Little-Known Operations of the Soviet Troops in Liberation of Czechoslovakia by V. B. Makovsky

“…There were favorable conditions for the further deployment of the Red Army offensive deep into Czechoslovakia and access to the southern border of Germany. …”
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Vivre de paysage dans le Morvan ou l’impensé de la gestion forestière morvandelle by Damien Marage

“…The landscape has become the red thread of the 2020-2035 Charter for the Morvan Regional Nature Park. …”
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A Chinese Traditional Therapy for Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis in Mice by Lifang Sun, Minjie Mao, Zhisheng Yan, Cuiyun Zuo, Xiaojie Zhang

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Evaluating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Herbal Products for the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Yang Xin Zi Xu, Shengyan Xi, Xiaoyan Qian

“…Overall, treatments of gestational diabetes by western or alternative interventions are grossly understudied. …”
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CircRNA FAT1 Regulates Osteoblastic Differentiation of Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells via miR-4781-3p/SMAD5 Pathway by Yu Ye, Yue Ke, Liu Liu, Tong Xiao, Jinhua Yu

“…The abilities of circFAT1 and miR-4781-3p in regulating PDLSC differentiation were analyzed by western blot, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and Alizarin red staining (ARS). …”
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Caesalpinia sappan L. ethyl acetate extract regulated angiogenesis in atherosclerosis by modulating the miR-126/VEGF signalling pathway by Yue He, Chao Huang, Jingjing Chen, Weizeng Shen

“…In addition, our study performed RT‒PCR, ELISA and Western blot assays in ex vivo and in vivo experiments. …”
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Estimation of the Climate Preference Between Two Lineages of Europe-an Ground Squirrel Using Maximum Entropy Modeling by Sadık Demirtaş

“…The northern lineage shows distribution range at the central and western part of the Balkans and Central Europe, whereas the southern lineage is spread in a more limited area, which includes the southern and eastern parts of the Balkans. …”
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Effects of 0.01 mM strontium on human periodontal ligament stem cell osteogenic differentiation via the Wnt/-catenin signaling pathway by Tongke Sun, Dan Ma, Yang Song, Jing Hu, Ziqing Yang, Xu Wang, Jun Zhang

“…Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and western blots were used to examine the expression levels of relevant factors, such as collagen I (COL-1), ALP, and Runx family transcription factor 2 (RUNX2). …”
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NADPH Oxidase versus Mitochondria-Derived ROS in Glucose-Induced Apoptosis of Pericytes in Early Diabetic Retinopathy by Nik M. Mustapha, Joanna M. Tarr, Eva M. Kohner, Rakesh Chibber

“…NADPH oxidase was localised using Western blot analysis and cytochrome C reduction assay. …”
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Research on the Pore Evolution of Sandstone in Cold Regions under Freeze-Thaw Weathering Cycles Based on NMR by Zheng Pan, Keping Zhou, Rugao Gao, Zhen Jiang, Chun Yang, Feng Gao

“…To study the mesoscopic evolution law of the rock pore structure under freeze-thaw weathering cycles, a freeze-thaw weathering cycle experiment was performed on red sandstone from the cold region of western China with temperatures ranging from -20°C to +20°C. …”
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Insights into spinetail devil ray spatial ecology in the Mediterranean Sea through satellite telemetry by Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Mohammed Abudaya, Giacomo Milisenda, Simonepietro Canese, Viola Panigada, Jehad Salah, Simone Panigada

“…The species is listed as Endangered in the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species and appears to be most vulnerable to fishing impacts when gathering in large assemblages. …”
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Characterization of Metakaolin from Wassa Kaolin and Its Potential as Adsorbent for the Regeneration of Used Engine Lubrication Oil by Ralph Kwakye, Albert Aniagyei, Bright Yaw Vigbedor, Jonathan Osei-Owusu, Bonface Yeboah Antwi, Anthony Selorm Kwesi Amable, George Edusei, Bright Kwakye-Awuah

“…Metakaolin was produced from the calcination of kaolin from Wassa in the Western region of Ghana. The metakaolin was characterized by using X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffractometry (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), and Fourier transform infra-red (FT-IR). …”
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EZH2 Regulates Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Periodontal Ligament Stem Cell Proliferation and Osteogenesis through TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB Pathway by Pengcheng Wang, Huan Tian, Zheng Zhang, Zuomin Wang

“…The protein levels of EZH2, H3K27ME, p-p65, p-IKB, TLR4, MyD88, Runx2, and OCN were examined by western blot assay. Proliferation was evaluated by CCK8 assay. …”
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Analysis of hematology quality control using six sigma metrics by Shreya Goel, Amit R. Nisal, Ankita Raj, Ravindra C. Nimbargi

“…Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in a tertiary care center of western India. Internal quality control (IQC) data sets of five analytes- Red Blood Cell count (RBC), Hemoglobin (Hb), Hematocrit (Hct), White blood cell count (WBC), and Platelet count (PLT) were analyzed retrospectively of six months using Beckman Coulter DXH 800 hematology analyzers. …”
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Alpiniae oxyphyllae Fructus ameliorates renal lipid accumulation in diabetic kidney disease via activating PPARα by Zi-Jie Yan, Lin Zhang, Xin-Yao Han, Yu Kang, Shu-Man Liu, Tian-Peng Ma, Man Xiao, Yi-Qiang Xie

“…Cell viability and lipid accumulation were detected by CCK8 and oil red O staining. The expressions of PPARα and fatty acid oxidation-related genes (ACOX1 and CPT1A) were detected by quantitative RT-PCR, Western blot, and immunofluorescence. …”
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Characterization and Suitability Assessment of Ameskroud Clay Deposits for Ceramic Applications by Aicha Idoum, Rachid Tiskatine, Soumia Mounir, Lahcen Bammou, Ahmed Aharoune

“…This study investigates red clays from the Triassic, as well as yellow and gray clays from the Cretaceous period, collected from the western High Atlas of Morocco (Ameskroud). …”
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The Effect of Clopidogrel and Ticagrelor on Human Adipose Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation Potential: In Vitro Comparative Study by Sally S. Mohamed, Hala F. Zaki, Shereen N. Raafat

“…The osteogenic differentiation potential was determined by mineralization nodule formation using Alizarin Red S staining, measuring ALP enzyme activity by alkaline phosphatase assay. …”
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Empagliflozin Alleviates Hepatic Steatosis by Activating the AMPK-TET2-Autophagy Pathway in vivo and in vitro by Ting Li, Ting Fang, Linxin Xu, Xiangyang Liu, Xiaoyu Li, Mei Xue, Xiaochen Yu, Bei Sun, Liming Chen

“…Hepatic steatosis was evaluated by Oil Red O staining and triglyceride quantification. …”
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Network Pharmacology Analysis and Experimental Validation to Explore the Anti-inflammatory Mechanism of Asiatic Acid on Alcoholic Steatohepatitis by Tao Jiang, Jinhong Xu, Yang Lu, Xiaojin Chen, Yongxia Li

“…In addition, in the cellular model, real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (Real-Time RT-PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) results showed that AA could alleviate alcohol-induced cellular inflammation, while western blot and immunofluorescence results showed that AA might alleviate alcohol-induced cellular inflammation by inhibiting the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) pathway. …”
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Major Outer Membrane Protein from Legionella pneumophila Inhibits Phagocytosis but Enhances Chemotaxis of RAW 264.7 Macrophages by Regulating the FOXO1/Coronin-1 Axis by Zehui Yang, Yingying Chen, Qiang Zhang, Xiaodong Chen, Ze Deng

“…The chemotactic activity, toxicity, and phagocytosis of RAW 264.7 cocultured with different concentrations of MOMP were determined by Transwell, CCK-8, and neutral red uptake assays, respectively. Target genes were detected by double-luciferase and pull down assays. qRT-PCR and Western blot were performed to analyze the expression of several important proteins involved in the immune response pathway, including coronin-1, interleukins (IL-10), forkhead transcription factor 1 (FOXO1), nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain protein (NOD) 1, NOD2, and receptor-interacting protein (RIP) 2. …”
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