Statin Treatment Is Associated with Reduction in Serum Levels of Receptor Activator of NF-κB Ligand and Neutrophil Activation in Patients with Severe Carotid Stenosis by Sébastien Lenglet, Alessandra Quercioli, Mathias Fabre, Katia Galan, Graziano Pelli, Alessio Nencioni, Inga Bauer, Aldo Pende, Magaly Python, Maria Bertolotto, Giovanni Spinella, Bianca Pane, Domenico Palombo, Franco Dallegri, François Mach, Nicolas Vuilleumier, Fabrizio Montecucco

“…Patients on statin therapy had reduced serum osteopontin (OPN), RANKL/osteoprotegerin (OPG) ratio, and MMP-9/pro-MMP-9 activity as compared to untreated patients. …”
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Improvement of <i>Undaria pinnatifida</i> Sugar-Free Gummy Jellies’ Properties by Phycocyanin Under Ultraviolet (UV) Irradiation by Ying Bai, Yihan Sun, Chenglei Qiu, Wenxin Xiang, Yu Liu, Yujiao Wang, Hang Qi

“…The properties were measured using a texture analyzer, color difference analyzer, low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) analyzer, and sensory evaluation. …”
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Environmental determinants of intraspecific variation in five functional traits of Pinus yunnanensis Franch by Xinrui Song, Ying Liu, Dongli Yu, Shuting Li, Wuchao Gao, Hong Zeng, Hong Zeng, Dongyu Cao, Dongyu Cao, Shixing Zhou, Shixing Zhou, Xinglei Cui, Xinglei Cui

“…Using random forest models, we assessed the significance of each environmental factor and found the following: Temperature seasonality was a key determinant of tree height; soil particle size (clay and sand) had the strongest influence on bark thickness; and for leaf length, precipitation during the driest quarter was the most important factor. …”
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The Trend of Residential-Livelihood Changes in Nomadic Ecosystems with Environmental Sustainability Approach (Case Study: Farsimadan Tribe Ecosystem, Fars Province) by Siamak Tahmasbi, Seyed Ali Badri, Mohammad Reza Rezvani

“…This change in the economic structure of tribal society has led to some changes in the other components of the system having a different role from the past. The changes and transformations have placed different challenges in different aspects of their lives.…”
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GIS-based integration of marine data for assessment and management of a highly anthropized coastal area by Luciano Bosso, Simona Saviano, Maria Abagnale, Daniele Bellardini, Francesco Bolinesi, Vincenzo Botte, Angela Buondonno, Ylenia Carotenuto, Raffaella Casotti, Maria Luisa Chiusano, Francesco Cipolletta, Fabio Conversano, Francesca De Domenico, Gabriele Del Gaizo, Vincenzo Donnarumma, Marta Furia, Daniele Iudicone, Florian Kokoszka, Federica Laface, Priscilla Licandro, Olga Mangoni, Francesca Margiotta, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Marco Miralto, Marina Montresor, Marco Pansera, Cristina Pedà, Isabella Percopo, Francesca Raffini, Luca Russo, Teresa Romeo, Maria Saggiomo, Diana Sarno, Anna Chiara Trano, Jessica Vannini, Mauro Vargiu, Gianpaolo Zampicinini, Adriana Zingone, Daniela Cianelli, Domenico D’Alelio

“…The marine area studied in the GoN had more favorable hydrographic and trophic conditions and food web characteristics, except for the mesozooplankton biomass, and was closer to socio-economic factors compared to the GoS and GoG. …”
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Lignocellulose adaptation drives polysaccharide biosynthesis in Tremella fuciformis: metabolomic and proteomic insights into CAZyme regulation by Yingyin Xu, Yingyin Xu, Qian Dong, Qian Dong, Shilin Zhang, Shilin Zhang, Liyuan Xie, Liyuan Xie, Qian Zhang, Qian Zhang, Xueqin Shu, Xueqin Shu, Jie Zhou, Jie Zhou, Weihong Peng, Weihong Peng

“…The polysaccharide content of T. fuciformis grown on a Cyclobalanopsis substrate (TY3) was significantly higher than those grown on a mixed substrate (TF1) made of wheat bran and cottonseed hull.MethodsMetabolomics and proteomics were used to assess the effects of lignocellulose (consisting of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) in different growth substrates on the polysaccharide content of T. fuciformis and its formation mechanism.ResultsTY3 had a higher lignocellulose content than TF1. …”
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Blood and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Pneumonia by Xu Chen, Shuizi Ding, Cheng Lei, Jieli Qin, Ting Guo, Danhui Yang, Min Yang, Jie Qing, Wenlong He, Min Song, Yan Zhang, Huihui Zeng, Qingwu Qin, Lizhen Yang, Yingjiao Long, Yan Chen, Bingyin Ma, Ruoyun Ouyang, Ping Chen, Hong Luo

“…For bacteria and fungi, 16 patients had culture-confirmed pathogen diagnosis, while 13 patients were culture-negative. …”
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Mapping global risk levels of Bemisia tabaci in areas of suitability for open field tomato cultivation under current and future climates. by Rodrigo Soares Ramos, Lalit Kumar, Farzin Shabani, Marcelo Coutinho Picanço

“…The basis of these projections is that predicted temperature increases could affect the pest, which has great adaptability to different climate conditions, but could also impose limitations on the growth of S. lycopersicum. …”
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Evaluating the utility of deep genome skimming for phylogenomic analyses: A case study in the species-rich genus Rhododendron by Zhi-Qiong Mo, Chao-Nan Fu, Alex D. Twyford, Pete M. Hollingsworth, Ting Zhang, Jun-Bo Yang, De-Zhu Li, Lian-Ming Gao

“…Genes recovered with taxon-specific references had less missing data than those recovered by Angiosperms353 and generated higher-resolution phylogenetic trees. …”
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Neural signatures underlying the effect of social structure on empathy and altruistic behaviors by Xia Tian, Zixin Zheng, Renhui Li, Yue-Jia Luo, Chunliang Feng

“…During fMRI scanning, participants viewed painful or non-painful stimulation to innocent strangers who shared preferences with targets who had either treated participants fairly or unfairly. …”
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Abiotic drivers of activity in a large, free-ranging, freshwater teleost, Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii). by Jason D Thiem, Ian J Wooden, Lee J Baumgartner, Gavin L Butler, Jamin Forbes, Matthew D Taylor, Robyn J Watts

“…The allocation of time and energy to different behaviours can impact survival and fitness, and ultimately influence population dynamics. …”
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Pre-transplant predictors of 3-Month survival following liver transplantation for acute liver failure in adult and pediatric patients in Türkiye by İlker Turan, Ulus Salih Akarca, Murat Aladağ, Murat Harputluoğlu, Sezai Yılmaz, Genco Gençdal, Çiğdem Arıkan, Kamil Yalçın Polat, Figen Özçay, Mesut Akarsu, Tarkan Ünek, Zeki Karasu, Murat Zeytunlu, Hale Gökcan, Meral Akdoğan Kayhan, Erdal Birol Bostancı, Aysun Çalışkan Kartal, Deniz Balcı, Murat Dayangaç, Haydar Adanır, Dinç Dinçer, Hakan Dursun, Murat Taner Gülşen, Feyza Dilber, Ender Dulundu, Yasemin Balaban, Ahmet Bülent Doğrul, Gökhan Kabaçam, Murat Akyıldız, Fulya Günşar, Ahmet Gürakar, Ramazan İdilman

“…Although pediatric LDLT recipients had longer mean survival than DDLT recipients (167 vs. 132 months), this difference was not statistically significant (p=0.5959). …”
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Comparative analysis of growth patterns of Gannan Yak based on nonlinear models by Minghao Zhang, Tong Wang, Wondossen Ayalew, Zhilong Zhang, Xuelan Zhou, Qingbo Zheng, Min Chu, Guangyao Meng, Yongfu La, Chunnian Liang, Pengjia Bao, Ping Yan

“…In this study, we measured the body weight and withers height of Gannan yaks at different ages (0, 6, 18, 30, 42, 54, 66, and 78 months). …”
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Molecular Epidemiology of Travel-Associated and Locally Acquired Dengue Virus Infections in Catalonia, Spain, 2019 by Jéssica Navero-Castillejos, Adrián Sánchez-Montalvá, Elena Sulleiro, Aroa Silgado, Tomás Montalvo, Laura Barahona, Núria Busquets, José Muñoz, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Manuel Valdivia, Ana Martínez, Maria Assumpció Bou-Monclús, Itziar Martínez-Calleja, Mireia Jané, Cristina Rius, Hernán Vargas-Leguas, Beatriz Escudero-Pérez, Rosa Albarracín, Alexander Navarro, Mireia Navarro, Josep Barrachina, Miguel J. Martínez

“…Overall, all four DENV serotypes and up to 10 different genotypes were detected. Phylogenetic analysis revealed transcontinental circulations associated with DENV-1 and DENV-2 and the presence of DENV-4 genotype I in Indonesia, where few cases had been previously described. …”
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Urbanization leads to asynchronous homogenization of soil microbial communities across biomes by Bangxiao Zheng, Nan Hui, Ari Jumpponen, Changyi Lu, Richard Pouyat, Katalin Szlavecz, David A. Wardle, Ian Yesilonis, Heikki Setälä, D. Johan Kotze

“…Climate had a strong influence on soil microbiota, yet urbanization still significantly altered both bacterial and fungal communities in all regions. …”
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Novel Orthohantavirus Associated with Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Northern Argentina by Carla M. Bellomo, Sebastian Kehl, Daniel Oscar Alonso, Walter López, Flavia Cassinelli, Rocío María Coelho, Gabriela Bravo, Sara Aguirre, Marcela Dib, Natalia Periolo, Concepción Toscano, José Gil, Francisco García Campos, Ignacio Ferro, Valeria Paula Martinez

“…Similar percentages of divergence were considered sufficient to distinguish AND-like variants in previous works. As the patient had no travel history before the onset of disease was reported, we conducted rodent surveys to confirm the presence of reservoirs. …”
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A feasible method for the composition analysis and chemical remediation of clogging matter in subsurface flow constructed wetlands by Yu Zheng, Yuyang Song, Rongshe Zhang, Nan Zhang, Mohomed Salah, Siyi Cheng, Yuanyuan Li, Qian Wang, Chenguang Li, Fengmin Li

“…In addition, the H2O2 solution with a mass fraction of 10% had a good removal effect on proteins and humic acids in the wetland substrates, which also could increase the permeability coefficient of the substrates without causing a large negative impact on the temperature and pH value of the wetland systems. …”
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Transcriptional Profiling and Genetic Mapping of Barley Responses to Bacterial Flagellin by Elizabeth K. Brauer, Whynn Bosnich, Monique Power, Doris Luckert, Sarita Khanal, Nathan Liang, Reid James, Moatter Syed, Martin Charette, Danielle Wolfe, Arezo Pattang, Hannah Morrison, Stephanie Poncos, Melodie Laniel, James Tucker, Raja Khanal, Jean-Sébastien Parent, Bahram Samanfar

“…Genotypes with higher flg22 responses had higher induced resistance to Xanthomonas translucens pv. translucens (Xtt), the causal organism of bacterial leaf streak. …”
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Carcinoembryonic antigen levels in pancreatic juice are associated with histological subtypes of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas by Hiroshi Hayakawa, Mitsuharu Fukasawa, Shinichi Takano, Hiroko Shindo, Ei Takahashi, Satoshi Kawakami, Yoshimitsu Fukasawa, Natsuhiko Kuratomi, Tadashi Sato, Makoto Kadokura, Sumio Hirose, Shinya Maekawa, Taisuke Inoue, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Shota Harai, Hiromichi Kawaida, Hiroshi Kono, Kunio Mochizuki, Nobuyuki Enomoto

“…Both intestinal and pancreatobiliary types had significantly higher PJ‐CEA than the gastric type (p = 0.001). …”
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Screening for cold tolerance resources in maize seedlings and analysis of leaf cell responses by Mengting Hu, Mengting Hu, Dan Zhang, Dan Zhang, Wentao Du, Wentao Du, Huijuan Tian, Huijuan Tian, Ying Hao, Ying Hao, Shuqi Ding, Shuqi Ding, Kaizhi Yang, Kaizhi Yang, Ruohang Xu, Ruohang Xu, Lei Zhang, Lei Zhang

“…The results of the experiment indicate that: (1) Different maize varieties exhibit variations in cold tolerance during the seedling stage, and the extent to which various measurement indicators are affected by low-temperature stress differs. (2) The comparative analysis of phenotypic traits and physiological indexes showed that low temperature stress inhibited the growth of plant height and stem diameter, and had a great impact on leaf width and leaf area. …”
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