Biological Activities of Tetrodotoxin-Producing Enterococcus faecium AD1 Isolated from Puffer Fishes.

abstract：:Aerobic granulation of activated sludge was successfully achieved in a full-scale sequencing batch reactor (SBR) with 50,000 m(3) d(-1) for treating a town's wastewater. After operation for 337 days, in this full-scale SBR, aerobic granules with an average SVI30 of 47.1 mL g(-1), diameter of 0.5 mm, and settling veloc...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Li J,Ding LB,Cai A,Huang GX,Horn H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid development of picture archiving and communication systems (PACSs) thoroughly changes the way of medical informatics communication and management. However, as the scale of a hospital's operations increases, the large amount of digital images transferred in the network inevitably decreases system efficiency. ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Liu YL,Shih CT,Chang YJ,Chang SJ,Wu J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ayurvedic and traditional medical practitioners of Sri Lanka use the decoction of the immature inflorescence of Cocos nucifera L. (IC) variety aurantiaca for the treatment of menorrhagia. The progestogenic effect of the ethyl acetate soluble proanthocyanidins (EASPA) of the IC in female rats at a dose of 3.5 mg/kg bod...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ekanayake CP,Thammitiyagodage MG,Padumadasa S,Seneviratne B,Padumadasa C,Abeysekera AM

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytic impairment is a pathologic feature of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). S100B and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) are the two most commonly used astrocytic markers. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether CSF-S100B could serve as a marker of NMOSD. We enrolled 49 NMOSD patients [2...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Wei Y,Chang H,Li X,Du L,Xu W,Cong H,Yao Y,Zhang X,Yin L

更新日期：2018-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is an unmet need for a specific cardiovascular risk (CV) algorithm for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Lipoprotein data are often not available in RA cohorts but could be obtained from frozen blood samples. The objective of this study was to estimate the storage effect on lipoproteins in long-term (...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Arts EE,Popa CD,Smith JP,Arntz OJ,van de Loo FA,Donders R,Semb AG,Kitas GD,van Riel PL,Fransen J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Most developmental processes are under the control of small regulatory RNAs called microRNAs (miRNAs). We hypothesize that different fetal developmental processes might be reflected by extracellular miRNAs in maternal plasma and may be utilized as biomarkers for the noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of chromoso...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Kamhieh-Milz J,Moftah RF,Bal G,Futschik M,Sterzer V,Khorramshahi O,Burow M,Thiel G,Stuke-Sontheimer A,Chaoui R,Kamhieh-Milz S,Salama A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately annotating biological functions of proteins is one of the key tasks in the postgenome era. Many machine learning based methods have been applied to predict functional annotations of proteins, but this task is rarely solved by deep learning techniques. Deep learning techniques recently have been successfully...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zou X,Wang G,Yu G

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrocephalus is a common neurological condition that can have traumatic ramifications and can be lethal without treatment. Nowadays, during therapy radiologists have to spend a vast amount of time assessing the volume of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by manual segmentation on Computed Tomography (CT) images. Further, som...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Klimont M,Flieger M,Rzeszutek J,Stachera J,Zakrzewska A,Jończyk-Potoczna K

更新日期：2019-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently antiangiogenic therapy with bevacizumab has shown a high but transient efficacy in glioblastoma (GBM). Indeed, GBM is one of the most angiogenic human tumors and endothelial proliferation is a hallmark of the disease. We therefore hypothesized that tumor cells may participate in endothelial prolifer...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： El Hallani S,Colin C,El Houfi Y,Idbaih A,Boisselier B,Marie Y,Ravassard P,Labussière M,Mokhtari K,Thomas JL,Delattre JY,Eichmann A,Sanson M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii infects all warm-blooded animals, including humans, causing serious public health problems and great economic loss for the food industry. Commonly used serological tests require costly and hazardous preparation of whole Toxoplasma lysate antigens from tachyzoites. Here, we have evaluated an alternati...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ching XT,Lau YL,Fong MY,Nissapatorn V,Andiappan H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobic skin commensal Propionibacterium acnes is an underestimated cause of human infections and clinical conditions. Previous studies have suggested a role for the bacterium in lumbar disc herniation and infection. To further investigate this, five biopsy samples were surgically excised from each of 64 patient...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Rollason J,McDowell A,Albert HB,Barnard E,Worthington T,Hilton AC,Vernallis A,Patrick S,Elliott T,Lambert P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate, at a laboratory scale, the ability of this microorganism to grow in seawater and bioaccumulate in mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) maintained in constantly aerated tanks, containing twenty litres of artificial seawater. Three concentrations of A. butzleri LMG 10828(T) were tes...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ottaviani D,Chierichetti S,Rocchegiani E,Bartolini C,Masini L,Santarelli S,Leoni F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids produced by microbial sources are of industrial and medicinal importance due to their antioxidant and anticancer properties. In the current study, optimization of β-carotene production in M. circinelloides strain 277.49 was achieved using response surface methodology (RSM). Cerulenin and ketoconazole were ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Naz T,Nazir Y,Nosheen S,Ullah S,Halim H,Fazili ABA,Li S,Mustafa K,Mohamed H,Yang W,Song Y

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was proposed to investigate the toxicological and prophylactic potential of ethanolic extracts of Rosa damascena and Nymphaea alba and their mixture in albino mice. For toxicity study, three different doses of plant extracts were orally administrated to three groups of mice for 14 successive days. Bl...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Batool R,Kalsoom A,Akbar I,Arshad N,Jamil N

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pterospartum tridentatum and Mentha pulegium are largely used in Portuguese folk medicine to treat several human disorders and inflammatory processes but without any consistent evidence for those beneficial pointed properties. Thus, the aim of the current work is to evaluate its benefits and phytochemicals related to ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Aires A,Marrinhas E,Carvalho R,Dias C,Saavedra MJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-binding proteins often play important role in various processes within the cell. Over the last decade, a wide range of classification algorithms and feature extraction techniques have been used to solve this problem. In this paper, we propose a novel DNA-binding protein prediction method called HMMBinder. HMMBinde...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zaman R,Chowdhury SY,Rashid MA,Sharma A,Dehzangi A,Shatabda S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although expression of miR-200s is aberrant in liver fibrosis, its role in liver fibrogenesis still remains unknown. Here, we investigated the role of miR-200c in the activation of human hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) and induction of liver fibrosis. METHODS:We engineered human HSCs (LX2 cell line) to stably...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ma T,Cai X,Wang Z,Huang L,Wang C,Jiang S,Hua Y,Liu Q

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In patients with reduced systolic function, the natriuretic peptide system affects heart failure (HF) progression, but the expression of key activating (corin) and degrading enzymes (neprilysin) is not well understood. Methods and Results:This pilot study (n=48) compared plasma levels of corin, neprilysin, ...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zaidi SS,Ward RD,Ramanathan K,Yu X,Gladysheva IP,Reed GL

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Three novel low molecular weight polysaccharides (RLP-1a, RLP-2a, and RLP-3a) with 9004, 8761, and 7571 Da were first obtained by purifying the crude polysaccharides from the fruits of a traditional Chinese medicinal herb Rosae Laevigatae. The conditions for polysaccharides from the R. Laevigatae fruit (RLP) extractio...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhang X,Hu Y,Jin C,Wu W

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Beyond hemostasis and thrombosis, an increasing number of studies indicate that platelets play an integral role in intercellular communication, mediating inflammatory and immunomodulatory activities. Our knowledge about how platelets modulate inflammatory and immunity has greatly improved in recent years. In this revi...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Yun SH,Sim EH,Goh RY,Park JI,Han JY

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Suppressor of cytokine signaling 7 (SOCS7) is a member of the SOCS family and is known to interact with phospholipase Cγ-1 (PLCγ-1), a key downstream mediator of the hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)/C-MET axis. Here, we report our observations of the effect of knocking down SOCS7 gene on the behaviour of breast c...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Sasi W,Ye L,Jiang WG,Sharma AK,Mokbel K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extra-intestinal E. coli are emerging as a global threat due to their diffusion as opportunistic pathogens and, above all, to their wide set of antibiotic resistance determinants. There are still many gaps in our knowledge of their origin and spread pathways, although food animals have been adjudicated vehicles for pa...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Caruso G,Giammanco A,Cardamone C,Oliveri G,Mascarella C,Capra G,Fasciana T

更新日期：2018-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A deficiency in steroid 5α-reductase type 2 is an autosomal recessive disorder. Affected individuals manifested ambiguous genitalia, which is caused by decreased dihydrotestosterone (DHT) synthesis in the fetus. Methods:We analyzed 25 patients with 5α-reductase deficiency in China. Seventeen of the 25 patie...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Han B,Cheng T,Zhu H,Yu J,Zhu WJ,Song HD,Yao H,Qiao J

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic bone disorder is usually caused by abnormalities of minerals and hormones metabolism. Recently, it has been proved by several studies that the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in local bone tissue is directly involved in bone metabolism. Activation of skeletal RAS plays an important role in bone metabolic diso...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Gebru Y,Diao TY,Pan H,Mukwaya E,Zhang Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large amounts of various biological networks exist for representing different types of interaction data, such as genetic, metabolic, gene regulatory, and protein-protein relationships. Recent approaches on biological network study are based on different mathematical concepts. It is necessary to construct a uniform fra...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Cao Y,Xu W,Niu C,Bo X,Li F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS) is a common disease that occurs in premature infants. However, the mechanisms underlying the disease remain unclear. microRNAs (miRNAs) have been indicated to play a crucial role in the development of NRDS. In this study, we aimed to explore the regulatory mechanisms of mi...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Zhang YH,Chen AL,Yu RQ,Jia BB,Ye DN,Wang M,Mei YZ,Fang GD,Jiang SY,Zhou Q,Zhang B

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. High HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C) values are negatively correlated with cardiovascular diseases. This review analyses the effect of the supplementation with various Mediterranean diet products (artichoke, bergamot, and olive oil) and Asian diet products (red yeast rice) on the HDL-C value in dyslipidemic subjec...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Rondanelli M,Giacosa A,Morazzoni P,Guido D,Grassi M,Morandi G,Bologna C,Riva A,Allegrini P,Perna S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RRM2B gene encodes ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase subunit M2 B, the p53-inducible small subunit (p53R2) of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), an enzyme catalyzing dNTP synthesis for mitochondrial DNA. Defects in this gene may cause severe mitochondrial disease affecting mainly the nervous system. This study is aime...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ait El Cadi C,Krami AM,Charoute H,Elkarhat Z,Sifeddine N,Lakhiari H,Rouba H,Barakat A,Nahili H

更新日期：2020-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To investigate the effects of arteriovenous thrombolysis combined with mechanical thrombectomy on clinical efficacy, neurological function, and the changes of nerve injury markers of acute cerebral infarct (ACI) patients. Methods:A total of 143 cases with ACI admitted to our hospital from June 2017 to June 2...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Ding T,Tang L,Hu B,Yuan J,Li X,Wen J

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of evolutionarily conserved Atg genes required for autophagy in yeast truly revolutionized this research field and made it possible to carry out functional studies on model organisms. Insects including Drosophila are classical and still popular models to study autophagy, starting from the 1960s. This rev...

journal_title：BioMed research international

authors： Mulakkal NC,Nagy P,Takats S,Tusco R,Juhász G,Nezis IP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00