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Singh J, Errandonea D, Kanchana V, Vaitheeswaran G. Deep Earth Chronicles: High-Pressure Investigation of Phenakite Mineral Be 2SiO 4. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202300901. [PMID: 38345196 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Revised: 01/28/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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Beryllium silicate, recognized as the mineral phenakite (Be2SiO4), is a prevalent constituent in Earth's upper mantle. This study employs density-functional theory (DFT) calculations to explore the structural, mechanical, dynamical, thermodynamic, and electronic characteristics of this compound under both ambient and high-pressure conditions. Under ideal conditions, the DFT calculations align closely with experimental findings, confirming the mechanical and dynamical stability of the crystalline structure. Phenakite is characterized as an indirect band gap insulator, possessing an estimated band gap of 7.83 eV. Remarkably, oxygen states make a substantial contribution to both the upper limit of the valence band and the lower limit of the conduction band. We delved into the thermodynamic properties of the compound, including coefficients of thermal expansion, free energy, entropy, heat capacity, and the Gruneisen parameter across different temperatures. Our findings suggest that Be2SiO4 displays an isotropic behavior based on estimated anisotropic factors. Interestingly, our investigation revealed that, under pressure, the compression of phenakite is not significantly affected by bond angle bending.
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- Jaspreet Singh
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Kandi, 502285, Sangareddy, Telangana, India
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- Departamento de Fisica Aplicada-ICMUV-MALTA Consolider Team, Universidad de Valencia, C/Dr. Moliner 50, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Kandi, 502285, Sangareddy, Telangana, India
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- School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Prof. C. R. Rao Road, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, 500046, Telengana, India
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Nelic D, Chetverikov N, Hochmalová M, Diaz C, Doležal V, Boulos J, Jakubík J, Martemyanov K, Janoušková-Randáková A. Agonist-selective activation of individual G-proteins by muscarinic receptors. Sci Rep 2024; 14:9652. [PMID: 38671143 PMCID: PMC11053168 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60259-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 04/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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Selective activation of individual subtypes of muscarinic receptors is a promising way to safely alleviate a wide range of pathological conditions in the central nervous system and the periphery as well. The flexible G-protein interface of muscarinic receptors allows them to interact with several G-proteins with various efficacy, potency, and kinetics. Agonists biased to the particular G-protein mediated pathway may result in selectivity among muscarinic subtypes and, due to the non-uniform expression of individual G-protein alpha subunits, possibly achieve tissue specificity. Here, we demonstrate that novel tetrahydropyridine-based agonists exert specific signalling profiles in coupling with individual G-protein α subunits. These signalling profiles profoundly differ from the reference agonist carbachol. Moreover, coupling with individual Gα induced by these novel agonists varies among subtypes of muscarinic receptors which may lead to subtype selectivity. Thus, the novel tetrahydropyridine-based agonist can contribute to the elucidation of the mechanism of pathway-specific activation of muscarinic receptors and serve as a starting point for the development of desired selective muscarinic agonists.
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- Dominik Nelic
- Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Barry University, Miami Shores, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Barry University, Miami Shores, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neuroscience, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, University of Florida, Jupiter, FL, 33458, USA.
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- Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Department of Neuroscience, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, University of Florida, Jupiter, FL, 33458, USA.
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Ortiz-Barrios M, Petrillo A, Arias-Fonseca S, McClean S, de Felice F, Nugent C, Uribe-López SA. An AI-based multiphase framework for improving the mechanical ventilation availability in emergency departments during respiratory disease seasons: a case study. Int J Emerg Med 2024; 17:45. [PMID: 38561694 PMCID: PMC10986051 DOI: 10.1186/s12245-024-00626-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Shortages of mechanical ventilation have become a constant problem in Emergency Departments (EDs), thereby affecting the timely deployment of medical interventions that counteract the severe health complications experienced during respiratory disease seasons. It is then necessary to count on agile and robust methodological approaches predicting the expected demand loads to EDs while supporting the timely allocation of ventilators. In this paper, we propose an integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Discrete-event Simulation (DES) to design effective interventions ensuring the high availability of ventilators for patients needing these devices. METHODS First, we applied Random Forest (RF) to estimate the mechanical ventilation probability of respiratory-affected patients entering the emergency wards. Second, we introduced the RF predictions into a DES model to diagnose the response of EDs in terms of mechanical ventilator availability. Lately, we pretested two different interventions suggested by decision-makers to address the scarcity of this resource. A case study in a European hospital group was used to validate the proposed methodology. RESULTS The number of patients in the training cohort was 734, while the test group comprised 315. The sensitivity of the AI model was 93.08% (95% confidence interval, [88.46 - 96.26%]), whilst the specificity was 85.45% [77.45 - 91.45%]. On the other hand, the positive and negative predictive values were 91.62% (86.75 - 95.13%) and 87.85% (80.12 - 93.36%). Also, the Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) curve plot was 95.00% (89.25 - 100%). Finally, the median waiting time for mechanical ventilation was decreased by 17.48% after implementing a new resource capacity strategy. CONCLUSIONS Combining AI and DES helps healthcare decision-makers to elucidate interventions shortening the waiting times for mechanical ventilators in EDs during respiratory disease epidemics and pandemics.
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- Miguel Ortiz-Barrios
- Centro de Investigación en Gestión e Ingeniería de Producción (CIGIP), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain.
- Department of Productivity and Innovation, Universidad de la Costa CUC, Barranquilla, 080002, Colombia.
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- Department of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Naples, Italy
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- Department of Productivity and Innovation, Universidad de la Costa CUC, Barranquilla, 080002, Colombia
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- School of Computing, Ulster University, Belfast, BT15 1ED, UK
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- Department of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Naples, Italy
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- School of Computing, Ulster University, Belfast, BT15 1ED, UK
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- Academic Multidisciplinary Division of Jalpa de Mendez, Juarez Autonomous University of Tabasco, Jalpa de Mendez, Tabasco, Mexico
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Domínguez-Maqueda M, García-Márquez J, Tapia-Paniagua ST, González-Fernández C, Cuesta A, Espinosa-Ruíz C, Esteban MÁ, Alarcón FJ, Balebona MC, Moriñigo MÁ. Evaluation of the Differential Postbiotic Potential of Shewanella putrefaciens Pdp11 Cultured in Several Growing Conditions. Mar Biotechnol (NY) 2024; 26:1-18. [PMID: 38153608 PMCID: PMC10869407 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-023-10271-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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The increased knowledge of functional foods has led to the development of a new generation of health products, including those containing probiotics and products derived from them. Shewanella putrefaciens Pdp11 (SpPdp11) is a strain described as a probiotic that exerts important beneficial effects on several farmed fish. However, the use of live probiotic cells in aquaculture has limitations such as uncertain survival and shelf life, which can limit their efficacy. In addition, its efficacy can vary across species and hosts. When probiotics are administered orally, their activity can be affected by the environment present in the host and by interactions with the intestinal microbiota. Furthermore, live cells can also produce undesired substances that may negatively impact the host as well as the risk of potential virulence reversion acquired such as antibiotic resistance. Therefore, new alternatives emerged such as postbiotics. Currently, there is no knowledge about the postbiotic potential of SpPdp11 in the aquaculture industry. Postbiotic refers to the use of bacterial metabolites, including extracellular products (ECPs), to improve host physiology. However, the production of postbiotic metabolites can be affected by various factors such as cultivation conditions, which can affect bacterial metabolism. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the postbiotic potential of ECPs from SpPdp11 under different cultivation conditions, including culture media, temperature, growth phase, and salinity. We analyzed their hydrolytic, antibacterial, antiviral, and cytotoxic capacity on several fish cell lines. The results obtained have demonstrated how each ECP condition can exert a different hydrolytic profile, reduce the biofilm formation by bacterial pathogens relevant to fish, lower the titer of nervous necrosis virus (NNV), and exert a cytotoxic effect on different fish cell lines. In conclusion, the ECPs obtained from SpPdp11 have different capacities depending on the cultivation conditions used. These conditions must be considered in order to recover the maximum number of beneficial capacities or to choose the appropriate conditions for specific activities.
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- Marta Domínguez-Maqueda
- Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Ceimar-Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Ceimar-Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Ceimar-Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
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- Departamento de Biología Celular e Histología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular e Histología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular e Histología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular e Histología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Universidad de Almería, Ceimar-Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Ceimar-Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto Andaluz de Biotecnología y Desarrollo Azul (IBYDA), Universidad de Málaga, Ceimar-Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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Tkadlec J, Prasilova J, Drevinek P. A failure of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to type Burkholderia isolates from chronically infected patients with cystic fibrosis. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0221423. [PMID: 37791769 PMCID: PMC10715107 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02214-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023] Open
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- Jan Tkadlec
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Charles University and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Charles University and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Charles University and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czechia
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