Correlation between liver fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance indicators: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2017–2020 by Bo Yang, Mingsu Gong, Xiaojie Zhu, Yang Luo, Ruiqiu Li, Hai Meng, Yuhan Wang

“…Compared to non-LF patients, LF patients had significantly higher body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), HbA1c, and fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels (all p < 0.05). …”
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Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Key Genes Involved in the Response of <i>Triticum urartu</i> to Boron Toxicity Stress by Gul Sema Uyar, Anamika Pandey, Mehmet Hamurcu, Tomas Vyhnanek, Mustafa Harmankaya, Ali Topal, Sait Gezgin, Mohd. Kamran Khan

“…While key upregulated genes included those encoding RNA polymerase beta subunit (chloroplast), ATP synthase subunit gamma, chloroplastic, 60S ribosomal protein, and RNA-binding protein 12-like, the main downregulated genes included those encoding photosystem II protein D, ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit, and peroxidase 2-like. …”
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Dataset of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor binding domain variants in complex with antigen-binding fragments targeting COVID-19 vaccine-referenced variantsModel Archive by Ferdinando Spagnolo, Florigio Lista, Claudia Curcio

“…The dataset consists of six sets of complex structures generated by combining 14 RBD variants with three different Fab pairs.The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein sequence variants included in the dataset are Wild Type, BETA, EPSILON, IOTA, ETA, GAMMA, LAMBDA, KAPPA, BA.2, BA.4, XBB.1.5, EG.5.1, and KP.2. …”
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Interleukin-12 Inhibits Tumor Growth and Metastasis Promoted by Tumor-Associated Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer by Babak Jahangiri, Zahra-Soheila Soheili, Elahe Asadollahi, Mehdi Shamsara, Vahid Shariati, Alireza Zomorodipour

“…IL-12 therapyelevated serum IL-12 and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) expression, suppressed tumor volume and lung metastasis, andimproved overall survival in the TA-MSC group. …”
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Utilisation et résistance d’un nouveau jouet introduit chez des macaques cynomolgus hébergés en milieu standard ou appauvri by Helen Beyer, Agnès Loison, Fanélie Wanert

“…Toutefois, la résistance et la flexibilité qu'offre cette nouvelle gamme de jouets sont très satisfaisantes pour une utilisation chez des PNH, hormis pour les animaux à grandes canines.…”
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Understanding Nigeria’s antibiotic resistance crisis among neonates and its future implications by Victor Oluwatomiwa Ajekiigbe, Ikponmwosa Jude Ogieuhi, Temiloluwa Adebayo Odeniyi, Praise Oluwatobi Ogunleke, Josiah Temitope Olatunde, Adedoyin Veronica Babalola, Akintunde Abisoye Omoleke, Tolulope Felix Omitade, Damilare Emmanuel Olakanmi, Adewunmi Akingbola, Chidera Stanley Anthony

“…There has been an increasing prevalence of sepsis among newborns primarily due to Gram-negative bacteria, which highlights the urgency and need to be addressed. …”
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Soil-Transmitted Helminth Reinfection and Associated Risk Factors among School-Age Children in Chencha District, Southern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Zerihun Zerdo, Tsegaye Yohanes, Befikadu Tariku

“…Structured questionnaire and Kato-Katz thick smear technique were used to interview parents or guardians and quantify the number of eggs per gram of stool. Pearson chi-square and logistic regression were used to assess the association between predictor variable and STH reinfection. …”
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The Interaction Effects of Suicidal Ideation and Childhood Abuse on Brain Structure and Function in Major Depressive Disorder Patients by Wei Wang, Lijun Kang, Nan Zhang, Xin Guo, Peilin Wang, Xiaofen Zong, Lihua Yao, Hanping Bai, Jing Cheng, Ning Tu, Hongyan Feng, Gaohua Wang, Lihong Bu, Fei Wang, Zhongchun Liu

“…Respectively, we preprocessed the structural and functional images and analyzed gray matter volumes (GMV) and mean fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (mfALFF) values. …”
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Aktivitas Daya Hambat Isolat Actinomycetes dengan Lama Fermentasi yang Berbeda terhadap Pertumbuhan Klebsiella pneumoniae by Annisa Nur Insani, Meiskha Bahar, Nunuk Nugrohowati, Retno Yulianti

“…Actinomycetes are filamentous, Gram-positive bacteria widely distributed in soil and can produce secondary metabolites useful as antibiotics. …”
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Predictors of Incisional Hernia after Robotic Assisted Radical Prostatectomy by Avinash Chennamsetty, Jason Hafron, Luke Edwards, Scott Pew, Behdod Poushanchi, Jay Hollander, Kim A. Killinger, Mary P. Coffey, Kenneth M. Peters

“…Incisional hernia patients had larger median prostate weight (45 versus 38 grams; P=0.001) and a higher proportion had prior laparoscopic cholecystectomy (12.5% (6/48) versus 4.6% (22/480); P=0.033). …”
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Global Distribution Adjustment and Nonlinear Feature Transformation for Automatic Colorization by Terumasa Aoki, Van Nguyen

“…In reference-based automatic colorization methods, color image(s) are used as reference(s) to reconstruct original color of a gray target image. The most important task here is to find the best matching pairs for all pixels between reference and target images in order to transfer color information from reference to target pixels. …”
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Multilevel Feature Extraction Method for Adaptive Fault Diagnosis of Railway Axle Box Bearing by Zhigang Liu, Long Zhang, Guoliang Xiong

“…The Q factor is optimized using the gray wolf optimization algorithm (GWO) to obtain an adaptive sparse decomposition method (GWO-RSSD) for extracting bearing transient fault shocks to eliminate the signal effects of high-amplitude disturbance shocks and background noise. …”
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The brain structure underlying the nonlinear association between early-life tobacco smoke exposure and the risk for cognitive decline and dementia in adulthood: a large prospective... by Changfu Lin, Fabin Lin, Kaitai Yang, Yuxuan Zhong, Yan Luo, Hanchen Chen, Wenjing Zhang, Xuanjie Chen, Qinyong Ye, Yuqi Zeng, Guoen Cai

“…Early smoking was linked to various brain structure changes, including volumes of the hippocampus, lateral ventricles, white and gray matter. Conclusions Early exposure to tobacco is associated with cognitive decline and an increased risk of dementia in adulthood. …”
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EZH2 Regulates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Periodontal Ligament Stem Cell Proliferation and Osteogenesis through TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB Pathway by Pengcheng Wang, Huan Tian, Zheng Zhang, Zuomin Wang

“…Periodontitis induced by bacteria especially Gram-negative bacteria is the most prevalent chronic inflammatory disease worldwide. …”
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Maximizing Energy Output of Photovoltaic Systems: Hybrid PSO-GWO-CS Optimization Approach by Hassan S. Ahmed, Ahmed J. Abid, Adel A. Obed, Ameer L. Saleh, Reheel J. Hassoon

“…This study aims to address these challenges by combining cuckoo search (CS), gray wolf optimization (GWO), and particle swarm optimization (PSO) to enhance MPPT performance. …”
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Structural and Functional Deficits in Patients with Poststroke Dementia: A Multimodal MRI Study by Huaying Cai, Zhiyong Zhao, Linhui Ni, Guocan Han, Xingyue Hu, Dan Wu, Xianjun Ding, Jin Wang

“…The present study was aimed at investigating alterations in spontaneous brain activity and gray matter volume (GMV) in PSD patients. We collected T1-weighted and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 20 PSD patients, 24 poststroke nondementia (PSND) patients, and 21 well-matched normal controls (NCs). …”
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Use of a microfluidic platform to uncover basic features of energy and environmental stress responses in individual cells of Bacillus subtilis. by Matthew T Cabeen, Jonathan R Russell, Johan Paulsson, Richard Losick

“…Bacteria use a variety of stress-sensing systems to sense and respond to diverse stressors and to ensure their survival under adverse conditions. The gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis responds to energy stress (ATP depletion) and to environmental stressors using two distinct stress-sensing pathways that converge on the alternative sigma factor σB to provoke a general stress response. …”
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Intra-uterine Growth Restriction Downregulates the Hepatic Toll Like Receptor-4 Expression and Function by Ozlem Equils, Sapna Singh, Semra Karaburun, Daning Lu, Manikkavasagar Thamotharan, Sherin U. Devaskar

“…We propose that IUGR dysregulates TLR4 expression and function in the offspring, which may help explain the increased risk of Gram-negative sepsis and inflammatory diseases in this population.…”
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GENETIC CONTROL OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS OF SEEDLINGS, BOLLS, AND SEEDS IN FLAX (LINUM USITATISSIMUM L.) by E. Porokhovinova

“…Five genes of six influencing hypocotyl color exert pleiotropic effects on other morphological characters: s1, yellow or green (s1-2) seeds, star-shaped white flower, and yellow anthers; sfbs1, white corolla of poorly pronounced star shape and yellow anthers; pbc3, star-shaped blue-tinged white flower and orange anthers; pbc1, blue-tinged white corrugated corolla and yellow anthers; f e, spotted seeds, pale blue corolla, and gray anthers. The sgh1 gene acts only in the hypocotyl. …”
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Neurocognitive Deficits in Individuals at Ultra-High-Risk for Psychosis: An Overview of Systematic Reviews by Farnaz Asadiof, Mona Zamanpour, Ali Fawzi Al-Hussainy, Alhan Abd Al-Hassan Shalal, Mohammed Ubaid, Zinab Aluquaily, Seyed Hamidreza Hashemian

“…Structural and functional neuroimaging studies have further revealed aberrant brain connectivity, reduced gray matter volume, and altered neural activation patterns in key brain regions to be involved in psychosis. …”
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