Nanoporosity of Alumina Surfaces Induces Different Patterns of Activation in Adhering Monocytes/Macrophages by Natalia Ferraz, Jaan Hong, Matteo Santin, Marjam Karlsson Ott

“…After 24 hours, cell adhesion was assessed by means of light microscopy and cell viability by measuring LDH release. …”
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Photovoltaic and Physical Characteristics of Screen-Printed Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Laser Doping and Electroplated Copper by Chin-Lung Cheng, Chi-Chung Liu, Chun-Tin Yeh

“…Furthermore, to enhance the adhesion between the B-BSF seed layer and EPC contact layer, a laser pinhole process was proposed. …”
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Regulation of Endothelial Adherens Junctions by Tyrosine Phosphorylation by Alejandro Pablo Adam

“…The adherens junction, a major mechanism of intercellular adhesion, is comprised of transmembrane cadherins forming homotypic interactions between adjacent cells and associated cytoplasmic catenins linking the cadherins to the cytoskeleton. …”
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A novel approach to intraoperative diagnosis of primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease by Nethrani Sameera Wijesekara Pathirana, Hasitha Udayakumara, A S K Banagala, M R Sumanatilleke, A V T Damayanthi, S R Constantine, G W Katulanda, Z T M Thowfeek, T Sasikanth, S Pathmanathan

“…In this case, following the demonstration of ACTH independence of CS, it was challenging to localise the lesion as there were bilateral adrenal lesions. Furthermore, preoperative efforts in localisation in the form of adrenal venous sampling (AVS) failed. …”
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Tumour Cell Lines HT-29 and FaDu Produce Proinflammatory Cytokines and Activate Neutrophils In Vitro: Possible Applications for Neutrophil-Based Antitumour Treatment by Antonio Brú, Juan-Carlos Souto, Sonia Alcolea, Rosa Antón, Angel Remacha, Mercedes Camacho, Marta Soler, Isabel Brú, Amelia Porres, Luis Vila

“…PMNs were cytotoxic to both lines, the adhesion of the PMNs to the tumour cells being important in this effect. …”
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A New gcrR-Deficient Streptococcus mutans Mutant for Replacement Therapy of Dental Caries by Wenting Pan, Tiantian Mao, Qing-an Xu, Jin Shao, Chang Liu, Mingwen Fan

“…S. mutans UA159 and the mutant MS-gcrR-def were inoculated, respectively, or together for competitive testing in vitro and in rat model. Results. Adhesion assay showed that the adhesion ability of the mutant increased relative to the wild type, especially in the early stage. …”
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Characterization of Extruded Poly(lactic acid)/Pecan Nutshell Biocomposites by C. R. Álvarez-Chávez, D. L. Sánchez-Acosta, J. C. Encinas-Encinas, J. Esquer, P. Quintana-Owen, T. J. Madera-Santana

“…The morphological analysis showed good dispersion and adhesion of the PNSP to the PLA matrix. Based on the results of the characterization, biocomposites formulated with defatted PNSP have a potential to be used as sustainable fillers in PLA biocomposites. …”
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Phaeochromocytoma Mimicking Scleroderma by Joan Joo-Ching Khoo, Edward John Pratt

“…We describe a patient with adrenal phaeochromocytoma who presented with peripheral vasospasm and ischaemia and other manifestations mimicking features of systemic sclerosis, which resolved after resection of the tumor. …”
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Sivas İzzeddin Keykavus Darüşşifası Restorasyon Müdahaleleri by Elif Yiğiter, Osman Kunduracı

“…Darüşşifa işlevini Osmanlı döneminde devam ettiremeyen yapının vakıf şartları medrese hizmeti doğrultusunda değiştirilmiş ve 19. yüzyılın sonlarına kadar medrese olarak kullanılmıştır. …”
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Improving wear resistance of surface layer of parts combined with electromechanical processing with tempering by V. R. Edigarov, B. Sh. Alimbaeva, S. Yu. Anokhin

“…The technology of combined electromechanical processing of machine parts with electromechanical tempering of surfaces is considered, which electromechanical processing in two passes with different values of technological factors makes it possible to obtain a modified surface layer having a multilayer structure, an upper thin softened layer, then a «white» layer, then an ordinary hardened layer and underneath is the base metal. The resulting gradient structure provides the required performance of a modified surface, primarily in terms of wear resistance determined by the running process of tribological conjugation.…”
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Cellular aspects of immunity involved in the development of atherosclerosis by Khalil Khalaf, Khalil Khalaf, Khalil Khalaf, Marc Chamieh, Natalia Welc, Chandpreet Singh, Joanne Lynn Kaouk, Aiden Kaouk, Andrzej Mackiewicz, Andrzej Mackiewicz, Mariusz Kaczmarek, Mariusz Kaczmarek, Bartlomiej Perek

“…Atherosclerosis, previously regarded as a lipid storage disease, has now been classified as a chronic inflammatory disease. The hardening of arterial vessels characterizes atherosclerosis due to the accumulation of lipids in the arterial walls, eliciting an inflammatory response. …”
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Reinforcing cancer immunotherapy with engineered porous hollow mycobacterium tuberculosis loaded with tumor neoantigens by Jie Jiang, Feng-Ying Huang, Shu-Zhen Dai, Guang-Hong Tan, Ming-Hui Chen, Hengyu Chen, Wu-Ping Zheng, Ri-Hong Wu, Weijing Xie

“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) contains pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) recognized by APCs and adhesion molecules that facilitate MTb invasion of APCs. …”
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Primary Terminal Haemochromatosis in a 50 Year-Old Patient by M. I. Gonik, M. S. Zharkova, O. Yu. Kiseleva, E. V. Berezina, Sh. A. Ondos, Yu. V. Lerner, E. A. Kogan, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Further examination aimed at excluding occult gastrointestinal bleeding, adrenal insufficiency, decompensated heart failure. …”
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A systematic in vitro study of the effect of normoglycaemic and hyperglycaemic conditions on the biochemical and cellular interactions of clinically-available wound dressings with... by Shirin Saberianpour, Gianluca Melotto, Rachel Forss, Lucy Redhead, Susan Sandeman, Nadia Terrazzini, Dipak Sarker, Matteo Santin

“…Kaltostat, an alginate-based wound dressing, showed the higher level of swelling and supporte the adhesion of inflammatory cells with limited activation. …”
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Functionalized Separators Boosting Electrochemical Performances for Lithium Batteries by Zixin Fan, Xiaoyu Chen, Jingjing Shi, Hui Nie, Xiaoming Zhang, Xingping Zhou, Xiaolin Xie, Zhigang Xue

“…Highlights The commonly used modification methods for separator of lithium batteries are summarized, which include surface coating, in situ modification and grafting modification. The adhesion of coating materials with the separators and wettability of the modified separators prepared from the three methods are compared. …”
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Strategy, investment, behaviour and results by Richard Pettinger

“…This is much more comforting at a human level, and much less dependent on the expertise of others, than relying on emerging techniques and tools such as business and web analytics, which are harder to use professionally, and require dependence and trust at a human level. …”
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Comparison of properties of silver-metal oxide electrical contact materials by Ćosović V., Talijan N., Živković D., Minić D., Živković Ž.

“…Both Ag-SnO2 and Ag- SnO2In2O3 composites with metal oxide nanoparticles were found to have lower porosity, higher density and hardness than their respective counterparts which can be attributed to better dispersion hardening i.e. higher degree of dispersion of metal oxide in silver matrix.…”
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An Experimental Study of Fracture Parameters of Concrete Produced With Basalt Aggregate by Peak-Load Method by Senem Yilmaz Cetin, Tahir Azad Celik

“…In order to determine the physical and mechanical properties of the produced basalt aggregate concretes, unit weight, compressive strength, and splitting tensile strength experiments were carried out on hardened concretes. In addition to the physical and mechanical properties of basalts, their chemical composition properties have been investigated. …”
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High-energy dual-energy computed tomography for the characterization of large and thick objects by Alix Sardet, Daniel Eck, Nicolas Estre, Frédéric Moutet, Emmanuel Payan, Cécilia Tarpau

“…Therfore, this work focuses on extending the first technique to high energies, as it does not require any assumptions on the materials to be detected and takes into account beam-hardening effects through the system spectral response.  …”
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Contributions of Jets in Net Charge Fluctuations from the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC and LHC by Bushra Ali, Shaista Khan, Shakeel Ahmad

“…Dynamical net charge fluctuations have been studied in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions from the beam energy scan at RHIC and LHC energies by carrying out the hadronic model simulation. Monte Carlo model, HIJING, is used to generate events in two different modes, HIJING-default with jet quenching switched off and jet/minijet production switched off. …”
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