Climatic stress such as warming would alter physiological pathways in plants leading to changes in tissue chemistry. Elevated CO2 could partly mitigate warming induced moisture stress, and the degree of this mitigation may vary with plant functional types. We studied the composition of structural and non-structural metabolites in senesced tissues of Bouteloua gracilis (C4) and Pascopyrum smithi...

Abstract People in the developed countries are living longer. Geriatric dermatology is playing an increasingly important role as chances of developing skin-related problems increase with their ageing. Skin ageing induced by two main processes: intrinsic and extrinsic. Extrinsic caused environmental factors such sun exposure, smoking, alcohol consumption, air pollution, poor nutrition. Intrinsic...

Emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) have been earlier shown to be highly temperature sensitive in subarctic ecosystems. As these ecosystems experience rapidly advancing pronounced climate warming, we aimed to investigate how warming affects the BVOC emissions in the long term (up to 13 treatment years). We also aimed to assess whether the increased litterfall resulting from...

Background Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease characterized by symptoms of dryness. In fact, subjective manifestations dry eyes or mouth are part the inclusion criteria 2016 ACR-EULAR Classification Criteria for primary SS (pSS). However, some patients with diagnosis may present without dryness, meeting based on EULAR activity index (ESSDAI) questionnaire (1). St...

abstract background: most of the women suffer from vaginal atrophy and dryness, and therefore, efficient and safe treatment is needed to improve vaginal lubrication. vitamin d has several important functions which may be effective in proliferation and repair of the epithelial tissue. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of vitamin d vaginal suppositories on maturation index, ph, and dryness ...

The probabilistic response of depth-integrated soil water to given climatic forcing can be described readily using an existing supply-demand-storage model. An apparently complex interaction of numerous soil, climate, and plant controls can be reduced to a relatively simple expression for the equilibrium probability density function of soil water as a function of only two dimensionless parameter...

Background: Xerosis is a common skin disorder frequently observed in diabetic patients. An effective hydration of foot skin in diabetics is a relevant preventive strategy in order to maintain an healthy foot. Urea is considered an effective hydrating and emollient topical product. Study aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of topical urea 10% with arginine and cornosin...

Background: Xerosis is a common skin disorder frequently observed in diabetic patients. An effective hydration of foot skin in diabetics is a relevant preventive strategy in order to maintain a healthy foot. Urea is considered an effective hydrating and emollient topical product. Study aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of topical urea 5% with arginine and carnosine ...

Dry eye disease (DED) affects >10% of the population worldwide, and it provokes an unpleasant sensation of ocular dryness, whose underlying neural mechanisms remain unknown. Removal of the main lachrymal gland in guinea pigs caused long-term reduction of basal tearing accompanied by changes in the architecture and density of subbasal corneal nerves and epithelial terminals. After 4 weeks, ongoi...

We conduct a statistical analysis of 51 years of NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data to isolate the separate effects of the 11-year solar cycle (SC) and the equatorial Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) on the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere in late winter (February-March). In a four-group (SC-max vs. -min and eastvs. west-phase QBO) linear discriminant analysis, the state of the westerly phase QBO (wQBO)...