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January 2025
School of Health Preservation and Rehabilitation, Chengdu University of TCM, Shierqiao Road, Chengdu, 610075, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
Despite the established link between chronic high salt diet (HSD) and an increase in gut inflammation, the effect of HSD on the integrity of the intestinal barrier remains understudied. The present study aims to investigate the impact of HSD on the intestinal barrier in rats, encompassing its mechanical, mucous, and immune components. Expression levels of intestinal tight junction proteins and mucin-2 (MUC2) in SD rats were analyzed using immunofluorescence.
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January 2025
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India.
Pyomelanogenic P. aeruginosa, frequently isolated from patients with urinary tract infections and cystic fibrosis, possesses the ability to withstand oxidative stress, contributing to virulence and resulting in persistent infections. Whole genome sequence analysis of U804, a pyomelanogenic, multidrug-resistant, clinical isolate, demonstrates the mechanism underlying pyomelanin overproduction.
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January 2025
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, 303007, Rajasthan, India.
This study evaluates the unsteady laminar flow and heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid in the appearance of gyrotactic microorganisms. In this analysis, using the Darcy-Forchheimer flow inside the vicinity of a nonlinearly stretched surface with Brownian motion and thermophoresis impacts. Similarity conversion is familiar with reduced governing models into dimensionless variables, and "bvp4c," a MATLAB solver, is employed to find the computational outputs of this analysis.
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January 2025
Simcyp Division, Certara UK, Ltd, Princeton, New Jersey. Electronic address:
The utility of physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models in support of drug development has been well documented. During the discovery stage, PBPK modeling has increasingly been applied for early risk assessment, prediction of human dose, toxicokinetic dose projection, and early formulation assessment. Previous review articles have proposed model-building and application strategies for PBPK-based first-in-human predictions with comprehensive descriptions of the individual components of PBPK models.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Electronic address:
To further the development of an in vitro model that faithfully recapitulates drug disposition of orally administered drugs, we investigated the utility of human enteroid monolayers to simultaneously assess intestinal drug absorption and first-pass metabolism processes. We cultured human enteroid monolayers from 3 donors, derived via biopsies containing duodenal stem cells that were propagated and then differentiated atop permeable Transwell inserts, and confirmed transformation into a largely enterocyte population via RNA sequencing analysis and immunocytochemistry (ICC) assays. Proper cell morphology was assessed and confirmed via bright field microscopy and ICC imaging of tight junction proteins and other apically and basolaterally localized proteins.
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