Journal of Biomed Research

2023

Volume 4, Issue 1, p1-71

Articles published in this issue are Open Access and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY NC) where the readers can reuse, download, distribute the article in whole or part by mentioning proper credits to the authors.

Research Article Open Access

Digital workflow for high-risk, low-volume procedure simulation

Nicholas Jacobson, Hayden McClain, Melissa L New

For thousands of years, simulations have been used by doctors for training before performing high-risk procedures on patients. Due to changes in healthcare and academic environments, as well as the introduction of new technologies, we have seen an increase in the use of simulation for education and competency assessment.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p1-7 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.27

Review Article Open Access

A brief review of industrial fluorosis in domesticated bovines in India: Focus on its socio-economic impacts on livestock farmers

Shanti Lal Choubisa

An excessive and repeated high fluoride exposure over a long period of time is harmful to the health of humans and domestic animals and causes several toxic effects in the form of fluorosis disease. If fluoride exposure is due to industrial fluoride, the disease is known as industrial fluorosis. In recent years, due to rapid industrialization in India, various health problems are increasing continuously among domesticated bovine animals, cattle (Bos taurus) feed and water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) living and grazing in industrial areas due to industrial fluoride pollution.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p8-15 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.028

Commentary Open Access

The high-performance youth soccer players carbohydrate ingestion does not seem to change between base categories

Haniel Fernandes

Youth soccer players undergo a maturational changes which result in physiological, anatomical, and biological changes during adolescence. During seven years of follow-up, it was observed that in youth soccer, the sprint distance and number of sprints increased by ~35%, whereas the number of high-intensity actions increased by ~50%.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p16-17 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.029

Short Communication Open Access

COVID-19 vaccination, disease severity and practice when COVID turns from endemic to epidemic disease

Amnuay Kleebayoon, Viroj Wiwanitkit

The most significant global public health issue is still COVID-19. Due to the advent of a new variation and the widespread use of COVID-19 immunization, the disease is currently not as severe as it was in 2020. The immunization is still required, though. Here, the authors examine and offer suggestions for COVID-19 immunization as the illness transitions from an epidemic to an endemic condition.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p18-19 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.030

Commentary Open Access

On a match day, what should an elite soccer players routine look like?

Haniel Fernandes

Many questions arise from what may or may not be applicable for an elite soccer player to do during the competitive match day. Currently, we know that athletes are concentrated in hotels and there they receive all the food for the day, i.e., the match day diet. Besides that, the supplementation is usually offered at the stadium.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p20-21 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.031

Commentary Open Access

Recent advances in pediatric telemedicine

Bittmann S, Luchter E, Lara Bittmann, Moschüring-Alieva E, Villalon G

Telemedicine is a medical service, which is offered across a spatial distance. Doctors and patients use digital tools such as apps, teleconsultation platforms or video technology. There is currently no uniform and generally applicable definition of telemedicine. In the broadest sense it is understood to mean the overcoming of temporal and spatial distances in the context of medical issues.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p22-24 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.032

Commentary Open Access

Comparative study on chitin content of Bangladeshi edible and medicinal mushrooms

Mohammad Azizur Rahman, Shimul Bhuiyan, Salman Shakil, Shahdat Hossain

Chitin provides immense beneficial roles to the humanity and environment. Most of the chitin extracted worldwide are from the shell of the crustaceans. An alternative source of chitin has been observed as the number of crustaceans has been dilapidating. Here, extraction of chitin from the edible and medicinal macrofungi, mushrooms, have been described.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p25-28 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.033

Short Communication Open Access

Chronic fluoride poisoning in domestic equines, horses (Equus caballus) and donkeys (Equus asinus)

Shanti Lal Choubisa

Repeated chronic fluoride (F) exposure for prolonged duration through water, air, and food causes F poisoning in the form of fluorosis in both humans and domestic and wild animals. However, among domestic equine animals, horses (Equus caballus) and donkeys (Equus asinus), chronic F poisoning caused by industrial fluoride pollution and fluoridated drinking water has been well studied.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p29-32 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.034

Research Article Open Access

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis of mice: Catalytic cross site-specific hydrolysis of H1 histone by IgG antibodies against H1, H2A, H2B, H3, H4 histones, and myelin basic protein

Andrey E. Urusov, Kseniya S. Aulova, Pavel S. Dmitrenok, Valentina N. Buneva, Georgy A. Nevinsky

Histones and their different modified forms are extremely important in chromatin functioning. Free extracellular histone molecules, however, usually act as damage factors. Treatment of experimental mice with exogenous histones results in systemic toxic responses because of inflammatory reactions and activation of Toll-like receptors

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p33-60 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.035

Letter to the Editor Open Access

Pulmonary agenesis in a newborn

Stefan Bittmann, Luchter E, Lara Bittmann, Elena Moschüring-Alieva, Villalon G

There are all transitions from hypoplasia of the lung to agenesis or aplasia of a lung lobe and to complete absence of the entire lung system as classifies such malformations as follows: a) unilateral complete absence of lung and bronchus, b) absence of one half of the lung and a short blind course of the associated bronchus, c) trunk bronchus formed, lung as a hazelnut- to fist-sized, unflap fist- sized, unlobed, fleshy structure in the mediastinum.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p61-63 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.036

Short Communication Open Access

Is drinking groundwater in India safe for human health in terms of fluoride?

Shanti Lal Choubisa

Groundwater has been an invaluable resource for humanity for centuries. India is the world’s largest user of groundwater. It is mostly used not only for drinking and cooking but also for miscellaneous domestic purposes and irrigation in agriculture. Hand-pumps, bore-wells, step-wells, and open deep dug-wells continue to be the primary and major sources of groundwater production in India.

J Biomed Res, 2023, Volume 4, Issue 1, p64-71 | DOI: 10.46439/biomedres.4.037

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