Antimicrobial and Cytotoxicity Activities of Medicinal Plants against Salmonella gallinarum Isolated from Chickens by Mwanaisha Mkangara, Fulgence N. Mpenda

“…Medicinal plants have been the good source of treatment for different ailments of humans as well as animals for centuries. However, in Tanzania, few plants were investigated for their efficacy against various diseases of chickens. …”
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Sorafenib enhanced the function of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in hepatocellular carcinoma by facilitating PPARα-mediated fatty acid oxidation by Chunxiao Li, Liting Xiong, Yuhan Yang, Ping Jiang, Junjie Wang, Mengyuan Li, Shuhua Wei, Suqing Tian, Yuexuan Wang, Mi Zhang, Jie Tang

“…Mechanistically, sorafenib promoted the effect and fatty acid uptake ability of MDSCs and modulated peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα)-mediated fatty acid oxidation (FAO). …”
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A generalized linear model of dynamics of thin elastic shells by E.Yu. Mihajlova, D.V. Tarlakovskii, G.V. Fedotenkov

“…It has been shown that the movements of any point of the shell are determined by the tangential and normal displacements of the middle surface, by two angles of rotation of the normal fiber and its deformation, and the deformed state of the envelope is specified by the tensors of tangential deformation and changes in curvature and deformation of the normal fiber. …”
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Screening of N-Acyl Homoserine Lactone-degrading Bacteria and Evaluation of Their Quorum Quenching Activities by Xiqian TAN, Xiaoqing WANG, Fangchao CUI, Dangfeng WANG, Xinran LÜ, Xuepeng LI, Jianrong LI

“…To study the types of quorum quenching bacteria in soil and their quorum quenching characteristics, the study screened, isolated, and identified quorum quenching strains from soil and assessed their quorum quenching properties, the inhibitory and dispersion abilities on the biofilm of Hafnia alvei (H. alvei), and the potential types of quorum quenching enzymes by specific primer amplification. …”
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Properties of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae isolates by V. А. Evgrafova, О. V. Pruntova, N. B. Shadrova, А. М. Timina

“…Results of tests of six Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae isolates recovered from the diseased pigs kept in animal holdings located in the Russian Federation for their biological properties (biochemical, proteomic, antigenic and pathogenic ones) are presented in the paper. …”
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Early Detection of Microvascular Changes in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus without and with Diabetic Retinopathy: Comparison between Different Swept-Source OCT-A Instruments by Stela Vujosevic, Caterina Toma, Edoardo Villani, Valentina Gatti, Marco Brambilla, Andrea Muraca, Maria Chantal Ponziani, Gianluca Aimaretti, Alessandro Nuzzo, Paolo Nucci, Stefano De Cilla’

“…Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) has recently improved the ability to detect subclinical and early clinically visible microvascular changes occurring in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). …”
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Mixed and Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Baffled Channels: A Brief Review by Rabah Henniche, Abdelkader Korichi

“…The highest heat transfer improvement was obtained for the 45° angled baffles (between 150% and 850%). In mixed convective flow, the highest rate of heat transfer was obtained for transverse baffles (2.8 times compared to a similar channel with no baffles). …”
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DETECTION OF PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS TYPE 3 IN RUSSIAN PIG HOLDINGS by M. V. Biryuchenkova, A. M. Timina, A. V. Shcherbakov

“…Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV-3) causing systemic inflammation of unknown etiology in animals was detected the USA in 2015. Later, data on PCV-3 detection in Asia, Europe and South America were published. …”
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“Pottery Kilns, Specialized Production, Industrial Area and Chiefdoms”: A Reverse Interpretation of the Archaeological Findings from Tappeh Pardis by Sajjad Alibaigi

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Associations between skeletal muscle phenotype, positional role, and on‐ice performance in elite male ice hockey players by Jeppe F. Vigh‐Larsen, Hallur Thorsteinsson, Martin Thomassen, Jeppe Panduro, Bjørn Fristrup, Morten B. Randers, Jens L. Olesen, Peter Krustrup, Kristian Overgaard, Lars Nybo, Magni Mohr

“…On‐ice intermittent exercise capacity, repeated sprint ability, and maximal isometric knee‐extensor torque were also assessed. …”
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Antimicrobial Resistance Profile of E. coli Isolated from Raw Cow Milk and Fresh Fruit Juice in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia by Haftay Abraha Tadesse, Netsenet Berhe Gidey, Kidane Workelule, Hagos Hailu, Seyfe Gidey, Abrha Bsrat, Habtamu Taddele

“…They cause great suffering and are transmitted directly or indirectly between animals and humans and circulate in the global environment. …”
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Patellofemoral mechanics after uniplane open wedge high tibial osteotomy is superior to those after biplane open wedge high tibial osteotomy by Yi Zheng, Bin Yang, Decheng Meng, Zhijie Wang, Naihao Pan, Chen Feng, Juan Wang

“…The maximum stress and contact area of the PFJ at knee flexion angles of 90°, 60°, 30°, and 0° during sitting-to-standing and walking were measured in the three finite element models (normal knee joint model, uniplane OWHTO model, and biplane OWHTO model). …”
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Evaluation of the efficacy of visual acupotomy combined with rehabilitation training in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis by PAN Xigui, LIAN Xiaowen, FU Jiehui, ZHANG Zesheng, LIU Xuemei, XIU Zhongbiao

Subjects: “…knee osteoarthritis…”
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Microscopic Mechanism Affecting Shear Strength in Lignin-Treated Loess Samples by Wei Liu, Juan Wang, Gaochao Lin, Li Wen, Qian Wang

“…Microscopically, the addition of lignin increased cohesion in the loess samples, while slightly contributing to the internal friction angle. The use of lignin as a stabilizing additive for valley fill material shows potential for controlling building foundation deformation by increasing soil strength and minimizing environmental impacts by maintaining the soil pH and limiting pollutant production.…”
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Advanced shooting target with bullet collector, semi-automatic bulls-eye paper positioning and automatic shooting score by Dena Hendriana, Yunita Umniyati, Erikson Ferry Soonggalon, Isaac Hansen Averino, Mohammad Rizky Gartina, Rakhmad Aryo, Iwan Iwan, Prima Kharisma Indra Yahya

“…This system is equipped with a bullet collector system by directing the bullet to a container using 450 angled armor and a layer of sand in the container to stop the bullet. …”
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Maximum value of the spin-independent cross section in the 2HDM+a by Tomohiro Abe, Motoko Fujiwara, Junji Hisano, Yutaro Shoji

“…It also constrains the mixing angle between the two CP-odd states. The perturbative unitarity bound gives the upper bound on the Yukawa coupling between the dark matter and a0 and the quartic coupling of a0. …”
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Boanmycin overcomes bortezomib resistance by inducing DNA damage and endoplasmic reticulum functional impairment in multiple myeloma by Jin-Xing Wang, Ling Zhang, Peng-Wei Zhang, Luo-Wei Yuan, Jian Jiang, Xiao-Hui Cheng, Wei Zhu, Yong Lei, Fa-Qing Tian

“…Notably, boanmycin markedly killed patient-derived MM cells ex vivo. Mechanistically, boanmycin not only disrupts the cell cycle and causes DNA damage but also exerts its antitumor effects by inducing endoplasmic reticulum (ER) functional impairment. …”
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Sex differences in the expression of lipid oxidation and glucose uptake genes in muscles of fasted mice by N. A. Feofanova, T. V. Yakovleva, E. N. Makarova, N. M. Bazhan

“…Fasting significantly decreased body weight and glucose blood plasma levels in animals of both sexes but exerted no effect on the levels of insulin or FFA. …”
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Long-Term Voluntary Physical Exercise Exerts Neuroprotective Effects and Motor Disturbance Alleviation in a Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease by Wan-Ling Tsai, Hsin-Yung Chen, Ying-Zu Huang, Yuan-Hao Chen, Chi-Wei Kuo, Kai-Yun Chen, Tsung-Hsun Hsieh

“…The pathologic hallmark of PD is nigrostriatal dopaminergic neuron loss, leading to several motor and nonmotor disturbances, such as akinesia, gait disturbance, depression, and anxiety. Recent animal studies have demonstrated that physical exercise improves behavioral and neuropathological deficits in PD. …”
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A Toxicological Evaluation of Methylliberine (Dynamine®) by Timothy S. Murbach, Róbert Glávits, John R. Endres, Amy E. Clewell, Gábor Hirka, Adél Vértesi, Erzsébet Béres, Ilona Pasics Szakonyiné

“…No mortality or morbidity was observed and no toxicologically relevant clinical effects or effects on clinical pathology parameters were observed. In male animals, test item-related effects on body weight and sexual organs, which were not reversible after a 28-day recovery period without treatment, were observed in the high-dose group. …”
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