Publications by authors named "L S Koester"
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- Postpartum dysgalactia syndrome (PDS) is a problem for mother pigs (sows) that leads to less milk production right after they give birth, which can hurt their piglets.
- Researchers studied 36 sows with PDS and matched them with healthy sows to see if their immune systems were different before and after giving birth.
- They found that sows with PDS had various changes in their blood markers, suggesting their bodies were acting differently and needed more investigation to help predict PDS sooner.
Introduction: Sow mortality in the U.S. swine industry has increased in recent years, for which pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a major contributor, accounting for 21% of all sow mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe essential oil of (Kunth) Mez (EOAC), an Amazon plant composed of a rare nitro compound, has shown scientific evidence of antifungal activity but is still unexplored against dermatophytes. The antifungal susceptibility of EOAC and its main compound, 1-nitro-2-phenylethane (NP), was evaluated against dermatophytes (, and ), evidencing antifungal activity with an inhibitory concentration lower than 256 μg/mL. The mechanism of action was also evaluated, and it is suggested that EOAC and NP have fungicidal action in the fungal membrane, since the antifungal activity occurs through a modification of the shape of the conidial structures of the fungus, showing the permeability of the intracellular content due to the visually observed plasmolysis and cytosolic extravasation through an osmotic process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lipids, including phospholipids and bile acids, exert various signaling effects and are thought to contribute to the development of coronary artery disease (CAD). Here, we aimed to compare lipidomic and bile acid profiles in the blood of patients with and without CAD stratified by sex.
Methods: From 2015 to 2022, 3,012 patients who underwent coronary angiography were recruited in the INTERCATH cohort.
Coumarins are benzopyrones found in several plant genera, including (Asteraceae). These compounds represent an important source of new treatments, especially as antimicrobial and antifungal agents. In this study, two coumarin-rich extracts from using green technologies were obtained through aqueous maceration (AE) and supercritical fluid extraction (SFE).
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