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A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts.

 

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Binding of a fluorescence reporter and a ligand to an odorant-binding protein of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yp ]
Gabriel M. Leal, Walter S. Leal

This study (and first author Gabriel Leal’s high school project!) looks at the binding of DEET to an odorant-protein of the yellow fever mosquito.
“If indeed mosquito OBPs have low affinity for DEET, it may explain, at least in part, the need to apply high doses of insect repellents” write the authors in their conclusion, noting that further research is still required.

New articles to pass peer review

Parallel DNA polymerase chain reaction: Synthesis of two different PCR products from a DNA template [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4sm ]
Vikash Bhardwaj, Kulbhushan Sharma

Dynamin1 concentration in the prefrontal cortex is associated with cognitive impairment in Lewy body dementia [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/34n ]
Julie Vallortigara, Sindhoo Rangarajan, David Whitfield, Amani Alghamdi … Alan Thomas, John O’Brien, Dag Aarsland, Paul Francis

Preoperative low-dose ketamine has no preemptive analgesic effect in opioid-naïve patients undergoing colon surgery when nitrous oxide is used – a randomized study [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4bp ]
Beatriz Nistal-Nuño, Enrique Freire-Vila, Francisco Castro-Seoane, Manuel Camba-Rodriguez

 

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