Étude ethnotaxonomique des espèces fruitières spontanées comestibles chez l’ethnie Diola d’Oussouye (Sénégal) by Yves Djihounouck, Doudou Diop, César Bassène, Mame Samba Mbaye, Richard Demba Diop, Babacar Faye, Kandioura Noba

“…The dominant families are Annonaceae and Apocynaceae and the most important use values are noted in Arecaceae with 10.52 and Anacardiaceae with 8 ; the generic diversity is mostly marked by Anacardiaceae. The population uses 17 classifications systems of nomination of plants. …”
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Photodynamic Action of LED-Activated Curcumin against Staphylococcus aureus Involving Intracellular ROS Increase and Membrane Damage by Yuan Jiang, Albert Wingnang Leung, Heyu Hua, Xiancai Rao, Chuanshan Xu

“…Blue light-activated curcumin markedly damaged membrane permeability, resulting in cell death of Staphylococcus aureus and highlighted that intracellular ROS increase might be an important event in photodynamic killing of Staphylococcus aureus in the presence of curcumin.…”
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Beyond the microbiome: unraveling gut dysbiosis and its impact on systemic lupus erythematosus by Yara Safwat Roshdy, Shwikar Mahmoud Ahmed, Mona Gamaleldeen Morsi, Ahmed Shaaban, Samar Farouk Fouad Mostafa

“…Stool samples from all participants were analyzed using quantitative SYBR Green Real-Time PCR to detect and quantify selected bacterial taxa at phylogenetic and species levels.Results Our results highlight the signature mark of SLE gut dysbiosis, namely decreased species richness and diversity with a reduction in the Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes (F/B) ratio. …”
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Dual Inhibition of CDK4/6 and CDK7 Suppresses Triple‐Negative Breast Cancer Progression via Epigenetic Modulation of SREBP1‐Regulated Cholesterol Metabolism by Yilan Yang, Jiatao Liao, Zhe Pan, Jin Meng, Li Zhang, Wei Shi, Xiaofang Wang, Xiaomeng Zhang, Zhirui Zhou, Jurui Luo, Xingxing Chen, Zhaozhi Yang, Xin Mei, Jinli Ma, Zhen Zhang, Yi‐Zhou Jiang, Zhi‐Min Shao, Fei Xavier Chen, Xiaoli Yu, Xiaomao Guo

“…Combining CDK4/6 and CDK7 inhibitors significantly enhances therapeutic effectiveness, leading to a marked decrease in cholesterol biosynthesis within cells. …”
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The Optimal Intervention Time of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Ameliorating Cardiac Fibrosis Induced by Viral Myocarditis: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Mice by Tingting Wu, Yuan Xie, Jing Huang, Ping Li, Xuliang Wang, Yaoyao Yan, Tianhe Xia, Lei Li, Feng Zhu, Hao Li, Rongzhou Wu

“…With a 28-day follow-up after inoculation, we found that the ventricular function was significantly improved in the BMSCs treatment group and cardiac fibrosis markedly ameliorated, especially when BMSCs were injected between 1 and 2 weeks after CVB3 inoculation. …”
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Distribution of the common nettle Urtica dioica L. and annual nettle U. urens L. in the Russian Federation by N. N. Luneva, T. Yu. Zakota, Y. A. Fedorova

“…Similarly, the pessimum zone for the species was identified as a combined territory of the areas where the occurrence was marked as “very rarely”, “rarely”, “infrequently” or “sporadically”. …”
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Correlation analysis between disease mortality and public transportation coverage: The case of Taiwan by Wei-Ting Chen, Chung-Yu Chen

“…Furthermore, the absolute values of this correlation coefficient for chronic diseases are higher than 0.3 for all considered periods; they are more marked than those of other diseases in the nine selected regions, with a standard deviation of public transport coverage exceeding 10%. …”
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Efficacy of Wenxin Keli Plus Amiodarone versus Amiodarone Monotherapy in Treating Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation by Nixiao Zhang, Gary Tse, Shristi Dahal, Yajuan Yang, Mengqi Gong, Calista Zhuo Yi Chan, Enzhao Liu, Gang Xu, Konstantinos P. Letsas, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Guangping Li, Tong Liu

“…Conversion rate at 24 hours was of no difference between the two groups (75.0% vs. 81.0%, P=0.72); however, conversion time was markedly shorter in the AMIO + WXKL group compared to the AMIO group (291 ± 235 minutes vs. 725 ± 475 minutes, P=0.003). …”
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Effect of magnetized water on the fundamental grouting properties of cement grout under varying magnetization conditions by Chao Deng, Liuxi Li, Huanxiao Hu, Zhichao Xu, Yi Zhou, Quan Yin, Juan Chen

“…The results indicate that magnetized water positively impacts the stability of cement grouts, significantly reducing their absolute viscosity, apparent viscosity, plastic viscosity, and yield stress, thus markedly affecting the rheological characteristics of the cement grouts. …”
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Trehalose enhances macrophage autophagy to promote myelin debris clearance after spinal cord injury by Zhida Ma, Congpeng Meng, Xiang Wang, Yuanzhe Zhao, Jingwen Wang, Yihao Chen, Yiteng Li, Yan Jiang, Fangru Ouyang, Jianjian Li, Meige Zheng, Li Cheng, Juehua Jing

“…In vivo, trehalose administration markedly reduced myelin debris accumulation, inhibited foamy macrophage formation, suppressed inflammatory responses, decreased fibrotic scarring, and promoted axonal growth and motor function recovery after SCI. …”
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Polymorphisms of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha in Moroccan Patients with Gastric Pathology: New Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in TNF-α−193 (G/A) by A. Essadik, H. Jouhadi, T. Rhouda, S. Nadifiyine, A. Kettani, F. Maachi

“…The distribution of this SNP was markedly different in patients suffering from ulcers. …”
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Preprocedural Mean Platelet Volume Level Is a Predictor of In-Stent Restenosis of the Superficial Femoral Artery Stents in Follow-Up by Kurtulus Karauzum, Ulas Bildirici, Emir Dervis, Irem Karauzum, Canan Baydemir

“…In the restenosis group, the MPV level was markedly higher than that in the no-restenosis group, and it was statistically significant (p<0.001). …”
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Construction and optimization of the watershed-scale ecological network based on network characteristic analysis: A case study of the Lancang River Basin by Yi Wang, Xiaogang Zhou, Chang Ding, Wenxuan Li, Linyun Huang, Beichen Ge, Yuhong Song

“…The growth of socio-economic development and human activities markedly threatens the ecological security of river basins. …”
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A covalent peptide-based lysosome-targeting protein degradation platform for cancer immunotherapy by Youmei Xiao, Zhuoying He, Wanqiong Li, Danhong Chen, Xiaoshuang Niu, Xin Yang, Wenxuan Zeng, Mengfan Wang, Yuzhen Qian, Ye Su, Feiyu Luo, Guanyu Chen, Juan Liu, Xinghua Sui, Xiuman Zhou, Yanfeng Gao

“…Biological experiments demonstrate that covalent Pep-TACs can significantly degrade the expression of PD-L1 on tumor cells, dendritic cells and macrophages, especially under acidic conditions, and markedly enhance the function of T cells and tumor phagocytosis by macrophages. …”
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Recovery of the Cell Cycle Inhibition in CCl4-Induced Cirrhosis by the Adenosine Derivative IFC-305 by Victoria Chagoya de Sánchez, Lidia Martínez-Pérez, Rolando Hernández-Muñoz, Gabriela Velasco-Loyden

“…The IFC-305-treated rats showed a clear increase in most of the proteins studied mainly in PCNA and CDK6, and a marked increased in ATP and mitochondrial function. …”
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The Political Economy of Tourism in Brazil (2003-2016): a “Positive” yet still Neoliberal Agenda? by Thiago Duarte Pimentel, Mariana Pereira Chaves Pimentel, Marcela Costa Bifano de Oliveira, Dominic Lapointe

“…To illustrate our model, we used secondary data from the period of the Workers’ Party governments in Brazil (Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, 2003–2010, and Dilma Rousseff, 2011–2016), as previous studies indicate that this period was marked by a notable increase and qualitative shift in the tourism sector in Brazilian history. …”
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Prospects for marker-associated selection in tomato <i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L. by A. B. Shcherban

“…Most of these traits, especially specific resistance to one or another pathogen, were transferred to the cultivated tomato by crossing with wild species, therefore, special attention was paid in the article to identifying and marking resistance genes to a variety of viral, fungal and bacterial pathogens occurring in Western Siberia and adjacent areas. …”
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HDAC6 inhibitor-loaded brain-targeted nanocarrier-mediated neuroprotection in methamphetamine-driven Parkinson's disease by Khang-Yen Pham, Shristi Khanal, Ganesh Bohara, Nikesh Rimal, Sang-Hoon Song, Thoa Thi Kim Nguyen, In-Sun Hong, Jinkyung Cho, Jong-Sun Kang, Sooyeun Lee, Dong-Young Choi, Simmyung Yook

“…Parkinson's disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder marked by α-synuclein (α-syn) accumulation and dopaminergic neuron loss in the substantia nigra, is associated with a disruption of this balance. …”
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A Precocious Cerebellar Ataxia and Frequent Fever Episodes in a 16-Month-Old Infant Revealing Ataxia-Telangiectasia Syndrome by Luigi Nespoli, Annapia Verri, Silvia Tajè, Francesco Paolo Pellegrini, Maddalena Marinoni

“…Peripheral lymphocytes subsets showed reduction of T cells with a marked predominance of T cells with a memory phenotype and a corresponding reduction of naïve T cells; NK cells were very increased (41%) with normal activity. …”
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Exploring the impact of adenoid obstruction on the human nasal airflow through parallel computational fluid dynamics by Zhengzheng Yan, Xinhong Wang, Rongliang Chen

“…Complete blockage was observed at levels greater than 70%, and inhalation difficulties could arise even at the 50% obstruction mark during stimulation or extreme inhalation scenarios. …”
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