An automated platform for simultaneous, longitudinal analysis of engineered neuromuscular tissues for applications in neurotoxin potency testing by Jacob W. Fleming, Molly C. McCloskey, Kevin Gray, David R. Nash, Vincent Leung, Christos Michas, Shawn M. Luttrell, Christopher Cavanaugh, Julie Mathieu, Shawn Mcquire, Mark Bothwell, David L. Mack, Nicholas A. Geisse, Alec S.T. Smith

“…Animal models of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) have been widely studied but exhibit critical differences from human biology limiting utility in drug and disease modelling. …”
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Histopathological Characterization and Whole Exome Sequencing of Ectopic Thyroid: Fetal Architecture in a Functional Ectopic Gland from Adult Patient by Rosalinda Yasato Camargo, Cristina Takami Kanamura, Celso Ubirajara Friguglietti, Célia Regina Nogueira, Sonia Iorcansky, Alfio José Tincani, Ana Karina Bezerra, Ester Brust, Fernanda Christtanini Koyama, Anamaria Aranha Camargo, Fernanda Orpinelli R. Rego, Pedro Alexandre Favoretto Galante, Geraldo Medeiros-Neto, Ileana Gabriela Sanchez Rubio

“…This study aimed to investigate the histopathological, functional, and genetic features of human ectopic thyroids. Six samples were histologically examined, and the expression of the specific thyroid proteins was assessed by immunohistochemistry. …”
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Extracellular HMGB1 blockade inhibits tumor growth through profoundly remodeling immune microenvironment and enhances checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapy by Coraline Radermecker, Pascale Hubert, Patrick Roncarati, Stephanie Demoulin, Charlotte Pilard, Marie Ancion, Celia Reynders, Thomas Lerho, Diane Bruyere, Alizee Lebeau, Margot Meunier, Marie-Julie Nokin, Elodie Hendrick, Olivier Peulen, Philippe Delvenne, Michael Herfs

“…Finally, the redox state of HMGB1 in tumor-extruded fluids and the influence of different forms (oxidized, reduced or disulfide) on both dendritic cell (DC) and plasmacytoid DC (pDC) activation were determined.Results Associated with an unfavorable prognosis in human patients, we clearly demonstrated that targeting extracellular HMGB1 elicits a profound remodeling of tumor immune microenvironment for efficient cancer therapy. …”
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Comparative abundance and diversity of populations of the Pseudomonas syringae and Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae species complexes throughout the Durance River catchment from its Fren... by Morris, C.E., Lacroix, C., Chandeysson, C., Guilbaud, C., Monteil, C., Piry, S., Rochelle Newall, E., Fiorini, S., Van Gijsegem, F., Barny, M.A., Berge, O.

“…Rivers, creeks, streams are integrators of biological, chemical and physical processes occurring in a catchment linking land cover from the headwaters to the outlet.  The dynamics of human and animal pathogens in catchments have been widely studied in a large variety of contexts allowing the optimization of disease risk reduction. …”
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Inverse Agonist of Retinoid-Related Orphan Receptor-Alpha Prevents Apoptosis and Degeneration in Nucleus Pulposus Cells via Upregulation of YAP by Tongzhou Liang, Jincheng Qiu, Shaoguang Li, Zhihuai Deng, Xianjian Qiu, Wenjun Hu, Pengfei Li, Taiqiu Chen, Zhancheng Liang, Hang Zhou, Bo Gao, Dongsheng Huang, Anjing Liang, Wenjie Gao

“…To further investigate the mechanism that SR3335 regulates the pathogenesis of IDD in vitro, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) stimulation was used in human NP cells to mimic the hostile environment that leads to degeneration. …”
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<i>Pleurotus ostreatus</i>: Nutritional Enhancement and Antioxidant Activity Improvement Through Cultivation on Spent Mushroom Substrate and Roots of Leafy Vegetables by Eirini-Maria Melanouri, Ilias Diamantis, Marianna Dedousi, Eleni Dalaka, Paraskevi Antonopoulou, Seraphim Papanikolaou, Ioannis Politis, Georgios Theodorou, Panagiota Diamantopoulou

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The development of a food-group, tree classification method and its use in exploring dietary associations with metabolic dysfunction-associated Steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and... by Amina A. Alawadi, Amrita Vijay, Jane I. Grove, Moira A. Taylor, Guruprasad P. Aithal

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Community-based HPV self-collection versus visual inspection with acetic acid in Uganda: a cost-effectiveness analysis of the ASPIRE trial by Joel Singer, Angeli Rawat, Heather Armstrong, Josaphat Byamugisha, Gina S Ogilvie, Alex K Mezei, Heather N Pedersen, Stephen Sy, Catherine Regan, Sheona M Mitchell-Foster, Musa Sekikubo, Jane J Kim, Nicole G Campos

“…Community-based self-collected human papillomavirus (HPV) testing has been proposed to reduce barriers to screening.Objective Our objective was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the Advances in Screening and Prevention of Reproductive Cancers (ASPIRE) trial, conducted in Kisenyi, Uganda in April 2014 (n=500). …”
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Refined Mapping of Subsurface Water Ice on Mars to Support Future Missions by G. A. Morgan, N. E. Putzig, D. M. H. Baker, A. Pathare, C. M. Dundas, M. B. Russell, M. R. Perry, M. Chojnacki, H. G. Sizemore, A. M. Bramson, E. I. Petersen, S. Nerozzi, R. H. Hoover, Z. Bain

“…Motivated by science and the need to find suitable human landing sites, the Mars Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) project has developed techniques to map out buried ice. …”
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Perbandingan Metode Supervised Machine Learning untuk Prediksi Prevalensi Stunting di Provinsi Jawa Timur by M Syauqi Haris, Ahsanun Naseh Khudori, Wahyu Teja Kusuma

“…The results showed that the causative factors that have a high correlation to the prevalence of stunting are not only low birth weight (BBLR), but also the Human Development Index, sanitation, and the Poor Population Index. …”
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Seroprevalence of Malaria and Hepatitis B Coinfection among Pregnant Women in Tamale Metropolis of Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study by Gideon Kofi Helegbe, Paul Armah Aryee, Baba Sulemana Mohammed, Anthony Wemakor, David Kolbila, Abdul-Wahid Abubakari, Salam Askanda, Rashid Alhassan, Collins Barnie, Afua Aboagyewaa Donkoh, Ernest Ofosu

“…The aim of this study was to assess the seroprevalence of coinfections of malaria, hepatitis B (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and syphilis among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics (ANC) in the Tamale Metropolis. …”
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Small RNA CjNC110 regulates the activated methyl cycle to enable optimal chicken colonization by Campylobacter jejuni by Brandon Ruddell, Alan Hassall, Orhan Sahin, Paul J. Plummer, Qijing Zhang, Amanda J. Kreuder

“…In this study, we utilized C. jejuni IA3902 (a representative isolate of the sheep abortion clone) and C. jejuni W7 (a highly motile variant of NCTC 11168, a human gastroenteritis strain) to further investigate regulation by sRNA CjNC110. …”
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Absence of MCJ/DnaJC15 promotes brown adipose tissue thermogenesis by Beatriz Cicuéndez, Alfonso Mora, Juan Antonio López, Andrea Curtabbi, Javier Pérez-García, Begoña Porteiro, Daniel Jimenez-Blasco, Pedro Latorre-Muro, Paula Vo, Madison Jerome, Beatriz Gómez-Santos, Rafael Romero-Becerra, Magdalena Leiva, Elena Rodríguez, Marta León, Luis Leiva-Vega, Noemi Gómez-Lado, Jorge L. Torres, Lourdes Hernández-Cosido, Pablo Aguiar, Miguel Marcos, Martin Jastroch, Andreas Daiber, Patricia Aspichueta, Juan Pedro Bolaños, Jessica B. Spinelli, Pere Puigserver, José Antonio Enriquez, Jesús Vázquez, Cintia Folgueira, Guadalupe Sabio

“…Here we show how MCJ expression decreases during obesity, as evident in human and mouse adipose tissue samples. MCJKO mice, even without UCP1, a fundamental thermogenic protein, exhibit elevated BAT thermogenesis. …”
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Impacts of irrigation expansion on moist-heat stress based on IRRMIP results by Yi Yao, Agnès Ducharne, Benjamin I. Cook, Steven J. De Hertog, Kjetil Schanke Aas, Pedro F. Arboleda-Obando, Jonathan Buzan, Jeanne Colin, Maya Costantini, Bertrand Decharme, David M. Lawrence, Peter Lawrence, L. Ruby Leung, Min-Hui Lo, Narayanappa Devaraju, William R. Wieder, Ren-Jie Wu, Tian Zhou, Jonas Jägermeyr, Sonali McDermid, Yadu Pokhrel, Maxwell Elling, Naota Hanasaki, Paul Muñoz, Larissa S. Nazarenko, Kedar Otta, Yusuke Satoh, Tokuta Yokohata, Lei Jin, Xuhui Wang, Vimal Mishra, Subimal Ghosh, Wim Thiery

“…In summary, this study indicates that irrigation deployment is not an efficient adaptation measure to escalating human heat stress under climate change, calling for carefully dealing with the increased exposure of local people to moist-heat stress.…”
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Whole-genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of Salmonella isolated from pullets through final raw product in the processing plant of a conventional broiler complex: a longitu... by Yagya Adhikari, Matthew A. Bailey, Steven Kitchens, Pankaj Gaonkar, Luis R. Munoz, Stuart B. Price, Dianna V. Bourassa, Laura Huber, Richard J. Buhr, Kenneth S. Macklin

“…Furthermore, improper cooking or handling of contaminated raw chicken meat and meat products with Salmonella and other zoonotic pathogens can potentially cause foodborne illness in humans.…”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Cytotoxic Activity of New Lanthanum(III) Complexes of Bis-Coumarins

“…In the present study, we performed a cytotoxic-effects screening of the lanthanum complexes with <mml:math alttext="$chem{H_{2}}$"> <mml:msub> <mml:mtext>H</mml:mtext> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math>L1 and <mml:math alttext="$chem{H_{2}}$"> <mml:msub> <mml:mtext>H</mml:mtext> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> </mml:math>L2 in a panel of human tumor cell lines, using the standard MTT-dye reduction assay for cell viability. …”
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Recent advances of photodiagnosis and treatment for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Yining Zhang, Zhenfang Li, Chengchi Zhang, Chengying Shao, Yanting Duan, Guowan Zheng, Yu Cai, Minghua Ge, Jiajie Xu

“…Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are the most common type of head and neck tumor that severely threatens human health due to its highly aggressive nature and susceptibility to distant metastasis. …”
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Vectorized Treg-depleting αCTLA-4 elicits antigen cross-presentation and CD8+ T cell immunity to reject ‘cold’ tumors by Laetitia Fend, Eric Quemeneur, Monika Semmrich, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Matilda Rehn, Nathalie Silvestre, Linda Mårtensson, Johann Foloppe, Ingrid Teige, Björn Frendeus, Petra Holmkvist, Carolin Svensson, Christelle Remy, Patricia Kleinpeter, Jules Deforges, Fred Junghus, Kirstie L Cleary, Mimoza Bodén

“…Here we assess and identify spatially restricted exposure to a novel strongly Treg-depleting, checkpoint-blocking, vectorized αCTLA-4, as a highly efficacious and potentially safe strategy to target CTLA-4.Methods A novel human IgG1 CTLA-4 antibody (4-E03) was identified using function-first screening for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and targets associated with superior Treg-depleting activity. …”
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NALCN expression is down-regulated and associated with immune infiltration in gastric cancer by Xuewei Li, Xuewei Li, Na Wu, Chen Wang, Beibei Pei, Xiaoyan Ma, Jun Xie, Jun Xie, Wenhui Yang

“…BackgroundNALCN has been identified as a tumor suppressor gene, and its role in human cancer progression has garnered significant attention. …”
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Preparation of future teachers for innovative activities in pedagogical and technological educational environment by N. I. Naumkin, N. N. Shekshaeva, V. F. Kupryashkin, E. V. Zabrodina

“…The research methodology is based on the following conceptual provisions: 1) innovative activity has arisen together with the formation of human society and has always determined its development; 2) one of the main tasks of each university is the innovative training of students; 3) the training of innovative activity is understood as the formation of students’ competence in innovative activity; 3) the training of innovative activity is most effectively carried out in conditions for the formation of an appropriate educational environment. …”
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