Background The primary aim of this study was to examine the associations of normal weight
obesity (NWO) with physical fitness in Chinese university students. As a secondary aim, we …

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of airway affecting people from childhood to old
age, and is characterized by airway epithelial dysfunction. Cucurbitacin E (CuE), a tetracyclic …

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have an important role in adipose tissue function and energy
metabolism homeostasis, and abnormalities may lead to obesity. To investigate whether …

In the real world, analytes usually exist in complex systems, and this makes direct detection
by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) difficult. Thin layer chromatography …

With the improvement of environmental protection awareness and transformation of industrial
structure, China's energy consumption structure has changed constantly. Although the …

Aim There have been very few paediatric studies on omentin‐1, an anti‐inflammatory adipokine
that provides a link between adiposity, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. This …

Implantation of a spherical nucleus into a recipient oyster is a critical step in artificial pearl
production. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the response of the pearl oyster …

Trypsin-like serine proteases (TLSs) play various roles in dietary protein digestion,
hemolymph coagulation, antimicrobial peptide synthesis, and, in particular, the rapid immune …

Kunitz-type serine protease inhibitors (KSPI) are a family of serine protease inhibitors (SPIs)
and are extensively found in animals, plants, and microbes. SPI can inhibit proteases that …

Background: Copeptin and nesfatin-1 have recently been identified as novel peptides that
play a role in the pathogenesis of obesity-related insulin resistance in adults. However, the …