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The First Review on Nano‐Agricultural Applications of MXene and MBene‐Based Materials for Plant‐Immunoengineering, Controlled Protection, and Inducing Biostimulation Mechanisms

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
MXene and MBene nanomaterials show significant potential in addressing critical challenges in biomedicine, applied biology, agriculture, and the environment. From a nano‐agricultural perspective, this relatively young field has witnessed emerging advances towards applications for plant‐immunoengineering, biostimulation, and controlled delivery ...
Alireza Rafieerad, Ahmad Amiri, Maik Böhmer, Soofia Khanahmadi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of torpor on host transcriptomic responses to a fungal pathogen in hibernating bats

Molecular Ecology, 2018
Hibernation, the use of prolonged torpor to depress metabolism, is employed by mammals to conserve resources during extended periods of extreme temperatures and/or resource limitation.
K. Field, B. J. Sewall, J. Prokkola, G. Turner, Marianne Gagnon, T. Lilley, J. White, Joseph S. Johnson, C. L. Hauer, D. Reeder   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bacteria‐Responsive Nanostructured Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted Antimicrobial Therapy

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bacteria‐responsive nanocarriers are designed to release antimicrobials only in the presence of infection‐specific cues. This selective activation ensures drug release precisely at the site of infection, avoiding premature or indiscriminate release, and enhancing efficacy.
Guillermo Landa, Gracia Mendoza, Silvia Irusta, Manuel Arruebo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Disruption Reveals the Importance of Zinc Metabolism for Fitness of the Dimorphic Fungal Pathogen Blastomyces dermatitidis

mBio, 2018
Blastomyces dermatitidis is a human fungal pathogen of the lung that can lead to disseminated disease in healthy and immunocompromised individuals. Genetic analysis of this fungus is hampered by the relative inefficiency of traditional recombination ...
G. Kujoth, T. Sullivan, R. Merkhofer, Taekjin Lee, Huafeng Wang, T. Brandhorst, M. Wüthrich, B. Klein   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tailoring Advanced Metal‐Based Nanomedicines for Adaptable Nanodynamic Disease Therapies and Theranostics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent advances in metal‐based nanomaterials (MBNs) as multifunctional platforms for next‐generation diagnostics and nanodynamic therapies (NDTs), highlighting their structural tunability, diverse therapeutic modalities, and broad biomedical applications in oncology and infectious disease control.
Qihang Ding, Wenhao Li, Ling Mei, Suling Luo, Jing Tao, Chongxiu Shi, Hongping Yang, Wei Feng, Yungchang Chen, Yu Chen, Jong Seung Kim, Xue Shen   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vomocytosis: Too Much Booze, Base, or Calcium? [PDF]

, 2019
Macrophages are well known for their phagocytic activity and their role in innate immune responses. Macrophages eat non-self particles, via a variety of mechanisms, and typically break down internalized cargo into small macromolecules.
Aaron, Alvarez, Alvarez, Artavanis-Tsakonas, Bain, Ben-Abdallah, Bielska, Blackstock, Boya, Bryan, Burch, Chang, Charlier, Chen, Cheng, Chu, Circu, Cox, Davis, De Leon-Rodriguez, De Leon-Rodriguez, Denham, Di, Diamond, Doshi, Dragotakes, Drew, Erb-Downward, Erwig, Evans, Feldmesser, Franchi, Fu, Gilbert, Gordon, Guerra, Gustafson, Haka, Han, Henson, Heo, Hibbs, Hoag, Hommel, Huang, Hybiske, Iwasaki, Johnston, Kjos, Kleinschek, Kruskal, Kusner, Lei, Leopold Wager, Levitz, Levitz, Lim, Liu, Lévêque, Ma, Maderna, May, Milam, Mosser, Murdock, Murray, Myers, Müller, Nel, Nicola, Nunes, Okagaki, O’Meara, Pauwels, Qiu, Rajasingham, Russell, Samantaray, Santiago-Tirado, Singh, Smith, Stukes, Stukes, Swisher, Tucker, Vashi, Voelz, Vu, Vu, Walkey, Wang, Wang, Watkins, Weiss, Wormley, Wozniak, Yates, Yoshida, Zaragoza   +98 more
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Population genomics and the evolution of virulence in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

bioRxiv, 2017
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes approximately 625,000 deaths per year from nervous system infections. Here, we leveraged a unique, genetically diverse population of C.
C. Desjardins, C. Giamberardino, S. Sykes, Chen-Hsin Yu, Jennifer L. Tenor, Yuan Chen, Timothy Yang, A. Jones, Sheng Sun, M. Haverkamp, J. Heitman, A. Litvintseva, J. Perfect, Christina A. Cuomo   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Multi‐Assay Evaluation of (Al‐Doped ZnO)‐Ag and TiO2‐Ag Nanocoatings: Impact of Direct and Indirect Mechanisms

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This work explores the antimicrobial action of AZO‐Ag and TiO2‐Ag nanocoatings on plastic, demonstrating good efficacy against highly‐critical antibiotic‐resistant bacteria, yeast, and virus. A multi‐assay approach is here exploited to inspect the contribution of direct and indirect antimicrobial mechanisms, and potential human toxicity is also ...
Damiano Squitieri, Roberta Vitali, Cecilia Bartoleschi, Giulia Lombardini, Margherita Cacaci, Lorenzo Degli Esposti, Camilla Fusacchia, Skerxho Osmani, Luca Gavioli, Francesca Bugli, Daniele Valerini   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of peroxidase and catalase genes in defense mechanisms of Physcomitrella patens [PDF]

, 2019
Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) and the hypersensitive response (HR) are two important induced defense mechanisms in plants. SAR is the development of an enhanced resistance to a pathogen due to a prior encounter.
Ciulla, Lauren
core   +1 more source

Microbe Profile: Aspergillus fumigatus: a saprotrophic and opportunistic fungal pathogen

Microbiology, 2018
Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprotrophic fungus that continuously disseminates spores (conidia) into the environment. It is also the most common and opportunistic aerial fungal pathogen, causing allergic and chronic lung pathologies including the fatal ...
W. Fang, J. Latgé
semanticscholar   +1 more source