Bioactivity of plants used traditionally in the treatment and management of men’s sexual health by Tsumbedzo Nemandalali, Monde A. Nyila, Thilivhali E. Tshikalange

“…Background: In many African societies, men still rely on the long cultural history of utilising medicinal plants to treat and manage their sexual health. …”
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Development and Validation of a Simple High Performance Liquid Chromatography/UV Method for Simultaneous Determination of Urinary Uric Acid, Hypoxanthine, and Creatinine in Human U... by Nimanthi Wijemanne, Preethi Soysa, Sulochana Wijesundara, Hemamali Perera

“…Potassium phosphate buffer (20 mM, pH 7.25) at a flow rate of 0.40 mL/min was employed as the solvent and peaks were detected at 235 nm. …”
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Hypoglycemic activity of brown seaweed (Sargassum plagiophyllum) kombucha bioactive compound in rat model type-2 of diabetes by Priambodo Ahmad Faris, Martati Erryana, Firdaus Muhamad

“…The study consisted of 5 groups, including negative control, positive control (DM2), DM2 + SK 1.5 mL/250 g bw once a day, DM2 + SK 1.5 mL/250 g bw twice a day, and DM2 + SK 1, 5 mL/250 g bw three times a day. …”
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Antimalarial, Antioxidant, and Toxicological Evaluation of Extracts of Celtis africana, Grosseria vignei, Physalis micrantha, and Stachytarpheta angustifolia by Michael Konney Laryea, Lawrence Sheringham Borquaye

“…In many parts of the world, malaria undoubtedly poses a serious threat to health care systems. …”
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Reduction in Carbon Dioxide Emission and Energy Saving Obtained by Renovation of Building Envelope of Existing Residential Buildings by Rui Chen, Xiaoping Feng, Chengjing Li, Huapeng Chen

“…We selected a residential dwelling from the many buildings in southern Jiangsu Province, China, which consume and emit extremely large amounts of energy and CO2, respectively, and assessed various energy-saving renovation schemes for improving the thermal envelope. …”
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THE 90^th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FRUIT CROP GENETIC RESOURCES AT VIR by A. A. Yushev

“…Kryukov, F. D. Likhonos, A.M. Negrul, N. M. Pavlova, A. M. Rozanova, G. A. …”
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Experimental Study on Fire Behaviour in Room following the Disposition of Openings by Fidel Meskéoulé Vondou, Claude Valery Ngayihi Abbe, Justin Tégawendé Zaida, Philippe Onguene Mvogo, Ruben Mouangue

“…Many experiments have been done by authors to study the influence of the natural ventilation through openings on fire behaviour in compartments. …”
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Chemical Composition, Total Phenolic Content, and Antioxidant Activities of the Essential Oils of the Leaves and Fruit Pulp of Annona muricata L. (Soursop) from Ghana by Joseph Nana Gyesi, Rita Opoku, Lawrence Sheringham Borquaye

“…Annona muricata, also called soursop, is widespread in many tropical countries, and various parts of the plant have been shown to possess very good pharmacological properties. …”
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Inflammatory Mediator Profiling Reveals Immune Properties of Chemotactic Gradients and Macrophage Mediator Production Inhibition during Thioglycollate Elicited Peritoneal Inflammat... by Derek Lam, Devon Harris, Zhenyu Qin

“…Moreover, LPS treatment in vitro significantly induced mediator productions in cell culture media and lysates from MΦ isolated on day 3. Our results also showed that on day 0, concentrations of many mediators in plasma were higher than those in exudates, whereas on day 1, the trend was reversed. …”
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Effect of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots (NCDs) on the Characteristics of NCD/MIL-53(Fe) Composite and Its Photocatalytic Performance for Methylene Blue Degradation under Visible Light by Ngoc Tue Nguyen, Xuan Truong Nguyen, Duc-Trung Nguyen, Hong Minh Tran, Thi May Nguyen, Thuong Quang Tran

“…Metal-organic framework composites, which are combined from metal-organic framework and advanced carbon material, have drawn great attention in many fields of application such as environmental remediation and catalysts. …”
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Rat Hippocampal Neural Stem Cell Modulation Using PDGF, VEGF, PDGF/VEGF, and BDNF by Neus Gomila Pelegri, Catherine A. Gorrie, Jerran Santos

“…Neural stem cells have become the focus of many studies as they have the potential to differentiate into all three neural lineages. …”
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A thin film optoelectronic photodetector of spherical and linear resonators via one-pot synthesis of Bi(III) oxide/polypyrrole nanocomposite by Fatemah H. Alkallas, Mohamed Rabia, Fedor V. Kusmartsev, Amira Ben Gouider Trabelsi

“…The device exhibits a high sensitivity to light, as evidenced by the increase of the photocurrent density (Jph) from − 0.06 mA.cm−2 in the dark to -0.12 mA.cm−2 under illumination at -2.0 V. …”
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TDP-43 nuclear retention is antagonized by hypo-phosphorylation of its C-terminus in the cytoplasm by Célia Rabhi, Nicolas Babault, Céline Martin, Bénédicte Desforges, Alexandre Maucuer, Vandana Joshi, Serhii Pankivskyi, Yitian Feng, Guillaume Bollot, Revital Rattenbach, David Pastré, Ahmed Bouhss

“…Importantly, we have analyzed specifically the self-assembly of full-length TDP-43 and its mRNA binding that are regulated by the phosphorylation of its self-adhesive C-terminus, which is the recipient of many pathological mutations. …”
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A Systematic Analysis of Various Word Sense Disambiguation Approaches by Chandra Ganesh, Sanjay K. Dwivedi, Satya Bhushan Verma, Manish Dixit

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L’aqueduc de Fontanières : un cinquième aqueduc romain à Lyon ? by Jean-Yves Barbier

“…At La Mulatière, a well-preserved 19 m section of the canal is still visible within the Cave de la Fleurie, and 500 m further north, portions of its foundation were found in the Fontanières gardens, in proximity to numerous reused blocks of tile mortar that reveal the destruction of the pipe it was intended to support.Finally, diligent and unrelenting research, combining fortuitous location scouting and field surveys, tenacious consultation of archives and exploitation of a network of local contacts, led to the discovery, 1 km further north, in Lyon’s 5th arrondissement, of another section of the canal, over 18 m long, as far as the scree filling in its extension in the heights of the Montée Saint-Laurent, downstream from the Rue des Trois-Artichauts towards Choulans. …”
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Single-cell atlas reveals multi-faced responses of losartan on tubular mitochondria in diabetic kidney disease by Zhen Zhu, Guangxin Luan, Song Wu, Yiyi Song, Shuang Shen, Kaiyue Wu, Shengnan Qian, Weiping Jia, Jun Yin, Tao Ren, Jianping Ye, Li Wei

“…Divide HK-2 cell into LG (low glucose; 5 mM) and HG (high glucose; 30 mM) and HG + LST (losartan; 1 µ M) subsets. snRNA-seq was performed on the renal tissues of LST and DKD subset mice. …”
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Omeprazole for Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease during Pregnancy and Lactation by John K Marshall, Alan BR Thomson, David Armstrong

“…However, the safety of many effective medical therapies, including oral proton pump inhibitors, has not been well defined. …”
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An Effective Hybrid Algorithm Based on Particle Swarm Optimization with Migration Method for Solving the Multiskill Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem by Huu Dang Quoc, Loc Nguyen The, Cuong Nguyen Doan

“…The new algorithm is called M-PSO. The experiments were conducted with the iMOPSE benchmark dataset and showed that the M-PSO was more practical than the early algorithms.…”
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Antimicrobial and ADME properties of methoxylated, methylated and nitrated 2-hydroxynaphthalene-1 carboxanilides by Lucia Vrablova, Tomas Gonec, Tereza Kauerova, Michal Oravec, Izabela Jendrzejewska, Peter Kollar, Alois Cizek, Josef Jampilek

“… Background and purpose: Many new compounds are being prepared to overcome the problem of increasing microbial resistance and the increasing number of infections. …”
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Significance of CD44 and CD24 as Cancer Stem Cell Markers: An Enduring Ambiguity by Appalaraju Jaggupilli, Eyad Elkord

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