Impairments of Antigen-Presenting Cells in Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Ludmila V. Sakhno, Ekaterina Ya. Shevela, Marina A. Tikhonova, Sergey D. Nikonov, Alexandr A. Ostanin, Elena R. Chernykh

“…For example, the monocyte dysfunctions were displayed by low CD86 and HLA-DR expression, 2-fold increase in CD14+CD16+ expression, the high numbers of IL-10-producing cells, and enhanced IL-10 and IL-6 production upon LPS-stimulation. …”
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Rapidly In Situ Forming Platelet-Rich Plasma Gel Enhances Angiogenic Responses and Augments Early Wound Healing after Open Abdomen by Bo Zhou, Jianan Ren, Chao Ding, Yin Wu, Dong Hu, Guosheng Gu, Jieshou Li

“…Myofibroblast count, granulation tissue thickness, vessel numbers, and blood perfusion were increased in PRP group, followed by PPP group, with control being the least. …”
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Multiparametric Ultrasound (mpUS) of a Rare Testicular Capillary Hemangioma by Paul Spiesecke, Thomas Fischer, Carsten Stephan, Andreas Maxeiner, Bernd Hamm, Markus Lerchbaumer

“…While histology remains the gold standard to make a precise diagnosis of capillary hemangiomas due to small case numbers and variety of this benign tumor, the combination of multiparametric US and clinical information may be a promising future tool in preoperative assessment.…”
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Decrease in Circulating Dendritic Cell Precursors in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease by Daniel Kretzschmar, Ilonka Rohm, Sebastian Schäller, Stefan Betge, Rudin Pistulli, Yevgeniya Atiskova, Hans-R. Figulla, Atilla Yilmaz

“…Therefore, we hypothesize that, in patients with PAD, DCPs might be reduced in blood due to their recruitment into the vascular wall and induce a proinflammatory response. The numbers of myeloid DCPs, plasmacytoid DCPs, and total DCPs were analyzed by flow cytometry in blood of patients with PAD (n=52) compared to controls (n=60). …”
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TGFβ1-Induced Differentiation of Human Bone Marrow-Derived MSCs Is Mediated by Changes to the Actin Cytoskeleton by Mona Elsafadi, Muthurangan Manikandan, Sami Almalki, Mohammad Mobarak, Muhammad Atteya, Zafar Iqbal, Jamil Amjad Hashmi, Sameerah Shaheen, Nehad Alajez, Musaad Alfayez, Moustapha Kassem, Raed Abu Dawud, Amer Mahmood

“…In the present study, we demonstrate that a single dose of TGFβ1 prior to induction of osteogenic or adipogenic differentiation results in increased mineralized matrix or increased numbers of lipid-filled mature adipocytes, respectively. …”
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Global trends and age-specific incidence and mortality of cervical cancer from 1990 to 2019: an international comparative study based on the Global Burden of Disease by Juan Du, Han Xiao, Meng Yang, Hong Mei, Hui Lu, Feiyan Xiang

“…Average annual percentage changes (AAPCs) of age-standardised incidence and mortality rate (ASIR and ASMR) in cervical cancer, by age group and region, were calculated to quantify the temporal trends.Results Globally, the absolute numbers of incident cases and deaths were increasing, with the most cervical cancer cases and deaths being reported in China, India and Brazil. …”
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Establishment of a Model of Microencapsulated SGC7901 Human Gastric Carcinoma Cells Cocultured with Tumor-Associated Macrophages by Jin-Ming Zhu, Xiu-Lian Quan, Shi-Chao Han, Xue-Jun Fan, He-Ming Li, Shan-Shan Liang, Xi Chen, Ruo-Yu Wang, Xue-Ning Ji

“…MTT assays showed that the numbers of microencapsulated cells were the highest after culturing for 14 days. …”
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An Enigmatic Wild Passerine Mortality Event in the Eastern United States by Sabrina S. Greening, Julie C. Ellis, Nicole L. Lewis, David B. Needle, Cristina M. Tato, Susan Knowles, Valerie Shearn-Bochsler, Jaimie L. Miller, Daniel A Grear, Jeffrey M. Lorch, David S. Blehert, Caitlin Burrell, Lisa A. Murphy, Erica A. Miller, C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, Andrea J. Ayala, W. Kelley Thomas, Joseph L. Sevigny, Lawrence M. Gordon, Tessa Baillargeon, Lusajo Mwakibete, Megan Kirchgessner, Christine L. Casey, Ethan Barton, Michael J. Yabsley, Eman Anis, Roderick B. Gagne, Patrice Klein, Cindy Driscoll, Chelsea A. Sykes, Robert H. Poppenga, Nicole M. Nemeth

“…The event began in May 2021 when wildlife rehabilitators and private citizens reported large numbers of sick and dead juvenile birds, mostly presenting as single cases with neurologic signs and/or ocular and periocular lesions. …”
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PEPITEM, its tripeptide pharmacophores and their peptidomimetic analogues regulate the inflammatory response through parenteral and topical dosing in models of peritonitis and psor... by Anella Saviano, Bonita Apta, Samantha Tull, Laleh Pezhman, Areeba Fatima, Mustafa Sevim, Antonio Mete, Myriam Chimen, Anna Schettino, Noemi Marigliano, Helen M. McGettrick, Asif J. Iqbal, Francesco Maione, G. Ed Rainger

“…These peptidomimetics regulate T-cell trafficking in vitro and reduce T-cell, neutrophil and macrophage numbers in the inflamed peritoneal cavity in vivo. …”
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ChromaFold predicts the 3D contact map from single-cell chromatin accessibility by Vianne R. Gao, Rui Yang, Arnav Das, Renhe Luo, Hanzhi Luo, Dylan R. McNally, Ioannis Karagiannidis, Martin A. Rivas, Zhong-Min Wang, Darko Barisic, Alireza Karbalayghareh, Wilfred Wong, Yingqian A. Zhan, Christopher R. Chin, William S. Noble, Jeff A. Bilmes, Effie Apostolou, Michael G. Kharas, Wendy Béguelin, Aaron D. Viny, Danwei Huangfu, Alexander Y. Rudensky, Ari M. Melnick, Christina S. Leslie

“…However, achieving this resolution with current 3D genomics technologies is often infeasible given limited input cell numbers. We therefore present ChromaFold, a deep learning model that predicts 3D contact maps, including regulatory interactions, from single-cell ATAC sequencing (scATAC-seq) data alone. …”
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“But how true that is, I do not know”: the influence of written sources on the medicinal use of fungi across the western borderlands of the former Soviet Union by Julia Prakofjewa, Matteo Sartori, Raivo Kalle, Łukasz Łuczaj, Małgorzata Karbarz, Giulia Mattalia, Povilas Šarka, Baiba Prūse, Nataliya Stryamets, Martin Anegg, Natalia Kuznetsova, Valeria Kolosova, Olga Belichenko, Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Andrea Pieroni, Renata Sõukand

“…During fieldwork, we identified eight locally used fungi and one lichen. The highest numbers of medicinal uses were documented in Russia, Estonia and Ukraine. …”
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Efficient identification of genomic insertions and surrounding regions in two transgenic maize events using third-generation single-molecule nanopore sequencing technology by Qing Liu, Qi Wang, Lihua Ning, Ziqi Chen, Chuang Zhang, Yang Liu, Buxuan Qian, Jia Guo, Yuejia Yin

“…Abstract The increasing development of new genetically modified organisms underscores the critical need for comprehensive safety assessments, emphasizing the significance of molecular evidence such as gene integration, copy numbers, and adjacent sequences. In this study, the maize nitrate-efficient utilization gene ZmNRT1.1 A was introduced into maize variety y822 using transgenic technology, producing transgenic maize events ND4401 and ND4403 with enhanced tolerance to low nitrogen stress. …”
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Ziziphus jujube promotes fertility and pregnancy outcomes in Rat model of uterine adhesions by Fereshteh Asgharzadeh, Fereshteh Asgharzadeh, Mahsa Attarian, Majid Khazaei, Majid Khazaei, Abdulridha Mohammed Al-Asady, Abdulridha Mohammed Al-Asady, Abdulridha Mohammed Al-Asady, Saeide Mansoori, Hamideh Naimi, Moein Eskandari, Azar Khorrami, Seyedeh Elnaz Nazari, Akram Aminian, Marjaneh Farazastanian, Elaheh Eshtad, Amir Avan, Amir Avan, Mikhail Ryzhikov, Malihe Hasanzadeh, Seyed Mahdi Hassanian, Seyed Mahdi Hassanian

“…The assessment included analysis of gland numbers, uterine endometrial thickness, and regulation of inflammatory cytokines. …”
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Multimodal sequential cross-modal transformer for predicting plant available water capacity (PAWC) from time series of weather and crop biological data by Dung Nguyen, Peter de Voil, Andries Potgieter, Yash P. Dang, Thomas G. Orton, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Scott C. Chapman

“…In this paper, we propose a DL model for prediction of plant available water capacity (PAWC) of the soil from sequential multi-modal data including time series of biomass, leaf area index (LAI), normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), and cumulative weather variables. By initiating large numbers of simulations with different soil PAWC, weather and management parameters, we explore combinations of the simulation outputs and the weather to estimate the PAWC and to determine the factors that impede the accuracy of the prediction model. …”
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High throughput single cell metagenomic sequencing with semi-permeable capsules: unraveling microbial diversity at the single-cell level in sewage and fecal microbiomes by Meilee Ling, Judit Szarvas, Vaida Kurmauskaitė, Vaidotas Kiseliovas, Rapolas Žilionis, Rapolas Žilionis, Baptiste Avot, Baptiste Avot, Patrick Munk, Frank M. Aarestrup

“…We tested two different sequencing approaches with different numbers of SPCs from the same sample for each sequencing run. …”
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Integrating electronic health records and GWAS summary statistics to predict the progression of autoimmune diseases from preclinical stages by Chen Wang, Havell Markus, Avantika R. Diwadkar, Chachrit Khunsriraksakul, Laura Carrel, Bingshan Li, Xue Zhong, Xingyan Wang, Xiaowei Zhan, Galen T. Foulke, Nancy J. Olsen, Dajiang J. Liu, Bibo Jiang

“…Biobanks typically have small numbers of cases, which are not sufficient to construct accurate polygenic risk scores (PRS). …”
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Patient Perception of Ideal Body Weight and the Effect of Body Mass Index by Rozhin Naghshizadian, Amir A. Rahnemai-Azar, Kruthi Kella, Michael M. Weber, Marius L. Calin, Shahida Bibi, Daniel T. Farkas

“…Patients with higher measured BMI had higher target numbers for their ideal BMI. Better education of patients is critical for obesity prevention programs.…”
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Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Platelet-Rich Plasma on the Bone Healing of Ovariectomized Rats by Bo Wei, Chengshuo Huang, Mingyan Zhao, Peng Li, Xiang Gao, Junchao Kong, Yanru Niu, Rui Huang, Juanhua Quan, Jinsong Wei, Jiaqi Chu

“…In ovariectomized rats treated with PRP or with a combination of PRP and BMSCs, the trabecular connectivity densities (Conn.D), bone volume ratios (BV/TV), and numbers (Tb.N) in the defect areas increased significantly from day 7 to day 42. …”
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Determinants of adherence to the Mediterranean diet among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus living in Mediterranean countries: a systematic review by Janot J. Ayoub, Janot J. Ayoub, Suzan A. Haidar, Ellen E. Blaak, Nanne K. De Vries

“…We included 17 studies, with participant numbers ranging from 106 to 7,447.ResultsCompliance with the MD was moderate, with the most significant determinants of adherence being age, physical activity, body mass index (BMI), marital status, and educational level. …”
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CSO (Canadian Society of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery) position paper on return to Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Clinic Practice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cana... by Y. Chan, D. Angel, M. Aron, T. Hartl, S. P. Moubayed, K. A. Smith, D. D. Sommer, L. Sowerby, P. Spafford, D. Mertz, I. J. Witterick

“…All semi-urgent and elective medical care has come to a halt to conserve capacity to care for patients during this pandemic. As the numbers of COVID-19 cases decrease across Canada, our healthcare system also began to reopen various facilities and medical offices. …”
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