A Comparison of Machine Learning-Based Approaches in Estimating Surface PM_2.5 Concentrations Focusing on Artificial Neural Networks and High Pollution Events by Shijin Wei, Kyle Shores, Yangyang Xu

“…Surface PM_2.5 concentrations have significant implications for human health, necessitating accurate estimations. …”
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Exploring the Mesenchymal Stem Cell Secretome for Corneal Endothelial Proliferation by Bert Van den Bogerd, Nadia Zakaria, Steffi Matthyssen, Carina Koppen, Sorcha Ní Dhubhghaill

“…Ex vivo grown human corneal endothelial cells (HCEnC) are a new emerging treatment option to treat visually impaired patients aimed at alleviating the current global donor shortage. …”
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Transfer of Organochlorine Pesticide Residues during Household and Industrial Processing of Ginseng by Peiling Wu, Mengying Gu, Yujie Wang, Jian Xue, Xiaoli Wu

“…Different ginseng processing methods resulted in variable transfer rates of pesticides, as well as a diverse exposure risk of pesticides to humans. Consequently, it is necessary to concern about the transfer rates of pesticide residues during ginseng processing.…”
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Inhibitory Effect of PRMT5/MTA Inhibitor on MTAP‐Deficient Glioma May Be Influenced by Surrounding Normal Cells by Yunjie Wang, Xiaohui Sun, Runchen Ma, Xiaofan Zhang, Shengmin Ji, Zhaofeng Liu, Gangqiang Yang, Hongbo Wang, Peng Zhang, Jianzhao Zhang, Jingwei Tian

“…Methods We first analyzed whether there were MTAP‐expressing normal intracerebral cells around MTAP‐deficient glioma tissues by paraffin‐embedded tissue microarray of human glioma specimens. Then, in vivo and in vitro models of MTAP‐deficient gliomas coexisting with neurons or glial cells were constructed for evaluating the effectiveness of the anti‐tumor effects of MRTX1719 in this setting. …”
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Information manipulation on TikTok and its relation to American users' beliefs about China by Danit Finkelstein, Sonia Yanovsky, Jacob Zucker, Anisha Jagdeep, Collin Vasko, Ankita Jagdeep, Lee Jussim, Joel Finkelstein

“…Results indicated that TikTok users, particularly heavy users, exhibited significantly more positive attitudes toward China's human rights record and expressed greater favorability toward China as a travel destination. …”
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WIPI-1 Positive Autophagosome-Like Vesicles Entrap Pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus for Lysosomal Degradation by Mario Mauthe, Wenqi Yu, Oleg Krut, Martin Krönke, Friedrich Götz, Horst Robenek, Tassula Proikas-Cezanne

“…By automated fluorescence-based high content analyses, we demonstrate that Staphylococcus aureus strains (USA300, HG001, SA113) stimulate autophagy and become entrapped in intracellular PtdIns(3)P-enriched vesicles that are decorated with human WIPI-1, an essential PtdIns(3)P effector of canonical autophagy and membrane protein of both phagophores and autophagosomes. …”
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MYH9 promotes malignant progression of glioma cells through regulating β-catenin stability via epithelial-mesenchymal transition signaling pathway by Zigui Chen, Chao Liu, Wei Zheng, Zhilong Li, Yuanhui Tang, Jun Peng, Changfeng Miao, Dandan Zheng, Ying Xia

“…EMT is involved in multiple physiological and pathological processes in the human body. The occurrence of EMT involves many signal transduction pathways and complex molecular mechanisms related to calnexin, growth factors, transcription factors, and the microenvironment. …”
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BTS1-knockout Saccharomyces cerevisiae with broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity through lactic acid accumulation by Liu Cong, Yuan Zhou, Yu Zhang, Shanshan Mao, Chaoqun Chen, Liying Wang, Xiao Li, Zuo Zhang, Zuobin Zhu, Ying Li

“…Bacterial infections pose significant threats to human health, and prudent antibiotic use remains a key strategy for disease treatment and control. …”
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Sustainability assessment of pectin extraction from Citrus paradisi peel to support the encapsulation of lactic acid bacteria by Natalia A. Di Clemente, Enzo La Cava, Sonia Sgroppo, Andrea Gomez-Zavaglia, Esteban Gerbino

“…The main impact categories were climate change, human toxicity with carcinogenic effects and depletion of water resources contributing to deionized water and electricity consumption. …”
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Species classification of Tabanus (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Western Thailand: Integrating DNA barcoding and modern morphometrics by Tanasak Changbunjong, Thekhawet Weluwanarak, Sedthapong Laojun, Tanawat Chaiphongpachara

“…The species of Tabanus, commonly known as horse flies, are remarkable ectoparasites capable of transmitting various pathogens to animals and humans. Given their role in disease transmission, accurate identification of horse fly species is critical but traditionally relies on morphological characteristics, requiring significant expertise and posing a high potential for error, especially with damaged specimens. …”
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Semiautomatic volumetry of the temporal lobes of the brain and correlation with electroencephalography results in dogs with assumed idiopathic epilepsy by Paulina Kinga Drobot, Aleksandra Banasik, Karolina Owsińska‐Schmidt, Marcin Wrzosek, Przemysław Podgórski

“…Automated brain volumetry, widely used in human medicine, can now be applied in veterinary medicine because of the availability of brain atlases. …”
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Vaccinating in Different Settings: Best Practices from Italian Regions by Carlo Signorelli, Flavia Pennisi, Anna Carole D’Amelio, Michele Conversano, Sandro Cinquetti, Lorenzo Blandi, Giovanni Rezza

“…Results: In Veneto, where prevention departments were the main actor, herpes zoster vaccination coverage for the 65-year-old cohort increased from 44.4% to 54.9%; in Tuscany, family pediatricians administered 64% of all childhood vaccines; in Liguria, pharmacies delivered 70.1% of COVID-19 vaccines, while vaccinating in schools in Taranto led to higher human papilloma virus vaccination rates compared to regional and national averages. …”
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigate cadmium stress in maize by Qiqiang Kuang, Yujie Wu, Yamin Gao, Tingting An, Shuo Liu, Liyan Liang, Bingcheng Xu, Suiqi Zhang, Min Yu, Sergey Shabala, Yinglong Chen

“…Soil cadmium (Cd) pollution poses a significant environmental threat, impacting global food security and human health. Recent studies have highlighted the potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi to protect crops from various heavy metal stresses, including Cd toxicity. …”
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Fine Particulate Matter Deposition in 3D Out-of-Plane Bifurcation Lung Airway by Chun-Chih Chuang, Justus Kavita Mutuku, Chih-Che Chueh, Anurita Selvarajoo, Wei-Hsin Chen

“…While the in-plane airway structures of human lungs are usually used in numerical models, a 3D out-of-plane layout that can geometrically represent triple bifurcations airways of the so-called Weibel model is developed in the present study with the presence of fine particles inside. …”
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Pharmacological Modulation of Three Modalities of CA1 Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation in the Ts65Dn Mouse Model of Down Syndrome by Jonah J. Scott-McKean, Adriano L. Roque, Krystyna Surewicz, Mark W. Johnson, Witold K. Surewicz, Alberto C. S. Costa

“…Because 4xHFS-induced LTP had not yet been characterized in Ts65Dn mice, we also investigated the effects of picrotoxin, amyloid beta oligomers, and soluble recombinant human prion protein (rPrP) on this form of LTP. Whereas ≥10 μM picrotoxin increased LTP to control levels, it also caused seizure-like oscillations. …”
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Decoding Gestures in Electromyography: Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks for Generalizable and Interpretable Classification by Hunmin Lee, Ming Jiang, Jinhui Yang, Zhi Yang, Qi Zhao

“…In recent years, significant strides in deep learning have propelled the advancement of electromyography (EMG)-based upper-limb gesture recognition systems, yielding notable successes across a spectrum of domains, including rehabilitation, orthopedics, robotics, and human-computer interaction. Despite these achievements, prevailing methodologies often overlook the intrinsic physical configurations and interconnectivity of multi-channel sensory inputs, resulting in a failure to adequately capture relational information embedded within the connections of deployed EMG sensor network topology. …”
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Anti-allergic effect of 5,7-dihydroxy-4-methylcoumarin in IgE-mediated RBL-2H3 cells and PCA murine model by Sugeun Gwon, Seong-Ah Shin, Moonsu Kim, Sun Young Moon, Seyeon Choi, Minji Kim, Jun Hyuck Lee, Hyun Ho Park, Chang Sup Lee

“…Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the anti-allergic effects of 5,7-dihydroxy-4-methylcoumarin in two experimental models: rat basophilic leukemia-2H3 cells sensitized using dinitrophenyl-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE)/human serum albumin and a passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) murine model. …”
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Can Abies alba Needles Be Used as Bio-passive Samplers to Assess Air Quality? by Agnieszka Stojanowska, Maciej Górka, Anita Urszula Lewandowska, Kinga Wiśniewska, Magdalena Modelska, David Widory

“…Aerosols that were enriched in 13C, indicating the impact of human activities, were located close to inhabited areas, at highly elevated points and in places situated outside the park. …”
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A Review of the Health Impact of Nicotine Pouches by Radosław Chmiel, Daria Michałka, Natalie Papachristoforou, Zuzanna Gałuszka, Monika Makar, Tomasz Bartuś, Natalia Tekiela, Emilia Bąk, Justyna Głowacka, Aleksandra Kocjan

“…The aim of this review is to summarize the current knowledge on the impact of nicotine pouches on overall human health.   Review Methods The review is based on 39 articles found in PubMed databases published between 2006–2024.  …”
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Rapid depletion of “catch-and-release” anti-ASGR1 antibody in vivo by Siva Charan Devanaboyina, Peng Li, Edward L. LaGory, Carrie Poon-Andersen, Kevin D. Cook, Marcus Soto, Zhe Wang, Khue Dang, Craig Uyeda, Ryan B. Case, Veena A. Thomas, Ronya Primack, Manuel Ponce, Mei Di, Brian Ouyang, Joelle Kaner, Sheung Kwan Lam, Mina Mostafavi

“…Serum exposures of the generated anti-ASGR1 antibodies were analyzed in transgenic mice expressing human FcRn. Contrary to published reports of increased serum exposure of pH/Ca2+-dependent antibodies, the pH/Ca2+-dependent anti-ASGR1 antibody had rapid serum clearance in comparison to a conventional anti-ASGR1 antibody. …”
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