Involvement of Different CD4+ T Cell Subsets Producing Granzyme B in the Immune Response to Leishmania major Antigens by Ikbel Naouar, Thouraya Boussoffara, Melika Ben Ahmed, Nabil Belhaj Hmida, Adel Gharbi, Sami Gritli, Afif Ben Salah, Hechmi Louzir

“…Additional experiments showed that CD4+CD25+CD127dim/- Tregs were involved in GrB production. …”
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in TLR4 Affect Susceptibility to Tuberculosis in Mexican Population from the State of Veracruz by Enrique Ortega, Sujhey Hernández-Bazán, Beatriz Sánchez-Hernández, Ileana Licona-Limón, Javier Fuentes-Dominguez

“…GG+AG, OR=0.26, 95%CI=0.09‐0.77, p=0.02). Similarly, the minor allele (T) of rs4986791 in TLR4 (T399I) decreased the risk of active disease in the allelic model (C vs. …”
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Comparison of Extracellular Metabolites and Antioxidant Activity of Different Strains of Wolfiporia hoelen (Fr.) Y.C. Dai &V. Papp by TAN Yun, SHEN Airong, SHEN Baoming, YU Jinxiu, LIU Lina, LI Sainan, TAN Zhuming

Subjects: “…wolfiporia hoelen (fr.) y.c. dai &v. papp; extracellular metabolites; antioxidant activity; kaempferol-3-o-(6-galloyl)glucoside; α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid; principal component analysis; widely targeted metabolomics…”
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Wastewater Purification from Permanganate Ions by Sorption on the Ocimum basilicum Leaves Powder Modified by Zinc Chloride by Nasser A. Alamrani, Hatem A. Al-Aoh, Meshari M. H. Aljohani, Suhair A. Bani-Atta, M. Sobhi, Mustafa Syed Khalid, A. A. A. Darwish, Ali A. Keshk, Mona A. A. Abdelfattah

“…This adsorbent has 8.3 pHZPC, 117.27 m2·g−1 surface area, 0.00711 cc·g−1 pore volume and average pore diameter of 264.144 Å. …”
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Ultrasonic-assisted MoS2/GO/TiO2 ceramic coatings: Enhancing anti-friction performance through dual-interface optimization by Ziwei Guo, Yongnan Chen, Nan Wang, Yiku Xu, Qinyang Zhao, Zhimin Hou, Guangrui Gao, Yan Kang, Haifei Zhan

“…Additionally, the others form strong dislocation pinning to obstruct dislocation slip and enhancing deformation resistance at MoS2 (0.227 nm)/TiO2 interface. The combined effects of dual interfacial enhancements resulted in a 90.0 % reduction in friction coefficients of the MoS2/GO/TiO2 coating compared to the traditional ceramic coating. …”
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Potential of emodepside for vector-borne disease control by Pattarapon Khemrattrakool, Thitipong Hongsuwong, Theerawit Phanphoowong, Patchara Sriwichai, Kittiyod Poovorawan, Joel Tarning, Kevin C. Kobylinski

“…The ivermectin and emodepside co-feed experiment with An. dirus did not indicate any altered effect of ivermectin on mosquito survival when emodepside co-fed at human Cmax or five times that of the human Cmax. …”
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Enhancing fracture risk indication: The impact of bone load index and muscle fat infiltration on vertebral compression fracture by Xiao-Yue Jiang, Zhi-Yang Tang, Bo-Wen Liu, Si-Yuan Lu, Dong-Gang Pan, Hui Jiang, Xiu-Hong Shan

“…Adjusted characteristics analyzed by stepwise logistic regression indicated that bone load index (BLI) (OR = 3.19, P = 0.041), paraspinal muscle fat infiltration (PMFI) (OR = 2.27, P = 0.039), and right psoas major muscle fat infiltration (RPMFI) (OR = 1.08, P = 0.005) were independent risk factors for vertebral fractures. …”
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Mechanical properties and microscopic damage characteristics of coal series limestone under coupling effects of high temperature and impact by Peng Wu, Lianying Zhang, Bing Li, Yadong Zheng, Ming Li, Fuqiang Zhu

“…When the temperature rises to 800 °C, thermal decomposition rarely occurs in calcite, while its physical and mechanical properties undergo alternations. …”
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Characterizations of synthesized laser scribed graphene/molybdenum disulfide (LSG/MoS2) hybrids for supercapacitor performance by Mugashini Vasudevan, Aiswarya Kanesan, Sathaniswarman Remesh, Veeradasan Perumal, Pandian Raja, Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim, Saravanan Karuppanan, Subash Gopinath, Mark Ovinis

“…TEM has proved that LSG was wrapped with MoS2, where the presence of lattice spacing of 0.62 and 0.27nm, which corresponded to the (002) and (100) planes of MoS2 was observed. …”
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PAX6 enhances Nanog expression by inhibiting NOTCH signaling to promote malignant properties in small cell lung cancer cells by Xiao-Fang Guo, Ling-Ling Wang, Fei-Meng Zheng, He-Ping Li

“…Moreover, PAX6 enhances the enrichment of the ALDEFLUOR+ and CD133+ population and promotes sphere formation in SCLC cells. …”
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Effect of Different Rearing Density on Survival Rate and Growth of Giant Gouramy Osphronemus gouramy Lac. Fry at Size of 2 cm in Length by I. Effendi, H.J. Bugri, . Widanarni

“…Fry were reared in aquaria 60x29x33 cm filled with 35 liters water, and fed by Tubifex at satiation as much as  0.23-0.28 g/fry/day with feeding frequency  2 times a day.   …”
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Significant Association between Serum Interleukin-6 and Helicobacter pylori Antibody Levels among H. pylori-Positive Japanese Adults by Hiroko Nakagawa, Takashi Tamura, Yoko Mitsuda, Yasuyuki Goto, Yoshikazu Kamiya, Takaaki Kondo, Kenji Wakai, Nobuyuki Hamajima

“…The geometric mean serum IL-6 level was 1.78 pg/mL for men, 1.57 pg/mL for women, and 1.64 pg/mL overall. Logarithms of serum IL-6 levels were positively correlated with logarithms of serum H. pylori IgG levels (r=0.24, P=0.002). …”
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Factores biológicos y sociales relacionados con la salud de la mujer durante el climaterio by Elodia María Rivas Alpízar, Caridad Hernández Gutiérrez, Gisela Zerquera Trujillo, Belkis Mercedes Vicente Sánchez, José Antonio Muñoz Cocina

“…La edad media de la menopausia fue 47,51 años, más precozmente en las fumadoras. La edad de la menarquia, el número de embarazos y partos y  patrón menstrual no guardaron relación con la edad de la menopausia. …”
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Assessment of patient satisfaction and adherence to treatment with IOP-lowering medication in an innovative OSD bottle by D.P. Novikov, E.S. Kuznetsova

“…Kuznetsova </p> <p> Diagnostic Center No. 7 (Ocular), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation </p> <p> <b>Background: </b>a significant proportion of patients with glaucoma require two or three IOP-lowering medications to achieve the target IOP. …”
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Ultrasound-assisted enzyme extraction of Dendrobium Officinale polysaccharides: Extraction process, characterization, immunomodulatory effects by Hengpu Zhou, Yingjie Dong, Zhangyun Wu, Xi Peng, Meiqiu Yan, Suhong Chen, Guiyuan Lv

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Impact of periodic neck ultrasonography on locoregional disease control in surveillance after total thyroidectomy for patients with low- and intermediate-risk papillary thyroid car... by Takahiro Inaishi, Dai Takeuchi, Takahiro Ichikawa, Gai Inaguma, Atsushi Hashizume, Masaki Okazaki, Norikazu Masuda, Toyone Kikumori

“…The median follow-up period was 127.9 months. There was no significant difference in locoregional relapse-free survival between the PE and US groups (97.0 vs. 98.7%, p = 0.541). …”
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Non-Rigid Cycle Consistent Bidirectional Network with Transformer for Unsupervised Deformable Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Registration by Yingying Wang, Yu Feng, Weiming Zeng

“…Results: Compared with non-learning-based methods (Affine, Syn) and learning-based methods (Transmorph-tiny, Cyclemorph, VoxelMorph x2), our method improves the peak t-value of t-maps on DMN, VN, CEN, and SMN to 18.7, 16.5, 16.6, and 17.3 and the mean number of suprathreshold voxels (<i>p</i> < 0.05, t > 5.01) on the four networks to 2596.25, and there is an average improvement in peak t-value of 23.79%, 12.74%, 12.27%, 7.32%, and 5.43%. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the volume and diagnoses of patients admitted to the paediatric emergency department: a retrospective analysis from a third-level hospital in Nor... by Paulina Blanco-Murillo, Ricardo J Estrada-Mendizabal, Katheryne Paola Madrazo-Aguirre, Manuel Guillermo Ruelas-Martinez, Lucia Escobedo-Berumen, Rommy Elizabeth Pineda-Magaña, Maria Guadalupe Garcia-Lima, Oscar Tamez-Rivera

“…The percentage of infectious diseases decreased from 45.7% to 19.3% (p&lt;0.001), and respiratory diseases from 4.3% to 1.9% (p&lt;0.001), including asthma exacerbations (3.1%–1.5%, p=0.012). …”
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Fabrication of hafnium-based nanoparticles and nanostructures using picosecond laser ablation by Abhishek Das, Mangababu Akkanaboina, Jagannath Rathod, R. Sai Prasad Goud, Kanaka Ravi Kumar, Raghu C. Reddy, Ratheesh Ravendran, Katia Vutova, S. V. S. Nageswara Rao, Venugopal Rao Soma

“…This work presents a unique and straightforward method to synthesise hafnium oxide (HfO2) and hafnium carbide (HfC) nanoparticles (NPs) and to fabricate hafnium nanostructures (NSs) on a Hf surface. …”
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Upper arm deep vein thrombosis in a patient with active lupus by Mahmoud Farouk Kamel Hassanein, Alaa Ebrahim, Stephanie Alcine Joseph, Teresa Jack, Ramprasath Anbazhagan, Miguel Fernández Olivares, Olena Kovalska

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