Optimized biochemical method for human Polyphosphate quantification.

Polyphosphate (polyP), a biopolymer composed of phosphates, impacts a wide range of biological functions and pathological conditions in all organisms. However, polyP's intricate physiology and structure in human cells have remained elusive, largely due to the lack of a reliable quantification method including its extraction. In this study, we assess critical points in the whole process: extraction, purification, and quantification polyP from human cell lines.

Utility of Adding Platelet-Rich Plasma to Microneedling vs Microneedling Alone in the Treatment of Acne Scarring.

Acne vulgaris is one of the most common skin diseases worldwide and affects a large population of patients. Post-acne scarring can pose a significant psychosocial burden on patients of all ages; therefore, treatment approaches must be both rapid-acting and effective. Microneedling is a minimally invasive technology that involves the creation of controlled tissue microinjury and subsequent induction of collagen production and tissue remodeling.

[Oral health conditions and nutritional, functional and cognitive status - An approach to the institutionalized older adult].

Introduction/objective: Multidimensional geriatric assessment is an important diagnostic method in geriatrics. The objective of this article was to establish the relationship between nutritional, functional, cognitive status and oral health of institutionalized older adults.

Methodology: A cross-sectional observational study was carried out, where 93 institutionalized older adults participated, including oral assessment and Barthel, Minimental, Mininutritional and Yesavage scales.

Understanding the pathways to text generation: A longitudinal study on executive functions, oral language, and transcription skills from kindergarten to first grade.

This longitudinal study explored the contribution of transcription skills, oral language abilities, and executive functions in kindergarten to written production in grade 1 among Spanish-speaking children (N = 191) through structural equation modeling (SEM). Three dimentions of written production were assessed, including productivity, quality, and syntactic complexity. Accordingly, three SEM models were tested to explore these relationships, and the estimated models for each endogenous variable demonstrated good fit.

Macroalgae Compound Characterizations and Their Effect on the Ruminal Microbiome in Supplemented Lambs.

The impact of macroalgae species on rumen function remains largely unexplored. This present study aimed to identify the biocompounds of the three types of marine macroalgae described: (Brown), spp. (Lettuce), spp.