Medial knee joint contact force in the intact limb during walking in recently ambulatory service members with unilateral limb loss: a cross-sectional study.

abstract：:Coastal birds are critical ecosystem constituents on sandy shores, yet are threatened by depressed reproductive success resulting from direct and indirect anthropogenic and natural pressures. Few studies examine clutch fate across the wide range of environments experienced by birds; instead, most focus at the small si...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Maslo B,Schlacher TA,Weston MA,Huijbers CM,Anderson C,Gilby BL,Olds AD,Connolly RM,Schoeman DS

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being geographically central to the Atlantic Americas Flyway for migratory birds, the Caribbean is often overlooked or underappreciated when addressing the conservation of North American shorebirds. To our knowledge, this is the first Caribbean-wide assessment of shorebird use in the region. We analyzed 211,01...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cañizares JR,Reed JM

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Two forms of the monstrilloid copepod, one represented by males, the other by females, were dominant among the monstrilloids collected while sampling zooplankton with a light trap in southern coastal waters of Korea. Morphological examination revealed that the males are conspecific with the previously reported and rat...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jeon D,Lim D,Lee W,Soh HY

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy serves as a turnover mechanism for the recycling of redundant and/or damaged macromolecules present in eukaryotic cells to re-use them under starvation conditions via a double-membrane structure known as autophagosome. A set of eukaryotic genes called autophagy-related genes (ATGs) orchestrate this highly el...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Aslan E,Küçükoğlu N,Arslanyolu M

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Pueraria lobata (willd.) Ohwi is a consumable selenium-enriched plant used for medicinal purposes. The molecular response to selenium (Se) stimuli in P. lobata is currently unknown. We used RNA-Seq to identify potential genes involved in selenite metabolism and analyzed their expression profiles. We obtained a total o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo K,Yao Y,Yang M,Li Y,Wu B,Lin X

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In summer 2012, we initiated a large-scale field experiment in southern Ontario, Canada, to determine whether exposure to clothianidin seed-treated canola (oil seed rape) has any adverse impacts on honey bees. Colonies were placed in clothianidin seed-treated or control canola fields during bloom, and thereafter were ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cutler GC,Scott-Dupree CD,Sultan M,McFarlane AD,Brewer L

更新日期：2014-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovine footrot is a degenerative disease of sheep feet leading to the separation of hoof-horn from the underlying skin and lameness. This study quantitatively examined histological features of the ovine interdigital skin as well as their relationship with pro-inflammatory cytokine (IL-1β) and virulent Dichelobacter nod...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Agbaje M,Rutland CS,Maboni G,Blanchard A,Bexon M,Stewart C,Jones MA,Totemeyer S

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance strategies of clonal organs, and parent and offspring shoots of Phragmites australis (common reed) to heavy metal pollution in soils are not well known. To clarify the tolerance or resistance strategies in reeds, we conducted a pot experiment with five levels of Pb concentration (0∼4,500 mg kg-1) in flood a...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang N,Zhang J,Li Z,Chen J,Zhang Z,Mu C

更新日期：2018-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Aedes aegypti is the major vector of dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya viruses that put millions of people in endemic countries at risk. Mass rearing of this mosquito is crucial for strategies that use modified insects to reduce vector populations and transmission of pathogens, such as sterile insect technique or p...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gonzales KK,Tsujimoto H,Hansen IA

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Several aspects of an individual's appearance have been shown to predict personality and related behaviour. While some of these cues are grounded in biology (e.g., the human face), other aspects of a person's appearance can be actively controlled (e.g., clothing). In this paper, we consider a common fashion accessory,...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ellis DA,Jenkins R

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and apes, yawn contagion echoes emotional contagion, the basal layer of empathy. Hence, yawn contagion is a unique tool to compare empathy across species. If humans are the most empathic animal species, they should show the highest empathic response also at the level of emotional contagion. We gathered data ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Palagi E,Norscia I,Demuru E

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Compare the immediate effects of a Neurodynamic Mobilization (NM) treatment or foam roller (FR) treatment after DOMS. DESIGN:Double blind randomised clinical trial. SETTING:The participants performed 100 drop jumps (5 sets of 20 repetitions, separated by 2 min rests) from a 0.5-m high box in a University b...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Romero-Moraleda B,La Touche R,Lerma-Lara S,Ferrer-Peña R,Paredes V,Peinado AB,Muñoz-García D

更新日期：2017-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of people suffering from eye fatigue induced by visual display terminal (VDT) viewing is expected to increase in the modern world. Eye dysfunction is suggested to induce a decrease in cognitive function, at least in the long term. Furthermore, considering other previous findings, it may be reasonable to thi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Akagi R,Tonotsuka M,Horie R,Hirata K,Ando S

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Proper glycemic control is an important goal of critical care medicine, including perioperative patient care that can influence patients' prognosis. Insulin secretion from pancreatic β-cells is generally assumed to play a critical role in glycemic control in response to an elevated blood glucose concentratio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kusunoki M,Hayashi M,Shoji T,Uba T,Tanaka H,Sumi C,Matsuo Y,Hirota K

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The most intense commercial harvest of marine aquarium species in North America occurs in the coastal waters surrounding Florida, yet very often little information exists on the life histories, population dynamics, or reproductive characteristics of these organisms. The peppermint shrimp Lysmata boggessi is one such s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dickson MD,Behringer DC,Baeza JA

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia postconditioning (IPo) is a promising strategy in reducing myocardial ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury (MIRI), but its specific molecular mechanism is incompletely understood. Langendorff-perfused isolated rat hearts were subjected to global I/R and received IPo in the absence or presence of the mitochondria...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cao S,Liu Y,Wang H,Mao X,Chen J,Liu J,Xia Z,Zhang L,Liu X,Yu T

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Jatropha curcas L. belongs to Euphorbiaceae family, and it synthesizes flavonoid and diterpene compounds that have showed antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antiviral, antimicrobial, antifungal and insecticide activity. Seeds of this plant accumulate phorbol esters, which are tigliane type diterpenes, reporte...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Leyva-Padrón G,Vanegas-Espinoza PE,Evangelista-Lozano S,Del Villar-Martínez AA,Bazaldúa C

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate identification of protein-protein interactions (PPI) is the key step in understanding proteins' biological functions, which are typically context-dependent. Many existing PPI predictors rely on aggregated features from protein sequences, however only a few methods exploit local information about specific resi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zubek J,Tatjewski M,Boniecki A,Mnich M,Basu S,Plewczynski D

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial evidence has shown that most exogenous substances are metabolized by multiple cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes instead of by merely one P450 isoform. Thus, multi-P450 inhibition leads to greater drug-drug interaction risk than specific P450 inhibition. Herein, we innovatively established an artificial neural...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li Z,Li Y,Sun L,Tang Y,Liu L,Zhu W

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Niche production is intended to produce premium pork, but several husbandry factors may affect the meat fatty acid composition and aroma. Fatty acid profile (by GC-FID) of raw meat and volatile compounds (by SPME-GC-MS) of cooked meat were analysed in loin samples from two pig genetic types-75% Duroc (Du) and 50% Piet...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Argemí-Armengol I,Villalba D,Tor M,Pérez-Santaescolástica C,Purriños L,Manuel Lorenzo J,Álvarez-Rodríguez J

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The decline in the number of hours Americans spend outdoors, exacerbated by urbanization, has affected people's familiarity with local wildlife. This is concerning to conservationists, as people tend to care about and invest in what they know. Children represent the future supporters of conservation, such that their k...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Schuttler SG,Stevenson K,Kays R,Dunn RR

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Quality of life is an important health outcome for older persons. It predicts the adverse outcomes of institutionalization and premature death. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the influence of both disability in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily livi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gobbens RJ

更新日期：2018-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide health, economic, and social burden, especially in developing countries. Drug-resistant TB is the most serious type of this burden. Thus, it is necessary to screen drug-resistant mutations by using a simple and rapid detection method. A total of 32 pairs of allele-specific PCR (AS-PCR)...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Yang P,Song Y,Xia X,Zhang AM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Human population growth has led to biodiversity declines in tropical cities. While habitat loss and fragmentation have been the main drivers of urban biodiversity loss, man-made interventions to reduce health risks have also emerged as an unintentional threat. For instance, insecticide fogging to control mos...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lee NSM,Clements GR,Ting ASY,Wong ZH,Yek SH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent evolution can provide insights into the predictability of, and constraints on, the evolution of biodiversity. One striking example of convergence is seen in the 'river dolphins'. The four dolphin genera that make up the 'river dolphins' (Inia geoffrensis, Pontoporia blainvillei, Platanista gangetica and Lip...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Page CE,Cooper N

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the existence of coral-reef habitats at depths to 165 m in tropical regions has been known for decades, the richness, diversity, and ecological importance of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) has only recently become widely acknowledged. During an interdisciplinary effort spanning more than two decades, we c...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Pyle RL,Boland R,Bolick H,Bowen BW,Bradley CJ,Kane C,Kosaki RK,Langston R,Longenecker K,Montgomery A,Parrish FA,Popp BN,Rooney J,Smith CM,Wagner D,Spalding HL

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification threatens the foundation of tropical coral reefs. This study investigated three aspects of ocean acidification: (i) the rates at which perforate and imperforate coral-colony skeletons passively dissolve when pH is 7.8, which is predicted to occur globally by 2100, (ii) the rates of passive dissolut...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： van Woesik R,van Woesik K,van Woesik L,van Woesik S

更新日期：2013-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：Background:G. boninense is a hemibiotrophic fungus that infects oil palms (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) causing basal stem rot (BSR) disease and consequent massive economic losses to the oil palm industry. The pathogenicity of this white-rot fungus has been associated with cell wall degrading enzymes (CWDEs) released durin...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ramzi AB,Che Me ML,Ruslan US,Baharum SN,Nor Muhammad NA

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Ecosystem engineers are species that transform habitats in ways that influence other species.While the impacts of many engineers have been well described, our understanding of how their impact varies along environmental gradients remains limited. Although disentangling the effects of gradients and engineers ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Costa AN,Bruna EM,Vasconcelos HL

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:DegS is a periplasmic serine protease that is considered to be the initiator of the σE stress response pathway, and this protein plays an important role in the regulation of the stress response in E. coli. However, knowledge of the biological function and global regulatory network of DegS in Vibrio cholerae ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Huang J,Chen Y,Chen J,Liu C,Zhang T,Luo S,Huang M,Min X

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00