Transcriptome and chromatin accessibility landscape of ovarian development at different egg-laying stages in taihe black-bone silky fowls by Jingyi Zhang, Yong Cui, Jiming Ruan, Haiyan Zhu, Haiping Liang, Ji Cao, Qing Wei, Jianzhen Huang

“…Compared to the late laying period, several genes related to ovarian development and reproductive hormone secretion, including TDRD5, CCNO, CYP17A1, BMP15, and STAR, were upregulated during the peak egg-laying period. …”
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Complicated with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Huihui Ma, Xin Cao, Jing Zhang, Yongmei Zhou, Rong Luo, Tao He, Jianhong Tao, Xiaoping Li

“…A 32-year-old female with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) for more than 7 years, and long-term treatment with cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, methotrexate, and tacrolimus, later found to be combined with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) for one year. …”
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Mechanical Modeling of Frozen Coarse-Grained Materials Incorporating Microscale Investigation by Shan-Zhen Li, Liang Tang, Shuang Tian, Xian-Zhang Ling, Yang-Sheng Ye, De-Gou Cai

“…And the transition of volume strain from contraction to dilatancy can also be described using this model. The results obtained in this study can provide a helpful reference for the analysis of frozen coarse-grained materials in geotechnical engineering.…”
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Artesunate Restrains Maturation of Dendritic Cells and Ameliorates Heart Transplantation-Induced Acute Rejection in Mice through the PERK/ATF4/CHOP Signaling Pathway by Yuanyang Chen, Sihao Zheng, Zhiwei Wang, Xin Cai, Yanjia Che, Qi Wu, Shun Yuan, Xiaohan Zhong

“…Heart transplantation (HT) is the only effective treatment for end-stage heart failure because it can effectively improve the survival rate and quality of life of patients with heart failure. …”
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Acidity, sugar, and alcohol contents during the fermentation of Osmanthus-flavored sweet rice wine and microbial community dynamics by Ping Tian, Jiaqiong Wan, Tuo Yin, Li Liu, Hongbing Ren, Hanbing Cai, Xiaozhen Liu, Hanyao Zhang

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An Improved Nonlinear Settlement Calculation Method for Soft Clay considering Structural Characteristics by Binhui Ma, Zhuo Li, Kai Cai, Zhiyong Hu, Minghua Zhao, Chengbin He, Bingchu Chen, Xiaocheng Huang

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Naringenin inhibits lipid accumulation by activating the AMPK pathway in vivo and vitro by Xiaoyu Cai, Songxue Wang, Huali Wang, Suwen Liu, Guishan Liu, Huibin Chen, Ji Kang, Hao Wang

“…And the inhibitory effect of naringenin on lipid accumulation in 3T3 adipocytes was abolished by Compound C. Molecular docking results indicated that naringenin could bind to AMPK protein. …”
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Double-layered wrap-around sensor network for three-dimensional positioning of acoustic emission sources and its effect on monitoring crack propagation in rock samples by Jing Yang, Zonglong Mu, Guangjian Liu, Shaokun Gong, Atif Javed, Jinglong Cao, Bofei Yang, Fang Yuan

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Influence of hoop restraint on damage evolution, ions diffusion and multi-scale mechanical properties in concrete exposed to external sulfate attack by Jierong Cao, Liping Xu, Gang Xu, Ming Jin, Qingjun Ding, Jiaping Liu, Chuansheng Xiong, Zuquan Jin

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Solar Modulation of Low-energy Cosmic-Ray Nitrogen and Its Comparison with Oxygen by Yun Li, Xiaoping Zhang, Shuai Fu, Zhenning Shen, Yi Xu, Haoyu Lu, Jinbin Cao, Tianle Zhu

“…The comparison of solar modulation on CR nitrogen and oxygen is also made using the yearly averaged ACE observations. …”
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Application of two-step diffusion couple technique in high-throughput screening of optimal composition and aging temperatures for alloys design: A demonstration in binary Ni-Al sys... by Shang Y.-J., Cao D.-J., Li Q., Yang K., Deng C.-M., Zhang L.-J.

“…In this paper, four binary Ni-13.4 at.% Al/Ni-17.7 at.% Al diffusion couples were first prepared and subjected to homogenization at 1573 K for 10,800 s, from which a continuous concentration profile formed. …”
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Study on Clean Development Mechanism, Quantitative and Sustainable Mechanism by Donghai Yuan, Lipeng Zheng, Yuan Cao, Xufeng Mao, Xueju Huang, Liansheng He, Junqi Li, Mingshun Zhang

“…After the introduction of CER quantitative and sustainable mechanism, the amount of CER that can enter the market was cut to a quarter, which reduces about 75% of the expected CER supply. …”
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Refined construction of semi-provincial hydrogeological models using hierarchical modeling: A case study in Western Shandong Province, China by Guangjun Ji, Zizhao Cai, Xiaobo Tan, Tao Wang, Chuanqi Wang, Qiuxiao Xu, Bo Zhou, Yang Cui

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Metabolic Blockade-Based Genome Mining of <i>Malbranchea circinata</i> SDU050: Discovery of Diverse Secondary Metabolites by Hu Yang, Xiaowei Luo, Zhuo Shang, Kunlong Li, Jian Cai, Yingying Chen, Longchao Xin, Jianhua Ju

“…This study reports the isolation and identification of four classes of secondary metabolites from wild-type <i>M. circinata</i> SDU050, alongside five additional metabolite classes, including three novel cytochalasins (<b>7</b>–<b>9</b>), obtained from a mutant strain through the metabolic blockade strategy. …”
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Mechanisms and environmental factors shaping the ecosystem of brain macrophages by Silvia Penati, Simone Brioschi, Zhangying Cai, Claudia Z. Han, Claudia Z. Han, Marco Colonna, Marco Colonna

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Associations of combined exposure to selected metal mixtures with thyroid hormones in children: a cross-sectional study in China by Yuhan Cao, Shiting Xiang, Yuwei Du, Meiling Chen, Rumeng Xue, Qi Li, Jun Qiu, Yanying Duan

“…The concentrations of lead (Pb), iron (Fe), calcium (Ca), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn) and magnesium (Mg) in blood were detected via atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). …”
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Kinematics and spatial structure analysis of TBM gunite robot based on D–H parameter method by Lianhui Jia, Shenyao Liu, Chenxu Cao, Yehao Kang, Ying Zhu, Lijun Wang, Donglai Xu, Ruixue Cheng

“…Through the research in this paper, it can provide theoretical basis and guidance for the design and control of the shotcrete robot.…”
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Identification of egg protein-derived peptides as xanthine oxidase inhibitors: virtual hydrolysis, molecular docking, and in vitro activity evaluation by Zhipeng Yu, Yaxin Cao, Ruotong Kan, Huizhuo Ji, Wenzhu Zhao, Sijia Wu, Jingbo Liu, David Shiuan

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Multi-type Air Pollutant Emission Inventory of Non-road Mobile Sources in China for the Period 1990–2017 by Xianbao Shen, Lei Kong, Yue Shi, Xinyue Cao, Xin Li, Bobo Wu, Hanyu Zhang, Zhiliang Yao

“…With the exception of SO2, which primarily originated from vessels, agricultural machinery accounted for the largest proportion of emissions for all of the pollutants, contributing 67.7% (1472.5 Gg) and 46.1% (2170.4 Gg) of the total CO and NOx from non-road mobile sources, respectively. …”
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Deciphering the role of epigenetics in plant pathogen resistance: Strategies for sustainable sugarcane management by Faisal Mehdi, Yuanli Wu, Shuzhen Zhang, Yimei Gan, Zhengying Cao, Shuting Jiang, Limei Zan, Benpeng Yang

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