Differential Expression of Placental Glucocorticoid Receptors and Growth Arrest-Specific Transcript 5 in Term and Preterm Pregnancies: Evidence for Involvement of Maternal Stress by D. Mparmpakas, E. Zachariades, G. Sotiriadis, A. Goumenou, A. J. Harvey, Y. Gidron, E. Karteris

“…Only expression of GAS5 was significantly upregulated by cortisol in all treatments compared with basal levels, but none of the GRs changed expression significantly. …”
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Enpostil Lowers Elevated Serum Gastrin Concentrations in Patients with Pernicious Anemia by P Kirdeikis, M Mant, L Zuk, D Fisher, L Bynum, ABR Thomson

“…Thus, enprostil reduced basal and food-stimulated gastrin release in seven patients with pernicious anemia. …”
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Dynamic localization of glucokinase and its regulatory protein in hypothalamic tanycytes. by Magdiel Salgado, Estefanía Tarifeño-Saldivia, Patricio Ordenes, Carola Millán, María José Yañez, Paula Llanos, Marcos Villagra, Roberto Elizondo-Vega, Fernando Martínez, Francisco Nualart, Elena Uribe, María de Los Angeles García-Robles

“…Glucokinase (GK), the hexokinase involved in glucose sensing in pancreatic β cells, is also expressed in hypothalamic tanycytes, which cover the ventricular walls of the basal hypothalamus and are implicated in an indirect control of neuronal activity by glucose. …”
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Impacts of different pig slurry application methods on soil quality indicators in a maize-soybean cropping sequence in the Sub-humid Pampas of Argentina by Vanesa Pegoraro, Cristian Cazorla, Omar Bachmeier, Tomás Baigorria, Mónica Boccolini, Jimena Ortiz, Claudio Lorenzon, Susana Hang, Marta Zubillaga

“…Results IS caused increases in anaerobic nitrogen and basal respiration of soil on soybean. Treatments with PS and/or FM showed lower values in pH than C in both crops, and higher electrical conductivity only in maize. …”
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Multi-dimensional oscillatory activity of mouse GnRH neurons in vivo by Su Young Han, Shel-Hwa Yeo, Jae-Chang Kim, Ziyue Zhou, Allan E Herbison

“…In female mice, a gradual increase in basal activity that exhibited ~80 min oscillations began in the afternoon of proestrus and lasted for 12 hr. …”
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The Influence of Playing a Non-Reward Game on Motor Ability and Executive Function in Parkinson’s Disease by Alisson Menezes Araújo Lima, Fabiana de Campos Cordeiro Hirata, Gabriela Sales de Bruin, Rosa Maria Salani Mota, Veralice Meireles Sales de Bruin

“…Our results suggest a role for the reward system in the modulation of the dopaminergic function of the basal ganglia in these patients.…”
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PROTOTYPE KEAMANAN PORTAL OTOMATIS MENGGUNAKAN FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM by Mohammad Tetuko Putra Mulana, Indah Sulistiyowati, Shazana Dhiya Ayuni

“…Tujuan penelitian ini untuk memanfaatkan kekuatan teknologi biometrik dan mengatasi keterbatasannya, sehingga menciptakan solusi keamanan yang lebih andal, efisien dan ramah pengguna bagi masyarakat luas. …”
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Chlorophytum borivilianum Polysaccharide Fraction Provokes the Immune Function and Disease Resistance of Labeo rohita against Aeromonas hydrophila by Sib Sankar Giri, Shib Sankar Sen, Cheng Chi, Hyoun Joong Kim, Saekil Yun, Se Chang Park, V. Sukumaran

“…The present study aimed to investigate the effects of Chlorophytum borivilianum polysaccharide (CBP), as a dietary supplement administered at varying concentrations with feed (basal diet), on various cytokine-related responses in Labeo rohita fingerlings. …”
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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Tear Samples of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis by Anikó Rentka, Jolán Hársfalvi, András Berta, Krisztina Köröskényi, Zoltán Szekanecz, Gabriella Szücs, Peter Szodoray, Ádám Kemény-Beke

“…Forty-three patients (40 female and 3 men, mean (SD) age 61 (48–74) years) with SSc and 27 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. Basal tear sample collection and tear velocity investigations were carried out followed by an ophthalmological examination. …”
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Perception et gestion de l’érosion et des ressources en eau par les agriculteurs et les éleveurs du bassin versant de l’ibicuí (RS, Brésil) by Guillaume Leturcq, François Laurent, Rosa Vieira Medeiros

“…The erosion in the areas of “arenização” is not regarded as a stake: these areas are unproductive but do not threaten the total productivity of the farms. It is more a “banal” erosion of the cultivated pieces which worries the farmers and which led a great part of them to move to no-till. …”
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Neutralization by Insulin of the Hypertensive Effect of Dermcidin Isoform 2: An Environmentally Induced Diabetogenic and Hypertensive Protein by Rajeshwary Ghosh, Sarbashri Bank, Rabindra Bhattacharya, Nighat N. Khan, A. Kumar Sinha

“…Incubation of kidney cortex cells with 0.2 μM dermcidin-inhibited synthesis of (r)-cortexin, an antihypertensive protein, and the basal (r)-cortexin level was reduced from 33 nM to 15 nM. …”
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Species Diversity, Structure, and Regeneration Status of Woody Plants in Saleda Yohans Church Forest, South Wollo, Ethiopia by Amare Bitew Mekonnen, Ali Seid Mohammed, Aster Demissew

“…Tree height and diameters at the breast height of plants were also measured and estimated. Moreover, frequency, basal area, diversity, evenness, and other vegetation data were analyzed. …”
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Artificially Positive Crossmatches Not Leading to the Refusal of Kidney Donations due to the Usage of Adequate Diagnostic Tools by G. Schlaf, B. Pollok-Kopp, E. Schabel, W. Altermann

“…Two prospective female recipients destined for a living as well as for a cadaver kidney donation, respectively, exhibited positive CDC-based crossmatch outcomes although for both patients no historical immunizing events were known. …”
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Trees, seeds and seedlings analyses in the process of obtaining a quality planting material for black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) by Andrea M. ROMAN, Irina M. MORAR, Alina M. TRUTA, Catalina DAN, Adriana F. SESTRAS, Liviu HOLONEC, Florin IORAS, Radu E. SESTRAS

“…Among the averages of the main traits (tree height, diameter at breast height, basal area, self pruning trunk length, crown diameter) of the plus trees from the five stands, there were registered significant differences, and two stands stood out with a high biomass growth. …”
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The characterization and antifungal activities of two new Trichoderma antagonistic fungi against four apple disease pathogens by Futao Gao, Zihao Wang, Junhua Zhu, Wenyan Li, Xunyou Wang, Xifa Yang, Youwu Hao, Shiheng An, Xinming Yin, Xiangyang Liu

“…In this study, two antagonistic fungi were isolated from cadavers of Spodoptera litura and Mythimna separata, and were identified as Trichoderma afroharzianum and Trichoderma asperelloides. …”
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Expression of Interferon Effector Gene SART1 Correlates with Interferon Treatment Response against Hepatitis B Infection by Yong Li, Chuanlong Zhu, Faxi Wang, Tiantian Zhu, Jun Li, Shufeng Liu, Fei Xiao

“…In this study, we investigated the role of SART1 in antiviral activity of IFN-α against hepatitis B virus (HBV) using blood and liver biopsy samples from chronic hepatitis B patients treated with pegylated IFN-α and HepG2 cells transfected with cloned HBV DNA. We observed that the basal SART1 expression in liver and PBMCs before IFN treatment was significantly higher in responders than in nonresponders. …”
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Perfil neuropsicológico de um adulto com Coréia-Acantocitose: um estudo de caso by Thirzá Baptista Frison, Samuel Eggers, Jaqueline de Carvalho Rodrigues, Jerusa Fumagalli de Salles, Jonas Alex Morales Saute, Carlos Roberto de Mello Rieder, Luiz Nelson Teixeira Fernandes, Lenisa Brandão

“…Esta enfermedad se caracteriza por una demencia subfrontocortical, síntomas neurop- siquiátricos, deterioro cognitivo, movimientos orobucofaciais coreicos, laceraciones en la lengua, comportamiento estereotipado, cambios de personalidad, convulsiones, degeneración de los ganglios basales y presencia de acantocitos en frotis sanguíneo periférico. …”
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Effective and safe surgery for keratinocyte skin cancer in the elderly over 80 years of age: a single-institution retrospective study of 345 patients over one year by Luca D. Fontana, Clara Richter, Ramon Lang, Christian Greis, Jürg Hafner

“…Data were collected from operative and postoperative notes within six months after surgery.Results A total of 565 tumors were removed from 345 patients, consisting mainly of basal cell carcinoma (46.5%) and squamous cell carcinoma (45.8%), including 24.2% clinically large tumors (>2 cm in diameter). …”
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An integrative approach to a revision of the freshwater mussel genus Songkhlanaia (Bivalvia, Unionidae), with the description of a new species by Ekgachai Jeratthitikul, Chirasak Sutcharit, Pongpun Prasankok

“…The multi-locus phylogenetic inference supported the monophyly of the genus and further elucidated the sister relationship between S. moreleti and the new species, and with S. tamodienica positioned as a basal lineage. Pairwise uncorrected COI p-distances among these three species also supported the species validity and ranged from 4.2% to 8.24%. …”
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Religia jako lekarstwo? Julii Kristevej spojrzenie na wartość religii chrześcijańskiej by Andrzej Duk

“…W artykule omówiono podstawy jej psychoanalitycznej myśli, jak również dokonano analizy niektórych terminów interpretowanych przez nią, zaczerpniętych z religii chrześcijańskiej. Z przeprowadzonych badań wynika, iż Kristeva nie wychodzi poza ramy psychoanalizy, co powoduje, że stosowane przez nią pojęcia pozornie tylko odpowiadają terminom chrześcijańskim. …”
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