102 results match your criteria: "University of Houston-Victoria[Affiliation]"
PLoS One
September 2024
Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America.
Introduction: Despite an evolving e-cigarette environment, few studies have looked at adolescent exposure to e-cigarette advertising over time and its associations with curiosity about and susceptibility to using e-cigarettes. We examined e-cigarette advertising exposure and its associations with curiosity and susceptibility across multiple years among adolescents who have never used e-cigarettes.
Methods: We obtained data from the National Youth Tobacco Surveys (NYTSs), 2014-2020 (N = 97,496).
Fish Physiol Biochem
December 2024
Kidchakan Supamattaya Aquatic Animal Health Research Center, Department of Aquatic Science and Innovative Management Division, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, 90112, Thailand.
In recent years, there has been a growing focus on using herbal extracts as immune enhancers for aquatic species, replacing antibiotics. In the present study, the effects of dietary supplementation of Hericium erinaceus extract (HE) on growth, feed utilization, hematology, expression of immunity-related genes, and immune responses in Nile tilapia infected by Streptococcus agalactiae were examined. A total of 240 Nile tilapia with an average body weight of 17.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInsects
July 2024
Agricultural Innovation and Management Division, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90110, Thailand.
The brown planthopper (BPH), (Stål, 1854) is a pest of rice plants worldwide. is a destructive entomopathogenic fungus known to attack leafhoppers or BPHs specifically. Live adult BPH samples were inoculated with isolated PSUC002, and their interaction was morpho-histologically examined from 0 to 120 h post-inoculation (pi).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVaccine
October 2024
School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China. Electronic address:
Viral infections significantly impact the immune system, and impact will persist until recovery. However, the influence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection on the homeostatic immune status and secondary immune response in recovered patients remains unclear. To investigate these persistent alterations, we employed five feature-ranking algorithms (LASSO, MCFS, RF, CATBoost, and XGBoost), incremental feature selection, synthetic minority oversampling technique and two classification algorithms (decision tree and k-nearest neighbors) to analyze multi-omics data (surface proteins and transcriptome) from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recovered patients and healthy controls post-influenza vaccination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSubst Use Misuse
October 2024
School of Communication Studies, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA.
The prevalence of vaping among young people is a public health crisis. Social norms can contribute to the problem, but also to the solution. The current study examined young adults' responses to anti-vaping messages that varied on two features: social norms and behavioral framing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Fish Biol
September 2024
Faculty of Veterinary Science, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand.
This study aimed to explore the reproductive histology and oocyte differentiation of the longnose seahorse Hippocampus trimaculatus (Leach, 1814) in captivity. Five mature healthy females were histologically observed. The reproductive systems of the five specimens exhibited similar morphological characteristics with a pair of saccular creamy white ovaries merging caudally into a single gonoduct.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAddict Behav
October 2024
College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198, USA.
Objectives: Previous youth tobacco research has identified multiple factors relating to intentions to quit vaping and quit attempts among current e-cigarette users in adolescents. The pathways in the complex associations with vaping cessation behaviors remain unclear.
Methods: Using data from the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) (grades 6-12), structural equation models (SEMs) are developed to examine the associations of social environment, vaping risk perceptions, e-cigarette marketing, vaping characteristics, and demographics with two outcome measures - intentions to quit vaping and past year quit attempts among current e-cigarette users.
Nicotine Tob Res
October 2024
Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Introduction: In 2017, New York City (NYC) passed a minimum floor price law (MFPL) to raise the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes to $13.00. Evaluation of the MFPL in NYC is limited and has yet to examine its potential as a proequity policy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Health Commun
July 2024
Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
While research on youth vaping prevention has begun to grow, little work has examined language choice in vaping prevention messages. This study examined adolescents' responses to vaping prevention statements that varied on three features: behavioral framing, linguistic certainty, and target specification. We conducted a 2 (behavioral framing) by 2 (linguistic certainty) by 2 (target specification) by 3 (risk type) plus control condition between-subjects experiment using a national probability sample.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Histotechnol
December 2024
Department of Marine Science and Environment, Faculty of Science and Fisheries Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Trang, Thailand.
The cartilage and bone structure has provided insightful knowledge about evolution and ecology of fish, which is an important component of biological oceanography. However, the whole-body bone staining is a lengthy and complicated process that typically takes five days to several months, and the improvement of the conventional method has been one of the important issues in this field. Here we report a quick and easy whole-mount bone staining method for small fish, in which a newly designed fixative is applied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToxins (Basel)
March 2024
Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510380, China.
Microcystin-LR (MC-LR) is a cyanobacterial metabolite produced during cyanobacterial blooms and is toxic to aquatic animals, and the liver is the main targeted organ of MC-LR. To comprehensively understand the toxicity mechanism of chronic exposure to environmental levels of MC-LR on the liver of fish, juvenile Nile tilapia were exposed to 0 μg/L (control), 1 μg/L (M1), 3 μg/L (M3), 10 μg/L (M10), and 30 μg/L (M30) MC-LR for 60 days. Then, the liver hepatotoxicity induced by MC-LR exposure was systematically evaluated via histological and biochemical determinations, and the underlying mechanisms were explored through combining analysis of biochemical parameters, multi-omics (transcriptome and metabolome), and gene expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFish Physiol Biochem
April 2024
College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang, 712100, Shanxi, China.
Skeletal muscle is the mainly edible part of fish. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) is a crucial nutrient for fish. This study investigated the effect of EPA on the muscle development of grass carp along with the potential molecular mechanisms in vivo and in vitro.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Fish Biol
April 2024
Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
We investigated the digestive biology of two prevalent leiognathid species in Pranburi River estuary, Thailand: the decorated ponyfish (Nuchequula gerreoides) and the splendid polyfish (Eubleekeria splendens). A total of 632 samples collected from February to April and September to November 2017 were analysed using morphological and histological approaches. The overall structures were similar between the species: a short mucous-cell-rich oesophagus region, a well-developed gastric gland uniformly present across the stomach's mucosal layer, and three finger-like pyloric caeca between the stomach and intestine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth Commun
November 2024
Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma.
In an experiment ( = 206) using skin cancer prevention messages and a 2 (mortality: salient, control) × 2 (freedom-limiting language: freedom-limiting, autonomy-supportive) independent-group design, we tested the terror management health model and integrated its predictions with the theory of psychological reactance. We used a sample of young adults because they are most at risk for excessive tanning. Consistent with the study predictions about proximal defenses, mortality salience significantly increased intentions to wear sunscreen all year around, relative to the control condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEcotoxicol Environ Saf
January 2024
China-ASEAN "The Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory of Marine Culture Technology (Shanghai), Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China; Key Laboratory of Exploration and Utilization of Aquatic Genetic Resources, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China. Electronic address:
Geosmin is an environmental pollutant that causes off-flavor in water and aquatic products. The high occurrence of geosmin contamination in aquatic systems and aquaculture raises public awareness, however, few studies have investigated the response pathways of geosmin stress on freshwater fish. In this research, grass carp were exposed to 50 μg/L geosmin for 96 h, liver tissue was sequenced and validated using real-time qPCR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFish Physiol Biochem
December 2023
Kidchakan Supamattaya Aquatic Animal Health Research Center, Department of Aquatic Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, 90112, Thailand.
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of thermal stress on growth, feed utilization, coloration, hematology, liver histology, and critical thermal maximum (CTmax) in goldfish (Carassius auratus) cultured at three different acclimation temperatures including 27 °C, 30 °C, and 34 °C for 10 weeks. Goldfish were assigned randomly to tanks with a quadruplicate setup, accommodating 20 fish per tank. The result showed that fish acclimated to different temperatures did not significantly differ in weight gain (WG) and specific growth rate (SGR).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids
January 2024
College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China. Electronic address:
Obesity has always been an overwhelming health concern worldwide. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) reduces abdominal fat accumulation by inducing adipocyte apoptosis, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Mitophagy, the process of maintaining mitochondrial homeostasis, has a double-edged sword effect that positively or negatively regulates apoptosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutrients
September 2023
Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Choline plays many important roles, including the synthesis of acetylcholine, and may affect muscle responses to exercise. We previously observed correlations between low choline intake and reduced gains in strength and lean mass following a 12-week resistance exercise training (RET) program for older adults. To further explore these findings, we conducted a randomized controlled trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Fish Biol
January 2024
Department of Tropical Pathology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
The scalloped perchlet Ambassis nalua is one of the dominant fishes in the Estuarine Pranburi River, Thailand. It is suggested that this fish is in the secondary trophic level with a carnivorous nature. Studies on digestive system will help us further identify the niche of this species in the food web/food chain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanoscale Adv
August 2023
Department of Immunology and Nano-Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University Miami Florida 33199 USA
Magnetic nanoparticles possess unique properties distinct from other types of nanoparticles developed for biomedical applications. Their unique magnetic properties and multifunctionalities are especially beneficial for central nervous system (CNS) disease therapy and diagnostics, as well as targeted and personalized applications using image-guided therapy and theranostics. This review discusses the recent development of magnetic nanoparticles for CNS applications, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and drug addiction.
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November 2023
College of Natural and Applied Science, University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, TX, 77901, USA.
Metazoan 70 kDa heat shock protein (HSP70) genes have been classified into four lineages: cytosolic A (HSP70cA), cytosolic B (HSP70cB), endoplasmic reticulum (HSP70er), and mitochondria (HSP70m). Because previous studies have identified no HSP70cA genes in vertebrates, we hypothesized that this gene was lost on the evolutionary path to vertebrates. To test this hypothesis, the present study conducted a comprehensive database search followed by phylogenetic and synteny analyses.
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November 2023
Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510380, China. Electronic address:
The present study investigated the effects of chronic heat stress (HS) on the chemical composition, oxidative stability, muscle metabolism, and meat quality of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Compared with the control (26 °C), chronic HS (32 °C) lowered growth performance, the contents of whole-body lipid, muscle protein, and muscle lipid. Also, HS significantly increased the contents of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and decreased antioxidative status, causing a decline in meat quality, including increased lipid and protein oxidation, the centrifugal water loss, and cooking loss as well as decreased the fragmentation index and pH at 24 h, which may be attributed to induced apoptosis by excessive ROS in Nile tilapia meat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNat Neurosci
June 2023
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Nat Neurosci
April 2023
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Subst Use Misuse
March 2023
Department of Psychology, University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, TX, USA.
: Anxiety Sensitivity (AS) is a transdiagnostic risk factor that includes fear of the potential physical and psychological consequences of anxiety-related symptoms. Caffeine consumption in high amounts is associated with symptoms of anxiety. Research on the relationship between AS and caffeine consumption has yielded inconsistent results.
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