[HTML][HTML] Exposure to irregular microplastic shed from baby bottles activates the ROS/NLRP3/Caspase-1 signaling pathway, causing intestinal inflammation

Z Xu, J Shen, L Lin, J Chen, L Wang, X Deng… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Irregularly shaped microplastics (MPs) released from infant feeding bottles (PP-IFBs) may
exhibit increased cytotoxicity, in contrast to the commonly studied spherical MPs. This study …

Profiling of the conjunctival bacterial microbiota reveals the feasibility of utilizing a microbiome-based machine learning model to differentially diagnose microbial …

Z Ren, W Li, Q Liu, Y Dong, Y Huang - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Both healthy and diseased human ocular surfaces possess their own microbiota. If allowed,
opportunistic pathogens within the ocular microbiota may cause microbial keratitis (MK) …

Poxviruses package viral redox proteins in lateral bodies and modulate the host oxidative response

SR Bidgood, J Samolej, K Novy, A Collopy… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
All poxviruses contain a set of proteinaceous structures termed lateral bodies (LB) that
deliver viral effector proteins into the host cytosol during virus entry. To date, the spatial …

Label-free detection of virus based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering

X Lv, Z Zhang, Y Zhao, X Sun, H Jiang, S Zhang… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the background interference from biological samples, detecting viruses using surface-
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in clinical samples is challenging. This study is based …

Acrylamide inhibits vaccinia virus through vimentin‐independent anti‐viral granule formation

JJ Wood, IJ White, J Samolej, J Mercer - Cellular Microbiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The replication and assembly of vaccinia virus (VACV), the prototypic poxvirus, occurs
exclusively in the cytoplasm of host cells. While the role of cellular cytoskeletal components …