The influence of monosodium glutamate on the development of oxidative-nitrosative stress in the large cerebral hemispheres of rats under the combination of a change in the “light-d... by O. A. Volkova, O. Ye. Akimov, V. O. Kostenko

“…In a 10 % homogenate of the large cerebral hemispheres, we determined the rate of superoxide anion radical (SAR) production, the content of products that react with thiobarbituric acid (TBA-reactants), their increase, activity of catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), concentration of nitrites, peroxynitrites, total activity of NO-synthase (NOS), its constitutive (cNOS) and inducible (iNOS) isoforms. …”
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Behavioural Risk for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C Infections among a Population of Drug Users and Injectors across Four Regions in Ghana by Chris Guure, Sharren Margaret Obiri-Yeboah Laryea, Samuel Dery, Carlota Baptista da Silva, Comfort Asamoah-Adu, Stephen Ayisi-Addo, Maria-Goretti Loglo, Adamu Mohammed, Kwasi Torpey

“…A team of community advisory boards that comprised former users, current users, and civil society organizations were constituted to help in the implementation of the study. …”
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Buffalo milk quality in southern Italy: trace elements & endocrine disruptors. A One Health analysis by Luigi Jacopo D’Auria

“…Potentially toxic elements such as chromium (< 0.141 mg/kg), cobalt (< 0.008 mg/kg), manganese (< 0.035 mg/kg), selenium (< 0.044 mg/kg), vanadium (< 0.016 mg/kg), zinc (<4.31 mg/kg) and strontium (< 0.947 mg/kg) have been found in milk at levels that do not constitute a health risk; furthermore their presence could be related to the geographical origin. …”
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Influence of light quality on the profiling of metabolites and the status of Lactobacillus community in the phyllosphere of hydroponically grown ginseng by Nooruddin Bin Sadiq, Ji-Eun Lee, Muhammad Hamayun, Seda Nur Kabadayı, Na-Yun Park, Bokyung Lee, Ho-Youn Kim

“…Proteobacteria remained stable under IR treatment, constituting over 80% in V2 and 60% in V1, while UV light promoted microbial stability in V2 and fostered more diverse ecosystems in V1, both characterized by richness in organic acids and amino acids. …”
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Prediksi Detak Jantung Berbasis LSTM pada Raspberry Pi untuk Pemantauan Kesehatan Portabel by Ahmad Foresta Azhar Zen, Eko Sakti Pramukantoro, Kasyful Amron, Viera Wardhani, Putri Annisa Kamila

“…An estimated 17.9 million people succumbed to CVDs in 2019, constituting 32% of all global deaths. Detecting heart abnormalities as early as possible is crucial to prevent CVD-related fatalities. …”
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Excessive occupational sitting increases risk of cardiovascular events among working individuals with type 1 diabetes in the prospective Finnish Diabetic Nephropathy Study by Matias Seppälä, Heidi Lukander, Johan Wadén, Marika I. Eriksson, Valma Harjutsalo, Per-Henrik Groop, Lena M. Thorn, FinnDiane Study Group

“…Occupational sitting is increasingly ubiquitous and often constitutes the largest portion of daily sitting time. …”
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Spectroscopic analysis (UV-VIS-NIR) for predictive modeling of macro and micronutrients in grapevine leaves by J.I. Manzano, M. Rodríguez-Febereiro, M. Fandiño, M. Vilanova, J.J. Cancela

“…The model was trained using 70 % of the samples, while the remaining 30 % constituted the independent validation. Results from the validation set indicated accurate validation for most nutrients, with determination coefficients (r2) of 0.70 for C, 0.72 for N, 0.64 for P, 0.75 for K, 0.84 for Ca, 0.48 for Mg, 0.45 for B, 0.58 for Cu, 0.26 for Fe, 0.82 for Mn, 0.50 for Zn, 0.90 for Na, and 0.69 for Al. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of bHLH-MYC Family Genes from Mustard That May Be Important in Trichome Formation by Jianzhong Li, Guoliang Li, Caishuo Zhu, Shaoxing Wang, Shifan Zhang, Fei Li, Hui Zhang, Rifei Sun, Lingyun Yuan, Guohu Chen, Xiaoyan Tang, Chenggang Wang, Shujiang Zhang

“…The bHLH gene family, particularly the Myelocytomatosis (MYC) proteins that possess the structural bHLH domain (termed bHLH-MYC), are crucial to the formation and development of leaf trichomes in plants. bHLH constitutes one of the largest families of transcription factors in eukaryotes, of which MYC is a subfamily member. …”
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Viral Hepatitis B and Its Implications for Public Health in DR Congo: A Systematic Review by Marcellin Mengouo Nimpa, Hermès Karemere, Christian Ngandu, Franck-Fortune Mboussou, M. Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Dalau Nkamba, André Bita Fouda, Bienvenu Nguejio, Sifa Kakozi, Aimé Mwana-Wabene Cikomola, Jean-Crispin Mukendi, Dieudonné Mwamba, Moise Désiré Yapi, Richard Bahizire Riziki, Cedric Mwanga, John Otomba, Jean Baptiste Nikiema, Boureima Hama Sambo, Daniel Katuashi Ishoso

“…<b>Background:</b> The prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection remains high in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), constituting a public health problem in view of the fatal complications it causes, notably cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. …”
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PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN MICE TREATED WITH CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE AND EXOGENOUS DNA by E. V. Dolgova, V. P. Nikolin, N. A. Popova, A. S. Proskurina, K. E. Orishchenko, E. A. Alyamkina, Ya. R. Efremov, S. I. Baiborodin, E. R. Chernykh, A. A. Ostanin, S. S. Bogachev, T. S. Gvozdeva, E. M. Malkova, O. S. Taranov, V. A. Rogachev, A. S. Panov, S. N. Zagrebelnyi, M. A. Shurdov

“…However, the relative amount of CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from day 15 and till the end of the observation constituted 1,2–1,4 %, which corresponds to the wild-type range. …”
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Postoperative radiotherapy improves survival in completely resected non-small cell lung cancer with pathologic N2 stage IIIA and positive lymph node count greater than one: a SEER-... by Diyang Zhu, Yuanyuan Xiao, Yuanyuan Xiao, Shancheng He, Shancheng He, Baochang Xie, Baochang Xie, Wenqi Zhao, Wenqi Zhao, Yuhui Xu

“…ObjectiveNon-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) constitutes approximately 85% of lung cancer cases, with 20%–30% of patients diagnosed at stage III. …”
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The palmitoyl-CoA ligase Fum16 is part of a Fusarium verticillioides fumonisin subcluster involved in self-protection by Fabio Gherlone, Katarina Jojić, Ying Huang, Sandra Hoefgen, Vito Valiante, Slavica Janevska

“…It co-localizes together with the ceramide synthase Fum18 to the endoplasmic reticulum, where they contribute to sphingolipid biosynthesis. Thereby, FUM15-19 constitute a subcluster within the FUM biosynthetic gene cluster dedicated to the fungal self-protection against FB1.IMPORTANCEThe study identifies a five-gene FUM subcluster (FUM15-19) in Fusarium verticillioides involved in self-protection against FB1. …”
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TCR-engaging scaffolds selectively expand antigen-specific T-cells with a favorable phenotype for adoptive cell therapy by Marco Donia, Özcan Met, Julie Westerlin Kjeldsen, Sine Reker Hadrup, Inge Marie Svane, Arianna Draghi, Anders Handrup Kverneland, Christina Heeke, Siri Amanda Tvingsholm, Marcus Svensson Frej, Vibeke Mindahl Rafa, Ulla Kring Hansen, Maria Ormhøj, Alexander Tyron, Agnete W P Jensen, Mohammad Kadivar, Amalie Kai Bentzen, Kamilla K Munk, Gitte N Aasbjerg, Jeppe S H Ternander, Tripti Tamhane, Christian Schmess, Samuel A. Funt, Søren Nyboe Jakobsen

“…Successful ACT relies on ex vivo expansion of large numbers of desired T-cells with strong cytotoxic capacity and in vivo persistence, which constitutes the greatest challenge to current ACT strategies. …”
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Risks of parasitic helminth disease outbreaks and influence of physico-chemical factors in flood prone areas of Yaoundé, Cameroon by Noura Efietngab Atembeh, Jean Patrick Molu, Jeanne Valerie Emvoutou Maboulou, Boris Fominyam, Rodrigue Nanfack Dongmo, Gabriel Bertrand Zambo, Emilie Tchinda Tiecheu, Jeannette Tombi, Lucia Nkengazong, Serge Hubert Zebaze Togouet, Jean Louis Essame Oyono

“…Conclusion: Flood areas constitute a potential risk zone for the maintenance and spread of human helminthiases. …”
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La mise en œuvre d’un aqueduc : l’exemple de la Brévenne à Lyon by Catherine Coquidé, Antoine Valois

“…However, the real anomalies are the short spans –often of about fifteen metres long, a hundred at the most– within the 70 linear kilometres that constitute the whole structure. Local scales do not fit well with the engineer’s project. …”
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Enhancing sustainable solid waste management through separate source collection by O. Arabiyat, J.T. Al-Bakri, F. Kölsch, S. Al-Omari, H. Aladwan

“…A significant amount of municipal solid waste (60 percent) has an organic composition, while recyclable waste constitutes about 12.5 percent of the total municipal solid waste. …”
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Distribution and dynamics for the ecological assessment of Asan Wetland through periphyton -a water quality indicator by Sazia Tabassum, C. B. Kotnala, A. K. Dobriyal, Mohammed Salman, Richa Bamola

“…The annual percentage composition of periphytic flora in the Asan wetland over 2 years indicates that Bacillariophyceae constituted the predominant group (89%–90%), succeeded by Chlorophyceae (7%–9%) and Cyanophyceae or Myxophyceae (1%–4%) across three sites. …”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…Instead, the land ‘under the hill’ is constituted as a genuinely alternative paradise, a counterpublic of perverts who communally flout the dictates of heteronormativity, together constructing a world that does not simply exclude shame, guilt, and sin but disavows them entirely.…”
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Une gestion plurielle des illégalismes : négociations et contradictions dans la régulation des eaux usées au Maroc by Pierre-Louis Mayaux, Naïma Fezza, Zhour Bouzidi

“…As elsewhere, the illegal condition is experienced as a form of "degraded citizenship" : it constitutes a complex, precarious and constantly shifting combination of legality and illegality.Broadening the analysis so as to include all state actors involved in the management of illegality thus makes it possible not to presume the functionality of this management for the reproduction of the social order. …”
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The gene Sr38 for bread wheat breeding in Western Siberia by E. S. Skolotneva, V. N. Kelbin, V. P. Shamanin, N. I. Boyko, V. A. Aparina, E. A. Salina

“…In general, clones avirulent to Sr38 constitute 60 % of the West Siberian fungus population, whereas not a single virulent isolate was detected in the Krasnoyarsk collection. …”
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