Potential Properties of Plant Sprout Extracts on Amyloid β by Mizue Okada, Yoshinori Okada

“…In PSAE, no band of Aβ monomer was recognized in Japanese butterbur. Similarly, the Aβ monomer band became light in buckwheat, red cabbage, broccoli, and brussels. …”
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Minisatellite Isolation and Minisatellite Molecular Marker Development in <i>Citrus limon</i> (L.) Osbeck by Oleg S. Alexandrov, Dmitry V. Romanov

“…Minisatellites are widespread tandem DNA repeats in the genome with a monomer length of 10 to 100 bp. The high variability of minisatellite loci makes them attractive for the development of molecular markers. …”
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End-Group Evaluation of HEMA Initiated Poly(ε-caprolactone) Macromonomers via Enzymatic Ring-Opening Polymerization by N. Ugur Kaya, Y. Avcibasi Guvenilir

“…The side reactions generated due to the cleavage of ester bonds in HEMA and the growing polymer chains were investigated through altering polymerization period, initiator concentration, temperature, and enzyme concentration. 1H NMR evaluations showed that minimum quantities of side reactions were in lower temperatures, initiator concentration, enzyme concentration, and lower monomer conversions. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) results revealed that lower polydispersity along with number-average molecular weight of end-functionalized PCL macromonomers was obtained depending on higher initiator/monomer ratios, lower temperature (60°C), enzyme concentration (100 mg), and/or polymerization time (2 h). …”
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ABOUT SEMANTICS OF WORD FORMATION ON FRENCH MATERIAL by I. A. Tsybova

“…It is possible to deal with synonymic formants and antonymy of derived words. Each of these problems deserves to be studied separately.…”
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Checks and Balances: The Concept and Its Implications for Corruption by Luciano Da Ros, Matthew M. Taylor

“…Abstract It is often assumed that checks and balances are effective in curbing corruption, in part because checks and balances are so often assumed to be synonymous with the separation of powers. We argue that checks and balances are only one of several potential manifestations of the separation of powers. …”
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Spiritual well-being in the 21st century: It is time to review the current WHO’s health definition by Francesco Chirico

“…Moreover, spirituality, personal beliefs and religiousness are not synonymous. Spirituality has received much interest in health care services; it can improve strategies for managing stress and can positively influence immune, cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels), hormonal, and nervous systems. …”
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Effects of the Bacterial Extract OM-85 on Phagocyte Functions and the Stress Response by S. Baladi, S. Kantengwa, Y. R. A. Donati, B. S. Polla

“…The effects of the bacterial extract OM-85 on the respiratory burst, intracellular calcium and the stress response have been investigated in human peripheral blood monocytes from normal donors. Activation of the respiratory burst during bacterial phagocytosis has been previously associated with heat shock/stress proteins synthesis. …”
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La biodiversité : un besoin de clarification by Lecointre, Guillaume

“…This ambiguity has led to the terms biodiversity and ecosystem being used almost synonymously, a mistake that is both epistemologically and politically damaging. …”
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Modulation of Toll-Like Receptor Activity by Leukocyte Ig-Like Receptors and Their Effects during Bacterial Infection by Louise E. Pilsbury, Rachel L. Allen, Martin Vordermeier

“…Here we describe the LILR family, their inhibitory effect on TLR activity in cells of the monocytic lineage, their signalling pathway, and their antimicrobial effects during bacterial infection. …”
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The ANC and Apartheid South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program by Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Anna-Mart van Wyk

“…The organisation became synonymous with the anti-apartheid and liberation struggle in South Africa until its unbanning in 1990. …”
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Staphylococcus aureus Infections in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: Illustrated Cases by Kam Lun Hon, Ronald C. M. Fung, Karen K. Y. Leung, Alexander K.C. Leung, Wun Fung Hui, Wing Lum Cheung

“…Staphylococcus aureus is known to be one of the most common gram-positive microorganisms and an important pathogen associated with sepsis and toxic shock. We present four anonymized consecutive cases in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to illustrate the different clinical manifestations of staphylococcal infections, including local infection versus systemic infection, toxic shock versus septic shock, and osteomyelitis. …”
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De l’image avant toute chose : mémoires et mythes pour les Espagnes en exil de 1939 by José María Naharro-Calderón

“…The study of some graphic, essayistic, filmic, photographic, odonymic and/or museographic traces around plural 1939 Civil War Spain and its 1939 exiled shifts in France, as historical and memory amalgams fed by the transmission of diverse testimonies and imaginaries, represent other sources in order to redefine myths, between supra-European aspirations of peaceful identity agreed at the end of the 20th century, and national fears about globalization, regionalization, multiculturalism, Islamism and / or migratory pressures in the 21st century, particularly, when scrutinized through concentration practices, derived from the incapability of reconciling freedom and security.…”
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Autoři výročních zpráv jezuitské koleje v Telči v 17. století by Michaela Marešová, Štěpán Valecký

“…The possibilities to identify the authors of the texts were examined while analysing both the form and content of the annual reports from the Jesuit House of the Third Probation in Telč in the 17th century created as anonymous. Although the attribution of the text is possible, the analysis shows that the subject of the author and his individual (personal) input was not seen as relevant from the perspective of Jesuit ideals and the purpose for which the texts were produced, hence the “collective” nature of literae annuae authorship is evident in the texts. …”
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Gallo rojo, gallo negro, chanter la dissidenceDe la rue à l’histoire by Florence Belmonte

“…La chanson Gallo rojo, gallo negro date des années soixante. Anonyme à l'époque, elle était reprise dans les rues lors des manifestations étudiantes comme un hymne de reconnaissance des opposants à la dictature du général Franco. …”
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The accumulation of harmful genes within the ROH hotspot regions of the Tibetan sheep genome does not lead to genetic load by Lixia Sun, Chao Yuan, Tingting Guo, Yaqin Bai, Zengkui Lu, Jianbin Liu

“…A comprehensive analysis was conducted, involving Rnhom, dN/dS ratios, missense/synonymous ratios, and loss-of-function (LOF)/synonymous ratios, to investigate the accumulation of deleterious genes and the associated genetic load both within and outside ROH hotspot regions. …”
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The association between eight complete blood count-derived inflammatory markers and muscle health by Jingyuan Zhang, Yuqi Wang, Heng Liu, Zhuolin Lei, Shouquan Cheng, Hong Cao

“…Additionally, NHANES data were cross-validated with data from 554 patients at our hospital to evaluate the ability of the systemic immune inflammatory index (SII) to distinguish between low muscle mass and strength.ResultsAfter controlling for all potential confounding factors, multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that apart from the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), and derived NLR (dNLR), the neutrophil-to-monocyte-plus-lymphocyte ratio (NMLR), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), SII, systemic inflammation response index (SIRI), and pan-immune-inflammation value (PIV) were significantly negatively correlated with muscle mass and strength. …”
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Infiltration of Blood-Derived Macrophages Contributes to the Development of Diabetic Neuropathy by Jing-Jing Sun, Lin Tang, Xiao-Pei Zhao, Jun-Mei Xu, Yang Xiao, Hui Li

“…The successful depletion of monocytes was determined by flow cytometry. Results. …”
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À propos de la découverte d’un dictionnaire inédit du xviiie siècle by Joan Thomas

“…This dictionary of the 18th century is a real linguistic treasure of more than 2000 pages and 34000 entries. Anonymous, never published nor copied by the Occitan lexicographers, this work which is rigorously built, gives us to read the everyday life in Provence and in Languedoc before the Revolution. …”
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The association between systemic inflammatory response index and contrast-associated acute kidney injury in patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention by Jun-Han Chen, Li-Wei Zhang, Wen-Jia Liang, Wei-ze Lin, Xiao-Fang Chen, Zhi-Jie Lin, Chang-Xi Wang, Kai-Yang Lin, Yan-Song Guo

“…SIRI = neutrophil count × monocyte count/lymphocyte count. CA-AKI was defined as an increase of 50% or 0.3 mg/dl in SCr from baseline within 48 h after contrast exposure.Results The incidence of CA-AKI was 6.1% (n = 352). …”
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New Insights into the Mechanisms of Chinese Herbal Products on Diabetes: A Focus on the “Bacteria-Mucosal Immunity-Inflammation-Diabetes” Axis by Zezheng Gao, Qingwei Li, Xuemin Wu, Xuemin Zhao, Linhua Zhao, Xiaolin Tong

“…Here, we have proposed that many herbal monomers and formulae improve glucose homeostasis and diabetes through the BMID axis; B represents gut microbiota, M means mucosal immunity, I represents inflammation, and D represents diabetes. …”
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