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Role of renin-angiotensin system/angiotensin converting enzyme-2 mechanism and enhanced COVID-19 susceptibility in type 2 diabetes mellitus

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World Journal of Diabetes 2024年第4期15卷 606-622页

作者： Ashwin Kumar Shukla Komal Awasthi Kauser Usman Monisha Banerjee Molecular and Human Genetics Laboratory Department of ZoologyUniversity of LucknowLucknow 226007Uttar PradeshIndia department of Medicine King Georges’Medical UniversityLucknow 226003Uttar PradeshIndia Institute of Advanced Molecular Genetics and Infectious Diseases(IAMGID)University of LucknowLucknow 226007Uttar PradeshIndia

Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is a disease that caused a global pandemic and is caused by infection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 *** has affected over 768 million people worldwide,resulting in approx-imately 6900000 ***-risk groups,identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,include individuals with conditions like type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM),obesity,chronic lung disease,serious heart conditions,and chronic kidney *** indicates that those with T2DM face a hei-ghtened susceptibility to COVID-19 and increased mortality compared to non-diabetic *** the renin-angiotensin system(RAS),a vital regulator of blood pressure and pulmonary stability,reveals the significance of the angiotensin-converting enzyme(ACE)and ACE2 *** converts angiotensin-I to the vasoconstrictor angiotensin-II,while ACE2 counters this by converting angiotensin-II to angiotensin 1-7,a *** ACE2 exp-ression,common in diabetes,intensifies RAS activity,contributing to conditions like inflammation and *** ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers can be therapeutically beneficial by increasing ACE2 levels,concerns arise regarding the potential elevation of ACE2 receptors on cell membranes,potentially facilitating COVID-19 *** review explored the role of the RAS/ACE2 mechanism in amplifying severe acute respiratory syndrome cor-onavirus 2 infection and associated complications in *** treatment strategies,including recombinant human ACE2 therapy,broad-spectrum antiviral drugs,and epigenetic signature detection,are discussed as promising avenues in the battle against this pandemic.

关键词： Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors Angiotensin-II receptor blockers Complex diseases COVID-19 Type 2 diabetes

Phylogenetic, phylogeographic and divergence time analysis of Anopheles subpictus species complex using ITS2 and COI sequences

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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 2024年第5期17卷 214-225,I0004-I0038页

作者： Lihini Sandaleka Muthukumarana Methsala Madurangi Wedage Samanthika Rathnayake Nissanka Kolitha De Silva department of zoology Faculty of Applied SciencesUniversity of Sri JayewardenepuraGangodawilaNugegodaSri Lanka Genetics and Molecular Biology Unit Faculty of Applied SciencesUniversity of Sri JayewardenepuraGangodawilaNugegodaSri Lanka Sri Lanka Institute of Biotechnology PitipanaHomagamaSri Lanka

Objective:To address the phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationship between different lineages of Anopheles(An.)subpictus species complex in most parts of the Asian continent by maximum utilization of Internal Transcriber Spacer 2(ITS2)and cytochrome C oxidase I(COI)sequences deposited at the ***:Seventy-five ITS2,210 COI and 26 concatenated sequences available in the NCBI database were *** analysis was performed using Bayesian likelihood trees,whereas median-joining haplotype networks and time-scale divergence trees were generated for phylogeographic *** diversity indices and genetic differentiation were also ***:Two genetically divergent molecular forms of *** species complex corresponding to sibling species A and B are *** A evolved around 37-82 million years ago in Sri Lanka,India,and the Netherlands,and species B evolved around 22-79 million years ago in Sri Lanka,India,and ***,Thailand,and Cambodia have two molecular forms:one is phylogenetically similar to species *** forms differ from species A and B and evolved recently in the above mentioned countries,Indonesia and the *** subdivision among Sri Lanka,India,and the Netherlands is almost absent.A substantial genetic differentiation was obtained for some populations due to isolation by large geographical *** diversity indices reveal the presence of a long-established stable mosquito population,at mutation-drift equilibrium,regardless of population ***:*** species complex consists of more than two genetically divergent molecular *** A is highly divergent from the *** Lanka and India contain only species A and B.

关键词： Molecular systematics ITS2 COI DNA sequences Phylogeny Phylogeography

The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys

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Current zoology 2024年第2期70卷 150-162页

作者： Daniel Jablonski Konrad Mebert Rafaqat Masroor Evgeniy Simonov Oleg Kukushkin Timur Abduraupov Sylvia Hofmann department of zoology Comenius University in BratislavaBratislavaSlovakia Global Biology BirrSwitzerland Pakistan Museum of Natural History ShakarparianIslamabadPakistan Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Russian Academy of SciencesMoscowRussia T.I.Vyazemski Karadag Scientific Station-Nature Reserve—Branch of A.0.Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas TheodosiaCrimea Zoological Institute of the RAS Saint PetersbourgRussia Institute of zoology Academy of Sciences of the Republic of UzbekistanYunusabadTashkentUzbekistan Museum Koenig Bonn LIBLeibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity ChangeBonnGermany UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Department of Conservation BiologyPermoserstrasse 1504318 LeipzigGermany

Influenced by rapid changes in climate and landscape features since the Miocene,widely distributed species provide suitable models to study the environmental impact on their evolution and current genetic *** dice snake Natrix tessellata,widely distributed in the Western Palearctic is one such *** aimed to resolve a detailed phylogeography of *** with a focus on the Central Asian clade with 4 and the Anatolia clade with 3 mitochondrial lineages,trace their origin,and correlate the environmental changes that affected their distribution through *** expected time of divergence of both clades began at 3.7 Mya in the Pliocene,reaching lineage differentiation approximately 1 million years *** genetic diversity in both clades is rich,suggesting different ancestral areas,glacial refugia,demographic changes,and colonization *** Caspian lineage is the most widespread lineage in Central Asia,distributed around the Caspian Sea and reaching the foothills of the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan,and Eastern European lowlands in the *** distribution is limited by deserts,moun-tains,and cold steppe ***,Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan lineages followed the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya water systems in Central Asia,with ranges delimited by the large Kyzylkum and Karakum *** the western side,there are several lineages within the Anatolia clade that converged in the central part of the peninsula with 2 being endemic to Western *** distribution of both main clades was affected by expansion from their Pleistocene glacial refugia around the Caspian Sea and in the valleys of Central Asia as well as by environmental changes,mostly through aridification.

关键词： biogeography colonization Eurasia genetic diversity mitochondrial DNA Paratethys refugia water snakes.

Cretaceous crown male ant reveals the rise of modern lineages

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Zoological Research 2024年第5期45卷 983-989页

作者： Qiong Wu Alexander G.Radchenko Michael S.Engel Xiao-Qin Li Hong-Ru Yang Xing-Ru Li Chung-Kun Shih Dong Ren Tai-Ping Gao College of Life Sciences Capital Normal UniversityBeijing 100048China I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of zoology NAS of UkraineKiev 01054Ukraine Division of Invertebrate zoology American Museum of Natural HistoryNew York 10024-5192USA Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosLima 11-0058Perú Departamento de Entomología Museo de Historia NaturalUniversidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosLima 15072Perú department of Chemistry Analytical and Testing CenterCapital Normal UniversityBeijing 100048China department of Paleobiology National Museum of Natural HistorySmithsonian InstitutionWashington DC 20013-7012USA

Most described Mesozoic ants belong to stem groups that existed only during the Cretaceous ***,the earliest known crown ants were dated to the Turonian(Late Cretaceous,ca.94-90 million years ago(Ma))deposits found in the USA,Kazakhstan,and ***,the recent discovery of an alate male ant in Kachin amber from the earliest Cenomanian(ca.99 Ma),representing a new genus and species,Antiquiformica alata,revises the narrative on ant *** can be distinctly differentiated from all known male stem ants by its geniculate antennae with elongated scape,extending far beyond the occipital margin of the head and half the length of the funiculus,as well as its partly reduced forewing ***,the combination of a one-segmented waist with a well-developed node,elongated scape extending beyond the occipital margin,and reduced forewing venation,particularly the completely reduced m-cu and rs-m crossveins and absence of rm and mcu closed cells,firmly places the fossil within the extant subfamily *** transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR)confirmed that the amber containing Antiquiformica alata originated from the Kachin mines in *** discovery significantly revises our understanding of the early evolution of *** presence of Antiquiformica in Cenomanian amber indicates that the subfamily Formicinae emerged at least by the start of the Late Cretaceous,with crown ants likely originating earlier during the earliest Cretaceous or possibly the Late Jurassic,although paleontological evidence is lacking to support the latter hypothesis.

关键词： Formicidae Formicinae Morphology Taxonomy Antiquiformica alata Paleontology Kachin amber

Free-range poultry eggs as an emerging tool for pollution bio-indication

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Eco-Environment & Health 2024年第1期3卷 77-79页

作者： Anissa Zergui Daniel Brice Nkontcheu Kenko National Center of Toxicology Algeria zoology Laboratory Department of Animal Biology and ConservationFaculty of ScienceUniversity of BueaCameroon Biology and Applied Ecology Research Unit Dschang School of Science and TechnologyUniversity of DschangCameroon

Environmental pollution disrupts aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems,constituting a risk to the human survival due to the harmful effects of different pollutants,including heavy metals,persistent organic pollutants(POPs),and ***,long-term exposure to cadmium(Cd)causes kidney damage,bone fragility,and ***(Pb)and mercury(Hg)are known for their haematotoxic and neurotoxic ***(As)can cause skin cancer,hyperkeratosis lesions,skin pigmentation disorders,as well as lung cancer[1].Additionally,POPs,such as organochlorine pesticides(OCPs)and dioxins,are a class of carbon-based organic chemicals characterized by their persistence,bioaccumulation,and potential for long-range *** substances are recognized as hazardous pollutants and endocrine disruptors[2].Because of this evidence,efforts are made to assess environmental pollution in order to guarantee a balanced ecosystem and human *** monitoring traditionally involved directly measuring pollutantlevels in the environmentalmatrices,including air,soil,and water.

关键词： pollution poultry traditionally

Phytochemical profiling and anticancer potential of Cymbopogon citratus extract

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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2024年第10期14卷 448-460页

作者： Bader O.Almutairi Mikhlid H.Almutairi Badr A.Al-Dahmash Saad Alkahtani Saud Alarifi Ahmed Rady department of zoology College of ScienceKing Saud UniversityP.O.Box 2455Riyadh 11451Saudi Arabia

Objective:To evaluate the anticancer potential of Cymbopogon citratus ***:GC-MS analysis was used to identify phytocomponents in the methanolic extract of Cymbopogon citratus.A fractionation method was employed to isolate and assess the bioactivity of different fractions and their cytotoxic activities against cancer cell lines HCT116,LoVo,Caco-2,and HT-29 were investigated.A dual staining method with acridine orange and ethidium bromide was used to assess the effect of the extract on cell ***,the expression levels of Bax and TP53 were quantified using real-time PCR in Caco-2 cells treated with the ethyl acetate fraction of Cymbopogon citratus extract.A protein array was employed to profile key pro-and anti-apoptotic proteins in Caco-2 ***,molecular docking studies were conducted to investigate the interactions between key compounds of Cymbopogon citratus extract and specific apoptosis-related protein domains(PDB IDs:7wql and 4bkx).Results:A significant growth inhibition was observed in Caco-2 cells treated with Cymbopogon citratus *** the seven fractions of the plant extract,the ethyl acetate fraction showed the highest cytotoxicity against Caco-2 cells with an IC50 value of(6.16±0.01)μg/*** immunofluorescence assay showed that the ethyl acetate fraction could induce apoptosis of Caco-2 ***,the fraction upregulated the gene expressions of Bax and TP53 in a dose-dependent *** docking analysis demonstrated the interaction of five compounds isolated from the ethyl acetate fraction with key proteins in Caco-2 cells,indicating their anticancer ***:Cymbopogon citratus extract shows anticancer activity against Caco-2 cells by inducing *** may be a promising candidate for the treatment of colon cancer,which needs further investigation.

关键词： Cymbopogon citratus Anticancer Caco-2 cell Apoptosis Colon cancer

Assessment of Toxoplasma gondii Contamination in Cat Feces

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IJLAI Transactions on Science and Engineering 2024年第2期2卷 21-28页

作者： Kausar Khan Muhammad Ibrar department of zoology Abdul Wali Khan UniversityMardanPakistan 2 Software CollegeShenyang Normal UniversityShenyangChina

A study in district Buner,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,aimed to determine the prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in cat feces.243 fecal samples were collected and examined for intestinal parasites at Abdul Wali Khan University *** these,58 samples(23.86%)were positive for *** *** were collected over five months from November 2016 to March 2017,with varying prevalence rates:20% in November,25.7% in December,22.5% in January,25.9% in February,and 21.9% in *** was the first study of its kind conducted in district Buner.

关键词： Toxoplasma gondii Cat feces Prevalence Intestinal parasites Oocysts

Methionine sources and genotype affect embryonic intestinal development,antioxidants,tight junctions,and growth-related gene expression in chickens

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Animal Nutrition 2024年第1期16卷 218-230页

作者： James K.Lugata Sawadi F.Ndunguru Gebrehaweria K.Reda Xénia E.Ozsváth Eszter Angyal Levente Czeglédi Gabriella Gulyás Renáta Knop János Oláh Zoltán Mészár Rita Varga Brigitta Csernus Csaba Szabó department of Animal Nutrition and Physiology Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences and Environmental ManagementUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary department of Animal Husbandry Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences and Environmental ManagementUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences and Environmental Management Doctoral School of Animal ScienceUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm University of DebrecenDebrecenHungary department of Anatomy Histology and EmbryologyFaculty of MedicineUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary department of Evolutionary zoology and Human Biology Faculty of Science and TechnologyUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary

Methionine(Met)is an essential and first limiting amino acid in the poultry diet that plays a significant role in chicken embryonic development and *** present study examined the effect of in ovo injection of DL-Met and L-Met sources and genotypes on chicken embryonic-intestinal development and *** eggs of the two genotypes,TETRA-SL layer hybrid(TSL)—commercial layer hybrid and Hungarian Partridge colored hen breed(HPC)—a native genotype,were randomly distributed into four treatments for each *** treatment groups include the following:1)control non-injected eggs(NoIn);2)saline-injected(SaIn);3)DL-Met injected(DLM);and 4)L-Met injected(LM).The in ovo injection was carried out on 17.5 d of embryonic development;after hatching,eight chicks per group were sacrificed,and the jejunum was extracted for *** results showed that both DLM and LM groups had enhanced intestinal development as evidenced by increased villus width,villus height,and villus area(P<0.05)compared to the *** DLM group had significantly reduced crypt depth,glutathione(GSH)content,glutathione S-transferase 3 alpha(GST3),occludin(OCLN)gene expression and increased villus height to crypt depth ratio in the TSL genotype than the LM group(P<0.05).The HPC genotype has overexpressed insulin-like growth factor 1(IGF1)gene,tricellulin(MD2),occludin(OCLN),superoxide dismutase 1(SOD1),and GST3 genes than the TSL genotype(P<0.05).In conclusion,these findings showed that in ovo injection of Met enhanced intestinal development,and function,with genotypes responding differently under normal *** also influenced the expression of intestinal antioxidants,tight junction,and growth-related genes.

关键词： DL-Methionine L-Methionine In ovo injection Intestinal development Poultry

Metabolic and microbial changes in light-vented bulbul during recent northward range expansion

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Current zoology 2024年第1期70卷 24-33页

作者： Yun Wu Ying Xiong Yanzhu Ji Yalin Cheng Qianghui Zhu Xiaolu Jiao Yongbin Chang Na Zhao Jing Yang Fumin Lei Gang Song Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution Institute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China College of Life Science University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100049China department of zoology College of Life scienceSichuan Agricultural UniversityYa'an 625099SichuanChina Henan Engineering Research Center of Bird-Related Outage Zhengzhou Normal UniversityZhengzhou 450044China School of Ecology and Environment Anhui Normal UniversityWuhu 241002AnhuiChina School of Environmental Science and Engineering Shaanxi University of Science and TechnologyXian 710021China Centerfor Excellence inAnimal Evolutionand Genetics Chinese Academy of SciencesKunming 650223China

Endotherms recently expanding to cold environments generally exhibit strong physiological acclimation to sustain high body *** this process,gut microbes likely play a considerable role in host physiological functions,including digestion and *** light-vented bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis represents one such *** used to be restricted to the Oriental realm but expanded its distribution range north to the Palearctic areas during the past few ***,we explored the seasonal dynamics of the resting metabolic rate(RMR)and microbiota for local and newly colonized populations of the *** results showed that the mass-adjusted RMR and body mass were pos-itively correlated with latitude variations in both ***,the gut microbiota showed a corresponding variation to the northern cold *** the two northern populations,the alpha diversity decreased compared with those of the two southern *** differences were detected in dominant phyla,such as Firmicutes,Bacteroidetes,Proteobacteria,and Desulfobacterota in both *** core microbiota showed geographic differences in the winter,including the elevated relative abundance of 5 species in northern ***,to explore the link between microbial communities and host metabolic thermogenesis,we conducted a correlation analysis between microbiota and mass-adjusted *** found that more genera were significantly correlated with mass-adjusted RMR in the wintering season compared to the breeding season(71 vs.23).These results suggest that microbiota of the lighted-vented bulbul linked with thermogenesis in diversity and abundance under northward expansion.

关键词： bird body mass gutmicrobiota RMR season