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  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,978 Views
11 Pages

25 April 2022

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a bacterium that can cause a variety of gastric diseases. Most bacteriocins have gained popularity due to their non-toxic effects on cells and antibacterial effects against a wide range of pathogenic bacteria. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,727 Views
19 Pages

PLNC8 αβ Potently Inhibits the Flavivirus Kunjin and Modulates Inflammatory and Intracellular Signaling Responses of Alveolar Epithelial Cells

  • Abubakr A. M. Omer,
  • Sanjiv Kumar,
  • Bo Söderquist,
  • Wessam Melik,
  • Torbjörn Bengtsson and
  • Hazem Khalaf

13 November 2024

PLNC8 αβ is a cationic antimicrobial peptide that previously has been reported to express both antibacterial and antiviral properties. This study aimed to further elucidate the antiviral effects of PLNC8 αβ and its impact on vir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,742 Views
17 Pages

Backscatter Assisted NOMA-PLNC Based Wireless Networks

  • Samikkannu Rajkumar and
  • Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody

15 November 2021

In this paper, sum capacity maximization of the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based wireless network is studied in the presence of ambient backscattering (ABS). Assuming that ABS is located next to far nodes, it improves the signal strength o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,068 Views
17 Pages

Characterization of Novel Plantaricin-Derived Antiviral Peptides Against Flaviviruses

  • Abubakr A. M. Omer,
  • Sanjiv Kumar,
  • Robert Selegård,
  • Torbjörn Bengtsson and
  • Hazem Khalaf

25 January 2025

Flaviviruses, including West Nile virus, Zika virus, and Dengue virus, pose global health challenges due to their distribution, pathogenicity, and lack of effective treatments or vaccines. This study investigated the antiviral activity of novel trunc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,212 Views
17 Pages

27 December 2021

When a network has relay nodes, there is a risk that a part of the information is leaked to an untrusted relay. Secure network coding (secure NC) is known as a method to resolve this problem, which enables the secrecy of the message when the message...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,677 Views
20 Pages

The Effect of Incubation Temperature, Substrate and Initial pH Value on Plantaricin Activity and the Relative Transcription of pln Genes of Six Sourdough Derived Lactiplantibacillus plantarum Strains

  • Maria K. Syrokou,
  • Panagiota Stasinopoulou,
  • Spiros Paramithiotis,
  • Loulouda Bosnea,
  • Marios Mataragas,
  • Georgios K. Papadopoulos,
  • Panagiotis N. Skandamis and
  • Eleftherios H. Drosinos

The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of sourdough related parameters on the growth and plantaricin activity of six Lactiplantibacillus plantarum strains against a mixture of 5 Listeria monocytogenes strains and to analyze the transcr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,590 Views
15 Pages

Proposed Modification of Staging for Distal Cholangiocarcinoma Based on the Lymph Node Ratio Using Korean Multicenter Database

  • Yunghun You,
  • Yong Chan Shin,
  • Dong Wook Choi,
  • Jin Seok Heo,
  • Sang Hyun Shin,
  • Naru Kim,
  • Kee-Taek Jang,
  • Hongbeom Kim,
  • Chang-Sup Lim and
  • In Woong Han
  • + 2 authors

24 March 2020

The 8th American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for distal cholangiocarcinoma (DCC) included a positive lymph node count (PLNC), but a comparison of the prognostic predictive power of PLNC and lymph node ratio (LNR) is still under de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,552 Views
19 Pages

Lupinus mutabilis is a legume with high agronomic potential and available transcriptomic data for which lncRNAs have not been studied. Therefore, our objective was to identify, characterize, and validate the drought-responsive lncRNAs in L. mutabilis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
12,904 Views
19 Pages

Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury: Where Are We Now?

  • Dimitris Kounatidis,
  • Natalia G. Vallianou,
  • Sotiria Psallida,
  • Fotis Panagopoulos,
  • Evangelia Margellou,
  • Dimitrios Tsilingiris,
  • Irene Karampela,
  • Theodora Stratigou and
  • Maria Dalamaga

6 March 2024

Worldwide, sepsis is a well-recognized cause of death. Acute kidney injury (AKI) may be related to sepsis in up to 70% of AKI cases. Sepsis-associated AKI (SA-AKI) is defined as the presence of AKI according to the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Ou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,919 Views
20 Pages

Grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) are an essential crop for fresh consumption and wine production. Vineyards are attacked by several economically important bacterial and fungal diseases that require regular pesticide treatment. Among them, Pseudomonas syrin...