Meta-narrative review: the impact of music therapy on sleep and future research directions by Qiaoqiao Gou, Meihui Li, Xiaoyu Wang, Xinran Yuan, Mingyi Yang, Junrui Li, Bo Wang, Dan Yang, Xiubo Ren, Miaomiao Yang, Siqi Liu, Ningning Liu, Jiaqi Han, Qiujian Xu

“…While pharmacological treatments exist, non-pharmacological approaches like music therapy have shown promise in enhancing sleep quality. …”
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TOXICITY TEST OF LIME PEEL EXTRACT (Citrus aurantifolia) USING THE BRINE SHRIMP LETHALITY TEST (BSLT) METHOD FOR DETECTION OF ANTI CANCER ACTIVITY by Indah Khairunnisa, Endang Linirin Widiastuti, Nuning Nurcahyani

“…This study used a completely randomized design (CRD) with 5 treatments and 5 repetitions, namely 0, 125, 150, 250, and 1000 ppm. …”
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Residual Effect of Silicate Agromineral Application on Soil Acidity, Mineral Availability, and Soybean Anatomy by Mariana de Carvalho Ribeiro, Antonio Ganga, Isabella Silva Cattanio, Aline Redondo Martins, Rodrigo Silva Alves, Luís Gustavo Frediani Lessa, Hamilton Seron Pereira, Fernando Shintate Galindo, Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Teixeira Filho, Cassio Hamilton Abreu-Junior, Gian Franco Capra, Arun Dilipkumar Jani, Thiago Assis Rodrigues Nogueira

“…The experiment was conducted under greenhouse conditions and treatments were arranged in a 5 × 2 + 2 factorial scheme: five rates of SA, two soils in addition to CF. …”
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Restoration of tropical dry forest: an analysis of constraints and successes across a highly threatened biome by Natalia Mesa-Sierra, Marinés de la Peña-Domene, Julio Campo, Christian P. Giardina

“…We found that the survival of native species plantings showed high variability within and across regions and treatments – indicating a broad need for refined restoration prescriptions to better match practice to species and site. …”
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Inconsistent Growth Response to Fertilization and Thinning of Lodgepole Pine in the Rocky Mountain Foothills Is Linked to Site Index by Bradley D. Pinno, Victor J. Lieffers, Simon M. Landhäusser

“…Fifteen harvest-origin stands along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta were subjected to six treatments including two levels of thinning (thinning to 2500 stems per hectare and a control) and three types of fertilization (nitrogen-only fertilization, complete fertilization including nitrogen with added P, K, S, Mg, and B, and no fertilization). …”
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Personal protective equipment in dentistry before and after COVID-19 by María Elizabeth Peña Téllez, Suzely Adas Saliba Moimaz, Cléa Adas Saliba Garbin, ´Tânia Adas Saliba

“…The use of personal protective equipment during dental treatments guarantees the professionals and patients’ health. …”
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Effects of Intravenous Administration of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells in 3-Acetylpyridine-Lesioned Rats by Lucía Calatrava-Ferreras, Rafael Gonzalo-Gobernado, Antonio S. Herranz, Diana Reimers, Teresa Montero Vega, Adriano Jiménez-Escrig, Luis Alberto Richart López, Eulalia Bazán

“…Current therapies are based on the use of drugs that correct some of the molecular processes involved in their pathogenesis. Although these treatments yielded promising results, there is not yet an effective therapy for these diseases. …”
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Human Urine-Derived Stem Cells: Potential for Cell-Based Therapy of Cartilage Defects by Long Chen, Lang Li, Fei Xing, Jing Peng, Kun Peng, Yuanzheng Wang, Zhou Xiang

“…Stem cell therapy is considered an optimistic approach to replace current treatments for cartilage defects. Recently, human urine-derived stem cells (hUSCs), which are isolated from the urine, are studied as a promising candidate for many tissue engineering therapies due to their multipotency and sufficient proliferation activities. …”
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Preliminary exploration of metagenomic sequencing for pathogenic identification in infectious uveitis by Jinxia Yu, Yane Gao, Hongsheng Bi, Youhua Zhang, Kai Tang, Dadong Guo, Xiaofeng Xie

“…Methods A retrospective study was conducted on 20 infectious uveitis patients (20 eyes) who received treatments at the Affiliated Eye Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from May 2020 to February 2021. …”
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Nicotinamide Increases the Physiological Performance and Initial Growth of Maize Plant by Tassila Aparecida do Nascimento de Araújo, Eduardo Pradi Vendruscolo, Flávio Ferreira da Silva Binotti, Edilson Costa, Sebastião Ferreira de Lima, Gabriela Rodrigues Sant’Ana, Fernanda Pacheco de Almeida Prado Bortolheiro

“…Two experiments were carried out, in the laboratory (seed physiological potential) and another in a randomized block design, in a greenhouse (initial growth). Treatments consisted of immersion of seeds in six solutions with different concentrations of nicotinamide (0, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 mg·L−1). …”
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Cold Storage of Two Selections of Soursop (Annona muricata L.) in Nayarit, Mexico by José Orlando Jiménez-Zurita, Rosendo Balois-Morales, Irán Alia-Tejacal, Leticia Mónica Sánchez Herrera, Edgar Iván Jiménez-Ruiz, Juan Esteban Bello-Lara, Juan Diego García-Paredes, Porfirio Juárez-López

“…The enzymatic activity of PPO was increased from physiological ripening to consumption ripening for both treatments. The two selections stored at 22°C registered the highest level of PME activity at ripeness. …”
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Is Repeat PTA of a Failing Hemodialysis Fistula Durable? by Ioannis Bountouris, Thorarinn Kristmundsson, Nuno Dias, Zbigniew Zdanowski, Martin Malina

“…Successful dialysis was achieved after 98% of treatments. Nine percent of the stenoses eventually required surgical revision and 13% of the fistulas failed permanently. …”
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Optimized recovery of phenolic and flavonoid compounds from medicinal plant extracts for enhanced antioxidant activity: A mixture design approach by Faiza Imtiaz, Dildar Ahmed, Osama A. Mohammed, Umer Younas, Munawar Iqbal

“…This study highlights the development of optimized plant extract mixtures as a natural therapeutic strategy specifically designed to combat oxidative stress-related diseases, offering a potential alternative to conventional treatments.…”
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Biofilm Formation and Detection of Fluoroquinolone- and Carbapenem-Resistant Genes in Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii by María-Guadalupe Avila-Novoa, Oscar-Alberto Solís-Velázquez, Daniel-Eduardo Rangel-López, Jean-Pierre González-Gómez, Pedro-Javier Guerrero-Medina, Melesio Gutiérrez-Lomelí

“…These properties, combined with the role of A. baumannii as a nosocomial pathogen, increase the probability of A. baumannii causing nosocomial infections and outbreaks as a complication during therapeutic treatments and emphasize the need to control A. baumannii biofilms in hospital environments.…”
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The non-indigenous dung beetle (Onthophagus nuchicornis) can effectively reproduce using the dung of indigenous eastern North American mammals by Alexe Indigo, Katelyn Stokes, Olivia Burchell, Paul Manning

“…While the number of developed offspring was significantly different among treatments, offspring fitness did not vary significantly across dung types. …”
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Methylobacterium populi VP2: Plant Growth-Promoting Bacterium Isolated from a Highly Polluted Environment for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Biodegradation by Valeria Ventorino, Filomena Sannino, Alessandro Piccolo, Valeria Cafaro, Rita Carotenuto, Olimpia Pepe

“…The use of microorganisms to accelerate the natural detoxification processes of toxic substances in the soil represents an alternative ecofriendly and low-cost method of environmental remediation compared to harmful incineration and chemical treatments. Fourteen strains able to grow on minimal selective medium with a complex mixture of different classes of xenobiotic compounds as the sole carbon source were isolated from the soil of the ex-industrial site ACNA (Aziende Chimiche Nazionali Associate) in Cengio (Savona, Italy). …”
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Efficacy of traditional herb aqua extract of Teucrium stocksianum and its fractions against HSV-1 virus expression levels of genes (UL46 and US6) by Emad Asgari, Zohreh Sharifi, Farahnaz Bineshian, Mahsa Zamanian

“…Through Q-PCR results; the reduction of viral proliferation revealed that the low expression of genes UL46 and US6 were significant in the presence of different treatments utilized in the experiment. Conclusion: T. stocksianum, has an anti-viral property and may be considered as a remedy for anti-HSV-1 agents. …”
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Exploring Echinacea angustifolia for anti-viral compounds against Zika virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: a computational study by Mai M. El-Daly, Leena H. Bajrai, Thamir A. Alandijany, Isra M. Alsaady, Hattan S. Gattan, Meshari M. Alhamdan, Vivek Dhar Dwivedi, Esam I. Azhar

“…Our research sheds light on the viability of these E. angustifolia compounds as ZIKV RDRP inhibitors, laying a foundation for further experimental research in developing novel antiviral treatments against ZIKV infections.…”
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Protein enrichment in instant pudding with fish protein hydrolysate (FPH) from trash fish by Salampessy Randi B.S., Yuniarti Tatty, Handayani Melur Gitawigati, Nurbani Siti Zachro

“…The study evaluated several parameters related to pudding quality: Hedonic Quality, Taste Intensity and Proximate, used ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) to compare means among different treatments (pudding with varying levels of FPH). The protein content of instant pudding ranged between 7.68-8.77%, higher than comercial instan pudding. …”
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Purine but Not Pyrimidine De Novo Nucleotide Biosynthesis Inhibitors Strongly Enhance the Antiviral Effect of Corresponding Nucleobases Against Dengue Virus by Laurent F. Bonnac, Christine D. Dreis, Madhu Rai, Robert J. Geraghty

“…Nucleobases, the base of a nucleoside without ribose, are understudied as potential treatments for viral infections. Antiviral nucleobases are converted in infected cells to their corresponding nucleoside triphosphate active form. …”
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