abstract：:Although river restoration has been increasingly implemented to restore water quality in ecosystems, its effect on the removal of emerging pollutant antibiotics, and their resultant influence on microbial community structure and functions in river water is still unclear. This study investigated the changes of antibiot...

authors： Zhang L,Zhang C,Lian K,Ke D,Xie T,Liu C

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Greenhouse gas sampling from agricultural fields is laborious and time-consuming. Soil and topographical heterogeneity cause spatiotemporal variations, making nitrous oxide (N2O) estimation and management a challenge. Identification of representative monitoring locations, hotspots, and coldspots could facilitate the m...

authors： Ashiq W,Ghimire U,Vasava H,Dunfield K,Wagner-Riddle C,Daggupati P,Biswas A

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Global plastic pollution has been a serious problem since many years and micro (nano) plastics (MNPs) have gained attention from researchers around the world. This is because MNPs able to exhibit toxicology and interact with potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in the environment, causing soil toxicity. The influences of...

authors： Allouzi MMA,Tang DYY,Chew KW,Rinklebe J,Bolan N,Allouzi SMA,Show PL

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlordecone (CLD) is an organochlorine pesticide widely used from the 1970s to the 1990s in the French West Indies that induced long-term pollution of the ecosystem. Due to involuntary soil ingestion, some species bred in open-air areas can be contaminated. As CLD is distributed in various tissues depending on the bre...

authors： Lavison-Bompard G,Parinet J,Huby K,Guérin T,Inthavong C,Lambert M

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mine tailings pose physical and chemical challenges for plant establishment. Our aim was to learn from natural processes in long-term soil and ecosystem development to use tailings as novel parent materials and pioneer ecological-engineering plant species to ameliorate extreme conditions of tailings, and facilitate th...

authors： Zhong H,Lambers H,Wong WS,Dixon KW,Stevens JC,Cross AT

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In laboratory studies, microplastics and/or nanoplastics (MPs/NPs) have been shown to cause a variety of ecotoxicological effects on soil invertebrates. Existing data on the effects of these plastic debris on biological functions and physiological systems, showed a great variability among studies. Thus, how soil inver...

authors： Ji Z,Huang Y,Feng Y,Johansen A,Xue J,Tremblay LA,Li Z

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the response of grassland phenology towards climatic factors is essential to improve our understanding of ecological processes under global warming. To date, however, it remains unclear how climate change and associated changes in vegetation dynamics might affect autumn phenology of grasslands at the glob...

authors： Ren S,Peichl M

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils are among the most densely inhabited and biodiverse habitats on our planet, and many important soil ecosystem services depend on the health condition of the native soil fauna. Anthropogenic stress such as chemical pollution acting on the native soil fauna might jeopardize these functions. Laboratory microcosm te...

authors： Höss S,Reiff N,Traunspurger W,Helder J

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromium (Cr) contamination in rice poses a serious threat to human health. Therefore, we conducted pot experiments to investigate the influence of water management regimes on the formation of iron plaque on rice roots, and its effect on the accumulation and translocation of Cr in rice grown on contaminated soil. The ...

authors： Xiao W,Ye X,Zhu Z,Zhang Q,Zhao S,Chen,Gao N,Hu J

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:River flow characterizes the integrated response from watersheds, so it is essential to quantify to understand the changing water cycle and underpin the sustainable management of freshwaters. However, river gauging stations are in decline with ground-based observation networks shrinking. This study proposes a novel ap...

authors： Junqueira AM,Mao F,Mendes TSG,Simões SJC,Balestieri JAP,Hannah DM

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Particulate emissions from the combustion of diesel have always been the main concern, especially in recent years, with continuously stringent particulate emission regulation for diesel engines. To alleviate the problem, biodiesel has been received great attention because of its being environment-friendly, widely avai...

authors： Wei J,Wang Y

更新日期：2021-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The species within Xenarthra (sloths, anteaters, and armadillos) are quintessential South American mammals. Of the three groups, Vermilingua (anteaters) contains the fewest extant and paleontological species. Here, we sampled and sequenced the entire mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of two Tamandua species (Tamandu...

authors： Ruiz-García M,Pinilla-Beltrán D,Murillo-García OE,Pinto CM,Brito J,Shostell JM

更新日期：2021-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe surface ozone pollution has become widespread in China. To protect public health, Chinese scientific communities and government agencies have striven to mitigate ozone pollution. However, makers of pollution mitigation policies rarely consider epidemiological research, and communication between epidemiological ...

authors： Li A,Zhou Q,Xu Q

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the wind erosion equation and the use of moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite remote sensing data combined with parameter normalization processing, an optimized high spatial-temporal resolution soil fugitive dust (SFD) emission inventory compiling method was proposed in this study. ...

authors： Li T,Bi X,Dai Q,Wu J,Zhang Y,Feng Y

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonium phosphate (AP), phosphoric acid (PC), and potassium phosphate (TKP) were used for the modification of biochar for enhanced heavy metal passivation in soil. The effect of various phosphorus (P) precursors on adsorption-related properties, P speciation distribution pattern, and the passivation mechanism was inv...

authors： Zhang H,Ke S,Xia M,Bi X,Shao J,Zhang S,Chen H

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the pioneering work of Ramón y Cajal, scientists have sought to unravel the complexities of axon development underlying neural circuit formation. Micrometer-scale axonal growth cones navigate to targets that are often centimeters away. To reach their targets, growth cones react to dynamic environmental cues that...

authors： Weaver CJ,Poulain FE

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Composite dressing composed of Rhizochitosan and Regenplex™ to promote wound healing were assessed. Rhizochitosan was fabricated by deacetylation of Rhizochitin, which obtained by simply depigmenting sporangium-free mycelial mattress produced from Rhizopus stolonifer F6. Physicochemical characterizations of Rhizochito...

authors： Chen LC,Lin SY,Sheu MT,Su CH,Lin HL,Hsieh CM

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or targeted cancer therapy are exposed to the risk of several side effects because of the heavy production of ROS by ionizing radiation or some chemotherapy drugs. Damages to DNA, mitochondria, membrane and other organelles within normal tissue cells such as cardi...

authors： Fu X,Tang J,Wen P,Huang Z,Najafi M

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost three billion people in developing countries are exposed to biomass smoke (BS), which predisposes them to developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is associated with abnormal innate and adaptive immune responses in the lungs and systemic circulation, but the mechanisms underlying BS-COPD de...

authors： Pu J,Xu J,Chen L,Zhou H,Cao W,Hao B,Li N,Wu J,Zheng J,Hong W,Li B,Ran P

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE:"Mutong" ( in Chinese, and generally known as Akebiae Caulis), which refers to a group of herbal medicines with different biological origins along history, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2000 years; it is still being frequently used in medicine. In recent decades, ...

authors： Li X,Xia Y,Li G,Zhan Z,Yao R,Li M

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The extraordinary optical properties of porphyrins have inspired their applications in various fields. Herein, we introduce iron porphyrin bio-mimicked graphene quantum dots (Fe-N-GQDs) as a novel paramagnetic and fluorescent label. The Fe-N-GQD was prepared by the mechanochemical mixing of Fe, N, and C sources follow...

authors： Kamal Z,Zarei Ghobadi M,Mohseni SM,Ghourchian H

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE:There have been different methods proposed to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV-1 and many of them have centered on the use of anti-retrovirals as microbicides. Given that a large section of the African population still relies on herbal medicine, Lobostemon trigonus (L. trigonus), a ...

authors： Chawuke P,van den Berg N,Fouche G,Maharaj V,Shoko T,Johan van der Westhuizen C,Invernizzi L,Alexandre KB

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A dual-model "on-super off" photoelectrochemical (PEC)/ratiometric electrochemical (EC) biosensor based on signal enhancing and quenching combining three-dimensional (3D) DNA walker strategy was designed for the ultrasensitive and accurate detection of microRNA-224 (miRNA-224). The "signal on" PEC state was achieved b...

authors： Yang R,Jiang G,Liu H,He L,Yu F,Liu L,Qu L,Wu Y

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of electrically conductive materials may enhance anaerobic digestion (AD) efficiency by promoting direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) between electroactive microorganisms, but an equivalent enhancement can also be achieved using non-conductive materials. Four high surface area brush materials wer...

authors： Baek G,Rossi R,Saikaly PE,Logan BE

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic levels in black-odor water could reflect the usage amount of antibiotics in population. On the other hand, these antibiotics are the source of antibiotics in the environmental water. Currently, researches on antibiotics in black-odor sediments are still lacking. In this study, 174 black and odor sediment sa...

authors： Lv YZ,Luo XJ,Zhao JL,Wang SQ,Mai BX

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE:Banxia Xiexin Decoction (BXD), an ancient TCM prescription originating from Treatise on Febrile Diseases (Shang Han Lun) of the Han Dynasty, has been widely used in modern clinical practice, especially for gastrointestinal diseases, including ulcerative colitis (UC). However, the modern d...

authors： Wang W,Xu C,Li X,Wang Z,Yang J,Shen Y,Shi M,Chen L,Zhang L,Guo Y,Wang B,Zhang T,Pu Y

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing concern over bisphenol A (BPA) has directed much attention toward bisphenol F (BPF) and bisphenol S (BPS) as BPA alternatives for the development of "BPA-free" products. Consequently, BPS and BPF were frequently detected in surface water, sediment, sewage effluent, indoor dust, and even in food and biol...

authors： Shao Y,Zhu L,Chen Z,Thalmann B,Zhou S,Hollert H,Seiler TB

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The populous Pearl River Delta (PRD) region in China suffers from serious air arsenic (As) pollution. The objective of this study was to explore the pollution situation of atmospheric arsenic deposition in the PRD region, and to evaluate the associated multimedia daily intake in children. The average deposition flux w...

authors： Ye L,Zhong B,Huang M,Chen W,Wang X

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, many dragonfly species have become threatened with extinction. For example, populations of Sympetrum frequens, one of the most common dragonflies in rice paddy fields in Japan, decreased sharply around the late 1990s in many regions. Although previous studies suggested that the use of systemic insec...

authors： Nakanishi K,Yokomizo H,Hayashi TI

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollution of surface water by polar pesticides is a major environmental risk, particularly in river catchments where potable water supplies are abstracted. In these cases, there is a need to understand pesticide sources, occurrence and fate. Hence, we developed a novel strategy to improve water quality management at t...

authors： Taylor AC,Mills GA,Gravell A,Kerwick M,Fones GR

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE:Chewing sticks have served as the primary form of dental care for rural communities in resource-poor settings for millennia. They are one of the most important under-researched, non-timber forest products in Namibia. This review provides an overview of plants that are used as chewing stic...

authors： Nyambe MM,Kwembeya EG,Lisao K,Hans R

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:N2O emission from paddy soil is a potential environmental risk, especially when the soil moisture content of paddy soil changes and excessive nitrogen retention occurs. Biochar is known to have a positive effect on reducing N2O emissions. However, the influence of different types of biochar on N2O emission with varyin...

authors： Li H,Meng J,Liu Z,Lan Y,Yang X,Huang Y,He T,Chen W

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered stormwater flow characteristics and associated changes in nutrient and sediment fluxes due to urbanization threaten the water quality of many water bodies. For example, particle-bound phosphorus in stormwater runoff adds to the nutrient pool that can produce harmful algal blooms, and the associated particulate...

authors： Khan ST,Edward Beighley R,VanHoven D,Watkins K

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of dedicated vaccines or drugs makes the COVID-19 a global pandemic, and early diagnosis can be an effective prevention mechanism. RT-PCR test is considered as one of the gold standards worldwide to confirm the presence of COVID-19 infection reliably. Radiological images can also be used for the same purpo...

authors： Chakraborty S,Mali K

更新日期：2021-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic abnormalities are frequently involved in the initiation and progression of cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A subtype of AML, acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), is mainly driven by a specific oncogenic fusion event of promyelocytic leukemia-RA receptor fusion oncoprotein (PML-RARα). PML-RAR...

authors： Xu S,Wang S,Xing S,Yu D,Rong B,Gao H,Sheng M,Tan Y,Sun X,Wang K,Xue K,Shi Z,Lan F

更新日期：2021-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has presented a serious risk to global public health. The viral main protease Mpro (also called 3Clpro) encoded by NSP5 is an enzyme essential for viral replication. However, very few host proteins have been experimentally validated as targets of...

authors： Zhang S,Wang J,Cheng G

更新日期：2021-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cichlids are well known for their propensity to radiate generating arrays of morphologically and ecologically diverse species in short evolutionary time. Following this rapid evolutionary pace, cichlids show high rates of sex chromosome turnover. We here studied the evolution of sex-biased gene (SBG) expression in 14 ...

authors： Lichilín N,El Taher A,Böhne A

更新日期：2021-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Depletion of groundwater aquifers along with all of the associated quality and quantity problems which affect profitability of direct agricultural and urban users and linked groundwater-ecosystems have been recognized globally. During recent years, attention has been devoted to land subsidence-the loss of land elevati...

authors： Dinar A,Esteban E,Calvo E,Herrera G,Teatini P,Tomás R,Li Y,Ezquerro P,Albiac J

更新日期：2021-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During past two decades, steroid hormones have raised significant public concerns due to their potential adverse effects on the hormonal functions of aquatic organisms and humans. Considering China being a big producer and consumer of steroid hormones, we summarize the current contamination status of steroid hormones ...

authors： Zhong R,Zou H,Gao J,Wang T,Bu Q,Wang ZL,Hu M,Wang Z

更新日期：2021-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:"Candidatus Scalindua", as known as marine anammox bacteria (MAB), was engineered to remove nitrogen from seawater-based wastewater (SWW). In this study, "Candidatus Scalindua" was successfully enriched within 106 days with marine sediments as inoculated sludge. The operating temperature was 20 ± 2 °C, and influent pH...

authors： Yin S,Li J,Dong H,Qiang Z

更新日期：2021-09-10 00:00:00