Design, formulation and antimicrobial assessment of a traditional Iranian antiperspirant formula from Rosa damascena flowers and Myrtus communis leaves. by Maryam Alipanah, Gholamhossein Yousefi, Zahra Sobhani, Mohammad Ali Jahromi, Mohammad Zarshenas

“…Total flavonoid was 10.83±0.83 mg QE/g (mg quercetin equivalent/gram of extract) for R. damascena flower extract, 19.66±0.08 mg QE/g for M. Communis leaf extract, and 18.92±0.66 mg QE/g for the final product. …”
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Principles of Rational Nutrition for Managing Constipation by Yu. O. Shulpekova, D. A. Sheptulin, N. V. Shulpekova

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Indoor and Outdoor Exposure to PM2.5 during COVID-19 Lockdown in Suburban Malaysia by Eliani Ezani, Peter Brimblecombe, Zulfa Hanan Asha’ari, Amirul Aiman Fazil, Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail, Zamzam Tuah Ahmad Ramly, Md Firoz Khan

“…The implementation of the MCOs slightly reduced daily average of outdoor PM2.5 concentrations (median of 12.63 µg m–3 before and 11.72 µg m–3). In the Malaysian apartment considered here, cooking led to a substantial increase in exposure from increasing concentrations in PM2.5 during a COVID-19 lockdown (maximum average concentration at 52.2 µg m–3). …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Combined treatment of glibenclamide and CoCl2 decreases MMP9 expression and inhibits growth in highly metastatic breast cancer by Zhe Rong, Li Li, Fei Fei, Lailong Luo, Yang Qu

“…Some fresh tissues without necrosis were stored at −80°C for mRNA detection and the other tumor tissue was fixed with 10% formalin for H&E and immunohistochemical staining. …”
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Predicting Exposure to Dust Particles Using Spirometric Index and Perception Studies among Farmers in Selected Farm Settlements in Ogun State, Nigeria by Funmilola Felicia Oyebanji, Godson Rowland E. E. Ana, Yahaya Mijinyawa, Olusola Olabisi Ogunseye

“…The highest concentrations of the total suspended particles (TSP; 29.89 ± 23.52 µg m−3) and PM10 (18.45 ± 16.97 µg m−3) were observed during the wet season, whereas that of the PM2.5 (18.45 ± 11.72 µg m−3) was observed during the dry season. …”
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Characterization of Residential Woodsmoke PM2.5 in the Adirondacks of New York by George Allen, Lisa Rector

“…One location that was adjacent to a residence with a wood stove, which was 40 meters from the monitoring site, experienced repeated episodes of elevated PM2.5 concentrations, with a maximum 3-hour average of 150 µg m−3, a maximum 24-hour rolling average of 64 µg m−3, and a maximum midnight-to-midnight average of 46 µg m−3. …”
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Drug-Induced Liver Injuries (Clinical Guidelines for Physicians) by Vladimir T. Ivashkin, Andrey Yu. Baranovsky, Karina L. Raikhelson, Lyudmila K. Palgova, Marina V. Maevskaya, Elina A. Kondrashina, Natalya V. Marchenko, Tatyana P. Nekrasova, Igor G. Nikitin

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The design of paper-based electroanalytical microfluidic device coupled with post-synthesized molecularly imprinted polymers (rGO/Au@Ag2S/PANI/polyacrylamide) for the detection of... by Mina Adampourezare, Karim Asadpour-Zeynali, Miguel de la Guardia, Jafar Ezzati Nazhad Dolatabadi

“…Using these techniques, streptomycin was determined in the linear range of 1pM to 1 μM with a limit of detection of 0.9 × 10−12 M (Ip (μA) = -2.075x + 31.575, R2= 0.9983). …”
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Microbial diversity and metabolomics analysis of colon contents exposed to cadmium and polystyrene microplastics by Dechun Chen, Liyu Pan, Xuan Ran, Junyu Huang, Xiaohua Teng, Falong Yang, Haifeng Liu

“…In order to explore the damage mechanism of cadmium and cadmium combined microplastic on the colon of mice, 60 mice were divided into three groups: The control group (0.2 mL of saline), cadmium group (Cd group, 0.2 mL of 4.8 mg/kg/d CdCl2) and mixed group (Mix group, 0.2 mL of mixed solution containing 4.8 mg/kg/d CdCl2 and 10.0 mg/d MPs) were fed for 42 d. …”
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Power and data simultaneous transmission using double-clad fibers towards 6G by Letícia Carneiro de Souza, Felipe Batista Faro Pinto, Tomas Powell Villena Andrade, Arismar Cerqueira Sodré Junior

“…For the first time, we demonstrate the simultaneous transmission of a broadband 26-GHz 5G New Radio (NR) signal in conjunction with 20 W of optical power through a 250-m DCF link. Such achievement represents a 150% reach enhancement, compared to the current commercial-available femtocells from the fourth and fifth generations of mobile communications networks (4G and 5G), which use Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) interfaces that typically provide 1 Gbps throughput limited to 100 m reach. …”
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Do the Street Sweeping and Washing Work for Reducing the Near-ground Levels of Fine Particulate Matter and Related Pollutants? by Sheng-Lun Lin, Yunzhou Deng, Ming-Yeng Lin, Shih-Wei Huang

“…The PM2.5 mass, UFP number, BC, and PAH concentrations before the street sweeping is 155 µg m−3, 1.2 × 104 # cm−3, BC 3633 ng m−3, and 36 ng m−3. …”
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Influence of sowing amount and substrate thickness on the quality of sandy ecological grass blankets by ZOU Jiatong, YU Weijie, ZHANG Zheng, FENG Zhidao, ZHANG Changlin

“…Z9/45 treatment (substrate thickness of 9 cm and sowing rate of 45 g/m2) yielded the highest plant density, aboveground biomass, and root biomass. …”
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Engineering a promiscuous prenyltransferase for selective biosynthesis of an undescribed bioactive cannabinoid analog by Qin Yan, Yue-Gui Chen, Xiao-Wen Yang, An Wang, Xiao-Ping He, Xue Tang, Hong Hu, Kai Guo, Zong-Hua Xiao, Yan Liu, Sheng-Hong Li

“…Compound 4 demonstrates the highest anti-neuroinflammatory and antibacterial activities, with IC50 values of 3.06 µM for TNF-α and 4.31 µM for IL-6, alongside EC50 values ranging from 0.87 to 3.16 µM against three Gram-positive bacteria. …”
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Characterization of Seasonal Difference of HULIS-C Sources from Water Soluble PM2.5 in Seoul, Korea: Probing Secondary Processes by Hyung-Min Lee, Se Pyo Lee, Yugen Li, Jian Zhen Yu, Jin Young Kim, Yong Pyo Kim, Ji Yi Lee

“…The HULIS-C in Seoul had an annual average of 2.0 µg m−3, and displayed a seasonality of highest abundance in the winter (2.7 ± 1.3 µg m−3) and the lowest in the summer (1.7 ± 0.8 µg m−3). …”
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Pollution Characterization, Meteorological Effects, and Sources of Carbon Aerosols in PM2.5 in Urban Xiangtan during Winter by Lizhi He, Zhenghui Xiao, Cheng Xie, Yangfei Ou, Sisi Wang

“…The average winter concentrations of OC and EC were 10.75 ± 5.75 µg m–3 and 1.92 ± 0.77 µg m‒3, respectively, which accounted for 16.5% and 3.5% of the total PM2.5, respectively. …”
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Early Serum Heme Oxygenase-1, Soluble Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-1, and B-Cell Lymphoma/Leukemia-2 Levels and Unfavorable Obstetric Outcomes by Havva Sutcu, G. Fusun Varol, Cihan Inan, Isil Uzun, N.Cenk Sayin

“…As soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 predicted preeclampsia at a value of 11.905 ng/mL, the cutoff values for the heme oxygenase-1 to predict preeclampsia, spontaneous preterm birth, and fetal macrosomia were 0.372 ng/mL, 0.354 ng/mL and 0.494 ng/ml, respectively. …”
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Technologically-Treated Polyclonal Affinity-Purified Antibodies to the Tumor Necrosis Factor-α, Brain Specific S-100 Protein and Histamine in Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia: Res... by Yu. O. Shulpekova, I. V. Maev, V. B. Grinevich, I. B. Khlynov, Yu. G. Shvarts, V. T. Ivashkin

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Is There a Relationship between Serum Anti-Mullerian Hormone Levels and Abortion Rates in Patients Who Received In vitro Fertilisation-Embryo Transfer Cycles? by Pinar Karacin, Serdar Dilbaz, Oya Aldemir, Berna Dilbaz, Yaprak Engin Ustun

“…The patients were divided into three groups according to the serum AMH levels as low AMH (L-AMH, ≤1.6 ng/mL), intermediate AMH (I-AMH, 1.61–5.6 ng/mL) and high AMH (H-AMH, >5.6 ng/mL). …”
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Long-term Measurements of Carbonaceous Aerosol at Cape Hedo, Okinawa, Japan: Effects of Changes in Emissions in East Asia by Kojiro Shimada, Akinori Takami, Takatsugu Ishida, Yuta Taniguchi, Shuichi Hasegawa, Chak K. Chan, Yong Pyo Kim, Neng-Huei Lin, Shiro Hatakeyama

“…Although the EC concentration did not change appreciably in either season, the OC concentration decreased at rates of 0.10 µg C m−3 y−1 and 0.11 µg C m−3 y−1 during spring and winter, respectively. …”
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Indoor Air Exposure to Multiple Agricultural Pesticides Potentially Posing the Highest Risk to Young Children by Sithembiso Sifiso Msibi, Chung-Yu Chen, Cheng-Ping Chang, Chiou-Jong Chen, Su-Yin Chiang, Kuen-Yuh Wu

“…Applying liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to the samples revealed mean ametryn, atrazine, pendimethalin and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) concentrations of 0.75, 0.32, 0.57 and 0.004 µg m−3, respectively, in the applicator households and corresponding values of 0.19, 0.03, 0.04 and 0.003 µg m−3, respectively, in the non-applicator households. …”
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