Brain Inflammation, Blood Brain Barrier dysfunction and Neuronal Synaptophysin Decrease after Inhalation Exposure to Titanium Dioxide Nano-aerosol in Aging Rats (open access)

Brain Inflammation, Blood Brain Barrier dysfunction and Neuronal Synaptophysin Decrease after Inhalation Exposure to Titanium Dioxide Nano-aerosol in Aging Rats

This article focuses on the consequences of TiO₂ distribution on the central nervous system and particularly on the blood-brain barrier functions.
Date: June 15, 2017
Creator: Disdier, Clémence; Chalansonnet, Monique; Gagnaire, François; Gaté, Laurent; Cosnier, Frédéric; Devoy, Jérôme et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantum walks of two interacting particles on percolation graphs (open access)

Quantum walks of two interacting particles on percolation graphs

This paper addresses the dynamics of two indistinguishable interacting particles moving on a dynamical percolation graph.
Date: October 6, 2017
Creator: Siloi, Ilaria; Benedetti, Claudia; Piccinini, Enrico; Paris, Matteo G. A. & Bordone, Paolo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and use of a switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) transformation pipeline by the BioEnergy Science Center to evaluate plants for reduced cell wall recalcitrance (open access)

Development and use of a switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) transformation pipeline by the BioEnergy Science Center to evaluate plants for reduced cell wall recalcitrance

Article examines the creation of a transformation pipeline (TP) to produce plants with decreased recalcitrance and a laboratory information management system (LIMS) for data compilation from these plants. While many genes accepted into the TP resulted in transgenic switchgrass without modified lignin or biomass content, a group of genes with potential to improve lignocellulosic biofuel yields was identified. Results from transgenic lines targeting xyloglucan and lignin structure provide examples of the types of information available on switchgrass lines produced within BioEnergy Science Center (BESC).
Date: December 22, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Richard S.; Stewart, C. Neal; Gou, Jiqing; Holladay, Susan; Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Flanagan, Amy et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Use of a Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Transformation Pipeline by the Bioenergy Science Center to Evaluate Plants for Reduced Cell Wall Recalcitrance (open access)

Development and Use of a Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Transformation Pipeline by the Bioenergy Science Center to Evaluate Plants for Reduced Cell Wall Recalcitrance

This article provides information on the organization and outcomes of the BioEnergy Science Center Transformation Pipeline, and supplies useful information when developing coordinated, large-scale, multi-institutional reverse genetic pipelines to improve crop traits.
Date: December 22, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Richard S.; Stewart, C. Neal, Jr.; Gou, Jiqing; Holladay, Susan; Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Flanagan, Amy et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rate Coefficient Measurements and Theoretical Analysis of the OH + (E)‑CF₃CH==CHCF₃ Reaction (open access)

Rate Coefficient Measurements and Theoretical Analysis of the OH + (E)‑CF₃CH==CHCF₃ Reaction

Rate coefficients, k, for the gas-phase reaction of the OH radical with (E)CF3CHCHCF3 ((E)-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene, HFO-1336mzz(E)) were measured over a range of temperatures (211−374 K) and bath gas pressures (20−300 Torr; He, N2) using a pulsed laser photolysis−laser-induced fluorescence (PLP−LIF) technique. k1(T) was independent of pressure over this range of conditions with k1(296 K) = (1.31 ± 0.15) × 10−13 cm3 molecule−1 s−1 and k1(T) = (6.94 ± 0.80) × 10−13exp[−(496 ± 10)/T] cm 3 molecule−1 s−1, where the uncertainties are 2σ, and the pre-exponential term includes estimated systematic error. Rate coefficients for the OD reaction were also determined over a range of temperatures (262−374 K) at 100 Torr (He). The OD rate coefficients were ∼15% greater than the OH values and showed similar temperature dependent behavior with k2(T) = (7.52 ± 0.44) × 10−13exp[−(476 ± 20)/T] and k2(296 K) = (1.53 ± 0.15) × 10−13 cm3 molecule−1 s−1. The rate coefficients for reaction 1 were also measured using a relative rate technique between 296 and 375 K with k1(296 K) measured to be (1.22 ± 0.1) × 10−13 cm3 molecule−1 s−1, in agreement with the PLP−LIF results. In addition, the 296 K rate coefficient for the O3 +( E)CF3CHCHCF3 reaction …
Date: March 22, 2018
Creator: Baasandorj, Munkhbayar; Marshall, Paul; Waterland, Robert L.; Ravishankara, A. R. & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specialized impulse conduction pathway in the alligator heart (open access)

Specialized impulse conduction pathway in the alligator heart

Article describes a study which examines the conduction system in crocodiles (Alligator mississippiensis), the only ectothermic vertebrates with a full ventricular septum.
Date: March 22, 2018
Creator: Jensen, Bjarke; Boukens, Bastiaan J; Crossley, Dane A., II; Conner, Justin; Mohan, Rajiv A.; van Duijvenboden, Karel et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative bi-exponential decay of dye emission coupled via plasmons (open access)

Cooperative bi-exponential decay of dye emission coupled via plasmons

This article demonstrates that the relaxation in the sub-radiant system leads to the population of the sub-radiant states by dephasing the super-radiant Dicke states giving rise to the bi-exponential decay in agreement with the experiments.
Date: June 22, 2018
Creator: Lyvers, David P.; Moazzezi, Mojtaba; de Silva, Vashista C.; Brown, Dean P.; Urbas, Augustine M.; Rostovtsev, Yuri V. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrodynamics of superlattices with ultra-thin metal layers: quantum Landau damping and band gaps with nonzero density of states (open access)

Electrodynamics of superlattices with ultra-thin metal layers: quantum Landau damping and band gaps with nonzero density of states

This article develops a theory of electromagnetic transmission through dielectric-metal superlattices with ultra-thin metal films, in which electron motion in the direction perpendicular to the metal surfaces is quantized.
Date: October 16, 2018
Creator: Castillo-López, S. G.; Krokhin, Arkadii A.; Makarov, N. M. & Pérez-Rodríguez, F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topological View of Flows Inside the BOLD Spontaneous Activity of the Human Brain (open access)

Topological View of Flows Inside the BOLD Spontaneous Activity of the Human Brain

Article describes study which found that persistent, recurring blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signals in triangulated rs-fMRI videoframes display previously undetected topological findings, i.e., vortex structures that cover brain activated regions.
Date: April 22, 2020
Creator: Don, Arjuna P. H.; Peters, James F.; Ramanna, Sheela & Tozzi, Arturo
System: The UNT Digital Library
MYB30 Orchestrates Systemic Reactive Oxygen Signaling and Plant Acclimation (open access)

MYB30 Orchestrates Systemic Reactive Oxygen Signaling and Plant Acclimation

This article explores the relationship among MYB30, the ROS wave, and systemic acclimation in Arabidopsis by determining the SAA response to HL stress of MYB30 mutants and wild-type plants.
Date: July 22, 2020
Creator: Fichman, Yosef; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Sengupta, Soham; Burks, David J.; Meyers, Ronald J., Jr.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Diet Analysis of Barn Owl (Tyto alba) and Long- Eared Owl (Asio otus) in a Habitat Island in North-Central Texas (open access)

Comparative Diet Analysis of Barn Owl (Tyto alba) and Long- Eared Owl (Asio otus) in a Habitat Island in North-Central Texas

Article filling the regional gap in knowledge of diet composition of the barn owl (Tyto alba) and the long-eared owl (Asio otus). The study was conducted at the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA) and examined the remains found in owl pellets collected September 2016 to March 2017.
Date: August 22, 2020
Creator: Jiménez, Jaime E.; Jones, Matthew K.; Stoddart, Kaitlyn; Dickson, Sentell; Chapman, Abigail; Baxter-Slye, Jaime L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Statistical Analysis of Trans-Resveratrol in Grape Cane From Ten Varieties of Cultivated Wine Grapes (Vitis Spp.) (open access)

A Statistical Analysis of Trans-Resveratrol in Grape Cane From Ten Varieties of Cultivated Wine Grapes (Vitis Spp.)

This article isolated resveratrol by a non-optimized protocol from ten varieties of grape cane grown in central Texas, USA. A statistical grouping of the ten varieties suggests that Norton, Blanca du bois, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Lenoir are the best candidates to use for further resveratrol isolation.
Date: August 22, 2020
Creator: Rathburn, Harold; Bell, Peter; Cook, Scott; Mayberry, Darrell D.; Geye, Emryse & Goodrich, Ryann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prostasin and hepatocyte growth factor B in factor VIIa generation: Serine protease knockdowns in zebrafish (open access)

Prostasin and hepatocyte growth factor B in factor VIIa generation: Serine protease knockdowns in zebrafish

Article aims to identify other proteases that may activate FVII using zebrafish as a model.
Date: September 22, 2020
Creator: Khandekar, Gauri; Iyer, Neha & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
System: The UNT Digital Library
CRISPR/Cas9-Induced fad2 and rod1 Mutations Stacked With fae1 Confer High Oleic Acid Seed Oil in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) (open access)

CRISPR/Cas9-Induced fad2 and rod1 Mutations Stacked With fae1 Confer High Oleic Acid Seed Oil in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.)

Article utilizing Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 technology to produce knockout mutations in the FATTY ACID DESATURASE2 (FAD2) and REDUCED OLEATE DESATURATION1 (ROD1) genes to increase oleic acid content in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.). Results suggest that combinatorial knockout of ROD1 and FAE1 may be a viable route to commercially increase oleic acid content in pennycress seed oil whereas mutations in FAD2 will likely require at least partial function to avoid fitness trade-offs.
Date: April 22, 2021
Creator: Jarvis, Brice A.; Romsdahl, Trevor B.; McGinn, Michaela G.; Nazarenus, Tara J.; Cahoon, Edgar B.; Chapman, Kent Dean et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rational design of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers (open access)

Rational design of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers

This article is a review discussing the rational design and synthesis of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs), summarizes their advanced applications, and concludes with the authors' perspectives on the research prospects of these materials.
Date: July 22, 2021
Creator: Song, Yanpei; Lan, Pui Ching; Martin, Kyle & Ma, Shengqian
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design (open access)

Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design

This article is part of a Focus Issue on the topic of Rubin LSST Survey Strategy Optimization. The motivation, history, and decision-making process of the observing strategy optimization are detailed, giving context to the science-driven proposals and recommendations for the survey strategy included in this Focus Issue.
Date: December 22, 2021
Creator: Bianco, Federica B.; Ivezić, Željko; Jones, R. Lynne; Graham, Melissa L.; Marshall, Phil; Saha, Abhijit et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cascading effects of COVID-19 on population mobility and air quality: An exploration including place characteristics using geovisualization (open access)

Cascading effects of COVID-19 on population mobility and air quality: An exploration including place characteristics using geovisualization

Article examining the population mobility and air quality before and after the lockdown (mandated restriction of activity) during the public health response to COVID-19. This article is part of the Special Issue on COVID-19.
Date: January 22, 2022
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F.; Kala, Abhishek K. & Tiwari, Chetan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustaining Human Nutrition in an Increasingly Urban World (open access)

Sustaining Human Nutrition in an Increasingly Urban World

This article proposes an urban nutrition (UN) extension to the previously published urban ecological economic system. The proposed extension can be used by decision makers worldwide to evaluate how landscape configurations and agricultural production systems affect the nutritional needs of the local population while fostering sustainable practices.
Date: June 22, 2022
Creator: Torres, Angélica Valencia; Tiwari, Chetan & Atkinson, Samuel F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipid Droplets: Packing Hydrophobic Molecules Within the Aqueous Cytoplasm (open access)

Lipid Droplets: Packing Hydrophobic Molecules Within the Aqueous Cytoplasm

Article discusses how lipid droplets, also known as oil bodies or lipid bodies, are plant organelles that compartmentalize neutral lipids as a hydrophobic matrix covered by proteins embedded in a phospholipid monolayer. The authors review the growing body of knowledge about lipid droplets in plant cells, describe the evolutionary similarity and divergence in their associated subcellular machinery, and point to gaps that deserve future attention.
Date: November 22, 2022
Creator: Guzha, Athanas; Whitehead, Payton; Ischebeck, Till & Chapman, Kent Dean
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automated Approach to In Vitro Image-Guided Photothermal Therapy with Top-Down and Bottom-Up-Synthesized Graphene Quantum Dots (open access)

Automated Approach to In Vitro Image-Guided Photothermal Therapy with Top-Down and Bottom-Up-Synthesized Graphene Quantum Dots

Article discusses how, based on recent studies, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are expected to possess advantageous photothermal properties and facilitate fluorescence image-tracking in the visible and near-infrared (NIR), while surpassing other graphene-based materials in their biocompatibility. The combination of the photothermal and imaging modalities tested in vitro makes the GQDs developed in this work prospective agents for cancer theragnostics.
Date: February 22, 2023
Creator: Lee, Bong; Stokes, Gretel A.; Valimukhametova, Alina; Nguyen, Steven; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Roberto; Bhaloo, Adam et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The psychosocial burden of women seeking treatment for breast and cervical cancers in Ghana’s major cancer hospitals (open access)

The psychosocial burden of women seeking treatment for breast and cervical cancers in Ghana’s major cancer hospitals

Article discusses how breast and cervical cancers remain the most common cancers and the leading cause of cancer deaths in Ghana. Authors state that there is a need for liaison psychiatrists and health psychologists to assist oncologists to provide psychological support such as free and routine counselling services for cancer patients and their caregivers.
Date: August 22, 2023
Creator: Okyere Asante, Patience Gyamenah; Owusu, Adobea Yaa; Oppong, Joseph R.; Amegah, Kingsley E. & Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dry blood spot samples to monitor immune-associated mRNA expression in intervention studies: Impact of Baker's yeast beta glucan (open access)

Dry blood spot samples to monitor immune-associated mRNA expression in intervention studies: Impact of Baker's yeast beta glucan

Article describes how monitoring immunological response to physical stressors in a field setting is challenging because existing methods require a laboratory visit and traditional blood collection via venipuncture. The purpose of this study was to determine if our optimized dry blood spot (DBS) methodology yields sufficient total RNA to quantify the effect of Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan supplementation on post-exercise mRNA expression.
Date: September 22, 2023
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Bridgeman, Elizabeth A.; Vingren, Jakob L. & Will, David W.
System: The UNT Digital Library