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Acute caffeine treatment protects the developing retina from ischemia‐induced cell death

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Caffeine reduces cell death in the developing retina under ischemia (OGD). This effect does not involve BDNF upregulation or antioxidant pathways (NRF2/VEGF). Neuroprotection occurs mainly through adenosine A2A receptor antagonism, decreasing glutamate release and excitotoxicity, highlighting caffeine's potential as an acute neuroprotective agent in ...
Amanda Alves Nascimento, Danniel Pereira‐Figueiredo, Gabriella Grossi de Lima Dias, Gabriel Ferreira dos Santos, Mariana Rodrigues Pereira, Rafael Brito, Karin C Calaza   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positive public attitudes towards agricultural robots

Scientific Reports
Robot technologies could lead to radical changes in farming. But what does the public know and think about agricultural robots? Recent experience with other agricultural technologies—such as plant genetic engineering—shows that public perceptions can ...
Hendrik Hilmar Zeddies, Gesa Busch, Matin Qaim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mindfully Green and Healthy: An Indirect Path from Mindfulness to Ecological Behavior

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
This paper examines the nature of the link between mindfulness and ecological behavior. Based on the notion that mindfulness incorporates heightened awareness of bodily sensations, we suggest an indirect path from mindfulness to ecological behavior that ...
Sonja M. Geiger, Siegmar Otto, Ulf Schrader   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agencing Sustainable Food Consumers: Integrating Production, Markets and Consumption Through a Socio-Material Practice Perspective

, 2020
This chapter provides a deeper understanding of how consumers become capable to act more sustainable in different moments of consumption. As seen from a socio-material practice theoretical perspective, the chapter goes to show how consumer capacity to ...
Ingrid Stigzelius, Stigzelius, Ingrid,
core   +1 more source

Sudden anaerobization in Amphibacillus xylanus increases intracellular labile ferrous iron and inhibits cell growth

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Abruptly changing from aerobic to anaerobic conditions (sudden anaerobization) induced growth inhibition and a significant increase in intracellular labile ferrous iron in the aerotolerant anaerobe Amphibacillus xylanus. We found that free flavins mediate efficient electron transfer from NADH to ferric iron under anaerobic conditions, suggesting that ...
Shinya Kimata, Yoichi Sakai, Keisuke Tanaka, Etsuro Yoshimura, Ken Kitano, Morio Ishikawa, Tadahiro Nakamoto, Tsutomu Takayama, Hirofumi Inoue, Kaho Nomura, Tomonori Suzuki, Masataka Uchino, Akira Abe, Youichi Niimura   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking back, looking forward : lessons in choice editing for sustainability : 19 case studies into drivers and barriers to mainstreaming more sustainable products

, 2012
A research report from the Sustainable Consumption Roundtable (Great Britain) looking at 19 case studies into drivers and barriers to main-streaming more sustainable products.Publisher ...
Sustainable Consumption Roundtable (Great Britain)
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Investigation of pre-service science teachers' sustainable consumption behaviors in terms of some variables [PDF]

, 2017
WOS: 000412135600030The purpose of the current study is to investigate pre-service science teachers' sustainable consumption behaviors and the factors affecting them in terms of some variables (gender and grade level).
Keleş, Özgül
core   +1 more source

Emerging insights into CC and CXC chemokines and their receptors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The dual roles of CC and CXC chemokines in distinguishing active, latent, and subclinical tuberculosis were reviewed, along with an evaluation of their potential as diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets to advance precision medicine in tuberculosis management. The graphical abstract was generated with AI assistance (Gemini 3.0).
Xuying Yin, Dangsheng Xiao, Jiezuan Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability and UK food policy 2000-2011

, 2012
A report on food, farming, sustainable consumption and production.Publisher ...
Sustainable Development Commission
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Consumers Practicing Sustainable Consumption: Value Construction in Second-Hand Fashion Markets

, 2020
The purpose of this chapter is to explore consumers’ ways of creating and interpreting value of second-hand clothing. By highlighting the cultural capital aspect of sustainable consumerism, the study is able to explore consumer motivation from a ...
Han, Jenny Yi-Chen,, Jenny Yi-Chen Han, Susanne Sweet, Sweet, Susanne,   +3 more
core   +1 more source