Effect of Lipoxin A4 on Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Endothelial Hyperpermeability by Huayan Pang, Pan Yi, Ping Wu, Zhuoya Liu, Zhongjie Liu, Jianming Gong, Hua Hao, Lei Cai, Duyun Ye, Yinping Huang

“…Our findings demonstrate that LXA4 could prevent the EC hyperpermeability induced by LPS in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), under which the possible mechanism is through Nrf2 as well as Ca2+-sensitive pathways.…”
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Towards Pedestrian Target Detection with Optimized Mask R-CNN by Dong-Hao Chen, Yu-Dong Cao, Jia Yan

“…Due to the influence of illumination, posture, background, and other factors on the human target in the natural scene image, the complexity of target information is high. …”
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AGE/RAGE-Induced EMP Release via the NOX-Derived ROS Pathway by Ying-Hua Chen, Zhang-Wei Chen, Hong-Mei Li, Xin-Feng Yan, Bo Feng

“…Methods. In vitro, cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were incubated with AGEs (200 and 400 μg/ml) for 24 hours with or without pretreatment with anti-RAGE antibody, NOX inhibitor, or ROS scavenger. …”
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Focusing on Sodium Glucose Cotransporter-2 and the Sympathetic Nervous System: Potential Impact in Diabetic Retinopathy by Lakshini Y. Herat, Vance B. Matthews, P. Elizabeth Rakoczy, Revathy Carnagarin, Markus Schlaich

“…Microvascular complications in organs including the eye are commonly observed in human diabetic subjects. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a prominent microvascular complication observed in many diabetics and is particularly debilitating as it may result in impaired or complete vision loss. …”
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What should public governance be: review on the book: Zotov V. V. [ed.] (2021), Public administration in a digital society: to a new social contract: monograph, University Book, Ku... by R. N. Korchagin

“…The authors make the conclusion that humanity is in the widest range of options – from strengthening the tendencies of the state, whose supervisory functions may be too total in relation to the person, to digital consensus democracy, when citizens are able to reach agreements on a wide range of socially significant tasks. …”
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Determining The Ripeness Level Of Crystal Guava Fruit Using Backpropagation Neural Network by Shofia Nabila Azzahra, Ahmad Kamsyakawuni, Abduh Riski

“…The ripeness of crystal guava fruit is currently sorted conventionally by analyzing the colour of the rind visually with the human eye. However, this method has several weaknesses that result in low accuracy and inconsistency. …”
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Cable Driven Rehabilitation Robots: Comparison of Applications and Control Strategies by Muhammad Shoaib, Ehsan Asadi, Joono Cheong, Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

“…For each group, target movements are identified, and promising designs of CDRRs are analyzed in terms of types of actuators, controllers and their interactions with humans. Particular attention has been given to robots with verified clinical performance in actual rehabilitation settings. …”
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The Impact of Farnesoid X Receptor Activation on Intestinal Permeability in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Maja Stojancevic, Karmen Stankov, Momir Mikov

“…These data suggest that FXR agonists are potential candidates for exploration as a novel therapeutic strategy for IBD in humans.…”
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Living with Parkinson’s and the Emerging Role of Occupational Therapy by Jelka Jansa, Ana Aragon

“…The Canadian Practice Process Framework is used to structure this overview and was selected because it is a well-recognized, evidence-based tool used by occupational therapists and encompasses the core concepts of human occupation and person-centred practice. The framework employed allows the flexibility to reflect the pragmatic occupational therapy intervention process and so enables the illustration of the individually tailored approach required to accommodate to the complex pathology and personal, domestic, and social impacts, affecting the functioning of Parkinson’s disease patients on a daily basis.…”
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Current Perspectives on Mycobacterium farcinogenes and Mycobacterium senegalense, the Causal Agents of Bovine Farcy by Mohamed E. Hamid

“…The zoonotic potentials of M. farcinogenes and M. senegalense are unknown; few studies reported the isolation of M. senegalense and M. farcinogenes from human clinical sources but not from environmental sources or from other domestic or wild animals.…”
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Inositols in Insulin Signaling and Glucose Metabolism by Arturo Bevilacqua, Mariano Bizzarri

“…In the past decades, both the importance of inositol for human health and the complex interaction between glucose and inositol have been the subject of increasing consideration. …”
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Paeoniflorin inhibits the growth of bladder carcinoma via deactivation of STAT3 by Yang Jianhui, Ren Yu, Lou Zhong-Guan, Wan Xue, Weng Guo-Bin, Cen Dong

“…The results showed that Pae inhibited proliferation of human BCa cell lines in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. …”
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Exploratory Methods for the Study of Incomplete and Intersecting Shape Boundaries from Landmark Data by Fathi M. O. Hamed, Robert G. Aykroyd

“…The points often record the location of key features, called landmarks, on continuous object boundaries, such as anatomical features on a human face. In other situations, the points may simply be arbitrarily spaced marks along a smooth curve, such as on handwritten numbers. …”
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THE «SPECIAL» RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GERMANY AND CHINA IN THE CONTEXT OF GERMANY’S CHINA POLICY by A. V. Tsvyk

“…In the author's point of view Germany's China policy shifted significantly to one which focused more heavily on human rights at the beginning of the first term under Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2005. …”
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Gut-Heart Axis: Microbiome Involvement in Restrictive Cardiomyopathies by Samuel Jaimez-Alvarado, Itzel Ivonn López-Tenorio, Javier Barragán-De los Santos, Dannya Coral Bello-Vega, Francisco Javier Roldán Gómez, Amedeo Amedei, Enrique Alexander Berrios-Bárcenas, María Magdalena Aguirre-García

“…These cardiomyopathies are often difficult to diagnose and so result in significant morbidity and mortality. The human microbiome, composed of billions of microorganisms, influences various physiological and pathological processes, including cardiovascular health. …”
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Defective homologous recombination and genomic instability predict increased responsiveness to carbon ion radiotherapy in pancreatic cancer by Brock J. Sishc, Janapriya Saha, Elizabeth M. Alves, Lianghao Ding, Huiming Lu, Shih-Ya Wang, Katy L. Swancutt, James H. Nicholson, Angelica Facoetti, Arnold Pompos, Mario Ciocca, Todd A. Aguilera, Michael D. Story, Anthony J. Davis

“…We utilized a panel of human PDAC cell lines with diverse genetic profiles to determine their sensitivity to CIRT compared to γ-rays, assessing relative biological effectiveness (RBE) at 10% survival, which ranged from 1.96 to 3.04. …”
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An epidemiological modeling investigation of the long-term changing dynamics of the plague epidemics in Hong Kong by Salihu S. Musa, Shi Zhao, Winnie Mkandawire, Andrés Colubri, Daihai He

“…Through the integration of human, flea, and rodent populations, we analyze the long-term changing trends and identify the epidemic-driving factors that influence pneumonic plague outbreaks. …”
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Impacts of irrigation expansion on moist-heat stress based on IRRMIP results by Yi Yao, Agnès Ducharne, Benjamin I. Cook, Steven J. De Hertog, Kjetil Schanke Aas, Pedro F. Arboleda-Obando, Jonathan Buzan, Jeanne Colin, Maya Costantini, Bertrand Decharme, David M. Lawrence, Peter Lawrence, L. Ruby Leung, Min-Hui Lo, Narayanappa Devaraju, William R. Wieder, Ren-Jie Wu, Tian Zhou, Jonas Jägermeyr, Sonali McDermid, Yadu Pokhrel, Maxwell Elling, Naota Hanasaki, Paul Muñoz, Larissa S. Nazarenko, Kedar Otta, Yusuke Satoh, Tokuta Yokohata, Lei Jin, Xuhui Wang, Vimal Mishra, Subimal Ghosh, Wim Thiery

“…In summary, this study indicates that irrigation deployment is not an efficient adaptation measure to escalating human heat stress under climate change, calling for carefully dealing with the increased exposure of local people to moist-heat stress.…”
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Multiple-Feature Extracting Modules Based Leak Mining System Design by Ying-Chiang Cho, Jen-Yi Pan

“…Over the years, human dependence on the Internet has increased dramatically. …”
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Impacts of Land Use Change on the Regional Climate: A Structural Equation Modeling Study in Southern China by Zhanqi Wang, Bingqing Li, Jun Yang

“…With the frequent human activities operating on the earth, the impacts of land use change on the regional climate are increasingly perceptible. …”
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