Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acid in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Meta-Analysis by Wenxia Lu, Sainan Li, Jingjing Li, Jianrong Wang, Rong Zhang, Yuqing Zhou, Qin Yin, Yuanyuan Zheng, Fan Wang, Yujing Xia, Kan Chen, Tong Liu, Jie Lu, Yingqun Zhou, Chuanyong Guo

“…A meta-analysis was conducted to assess the effect of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation (n-3 PUFAs) in lowering liver fat, liver enzyme (alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) levels), and blood lipids (triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein (HDL), and low density lipoprotein (LDL)) in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). …”
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Is There a Nonlinear Relationship between Serum Uric Acid and Lipids in a Hypertensive Population with eGFR ≥30 ml/min/1.73 m2? Findings from the China Hypertension Registry Study... by Yu Yu, Xiao Huang, Minghui Li, Congcong Ding, Lihua Hu, Xiao Zhong, Wei Zhou, Tao Wang, Lingjuan Zhu, Huihui Bao, Xiaoshu Cheng

“…The inflection point of SUA was 7.24 mg/dL. On the left side of the inflection point (<7.24 mg/dL), SUA was negatively associated with HDL-C (β = −0.02; 95% CI −0.02, −0.01). …”
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Effect of different diets on the fatty acid composition of buffalo bulk milk by Sebastiana Failla, Giuliano Palocci, Michela Contò, Gianluca Renzi, Chiara Evangelista, Loredana Basiricò, Umberto Bernabucci

“…The second diet was  supplemented with linseed (L), brewer’s spent grain (T), alfalfa and mixed hay (H), corn grain (M), and grass (G) as additional constituents. Other farms included both grass and cottonseed (CG), grass and linseed (GL), or grass and brewer’s spent grain (TG) and grass, linseed and brewer’s spent grain (LTG). …”
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Metabolomic Profiling Reveals Potential Biomarkers and Prominent Features in HIV/AIDS Patients Co-Infected with SARS-CoV-2 by Xuan Yan, Xinyu Zhang, Wei Song, Tangkai Qi, Zhenyan Wang, Yang Tang, Jianjun Sun, Shuibao Xu, Junyang Yang, Jiangrong Wang, Jun Chen, Renfang Zhang, Li Liu, Yinzhong Shen

“…Vitamin K1 may be a biomarker for SARS-CoV-2 in HIV/AIDS patients, and changes in the levels of TG, PC, and PG molecules appear to be the main features following HIV co-infection with COVID-19. …”
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Positive Antithyroid Antibodies and Nonsuppressed TSH Are Associated with Thyroid Cancer: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Jan Krátký, Jana Ježková, Mikuláš Kosák, Hana Vítková, Jana Bartáková, Miloš Mráz, Jindřich Lukáš, Zdenka Límanová, Jan Jiskra

“…Positive antithyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO) and antithyroglobulin (anti-Tg) antibodies were associated with TC (anti-TPO 44% in TC vs. 27% in controls, P=0.005, anti-TG 35% in TC group vs. 21% in controls, P=0.018), and the TC group had significantly higher TSH (median 1.88 mIU/l vs. 1.21 mIU/l, P<0.001). …”
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Energy and Reserve Scheduling of Distribution Network in Presence of Electric Vehicle Aggregators: A Decentralized Approach by Atena Tazikeh Lemeski, Reza Ebrahimi, Alireza Zakariazadeh, Keyvan Firuzi

“…Bilateral energy transactions between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid are managed by entities called aggregators (AGGs) who work as private or network operator’s agents. …”
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Improving Freedom of Visually Impaired Individuals with Innovative EfficientNet and Unified Spatial-Channel Attention: A Deep Learning-Based Road Surface Detection System by Amit Chaudhary, Prabhat Verma

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Photodegradation of Methyl Green by Nickel-Dimethylglyoxime/ZSM-5 Zeolite as a Heterogeneous Catalyst by Alireza Nezamzadeh-Ejhieh, Zahra Shams-Ghahfarokhi

“…FT-IR, XRD, SEM, TG, and DTG methods were used for characterization of the raw and modified samples. …”
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SURFACE HARDENING HEAT TREATMENTS APPLIED TO CAST IRONS AND STEELS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HEAT EXCHANGER SUBASSEMBLIES by Florin CIOFU, Alin NIOAŢĂ

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Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Pyrrolo [2,3-b] Pyridine Derivatives for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Jialin Ma, Jing Li, Dongping Yao, Qi Wang, Xinzhou Chen, Feiyan Tao, Bin Chen, Yongmei Xie, Lang Bai, Yiwen Zhang

“…Importantly, intraperitoneal administration of F-9 at 10 mg·kg−1·day−1 for 5 weeks had the most excellent effects to reduce the weight of the body, liver, and fat, as well as adjusting serum levels of AST, ALT, TC, TG, HDL, and LDL. …”
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Simultaneously Recovering High-Purity Chromium and Removing Organic Pollutants from Tannery Effluent by Jie Zong, Yan-Chun Li, Kang Hu

“…The experiments were characterized by TG, TOC, UV-VIS, and SEM. In the work, the tannery waste chrome liquor was used as experimental material. …”
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Visual Perception of Organic and Polygonal Shapes in the Graphic Communication Processes by Robert Geček, Damir Vusić

“…The hypotheses were tested using two statistical methods: the t-test for two vectors and Wilcoxon's rank-sum test. …”
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The perspectives of STEM faculty toward undergraduate mentorship - A case study by Pamela Martínez Oquendo, Morgan D. Vogel

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Editorial by Adriana Delbó

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Gaps in Study Design for Immune Parameter Research for Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Systematic Review by Mariana Herrera, Cristian Vera, Yoav Keynan, Zulma Vanessa Rueda

“…We found 24 parameters that were increased only in active TB (TGF-α, CSF3, CSF2, CCL1 [I-309], IL-7, TGF-β1, CCL3 [MIP-1α], sIL-2R, TNF-β, CCL7 [MCP-3], IFN-α, fractalkine, I-TAG, CCL8 [MCP-2], CCL21 [6Ckine], PDGF, IL-22, VEGF-A, LXA4, PGE2, PGF2α, sCD163, sCD14, and 15-Epi-LXA4), five were elevated in LTBI (IL-5, IL-17F, IL-1, CCL20 [MIP-3α], and ICAM-1), and two substances were increased among uninfected individuals (IL-23 and basic FGF). …”
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Characterization and Development of EST-SSRs by Deep Transcriptome Sequencing in Chinese Cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis) by Qian Ding, Jingjuan Li, Fengde Wang, Yihui Zhang, Huayin Li, Jiannong Zhang, Jianwei Gao

“…Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are among the most important markers for population analysis and have been widely used in plant genetic mapping and molecular breeding. Expressed sequence tag-SSR (EST-SSR) markers, located in the coding regions, are potentially more efficient for QTL mapping, gene targeting, and marker-assisted breeding. …”
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Treatment of a mutant KRAS lung cancer cell line with polyisoprenylated cysteinyl amide inhibitors activates the MAPK pathway, inhibits cell migration and induces apoptosis. by Matthew D Gregory, Kweku Ofosu-Asante, Jassy Mary S Lazarte, Pablo E Puente, Nada Tawfeeq, Nadine Belony, Yong Huang, Ite A Offringa, Nazarius S Lamango

“…An analysis of cells treated with the fluorescently labeled active caspase 3/7 irreversible inhibitor, CaspaTagTM Caspase-3/7 in situ reagent revealed a 124% increase in active caspase at 3 μM over controls. …”
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Rapid Detection of microRNA-122 in Serum and Finger Blood Using a Lateral Flow Nucleic Acid Biosensor by Min Zhang, Meijing Ma, Jiahui Wang, Yurui Zhou, Xueji Zhang, Guodong Liu

“…Traditional methods for detecting miR-122 mainly include Northern blotting and qRT-PCR, but they are technically complex and cumbersome, requiring expensive instruments and high technical requirements. …”
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Cloning, expression, and purification of fusion antigens MPT83 and ESAT6 from the local strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Escherichia coli as a seed vaccine candidate against... by Rusdina Bte Ladju, Ahyar Ahmad, Abdul Karim, Rugaiyah Arfah, Rosana Agus, Najdah Hidayah, Muhammad Nasrum Massi, Astutiati Nurhasanah, Harningsih Karim, Irda Handayani

“…The development of more potent TB vaccines is critical to complement overall TB control strategies and overcome the growing challenge of drug resistance. …”
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Prevalence of the Helicobacter pylori babA2 Gene in Children Mainly Depends on the PCR Primer Set Used by Anja Šterbenc, Maja M. Lunar, Matjaž Homan, Boštjan Luzar, Nina Zidar, Mario Poljak

“…The 139 and 832 bp PCR primer sets concordantly detected the babA2 gene in 93 cases; however, in comparison to the 832 bp PCR primer set, the 139 bp PCR primer set detected additional 50 babA2 cases, whereas only two 832 bp positive cases were missed. The 271 bp PCR primer set missed 32 babA2 cases that were 832 bp and/or 139 bp PCR positive, but tested solely positive in 109 cases. …”
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