The Supernatant of Tonsil-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Has Antiallergic Effects in Allergic Rhinitis Mouse Model by In-Su Park, Ji Hye Kim, Jun-Sang Bae, Dong-Kyu Kim, Ji-Hun Mo

“…Additionally, we found that the 10 mg T-MSCs-CM-treated group showed a significantly decreased IL-4 mRNA expression, compared to the (+) Con group. …”
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Thermal ablation enhances immunotherapeutic effect of IP-001 on orthotopic liver cancer in a rat model by Yan Li, Samuel S.K. Lam, Chun Fung Wong, Tomas Hode, David Anderson, Robert C.G. Martin

“…When tumor size reached 1.0–1.5 cm3, the animals were divided randomly into 4 groups, (1) MWA+IP-001; (2) MWA+saline; (3) sham MWA+IP-001 and (4) sham MWA+saline (n = 5 each group).Results IP001 + MWA treatment significantly suppressed tumor growth in comparison to the other 3 groups. …”
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Factors influencing the efficiency of building materials self-cleaning with photocatalytically active components by P. I. Kiyko, T. N. Chernykh, V. P. Plesovskikh

“…The efficiency of self-cleaning was determined by the change in the contact angle of a water drop on a surface coated with oleic acid.Results. …”
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Antibody-induced erythrophagocyte reprogramming of Kupffer cells prevents anti-CD40 cancer immunotherapy-associated liver toxicity by Florence Vallelian, Marc Pfefferlé, Irina L Dubach, Raphael M Buzzi, Elena Dürst, Nadja Schulthess-Lutz, Livio Baselgia, Kerstin Hansen, Larissa Imhof, Sandra Koernig, Didier Le Roy, Thierry Roger, Rok Humar, Dominik J Schaer

“…In contrast, extrahepatic inflammation, antigen-specific immunity, and antitumor activity remained unaffected in Ter119 treated animals.Conclusions Our study offers a targeted approach to uncouple CD40-augmented antitumor immunity in peripheral tissues from harmful inflammatoxicity in the liver.…”
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Clinical, histopathological and parasitological follow-up of dogs naturally infected by Leishmania infantum before and after miltefosine treatment and associated therapies. by Amábilli de Souza Rosar, Carolina Leite Martins, Álvaro Menin, Carolina Reck, Edmundo Carlos Grisard, Glauber Wagner, Mário Steindel, Patricia Hermes Stoco, Patricia Flavia Quaresma

“…The clinical conditions of the infected animals were improved and the skin parasite load decreased after treatment, even when distinct combination therapies were performed. …”
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Investigation of a Novel Noninvasive Risk Analytics Algorithm With Laboratory Central Venous Oxygen Saturation Measurements in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients by Sarah A. Teele, MD, MSHPEd, Avihu Z. Gazit, MD, Craig Futterman, MD, William G. La Cava, PhD, David S. Cooper, MD, MPH, MBA, Steven M. Schwartz, MD, MS, Joshua W. Salvin, MD, MPH

“…PREDICTION MODEL:. The ability of the IDo2 index to predict Svo2 below a preselected threshold (30%, 40%, or 50%) was evaluated for discriminatory power, range utilization, and robustness. …”
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Optimal sizing and performance assessment of stand-alone PV systems using optimum hybrid sizing strategy by Mohamad Abed, Amarendra Reddy B, T.R. Jyothsna, Nabil Mohammed

“…The performance assessment utilizes real-time data for December, identified as the worst-case month for PV power generation in the initial exploration stage. …”
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Structural damage-driven brain compensation among near-centenarians and centenarians without dementia by Hui Tang, Haichao Zhao, Hao Liu, Jiyang Jiang, Nicole Kochan, Jing Jing, Henry Brodaty, Wei Wen, Perminder S. Sachdev, Tao Liu

“…The strongest effects were found between attention and somatomotor network (SMN) (r=0.397, p<0.001), memory and SMN (r=0.333 p<0.001), fluency and visual network (VIS) - control network (CN) (r=0.406, p<0.001), language and VIS (r=0.309, p<0.001), visuospatial ability and VIS-default mode network (DMN) (r=0.464, p<0.001), as well as global cognition and VIS-DMN (r=0.335, p<0.001). …”
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Exploitation of Unconventional CD8 T-Cell Responses Induced by Engineered Cytomegaloviruses for the Development of an HIV-1 Vaccine by Joseph Bruton, Tomáš Hanke

“…Rhesus macaques vaccinated with molecular clone 68-1 of RhCMV (RhCMV68-1) engineered to express simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) immunogens elicited an unconventional major histocompatibility complex class Ib allele E (MHC-E)-restricted CD8⁺ T-cell response, which consistently protected over half of the animals against a highly pathogenic SIV challenge. …”
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Assessments of Antibacterial Effects of Aqueous-Ethanolic Extracts of Sida rhombifolia’s Aerial Part by Demeke Debalke, Mastewal Birhan, Amebaye Kinubeh, Muluken Yayeh

“…The objectives of this study were assessing the antibacterial activity of the aqueous-methanol extract of the plant’s aerial part and knowing the phytochemical constituents of the plant. …”
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Optimization of sustainable corn–cattle integration in Gorontalo Province using goal programming by Imran Supriyo, Indriani Ria, Hippy Mohammad Zubair

“…Farmers cannot achieve the optimum profits using an integrated system in corn and cattle farming because they are not utilizing their resources in the best way possible. …”
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Study on a New Method of Link-Based Link Prediction in the Context of Big Data by Chen Jicheng, Chen Hongchang, Li Hanchao

“…Notwithstanding all the merits link prediction presents, they are only enjoyed by large networks. For sparse networks, there is a wide disparity between the links that are likely to form and the ones that include. …”
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Occurrence of severe cognitive impairment in elderly individuals with poor glycemic control Vs elderly individuals with good glycemic control or no DM: a case control study” by Basma Salman, Fatima Jehangir, Aroosa Jahan, Saira Aslam, Nadra Ansari

“… ABSTRACT: Background: There is substantiatial corroboration that diabetes (both T1DM and T2DM) plays an essential role in predisposition to cognitive decline thus leading to dementia in both human and animal studies. (1,2,3). Hypoglycemia has been associated with the increased risk of developing cognitive impairment. (4). …”
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Occurrence and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Listeria monocytogenes Isolated From Bovine’s Milk and Meat in Mekelle City, Ethiopia by Tesfay Hailu, Getachew Gugsa, Yisehak Tsegaye, Meselu Ahmed, Nesibu Awol

“…Listeria monocytogenes is an opportunistic and emerging foodborne zoonotic pathogen that encompasses a diversity of strains with varied virulence and can cause serious human and animal infections worldwide. However, in Mekelle City, the actual prevalence and the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of L. monocytogenes were not done. …”
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Dom jako miejsce kształtowania świadomości ekologicznej Polaków by Monika Podkowińska, Antoni Świerczek, Beáta Balogová

“…Ani dom, ani szkoła w opinii badanych nie stanowią głównych źródeł informacji dotyczących środowiska naturalnego. …”
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Osteopenia Metabolomic Biomarkers for Early Warning of Osteoporosis by Jie Wang, Dandan Yan, Suna Wang, Aihua Zhao, Xuhong Hou, Xiaojiao Zheng, Jingyi Guo, Li Shen, Yuqian Bao, Wei Jia, Xiangtian Yu, Cheng Hu, Zhenlin Zhang

“…Metabolites were further selected to identify osteopenia (nine metabolites in females; eight metabolites in males), and their ability to discriminate osteopenia was improved significantly compared to traditional bone turnover markers (BTMs) (female AUC = 0.717, 95% CI 0.547–0.882, versus BTMs: <i>p</i> = 0.036; male AUC = 0.801, 95% CI 0.636–0.966, versus BTMs: <i>p</i> = 0.007). …”
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Effect of Particle Size on Structural, Physicochemical and Functional Properties of Highland Barley Bran by Tong WANG, Xueqing WANG, Yaning TIAN, Jingjing YANG, Bin DANG, Xiaogang SHEN, Fengzhong WANG, Lili WANG

“…Compared to CHB, UHB exhibited a reduction of 21% in water-holding capacity and 7.64% in oil-holding capacity. In vitro glucose adsorption experiments demonstrated that as the particle size decreased, highland barley bran exhibited enhanced adsorption ability and inhibition of diffusion for high concentrations of glucose. …”
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ADMINISTRATION OF EARLY POST-PARTUM ORAL DRENCH IN DAIRY COWS: EFFECTON METABOLIC PROFILE by R. Schallenberger Gonçalves, F. Cardoso, F. de Souza Guagnini, L. J. Reyes Castañeda, F. Gonzalez

“…a total of 48 cows from a herd in r io Grande do s ul state (southern Brazil) was used in the study. The animals were randomly selected and treated orally with d rench ( n = 32, propylene glycol, electrolytes and choline in 40 L of water) and water ( n = 16) used as control. …”
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Bioimpedance as an alternative tool for subjective, visual scoring of a prevalent ham quality defect by Abie Sisay Mebre, Suliga Paweł, Egelandsdal Bjørg, Münch Daniel

“…To do so, visual scoring was performed together with measurements of bioimpedance, color, and pH in two ham muscles (Adductor, Semimembranosus) for 136 animals 24-hours post-mortem. When comparing with visual scoring, Pearson correlation analysis shows the strongest correlation for bioimpedance (Py, r = −0.46, R2 = 21%), followed by pHu (r = 0.44, R2 = 19%). …”
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Design and testing of a posture-adjusting precision metering device for high-speed maize planting by Jianxin Dong, Xiaojun Gao, Zhouzhou Zheng, Pengfei Zhao, Yubin Bi, Yuxiang Huang, Yuxiang Huang, Yuxiang Huang

“…The best metering performance was achieved with an opening angle of 21.6° and an opening width of 8.4 mm; this resulted in pass, repeat, and leak rates of 94.8%, 1.3%, and 3.9%, respectively. …”
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