Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

May 20, 2024

Terrestrial wildlife as indicators of microplastic pollution in western Thailand

Jiraporn Teampanpong, Prateep Duengkae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17384 PubMed 38784402

May 17, 2024

Bacteriogenic synthesis of morphologically diverse silver nanoparticles and their assessment for methyl orange dye removal and antimicrobial activity

Bhakti Patel, Virendra Kumar Yadav, Reema Desai, Shreya Patel, Abdelfattah Amari, Nisha Choudhary, Haitham Osman, Rajat Patel, Deepak Balram, Kuang-Yow Lian, Dipak Kumar Sahoo, Ashish Patel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17328 PubMed 38770094

May 28, 2024

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG improves cognitive impairments in mice with sepsis

Linxiao Wang, Rui Zhao, Xuemei Li, Pei Shao, Jiangang Xie, Xiangni Su, Sijia Xu, Yang Huang, Shanbo Hu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17427 PubMed 38827289

May 30, 2024

Genomic insights into CKX genes: key players in cotton fibre development and abiotic stress responses

Rasmieh Hamid, Feba Jacob, Zahra Ghorbanzadeh, Mojtaba Khayam Nekouei, Mehrshad Zeinalabedini, Mohsen Mardi, Akram Sadeghi, Sushil Kumar, Mohammad Reza Ghaffari

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17462 PubMed 38827302

May 29, 2024

Reassessment of pore occlusion in some diatom taxa with re-evaluation of Placoneis Mereschkowsky (Bacillariophyceae: Cymbellales) and description of two new genera

Andrei Mironov, Anton Glushchenko, Yevhen Maltsev, Sergey Genkal, Irina Kuznetsova, John Patrick Kociolek, Yan Liu, Maxim Kulikovskiy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17278 PubMed 38827282

May 31, 2024

New records of non-indigenous species from the eastern Mediterranean Sea (Crustacea, Mollusca), with a revision of genus Isognomon (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

Paolo G. Albano, Yuanyuan Hong, Jan Steger, Moriaki Yasuhara, Stefano Bartolini, Cesare Bogi, Marija Bošnjak, Marina Chiappi, Valentina Fossati, Mehmet Fatih Huseyinoglu, Carlos Jiménez, Hadas Lubinevsky, Arseniy R. Morov, Simona Noè, Magdalene Papatheodoulou, Vasilis Resaikos, Martin Zuschin, Tamar Guy-Haim

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17425 PubMed 38832036

May 31, 2024

Gut microbiota alterations in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis and osteopenia from Shanghai, China

Jiaqing Ji, Zhengrong Gu, Na Li, Xin Dong, Xiong Wang, Qiang Yao, Zhongxiao Zhang, Li Zhang, Liehu Cao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17416 PubMed 38832037

May 6, 2024

Synergistic effect of seaweed extract and boric acid and/or calcium chloride on productivity and physico-chemical properties of Valencia orange

Abdullah Alebidi, Mahmoud Abdel-Sattar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17378 PubMed 38726378

May 30, 2024

Zoonotic spillover and viral mutations from low and middle-income countries: improving prevention strategies and bridging policy gaps

Zulfqarul Haq, Junaid Nazir, Tasaduq Manzoor, Afnan Saleem, H. Hamadani, Azmat Alam Khan, Sahar Saleem Bhat, Priyanka Jha, Syed Mudasir Ahmad

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17394 PubMed 38827296

May 17, 2024

Comparing trophic position estimates using bulk and compound specific stable isotope analyses: applying new approaches to mackerel icefish Champsocephalus gunnari

Jose Antonio Canseco, Edwin J. Niklitschek, Claudio Quezada-Romegialli, Chris Yarnes, Chris Harrod

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17372 PubMed 38770096

May 29, 2024

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the WRKY gene family in Rhododendron henanense subsp. lingbaoense

Xiangmeng Guo, Xinyu Yan, Yonghui Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17435 PubMed 38827309

May 28, 2024

Epigallocatechin gallate protects MC3T3-E1 cells from cadmium-induced apoptosis and dysfunction via modulating PI3K/AKT/mTOR and Nrf2/HO-1 pathways

Fanhao Wei, Kai Lin, Binjia Ruan, Chaoyong Wang, Lixun Yang, Hongwei Wang, Yongxiang Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17488 PubMed 38827303

May 13, 2024

Alzheimer’s diseases in America, Europe, and Asian regions: a global genetic variation

Rahni Hossain, Kunwadee Noonong, Manit Nuinoon, Udom Lao-On, Christopher M. Norris, Pradoldej Sompol, Md. Atiar Rahman, Hideyuki J. Majima, Jitbanjong Tangpong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17339 PubMed 38756443

May 21, 2024

Dental pulp stem cells ameliorate D-galactose-induced cardiac ageing in rats

Gehan El-Akabawy, Sherif Othman Fathy El-Kersh, Ahmed Othman Fathy Othman El-Kersh, Shaimaa Nasr Amin, Laila Ahmed Rashed, Noha Abdel Latif, Ahmed Elshamey, Mohamed Abdallah Abd El Megied Abdallah, Ibrahim G. Saleh, Zaw Myo Hein, Ibrahim El-Serafi, Nabil Eid

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17299 PubMed 38799055

May 23, 2024

A murine model of hypertensive heart disease in older women

Audrey Morin-Grandmont, Elisabeth Walsh-Wilkinson, Sara-Ève Thibodeau, Dominique K. Boudreau, Marie Arsenault, Yohan Bossé, Jacques Couet

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17434 PubMed 38799057

May 27, 2024

Genome-wide identification of bHLH gene family and its response to cadmium stress in Populus × canescens

Yuneng Yao, Zhengquan He, Xinmeng Li, Jing Xu, Xiaojiao Han, Hongwei Liang, Renying Zhuo, Wenmin Qiu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17410 PubMed 38818458

May 20, 2024

PTX3 mediates PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling to downregulate apoptosis and autophagy to attenuate myocardial injury in sepsis

Na Cui, Zhi Chen, Zhanbiao Yu, Xiaowei Lv, Zhenjie Hu