Oncogene OSTM1 Promotes Gastric-Cancer Metastasis by Modulating the Metastatic Microenvironment Through Altered Tumor-Cell Autocrine Signaling by Yucheng Tang, Yi Guo, Jiangyi Feng, Ziwei Wang

“…Western blot and RT-qPCR were used to examine OSTM1’s regulation of S100A4 expression. …”
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Identifying Key Biomarkers Related to Immune Response in the Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease: Mendelian Randomization Combined With Comprehensive Transcriptomics and Single-... by Hu M, Deng Y, Bai Y, Zhang J, Shen X, Shen L, Zhou L

“…Finally, we validated the mRNA expression of five key genes in the DKD mice model using reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR).Results: Five characteristic genes, known as protein kinase B beta (AKT2), interleukin-2 receptor beta (IL2RB), neurexin 3(NRXN3), slit homolog 3(SLIT3), and TATA box binding protein like protein 1 (TBPL1), demonstrated causal relationships with DKD. …”
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Analysis of the ASMT Gene Family in Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.): Identification, Phylogeny, and Expression Profiles by Luzhao Pan, Jiaqiu Zheng, Jia Liu, Jun Guo, Fawan Liu, Lecheng Liu, Hongjian Wan

“…Finally, using RNA-seq and qRT-PCR technology, we also found that several CaASMT genes were induced under abiotic stress conditions. …”
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Establishment of Tissue Culture System of Actinidia deliciosa Cultivar “Guichang” by Weimin Zhong, Junliang Zhou, Dongmei Tang, Yaxin Huang, Futao Liu, Min Zhang, Guoli Wang, Sufang Wu, Yue He, Jingwen Tang

“…In order to breed virus-free plantlets of the kiwifruit cultivar “Guichang,” which belongs to Actinidia deliciosa, in this study, stem segments with buds were used as explants, the establishment of a tissue culture rapid propagation system was carried out, and then the virus status of tissue culture plantlets was detected via the real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) method. The tissue culture rapid propagation system proved that the contamination and browning rates could be controlled below 20% and the survival rate could be exceeded by 70% when the single bud stem segment of “Guichang” kiwifruit was sterilized with 70% alcohol for 30–60 s and 15% NaClO for 15 min, respectively. …”
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Numerical simulation and theoretical study on the impact of wind-sand flow of high-speed trains in long tunnel space by Shiqun Li, Sihui Dong, Yonghua Li, Liping Zhou

“…Secondly, both flows show asymmetric intrusion into the cabin due to the asymmetrical tunnel arrangement, but the sand particles in the wind-sand flow are affected by the vortices and tunnel walls, resulting in more asymmetric flow and some particles being trapped in the grids or filters, leading to outflow ρ Q  < inflow ρ Q . Under the wind-sand flow condition, the temperature of some equipment surfaces shows more significant increases than under the no-sand wind. …”
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Development and validation of a food and nutrition literacy questionnaire for Chinese parents of children with functional constipation (FNLQ-p) by Jie Yang, Hui Wang, Yanchi Shen, Hui Yang, Yan Huang, Jinjin Cao

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Collective Optical, FTIR, and Photoluminescence Spectra of CeO2 and/or Sm2O3-Doped Na2O–ZnO–P2O5 Glasses by M. A. Marzouk, H. A. ElBatal, Y. M. Hamdy, F. M. Ezz-Eldin

“…FTIR spectra of the glasses show pronounced vibrational peaks related to phosphate groups (Q2 and Q3 units) in accordance with the P2O5 percent (70 mol %).…”
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Overexpression of NtCET4 gene in tobacco promoted vegetative bud activity and delayed flowering by LONG Junlan, LUO Rui, LUO Xu, ZHANG Lan

“…The overexpressed lines were selected from transgenic lines based on qRT-PCR. The overexpressed plants were transplanted into fields to observe flowering time and leaf numbers. qRTPCR was used to identify relative expressions of NtCET4 before and after flowering. …”
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Analysis of Method Performance for Quantitative Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in Queso Fresco Cheese by Neha Singh, Ravinder Reddy, Karina Hettwer, Kirstin Frost, Matthew Kmet, Steffen Uhlig

“…Although individually inoculated, the samples were considered replicates based on the standard deviation values obtained from the Q/Hampel method. A similar observation was noted on pre- and postshipment data, which permitted a combined analysis as per Q/Hampel and ISO 5725-2 methods. …”
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Unusual Localization of Clostridium Difficile Infection in an Isolated Segment of the Descending Colon in a Critical Care Patient by Evgeni Brotfain, Leonid Koyfman, Amit Frenkel, Jochanan G. Peiser, Abraham Borer, Benjamin F. Gruenbaum, Alexander Zlotnik, Moti Klein

“…The patient recovered after three weeks of intraluminal vancomycin (250 mg diluted in 150 ml of normal saline  x Q6) and metronidazole (500 mg  x Q8). Both antibiotics were given into the mucus fistula over 30 min. …”
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Determination of 19 polyphenolic compounds in tea by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography combined with quadrupole-time of flight mass spectrometry by Jian Li, Junmei Ma, Yan Zhang, Lei Zheng

“…The analytes were determined by Q-TOF MS in TOF MS and information dependent acquisition (IDA)-MS/MS mode. …”
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The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UBE2D maintains a youthful proteome and ensures protein quality control during aging by sustaining proteasome activity. by Liam C Hunt, Michelle Curley, Kudzai Nyamkondiwa, Anna Stephan, Jianqin Jiao, Kanisha Kavdia, Vishwajeeth R Pagala, Junmin Peng, Fabio Demontis

“…Here, we find that E2s have diverse roles in handling a model aggregation-prone protein (huntingtin-polyQ) in the Drosophila retina: while some E2s mediate aggregate assembly, UBE2D/effete (eff) and other E2s are required for huntingtin-polyQ degradation. …”
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Common Fixed Points for Nonlinear Quasi-Contractions of Ćirić Type by Fei He

“…We establish common fixed points theorems for two self-mappings satisfying a nonlinear contractive condition of Ćirić type with a Q-function. Furthermore, using the scalarization method, we deduce some results of common fixed point in tvs-cone metric spaces with a c-distance. …”
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Commutators of the Fractional Hardy Operator on Weighted Variable Herz-Morrey Spaces by Amjad Hussain, Muhammad Asim, Muhammad Aslam, Fahd Jarad

“…In the present paper, our aim is to establish the boundedness of commutators of the fractional Hardy operator and its adjoint operator on weighted Herz-Morrey spaces with variable exponents MK̇p,q⋅α⋅,λw.…”
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The Zeros of Orthogonal Polynomials and Markov–Bernstein Inequalities for Jacobi-Exponential Weights on (−1,1) by Rong Liu

“…Let Ux=∏i=1rx−tipi, 0<p<∞, −1=tr<tr−1<⋯<t2<t1=1, r≥2, pi>−1/p, i=1,2,…,r, and W=e−Qx where Q:−1,1⟶0,∞. We give the estimates of the zeros of orthogonal polynomials for the Jacobi-Exponential weight WU on −1,1. …”
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Weight Distribution of Periodic Errors and Optimal/Anti-Optimal Linear Codes by Pankaj Kumar Das

“…The paper discusses weight distribution of periodic errors and then the optimal case on bounds of parity check digits for (n=n1+n2, k) linear codes over GF(q) that corrects all periodic errors of order r in the first block of length n1 and all periodic errors of order s in the second block of length n2 and no others. …”
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Benzylated Sulfamethoxazole Derivatives with Improved Safety Profile as Potential Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Antibacterial Agents by Judas M. Maepa, Tlabo C. Leboho

“…The most active compounds against Mycobacterium tuberculosis were3q with 92% inhibition followed by 3s (90%), 3k (88%), 3t (85%), and 3o (84%).…”
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On the Periods of 2-Step General Fibonacci Sequences in the Generalized Quaternion Groups by Bahram Ahmadi, Hossein Doostie

“…We study 2-step general Fibonacci sequences in the generalized quaternion groups Q4n. In cases where the sequences are proved to be simply periodic, we obtain the periods of 2-step general Fibonacci sequences.…”
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Cohomology with Lp-bounds on polycylinders by P. W. Darko, C. H. Lutterodt

“…The main result proved here is that, if Bp is the sheaf of germs of Lp-holomorphic functions on Ω¯ then Hq(Ω¯,Bp)=0 for q≥1. The proof of this is then used to establish a Leray's Isomorphism with Lp-bounds theorem.…”
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Properties of Third-Order Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations with Mixed Arguments by B. Baculíková

“…The aim of this paper is to offer sufficient conditions for property (B) and/or the oscillation of the third-order nonlinear functional differential equation with mixed arguments [𝑎(𝑡)[𝑥″(𝑡)]𝛾]′=𝑞(𝑡)𝑓(𝑥[𝜏(𝑡)])+𝑝(𝑡)ℎ(𝑥[𝜎(𝑡)]). Both cases ∫∞𝑎−1/𝛾(𝑠)d𝑠=∞ and ∫∞𝑎−1/𝛾(𝑠)d𝑠<∞ are considered. …”
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