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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022 The gut microbiota of insects plays a vital role in digestion, nutrient acquisition, metabolism of dietary toxins, pathogen immunity and maintenance of gut homeostasis.
Yue Yin +6 more
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Toxins in Fermented Foods: Prevalence and Preventions—A Mini Review
Toxins, 2018 Fermented foods (FF) are widely consumed around the world, and FF are one of the prime sources of toxins and pathogenic microbes that are associated with several foodborne outbreaks.
Bhagavathi Sundaram Sivamaruthi +2 more
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Understanding and Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Skin Cancer: Mechanisms and Strategies
Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.This narrative review explores the mechanisms driving immunotherapy resistance in skin cancer, including tumor microenvironment factors, genetic mutations, and immune evasion strategies. It highlights potential strategies to overcome resistance, offering insights for improving therapeutic outcomes and guiding future research in personalized ...
Shreya Singh Beniwal +8 more
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Current and Future Cornea Chip Models for Advancing Ophthalmic Research and Therapeutics
Advanced Biology, EarlyView.This review analyzes cornea chip technology as an innovative solution to corneal blindness and tissue scarcity. The examination encompasses recent developments in biomaterial design and fabrication methods replicating corneal architecture, highlighting applications in drug screening and disease modeling while addressing key challenges in mimicking ...
Minju Kim +3 more
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Communications Biology, 2022 Toxic proteins are responsible for the disease symptoms accompanying bacterial infections. Sugiman-Marangos et al. report crystal structures of two diphtheria toxin homologs, therefore providing structural insights into this family of toxins and the ...
Seiji N. Sugiman-Marangos +5 more
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Bacterial protein toxins in human cancers.
Pathogens and Disease, 2016 Many bacteria causing persistent infections produce toxins whose mechanisms of action indicate that they could have a role in carcinogenesis. Some toxins, like CDT and colibactin, directly attack the genome by damaging DNA whereas others, as for example ...
Francesca Rosadi +2 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Incorporating nanosized silver into titanium for antimicrobial materials exploits the metastable miscibility gap between silver and titanium. Silver nanoparticles are synthesized via pulsed laser ablation in liquid. Silver addition refines the microstructure, increases hardness by 30%, and reduces Staphylococcus capitis microbial adhesion by 70%, with ...
Hamed Shokri +4 more
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Retrocyclins neutralize bacterial toxins by potentiating their unfolding.
Biochemical Journal, 2015 Defensins are a class of immune peptides with a broad range of activities against bacterial, fungal and viral pathogens. Besides exerting direct anti-microbial activity via dis-organization of bacterial membranes, defensins are also able to neutralize ...
E. Kudryashova +3 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This article provides a comprehensive overview of fundamentals and recent advances of transparent thin‐film surface acoustic wave technologies on glass substrates for monitoring and prevention/elimination of fog, ice, and frost. Fogging, icing, or frosting on optical lenses, optics/photonics, windshields, vehicle/airplane windows, and solar panel ...
Hui Ling Ong +11 more
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The Glucocorticoid Receptor: A Revisited Target for Toxins
Toxins, 2010 The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation and glucocorticoid responses are critical for survival from a number of bacterial, viral and toxic insults, demonstrated by the fact that removal of the HPA axis or GR blockade enhances mortality ...
Jeanette I. Webster Marketon +1 more
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