Fatigue among Air crews on (Ultra)-Long-Range flights - A comparison of subjective fatigue with objective concentration ability.

Introduction: Long duty times are common in the aviation industry, especially with the introduction of ultra long range flights (ULR). This article aims to compare the subjective fatigue assessment and concentration ability of flight crews with objective concentration and alertness tests during (U)LR-flights.

Method: The study examined different (U)LR-flights.

Changes in vital signs, ventilation mode, and catecholamine use during intensive care aeromedical evacuation flights.

Introduction: Especially after (natural) disasters, local health systems are also destroyed or their ability to work is massively restricted. The transport of injured patients is therefore often necessary for further care. Numerous nations keep fixed-wing aircraft with intensive-care capabilities available for secondary transport, but little data on the transport is available to date.

Fatigue and Ability to Concentrate in Flight Attendants During Ultra-Long-Range Flights.

Sammito, Stefan, David Cyrol, and Janina Post. Fatigue and ability to concentrate in flight attendants during ultra-long-range flights. .

Analysis of European Air Medical Evacuation Flights of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients.

Objective: As part of the humanitarian response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the German and French Armed Forces provided air transport for patients from overwhelmed regional hospitals in Italy and France. The objective of this study was to analyze the characteristics of the missions and the medical conditions of COVID-19 patients transported during an air medical evacuation on fixed wing aircraft in March and April 2020.

Method: This was a retrospective analysis of transport records as well as other documents for 58 COVID-19 patients requiring artificial ventilation.

The characteristics and potential applications of structural lipid droplet proteins in plants.

Plant cytosolic lipid droplets are storage organelles that accumulate hydrophobic molecules. They are found in many tissues and their general structure includes an outer lipid monolayer with integral and associated proteins surrounding a hydrophobic core. Two distinct types can be distinguished, which we define here as oleosin-based lipid droplets (OLDs) and non-oleosin-based lipid droplets (NOLDs).

Down-regulation of small rubber particle protein expression affects integrity of rubber particles and rubber content in Taraxacum brevicorniculatum.

The biosynthesis of rubber is thought to take place on the surface of rubber particles in laticifers, highly specialized cells that are present in more than 40 plant families. The small rubber particle protein (SRPP) has been supposed to be involved in rubber biosynthesis, and recently five SRPPs (TbSRPP1-5) were identified in the rubber-producing dandelion species Taraxacum brevicorniculatum. Here, we demonstrate by immunogold labeling that TbSRPPs are localized to rubber particles, and that rubber particles mainly consist of TbSRPP3, 4 and 5 as shown by high-resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometric analysis.

Laticifer-specific cis-prenyltransferase silencing affects the rubber, triterpene, and inulin content of Taraxacum brevicorniculatum.

Certain Taraxacum species, such as Taraxacum koksaghyz and Taraxacum brevicorniculatum, produce large amounts of high-quality natural rubber in their latex, the milky cytoplasm of specialized cells known as laticifers. This high-molecular mass biopolymer consists mainly of poly(cis-1,4-isoprene) and is deposited in rubber particles by particle-bound enzymes that carry out the stereospecific condensation of isopentenyl diphosphate units. The polymer configuration suggests that the chain-elongating enzyme (rubber transferase; EC 2.