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Biology, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2020 - 39 articles

Cover Story: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been considered a promising cell population for cell-based therapy and tissue regeneration. Recently, dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) and stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHEDs) have been isolated, and have attracted substantial attention in terms of their clinical application because of their MSC-like qualities including robust self-renewal ability, multilineage differentiation potential, and immunomodulatory effects. In addition, various growth factors, extracellular vesicles, and epigenetic regulators which can facilitate the therapeutic potential of these cells have been identified, although their signaling interactions are still under investigation. Further clarification of the biological attributes of DPSCs and SHEDs and the development of safe and effective therapeutic approaches are needed to translate them into a clinical setting. View this paper.
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Articles (39)

  • Review
  • Open Access
260 Citations
19,419 Views
46 Pages

Phytoremediation of Cadmium: Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Mechanisms

  • Ali Raza,
  • Madiha Habib,
  • Shiva Najafi Kakavand,
  • Zainab Zahid,
  • Noreen Zahra,
  • Rahat Sharif and
  • Mirza Hasanuzzaman

21 July 2020

Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most toxic metals in the environment, and has noxious effects on plant growth and production. Cd-accumulating plants showed reduced growth and productivity. Therefore, remediation of this non-essential and toxic pollutant i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,284 Views
18 Pages

21 July 2020

Achieving high embryo quality following IVF and ICSI procedures is a key factor in increasing fertility outcomes in human infertile couples. While the male factor is known to underlie infertility in about 50% of cases, studies performed in human infe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,000 Views
22 Pages

21 July 2020

The Cucumber aphid (Myzus persicae), a destructive cucumber aphid usually managed by chemical pesticides, is responsible for enormous annual agricultural losses. A protein elicitor, PeBL1, was investigated in the present work for its ability to induc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
115 Citations
13,281 Views
45 Pages

Circadian Photoentrainment in Mice and Humans

  • Russell G. Foster,
  • Steven Hughes and
  • Stuart N. Peirson

21 July 2020

Light around twilight provides the primary entrainment signal for circadian rhythms. Here we review the mechanisms and responses of the mouse and human circadian systems to light. Both utilize a network of photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGCs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,093 Views
18 Pages

Impairments of Synaptic Plasticity Induction Threshold and Network Oscillatory Activity in the Hippocampus Underlie Memory Deficits in a Non-Transgenic Mouse Model of Amyloidosis

  • Jennifer Mayordomo-Cava,
  • Guillermo Iborra-Lázaro,
  • Souhail Djebari,
  • Sara Temprano-Carazo,
  • Irene Sánchez-Rodríguez,
  • Danko Jeremic,
  • Agnès Gruart,
  • José María Delgado-García,
  • Lydia Jiménez-Díaz and
  • Juan D. Navarro-López

20 July 2020

In early Alzheimer disease (AD) models synaptic failures and upstreaming aberrant patterns of network synchronous activity result in hippocampal-dependent memory deficits. In such initial stage, soluble forms of Amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,190 Views
14 Pages

Testosterone Decreases Placental Mitochondrial Content and Cellular Bioenergetics

  • Jay S. Mishra,
  • Chellakkan S. Blesson and
  • Sathish Kumar

20 July 2020

Placental mitochondrial dysfunction plays a central role in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. Since preeclampsia is a hyperandrogenic state, we hypothesized that elevated maternal testosterone levels induce damage to placental mitochondria and decrea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,545 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair on Chordal Strain: Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations

  • Milan Toma,
  • Daniel R. Einstein,
  • Keshav Kohli,
  • Sheridan L. Caroll,
  • Charles H. Bloodworth,
  • Richard P. Cochran,
  • Karyn S. Kunzelman and
  • Ajit P. Yoganathan

18 July 2020

Edge-to-edge repair for mitral valve regurgitation is being increasingly performed in high-surgical risk patients using minimally invasive mitral clipping devices. Known procedural complications include chordal rupture and mitral leaflet perforation....

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,951 Views
16 Pages

Sperm Quality Assessment in Honey Bee Drones

  • Jesús L. Yániz,
  • Miguel A. Silvestre and
  • Pilar Santolaria

18 July 2020

The quality of honey bee drone semen is relevant in different contexts, ranging from colony productivity to pathology, toxicology and biodiversity preservation. Despite its importance, considerably less knowledge is available on this subject for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,052 Views
11 Pages

17 July 2020

At present, De Man, Rogosa and Sharpe (MRS) broth is the medium of choice for promoting bacteriocin production. However, this medium is expensive and not applicable for large-scale production. Therefore, a low-cost and high-efficiency culture medium...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,435 Views
19 Pages

17 July 2020

Magnetic fields are an unavoidable physical factor affecting living organisms. Lettuce seeds (Lactuca sativa var. cabitat L.) were subjected to various intensities of the static magnetic field (SMF) viz., MF0 (control), SMF1 (0.44 Tesla (T), SMF2 (0....

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Biology - ISSN 2079-7737