PMA1-containing extracellular vesicles of Candida albicans triggers immune responses and colitis progression by Zhen Xu, Shuping Qiao, Zelin Wang, Chen Peng, Yayi Hou, Baorui Liu, Guochun Cao, Tingting Wang

“…A Crispr-Cas9-based fungal strain editing system was then used to knock out PMA1 expression in C. albicans. Compared to WT-C.a, ΔPMA1-C.a could not aggravate colitis. …”
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Mixed vitamin C and zinc diet supplements co-administered with artemether drug improved haematological profile and survival of mice infected with Plasmodium berghei by Felicia N. Ekeh, Nkiru E. Ekechukwu, Chimdinma F. Chukwuma, Ifeanyi Oscar N. Aguzie, Chinenye M. Ohanu, Chike Ebido, Stanley N. Oluah

“…A three-week trial was carried out to assess haematological changes and mortality of mice after 3-day artemether treatment co-administered with vitamin C - zinc supplements. …”
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Optimization and validation of a real-time PCR method for the simultaneous detection of Lactococcus garvieae and Streptococcus agalactiae in fish by Taona Zinyakasa, Farisai Chidzwondo, Tatenda Makawa, Sitokozile Sibanda, Exnevia Gomo, Tivapasi Musa, Elizabeth Gori

“…Methods: Pairs of Streptococcus-specific (IGS-s/IGS-a) and Lactococcus-specific (CAU12F/CAU15R) primers were tested for specificity and sensitivity in the qPCR. qPCR was carried out at different temperatures and primer concentrations. …”
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Micro-Expression Recognition Using Convolutional Variational Attention Transformer (ConVAT) With Multihead Attention Mechanism by Hafiz Khizer Bin Talib, Kaiwei Xu, Yanlong Cao, Yuan Ping Xu, Zhijie Xu, Muhammad Zaman, Adnan Akhunzada

“…Our methodology employs the Leave-One-Subject-Out (LOSO) cross-validation technique across three widely used datasets: SAMM, CASME II, and SMIC. …”
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Silver nanoparticle induced immunogenic cell death can improve immunotherapy by Ara Sargsian, Xanthippi Koutsoumpou, Hermon Girmatsion, Can Egil, Kiana Buttiens, Carla Rios Luci, Stefaan J. Soenen, Bella B. Manshian

“…One particular hot topic is the use of combination therapies. Here, we set out to screen a variety of metallic nanoparticles and explored their in vitro toxicity against a series of tumor and non-tumor cell lines. …”
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Initial Development and Validation of a Transition Readiness Scale for Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Oded Hammerman, Areej Bayatra, Dan Turner, Arie Levine, Raanan Shamir, Amit Assa, Michael Wilschanski, Yaacov G. Bachner, Eran Israeli

“…Validation of a novel TR measurement for adolescents with IBD demonstrated a good correlation between patients and parents. Out of the three proposed constructs, perceived self-efficacy is the most salient measure.…”
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Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Minas Gerais, Brazil: Trophic Interactions and New Reports by Rosamara Souza Coelho, Clarice Alvarenga, Marvin Pec, Ana Luisa Rodrigues-Silva, Pedro Maranha Peche, Emanoel Alves, Rosangela Marucci

“…We evaluated the composition of the fruit fly complex to provide information on tephritid species, parasitoids and multitrophic interactions for the southern region of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sampling was carried out using traps and by collecting fruits from plants and/or the ground according to availability/the fruiting period. …”
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Optimization of a large-area grid electrode for negative ion source in fusion neutral beam injector by Jinhong Wang, Yan Wang, Yuwen Yang, Yuming Gu, Yahong Xie, Lizhen Liang, Jianglong Wei

“…In order to solve the problem of heat removal function in large-area extraction grid, the multi-physics simulation, manufacturing and testing are carried out. Two simulation conditions before Cs seeding (Je∼350 A/m2, JH-∼50 A/m2) and after sufficient Cs conditioning (Je∼150 A/m2, JH-∼250 A/m2) were considered to evaluate the power load on EG, which peak power density were 11 and 6 MW/m2 respectively and were concentrated on locate near the two aperture rows. …”
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Whole genome sequencing in early onset advanced heart failure by Erik Linnér, Tomasz Czuba, Olof Gidlöf, Jakob Lundgren, Entela Bollano, Maria Hellberg, Selvi Celik, Neha Pimpalwar, Philipp Rentzsch, Molly Martorella, Anders Gummesson, Olle Melander, Sebastian Albinsson, Göran Dellgren, Jan Borén, Anders Jeppsson, R. Thomas Lumbers, Sonia Shah, Johan Nilsson, Pradeep Natarajan, Tuuli Lappalainen, Malin Levin, Hans Ehrencrona, J. Gustav Smith

“…In conclusion, we observed a high prevalence of pathogenic cardiomyopathy gene variants in individuals with early-onset advanced HF, which could not accurately be ruled out by family history and age. In contrast, we did not observe higher polygenic risk scores in early onset advanced HF cases than in the general population.…”
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Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity and Magnetic Properties of CoFe₂O₄/TiO₂-Ag/S for Visible Light-Driven Photodegradation of Methylene Blue by Eko Sri Kunarti, Dewi Agustiningsih, Fajar Inggit Pambudi, Akhmad Syoufian, Sri Juari Santosa

“…The synthesis was carried out by using cobalt nitrate hexahydrate and ferric nitrate nonahydrate for CoFe2O4 precursor, titanium tetraisopropoxide for TiO2 precursor, and silver nitrate with thiourea for Ag and S dopants. …”
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Modeling the Combined Effects of Temperature, pH, and Sodium Chloride and Sodium Lactate Concentrations on the Growth Rate of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 8014 by Francieli Dalcanton, Elena Carrasco, Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez, Guiomar Denisse Posada-Izquierdo, Gláucia Maria Falcão de Aragão, Rosa María García-Gimeno

“…A mathematical validation was carried out with additional conditions, demonstrating an excellent performance of the model. …”
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Unusual Etiology of Chronic Posterior Leg Pain in a Running Athlete: Could It Be a Schwannoma? A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Naoufal Elghoul, Omar Zaddoug, Mohammed Tbouda, Mohammed Benchakroun, Abdeloihab Jaafar

“…The patient underwent surgery in which the entire tumor mass was shelled out in one piece with no damage. The histopathological finding was concomitant with a plexiform schwannoma. …”
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Oral Administration of Lactobacillus plantarum 299v Reduces Cortisol Levels in Human Saliva during Examination Induced Stress: A Randomized, Double-Blind Controlled Trial by Hannah Andersson, Cecilia Tullberg, Siv Ahrné, Kristina Hamberg, Irini Lazou Ahrén, Göran Molin, Mikael Sonesson, Åsa Håkansson

“…Saliva was collected and a perceived stress test was filled out at each sampling occasion. Saliva was collected for cortisol analysis by Electrochemiluminescence Immunoassay (ECLI) and salivary IgA was analysed by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). …”
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Assessment of Myocardial Bridge and Mural Coronary Artery Using ECG-Gated 256-Slice CT Angiography: A Retrospective Study by En-sen Ma, Guo-lin Ma, Hong-wei Yu, Wang Wu, Kefeng Li

“…Our results showed that among the 2462 patients examined, 336 have one or multiple MB-MCA (13.6%). Out of 389 MB-MCA segments, 235 sites were located in LAD2 (60.41%). …”
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Experimental and Numerical Study of Mechanical Properties of Concrete Containing Biochar by S.O Odeyemi, M.O Adisa, M.A Olawale, A.O Abdulsalam, J.A Oloba, H.A Ibrahim, B.O Sanusi, J.O Eda, F.O Obisiji

“…Finite element analysis was also carried out using the ABAQUS program, utilizing concrete properties discovered through experimental study. …”
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Comparative efficacy of Doppler-guided hemorrhoidal artery ligation with mucopexy and hemorrhoidectomy by A. Yu. Titov, Maryana V. Abritsova, L. P. Orlova, O. Yu. Fomenko, Yu. L. Trubacheva, D. A. Mtvralashvili

“…In both groups control instrumental assessment was carried out in 45 days after surgery. At anorectal manometry decrease of mean resting anal canal pressure after dearterialization with mucopexy was detected, and became comparative to post-hemorrhoidectomy level. …”
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Synthesis, Mechanical, and Tribological Performance Analysis of Stir-Casted AA7079: ZrO2 + Si3N4 Hybrid Composites by Taguchi Route by G. Jegan, P. Kavipriya, T. Sathish, S. Dinesh Kumar, T. Samraj Lawrence, T. Vino

“…Wear parameters are optimized, the minimum wear rate is evaluated, and also the wear worn-out surfaces are examined through SEM analysis.…”
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Dysplasia of stomach epithelium at chronic <i>H. pylori</i>-associated gastritis: is everything quite so simple? by T. L. Lapina, A. S. Tertychny, S. S. Pirogov, V. V. Sokolov, I. M. Kartavenko, E. R. Nasretdinova, A. A. Paraskevova, O. A. Storonova, O. S. Lyashenko, Ye. Yu. Yur'yeva, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…At low grade (mild) dysplasia complex endoscopic investigation is recommended to identify local premalignant lesions of the stomach mucosa, and at ruling them out — to determine adequate therapy. So, in presented clinical case H. pylori eradication therapy in 45-year old patient has led to disappearance of changes suspicious to epithelial dysplasia. …”
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Epidemiological and molecular characterization of investigation of Mycoplasma gallisepticum of goose origin in Guangdong (China) by Nan Zhang, Yixin Jia, Weihuo Li, Yangshuo Li, Jingyi Liang, Zhaofeng Yao, Sheng Yuan, Hong Yang, Huanzhong Ding, Yuanyuan Zhou

“…In addition, our research included a comparative genomes analysis of of MG strains from both geese and chickens, and we developed a mgc2 gene typing method. Out of 758 samples, 102 MG strains were isolated. …”
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Detection of t(14;16)(q32;q22) and Monosomy 13 by FISH Analysis in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma Associated with Sjögren’s Syndrome: The First Case Report from India by Rupesh R. Sanap, Arundhati S. Athalye, Prochi F. Madon, Boman N. Dhabhar, Mahendra B. Sute, Amit A. Mahabale, Dhanashree J. Warang, Firuza R. Parikh

“…Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was carried out to check for deletions of loci 13q14.3, ATM, p53, and IGH (14q32) rearrangements on a bone marrow aspirate. …”
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