Increased Depth of Cellular Imaging in the Intact Lung Using Far-Red and Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probes by Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi, Mita Patel, Abu Haroon, Darla Reed, B. Ohlsson-Wilhelm, K. Muirhead, Brian D. Gray

“…Transpelural imaging of tumor cells labeled with long-wavelength probes and expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP; excitation/emission 488/507 nm) was done in the intact rat lung after perfusate administration or intravenous injection. …”
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Zika virus modulates human fibroblasts to enhance transmission success in a controlled lab-setting by Raimondas Mozūraitis, Karsten Cirksena, Mohammad Raftari, Melika Hajkazemian, Musa Mustapha Abiodun, Juela Brahimi, Sandra Radžiutė, Violeta Apšegaitė, Rasa Bernotienė, Lech Ignatowicz, Tessy Hick, Andreas Kirschning, Annasara Lenman, Gisa Gerold, S. Noushin Emami

“…Human skin fibroblasts produce a variety of metabolites, and we show that ZIKV immediately alters gene/protein expression patterns in infected-dermal fibroblasts, altering their metabolism to increase the release of mosquito-attractive volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which improves its transmission success. …”
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Research Note: Additivity of P digestibility values previously determined using 4 dietary Ca levels for plant-based feedstuffs in broiler grower diets by B.W. Parsons, S.J. Rochell

“…The SID of P in corn, soybean meal, canola meal, corn fermented protein (CFP), and wheat middlings were previously determined in diets that contained 0.21 % P and 0.30, 0.45, 0.60, and 0.75 % Ca, and SID of P in monocalcium phosphate was determined in a diet that contained 0.65 % Ca. …”
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Pathomorphology of severe Grade 3-4 hepatic encephalopathy in decompensated cirrhosis patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure by T.V. Shulyatnikova, V.O. Tumanskiy, L.M. Tumanska

“…The study revealed that during HE Grade 3-4 as a component of ACLF, in all studied brain regions, there was a reliably (p<0.05) higher histochemical level of tissue ammonia (up to 500%), increased numbers (up to 215.69%) of apoptotic neurons (according to caspase-3), reduced (up to 119.60%) level of synaptophysin, increased expression of glutamine synthetase (up to 253.02%) and aquaporin-4 (up to 481.81%) associated by reduced (up to 296.81%) expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein in astrocytes, increased (up to 11-fold) numbers of Alzheimer type 2-astrocytes, expansion of perivascular and pericellular «edematous» spaces (up to 890.81%), increased numbers of amyloid bodies (up to 5-fold), increased area of immunopositive material of CD68+ microgliocytes (up to 114.78%) with an increase (up to 71.91%) in the proportion of CD68+ amoeboid microglia. …”
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Small Extracellular Vesicles from Inflamed Adipose Derived Stromal Cells Enhance the NF-κB-Dependent Inflammatory/Catabolic Environment of Osteoarthritis by Carola Cavallo, Giulia Merli, Nicoletta Zini, Stefania D’Adamo, Luca Cattini, Michele Guescini, Brunella Grigolo, Alessandro Di Martino, Spartaco Santi, Rosa Maria Borzì, Giuseppe Filardo

“…To mimic this condition, we exposed ADSC to IL-1β, and then we investigated the effects of the isolated sEVs on chondrocytes and synoviocytes, either cultured separately or in co-culture, to tease out the effects of these “IL-1β primed sEVs” on gene and protein expression of major inflammatory and catabolic OA markers. …”
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Noggin Combined With Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells to Promote Skeletal Muscle Regeneration by Meng-Han Zhang, Li-Ming Yu, Wei-Hua Zhang, Jia-Jia Deng, Bing-Jing Sun, Mei-Hua Chen, Wei Huang, Jiao Li, Hua He, Xin-Xin Han, Yue-Hua Liu

“…In this study, we treated human DPSCs with Noggin, a secreted antagonist of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), and discovered that Noggin can effectively promote myotube formation. …”
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The Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Formononetin, an Active Constituent of <i>Pueraria montana</i> Var. <i>Lobata</i>, via Modulation of Macrophage Autophagy and Polarization by Linyi Xu, Shuo Zhou, Jing Li, Wenbo Yu, Wenyi Gao, Haoming Luo, Xiaoxue Fang

“…In vitro validation experiments showed that formononetin could enhance the expression of LCII/LCI and reduce the expression of P62 protein, reduce the expression of CD86, and enhance the expression of CD206, which further indicated that formononetin could reduce inflammation by regulating macrophage autophagy and polarization processes.…”
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Neu5Ac Induces Human Dental Pulp Stem Cell Osteo-/Odontoblastic Differentiation by Enhancing MAPK/ERK Pathway Activation by Changzhou Li, Xinghuan Xie, Zhongjun Liu, Jianhua Yang, Daming Zuo, Shuaimei Xu

“…Herein, we sought to explore the ability of Neu5Ac (one form of sialic acid) to influence DPSC osteo-/odontoblastic differentiation via modulating mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling. Methodology. DPSCs were isolated from human third permanent teeth and were grown in vitro. …”
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MiR-363-3p induces tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer cells through PTEN modulation by Yaning Liang, Cuiyu Shi, Yu Wang, Bingjie Fan, Wei Song, Rong Shen

“…Moreover, analysis using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway showed significant enrichment of target genes within the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (AKT) signaling pathway. Ultimately, miR-363-3p decreased the responsiveness of breast cancer cells to TAM by targeting and suppressing PTEN through a mechanism associated with the PI3K-Akt pathway. …”
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Satellite microglia: marker of traumatic brain injury and regulator of neuronal excitability by Alicia B. Feichtenbiner, Karinn Sytsma, Ryan P. O’Boyle, Rhonda Mittenzwei, Heather Maioli, Kathryn P. Scherpelz, Daniel D. Child, Ning Li, Jeanelle Ariza Torres, Lisa Keene, Amanda Kirkland, Kimberly Howard, Caitlin Latimer, C. Dirk Keene, Christopher Ransom, Amber L. Nolan

“…Given the proposed mechanisms of toxic protein production and neuroinflammation as possible initiators or contributors to progressive pathology, we examined phosphorylated tau accumulation, microgliosis and astrogliosis using immunostaining in the orbitofrontal cortex, a region often vulnerable across traumatic brain injury exposures, in an age and sex-matched cohort of community traumatic brain injury including both mild and severe cases in midlife. …”
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Development and validation of a nomogram to predict recurrence in epithelial ovarian cancer using complete blood count and lipid profiles by Xi Tang, Jingke He, Qin Huang, Yi Chen, Ke Chen, Jing Liu, Yingyu Tian, Hui Wang

“…Grade, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio, red blood cell distribution width-coefficient of variation, triglycerides, and human epididymal protein 4 were identified as independent prognostic factors. …”
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Regulation of Chemokine Production via Oxidative Pathway in HeLa Cells by Shinichiro Kina, Toshiyuki Nakasone, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Akira Matayoshi, Shoko Makishi, Nao Sunagawa, Feixin Liang, Thongsavanh Phonaphonh, Hajime Sunakawa

“…Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays showed that IL-8 protein secretion was elevated in ROS-treated HeLa cells. …”
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Perch Hydrolysates from Upcycling of Perch Side Streams Accelerate Wound Healing by Enhancing Fibroblasts to Secrete Procollagen I, Fibronectin, and Hyaluronan by Jia-Feng Chang, Chih-Yu Hsieh, Ling-Ni Chen, Mao-Hsiang Lee, Yi-Han Ting, Chi-Yu Yang, Chih-Cheng Lin

“…Short-chain peptides from fish protein hydrolysates possess wound healing properties that may represent a solution. …”
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Functional conservation and divergence of arabidopsis VENOSA4 and human SAMHD1 in DNA repair by Raquel Sarmiento-Mañús, Sara Fontcuberta-Cervera, Kensuke Kawade, Akira Oikawa, Hirokazu Tsukaya, Víctor Quesada, José Luis Micol, María Rosa Ponce

“…The human deoxyribonucleoside triphosphatase (dNTPase) Sterile alpha motif and histidine-aspartate domain containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) has a dNTPase-independent role in repairing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by homologous recombination (HR). …”
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Polydatin-Induced Shift of Redox Balance and Its Anti-Cancer Impact on Human Osteosarcoma Cells by Alessio Cimmino, Magda Gioia, Maria Elisabetta Clementi, Isabella Faraoni, Stefano Marini, Chiara Ciaccio

“…Analysis of the oxidative stress regulators SIRT1 and Nrf2 at the gene and protein levels using real-time PCR and Western blot indicates an early oxidative response to PD treatment. …”
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New Resinogalea species from Araucaria araucana resin in Chile and reclassification of the genus in the Cryptocaliciomycetidae by Felipe Balocchi, Irene Barnes, Michael J. Wingfield, Rodrigo Ahumada, Cobus M. Visagie

“…Further analyses applying the Genealogical Concordance Phylogenetic Species Recognition (GCPSR) based on ITS, mini chromosome maintenance protein complex (MCM7), RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (RPB2) and translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF) gene regions, confirmed that strains represent two new species. …”
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Soluble fibres modulate dough rheology and gluten structure via hydrogen bond density and Flory-Huggins water interaction parameter by Stefano Renzetti, Lisa Lambertini, Helene C.M. Mocking-Bode, Ruud G.M. van der Sman

“…Image analysis of the gluten network revealed that fibre structure and physico-chemical properties influenced the gluten network by altering branching rate, lacunarity, and protein strand width. Comparing inulins and polydextrose of similar molecular weights (Mw) indicated that interactions with gluten were influenced more by NOH,s than Mw. …”
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Predictors of Acquired Perforating Dermatosis in Uremic Patients on Hemodialysis: A Case-Control Study by Cheng-Hao Weng, Ching-Chih Hu, Shir-Hwa Ueng, Chun-Chen Yu, Chung-Yee Hui, Ja-Liang Lin, Chih-Wei Yang, Cheng-Chieh Hung, Ching-Wei Hsu, Tzung-Hai Yen

“…Univariate logistic regression showed that APD was significantly associated with diabetes mellitus (DM), reduced levels of intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) and albumin (Alb), reduced dialysis adequacy () and urea reduction rate (URR), and elevated levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP). Multivariate logistic regression identified reduced iPTH (hazard ratio (HR): 0.983; ) and Alb (HR: 0.099; ) and elevated hsCRP (HR: 1.210, ) as risk factors for APD. …”
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Effects of Pioglitazone on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the Absence of Constitutive Androstane Receptor Expression by Hwa Young Ahn, Hwan Hee Kim, Ji-Yeon Hwang, Changhun Park, Bo Youn Cho, Young Joo Park

“…The expression of lipogenesis genes in the liver, sterol-regulatory element binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c), and stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD)-1 was decreased after pioglitazone treatment in HF-fed CAR-/- mice. …”
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circHUWE1 Exerts an Oncogenic Role in Inducing DDP-Resistant NSCLC Progression Depending on the Regulation of miR-34a-5p/TNFAIP8 by Xueliang Yang, Quan Sun, Yongming Song, Wenli Li

“…The quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and western blot analyses were used for examining circHUWE1, microRNA-34a-5p (miR-34a-5p), and tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced protein 8 (TNFAIP8). IC50 of cisplatin (DDP) in A549/DDP and H1299/DDP cells and cell viability were analyzed by the Cell Counting Kit 8 (CCK-8) assay. …”
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