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Autophagy May Allow a Cell to Forbear Pyroptosis When Confronted With Cytosol-Invasive Bacteria

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Inflammatory caspases detect cytosol-invasive Gram-negative bacteria by monitoring for the presence of LPS in the cytosol. This should provide defense against the cytosol-invasive Burkholderia and Shigella species by lysing the infected cell via ...
Carissa K. Harvest, Carissa K. Harvest, Carissa K. Harvest, Carissa K. Harvest, Edward A. Miao, Edward A. Miao, Edward A. Miao   +6 more
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Perspectives from the front line

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2021
The novel coronavirus pandemic has had an immediate effect on food and nutrition security, leading to the most widespread increase in need for food assistance in modern history. At its onset, the pandemic led to emergency food providers experiencing the “
Amanda Hege, Nikki McCormick, Peggy Robinson, Kina Charles, Jan Jones, Eric Aft   +5 more
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Toward A Christian Transformational Leadership

Manna Rafflesia, 2022
Transformational leadership is a theory of leadership that has gained profound interest among scholars for decades. Compared to transactional leadership that emphasizes reward and punishment, transformational leadership style has focused more on the ...
Avi Christian, Lely Natalia, Joni A. Bangun, Siti Hadijah   +3 more
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An Observational Cross-Sectional Survey Exploring the Indications for and Responses to Medical Marijuana Use in Certified Patients in Pennsylvania

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2022
Introduction/Objectives: Medical cannabis programs across the country vary and differ in their qualifying conditions for medical cannabis use. This has led to a gap in knowledge regarding the specific needs of cannabis patients, including the most common
Debra Kimless, Matthew Caloura, Virginia Markos, Jennie Ryan, Sally Abbonizio, Sharon Janicki   +5 more
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Application of extreme halophilic archaea as biocatalyst for chitin isolation from shrimp shell waste

Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications, 2021
Halophilic archaea are known to have proteolytic activity and also has the capability to reduce ammonia from the processing discards. In this study, two proteolytic strains of halophilic archaea (Halobacterium salinarum and Halococcus dombrowskii) were ...
Bandela Dayakar, K.A. Martin Xavier, Oishi Das, Layana Porayil, Amjad Khansaheb Balange, Binaya Bhusan Nayak   +5 more
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Genetic and Biological Effects of SLC12A3, a Sodium-Chloride Cotransporter, in Gitelman Syndrome and Diabetic Kidney Disease

Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
The SLC12A3 (Solute carrier family 12 member 3) gene encodes a sodium-chloride cotransporter and mediates Na+ and Cl− reabsorption in the distal convoluted tubule of kidneys.
Nan Li, Harvest F. Gu
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Effect of chemical treatment duration on physicochemical, rheological, and functional properties of colloidal chitin

Food Hydrocolloids for Health, 2022
In this study, the physicochemical, rheological, and functional properties of colloidal chitin prepared from commercial shrimp shell α-chitin by acid hydrolysis at ambient temperature for various treatment durations were investigated.
Lokesh Sampath, Soibam Ngasotter, Porayil Layana, Amjad Khansaheb Balange, Binaya Bhusan Nayak, K.A. Martin Xavier   +5 more
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Nonadiabatic sunlight harvesting [PDF]

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020
Light-harvesting systems display highly non-trivial decoherence rates due to the numerous energy-time scales.
Leonardo F. Calderón, Leonardo A. Pachón   +1 more
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Comparative study on the microplastics abundance, characteristics, and possible sources in yellow clams of different demographic regions of the northwest coast of India

Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters, 2022
Microplastics have become ubiquitous on the planet and are considered one of the biggest threats to life on earth. Several recent studies have addressed the serious risks that microplastics can pose to human health.
Bejawada Chanikya Naidu, K.A.Martin Xavier, Satya Prakash Shukla, Ashok Kumar Jaiswar, Binaya Bhusan Nayak   +4 more
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Genetic and Epigenetic Studies in Diabetic Kidney Disease

Frontiers in Genetics, 2019
Chronic kidney disease is a worldwide health crisis, while diabetic kidney disease (DKD) has become the leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). DKD is a microvascular complication and occurs in 30–40% of diabetes patients.
Harvest F. Gu
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