Supplementation with active vitamin D3 ameliorates experimental autoimmune thyroiditis in mice by modulating the differentiation and functionality of intrathyroidal T-cell subsets by Chun-Mei Wang, Ying-Jie Chen, Bo-Cheng Yang, Jia-Wen Yang, Wei Wang, Yang Zeng, Jun Jiang

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Cellular Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Activities of Bamboo Sasa albomarginata Leaf Extract and Its Constituent Coumaric Acid Methyl Ester by Shiori Kojima, Masatoshi Hakamata, Toshimichi Asanuma, Rie Suzuki, Jun-ichi Tsuruda, Takeshi Nonoyama, Yinzhi Lin, Hitomi Fukatsu, Naoki Koide, Kazuo Umezawa

“…The extract possesses anti-inflammatory activity on the mouse atopic dermatitis model. To elucidate the mechanism of in vivo activity, we have studied the cellular anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities of the extract and its constituents. …”
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Compressive Strength Prediction of Alkali-Activated Slag Concretes by Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Alternating Conditional Expectation (ACE) by Xiaoyu Qin, Qianmin Ma, Rongxin Guo, Zhigang Song, Zhiwei Lin, Haoxue Zhou

“…Compressive strength of alkali-activated slag (AAS) concrete is influenced by multi-factors in a nonlinear way. …”
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Changes in sensor recorded activity patterns and neuropsychiatric symptoms after deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease: 5 case reports by Lena C. Bruhin, Michael Single, Aileen C. Naef, Katrin Petermann, Mario Sousa, Matilde Castelli, Ines Debove, Marie E. Maradan-Gachet, Andreia D. Magalhães, Andreas A. Diamantaras, M. Lenard Lachenmayer, Gerd Tinkhauser, Julia Waskönig, Christopher M. el Achkar, Alia Lemkaddem, Mathieu Lemay, Paul Krack, Tobias Nef, Deborah Amstutz

“…Conclusion Changes in neuropsychiatric symptoms are associated with distinct activity patterns after STN-DBS, and wearable and ambient sensors may aid to capture those gradual shifts in behavior.…”
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Sex Differences in Spontaneous Degranulation Activity of Intrahepatic Natural Killer Cells during Chronic Hepatitis B: Association with Estradiol Levels by Zuzana Macek Jilkova, Thomas Decaens, Alice Marlu, Hélène Marche, Evelyne Jouvin-Marche, Patrice N. Marche

“…Here, we investigated degranulation activity of circulating and intrahepatic natural killer (NK) cells from HBV and HCV chronically infected patients before any treatment (n=125). …”
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A comparative dataset on the GC–MS analysis and antioxidant activity of Selaginella bryopteris from different geolocations of IndiaMendeley Data by Utkarsha Srivastava, Ashwani Mathur

“…It has been reported for its medicinal properties due to its rich phytocompound pool. …”
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Anti-cancer activity of synthetic gefitinib-1,2,3-triazole derivatives against Hela cells via induction of apoptosis by Zhihong Hu, Xixi Hou, Yongjing Ren, Ziyuan Wu, Dong Yan, Hong Chen, Lan Wang

“…Among the investigated, the target compound c13 showed good anticancer activity against Hela cells (IC50 = 5.66 ± 0.35 μM) compared with gefitinib (IC50 = 14.18 ± 3.19 μM). …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Uniform Spherical Nanoporous TiO2 Aerogel Templated by Cellulose Alcohol-Gel with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity by Zhiming Liu, Peng Wu, Shaoli Yang, Haiying Wang, Chunde Jin

“…The morphology, crystalline structure, pore size, specific surface area, and the photocatalytic activity of obtained TiO2 aerogel were separately characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms, and double beam UV-VIS spectrophotometer. …”
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Enhancing the Transformer Model with a Convolutional Feature Extractor Block and Vector-Based Relative Position Embedding for Human Activity Recognition by Xin Guo, Young Kim, Xueli Ning, Se Dong Min

Subjects: “…human activity recognition…”
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Assessment of smartphone-based active distraction in association with audioanalgesia for overcoming airotor-related anxiety in children: a randomized controlled trial by Kritika Bali, Radhika Ailawadi, Y. M. Karuna, N. Srikant, Ashwin Rao, P. Anupama Nayak, Charisma Thimmaiah

“…The children were randomly allocated to either Group 1 (Piano music app; active distraction combined with audio analgesia) or Group 2 (basic behavioural guidance alone). …”
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Enhancement of the Stabilities and Intracellular Antioxidant Activities of Lavender Essential Oil by Metal-Organic Frameworks Based on β-Cyclodextrin and Potassium Cation by Ying Wang, Liang Wang, Jin Tan, Rong Li, Zi-Tao Jiang, Shu-Hua Tang

“…However, the application of lavender essential oil (LEO) is limited by its instability, low solubility and high volatility. …”
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Evaluation of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cell Cytotoxicity of Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator Using Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Hiroyuki Kamao, Atsushi Miki, Junichi Kiryu

“…The aim of this study is to validate the concept of cytotoxicity testing using hiPSC-derived retinal pigment epithelium (hiPSC-RPE) by comparing the responsiveness of human fetal RPE (hfRPE) and human RPE cell line (ARPE19) to recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA). Methods. HfRPE, two types of hiPSC-RPE, and ARPE19 were cultured in media with or without rtPA. …”
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Object Boundary Detection Using Active Contour Model via Multiswarm PSO with Fuzzy-Rule Based Adaptation of Inertia Factor by Ajay Khunteta, D. Ghosh

“…Active contour models, colloquially known as snakes, are quite popular for several applications such as object boundary detection, image segmentation, object tracking, and classification via energy minimization. …”
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Development and Formulation of the Experimental Dentifrice Based on Passiflora mollissima (Tumbo) with and without Fluoride Anion: Antibacterial Activity on Seven Antimicrobial Strains by Frank Mayta-Tovalino, Eloy Gamboa, Richard Sánchez, Jorge Rios, Ramín Medina, Martín García, Jhonn Asencios

“…To develop and formulate a new experimental dentifrice with and without fluoride based on the peel and the fruit of the Passiflora mollissima (tumbo) and also to evaluate its antimicrobial activity against seven bacterial strains. …”
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Molecular docking of ferulic acid, bakuchiol and niazirin on peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ) as anti-diabetic agents by Anjar Hermadi Saputro, Riri Fauziyya, Sarmoko, Iwan Syahjoko Saputra

Subjects: “…peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma…”
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Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Alpha in the Control of Cyclooxygenase 2 and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor: Involvement in Tumor Growth by Manuel Fresno, Cristina Cacheiro-Llaguno, Manuel D. Díaz-Muñoz, Raquel Grau, Miguel A. Iñiguez

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The Different Effects of IFN-β and IFN-γ on the Tumor-Suppressive Activity of Human Amniotic Fluid-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Jingchun Du, Anqi Liu, Rui Zhu, Chengbo Zhou, Heng Su, Guie Xie, Yingshan Deng, Xia Xu

“…Here, we compared the different effects of IFN-β and IFN-γ on the antitumor activity of human amniotic fluid-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AFMSCs) and revealed the potential mechanism. …”
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Antihuman Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Activity of Rare Earth Metal Complexes of 4-Hydroxycoumarins in Cell Culture

“…La(<bold>W</bold>) demonstrated anti-HIV activity (IC50=21.4&#x03BC;M) close to maximal nontoxic concentration. …”
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The Effects of the Social Hierarchy Destabilization on the Foraging Activity of Eusocial Wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus styx Richards, 1940 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) by Vanderlei Conceição Costa Filho, Sulene Noriko Shima, Ivan Cesar Desuó, André Sunao Nishiuchi Murakami

“…The aim of this study was to verify the effects of the experimental disruption of social hierarchy on foraging activity of Mischocyttarus cerberus styx. We observed six colonies in postemergence phase and recorded data on the foraging activity under two experimental conditions: (1) removal of lower-ranked females and (2) removal of higher ranked females, except the queen. …”
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Error Signal Differential Term Feedback Enhanced Variable Step Size FxLMS Algorithm for Piezoelectric Active Vibration Control by Weiguang Li, Wei Wang, Bin Li, Zhichun Yang

“…FxLMS (Filtered-x Least Mean Square) algorithm is widely used in the field of AVC (active vibration control) for its good convergence and strong adaptability. …”
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