UM CINEMA À MARGEM by Paulo Marcondes Ferreira Soares

“…Reflexões recentes sobre as repercussões subsequentes dessas ideias, sob o influxo da globalização e do debate do pós-colonial, têm levantado questões a proposito das possibilidades de mobilização de recursos e trajetórias diversas como meio alternativo a persistência de nossa condição de marginalização e submissão ao modelo dos países hegemônicos. …”
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Reflections on the Yoruba Past: Toyin Falola on Isaac Delano by Wale Oyedeji

“…As such, in this writing, I intend to consider the greatness of Yoruba culture, a people in West Africa, visa-a-vie their precolonial undertaking and their colonial experience. Leaning on the works of Isaac Delano, this work will look into the Yoruba past to reflect on the culture, philosophy, ideology, epistemology and ontology of the people, with a view to educating the general public on the inexhaustible items of their knowledge economy and productions. …”
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Diversity in Adaptive Evolution of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates Under Exposure to Continuous Linezolid Stress in vitro by Han T, Jia T, Wang J

“…Polymerase chain reaction assays and sequencing techniques were performed to detect well-known molecular determinants related to linezolid resistance, including the expression of optrA and cfr, mutations of 23S rRNA gene and ribosomal protein (L3, L4, L22) encoding genes (rplC, rplD, rplV).Results: After induction with sequentially increasing concentrations of linezolid, all four MRSA strains (L914, L860, L1096, and L2875) evolved into linezolid-resistant strains over various induction times (480, 384, 288, and 240 h) and universally formed small colony variants. A new mutation in the domain V region of 23S rRNA gene (C2404T) and one mutation in amino acid sequences of ribosomal protein (Met208Thr) were firstly identified among linezolid-resistant strains. …”
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SUMO modified ETV1 promotes M2-polarized tumor-associated macrophage infiltration and cancer progression by facilitating CCL2 transcription in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma ce... by Tianci Han, Xiaoqi Guo, Junwei Xie, Wei Tong, Liang Zhang

“…Cell growth was detected by CCK-8 and colony formation assays. Macrophage phenotypes were determined using flow cytometry. …”
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Highly Stable Antitumor Silver-Lipid Nanoparticles Optimized for Targeted Therapy by Darwish A, Sándor N, Szenti I, Marosvölgyi T, Juhász K, Rónavári A, Kachal E, Kutus B, Kónya Z, Balogi Z

“…LAgs with PC/PG, PC/PG/SM/Chol, and in particular PC/PG/SM displayed the highest stability assessed by CF leakage, whereas high content of neutral or negatively charged phospholipids was destabilizing. As shown by MTT and colony formation assays, viability and survival of A375 and RPMI-7951 melanoma cells were severely impaired by LAgs at a higher or comparable level as caused by free AgNPs. …”
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Nicotine-induced CHRNA5 activation modulates CES1 expression, impacting head and neck squamous cell carcinoma recurrence and metastasis via MEK/ERK pathway by Chen Feng, Wei Mao, Chenyang Yuan, Pin Dong, Yuying Liu

“…Immunofluorescence staining is used to analyze CHRNA5 expression and localization, and clonogenic assays are performed to measure colony proliferation after CHRNA5 knockdown and overexpression. …”
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Inhibitory Mechanism of Robiotic Bacteria on The Growth of Vibrio harveyi in Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) Larvae by . Widanarni, E. Ayuzar, . Sukenda

“…The inhibitory effect of SKT-b,1Ub, and Ua on the growth of V. harveyi was investigated by concomitant incubation of the two bacteria in a culture shrimp larvae. Colony forming unit of V. harveyi, probiotic and total of bacteria in dead, live larvae and water culture was monitored, and survival rate of larvae was investigated. …”
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Analyse des terres cuites architecturales de l’aqueduc de Nyon/Colonia Iulia Equestris (Suisse) by Benjamin Clément, Christophe Henny, Anne Schmitt

“…In the absence of dating evidence for the construction itself, the establishment of public baths near the colony’s forum at the beginning of the 1st century AD provides us with a chronological clue to its construction. …”
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Asymptomatic Bacteriuria among Pregnant Women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Prevalence, Causal Agents, and Their Antimicrobial Susceptibility by Ketema Bizuwork, Haile Alemayehu, Girmay Medhin, Wondwossen Amogne, Tadesse Eguale

“…Women whose urine samples carried greater than or equal to 105 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per milliliter of urine when grown on plate count agar were considered positive for ASBU. …”
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Human intestinal nematode infections in Sri Lanka: A scoping review. by Nalini Kaushalya Jayakody, Anjana Silva, Susiji Wickramasinghe, Nilanthi de Silva, Sisira Siribaddana, Kosala Gayan Weerakoon

“…Within specific demographics, it was 6.96% in the general community, 33.4% in plantation sector, and 11.6% in slum communities. During the colonial period, hookworm infection was the commonest HINI, but ascariasis is now more prevalent. …”
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Comparison of phenotypic and genetic traits of ESBL-producing UPEC strains causing recurrent or single episode UTI in postmenopausal women by Michelle Kalu, Peter Jorth, Annie Wong-Beringer

“…Presence of hlyA, ompT, and fimH genes were confirmed by colony PCR, and qRT-PCR was performed using extracted RNA from a subset of 18 strains (12 recurrent; 6 single episode) grown in Luria-Bertani media and isolated from infected BECs to characterize gene expression. …”
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The Used of Paci-Paci Leaves Extract Leucas sp. to Prevent Mycotic Disease by Sri Nuryati, M.A. Suparman, Y. Hadiroseyani

“…Paci-paci extract can reduced the fungal infection and hindered the growth of Saprolegnia sp. colonies.  Descriptively, the paci-paci extract (the treatment of the extract 0.5 gr/l; 1 gr/l; 1.5 gr/l) could prevent the Saprolegnia sp. infection with the successive prevalence 33.3 %; 22.2 %; 0 %. …”
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MEMORY IN PUBLIC SPACE AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH IN TIME OF WAR by Viktoriia Kovpak, Nataliia Lebid, Viktor Burenkov

“…This, in turn, can take the form of the construction of historical memory and become a practice of intervention in the field of historiography, marking the territory and the mental space with colonial symbols, as demonstrated by Russia after the collapse of the USSR, appealing to nostalgia for the Soviet past and constructing the politics of "fraternal nations" in entrepreneurial activity. …”
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Lipopolymers as the Basis of Non-Viral Delivery of Therapeutic siRNA Nanoparticles in a Leukemia (MOLM-13) Model by Panadda Yotsomnuk, Amarnath Praphakar Rajendran, Daniel Nisakar Meenakshi Sundaram, Luis Carlos Morales, Cezary Kucharski, Mohammad Nasrullah, Wanwisa Skolpap, Xiaoyan Jiang, Spencer B. Gibson, Joseph Brandwein, Hasan Uludağ

“…The desired inhibition of cell growth was attained with both FLT3 and KMT2A::MLLT3 siRNAs, and the combination provided more potent effects in both cell growth and colony formation assays. Induction of apoptosis was confirmed after specific siRNA treatments using the Annexin V assay. …”
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Newly identified c-di-GMP pathway putative EAL domain gene STM0343 regulates stress resistance and virulence in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by Kaifeng Chen, Lili Li, Nanwei Wang, Zhouping Zhou, Peng Pan, Chenggang Xu, Dage Sun, Jiayi Li, Changzhi Dai, Dai Kuang, Ming Liao, Jianmin Zhang

“…As a result, the biofilm formation ability of 269ΔSTM0343 was enhanced by 21.54%, accompanied by a more pronounced red, dry, and rough colony morphology. 269ΔSTM0343 also showed a 19.03% decrease in motility due to the downregulation of flhD expression. …”
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In vivo reduction of biofilm seeded on orthopaedic implants: safety and efficacy of portable electromagnetic induction heating by Enrique Cordero García-Galán, Marina Medel-Plaza, José J. Pozo-Kreilinger, Héctor Sarnago, Óscar Lucía, Alicia Rico-Nieto, Jaime Esteban, Enrique Gomez-Barrena

“…In rabbits implanted with infected screws, a significant bacterial load reduction with median 0.75 Log10 colony-forming units/ml was observed (p = 0.016). …”
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Attenuation of acute kidney injury in a murine model of neonatal Escherichia coli sepsis by Esther M. Speer, Atilade A. Adedeji, Joyce Lin, Alexandra Khorasanchi, Asma Rasheed, Maya Bhat, Kelly Mackenzie, Randolph Hennigar, Kimberly J. Reidy, Robert P. Woroniecki

“…We hypothesized that addition of PTX to antibiotics may attenuate immune and histological AKI in a murine neonatal sepsis model.MethodsPostnatal (PN) day 1 C57BL/6J mice were injected with E. coli K1 strain at 105 colony forming units per gram weight or saline control. …”
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Clinically relevant orthotopic pancreatic cancer models for adoptive T cell transfer therapy by Gregory B. Lesinski, Chrystal M. Paulos, Maggie Phillips, Jacklyn Hammons, Isaac Karpovsky, Zaid Mahdi, Natalie K. Horvat, Megan M. Wyatt, Margaret A. Hall, Cameron J. Herting, Richard A. Moffitt

“…However, these models have limitations, including marked tumor variability across individual mice and the cost of colony maintenance.Methods Using flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry, we characterized the immunological features and trafficking patterns of adoptively transferred T cells in orthotopic PDAC (C57BL/6) models using two mouse cell lines, KPC-Luc and MT-5, isolated from C57BL/6 KPC-GEMM (KrasLSL-G12D/+p53−/− and KrasLSL-G12D/+p53LSL-R172H/+, respectively).Results The MT-5 orthotopic model best recapitulates the cellular and stromal features of the TME in the PDAC GEMM. …”
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Immunogenicity in humans of a transdermal multipeptide melanoma vaccine administered with or without a TLR7 agonist by Craig L Slingluff, Gina R Petroni, Walter C Olson, Kimberly A Chianese-bullock, Donna Deacon, Mark Smolkin, William W Grosh, Max O Meneveau, Kevin T Lynch, Elise P Salerno, Elizabeth Woodson, James W Patterson

“…We hypothesized that: (1) applying melanoma-derived peptides topically, in proximity to LC, could be immunogenic and safe, with low vaccine-site toxicity and (2) topical toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonist would increase immunogenicity of the peptide vaccine.Methods Twelve melanoma peptides plus a tetanus helper peptide were combined with granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and were administered topically on days 1, 8, and 15, to 28 patients randomized to one of four adjuvant preparations: (1) incomplete Freund’s adjuvant (IFA); (2) IFA plus a TLR7 agonist (imiquimod) administered on days 0, 7, 14; (3) dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) or (4) DMSO+ imiquimod administered on day 0, 7, 14. …”
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Rescue of in vitro models of CSF1R-related adult-onset leukodystrophy by iluzanebart: mechanisms and therapeutic implications of TREM2 agonism by Kelley C. Larson, Frederick W. Gergits, Abigail J. Renoux, Elizabeth J. Weisman, Borislav Dejanovic, Liyue Huang, Bhaumik Pandya, Donald G. McLaren, Berkley A. Lynch, Richard Fisher, Evan Thackaberry, David Gray, Francois Gaudreault, Christian Mirescu

“…CSF1R-ALSP is caused by heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in the colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) gene, which encodes a receptor required for the differentiation of myeloid cells, as well as for microglial survival and proliferation. …”
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