Breeding for Heat Tolerant Aromatic Rice Varieties and Identification of Novel QTL Regions Associated with Heat Tolerance During Reproductive Phase by QTL-Seq by Surangkana Chimthai, Sulaiman Cheabu, Wanchana Aesomnuk, Siriphat Ruengphayak, Siwaret Arikit, Apichart Vanavichit, Chanate Malumpong

“…The results revealed that four promising lines, namely 84-7-1-9, 84-7-1-10, 159-3-3-1, and 159-3-3-10, were classified as heat-tolerant with low amylose content. …”
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Diel changes in the expression of a marker gene and candidate genes for intracellular amorphous CaCO3 biomineralization in Microcystis by Bruley, Apolline, Gaëtan, Juliette, Gugger, Muriel, Pancrace, Claire, Millet, Maxime, Gaschignard, Geoffroy, Dezi, Manuela, Humbert, Jean-François, Leloup, Julie, Skouri-Panet, Fériel, Callebaut, Isabelle, Benzerara, Karim, Duprat, Elodie

“…Recently, a marker gene of this biomineralization pathway, named ccyA, was discovered. However, the function of the calcyanin protein encoded by ccyA remains unknown. …”
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Direct Photocoagulation Guided by Merged Retinal Images for the Treatment of Focal Diabetic Macular Edema by Yoshihiro Takamura, Takehiro Matsumura, Shogo Arimura, Makoto Gozawa, Masakazu Morioka, YutakaYamada, Masaru Inatani

“…To introduce a novel laser photocoagulation (PC) protocol named merged image-guided PC (MIG-PC), which included merging the images of the fundus, optical coherence tomography (OCT) map, and fluorescein angiography (FA). …”
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A scientometric visualization analysis of the gut microbiota and gestational diabetes mellitus by Zehao Su, Zehao Su, Lina Liu, Jian Zhang, Jian Zhang, Jingjing Guo, Jingjing Guo, Guan Wang, Xiaoxi Zeng, Xiaoxi Zeng

“…With respect to keywords, research focuses can be divided into 4 clusters, namely, “the interrelationship between the gut microbiota and pregnancy, childbirth,” “the relationship between adverse metabolic outcomes and GDM,” “the gut microbiota composition and metabolic mechanisms” and “microbiota and ecological imbalance.” …”
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DualTransAttNet: A Hybrid Model with a Dual Attention Mechanism for Corn Seed Classification by Fei Pan, Dawei He, Pengjun Xiang, Mengdie Hu, Daizhuang Yang, Fang Huang, Changmeng Peng

“…To address these challenges, this paper proposes a fast and non-destructive classification method for corn seeds, named DualTransAttNet, based on multi-source image information and hybrid feature extraction. …”
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Rare-earth-induced peroxo-phosphotungstates: Enhanced proton conductivity in corresponding membranes by Qianqian Shang, Keqin Shen, Dongyan Zhao, Xiaoyue Wang, Yuting Wei, Haiying Wang, Guan Wang, Dongdi Zhang, Jingyang Niu

“…Two rare-earth-induced peroxo-polyoxotungstates (peroxo-POTs), namely, two-dimensional [Ln2(H2O)4(OH)P2W6(O2)4O23]3− (2D-Ln2, Ln = Pr, Sm) and one-dimensional [Ln(H2O)4P4W6(O2)6(OH)4O24]5− (1D-Ln, Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho), were successfully prepared by similar synthesis methods based on that used to synthesize {P3W6(O2)6} clusters. …”
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Incidence and Anatomical Properties of Retromolar Canal in an Iranian Population: A Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Study by N. Nikkerdar, A. Golshah, M. Norouzi, S. Falah-Kooshki

“…Two major types of canals were detected, namely, type I, following a straight or curved course from the mandibular canal (MC) to the retromolar area (47.3%), and type II, coursing from the retromolar area to the radicular part of the third molar (52.7%). …”
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Electron Push-Pull Effect of Benzotrithiophene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks on the Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products by Hongguang Guo, Jiaqin He, Yixi Guo, Yunxi Chang, Haidong Ju, Yizhou Li

“…In this study, three COF photocatalysts were successfully synthesized by the condensation of benzo[1,2-b:3,4-b′:5,6-b′′]trithiophene-2,5,8-tricarbaldehyde (BTT) with 4,4′,4′′-(1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triyl)trianiline (TAPT), 1,3,5-Tris(4-aminophenyl)benzene (TAPB), and 4,4′,4′′-nitrilotris(benzenamine) (TAPA), namely, BTT-TAPA, BTT-TAPB, and BTT-TAPT, respectively. …”
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Characterization of Novel Nonobese Type 2 Diabetes Rat Model with Enlarged Kidneys by Ayaka Domon, Kentaro Katayama, Yuki Tochigi, Hiroetsu Suzuki

“…We established a novel rat strain showing nonobese type 2 diabetes with enlarged kidneys from the LEA.PET-pet congenic strain and named it Diabetes with Enlarged Kidney (DEK). The body growth of DEK affected rats was similar to that of normal rats before the development of DM but was attenuated with the deterioration of DM. …”
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Ossification Vesicles with Calcium Phosphate in the Eyes of the Insect Copium teucrii (Hemiptera: Tingidae) by Javier Garcia-Guinea, Alberto Jorge, Laura Tormo, Marta Furio, Elena Crespo-Feo, Virgilio Correcher, Pedro Prado-Herrero, Ana C. Soria, Jesus Sanz, Jose L. Nieves-Aldrey

“…Arthropod eyes are built of repeating units named ommatidia. Each single ommatidium unit contains a cluster of photoreceptor cells surrounded by support cells and pigment cells. …”
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Area deprivation and premature cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide population-based study in South Korea by Hyeon Chang Kim, Hokyou Lee, Eunji Kim, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Young Gyu Ko, Byoung Gwon Kim

“…Mortality rates for CVD and its subtypes, namely ischaemic heart diseases, other heart diseases and cerebrovascular diseases, in adults under 65 years were directly standardised by sex and age, referencing the total population structure. …”
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Targeted genome modifcation in protoplasts of a highly regenerable Siberian barley cultivar using RNA-guided Cas9 endonuclease by S. V. Gerasimova, A. M. Korotkova, C. Hertig, S. Hiekel, R. Hofe, N. Budhagatapalli, I. Otto, G. Hensel, V. K. Shumny, A. V. Kochetov, J. Kumlehn, E. K. Khlestkina

“…In the present study, an evaluation of in vitro regeneration efciency of immature embryos of ten Siberian barley cultivars revealed that only one of these is on a par with the experimental standard cultivar Golden Promise. This cultivar, namely cv. Aley, was consequently chosen for further experiments on site-directed mutagenesis in leaf mesophyll protoplasts. …”
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Efficacy of DNA vaccine encoding koi herpesvirus glycoprotein GP-25in common carp juvenile by immersion by Soko Nuswantoro, . Alimuddin, Munti Yuhana, Ayi Santika, Sri Nuryati, Zakki Zainun, Mira Mawardi

“…Three frequencies and three duration of fish immersion were tested, namely: 1×30 minutes, 1×60 minutes, 1× 90 minutes, 2×90 minutes and 3×90 minutes by interval of 24 hours. …”
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Effect of Aquaculture Wastewater And Zarrouk in Increasing Biomass, Protein, and Carotenoids levels of <I>Spirulina platensis</I> by Anisa Millah Taqiyyah, Yenny Risjani, Asep Awaludin Prihanto, Uun Yanuhar, Mohammad Fadjar

“…The microalgae samples, namely S. platensis were cultured using fresh water. …”
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A novel technique of cryodenervation for murine vagus nerve: implications for acute lung inflammation by Di Wu, Ximing Liao, Jing Gao, Kun Wang, Wujian Xu, Feilong Wang, Zhixian Jin, Dandan Wu, Qiang Li, Wei Gao

“…Method Herein, we developed a novel practical method for mouse peripheral nerve cryoablation, named visualized and simple cryodenervation (VSCD). …”
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Lysine Reacts with Cholesterol Hydroperoxide to Form Secosterol Aldehydes and Lysine-Secosterol Aldehyde Adducts by George Wafula Wanjala, Arnold Nola Onyango, David Rasugu Abuga, John Kamathi Muchuna, Calvin Onyango, Moses Makayoto

“…Two cholesterol secosterol aldehydes, namely, 3β-hydroxy-5-oxo-5,6-secocholestan-6-al (secosterol A) and its aldolization product 3β-hydroxy-5β-hydroxy-B-norcholestane-6β-carboxyaldehyde (secosterol B), are highly bioactive compounds which have been detected in human tissues and potentially contribute to the development of physiological dysfunctions such as atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and cancer. …”
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Impact of environmental and geographical position on the chemometric classification of ethanol extracts from Isotoma longiflora leaves by E. Imelda, K. Khairan, R.R. Lubis, T. Karma, R. Idroes

“…A linear discriminant analysis was then used to validate these results, and the linear discriminant analysis model derived from the cross-validation predicted the origin of Isotoma longiflora samples with 100 percent accuracy rate.CONCLUSION: The Isotoma longiflora leaf extracts were successfully classified using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy data processed through chemometric calculations (namely, principal component analysis). Based on the cross-validation using linear discriminant analysis showed that the prediction model had a 100 percent accuracy. …”
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Chemical Changes Under Heat Stress and Identification of Dendrillolactone, a New Diterpene Derivative with a Rare Rearranged Spongiane Skeleton from the Antarctic Marine Sponge <i>... by Andrea Prófumo, Conxita Avila, Adele Cutignano

“…From the dichloromethane extract of sponge samples from Deception Island collected in January 2023, we isolated a novel derivative with an unusual β-lactone diterpene skeleton here named dendrillolactone (<b>1</b>), along with seven previously described diterpenes, including deceptionin (<b>2</b>), a gracilane norditerpene (<b>3</b>), cadlinolide C (<b>4</b>), a glaciolane norditerpene (<b>5</b>), membranolide (<b>6</b>), aplysulphurin (<b>7</b>), and tetrahydroaplysulphurine-1 (<b>8</b>). …”
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Overwintering temperature affects lipid and fatty acid metabolism in hepatopancreas and ovary of female mud crab Scylla paramamosain by Kaijia Yu, Hanying Xu, Ce Shi, Chunlin Wang, Changkao Mu, Yangfang Ye, Shujian Chen, Ronghua Li, Qingyang Wu

“…The influence of four overwintering temperatures, namely 8 ℃, 12 ℃, 16 ℃, and 20 ℃, on lipid metabolism and fatty acid profile in the hepatopancreas and ovary tissues of female mud crab Scylla paramamosain was investigated during eight weeks. …”
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Normative Values for Londrina ADL Protocol in Healthy Individuals in Age Group of 40–60 Years among Indian Population: A Cross-Sectional Study by Uttanoor Sreedevi, Gopala Krishna Alaparthi, Shyam krishnan, Kalyana Chakravarthy Bairapareddy, R. Anand, Vishak Acharya

“…Considering the limitations of the available tools, a new protocol named Londrina ADL protocol was developed for which normative values are unavailable in different ethnic groups. …”
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