Refining α-synuclein seed amplification assays to distinguish Parkinson’s disease from multiple system atrophy by James A. Wiseman, Clinton P. Turner, Richard L. M. Faull, Glenda M. Halliday, Birger Victor Dieriks

“…MSA cases yielded significantly higher values than PD cases across all four kinetic parameters in brain tissues, with the MSA-cerebellar phenotype having higher maximum relative fluorescence than the MSA-Parkinsonian phenotype. …”
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Fibrocyte enrichment and myofibroblastic adaptation causes nucleus pulposus fibrosis and associates with disc degeneration severity by Yi Sun, Yan Peng, Zezhuo Su, Kyle, K. H. So, Qiuji Lu, Maojiang Lyu, Jianwei Zuo, Yongcan Huang, Zhiping Guan, Kenneth M. C. Cheung, Zhaomin Zheng, Xintao Zhang, Victor Y. L. Leung

“…We found that disc degeneration severity is associated with an enrichment of fibrocyte phenotype, characterized by CD45 and collagen I dual positivity, and expression of myofibroblast marker α-smooth muscle actin. …”
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Virological and Immunological Aspects of AIDS Pathogenesis by Brian Conway, Francisco J Diaz-Mitoma

“…It is likely that viral load. resistance. viral phenotype and alterations in immune function interact in this regard. …”
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Antimicrobial Properties of Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Therapeutic Potential for Cystic Fibrosis Infection, and Treatment by Morgan T. Sutton, David Fletcher, Santosh K. Ghosh, Aaron Weinberg, Rolf van Heeckeren, Sukhmani Kaur, Zhina Sadeghi, Adonis Hijaz, Jane Reese, Hillard M. Lazarus, Donald P. Lennon, Arnold I. Caplan, Tracey L. Bonfield

“…Lastly, our studies demonstrate that the tissue origin of the hMSCs (bone marrow or adipose tissue derived), the presence of functional cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR: human, Cftr: mouse) activity, and response to effector cytokines can impact both hMSC phenotype and antimicrobial potency and efficacy. These studies demonstrate, the unique capacity of the hMSCs to manage different pathogens and the significance of their phenotype in both the antimicrobial and antibiotic enhancing activities.…”
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Promising markers of CIMP+ colon tumors identified on the basis of TCGA data analysis by G. S. Krasnov, A. D. Beniaminov, R. A. Tychko, G. A. Puzanov, R. O. Novakovskiy, A. V. Kudryavtseva, A. A. Dmitriev

“…CIMP+ (CpG­Island Methylator Phenotype) tumors are characterized by dense methylation of promoter CpG islands of many genes at once and represent a separate group of malignant neoplasms of the colon. …”
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Pre-gestational diabetes in a young woman with a pathogenic INSR missense mutation, p.(Met1180Lys) by Emma L Prehn, Mairéad Crowley, David Fennell, Brendan T Kinsley, Kevin Colclough, Maria M Byrne

“…The phenotype is variable, ranging from neonatal hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia to fasting or post-prandial hypoglycaemia in adults to diabetes. …”
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GADD45β Determines Chemoresistance and Invasive Growth of Side Population Cells of Human Embryonic Carcinoma by Toshihiko Inowa, Keiichi Hishikawa, Yumi Matsuzaki, Takayuki Isagawa, Takumi Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Tadaichi Kitamura, Toshiro Fujita

“…The inhibition of ABCG2, which determines the SP phenotype, had no effect on the invasiveness of NEC8 SP cells, but the inhibition of GADD45b significantly reduced invasiveness. …”
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Clonal Heterogeneity in the Neuronal and Glial Differentiation of Dental Pulp Stem/Progenitor Cells by Fraser I. Young, Vsevolod Telezhkin, Sarah J. Youde, Martin S. Langley, Maria Stack, Paul J. Kemp, Rachel J. Waddington, Alastair J. Sloan, Bing Song

“…Neuronally differentiated DPSCs possessed a membrane capacitance comparable with primary cultured striatal neurons and small inward voltage-activated K+ but not outward Na+ currents were recorded suggesting a functionally immature phenotype. Similarly, only high nestin-expressing clones demonstrated the ability to adopt Olig1, Olig2, and MBP-positive immature oligodendrocyte-like phenotype. …”
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Pregnancy in Sickle Cell Disease Is a Very High-Risk Situation: An Observational Study by Narcisse Elenga, Aurélie Adeline, John Balcaen, Tania Vaz, Mélanie Calvez, Anne Terraz, Laetitia Accrombessi, Gabriel Carles

“…There were 61 monofetal pregnancies and 2 twin pregnancies, 27 pregnancies among women with SS phenotype, 30 SC pregnancies, and five S-beta pregnancies. …”
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Multi-active phlorotannins boost antimicrobial peptide LL-37 to promote periodontal tissue regeneration in diabetic periodontitis by Cancan Li, Luowen Du, Yingying Xiao, Lei Fan, Quanli Li, Chris Ying Cao

“…Furthermore, PL/LL-37 effectively modulated macrophage polarization from a M1 phenotype to an M2 phenotype through NF-κB P-p65 inflammatory pathway, thereby reducing the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and promoting the secretion of anti-inflammatory cytokines. …”
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Epigenetically Mediated Pathogenic Effects of Phenanthrene on Regulatory T Cells by Jing Liu, Luhua Zhang, Lisa C. Winterroth, Marco Garcia, Shannon Weiman, Jillian W. Wong, John B. Sunwoo, Kari C. Nadeau

“…To determine specific effects on T cell populations by phenanthrene, primary human Treg were treated with Phe, TCDD, or FICZ and assessed for function, gene expression, and phenotype. Methylation of CpG sites within the FOXP3 locus reduced FOXP3 expression, leading to impaired Treg function and conversion of Treg into a CD4+CD25lo Th2 phenotype in Phe-treated cells. …”
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The Imbalance of B-Lymphocyte Subsets in Subjects with Different Glucose Tolerance: Relationship with Metabolic Parameter and Disease Status by Chao Deng, Yufei Xiang, Tingting Tan, Zhihui Ren, Chuqing Cao, Bingwen Liu, Gan Huang, Xiangbing Wang, Zhiguang Zhou

“…In summary, this study shows an unbalanced proinflammatory phenotype of B-cell subsets correlated with glycemia and lipidemia in patients with T2D. …”
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Dynamic changes in peripheral blood lymphocyte trajectory predict the clinical outcomes of sepsis by Dongkai Li, Jiahui Zhang, Wei Cheng, Guoyu Zhao, Xianli Lei, Yawen Xie, Na Cui, Hao Wang

“…The α phenotype exhibited the highest disease severity and mortality (25.9%) compared with other phenotypes in both cohorts. …”
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Regulatory T Cells Accumulate in the Lung Allergic Inflammation and Efficiently Suppress T-Cell Proliferation but Not Th2 Cytokine Production by Lucas Faustino, Daniel Mucida, Alexandre Castro Keller, Jocelyne Demengeot, Karina Bortoluci, Luiz Roberto Sardinha, Maisa Carla Takenaka, Alexandre Salgado Basso, Ana Maria Caetano Faria, Momtchilo Russo

“…In this study, we characterized the phenotype and monitored the migration and activity of regulatory T cells present in the airways of allergic or tolerant mice after allergen challenge. …”
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Powdery mildew resistance of barley accessions from Dagestan by R. A. Abdullaev, T. V. Lebedeva, N. V. Alpatieva, B. A. Batasheva, I. N. Anisimova, E. E. Radchenko

“…Accession VIR-17554 is heterogeneous for the studied trait, with the powdery mildew resistant genotypes belonging to two varieties, dupliatrum (an awnless phenotype) and nigrinudum (an awned phenotype). In accession VIR-23787, a recessive resistance gene distinct from the mlo11 allele was identified. …”
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Airway β-Defensin-1 Protein Is Elevated in COPD and Severe Asthma by Katherine J. Baines, Thomas K. Wright, Jodie L. Simpson, Vanessa M. McDonald, Lisa G. Wood, Kristy S. Parsons, Peter A. Wark, Peter G. Gibson

“…Elevated β-defensin-1 protein is a feature of COPD and severe asthma regardless of inflammatory phenotype. β-defensin-1 production is dysregulated in the epithelium of patients with COPD and may be an effective biomarker and potential therapeutic target.…”
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Flt3 Regulation in the Mononuclear Phagocyte System Promotes Ocular Neovascularization by Yushuo Gao, Yisheng Zhong, Yanji Zhu, Anna M. Demetriades, Yujuan Cai, Jikui Shen, Qing Lu, Xi Shen, Bing Xie

“…Flow cytometry analysis demonstrated that Flt3 deficiency shifted Mphi polarization towards an M2 phenotype during RNV with significant reduction in M1 cytokine expression when compared to the wild-type controls (P<0.05). …”
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Antibody-induced erythrophagocyte reprogramming of Kupffer cells prevents anti-CD40 cancer immunotherapy-associated liver toxicity by Florence Vallelian, Marc Pfefferlé, Irina L Dubach, Raphael M Buzzi, Elena Dürst, Nadja Schulthess-Lutz, Livio Baselgia, Kerstin Hansen, Larissa Imhof, Sandra Koernig, Didier Le Roy, Thierry Roger, Rok Humar, Dominik J Schaer

“…Repeated low-dose administration of a recombinant murine Ter119 antibody directed RBCs for selective phagocytosis in the liver and skewed the phenotype of liver macrophages into a Hmoxhigh/Marcohigh/MHCIIlow anti-inflammatory phenotype. …”
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Calcium Activation of the Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cells by Zeina W. Sharawi, Sawsan M. Khatrawi, Qiaochu Wang, Hongzhao Zhou, Kedra Cyrus, Gai Yan, Becky Hoxter, Bassem R. Haddad, Mary Beth Martin

“…Taken together, the results suggest a novel role of calcium in the castration-resistant phenotype.…”
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Identification of a novel immunogenic cell death-related classifier to predict prognosis and optimize precision treatment in hepatocellular carcinoma by Dongjing Zhang, Bingyun Lu, Qianqian Ma, Wen Xu, Qi Zhang, Zhiqi Xiao, Yuanheng Li, Ren Chen, An-jiang Wang

“…High ICD score indicated an immune-excluded TME phenotype, with lower anticancer immunity and shorter survival time. …”
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