Dietary Counseling: An Option to Malnutrition and Masticatory Deficiency in Patients with Total Protheses? A Scoping Review.

Unlabelled: Given the rising global population of older adults and their association with edentulism and the use of complete removable prostheses [CRP], it is imperative to pursue solutions for issues such as the relationship between poor diets and masticatory deficiency.

Objective: To examine the research on the efficacy of dietary counseling in enhancing mastication and nutrition in older adults with CRP.

Methods: A systematic literature review was performed in the PubMed, Trip, and Web of Science databases.

Complete Genome Assembly of DSM 45807 Allows the Characterization of a Novel Glycopeptide Biosynthetic Gene Cluster.

Background: Glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) are a very successful class of clinically relevant antibacterials, used to treat severe infections caused by Gram-positive pathogens, e.g., multidrug resistant and methicillin-resistant staphylococci.

Impact of Multidisciplinary Team Management on Survival and Recurrence in Stage I-III Colorectal Cancer: A Population-Based Study in Northern Italy.

This study aimed to assess whether multidisciplinary team (MDT) management improves outcomes in patients with stage I-III colorectal cancer (CRC) compared to non-MDT care. This study included 460 CRC patients diagnosed from 2017 to 2018 in a northern Italian province, of whom 300 (65%) were managed by MDT. MDT patients were younger, more frequently had rectal cancers, were diagnosed at earlier stages, and were more likely to undergo surgery and chemotherapy.

In Vivo Efficacy of a Nanoconjugated Glycopeptide Antibiotic in Silkworm Larvae Infected by .

To contrast the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, new alternative therapeutic options are urgently needed. The use of nanoparticles as carriers for clinically relevant antibiotics represents a promising solution to potentiate their efficacy. In this study, we used larvae for the first time as an animal model for testing a nanoconjugated glycopeptide antibiotic (teicoplanin) against infection.

Expanded Functionality and Portability for the Colvars Library.

Colvars is an open-source C++ library that provides a modular toolkit for collective-variable-based molecular simulations. It allows practitioners to easily create and implement descriptors that best fit a process of interest and to apply a wide range of biasing algorithms in collective variable space. This paper reviews several features and improvements to Colvars that were added since its original introduction.