RAGE is a Potential Cause of Onset and Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Kamyar Asadipooya, Kamran B. Lankarani, Rishi Raj, Mohammadreza Kalantarhormozi

“…However, sRAGE has some limitations, and the best method of usage is probably autotransplantation of transfected stem cells or monocytes, as a precursor of macrophages and Kupffer cells, with a virus that carries sRAGE to alleviate the harmful effects of AGE-RAGE signaling in the settings of fatty liver disease.…”
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A dynamic peripheral immune landscape during human pregnancy by Xiuxing Liu, Lei Zhu, Zhaohao Huang, Zhaohuai Li, Runping Duan, He Li, Lihui Xie, Xiaozhen Chen, Wen Ding, Binyao Chen, Yuehan Gao, Juan Su, Xianggui Wang, Wenru Su

“…Conversely, pro-inflammatory genes and pathways were upregulated in monocytes, possibly to compensate for the reduced T-cell response. …”
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Phospholipase A2 Mediates Apolipoprotein-Independent Uptake of Chylomicron Remnant-Like Particles by Human Macrophages by Mariarosaria Napolitano, Howard S. Kruth, Elena Bravo

“…To investigate these mechanisms, triacylglycerol (TG) accumulation induced by apolipoprotein-free chylomicron remnant-like particles (CRLPw/o) in human monocyte-derived macrophages was evaluated. Macrophage TG content increased about 5-fold after incubation with CRLPw/o, and this effect was not reduced by the inhibition of phagocytosis, macropinocytosis, apolipoprotein E function, or proteoglycan bridging. …”
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Blockade Effects of Anti-Interferon- (IFN-) γ Autoantibodies on IFN-γ-Regulated Antimicrobial Immunity by Dyah Ika Krisnawati, Yung-Ching Liu, Yuarn-Jang Lee, Yun-Ting Wang, Chia-Ling Chen, Po-Chun Tseng, Ting-Jing Shen, Chiou-Feng Lin

“…In the presence of patient serum, IFN-γ-induced type 1 macrophage (M1) differentiation was inhibited in PMA-stimulated human monocytic THP-1 cells. Treatment with patient serum significantly blocked the production of proinflammatory factors, including cytokines/chemokines and reactive oxygen/nitrogen species, by M1 macrophages. …”
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NMR, Novel Pharmacological and In Silico Docking Studies of Oxyacanthine and Tetrandrine: Bisbenzylisoquinoline Alkaloids Isolated from Berberis glaucocarpa Roots by Muhammad Alamzeb, Muhammad Omer, Mamoon Ur-Rashid, Muslim Raza, Saqib Ali, Behramand Khan, Asad Ullah

“…Both compounds 1 and 2 have minimal cytotoxicity against THP-1 monocytic cells.…”
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Innate immune cells in vascular lesions: mechanism and significance of diversified immune regulation by Jinjing Wu, Yulu Qian, Kuang Yang, Shuhua Zhang, Erming Zeng, Daya Luo

“…This review focuses on innate immune cells and mainly introduces the regulatory mechanisms of monocytes, macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, dendritic cells (DCs) and neutrophils in vascular lesions. …”
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Tomatidine Improves Pulmonary Inflammation in Mice with Acute Lung Injury by Wen-Chung Huang, Shu-Ju Wu, Ya-Ling Chen, Chwan-Fwu Lin, Chian-Jiun Liou

“…Furthermore, tomatidine enhanced the production of heme oxygenase-1, decreased the secretion of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in LPS-stimulated lung epithelial cells, and attenuated THP-1 monocyte adhesion. Our findings suggest that tomatidine attenuates oxidative stress and inflammation, improving acute lung injury in mice.…”
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TWEAK-Fn14 signaling protects mice from pulmonary fibrosis by inhibiting fibroblast activation and recruiting pro-regenerative macrophages by Li Liu, Pei Wu, Yuqi Wei, Meng Lu, Haiyan Ge, Ping Wang, Jianlong Sun, Tiffany Horng, Xiucheng Liu, Xiaoyong Shen, Lingyun Sun, Ying Xi

“…TWEAK-Fn14 signaling inhibits fibroblast activation and ECM synthesis and induces chemokine expression to recruit monocytes/macrophages into the lung. Fn14 deficiency increases ECM production and impairs macrophage infiltration and differentiation, leading to exacerbated lung fibrosis and impaired alveolar regeneration in a bleomycin model. …”
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The Adsorption of Cement Superplasticizers on to Mineral Dispersions by A. Pierre, R. Mercier, A. Foissy, J.M. Lamarche

“…The amount adsorbed at maximum coverage does not depend on the nature of the mineral, but mainly on electrical interactions between the monomer units.…”
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The Properties and Porous Structures of Sulphur-Containing Copolymers by Beata Podkościelna

“…The copolymerization of two pairs of tetra-functional monomers, viz. bis[4(2-hydroxy-3-acryloyloxypropoxy)phenyl] sulphide with divinylbenzene and bis[4(2-hydroxy-3-methacryloyloxypropoxy)phenyl] sulphide with glycidyl methacrylate, was used for the synthesis of highly cross-linked porous microspheres in the presence of the pore-forming diluents, decan-1-ol and toluene. …”
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Privacy-preserving digital rights management scheme in cloud computing by Qin-long HUANG, Zhao-feng MA, Jing-yi FU, Yi-xian YANG, Xin-xin NIU

“…In addition, the pro-posed scheme also allows the users to purchase content and acquire license anonymously from cloud service provider, which protects the user privacy and prevents cloud service provider, license server and key server in the cloud from collecting the user's sensitive information. …”
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Efficient certificateless aggregate signcryption scheme with conditional privacy protection for V2G networks by LIU Jie, FAN Xinyue, HE Jiahui

“…Conditional privacy protection was provided by a pseudonym mechanism, ensuring the anonymity of legitimate vehicles and the traceability and revocation of malicious vehicles. …”
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Perception of Dora Pejačević in Croatian Public Printed Media from 1905 to 1945 by Stanislav Tuksar

“…Reports and comments on her character and work were published by a total of 24 newspapers, mostly in Zagreb and Osijek, and in addition to twelve anonymous authors and six signed only with initials, 18 authors were identified for 25 of these articles. …”
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Translating French Drama for English Audiences: Adolphe Belot’s L’Article 47 by Barbara T. Cooper

“…So reads the opening sentence of the anonymous review published in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (Mar 3, 1877). …”
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Secure vehicular digital forensics system based on blockchain by Meng LI, Chengxiang SI, Liehuang ZHU

“…The emergence of vehicular big data has brought a great promotion to better understand characteristics of vehicular networks,grasp needs of users and improve service qualities.However,malicious users and criminals leverage vehicular networks to conduct illegal behaviors,resulting in a decline in the service quality and difficulties in determining the liability in vehicle accidents.At the same time,there are still some security and privacy issues in the vehicular digital forensics,such as the identity privacy of the data provider and the request control of the data requester.Therefore,a secure vehicular digital forensics scheme based on blockchain was proposed.Firstly,a data requester registered with a certificate authority and an anonymous certificate was obtained for the subsequent data uploading.Then,the data user obtained the public-private key pair and user key in registration,which were respectively used for the data requesting and data decryption.Only if certain attributes were held,the right plaintext could be decrypted.Next,a consortium blockchain was jointly established by several institutions with high credibility to record all data transactions.Finally,the security and privacy were experimentally analyzed,and the performance was tested based on the Ethereum platform.…”
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The impact of gender and ethnic background on physical and mental health in a post-pandemic student cohort in the UK by Jon CATLING, Emma SUTTON

“…Data was gathered through a series of anonymous questionnaires administered online. Results: We found that gender significantly impacted mental health, levels of physical exercise, and mobile phone use. …”
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Koi Herpes Virus (KHV) Disease by Kathleen H. Hartman, Roy P.E. Yanong, B. Denise Petty, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Allen C. Riggs

“…., 2000; OATA, 2001; Anonymous, 2003). This information sheet is intended to inform veterinarians, biologists, culturists, and hobbyists about KHV. …”
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Les services de Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive en Tunisie. Résultats d’une recherche qualitative auprès des jeunes usagers by Atf Gherissi, Francine Tinsa

“…The data collection and analysis respected the integrity of the respondents (World Medical Association, 2008) such as anonymity, confidentiality, freedom to participate in the group interviews and to answer the questions in the preferred language. …”
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Koi Herpes Virus (KHV) Disease by Kathleen H. Hartman, Roy P.E. Yanong, B. Denise Petty, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Allen C. Riggs

“…., 2000; OATA, 2001; Anonymous, 2003). This information sheet is intended to inform veterinarians, biologists, culturists, and hobbyists about KHV. …”
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一种随机探针人DNA指纹分析法的建立

“…根据随机探针(Anonymous Probe)检测DNA限制性片段长度多态性(RFLPs)分析原理和人与鼠的髓鞘碱性蛋白(MBP)基因cDNA有90％以上同源序列的事实,选用rMBP-cDNA 3′-端非表达区高度重复序列的0.81千碱基对(kb)片段作探针,检测用HaeⅢ重酶解的人DNA限制性片段,结果可以分辨出22条谱带,受检的30例无血缘关系的个体之间,没有两个人的谱带是完全相同的,显示出此方法的高度特异性。…”
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