International initiatives for the study of the human brain: EBRAINS and its Spanish node by Teris Duran, David Ezpeleta, Gemma Aragonès, Javier Mínguez, Emma Muñoz-Moreno, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, Guillermo Velasco

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Mutant Prevention Concentrations of Imipenem and Meropenem against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii by E. Dahdouh, S. H. Shoucair, S. E. Salem, Z. Daoud

“…Detection of the mechanisms of resistance was performed using Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing, Double Disk Synergy, disk antagonism, addition of NaCl to the medium, addition of PBA or EDTA to Carbapenem disks, addition of PBA to Cefoxitin disks, and CCCP test for 10 Pseudomonas spp. and Acinetobacter baumannii strains. …”
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Regulatory Effect of Melatonin on Cytokine Disturbances in the Pristane-Induced Lupus Mice by Ling-ling Zhou, Wei Wei, Jun-feng Si, Dong-ping Yuan

“…The results showed that melatonin antagonized the increasing levels of IgM anti ssDNA and histone autoantibodies. …”
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Metronidazole and Vancomycin Have a Synergic Effect, with Plant Extracts as Helpful Tools to Combat <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> Infections by Nancy C. Ruiz-Pérez, Yuli Bayona-Pérez, Silvia Laura Guzmán-Gutiérrez, Ricardo Reyes-Chilpa, Víctor M. Luna-Pineda, Javier Torres, Mariana Romo-Castillo

“…The antibacterial activity, synergy, and antagonism between the extracts and their synergic effect with antibiotics were evaluated. …”
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Sol-Gel Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles: Preparation and Structural Characterization by Oon Lee Kang, Azizan Ahmad, Usman Ali Rana, Nur Hasyareeda Hassan

“…Even so, relative anatase content was rather insignificant in an aprotic HCl-THF medium, as compared to a differential HNO3-THF medium. Tetragonal TiO2 structure was observed in the entire hydrolysis ratio (4≤RH≤32). …”
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Strain Programming of Oxygen Octahedral Symmetry in Perovskite Oxide Thin Films by Yunkyu Park, Seoung‐Hun Kang, Jeongkeun Song, Sang Woon Hwang, Shan Lin, Jong Mok Ok, Fazhi Yang, Hwangsun Kim, Andrew R. Lupini, Mina Yoon, Sangmoon Yoon, Hua Zhou, Ho Nyung Lee

“…By imposing epitaxial strain, it is found that the film undergoes a structural phase transition from orthorhombic to tetragonal upon fully straining (i.e., from a+b−b− to a0a0c−). …”
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The Role of von Willebrand Factor in Vascular Inflammation: From Pathogenesis to Targeted Therapy by Felice Gragnano, Simona Sperlongano, Enrica Golia, Francesco Natale, Renatomaria Bianchi, Mario Crisci, Fabio Fimiani, Ivana Pariggiano, Vincenzo Diana, Andreina Carbone, Arturo Cesaro, Claudia Concilio, Giuseppe Limongelli, Mariagiovanna Russo, Paolo Calabrò

“…Results from animal models and clinical studies support the potent anti-inflammatory and antithrombotic effect of VWF antagonism, providing reassuring data on its safety profile. …”
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Immune Aspects and Myometrial Actions of Progesterone and CRH in Labor by Nikolaos Vrachnis, Fotodotis M. Malamas, Stavros Sifakis, Panayiotis Tsikouras, Zoe Iliodromiti

“…In humans, a “functional” progesterone withdrawal occurs with onset of labor through changes in progesterone metabolism, progesterone receptors, and other molecules that either facilitate or antagonize progesterone function. Placental CRH acts on the fetal pituitary-adrenal axis to stimulate adrenal production of androgens and cortisol and also acts directly on myometrial cells via its receptors. …”
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Defining ortholog-specific UHRF1 inhibition by STELLA for cancer therapy by Wenjing Bai, Jinxin Xu, Wenbin Gu, Danyang Wang, Ying Cui, Weidong Rong, Xiaoan Du, Xiaoxia Li, Cuicui Xia, Qingqing Gan, Guantao He, Huahui Guo, Jinfeng Deng, Yuqiong Wu, Ray-Whay Chiu Yen, Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, Scott B. Rothbart, Cheng Luo, Linping Wu, Jinsong Liu, Stephen B. Baylin, Xiangqian Kong

“…In mouse, these dynamics are potently antagonized by a natural UHRF1 inhibitory protein STELLA, while the comparable effects of its human ortholog are insufficiently characterized, especially in cancer cells. …”
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RNA helicase MOV10 suppresses fear memory and dendritic arborization and regulates microtubule dynamics in hippocampal neurons by Temirlan Shilikbay, Aatiqa Nawaz, Megan Doon, Stephanie Ceman

“…In mitotic spindle formation, HAUS is antagonized by the microtubule bundling protein NUMA1. …”
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Plant Adaptability to Improved Dredged Sediment by Shoulong Zhang, Rixiong Mo, Haorong Shi, Yuanzhen Li, Yaoyao Zhou, Chenhao Wang, Guanlong Yu

“…The main dominant fungi in the improved soil (IS1) were <i>Tausonia</i>, <i>Trichoderma</i>, and <i>Cystoflobasidium</i>, which promote soil nutrient activation and antagonize pathogenic bacteria, making the environment more conducive to plant growth. …”
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Resistin Regulates Pituitary Lipid Metabolism and Inflammation In Vivo and In Vitro by F. Rodriguez-Pacheco, M. G. Novelle, M. J. Vazquez, E. Garcia-Escobar, F. Soriguer, G. Rojo-Martinez, E. García-Fuentes, M. M. Malagon, C. Dieguez

“…The adipokine resistin is an insulin-antagonizing factor that also plays a regulatory role in inflammation, immunity, food intake, and gonadal function and also regulates growth hormone (GH) secretion in rat adenopituitary cells cultures with the adipokine. …”
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Adsorption of Lennard-Jones Fluids in Carbon Slit Pores of a Finite Length. A Computer Simulation Study by A. Wongkoblap, S. Junpirom, D.D. Do

“…The Lennard-Jones (LJ) 12–6 potential model was used to compute the interaction energy between two fluid particles, and also between a fluid particle and a carbon atom. Argon adsorption isotherms were obtained at 87.3 K for pore widths of 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 nm using both Canonical and Gibbs Ensembles. …”
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Plasma mediated water splitting for hydrogen production by M J Cook, T Nott, W J Trompetter, J Futter, C W Bumby, J V Kennedy

“…Moreover, the addition of argon as a carrier gas in the plasma further enhances overall energy efficiency by an additional 25%–40%, bringing the energy efficiency of these systems up to 80% (based on plasma power). …”
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Optimization of construction costs and energy consumption during the operation period of residential buildings (Case study: common residential buildings in Tehran) by Meysam Zekavat, Mansoureh Tahabaz, Mohammad Reza Hafezi

“…Research variables, type of exterior wall (pottery or Leica), exterior (stone or brick), type of window glass (plain or low emission), type of gas between the layers of window glass (air or argon) and the ratio of the window to the south front surface (15 % -30% -45% -60%) were built. …”
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Rhesus Cytomegalovirus-encoded Fcγ-binding glycoproteins facilitate viral evasion from IgG-mediated humoral immunity by Claire E. Otero, Sophia Petkova, Martin Ebermann, Husam Taher, Nessy John, Katja Hoffmann, Angel Davalos, Matilda J. Moström, Roxanne M. Gilbride, Courtney R. Papen, Aaron Barber-Axthelm, Elizabeth A. Scheef, Richard Barfield, Lesli M. Sprehe, Savannah Kendall, Tabitha D. Manuel, Teresa Beechwood, Linh Khanh Nguyen, Nathan H. Vande Burgt, Cliburn Chan, Michael Denton, Zachary J. Streblow, Daniel N. Streblow, Alice F. Tarantal, Scott G. Hansen, Amitinder Kaur, Sallie Permar, Klaus Früh, Hartmut Hengel, Daniel Malouli, Philipp Kolb

“…Each one of these proteins displays functional similarities to their prospective HCMV orthologs with respect to antagonizing host FcγR activation in vitro. When RhCMV-naïve male rhesus macaques were infected with vFcγR-deleted RhCMV, peak plasma DNAemia levels and anti-RhCMV antibody responses were comparable to wildtype infections of both male and female animals. …”
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Western Balkans in the Russian-Ukrainian war: The instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the media by Surlić Stefan, Milić Kristina

“…Due to the absence of confrontation with the past and unresolved status issues, the interpretations of the war in Ukraine received the expected self-projection.discourses, the narrative revival of old conflicts, and the strengthening of antagonisms on a national basis. In the political sphere, a self-victimizing discourse was created as another means ofinstrumentalizing the past conflict. …”
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Preparation and characterization of SPE column with smart green molecularly imprinted polymers materials for selective determination of S-metolachlor herbicide by Dominika Rapacz, Katarzyna Smolińska-Kempisty, Joanna Wolska

“…During the selectivity study from multicomponent solution, the calculate imprinting factor for MIPs was calculated to be 10, while MIPs sorb S-metolachlor 10 times better than atrazine, 12 times better than fenoxaprop-P-ethyl and 33 times better than glyphosate. …”
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p57 Suppresses the Pluripotency and Proliferation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells by Positively Regulating p53 Activation by Na Li, Zhaoyu Du, Yunxiang Li, Wenjing Xu, Yumei Yang, Haodong Peng, Tianxiang Song, Qihua Qin, Huining Lei, Jinlian Hua

“…In conclusion, the present study showed that p57 could antagonize the pluripotency state and the proliferation process of mESCs. …”
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Copper Deficiency in Sheep with High Liver Iron Accumulation by Isadora Karolina Freitas de Sousa, Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino, Rejane dos Santos Sousa, Dowglish Ferreira Chaves, Herbert Sousa Soares, Isabella de Oliveira Barros, Carolina Akiko Sato Cabral de Araújo, Raimundo Alves Barrêto Júnior, Enrico Lippi Ortolani

“…Despite the low copper content of the diet, the high hepatic Fe levels found suggest that antagonism due to this element may have been an important factor in triggering copper deficiency in these animals, and thus, additional copper supplementation may be necessary for these animals.…”
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