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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2022, Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 2-2 doi: 10.1007/s11783-021-1436-0
• Polystyrene microplastic caused hormesis-like effects in Phaeodactylum tricornutum.
Keywords: Microplastics Marine microalgae Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin Growth Photosynthetic pigments Chlorophyll fluorescence parameters
Baicheng HUANG, Kegong TIAN
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering 2020, Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 218-226 doi: 10.15302/J-FASE-2020324
Emergent coronaviruses (CoVs) such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV have posed great threats to public health worldwide over the past two decades. Currently, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 as a pandemic causes greater public health concern. CoV diversity is due to the large size and replication mechanisms of the genomes together with having bats as their optimum natural hosts. The ecological behavior and unique immune characteristics of bats are optimal for the homologous recombination of CoVs. The relationship of spatial structural characteristics of the spike protein, a protein that is critical for recognition by host receptors, in different CoVs may provide evidence in explaining the coevolution of CoVs and their hosts. This information may help to enhance our understanding of CoV evolution and thus provide part of the basis of preparations for any future outbreaks.
Keywords: bat coronavirus evolution host receptor spike protein transmission
Shasha JI, Ling TONG, Fusheng LI, Hongna LU, Sien LI, Taisheng DU, Youjie WU
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering 2017, Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 155-164 doi: 10.15302/J-FASE-2017148
Keywords: antitranspirant soybean water deficit leaf gas exchange enzymes activities water consumption seed yield
Fibroblast growth factor 21: a novel metabolic regulator from pharmacology to physiology
Huating Li, Jing Zhang, Weiping Jia
Frontiers of Medicine 2013, Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 25-30 doi: 10.1007/s11684-013-0244-8
Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is a member of the fibroblast growth factor family. It actually functions as endocrine hormones but does not regulate cell growth and differentiation. It is demonstrated that FGF21 acts on multiple tissue to coordinate carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, including enhancing insulin sensitivity, decreasing triglyceride concentrations, causing weight loss, ameliorating obesity-associated hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. Moreover, FGF21 also plays important roles in some physiological processes, such as fasting and feeding, growth hormone axis and thermogenic function of brown adipose tissue. Clinical relevance of FGF21 in humans is still unclear, and the basis and consequences of increased FGF21 in metabolic disease remain to be determined. Both the pharmacological actions and physiological roles make FGF21 attractive drug candidates for treating metabolic disease, but some questions remain to be answered. This article concentrates on recent advances in our understanding of FGF21.
Keywords: FGF21 metabolism pharmacology physiology clinical relevance
Trauma-induced “Macklin effect” with pneumothorax and large pneumomediastinum, disguised by allergy
Salomone Di Saverio, Kenji Kawamukai, Andrea Biscardi, Silvia Villani, Luca Zucchini, Gregorio Tugnoli
Frontiers of Medicine 2013, Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 386-388 doi: 10.1007/s11684-013-0278-y
A 56-year-old man presented spontaneously to the Emergency Department complaining of facial and neck oedema after assumption of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS). The triage nurse assigned the patient to Accident & Emergency (A&E) doctor as probable allergic reaction to NSAIDS. Chest X-ray (CXR), ordered after 24 hours, revealed a huge subcutaneous chest and neck emphysema without clearly visible pneumothorax. Subsequent chest CT scan showed a small left pneumothorax and a large amount of air in the mediastinum. The patient was conservatively treated since he was eupnoeic and hemodynamically stable. The pathophysiology of pneumomediastinum was first described by Macklin in 1939. The Macklin effect involves alveolar ruptures with air dissection along bronchovascular sheaths to the mediastinum. In this case the patient did not report in his history a recent blunt thoracic trauma and the initial suspicion of an allergic reaction has prevented physicians to immediately achieve the correct diagnosis.
Keywords: differential diagnosis critical care pneumothorax pneumomediastinum CT scan pitfalls lung and airways physiology
Nutritional and Metabolic Consequences of Feeding High-Fiber Diets to Swine: A Review
Atta K. Agyekum, C. Martin Nyachoti
Engineering 2017, Volume 3, Issue 5, Pages 716-725 doi: 10.1016/J.ENG.2017.03.010
Keywords: Gut physiology High-fiber diets Nutrient utilization Pigs Sow welfare
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Hormesis-like growth and photosynthetic physiology of marine diatom Bohlin exposed to polystyrene microplastics
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Interspecies transmission and evolution of the emerging coronaviruses: perspectives from bat physiology
Baicheng HUANG, Kegong TIAN
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Effect of a new antitranspirant on the physiology and water use efficiency of soybean under different
Shasha JI, Ling TONG, Fusheng LI, Hongna LU, Sien LI, Taisheng DU, Youjie WU
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Fibroblast growth factor 21: a novel metabolic regulator from pharmacology to physiology
Huating Li, Jing Zhang, Weiping Jia
Journal Article
Trauma-induced “Macklin effect” with pneumothorax and large pneumomediastinum, disguised by allergy
Salomone Di Saverio, Kenji Kawamukai, Andrea Biscardi, Silvia Villani, Luca Zucchini, Gregorio Tugnoli
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