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Oral Biofilm Composition, Dissemination to Keratinocytes, and Inflammatory Attenuation Depend on Probiotic and Synbiotic Strain Specificity
Several inflammatory diseases are characterized by a disruption in the equilibrium between the host and its microbiome. Due to the increase in resistance, the use of antibiotics for the widespread, nonspecific...
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Open AccessThe nutritional composition and cell size of microbial biomass for food applications are defined by the growth conditions
It is increasingly recognized that conventional food production systems are not able to meet the globally increasing protein needs, resulting in overexploitation and depletion of resources, and environmental d...
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Open AccessPilot-scale drinking water distribution system to study water quality changes during transport
Drinking water (DW) quality can change during distribution, leading to taste and odor events and microbial regrowth. Pilot plants mimicking distribution networks are crucial for understanding these changes. We...
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Open AccessAntimicrobial potential of known and novel probiotics on in vitro periodontitis biofilms
Several oral diseases are characterized by a shift within the oral microbiome towards a pathogenic, dysbiotic composition. Broad-spectrum antimicrobials are often part of patient care. However, because of the ...
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Quercetin Mitigates Endothelial Activation in a Novel Intestinal-Endothelial-Monocyte/Macrophage Coculture Setup
Atherosclerosis initiation is associated with a pro-inflammatory state of the endothelium. Quercetin is a flavonoid abundantly present in plant-based foods, with a possible impact on cardiovascular health. In ...
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Open AccessUV photonic integrated circuits for far-field structured illumination autofluorescence microscopy
Ultra-violet (UV) light has still a limited scope in optical microscopy despite its potential advantages over visible light in terms of optical resolution and of interaction with a wide variety of biological m...
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Open AccessComparison of the modulatory effects of three structurally similar potential prebiotic substrates on an in vitro multi-species oral biofilm
Previous research identified potential prebiotic substrates for oral health like the structural analogues N-acetyl-d-mannosamine (NADM) and N-acetyl-d-glucosamine (NADG). The main hypothesis of the current study ...
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Open AccessSafeguarding the microbial water quality from source to tap
Anthropogenic activities and climate change can deteriorate the freshwater quality and stress its availability. This stress can, in turn, have an impact on the biostability of drinking water. Up to now, the mi...
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Open AccessAntibiotic affects the gut microbiota composition and expression of genes related to lipid metabolism and myofiber types in skeletal muscle of piglets
Early-life antibiotic administration is known to affect gut microbiota and host adiposity, but the effects of antibiotic exposure on skeletal muscle properties remain unknown. The present study evaluated the c...
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Open AccessGenomic and enzymatic evidence of acetogenesis by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) mediated by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) is the primary process that provides energy to cold seep ecosystems by converting methane into inorganic carbon. Notably...
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Gut Microbiota of Migrating Wild Rabbit Fish (Siganus guttatus) Larvae Have Low Spatial and Temporal Variability
We investigated the gut microbiota of rabbit fish larvae at three locations in Vietnam (ThuanAn—northern, QuangNam—intermediate, BinhDinh—southern sampling site) over a three-year period. In the wild, the firs...
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Open AccessOral biofilms exposure to chlorhexidine results in altered microbial composition and metabolic profile
Oral diseases (e.g., dental caries, periodontitis) are developed when the healthy oral microbiome is imbalanced allowing the increase of pathobiont strains. Common practice to prevent or treat such diseases is...
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Complementing urea hydrolysis and nitrate reduction for improved microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation
Microbial-induced CaCO3 precipitation has been widely applied in bacterial-based self-healing concrete. However, the limited biogenetic CaCO3 production by bacteria after they were introduced into the incompatibl...
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Enriched hydrogen-oxidizing microbiomes show a high diversity of co-existing hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria
While numerous reports exist on the axenic culturing of different hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria (HOB), knowledge about the enrichment of microbial communities growing on hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide as s...
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Open AccessTomato plants rather than fertilizers drive microbial community structure in horticultural growing media
Synthetic fertilizer production is associated with a high environmental footprint, as compounds typically dissolve rapidly leaching emissions to the atmosphere or surface waters. We tested two recovered nutrie...
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Open AccessDevelopment of antiseptic adaptation and cross-adapatation in selected oral pathogens in vitro
There is evidence that pathogenic bacteria can adapt to antiseptics upon repeated exposure. More alarming is the concomitant increase in antibiotic resistance that has been described for some pathogens. Unfort...
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Open AccessDrinking water bacterial communities exhibit specific and selective necrotrophic growth
Physicochemical water disinfection methods result in the reduction of bacterial concentrations by orders of magnitude, but not in the total elimination of the bacterial community. As such, the dead bacterial b...
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Open AccessCharacterization of the bacterial communities on recent Icelandic volcanic deposits of different ages
Basalt is the most common igneous rock on the Earth’s surface covering. Basalt-associated microorganisms drive the cycling and sequestration of different elements such as nitrogen, carbon and other nutrients, ...
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Open AccessNitrite producing bacteria inhibit reinforcement bar corrosion in cementitious materials
Chemicals and synthetic coatings are widely used to protect steel against corrosion. Bio-based corrosion inhibition strategies can be an alternative in the arising bioeconomy era. To maintain the good state of...
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Open AccessOnline flow cytometric monitoring of microbial water quality in a full-scale water treatment plant
The ever-increasing need for high-quality drinking and process waters, and growing public awareness about possible contamination, drive efforts for the further development of automated control of water treatme...
