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Relationship between Parafunctional Habits and Salivary Biomarkers
Frontiers in Dentistry, 2020 Objectives: Parafunctional habits, as one of the etiological factors of temporomandibular disorders (TMD), are an individual’s response to increased stress.
Mina Khayamzadeh +4 more
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The Effect of Thermal Comfort on Stress in Female High School Students [PDF]
International Journal of School Health, 2018 Background: Indoor environment, in which we are located, influences our psychological responses, like stress. Thermal comfort is one of the most important factors determining the quality of indoor environment, obtained by calculating predicted mean vote (
Najmeh Najafi +3 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Bacterial utilization of starch is increasingly of interest as the importance and contributions of animal gut microbiomes become more defined. Consequently, identifying and characterizing the bacterial enzymes responsible for the degradation, transport ...
Cecelia A. Garcia, Jeffrey G. Gardner
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Assessment of child's dental anxiety/fear and stress during dental treatment: a systematic review by CEDACORE [PDF]
Brazilian Oral Research, 2022 : There is a lack of evidence on the correlation between salivary biomarkers and subjective measures of dental fear and anxiety in children. This systematic review aimed to retrieve the scientific evidence comparing the results of dental anxiety measured
Heloisa de Sousa Gomes +6 more
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Toward a More Comprehensive View of α-Amylase across Decapods Crustaceans
Biology, 2021 Decapod crustaceans are a very diverse group and have evolved to suit a wide variety of diets. Alpha-amylases enzymes, responsible for starch and glycogen digestion, have been more thoroughly studied in herbivore and omnivore than in carnivorous species.
Leandro Rodríguez-Viera +3 more
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Identification and optimization of PrsA in Bacillus subtilis for improved yield of amylase
Microbial Cell Factories, 2019 Background PrsA is an extracytoplasmic folding catalyst essential in Bacillus subtilis. Overexpression of the native PrsA from B. subtilis has repeatedly lead to increased amylase yields.
Ane Quesada-Ganuza +10 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2011 Background Wheat grains accumulate a variety of low molecular weight proteins that are inhibitors of alpha-amylases and proteases and play an important protective role in the grain. These proteins have more balanced amino acid compositions than the major
Vensel William H +2 more
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Purification and characterization of a highly efficient calcium-independent α-amylase from Talaromyces pinophilus 1-95. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Alpha-amylase is a very important enzyme in the starch conversion process. Most of the α-amylases are calcium-dependent and exhibit poor performance in the simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process of industrial bioethanol production that ...
Liang Xian +4 more
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BMC Oral Health, 2023 Background Pain is usually subjective and thus it is challenging to describe its characteristics such as nature, intensity, and origin. Non-invasive methods such as assessing salivary alpha-amylase (SAA) may aid the practitioner to evaluate the pain ...
Kavalipurapu Venkata Teja +8 more
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The gut microbiome buffers dietary adaptation in Bronze Age domesticated dogs
iScience, 2021 Summary: In an attempt to explore the role of the gut microbiome during recent canine evolutionary history, we sequenced the metagenome of 13 canine coprolites dated ca.
Simone Rampelli +12 more
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