Faecalibacterium prausnitzii regulates carbohydrate metabolic functions of the gut microbiome in C57BL/6 mice by Peiling Geng, Ni Zhao, Yufan Zhou, Reuben S. Harris, Yong Ge

“…The probiotic impact of microbes on host metabolism and health depends on both host genetics and bacterial genomic variation. …”
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Heavy chain-only antibodies with a stabilized human VH in transgenic chickens for therapeutic antibody discovery by Christine N. Vuong, Kevin M. Reynolds, Gerry S. Rivera, Baisen Zeng, Zahra Karimpourkalou, Manith Norng, Yulei Zhang, Robayet Chowdhury, Darlene Pedersen, Melissa Pantoja, Ellen Collarini, Swetha Garimalla, Shelley Izquierdo, Eric G. Vajda, Brett Antonio, Devendra B. Srivastava, Marie-Cecile van de Lavoir, Yasmina Abdiche, William Harriman, Philip A. Leighton

“…Heavy chain-only antibodies with their single antigen-binding domain offer the advantage of a smaller size and higher stability relative to conventional antibodies, and thus, the potential for novel targeting modalities. Domain antibodies have commonly been sourced from camelids with ex-vivo humanization or transgenic rodents expressing heavy chains without light chains, but these host species are all mammalian, limiting their capacity to elicit robust immune responses to conserved mammalian targets. …”
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Metagenomics approaches for studying the human microbiome by Biniam Moges, Degisew Yinur Mengistu

“…Hence, metagenomics analysis is a powerful advanced technology for comprehensively studying human microbial composition and diversity, exploring novel and antibiotic resistance genes, microbial metabolic pathways, functional dysbiosis, and co-evolution of the microbiome with the host. …”
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Madame Bovary ? elle habitait là-bas... by Ida Merello

“…Echoes therefore seem to leave the novel to return to it, enriched with a host of small details that try to penetrate into the biography of the author. …”
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Recent Advances of Processing and Detection Techniques on Crustacean Allergens: A Review by Xin Qu, Zekun Ma, Xuli Wu, Liangtao Lv

“…This review provides updates and new findings on crustacean allergens, which helps better understand crustacean allergy and provide novel strategies for its prevention and management.…”
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Venom of the Endoparasitoid Wasp Pteromalus puparum: An Overview by Jia-Ying Zhu, Gong-Yin Ye, Cui Hu

“…Pteromalus puparum is a gregarious pupal endoparasitoid wasp which has evolved unique means to adopt the host's immune system, as no other parasitoid-associated factors other than venom are injected into its hosts during oviposition. …”
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Anticytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Antigen-4 Induced Autoimmune Hypophysitis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Deborah Majchel, Mary T. Korytkowski

“…Autoimmune hypophysitis, a previously described rare disorder, is being recognized more frequently as a side effect of novel immunomodulatory agents used in the treatment of malignancies such as melanoma. …”
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Inhibitory Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides on Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammation by Yue Sun, Dejing Shang

“…For the multiple-antibiotic-resistant strains, AMPs play a significant role in the development of novel antibiotics because of their broad-spectrum antimicrobial activities and specific antimicrobial mechanism. …”
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Extended Linear and Nonlinear Lorentz Transformations and Superluminality by Dara Faroughy

“…Section 3 presents two broad scenarios involving a number of novel nonlinear LTs (NLTs) featuring small Lorentz invariance violations (LIVs), as well as resurrecting the notion of simultaneity for limited spacetime events as perceived by two observers in URM. …”
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An Efficient Clustering Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Cooperative Communication by Shukui Zhang, Jianxi Fan, Juncheng Jia, Jin Wang

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Long-Term Use of Ruxolitinib in an AML Patient with Posttransplant Steroid Refractory GVHD by Philip T. Sobash, Achuta K. Guddati, Vamsi Kota

“…Ruxolitinib has become a new therapeutic option for steroid refractory graft-versus-host disease (srGVHD), with a substantial remission rate. …”
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Effective anti-adhesives of uropathogenic Escherichia coli by Ribić Rosana, Meštrović Tomislav, Neuberg Marijana, Kozina Goran

“…Although UPEC may harbour a plethora of virulence factors, type I fimbriae and P pili are two of the most studied adhesive organelles, since the attachment to host cells in the urinary tract is a crucial step towards infection. …”
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Active Roles of Tumor Stroma in Breast Cancer Metastasis by Zahraa I. Khamis, Ziad J. Sahab, Qing-Xiang Amy Sang

“…Elucidating the types of cells recruited and signal pathways involved in the crosstalk between tumor cells and stromal cells will help identify novel strategies for cotargeting cancer cells and tumor stromal cells to suppress metastasis and improve patient outcome.…”
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Hybrid Unsupervised Exploratory Plots: A Case Study of Analysing Foreign Direct Investment by Álvaro Herrero, Alfredo Jiménez, Secil Bayraktar

“…Advancing in descriptive data analysis, the present paper proposes Hybrid Unsupervised Exploratory Plots (HUEPs) as a new visualization technique to combine the outputs of Exploratory Projection Pursuit and Clustering methods in a novel and informative way. As a case study, HUEPs are validated in a real-world context for analysing the internationalization strategy of companies, by taking into account bilateral distance between home and host countries. …”
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Implications of intratumoral microbiota in tumor metastasis: a special perspective of microorganisms in tumorigenesis and clinical therapeutics by Lei Zhang, Xichu Duan, Yanhua Zhao, Dejiu Zhang, Yuan Zhang

“…Indirectly, they may affect tumor metastasis by modulating the host immune system and the tumor microenvironment. …”
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Network-level reproduction number and extinction threshold for vector-borne diseases by Ling Xue, Caterina Scoglio

“…Consistent trends of extinction probability observed through numerical simulations provide novel insights into mitigation strategies to increase the disease extinction probability. …”
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Abdominal Wall Defects: Hydrogel based solutions in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction by Alook Kumar Ajay, Shashi Ranjan, Rajendra Singh, Shalini Kapoor Mehta

“…This paper presents hydrogel-based materials as a novel approach to addressing these abdominal wall defect repair challenges. …”
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Glioblastoma Multiforme Stem Cells by Irena Dimov, Deasanka Tasic-Dimov, Irena Conic, Vladisav Stefanovic

“…The endogenous immune regulation is likely to limit or abrogate the efficacy of the host's immune response, as well as the developed immunotherapeutic strategies at present. …”
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Identity and agency in South Africa by Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian

“… It is often assumed that a sense of interconnectedness with others and a common identity, such as that associated with the idea of “rainbowism”, can only be achieved after a host of social injustices, inequities and other material problems have somehow been addressed. …”
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Influenza A virus hemagglutinin: from classical fusion inhibitors to proteolysis targeting chimera-based strategies in antiviral drug discovery by Francisco Javier Hermoso-Pinilla, Aitor Valdivia, María-José Camarasa, Tiziana Ginex, Francisco Javier Luque

“…The influenza virus glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA) participates in critical steps of the attachment of viral particles to the host cell membrane receptor and membrane fusion. …”
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