Inhibition of Notch Signaling Promotes the Differentiation of Epicardial Progenitor Cells into Adipocytes by Bin Liu, Dinghui Wang, Tianhua Xiong, Yajie Liu, Xiaodong Jing, Jianlin Du, Qiang She

“…Frozen sections of C57BL/6J mouse hearts were used to observe epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), and genetic lineage methods were used to trace EPCs. …”
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Hydroxytyrosol Protects against Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury through a PI3K/Akt-Dependent Mechanism by Ying-hao Pei, Jiao Chen, Liang Xie, Xiao-min Cai, Run-Hua Yang, Xing Wang, Jian-bin Gong

“…To investigate the effects and mechanisms of hydroxytyrosol (HT) during the pathogenesis of myocardial ischemia reperfusion (I/R) in rat hearts. Methods. The rats were randomized into five groups: sham group, I/R group, HT+I/R group, HT+LY294002+I/R group, and LY+I/R group. …”
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Research on smart city construction in the context of public culture by Yuhang Zhang, Jiaji Gao

“…Based on this framework, six recommendations are proposed for the development of public cultural initiatives in smart cities to enhance their positive impact on urban development, and to provide a new perspective for promoting the construction of a better and more warm-hearted smart city.…”
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Cardiomyocyte-Restricted Deletion of PPARβ/δ in PPARα-Null Mice Causes Impaired Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Defense, but No Further Depression of Myocardial Fatty Acid Oxidation... by Jian Liu, Peiyong Wang, Lan He, Yuquan Li, Jinwen Luo, Lihong Cheng, Qianhong Qin, Lawrence A. Brako, Woo-kuen Lo, William Lewis, Qinglin Yang

“…Moreover, PPARα-null did not alter the phenotypic development in adult mice with the short-term deletion of PPARβ/δ in their hearts, which showed mitochondrial abnormalities, depressed cardiac performance, and cardiac hypertrophy with attenuated expression of key factors in mitochondrial biogenesis and defense. …”
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MicroRNA-208a Dysregulates Apoptosis Genes Expression and Promotes Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis during Ischemia and Its Silencing Improves Cardiac Function after Myocardial Infarction by Hasahya Tony, Kai Meng, Bangwei Wu, Aijia Yu, Qiutang Zeng, Kunwu Yu, Yucheng Zhong

“…At 7 and 28 days, echocardiography was done and thereafter hearts were harvested for analysis of apoptosis by TUNEL method, fibrosis using Masson’s trichrome, and hypertrophy using hematoxylin and eosin. miR-208a altered apoptosis genes expression and increased apoptosis in ischemic cardiomyocytes. …”
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Quercetin Inhibits Pyroptosis in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy through the Nrf2 Pathway by Zhang Wei, Zhou Jing, Kang Pinfang, Shi Chao, Qian Shaohuan

“…We evaluated the protective effects of quercetin against diabetic cardiomyopathy by analyzing the expression of pyroptosis pathway proteins, myocardial cell apoptosis rate, degree of myocardial fibrosis, and serum inflammatory indices in the hearts of model rats with diabetes. We evaluated the expression of Nrf2 in the nucleus of cardiomyocytes and H9C2 cells to clarify the role of quercetin in promoting the nuclear translocation of Nrf2. …”
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Acting Performance Evaluation Governor of Aceh in 2022 Based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) : Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Acting Governor of Aceh: Achmad Marzuki, Stra... by Chaidir Ali, Dian Eka Rahmawati

“…Since June 2022, Aceh Province has become a new chapter of leadership after the Helsinki MoU from the Military, this is in contrast to the message of the struggle, that the Military has a place in the hearts of the Acehnese people. So the presence of the military in the Aceh leadership system is interesting to study from its performance during its tenure. …”
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The Multistream Self: Biophysical, Mental, Social, and Existential by Vinod D. Deshmukh

“…Four common fears of isolation, insecurity, insignificance, and death can be overcome by developing a lifestyle of whole-hearted engagement in the present reality, creative problem solving, self-actualization, and altruism. …”
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Attenuation of Myocardial Injury by HMGB1 Blockade during Ischemia/Reperfusion Is Toll-Like Receptor 2-Dependent by Jan Mersmann, Franziska Iskandar, Kathrina Latsch, Katharina Habeck, Vera Sprunck, René Zimmermann, Ralf R. Schumann, Kai Zacharowski, Alexander Koch

“…Injection of HMGB1 did, however, not increase infarct size in WT animals. In TLR2−/−-hearts, neither BoxA nor HMGB1 affected infarct size. …”
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Periconceptional Undernutrition in Sheep Affects Adult Phenotype Only in Males by Anne L. Jaquiery, Mark H. Oliver, Maggie Honeyfield-Ross, Jane E. Harding, Frank H. Bloomfield

“…Compared with N animals, male, but not female, offspring of all UN groups had greater % fat mass (all UN versus N: 9±1 versus 2±1%, P<0.001) and perirenal fat (544±36 versus 222±44 g, P=0.002), and proportionately smaller hearts (4.5±0.1 versus 5.2±0.2 g·kg−1), lungs (9.1±0.2 versus 10.6±0.5 g·kg−1), and adrenals (0.06±0.002 versus 0.08±0.003 g·kg−1). …”
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Human-Gorilla and Gorilla-Human: Dynamics of Human-animal boundaries and interethnic relationships in the central African rainforest by Takanori Oishi

“…The dual nature of dzil-elizaliza expresses a contrast between the witch-controlled man-eater and the warm-hearted reincarnated ancestral relative in a human-gorilla. …”
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Molecular study of the status of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in rats in Haiti by Fedna Jimmy, Borne Romain, Rieffel Dominique, Bornette Gudrun, Henrys Jean-Hugues, Grenouillet Frédéric, Raoul Francis

“…Rats were trapped at 8 sites, 7 in Artibonite (rural region) and one in an urban area of Port-au-Prince. After euthanasia, hearts and lungs were sampled and preserved in 70% ethanol. …”
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Normothermic Crystalloid Polarizing Cardioplegia Improves Systolic and Diastolic Function in a Porcine Model of Cardiopulmonary Bypass by David Santer, Stefan Heber, Anne-Margarethe Kramer, Judith Radloff, Katharina Heissl, Attila Kiss, David J. Chambers, Seth Hallström, Bruno K. Podesser

“…Myocardial injury (arterial CK-MB), hemodynamic function, and the energy status of the hearts were measured; Results: The arterial release of CK-MB was comparable between groups (<i>p</i> = 0.78) during reperfusion. …”
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Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor sources and ethics review in peer-reviewed publications involving organ transplantation in China: a scoping review by Angela Ballantyne, Wendy Rogers, Matthew P Robertson, Brette Blakely, Ruby Catsanos, Robyn Clay-Williams, Maria Fiatarone Singh

“…Objectives The objective of this study is to investigate whether papers reporting research on Chinese transplant recipients comply with international professional standards aimed at excluding publication of research that: (1) involves any biological material from executed prisoners; (2) lacks Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and (3) lacks consent of donors.Design Scoping review based on Arksey and O’Mallee’s methodological framework.Data sources Medline, Scopus and Embase were searched from January 2000 to April 2017.Eligibility criteria We included research papers published in peer-reviewed English-language journals reporting on outcomes of research involving recipients of transplanted hearts, livers or lungs in mainland China.Data extraction and synthesis Data were extracted by individual authors working independently following training and benchmarking. …”
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Multi-Omics and Network-Based Drug Repurposing for Septic Cardiomyopathy by Pei-Pei Liu, Xin-Yue Yu, Qing-Qing Pan, Jia-Jun Ren, Yu-Xuan Han, Kai Zhang, Yan Wang, Yin Huang, Tao Ban

“…Methods: We generated a mouse model of SCM induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and then obtained comprehensive metabolic and genetic data from SCM mouse hearts using ultra-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC–MS/MS) and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq). …”
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Experimental study of partially oxidized sodium alginate gel combined with myogenic stem cells to improve cardiac function in aged rats with myocardial infarction by Xinxin Ma, Xiaolu Hou, Peixin Dong, Jiayan Ye, Yangyang Gao, Ling Huang, Xiuping Bai

“…[Methods] The models of myocardial infarction in aged rats were established by ligating the coronary arteries and divided randomly into the group of saline control group, sodium alginate group, myogenic stem cells group and sodium alginate combined with myogenic stem cells group(joint group), each had 30 rats.The same amount of corresponding material was injected into the myocardial infarction area of rats in each group respectively.The cardiac structure and function of the rats were evaluated by echocardiography 8 weeks after the operation, and then the rats were executed.The hearts were removed to observe the differences in ventricular remodeling by histological analysis and the angiogenesis and collagen secretion of the ventricular slices were further analyzed. …”
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Complementary Embryonic and Adult Cell Populations Enhance Myocardial Repair in Rat Myocardial Injury Model by Sergio Li Calzi, Todd Cook, Domenico G. Della Rocca, Juan Zhang, Vinayak Shenoy, Yuanqing Yan, Andrew Espejo, Anandharajan Rathinasabapathy, Max H. Jacobsen, Tatiana Salazar, George E. Sandusky, Lynn C. Shaw, Keith March, Mohan K. Raizada, Carl J. Pepine, Michael J. Katovich, Maria B. Grant

“…Isl-1+ cells were isolated from embryonic day 12.5 (E12.5) rat hearts and expanded in vitro. Thy-1+/CD90+ cells were isolated from the bone marrow of adult Sprague-Dawley rats by immunomagnetic cell sorting. …”
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Preface by CTA Editorial Board

“…More than 10 years have passed since he is not with us, but we still keep bright memories and warm feelings towards him in our hearts.…”
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The Life Mission Theory III. Theory of Talent by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…Full expression of self happens when a person, in full acceptance of body and life, with whole-hearted intension, uses all his personal powers to realize his core talent and all associated talents, to contribute to his beloved and to the world. …”
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Osobowość ekologiczna płci - badania ankietowe by Irena Grochowska

“…It is women who with their hearts read and introduce into life philosophical life and written theological works whose authors are men. …”
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