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Life, Volume 13, Issue 3

March 2023 - 258 articles

Cover Story: The outer space environment poses several health hazards for astronauts that spend extended amounts of time in challenging environments. One factor of particular interest is that astronauts are prone to infections from bacteria that reside both on and in the astronauts’ body, which involves a whole range of bacteria that normally play an integral role in keeping the human host healthy. In this study, we show that the microgravity component of space can be replicated here on Earth through technological advancement and as a result, it can cut the cost and reduce the logistical difficulty and limited access challenges that are inherent to real space investigations and might provide a basis for investigations and discoveries to safeguard astronauts from the harsh outer space environment. View this paper
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Articles (258)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,743 Views
12 Pages

Phosphorylation of Calpastatin Negatively Regulates the Activity of Calpain

  • Yuqiang Bai,
  • Chengli Hou,
  • Caiyan Huang,
  • Fei Fang,
  • Yu Dong,
  • Xin Li and
  • Dequan Zhang

22 March 2023

Tenderness is an important characteristic of meat quality. Calpastatin and calpain play important roles in meat tenderization. However, it is not clear how phosphorylation affects the regulation of calpastatin on μ-calpain and, consequently, meat...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,640 Views
10 Pages

22 March 2023

The reflex auriculo-cardiac (RAC), dynamic pulse reaction (Nogier reflex), or vascular autonomic signal was proposed by Nogier. It refers to the pulse changes that can occur in the radial artery immediately after auricular acupuncture is performed. R...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,027 Views
9 Pages

22 March 2023

In spite of the development of numerous vaccines for the prevention of COVID-19 and the approval of several drugs for its treatment, there is still a great need for effective and inexpensive therapies against this disease. Previously, we showed that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,768 Views
11 Pages

Complications in Patients with Chronic Type B Aortic Dissection (cTBAD)—A Long-Term Analysis

  • Darya Mohajeri,
  • Christos Rammos,
  • Konstantinos Tsagakis,
  • Thomas Schlosser,
  • Arjang Ruhparwar,
  • Tienush Rassaf,
  • Rolf Alexander Jánosi and
  • Julia Lortz

22 March 2023

Chronic type B aortic dissection (cTBAD) is a rare but challenging condition that requires individual treatment strategies. Especially the long-term therapy impacts prognosis. In this single-center retrospective study, we evaluated patients with cTBA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,144 Views
10 Pages

Impact of Animal By-Products on Diet Digestibility and Fecal Quality in Beagle Dogs

  • Bussarakam Chuppava,
  • Diana-Christin Siebert,
  • Christian Visscher,
  • Josef Kamphues and
  • Amr Abd El-Wahab

22 March 2023

In animal feeds and pet food, meat industry rendered by-products as a source of high-quality protein are commonly used. Among all rendered protein sources, poultry carcasses and neck meal are frequently used as ingredients in commercial pet foods due...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,444 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2023

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term disorder that significantly impairs somatic, emotional, and psychological functioning. The objective of this review is to identify, appraise, and synthesize the effects of psychological interventions (e.g., co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,075 Views
12 Pages

21 March 2023

Effects of different feeding strategies on meat quality and intestinal development in pigeon squabs were investigated. 120 pairs of pigeons with two squabs each were assigned to five groups (four free-choice feeding systems and one complete feeding s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,798 Views
14 Pages

ZJUSAH Classification: A New Classification for Primary Brainstem Hemorrhage

  • Jingyi Zhou,
  • An Ping,
  • Jizhong Mao,
  • Yichen Gu,
  • Fengqiang Liu and
  • Anwen Shao

21 March 2023

To analyze and improve ZJUSAH classification for primary brainstem hematoma, we retrospectively reviewed 211 patients with primary brainstem hemorrhage who were admitted to our institution between January 2014 and October 2020. The primary clinical o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,038 Views
10 Pages

First Comparative Evaluation of Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Vitamin-K-Dependent Proteins Levels in Mother–Newborn Pairs at Birth

  • Tamás Ilyés,
  • Marius Pop,
  • Mihai Surcel,
  • Daria M. Pop,
  • Răzvan Rusu,
  • Ciprian N. Silaghi,
  • Gabriela C. Zaharie and
  • Alexandra M. Crăciun

21 March 2023

Background: The interplay between vitamin K (vitK) (as carboxylation cofactor, partially produced by the gut microbiota) and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), the end-product of fiber fermentation in the gut, has never been assessed in mother–ne...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
11,056 Views
15 Pages

Application of Arthrospira platensis for Medicinal Purposes and the Food Industry: A Review of the Literature

  • Galia Gentscheva,
  • Krastena Nikolova,
  • Veselina Panayotova,
  • Katya Peycheva,
  • Lubomir Makedonski,
  • Pavlo Slavov,
  • Poli Radusheva,
  • Petia Petrova and
  • Ina Yotkovska

21 March 2023

Arthrospira platensis is a filamentous cyanobacterium of the class Cyanophyceae and is the most cultivated photosynthetic prokaryote. It is used in the pharmaceutical sector, medicine and the food industry. It has a rich micro- and macro-element comp...

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