Correlation of the Dietary Protein Intake between Those Estimated from a Short Protein Food-Recall Questionnaire and from 24-Hour Urinary Urea-Nitrogen Excretion in Stages 3-4 Chro... by Teerawat Thanachayanont, Methee Chanpitakkul, Akhathai Saetie, Salyaveth Lekagul, Kriang Tungsanga

“…Herein, we reported the initial evaluation of the reliability of S-PFRQ from our previous study. …”
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Middle hepatic vein incorporation in live donor liver graft transplantation; implication and safety by Mahmoud Ali Abdi, Tayeb Sabir Kareem, Assad Abidon Hassoun

“…Background: In this study, we have used the middle hepatic vein with the right lobe, and we studied the venous outflow dynamics immediately after transplant retrospectively meanwhile we studied the impact of the graft function on donor functionality and overall donor safety.   …”
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The impact of a humanized bile acid composition on atherosclerosis development in hypercholesterolaemic Cyp2c70 knockout mice by Tess Yntema, Tim R. Eijgenraam, Niels J. Kloosterhuis, Rick Havinga, Mirjam H. Koster, Milaine V. Hovingh, Jan Freark de Boer, Debby P. Y. Koonen, Folkert Kuipers

“…We employed this model to assess the consequences of a human-like BA pool on atherosclerosis and heart function in hypercholesterolaemic mice. …”
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Long-term Clinical Outcomes After Syndesmosis Fixation With K-wires in Ankle Fractures With Syndesmotic Instability by Diogo Vieira Cardoso MD, Filippo Pierobon MD, Anne Lübbeke-Wolff DSc, Victor Dubois-Ferrière MD

“…In the subset of patients we were able to find in follow-up, we found low rates of syndesmosis fixation failure, low pain scores, and excellent functional outcomes. …”
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Endometrial Cancer Cells Promote M2-Like Macrophage Polarization by Delivering Exosomal miRNA-21 under Hypoxia Condition by Li Xiao, Yumin He, Fan Peng, Jianlin Yang, Chengfu Yuan

“…To further study the effect of miRNA-21-containing exosomes, we transfected miRNA-21 mimics or inhibitor into THP-1 cells. …”
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Detectability of Emission from Exoplanet Outflows Calculated by pyTPCI, a New 1D Radiation-hydrodynamic Code by Riley Rosener, Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean

“…We show that the most detectable spectral lines tend to be the 589 nm Na i doublet and the 1083 nm metastable helium triplet. …”
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Saponins Effect on Human Insulin Amyloid Aggregation by Eleonora Mari, Silvia Vilasi, Paolo Moretti, Maria Rosalia Mangione, Giorgia Giorgini, Roberta Galeazzi, Maria Grazia Ortore

“…To study the overall structural features and size of aggregates, we perform Synchrotron Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Dynamic Light Scattering experiments. …”
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A novel multi-scale and fine-grained network for large choroidal vessels segmentation in OCT by Wei Huang, Qifeng Yan, Lei Mou, Yitian Zhao, Wei Chen, Wei Chen, Wei Chen

“…We quantitatively evaluated the MFGNet on 800 OCT images with large choroidal vessels manually annotated. …”
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Spaced Seed Data Structures for De Novo Assembly by Inanç Birol, Justin Chu, Hamid Mohamadi, Shaun D. Jackman, Karthika Raghavan, Benjamin P. Vandervalk, Anthony Raymond, René L. Warren

“…Building on this concept, we describe a data structure for tracking the frequencies of observed spaced seeds. …”
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More Efficient and Reliable: Identifying RRab Stars with Blazhko Effect by Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Nan Jiang, Tianrui Sun, Siyuan Pan, Lingzhi Wang, Xue Li, Bin Sheng, Xiaofeng Wang

“…Using reliably classified RRabs from frequency analysis to train, validate, and test our model, we show that our CNN method reaches accuracies up to 94%. …”
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Kidney damage on fertility and pregnancy: A Mendelian randomization. by Jin Ren, Qiuyan Huang, Xiaowei Lie, Xingli Tong, Qi Yao, Ge Zhou

“…Next, we introduced the Bayesian model averaging MR analysis to detect major causal relationships and render the results robust. …”
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Effects of orally exposed SiO2 nanoparticles on lipid profiles in gut-liver axis of mice by Kuanhang Li, Zhengzheng Zhou, Yi Cao

“…After 5 days exposure (once a day), we observed that SiO2 NPs induced minimal pathological changes but increased most of the trace elements. …”
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Narratives of change: how climate change narratives have evolved since the 1970s by Zarina Kulaeva

“…Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we map the emerging climate narratives from the 1970s. …”
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Analysis of Non-linear Relationship of PM2.5 Mass Concentration with Aerosol Extinction Coefficient and RH in Hefei, China by Yinan Chen, Shiguo Zhang, Yonghua Wu, Kee Yuan, Jian Huang, Dongfeng Shi, Shunxing Hu

“…Based on Mie scattering theory, we derived a non-linear analytical expression among the PM2.5 mass concentration, aerosol extinction coefficient, and hygroscopic factor. …”
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Long noncoding RNAs predict the survival of patients with colorectal cancer as revealed by constructing an endogenous RNA network using bioinformation analysis by Hui Zhang, Zhuo Wang, Jianzhong Wu, Rong Ma, Jifeng Feng

“…Additionally, combing the risk score and other clinicopathological features, we can better predict the patient's survival probabilities. …”
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Development and validation of a high-throughput qPCR platform for the detection of soil-transmitted helminth infections. by Nils Pilotte, Victor Omballa, Monica Voss, Leah Padgett, Malathi Manuel, Jeanne L Goodman, Tim Littlewood, Zayina Zondervenni Manoharan, Lisette van Lieshout, Jaco J Verweij, Manigandan Sekar, Ajith Kumar Muthukumar, Gretchen Walch, Abriana Warren, Mariyam Sheikh, Andrew Gonzalez, Sean R Galagan, Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur, Moudachirou Ibikounlé, Steven A Williams, Doug Rains, Ushashi Dadwal, Judd L Walson

“…<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>Resulting from the rigorous developmental approach taken, the platform we describe here provides the needed confidence in testing outcomes when utilized in conjunction with large-scale efforts such as the DeWorm3 trial. …”
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Mechanisms of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation in treating mental disorders by Hanyang Ruan, Geya Tong, Minghui Jin, Kathrin Koch, Zhen Wang

“…We address the anatomical properties of NAc and discuss, in particular, the frequently reported differential effects of NAc shell and NAc core DBS. …”
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) gB dictates a low-pH endocytotic entry pathway as revealed by a dual-fluorescent virus system and a rhesus monkey rhadinovirus expres... by Shanchuan Liu, Sarah Schlagowski, Anna K Großkopf, Natalia Khizanishvili, Xiaoliang Yang, Scott W Wong, Elina M Guzmán, Marija Backovic, Stefano Scribano, Arne Cordsmeier, Armin Ensser, Alexander S Hahn

“…We demonstrated lytic reactivation and infectivity of dual-fluorescent KSHV. …”
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The Response of Tissue Mast Cells to TLR3 Ligand Poly(I:C) Treatment by Piotr Witczak, Ewa Brzezińska-Błaszczyk, Justyna Agier

“…We found that exposure of rPMCs to viral dsRNA mimic, i.e., poly(I:C), induced transient upregulation of surface TLR3 (while temporarily decreased TLR3 intracellular expression), type II IFN receptor, and MHC I. …”
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On the Heating of the Slow Solar Wind by Imbalanced Alfvén-wave Turbulence from 0.06 to 1 au: Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Observations by Sofiane Bourouaine, Jean C. Perez, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Vamsee K. Jagarlamudi, Nour E. Raouafi, Jasper S. Halekas

“…In this work we analyze plasma and magnetic field data provided by the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter missions to investigate the radial evolution of the heating of Alfvénic slow wind by imbalanced Alfvén-wave (AW) turbulent fluctuations from 0.06 to 1 au. in our analysis we focus on slow solar-wind intervals with highly imbalanced and incompressible turbulence (i.e., magnetic compressibility C _B = δ B / B ≤ 0.25, plasma compressibility C _n = δ n / n ≤ 0.25, and normalized cross helicity σ _c ≥ 0.65). …”
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