Vaccination with Enzymatically Cleaved GPI-Anchored Proteins from Schistosoma mansoni Induces Protection against Challenge Infection by Vicente P. Martins, Carina S. Pinheiro, Barbara C. P. Figueiredo, Natan R. G. Assis, Suellen B. Morais, Marcelo V. Caliari, Vasco Azevedo, William Castro-Borges, R. Alan Wilson, Sergio C. Oliveira

“…Herein, we evaluated the potential of a GPI fraction, containing representative molecules located on the outer surface of adult worms, as vaccine candidate. …”
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Synergistic strategies for glioblastoma treatment: CRISPR-based multigene editing combined with immune checkpoint blockade by Xiaolin Liu, Xiao Liu, Xiaonan Luo, Maorong Zhu, Nannan Liu, Juan Li, Qi Zhang, Cheng Zou, Yuxin Wu, Zhengcong Cao, Shuangxin Ma, Weizhong Wang, Guangzhao Yang, Jintao Gu, Wei Liu, Meng Li, Anan Yin, Yalong He, Wei Lin

“…Furthermore, the EVs contained Cas9 protein and sgRNA for precise and minimally invasive gene therapy, which addressing the key barriers associated with in vivo CRISPR‒Cas9 gene editing treatment. …”
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Knowledge of Latin American Obstetricians and Gynecologists regarding Heavy Menstrual Bleeding by Luis Bahamondes, Victor Marin, Silvia Ciarmatori, Agnaldo L. Silva-Filho, Juan Manuel Acuña, Maria Y. Makuch

“…A survey was conducted during a scientific meeting, organized to provide updated information on topics of reproductive medicine to OBGYNs from 12 LA countries who were invited to respond to a multiple-choice questionnaire. …”
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Transcriptome Sequencing of Gynostemma pentaphyllum to Identify Genes and Enzymes Involved in Triterpenoid Biosynthesis by Qicong Chen, Chengtong Ma, Jieying Qian, Xiuwan Lan, Naixia Chao, Jian Sun, Yaosheng Wu

“…Next, we used RPKM (reads per kilobases per million reads) to calculate expression of the unigenes and we performed comparison of our data to that contained in five common databases to annotate different aspects of the unigenes. …”
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Aurora kinase as a putative target to tick control by Bruno Moraes, Helga Gomes, Luiz Saramago, Valdir Braz, Luís Fernando Parizi, Gloria Braz, Itabajara da Silva Vaz, Carlos Logullo, Jorge Moraes, Ala Tabor

“…Two aurora kinase coding sequences have been identified in the transcriptome of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus (Rm-AURKA and Rm-AURKB) containing the aurora kinase-specific domain. For both isoforms, the highest number of AURK coding transcripts is found in ovaries. …”
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Interference of a phytoconstituent from Nymphaea lotus-derived ligand N-acetyl glucosamine with signaling receptors in diabetes mellitus development: A targeted computational analy... by Sunday Amos Onikanni, Tran Nhat-Phong Dao, Adewale Oluwaseun Fadaka, Halliru Zailani, Oluwafemi Shittu Bakare, Omolola Esther Amos, Ashwil Klein, Valens Munyembaraga, Morenike Grace Ajayi, Adebola Iyabode Akinjokun, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye, Leandro Miranda-Alves

“…Nymphaea lotus, a plant with medicinal properties known for its anti-diabetic effects, contains bioactive components like N-acetyl glucosamine. …”
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Morphological variability of otolith organs in three congeneric Pagellus species by Bostanci Derya, Yedier Serdar, Türker Dilek, Işmen Ali

“…One of these branches contained only P. erythrinus, while P. acarne and P. bogaraveo were present in the other branch. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Sinularia sp. Against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus: Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review by Deka Prismawan, Monika Arvia Chiara, Shannen Ivanka Gunardi, Karmill Trinanda, Robby Sutedjo, Michael Michael

“…Several recent studies have shown that Sinularia sp. contains various types of secondary metabolites with antiviral, antibacterial, anticancer, and antimalarial properties. …”
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Analysis and Classification of Fake News Using Sequential Pattern Mining by M. Zohaib Nawaz, M. Saqib Nawaz, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Yulin He

“…In this framework, six publicly available datasets, containing a diverse range of fake and real news, and their combination, are first transformed into a proper format. …”
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Seurat function argument values in scRNA-seq data analysis: potential pitfalls and refinements for biological interpretation by Mikhail Arbatsky, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Veronika Sysoeva, Ekaterina Semina, Ekaterina Semina, Valeri Saveliev, Kseniya Rubina

“…The essential aspect of dimensionality reduction is to identify the stable patterns which are deliberately removed upon mathematical data processing as being redundant, albeit containing important minor details for biological interpretation. …”
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Altered Functional Connectivity of Cognitive-Related Cerebellar Subregions in Well-Recovered Stroke Patients by Wei Li, Tong Han, Wen Qin, Jing Zhang, Huaigui Liu, Ying Li, Liangliang Meng, Xunming Ji, Chunshui Yu

“…The cerebellum contains several cognitive-related subregions that are involved in different functional networks. …”
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Transient Voltage Information Entropy Difference Unit Protection Based on Fault Condition Attribute Fusion by Zhenwei Guo, Ruiqiang Zhao, Zebo Huang, Yongyan Jiang, Haojie Li, Yingcai Deng

“…Aimed at the susceptibility of transient protection to the influence of fault condition attributes, composite fault characteristics containing fault attribute information were obtained by integrating fault characteristics with fault condition attributes to overcome the adverse influence of fault condition attributes on transient protection and improve the reliability of the protection. …”
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Novel MFSD8 Variants in a Chinese Family with Nonsyndromic Macular Dystrophy by Qin Xiang, Yanna Cao, Hongbo Xu, Zhijian Yang, Liang Tang, Ju Xiang, Jianming Li, Hao Deng, Lamei Yuan

“…Novel compound heterozygous variants, c.1066C>T (p.Pro356Ser) and c.1102+2T>C, in the major facilitator superfamily domain containing 8 gene (MFSD8) were suspected to be involved in this family’s macular dystrophy phenotype. …”
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Determination of Nicotine in Tobacco by Chemometric Optimization and Cation-Selective Exhaustive Injection in Combination with Sweeping-Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography by Yi-Hui Lin, Chia-Hsien Feng, Shih-Wei Wang, Po-Yun Ko, Ming-Hsun Lee, Yen-Ling Chen

“…To reduce the harm of tobacco products for smokers, a law was introduced that requires tobacco product containers to be marked with the amount of nicotine as well as tar. …”
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Comparative analysis of a 3D printed polymer bonded magnet composed of a TPU-PA12 matrix and Nd-Fe-B atomised powder and melt spun flakes respectively by Granit Hajra, Mihael Brunčko, Leo Gusel, Ivan Anžel

“…The present study reports the development of new polymer bonded magnet containing a Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) – Nylon (PA12) blend as the matrix material and Nd-Fe-B magnetic particles. …”
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Comprehensive review of preclinical evaluation strategies for COVID-19 vaccine candidates: assessing immunogenicity, toxicology, and safety profiles by Delaram Doroud, Mojtaba Daneshi, Fatemeh Kazemi-Lomedash, Zohre Eftekhari

“…Pharmacokinetic/ biodistribution studies are not usually required for infectious disease prophylaxis vaccines unless the vaccine contains a novel substance. Evaluating their biodistribution is crucial for newly developed vaccines, such as lipid nanoparticles –messenger RNA (LNP-mRNA), DNA, and Viral vectors in non-replicated (VVnr), or recombinant virus vaccines. …”
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Properties and application of carbon composite brick for blast furnace hearth by Jiao K.X., Zhang J.L., Liu Z.J., Zhao Y.G., Hou X.M.

“…A certain amount of slag phase is contained in the carbon layer, which is caused by the reaction of coke ash with the refractory. …”
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CCDC154 knockdown inhibits growth of liver cancer via suppressing expression of Snail by Rulan Ma, Hongmei Nie, Caijing Mo, Dawei Yuan, Kun Zhu, Kang Li

“…Abstract Objective The effect of coiled-coil domain-containing 154 (CCDC154) in liver cancer (LC) remains unexplored. …”
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The Properties of Red Blood Cells from Patients Heterozygous for HbS and HbC (HbSC Genotype) by A. Hannemann, E. Weiss, D. C. Rees, S. Dalibalta, J. C. Ellory, J. S. Gibson

“…Their red blood cells (RBCs), containing approximately equal amounts of HbS and HbC, are also likely to show differences in properties which may contribute to disease outcome. …”
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Query-Biased Preview over Outsourced and Encrypted Data by Ningduo Peng, Guangchun Luo, Ke Qin, Aiguo Chen

“…However, searching for the desired documents becomes problematic since it is costly to download and decrypt each possibly needed document to check if it contains the desired content. An informative query-biased preview feature, as applied in modern search engine, could help the users to learn about the content without downloading the entire document. …”
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