The upper airways represent the point of entrance from where Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection spreads to the lungs. In the present work, α-tocopheryl-polyethylene-glycol succinate (TPGS) micelles loaded with
Foreign animal disease (FAD) preparedness is a high priority for state and federal governments to ensure the protection of the nation's livestock industry. Highly contagious diseases such as African swine fever (ASF) have been the focus of recent
CONCLUSIONS: The use of virtual poverty simulation with baccalaureate nursing students was identified as useful pedagogy for increasing student understanding of health implications related to poverty in a virtual learning environment.
Drug repositioning is critical to drug development. Previous drug repositioning methods mainly constructed drug-disease heterogeneous networks to extract drug-disease features. However, these methods faced difficulty when we are using structurally
Energetic local frustration offers a biophysical perspective to interpret the effects of sequence variability on protein families. Here we present a methodology to analyze local frustration patterns within protein families and superfamilies that
CONCLUSIONS: Comparison of the OHRQoL after rehabilitation with prostheses among patients with cancer and post COVID-19 associated mucormycosis showed that the OHRQoL scores, although much higher among patients with mucormycosis before rehabilitation
CONCLUSIONS: This large-scale study from Toyonaka City suggests a 5.2 % prevalence rate for persistent COVID-19 symptoms 4 weeks post-infection, potentially indicating a lower prevalence of long COVID in Japanese populations after the rise of the
CONCLUSIONS: Assessing the nutrition environment of rural food pantries revealed gaps and strategies for improvement, including the use of healthy nudges and increasing the availability of culturally diverse foods.