical detector (HPAEC-PAD). Thus, this method can be used to measure the activities of N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate mutase (AGM), glucosamine-phosphate ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jia X,Kang J,Yin H

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conserving biodiversity in tropical landscapes is a major challenge to scientists and conservationists. Current rates of deforestation, fragmentation, and land use intensification are producing variegated landscapes with undetermined values for the conservation of biological communities and ecosystem functio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Costa C,Oliveira VHF,Maciel R,Beiroz W,Korasaki V,Louzada J

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Artifacts removal and rhythms extraction from electroencephalography (EEG) signals are important for portable and wearable EEG recording devices. Incorporating a novel grouping rule, we proposed an adaptive singular spectrum analysis (SSA) method for artifacts removal and rhythms extraction. Based on the EEG signal am...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hu H,Guo S,Liu R,Wang P

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of mobile sensors brings new opportunities to medical research. In particular, mobile electroencephalography (EEG) devices can be potentially used in low cost screening for epilepsy and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. The necessary condition for such applications is thoughtful validation in t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kutafina E,Brenner A,Titgemeyer Y,Surges R,Jonas S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Vegetation in the Mongolian Plateau is very sensitive to climate change, which has a significant impact on the regulation of terrestrial carbon cycle. Methods:We analyzed spatio-temporal changes of both growing season and the seasonal Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) using simple linear trend a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Meng M,Huang N,Wu M,Pei J,Wang J,Niu Z

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive measurements of glucocorticoid (GC) concentrations, including cortisol and corticosterone, serve as reliable indicators of adrenocortical activities and physiological stress loads in a variety of species. As an alternative to invasive analyses based on plasma, GC concentrations in saliva still represent s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Nemeth M,Pschernig E,Wallner B,Millesi E

更新日期：2016-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea, is a commonly consumed small freshwater bivalve in East Asia. However, available genetic information of this clam is still limited. In this study, the transcriptome of female C. fluminea was sequenced using the Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform. A total of 89,563 unigenes were assembled ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhu C,Zhang L,Ding H,Pan Z

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Physical activity is important for children's physical, mental, and social well-being. Outdoor active play is an important yet unstudied domain of children's physical activity. The objective of this study was to determine if parental encouragement is associated with the frequency that children engage in ou...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ferrao T,Janssen I

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. A "cafeteria" diet is a self-selected high-fat diet, providing an excess of energy, which can induce obesity. Excess of lipids in the diet hampers glucose utilization eliciting insulin resistance, which, further limits amino acid oxidation for energy. Methods. Male Wistar rats were exposed for a month to "...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sabater D,Agnelli S,Arriarán S,Romero Mdel M,Fernández-López JA,Alemany M,Remesar X

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00