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Metabolomic and microbiome analysis of cervicovaginal mucus in in vitro fertilization–embryo transfer: Toward predicting pregnancy success

Reproductive Medicine and Biology
Purpose In the context of in vitro fertilization–embryo transfer (IVF–ET), factors other than egg quality may be key determinants of treatment success, in particular, maternal factors related to uterine endometrial receptivity and unidentified factors ...
Eiji Nishio, Aya Iwata, Rie Kawasaki, Iwao Kukimoto, Haruki Nishizawa, Takuma Fujii   +5 more
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Ruminococcus torques is a keystone degrader of intestinal mucin glycoprotein, releasing oligosaccharides used by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron

mBio
Symbiotic interactions between humans and our communities of resident gut microbes (microbiota) play many roles in health and disease. Some gut bacteria utilize mucus as a nutrient source and can under certain conditions damage the protective barrier it ...
Sadie R. Schaus, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, Ana S. Luis, Emily Madlambayan, Nicolas Terrapon, Matthew P. Ostrowski, Chunsheng Jin, Bernard Henrissat, Gunnar C. Hansson, Eric C. Martens   +9 more
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Mucus, it

, 2014
Mucus is more than what you might think. It is an incredibly important part of our physiology, helping use blink, swallow, digest, reproduce... It is an amazing material, used throughout the animal kingdoms to communicate, catch food or for defense purposes.
Crouzier, Thomas, Co, Julia
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A Chirality‐Converted Bacteriolytic Dodecapeptide Regulates Vibrio‐Induced Polymicrobial Infection and Ameliorates Invasion‐Associated Gut Microbiota Disequilibrium

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Multidrug‐resistant Vibrio infections are rising rapidly and threaten coastal populations worldwide. This study introduces D‐zp37, a chirality‐engineered antimicrobial peptide with exceptional potency against resistant Vibrio species. D‐zp37 kills planktonic cells, blocks mixed‐species biofilms, disrupts essential bacterial stress responses, and shows ...
Ping Zeng, Qipeng Cheng, Xiaoxu Zhang, Honglan Wang, Jinghan Zhang, Xinyi Ding, Pengfei Zhang, Lanhua Yi, Kwok‐Yin Wong, Kin‐Fai Chan, Sheng Chen, Sharon Shui Yee Leung   +11 more
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Earthworms (Eisenia foetida, Savigny) mucus as complexing ligand for imidacloprid [PDF]

, 2010
Earthworms can excrete copious amounts of mucus that may affect the fraction, transport fate, and bioavailability of contaminants in soil. However, interaction of mucus with organic contaminants is still not well-known. In the present study, complexation
Zhang, DY, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geochem, State Key Lab Environm Geochem, Guiyang 550002, Peoples R China, Xiangliang, Song, Daoyong, Zhang, Pan, Wenjuan   +6 more
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Amuc_1473 Links Gut Microbes to Skeletal Homeostasis and Counteracts Multifactorial Osteoporosis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Amuc_1473, a previously uncharacterized protein enriched in Akkermansia muciniphila‐derived extracellular vesicles, is identified as a gut–bone messenger that promotes osteogenesis and inhibits osteoclastogenesis by engaging transcriptional and translational regulators in bone cells.
Shan‐Shan Rao, Hai‐Jin Zeng, Zun Wang, Chun‐Gu Hong, Yi‐Juan Tan, Yan‐Xin Duan, Jing‐Yao Luo, Ming‐Jie Luo, Yi‐Wei Liu, Xin Wang, Yi Luo, Teng‐Fei Wan, Yong Zhou, Zheng‐Guang Wang, Guo‐Wen Hu, Hao Yin, Xin‐Yue Hu, Zhen‐Xing Wang, Ze‐Hui He, Si‐Yi Cheng, Wei Du, Zhe Guan, Hai‐Li Lang, Hong‐Ji Liu, Jia Cao, Peng Chen, Jiang‐Hua Liu, Hui Xie, Chun‐Yuan Chen   +28 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transferable Deep Reinforcement Learning With Edge‐Contour‐Depth Fusion for Autonomous Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Navigation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study presents an anatomical landmark‐guided DRL framework for autonomous wireless capsule endoscopy navigation. Using a lightweight edge‐contour‐depth fusion module, it achieves over 97% coverage across diverse gastric anatomies. To ensure reliability, a two‐stage sim‐to‐real pipeline with an adaptive dynamic programming controller mitigates ...
Haoxuan Wu, Haitao Gao, Qingyang Liu, Sishen Yuan, Haiyang Fang, Mingwu Su, Baijia Liang, Yongzun Yang, Long Bai, Wenzhen Dong, Dihong Xie, Shijian Su, Jiewen Lai, Shing Shin Cheng, Zhen Li, Xiuli Zuo, Hongliang Ren   +16 more
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Mucin immobilization in calcium alginate: A possible mucus mimetic tool for evaluating mucoadhesion and retention of flavour

, 2019
To reduce animal testing, there is a need to develop novel in-vitro models for evaluating the retention of bioactive compounds in food and pharmaceutical products.
Harding, Stephen E., Yakubov, Gleb E., Harding, Stephen Ernest, Dinu, Vlad, Hurst, Katherine, Fisk, Ian D, Fisk, Ian D., Adams, Gary G., Yabukov, Gleb E., Lim, Mui   +9 more
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Intestinal Source Control of Lipid Metabolism by Enzyme‐Probiotic Encapsulated, Spatiotemporal Crosslinked, and Small Intestine‐Adhesive Hydrogel Microspheres

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A thiol‐modified alginate hydrogel microsphere‐encapsulated enzyme‐probiotic biohybrid (AKK‐COD) system has been developed to address the spatiotemporal delivery and colonization challenges of small intestine‐targeted probiotic for lipid metabolism regulation. The system exerts sequential functions of intragastric protection, small intestinal adhesion,
Xiaolin Wu, Weiwen Liang, Siqi He, Guangyuan Chen, Hui Zhou, Xinglong Wang, Yifei Li, Dingcai Wu, Bingna Zheng, Ruoxu Dou, Rongkang Huang   +10 more
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Caveolin‐1 Stabilizes SERCA2 to Counteract Acute Kidney Injury via Suppression of Ca2+‐Dependent Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Distal Tubules

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In AKI, initial kidney injury upregulates the expression of Cav‐1, which subsequently binds to and stabilizes SERCA2 via its scaffolding domain and through deubiquitination, thereby regulating Ca2+ homeostasis and ER stress. Conversely, Cav‐1 deficiency accelerates SERCA2 degradation, triggering Ca2+ overload and ER stress, and ultimately exacerbating ...
Yan Zhang, Xin He, Hao Huang, Rong Lu, Xin Lv, Shenglan Li, Sijue Zou, Jiawei Cheng, Yiwei Xiong, Zhenghao Deng, Qiongjing Yuan, Yanyun Xie, Ling Huang, Jiaxi Pu, Shao Liu, Qianbin Li, Jie Meng, Huixiang Yang, Lijian Tao, Zhangzhe Peng   +19 more
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