Highly Stable Antitumor Silver-Lipid Nanoparticles Optimized for Targeted Therapy by Darwish A, Sándor N, Szenti I, Marosvölgyi T, Juhász K, Rónavári A, Kachal E, Kutus B, Kónya Z, Balogi Z

“…LAgs with PC/PG, PC/PG/SM/Chol, and in particular PC/PG/SM displayed the highest stability assessed by CF leakage, whereas high content of neutral or negatively charged phospholipids was destabilizing. As shown by MTT and colony formation assays, viability and survival of A375 and RPMI-7951 melanoma cells were severely impaired by LAgs at a higher or comparable level as caused by free AgNPs. …”
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Nicotine-induced CHRNA5 activation modulates CES1 expression, impacting head and neck squamous cell carcinoma recurrence and metastasis via MEK/ERK pathway by Chen Feng, Wei Mao, Chenyang Yuan, Pin Dong, Yuying Liu

“…Immunofluorescence staining is used to analyze CHRNA5 expression and localization, and clonogenic assays are performed to measure colony proliferation after CHRNA5 knockdown and overexpression. …”
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Inhibitory Mechanism of Robiotic Bacteria on The Growth of Vibrio harveyi in Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) Larvae by . Widanarni, E. Ayuzar, . Sukenda

“…The inhibitory effect of SKT-b,1Ub, and Ua on the growth of V. harveyi was investigated by concomitant incubation of the two bacteria in a culture shrimp larvae. Colony forming unit of V. harveyi, probiotic and total of bacteria in dead, live larvae and water culture was monitored, and survival rate of larvae was investigated. …”
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CST2 promotes cell proliferation and regulates cell cycle by activating Wnt-β-catenin signalling pathway in serous ovarian cancer by Xiaohua Wang, Sufen Zhao, Yanwei Guo, Chunhui Wang, Shuyu Han, Xingcha Wang

“…Cell cycle characteristics and proliferation were assessed using a colony formation assay, flow cytometry, and a cell counting kit-8 assay. …”
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Analyse des terres cuites architecturales de l’aqueduc de Nyon/Colonia Iulia Equestris (Suisse) by Benjamin Clément, Christophe Henny, Anne Schmitt

“…In the absence of dating evidence for the construction itself, the establishment of public baths near the colony’s forum at the beginning of the 1st century AD provides us with a chronological clue to its construction. …”
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Asymptomatic Bacteriuria among Pregnant Women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Prevalence, Causal Agents, and Their Antimicrobial Susceptibility by Ketema Bizuwork, Haile Alemayehu, Girmay Medhin, Wondwossen Amogne, Tadesse Eguale

“…Women whose urine samples carried greater than or equal to 105 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per milliliter of urine when grown on plate count agar were considered positive for ASBU. …”
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Human intestinal nematode infections in Sri Lanka: A scoping review. by Nalini Kaushalya Jayakody, Anjana Silva, Susiji Wickramasinghe, Nilanthi de Silva, Sisira Siribaddana, Kosala Gayan Weerakoon

“…Within specific demographics, it was 6.96% in the general community, 33.4% in plantation sector, and 11.6% in slum communities. During the colonial period, hookworm infection was the commonest HINI, but ascariasis is now more prevalent. …”
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Comparison of phenotypic and genetic traits of ESBL-producing UPEC strains causing recurrent or single episode UTI in postmenopausal women by Michelle Kalu, Peter Jorth, Annie Wong-Beringer

“…Presence of hlyA, ompT, and fimH genes were confirmed by colony PCR, and qRT-PCR was performed using extracted RNA from a subset of 18 strains (12 recurrent; 6 single episode) grown in Luria-Bertani media and isolated from infected BECs to characterize gene expression. …”
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The Used of Paci-Paci Leaves Extract Leucas sp. to Prevent Mycotic Disease by Sri Nuryati, M.A. Suparman, Y. Hadiroseyani

“…Paci-paci extract can reduced the fungal infection and hindered the growth of Saprolegnia sp. colonies.  Descriptively, the paci-paci extract (the treatment of the extract 0.5 gr/l; 1 gr/l; 1.5 gr/l) could prevent the Saprolegnia sp. infection with the successive prevalence 33.3 %; 22.2 %; 0 %. …”
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Antibacterial Potential of Endemic Medicinal Plants of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, against Urinary Tract Infection Pathogens by Eka Astuty, Vinsa Delia Luhulima, Stefanus Cahyo Ariwicaksono

“…Following the pathogen isolation, the isolates were identified according to the colony morphology, Gram staining, and biochemical test results. …”
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s paratexts: ‘j’ai senti, j’ai aimé, j’ai parlé’ by Simon Davies

“…The French government had signalled its disapproval of his depiction of settlers and the administration in its colony in Mauritius. The Voyage has an ‘Avant-propos’ which contains the quotation in the above title. …”
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MEMORY IN PUBLIC SPACE AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH IN TIME OF WAR by Viktoriia Kovpak, Nataliia Lebid, Viktor Burenkov

“…This, in turn, can take the form of the construction of historical memory and become a practice of intervention in the field of historiography, marking the territory and the mental space with colonial symbols, as demonstrated by Russia after the collapse of the USSR, appealing to nostalgia for the Soviet past and constructing the politics of "fraternal nations" in entrepreneurial activity. …”
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Relationship between CTF1 gene expression and prognosis and tumor immune microenvironment in glioma by Hongqing Cai, Shen Tian, Angsi Liu, Guanchao Xie, Hongsheng Zhang, Xiaogang Wu, Jinghai Wan, Sai Li

“…To assess the impact on glioma cell proliferation and apoptosis, we employed various assays, including the Cell Counting Kit-8, colony formation assay, and flow cytometry. Results CTF1 gene and protein expression were significantly elevated in glioma tissues, and correlated with malignancy and poor prognosis. …”
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Lipopolymers as the Basis of Non-Viral Delivery of Therapeutic siRNA Nanoparticles in a Leukemia (MOLM-13) Model by Panadda Yotsomnuk, Amarnath Praphakar Rajendran, Daniel Nisakar Meenakshi Sundaram, Luis Carlos Morales, Cezary Kucharski, Mohammad Nasrullah, Wanwisa Skolpap, Xiaoyan Jiang, Spencer B. Gibson, Joseph Brandwein, Hasan Uludağ

“…The desired inhibition of cell growth was attained with both FLT3 and KMT2A::MLLT3 siRNAs, and the combination provided more potent effects in both cell growth and colony formation assays. Induction of apoptosis was confirmed after specific siRNA treatments using the Annexin V assay. …”
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Repurposing the prostaglandin analogue treprostinil and the calcium-sensing receptor modulator cinacalcet to revive cord blood as an alternate source of hematopoietic stem and prog... by Michaela Prchal-Murphy, Julia Zehenter, Marlene Fischer, Anita Pirabe, Madeleine Themanns, Behnaz Afrashteh, Eva Maria Putz, Karoline Kollmann, José Basílio, José Basílio, Manuel Salzmann, Wolfgang Strohmaier, Günther Krumpl, Alex Farr, Veronika Sexl, Michael Freissmuth, Eva Zebedin-Brandl

“…In vitro assays demonstrated enhanced migration and adhesion in response to the presence of treprostinil and cinacalcet, suggesting potential synergistic effects. Colony formation confirmed synergism.ConclusionAugmenting the bone marrow reconstitution potential of HSPCs with treprostinil and cinacalcet shows promise for rescuing patients undergoing HCT. …”
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Newly identified c-di-GMP pathway putative EAL domain gene STM0343 regulates stress resistance and virulence in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by Kaifeng Chen, Lili Li, Nanwei Wang, Zhouping Zhou, Peng Pan, Chenggang Xu, Dage Sun, Jiayi Li, Changzhi Dai, Dai Kuang, Ming Liao, Jianmin Zhang

“…As a result, the biofilm formation ability of 269ΔSTM0343 was enhanced by 21.54%, accompanied by a more pronounced red, dry, and rough colony morphology. 269ΔSTM0343 also showed a 19.03% decrease in motility due to the downregulation of flhD expression. …”
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MKRN1 promotes colorectal cancer metastasis by activating the TGF-β signalling pathway through SNIP1 protein degradation by Yi Zhang, Qin-shan Li, Hong-lin Liu, Hong-ting Tang, Han-lin Yang, Dao-qiu Wu, Yu-ying Huang, Li-cheng Li, Li-hong Liu, Meng-xing Li

“…The impact of MKRN1 on CRC cell proliferation and migration was observed using CCK8, colony formation, wound healing, and transwell assays. …”
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In vivo reduction of biofilm seeded on orthopaedic implants: safety and efficacy of portable electromagnetic induction heating by Enrique Cordero García-Galán, Marina Medel-Plaza, José J. Pozo-Kreilinger, Héctor Sarnago, Óscar Lucía, Alicia Rico-Nieto, Jaime Esteban, Enrique Gomez-Barrena

“…In rabbits implanted with infected screws, a significant bacterial load reduction with median 0.75 Log10 colony-forming units/ml was observed (p = 0.016). …”
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Importin subunit beta‐1 mediates ERK5 nuclear translocation, and its inhibition synergizes with ERK5 kinase inhibitors in reducing cancer cell proliferation by Zoe Lombardi, Lucia Gardini, Anatolii V. Kashchuk, Alessio Menconi, Matteo Lulli, Ignazia Tusa, Alessandro Tubita, Luisa Maresca, Barbara Stecca, Marco Capitanio, Elisabetta Rovida

“…The combination of ivermectin and the ERK5 inhibitor AX15836 synergistically reduced cell viability and colony formation ability in A375 and HeLa cells and was more effective than single treatments in preventing the growth of A375 and HeLa spheroids. …”
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First report of Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius, 1889) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), biotypes B and Q, in soybean Glycine max (L.) Merrill (Fabales: Fabaceae) in Paraguay by Nancy Noemí Espinoza-Morel, Marta Alicia Fernández-Gamarra, Liliana Noelia Talavera-Stefani, Cinthia Noemí Burgos-Cantoni, Felipe Giménez, Claudia Cabral, Andrés Sanabria-Velazquez

“…Additionally, whitefly activity fosters the development of fungal colonies, such as sooty mold (Capnodium spp.), which grows on the sugary secretions (honeydew) produced by these insects. …”
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