Publications by authors named "D R Barreda"

Systemic inflammation elicits sickness behaviors and fever by engaging a complex neuronal circuitry that begins in the preoptic area of the hypothalamus. Ectotherms such as teleost fish display sickness behaviors in response to infection or inflammation, seeking warmer temperatures to enhance survival via behavioral fever responses. To date, the hypothalamus is the only brain region implicated in sickness behaviors and behavioral fever in teleosts.

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  • Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) are versatile materials with potential uses in sensors, filtration, and energy storage, and this study focuses on creating them from eco-friendly biopolymers.
  • The researchers successfully produced polymeric nanofibers (PNFs) using biodegradable materials like cellulose acetate, polylactic acid, and chitosan through electrospinning, emphasizing the importance of solution concentration and flow rate on fiber characteristics.
  • The study established optimal fabrication parameters for CNFs, confirming that these processes can yield sustainable and effective materials while also analyzing the thermal and structural changes during production.
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Background: is a bovine respiratory pathogen commonly associated with bacterial bronchopneumonia. Current vaccine strategies have shown variable efficacy in feedlot cattle, and therefore novel vaccines are needed. spores have been investigated as a mucosal vaccine platform, due to their ability to bind and present antigens to the mucosa and act as an adjuvant.

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Aims: This study assessed how the etiological agent of mouth rot in farmed Atlantic salmon, Tenacibaculum maritimum, induces toxicity in host salmonid barrier cells, and determined whether environmental changes are relevant for these effects.

Methods And Results: Tenacibaculum maritimum soluble extracellular products (ECPs) were collected and used to treat Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout intestinal barrier cell lines as a comparative model of bacterial-salmonid cell interactions. Cellular assays that examine cell membrane integrity, marker expression, and metabolic activity revealed that T.

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Phagocytes promptly resolve ingested targets to replenish lysosomes and maintain their responsiveness. The resolution process requires that degradative hydrolases, solute transporters, and proteins involved in lipid traffic are delivered and made active in phagolysosomes. It also involves extensive membrane remodeling.

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