Feasibility and Safety of Continuous and Chronic Bilateral Deep Brain Stimulation of the Medial Forebrain Bundle in the Naïve Sprague-Dawley Rat by Luciano L. Furlanetti, Máté D. Döbrössy, Iñigo A. Aranda, Volker A. Coenen

“…MFB-DBS resulted in mild and temporary weight loss in the animals, which was regained even with continuing stimulation. MFB-DBS led to increased and long-lasting c-fos expression in target regions of the mesolimbic/mesocortical system. …”
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Intraspecific variation and new morphological characters revealed by multimodal imaging analysis on the Late Cretaceous coleoid Dorateuthis syriaca by Alison J. Rowe, Isabelle Kruta, Loïc Villier, Pierre Gueriau, Marie Radepont, Oulfa Belhadj, Katharina Müller, Romain Jattiot, Dirk Fuchs, Thomas Clements, Sylvain Charbonnier, Isabelle Rouget

“…The absence of a defined character complex for the species has led to inconsistencies in the literature and the need for a reappraisal. …”
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Immunogenicity of RSV F DNA Vaccine in BALB/c Mice by Erdal Eroglu, Ankur Singh, Swapnil Bawage, Pooja M. Tiwari, Komal Vig, Shreekumar R. Pillai, Vida A. Dennis, Shree R. Singh

“…Our data evidently showed that the RSV F DNA vaccine activated the Th1 biased immune response and led to the production of neutralizing antibodies, which is the desired immune response required for protection from RSV infections.…”
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Neurogenesis and Microglia Activation in the Mouse Brain by Anton Pikhovych, Nina Paloma Stolberg, Lea Jessica Flitsch, Helene Luise Walter, Rudolf Graf, Gereon Rudolf Fink, Michael Schroeter, Maria Adele Rueger

“…Multisession tDCS at a sublesional charge density led to a polarity-dependent downregulation of the constitutive expression of Iba1 by microglia in the mouse cortex. …”
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Chronic Hepatitis C Association with Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Risk in the Era of DAA Therapy by Sylvia Drazilova, Jakub Gazda, Martin Janicko, Peter Jarcuska

“…Sustained viral response (SVR) achievement led to decreasing incidence and prevalence of T2DM during the interferon era of HCV treatment. …”
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Comparative Genomic In Situ Hybridization and the Possible Role of Retroelements in the Karyotypic Evolution of Three Akodontini Species by Naiara Pereira Araújo, Gustavo Campos Silva Kuhn, Flávia Nunes Vieira, Thaís Queiroz Morcatty, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Marta Svartman

“…FISH was also performed to assess the distribution of telomeric sequences, long and short interspersed repetitive elements (LINE-1 and B1 SINE) and of the endogenous retrovirus mysTR in the genomes of the three species. The results led us to infer that transposable elements have played an important role in the enormous chromosome variation found in Akodontini.…”
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In situ synthesis of ZnO/g-C3N4 based composites for photodegradation of methylene blue under visible light by S. Pourali, R. Amrollahi, S. Alamolhoda, S. M. Masoudpanah

“…Furthermore, combining ZnO (50 wt%) with g-C3N4 led to a significant enhancement in the MB dye removal efficiency, reaching 97% compared to the ZnO/g-C3N4 (10 wt%) composite. …”
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Changes in cold-pressed oil due to roasting of hazelnut kernels by Radovanović Mirjana, Kurtić Jelena, Petković Marko, Miletić Nemanja, Đurović Vesna

“…However, it is clear from the specific absorbance values that the roasting of the hazelnut kernels initiated oxidative processes, and the change in the UV/Vis spectrum clearly indicates that the heat treatment of the kernels led to a deterioration of the oil, possibly as a result of changes in unsaturated bonds. …”
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Enhanced Carbon Neutral and Performance Characteristics Cookstove for Energy Sustainability by Samson Kolawole Fasogbon, Emmanuel Segun Durowoju, Theophilus Chibuzo Uzoh, Kubiat Edeheudim George, Mark Onons Ikhifa, Timilehin Daniel Adegoke, Ibrahim Ademola Fetuga

“…These energy sustainability factors and time wastages on wood fetching; had led significant number of researchers to investigate improvement process of the traditional cookstove; and have therefore developed some enhanced cookstoves for use. …”
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High trophic similarity between non-native common carp and gibel carp in Turkish freshwaters: Implications for management by Sadi Aksu, Özgür Emiroğlu, Paride Balzani, J. Robert Britton, Esengül Köse, Irmak Kurtul, Sercan Başkurt, Oğuzcan Mol, Emre Çınar, Phillip J. Haubrock, Pinar Oztopcu-Vatan, Ali Serhan Tarkan

“…These stockings, however, increase the risk of accidental introductions and have led to introductions and subsequent invasions of gibel carp Carassius gibelio, a globally invasive and highly detrimental fish species. …”
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Effect of different load during eccentric training with blood flow restriction on muscle size, strength, and performance: A randomized controlled trial✰ by Taíse Mendes Biral, Leonardo Kesrouani Lemos, Allysiê Priscilla de Souza Cavina, Eduardo Pizzo Junior, Julia Waszczuk Vendrame, Gabriel Martins da Silva, Guilherme Henrique da Silva Brandão, Gabriella Souza Oliveira Meireles Pimenta, Gabriel Oliveira da Silva, Gabriel Cena Santos, Enzo Vinícius Corrêa de Oliveira, Franciele Marques Vanderlei

“…Conclusion: eccentric training led to strengthening of knee extensors and improved performance, but without altering the muscle structure. …”
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Highly Sensitive Amperometric α-Ketoglutarate Biosensor Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide-Gold Nanocomposites by Gang Peng, Yadong Yu, Xiaojun Chen, He Huang

“…After the modification of GLUD, the GLUD/rGO-Aunano/GCE led to effective amperometric detection of α-KG through monitoring the NADH consumption and displayed a linear response in the range of 66.7 and 494.5 μM, with the detection limit of 9.2 μM. …”
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Differential Recruitment of Dendritic Cells Subsets to Lymph Nodes Correlates with a Protective or Permissive T-Cell Response during Leishmania (Viannia) Braziliensis or Leishmania... by A. K. Carvalho, K. Carvalho, L. F. D. Passero, M. G. T. Sousa, V. L. R. da Matta, C. M. C. Gomes, C. E. P. Corbett, G. E. Kallas, F. T. Silveira, M. D. Laurenti

“…Our results demonstrated a high involvement of DCs in La infection, which was characterized by the greater accumulation of Langerhans cells (LCs); conversely, Lb infection led to an increase in dermal DCs (dDCs) throughout the infection. …”
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Hardware Efficient Speech Enhancement With Noise Aware Multi-Target Deep Learning by Salinna Abdullah, Majid Zamani, Andreas Demosthenous

“…Mapping the design on a 65-nm CMOS process led to a chip core area of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3.88~mm^{2}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and a power consumption of 1.91 mW when operating at a 10 MHz clock frequency.…”
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Postrema area syndrome in the context of systemic lupus erythematosus: Case report by Jose Ricardo Muñoz-Zúñiga, Andrea del Mar Tamayo-Delgado, Alberto Masaru Shinchi-Tanaka, Juan Camilo Márquez, Alex Echeverri-García, Santiago Lopez Garcia

“…Treatment with hydrocortisone and later high-dose methylprednisolone and cyclophosphamide led to improvement. Negative anti-aquaporin 4 antibodies ruled out neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), leading to a probable diagnosis of APS associated with SLE. …”
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Deciphering TCOF1 mutations in Chinese Treacher Collins syndrome patients: insights into pathogenesis and transcriptional disruption by Zhuoyuan Jiang, Ke Mao, Bingqing Wang, Hao Zhu, Jiqiang Liu, Ruirui Lang, Baichuan Xiao, Hailin Shan, Qi Chen, Ying Li, Shouqin Zhao, Qingguo Zhang, Huisheng Liu, Yong-Biao Zhang

“…The de novo frameshift mutation identified in the trio led to TCOF1 truncation, disrupting the central repeat domain crucial for binding transcriptional factors. …”
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Gαq Regulates the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis by Modulating Th1 Differentiation by Dashan Wang, Yuan Liu, Yan Li, Yan He, Jiyun Zhang, Guixiu Shi

“…By using Gαq knockout (Gnaq−/−) mice, we demonstrated that loss of Gαq led to enhanced Th1 cell differentiation. Gαq negative regulated the differentiation of Th1 cell by modulating the expression of T-bet and the activity of STAT4. …”
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Impact of Phenomenon-Based Learning on High School Physics Education in Shymkent, Kazakhstan by Bayan Ualikhanova, Ganya Ormanova, Dauletbay Berdaliyev, Nurken Mussakhan, Bakdaulet Anas, Ertan Güdekli

“…The results show that the introduction of PhBL led to an enhancement in student performance, with an increase of more than 10%. …”
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Calpain 2 regulates IL-1α secretion and inhibits tumor development via modulating calpain 1 expression in the tumor microenvironment by Zuhairah Binte Hanafi, Yu Mei, Huey Yee Teo, Ying Zhu, Chew Chin Yong Lionel, Jing Wen Chiu, Jinhua Lu, Haiyan Liu

“…Mechanistically, calpain 2 deficiency led to increased expression of FoxO3, which is a forkhead transcription factor that promotes calpain 1 expression. …”
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Warming-driven migration of enterotypes mediates host health and disease statuses in ectotherm Litopenaeus vannamei by Shenzheng Zeng, Zhijian Huang, Satapornvanit Kriengkrai, Renjun Zhou, Derun Yuan, Nguyễn Văn Tuấn, Zhiming Zhu, Luwei Zheng, Qilu Hou, Xuanting Li, Qi Chen, Lingyu Zhang, Dongwei Hou, Zhixuan Deng, Shicheng Bao, Wenjun Wang, Sukontorn Khoruamkid, Soo Loon Goh, Shaoping Weng, Jianguo He

“…Moreover, temperature was the most driving factor for microbial composition, which potentially led to the migration of enterotypes, and high probability of white feces syndrome and low risk of hepatopancreas necrosis syndrome. …”
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