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  • Beneficial effects of Camelina sativa oil on behavioural (memory, anxiety, depression and social-related) manifestations and oxidative stress parameters in a mice model of irritable bowel syndrome 
    Cojocariu, Roxana; Balmuș, Ioana-Miruna; Lefter, Radu; Hrițcu, Luminița-Diana; Ababei, Daniela-Carmen; Ciobîcă, Alin-Stelian; Copaci, Simona; Copolovici, Lucian; Copolovici, Dana; Jurcoane, Ștefana (University of Bucharest, 2020-04-10)
    Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common chronic functional gastrointestinal impairment, which includes also a variety of psychological and psychiatric comorbidities. The oxidative stress was earlier reported as ...
  • Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials in Raccoon Dogs 
    Ștefănescu, Raluca-Adriana; Roman, Constantin; Miron, Liviu-Dan; Solcan, Gheorghe; Vulpe, Vasile; Hrițcu, Luminița-Diana; Musteață, Mihai (MDPI, 2020-02-02)
    Raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procynoides) are canids indigenous to Eastern Asia being one of the most invasive non-native animals in Europe and potential vectors for several hazardous parasitic and viral diseases. To present, ...
  • Bupivacaine-loaded chitosan hydrogels for topical anesthesia in dentistry 
    Mihalache, Cristian; Rață, Delia-Mihaela; Cadinoiu, Anca-Niculina; Patraș, Xenia; Șindilar, Eusebiu-Viorel; Băcăiță, Simona-Elena; Popa, Marcel; Atanase, Leonard-Ionuț; Darabă, Oana-Maria (Wiley, 2020-05-31)
    The paper describes the preparation of polymeric hydrogels, loaded with bupivacaine, which could represent a good alternative in clinical dentistry as local anesthetics. The hydrogels were prepared by condensation using ...
  • Clinical Biochemistry of Cushing Syndrome in Dogs 
    Boghian, Vasile (Revista de Chimie, 2020-04-03)
    The aim of the study is to determine clinical and paraclinical elements useful in the diagnosis of hyperadrenocorticism, given that the symptoms are varied and often similar to dermatitis or liver disease. Clinical signs ...
  • Common European origin of Hepatitis E virus in human population from Eastern Romania 
    Porea, Daniela; Aniță, Adriana-Elena; Vâță, Andrei; Teodor, Dănuț; Crivei, Luciana-Alexandra; Răileanu, Cristian; Gotu, Vasilică; Rățoi, Ioana-Alexandra; Cozma, Andreea-Paula; Aniță, Dragoș-Constantin; Ludu Oșlobanu, Luanda-Elena; Pavio, Nicole; Savuța, Gheorghe (Frontiers Media, 2020-12-17)
    The purpose of this research was to improve the epidemiological data on HEV infection in the human population in Romania. The analysis targeted hospitalized subjects with acute hepatitis (n = 94) of unknown etiology from ...
  • Diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in Pediatric Patients in Serbia, Greece, and Romania. Current Status and Challenges for Collaboration 
    Arsić Arsenijevic, Valentina; Vyzantiadis, Timoleon-Achilleas; Mareș, Mihai; Otasevic, Suzana; Tragiannidis, Athanasios; Janic, Dragana (MDPI, 2020-04-17)
    Pneumocystis jirovecii can cause fatal Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP). Many children have been exposed to the fungus and are colonized in early age, while some individuals at high risk for fungal infections may develop PcP, ...
  • First report of Dirofilaria repens infection in a microfilaraemic cat from Romania 
    Ciucă, Lavinia; Roman, Constantin; Prisco, Francesco; Miron, Liviu-Dan; Acatrinei, Dumitru-Mihai; Paciello, Orlando; Maurelli, Maria-Paola; Vismarra, Alice; Cringoli, Giuseppe; Rinaldi, Laura (Elsevier, 2020-11-20)
    The present study describes the first report of Dirofilaria repens infection with the presence of both microfilariae and adult nematodes in a cat from Northeastern Romania. Briefly, a 5-year-old male mixed breed cat was ...
  • Geographical Variations in Virulence Factors and Antimicrobial Resistance Amongst Staphylococci Isolated From Dogs From the United Kingdom and Romania 
    Hrițcu, Ozana-Maria; Schmidt, Vanessa; Salem, Shebl E.; Măciucă, Iuliana-Elena; Moraru, Ramona F.; Lipovan, Irina; Mareș, Mihai; Solcan, Gheorghe; Timofte, Dorina (Frontiers Media, 2020-07-21)
    The objective of this study was to compare virulence and resistance factors of mucosal and cutaneous staphylococci from dogs with pyoderma in the UK and Romania, two countries with different approaches to antimicrobial ...
  • How to interpret MICs of antifungal compounds according to the revised clinical breakpoints v. 10.0 European committee on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (EUCAST) 
    Arendrup, Maiken Cavling; Friberg, Nathalie; Mareș, Mihai; Gunnar, Kahlmeter; Meletiadis, J. (Elsevier, 2020-11-09)
    Background EUCAST has revised the definition of the susceptibility category I from ‘Intermediate’ to ‘Susceptible, Increased exposure’. This implies that I can be used where the drug concentration at the site of infection ...
  • Improvement of the Corrosion Resistance of Biomedical Zr-Ti Alloys Using a Thermal Oxidation Treatment 
    Izquierdo, Javier; Mareci, Daniel; Bolat, Georgiana; Santana, Juan J.; Rodríguez Raposo, Raquel; Fernández Mérida, Luis C.; Burtan, Liviu-Cătălin; Trincă, Lucia-Carmen; Souto, Ricardo M. (MDPI, 2020-01-22)
    Binary Zr-Ti alloys spontaneously develop a tenacious and compact oxide layer when their fresh surface is exposed either to air or to aqueous environments. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) analysis of Zr-45Ti, ...
  • Invasive Scedosporium spp. and Lomentospora prolificans infections in pediatric patients: Analysis of 55 cases from FungiScope® and the literature 
    Seidel, Danila; Hassler, Angela; Salmantón García, Jon; Koehler, Philipp; Mellinghoff, Sibylle C.; Carlesse, Fabianne; Cheng, Matthew P.; Falces Romero, Iker; Herbrecht, Raoul; Jover Sáenz, Alfredo; Klimko, Nikolai; Mareș, Mihai; Lass Flörl, Cornelia; Soler Palacín, Pere; Wisplinghoff, Hilmar; Cornely, Oliver A.; Pana, Zoi; Lehrnbecher, Thomas (Elsevier, 2020-02-04)
    Objectives Current knowledge on infections caused by Scedosporium spp. and Lomentospora prolificans in children is scarce. We therefore aim to provide an overview of risk groups, clinical manifestation and treatment ...
  • The Modulation of Oxytocin and Cortisol Levels in Major Depression Disorder and Irritable Bowel Syndrome 
    Hrițcu, Luminița-Diana; Dumitru, Ilie-Ovidiu; Pădurariu, Manuela; Ciobîcă, Alin-Stelian; Spătaru, Mihaela-Claudia; Spătaru, Constantin; Ștefănescu, Gabriela; Ștefănescu, Cristinel; Grecu Gabos, Cristian (Revista de Chimie, 2020-02-07)
    There is a progressive trend in the current literature in understanding the central effects of oxytocin, which besides its classical roles in parturition and lactation, seems to exert some facilitatory effects in most of ...
  • Needles in a haystack: Extremely rare invasive fungal infections reported in FungiScope (R)-Global Registry for Emerging Fungal Infections 
    Salmantón García, Jon; Koehler, Philipp; Anumpa, Kindo; Falces Romero, Iker; García Rodríguez, Julio; Zdeněk, Ráčil; Chen, Sharon C.-A.; Klimko, Nikolai; Desoubeaux, Guillaume; Thompson, George R. III; Benítez Peñuela, Miguel-Ángel; Rodríguez, José-Yesid; Sheppard, Donald C.; Hoenigl, Martin; Le Govic, Yohann; Badali, Hamid; Baddley, John W.; Chander, Jagdish; Ingram, Paul R.; Pakstis, Diana L.; Mellinghoff, Sibylle C.; Atıcı, Serkan; Cesaro, Simone; Chakrabarti, Arunaloke; Dupont, Damien; González, Gloria M.; Hatvani, Lóránt; Herbrecht, Raoul; Klyasova, Galina; Lass Flörl, Cornelia; Mareș, Mihai; Mullane, Kathleen; Vinh, Donald C.; Wisplinghoff, Hilmar; Lackner, Michaela; Cornely, Oliver A.; Seidel, Danila (Elsevier, 2020-11-01)
    Objectives Emerging invasive fungal infections (IFI) have become a notable challenge. Apart from the more frequently described fusariosis, lomentosporiosis, mucormycosis, scedosporiosis, and certain dematiaceae or yeasts, ...
  • Novel titanium-apatite hybrid scaffolds with spongy bone-like micro architecture intended for spinal application: In vitro and in vivo study 
    Vlad, Maria-Daniela; Aguado Fernández, Enrique; González Gómez, Sergio; Ivanov, Iuliu-Cristian; Șindilar, Eusebiu-Viorel; Poeată, Ion; Iencean, Andrei-Ștefan; Butnaru, Maria; Avădănei, Elena-Roxana; López López, José (2020-01-11)
    Titanium alloy scaffolds with novel interconnected and non-periodic porous bone-like micro architecture were 3D-printed and filled with hydroxyapatite bioactive matrix. These novel metallic-ceramic hybrid scaffolds were ...
  • Oxytocin Differentiated Effects According to the Administration Route in a Prenatal Valproic Acid-Induced Rat Model of Autism 
    Lefter, Radu; Ciobîcă, Alin-Stelian; Antioch, Iulia; Ababei, Daniela-Carmen; Hrițcu, Luminița-Diana; Luca, Alina-Costina (MDPI, 2020-05-29)
    The hormone oxytocin (OXT) has already been reported in both human and animal studies for its promising therapeutic potential in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the comparative effectiveness of various administration ...
  • Pestivirus spillover effect: molecular detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus in domestic and feral pigs 
    Aniță, Dragoș-Constantin; Popa, Emilia; Aniță, Adriana-Elena; Ludu Oșlobanu, Luanda-Elena; Savuța, Gheorghe (Colégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal (CBPA), 2020-08-10)
    Pestivirus infections are important in the livestock industries, with infection occurring in cattle, sheep and pigs. The Pestivirus genus of the family Flaviviridae, includes four recognized species: bovine viral diarrhea ...
  • Prenylated phenolics as promising candidates for combination antibacterial therapy: morusin and kuwanon G 
    Aelenei, Petruța; Rîmbu, Cristina-Mihaela; Horhogea, Cristina-Elena; Lobiuc, Andrei; Neagu, Anca-Narcisa; Dunca, Simona-Isabela; Motrescu, Iuliana; Dimitriu, Gabriel; Aprotosoaie, Ana-Clara; Miron, Anca (Elsevier, 2020-08-18)
    Combination of antibiotics with natural products is a promising strategy for potentiating antibiotic activity and overcoming antibiotic resistance. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether morusin and ...
  • Short-term heart-rate variability in healthy small and medium-sized dogs over a five-minute measuring period 
    Baisan, Radu-Andrei; Condurachi, Eusebiu-Ionuț; Vulpe, Vasile (Sciendo, 2020-02-14)
    Introduction: Five-minute heart-rate variability (HRV) measurement is a useful tool for assessing the autonomic nervoussystem (ANS) balance in humans, but there are no studies on healthy dogs. The aim of the study was, ...
  • Synthesis and Characterization of Inclusion Complex of Diminazene Aceturate with b-Ciclodextrin 
    Lupu, Andrei-Cristian; Bomboș, Mihaela; Vasilievici, Gabriel; Miron, Liviu-Dan (Revista de Chimie, 2019-09-15)
    Cyclodextrins (CD) are macrocyclic biopolymers with potential applications in the delivery of small and macro-molecular therapeutic agents. Despite the potent host-guest inclusion property, their inherent lack of cellular ...
  • Toxicity of Deltamethrin to Zebrafish Gonads Revealed by Cellular Biomarkers 
    Petrovici, Adriana; Strungaru, Ștefan-Adrian; Nicoară, Mircea; Robea, Mădălina-Andreea; Solcan, Carmen; Faggio, Caterina (MDPI, 2020-01-23)
    Deltamethrin is responsible for health and reproduction problems both in mammals and aquatic organisms. In this study, zebrafish adults were exposed for 15 days to 0.25, 0.5, 1, and 2 μg L−1 non-lethal concentrations of ...