Investigating the potential immunomodulatory effects of commercial oral probiotic supplements on equine gastrointestinal tract barrier function by Agnieszka Żak-Bochenek, Paulina Żebrowska-Różańska, Joanna Bajzert, Łukasz Łaczmański, Bogumiła Szponar, Natalia Siwińska, Klaudia Gładysz, Katarzyna Sikorska, Anna Chełmońska-Soyta

“…The samples were subjected to microbiome analysis via next-generation sequencing of hypervariable regions V3-V4 and V7-V9 of the 16S rRNA gene for analysis of short-chain fatty acids via HPLC analysis and fecal secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) quantification via ELISA.ResultsMicrobiome analysis revealed no significant differences in either alpha or beta diversity parameters between the groups. …”
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Influence of Biological Therapeutics, Cytokines, and Disease Activity on Depression in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Margarida Figueiredo-Braga, Caleb Cornaby, Alice Cortez, Miguel Bernardes, Georgina Terroso, Marta Figueiredo, Cristina Dos Santos Mesquita, Lúcia Costa, Brian D. Poole

“…In the patients with primary depression, depressive symptoms were associated with IL-6 and TNF-alpha. In RA patients, Tocilizumab use was associated with decreased depressive symptoms. 14 RA patients who were not using biologicals began using them by a one-month follow-up. …”
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The Mediating Role of Human Resources and Internal Processes on the Relationship between Innovation Strategy and Financial Performance by Vajiheh Dehghan, Mahmoud Moeinadin, Soheila Shahrestani

“…The study's statistical population consists of financial managers and senior accounting supervisors of production units in Yazd province; simple random sampling was used to select the sample, and 100 acceptable questionnaires were collected and analyzed. Cronbach's alpha coefficient confirmed the content validity of the questionnaires according to experts' opinions, and the reliability was confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis. …”
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Üniversite sporcularının cinsiyet rolleri ve psikolojik iyi oluşları by Sinem Parlakyildiz, Sevim Kul Avan

“…SPSS 22.0 programı aracılığıyla elde edilen verilerin analizinde tanımlayıcı istatistikler, Cronbach’s Alpha değerleri, İki Yönlü ANOVA, MANOVA ve Bağımsız Örneklem t Testi istatistiksel yöntemleri kullanılmıştır. …”
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Optimising Growth, Immunity, and Gene Expression in Broiler Chickens Through Dietary Threonine Levels and Oil Inclusion by Mohamed I. El‐Katcha, Mosaad A. Soltan, Heba I. Ghamry, Abeer F. El‐Nahas, Laila A. Al‐Shuraym, Ostan Mihaela, Rada Olga, Rasha E. Azab, Ahmed Abdeen, Mustafa Shukry, Set A. El‐Shobokshy

“…Methods We investigate the growth performance, feed efficiency, immune response, intestinal morphology, absorptive capacity, and expression of some genes related to the feed intake (Pro‐opiomelanocortin [POMC]), fatty acid synthesis (Acetyl‐CoA Carboxylase [ACC]), immunity (lipopolysaccharide‐induced tumour necrosis like alpha factor [LITAF]), and heat shock protein 70 (HSP70). …”
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Therapeutic effects of Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi root and Hovenia dulcis Thunb. extracts on alcoholic liver disease: Network pharmacology and experimental validation by Zhendong Chen, Yu Yue, Hongyan An, Haisu Yan, Hyeok-Joo Park, Pei Lin

“…Moreover. inflammatory responses were mitigated, as indicated by reductions in the expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6, and we detected reduction in the levels of alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase, thereby indicating hepatoprotective effects. …”
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Injected Human Muscle Precursor Cells Overexpressing PGC-1α Enhance Functional Muscle Regeneration after Trauma by Deana Haralampieva, Souzan Salemi, Thomas Betzel, Ivana Dinulovic, Stefanie D. Krämer, Roger Schibli, Tullio Sulser, Christoph Handschin, Simon M. Ametamey, Daniel Eberli

“…Therefore, the first goal of our project was to optimize the functional regenerative potential of hMPC by genetic modification to overexpress human peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha (hPGC-1α), key regulator of exercise-mediated adaptation. …”
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Transcriptional regulation by CHIP/LDB complexes. by Revital Bronstein, Liron Levkovitz, Nir Yosef, Michaela Yanku, Eytan Ruppin, Roded Sharan, Heiner Westphal, Brian Oliver, Daniel Segal

“…Moreover, by in vivo RNAi silencing we uncovered novel roles for two of the target genes, xbp1 and Gs-alpha, in early development of these structures. …”
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Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Are Inhibitors of the Intestinal Proton-Coupled Amino Acid Transporter (PAT1): Ibuprofen and Diclofenac Are Non-Translocated Inhibitors by Carsten Uhd Nielsen, Sebastian Jakobsen, Maria L. Pedersen

“…The molecular interaction between NSAIDs and hPAT1 was investigated using an AlphaFold2 model and molecular docking. <b>Results:</b> NSAIDs such as ibuprofen, diclofenac, and flurbiprofen inhibited proline uptake via hPAT1, with IC₅₀ values of 954 (logIC₅₀ 2.98 ± 0.1) µM, 272 (logIC₅₀ 2.43 ± 0.1) µM, and 280 (logIC₅₀ 2.45 ± 0.1) µM, respectively. …”
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Prevalence and pathogenic potential of Shewanella species in oysters and seawater collected from the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bays by Tahirah Johnson, Gary P. Richards, John Jacobs, Howard Townsend, Esam Almuhaideb, Detbra Rosales, Paulinus Chigbu, Ligia Dasilva, Salina Parveen

“…The top four species isolated from oysters and seawater were S. khirikhana a known shrimp pathogen (49%), S. marisflavi (19%), S. loihica (11%), and S. algae (8%). Testing for alpha and beta hemolysis were performed on all confirmed Shewanella isolates. …”
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Batılı Gezginlerin Gözlem ve Değerlendirmelerinde Ankara Keçisi by Mehmet AK

“…The unilateral processing of capitulations, 1838 Treaty of Balta Liman, and the availability of mohair exportation negatively affected Turkish manufacturers and domestic enterprises. …”
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Cytotoxic Function and Cytokine Production of Natural Killer Cells and Natural Killer T-Like Cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosis Regulation with Interleukin-15 by Syh-Jae Lin, Ming-Ling Kuo, Hsiu-Shan Hsiao, Pei-Tzu Lee, Wen-I Lee, Ji-Yih Chen, Jing-Long Huang

“…We sought to examine the perforin and granzyme B expression, interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), and tumor-necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) production and CD107a degranulation of NK and NKT-like cells from SLE patients and their regulation by IL-15. …”
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Nutritional and Microbiome Effects of a Partial Substitution of Poultry Meat with Hydrolyzed Feather Meal in Dog Diets by Fatemeh Balouei, Bruno Stefanon, Rosangela Armone, Andrea Randazzo, Biagina Chiofalo

“…No significant difference was calculated for the alpha diversity index between control diet and treated diet, nor for the diets × times of sampling interaction and for sex. …”
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Gut colonization of Bacteroides plebeius suppresses colitis-associated colon cancer development by Hung-Lin Chen, Po-Yuan Hu, Chang-Shan Chen, Wei-Han Lin, Daniel K. Hsu, Fu-Tong Liu, Tzu-Ching Meng

“…Moreover, B. plebeius colonization in gnotobiotic mice resulted in enhanced production of selected metabolites, including propionic, taurocholic, cholic, alpha-, and beta-muricholic, as well as ursodeoxycholic acids. …”
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A Resource-Efficient Multi-Entropy Fusion Method and Its Application for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition by Jiawen Li, Guanyuan Feng, Chen Ling, Ximing Ren, Xin Liu, Shuang Zhang, Leijun Wang, Yanmei Chen, Xianxian Zeng, Rongjun Chen

“…First, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied to extract five brain rhythms, i.e., delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma, from EEG signals, followed by the acquisition of multi-entropy features, including Spectral Entropy (PSDE), Singular Spectrum Entropy (SSE), Sample Entropy (SE), Fuzzy Entropy (FE), Approximation Entropy (AE), and Permutation Entropy (PE). …”
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How, What, and Where You Sample Environmental DNA Affects Diversity Estimates and Species Detection by Anish Kirtane, Leif Howard, Caitlin E. Beaver, Margaret E. Hunter, Gordon Luikart, Kristy Deiner

“…The tow net samples had significantly higher eDNA yield compared to grab samples; however, they exhibited equal or lower alpha diversity of OTUs (Operational Taxonomic Units). …”
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Turkish validity and reliability of Burnout Syndrome Assessment Scale for nurses working in intensive care units by Yağmur Dağ, Gülsün Özdemir Aydın, Nuray Turan

“…Internal consistency analyses were conducted using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients and item analysis. Confirmatory factor analysis was employed to evaluate the construct validity. …”
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Effects of Adipose-tissue Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells on PBMCs in Co-culture with HeLa Cell Line by Maryam Dorfaki, mahdi ghatrehsamani, fahimeh Lavi Arab, Mona Roozbehani, Majid Khoshmirsafa, Reza Falak, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Fatemeh Faraji

“…Materials and Methods: The effect of MSC cells on proliferation, apoptosis, and gene expression of the cytokines tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-&#945;), transforming growth factor beta (TGF-&#946;), interleukin (IL)-4, IL-2, and interferon-&#947; in PBMCs cultured together with HeLa cells was investigated using flow cytometry and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), respectively. …”
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Dutch Validation of the Self-Evaluation of Negative Symptoms Scale (SNS) by Tim van Brouwershaven, Anika Poppe, Gerdina Hendrika Maria Pijnenborg, André Aleman, Nynke Boonstra, Shiral Gangadin, Sonia Dollfus, Wim Veling, Stynke Castelein, Jan Alexander de Vos, Edith Liemburg, PHAMOUS-researchers, Lisette van der Meer

“…Internal consistency was assessed by Cronbach’s alpha. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to evaluate the construct validity of the five subscales of the SNS. …”
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Leisure Boredom Scale: the Factor Structure and the Demographic Differences by Bulent Gurbuz, Erman Oncu, Feyza Kara

“…The scale consists of 10 items; the item factor loadings for the overall scale range between 0.38 and 0.83; and the Cronbach Alpha coefficient for the subscales was determined 0.72 for boredom and 0.77 for satisfaction in the final form of the scale. …”
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