Pterygium Pathology: A Prospective Case-Control Study on Tear Film Cytokine Levels by Sara I. Van Acker, Michel Haagdorens, Ella Roelant, Jos Rozema, Tine Possemiers, Veerle Van Gerwen, Marie-José Tassignon, Veva De Groot, Sorcha Ní Dhubhghaill, Carina Koppen, Nadia Zakaria

“…Hence, our data point to these factors being contributors rather than decisive players in the pathological processes.…”
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Chemical weathering in hardened volcanic horizons (tepetates) of the State of Mexico by Otilio A. Acevedo-Sandoval, Francisco Prieto-García, Judith Prieto-Méndez, Yolanda Marmolejo-Santillán, Claudia Romo-Gómez

“…The chemical composition of soil samples and hardened horizons from seven profiles (P1 to P7) of the State of Mexico was compared to detect the degree of alteration by means of weathering indices. …”
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Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Global Food Transformation System: Edible Insects vs. Livestock by Rifat Nowshin Raka, Lin Zhang, Rui Chen, Xiaofeng Xue

“…Consequently, their ARG abundance may vary as well. In addition, processed edible insects have lower levels of ARGs than raw ones. …”
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The Paradigm of a Digital Image of a Geotechnical Object as the Basis of an Automated Workstation in the Task of Non-destructive Testing (Using the Example of a Main Pipeline) by Yakovleva Aleksandra, Semenov Vladimir, Medinskaya Dar'ya, Movchan Igor', Sadykova Zilya

“…The relevance of the work is determined by the automation of monitoring processes of natural and technical systems, not so much in terms of their measurement component, but in terms of interpreting monitoring results in terms of the properties of the desired object. …”
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Identification and profiling of novel metagenome assembled uncultivated virus genomes from human gut by Kanchan Bhardwaj, Niharika, Anjali Garg, Aakriti Jain, Manish Kumar, Manish Datt, Vijay Singh, Sudhanshu Vrati

“…Further, annotation and KEGG pathway analysis of the “high-quality” genomes identified seven core genes (antB, dnaB, DNMT1, DUT, xlyAB, xtmB and xtmA) associated with metabolism and fundamental viral processes. Moreover, genes for virulence, host-takeover, drug resistance, tRNA, tmRNA and CRISPR elements were also detected. …”
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Mechanisms of asiaticoside in keloid treatment: Insights from a single-cell transcriptomic approach combined with network pharmacological analysis by Xiaobo Zhou, Li Lin, Canbin Dong, Jui-Ming Lin, Yiyi Gong, Wenyu Wu, Jia Huang

“…This work sought to clarify the molecular processes through which asiaticoside operates in treating keloid by utilizing an integrated approach employing scRNA-seq and systems pharmacological methods. …”
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Cone Snail Broad-Transcriptomics Elucidate the Evolutionary Diversification and Anti-Microbial Potential of Conopeptides by José Morim, Yihe Zhao, Lei Huang, Agostinho Antunes

“…Moreover, 88 potential anti-microbial peptides were bioinformatically detected, including one showing similarity with the human ACE2 receptor. …”
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Genetic diversity and host adaptation of avian H5N1 influenza viruses during human infection by Matthijs R.A. Welkers, Hana A. Pawestri, Judy M. Fonville, Ondri D. Sampurno, Maarten Pater, Melle Holwerda, Alvin X. Han, Colin A. Russell, Rienk E. Jeeninga, Vivi Setiawaty, Menno D. de Jong, Dirk Eggink

“…Amino acid variants detected our cohort were often found more frequently in available H5N1 sequences of human than avian isolates. …”
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Genetic structure and demographic inference of the regular sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri (Meissner, 1900) in the Southern Ocean: The role of the last glaciation. by Angie Díaz, Karin Gérard, Claudio González-Wevar, Claudia Maturana, Jean-Pierre Féral, Bruno David, Thomas Saucède, Elie Poulin

“…One of the most relevant characteristics of the extant Southern Ocean fauna is its resiliency to survive glacial processes of the Quaternary. These climatic events produced catastrophic habitat reductions and forced some marine benthic species to move, adapt or go extinct. …”
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Analysis of the expression of key protein regulators of apoptosis and autophagy in T-lymphocytes of patients with bronchial asthma by Yu.V. Skibo, M.V. Tikhomirova, S.N. Abramov, E.M. Biktagirova, I.D. Reshetnikova, N.I. Akberova, Z.I. Abramova

“…To achieve this aim, the Western blot method was applied. The results were processed with the help of R statistics. Boxsplots were used to present the data. …”
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Lower Zinc but Higher Calcium Content in Rodent Spinal Cord Compared to Brain by Alma I. Santos-Díaz, Brandon Bizup, Ana Karen Pantaleón-Gómez, Beatriz Osorio, Olivier Christophe Barbier, Thanos Tzounopoulos, Fanis Missirlis

“…Our results show conserved inverse differences in zinc and calcium content in mouse brain and spinal cord, but detectable ZnT3 signal in spinal cord. Whereas vesicular zinc modulates glutamatergic and GABAergic signaling and sensory processing, the functional significance of calcium aggregates in the arachnoid remains unknown.…”
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A new method for ecologists to estimate heterozygote excess and deficit for multi‐locus gene families by Gabe D. O'Reilly, Oliver Manlik, Sandra Vardeh, Jennifer Sinclair, Belinda Cannell, Zachary P. Lawler, William B. Sherwin

“…Abstract The fixation index, FIS, has been a staple measure to detect selection, or departures from random mating in populations. …”
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Design of Real-Time Demodulation for FBG Sensing Signals Based on All-Dielectric Subwavelength Gratings Edge Filters by Jingliang Lin, Ping Tang, Kaihao Chen, Jiancai Xue, Ziming Meng, Jinyun Zhou

“…However, the development of a high-performance demodulation system capable of processing sapphire FBG signals over wide spectral ranges at elevated speeds remains a technical challenge. …”
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Flexible Humidity Sensor Based on Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide by Anna Maria Laera, Gennaro Cassano, Emiliano Burresi, Maria Lucia Protopapa, Michele Penza

“…The accurate measurement of moisture content in pure gases and in gas mixtures, such as air, has great relevance in many industrial processes. In the present study, graphene oxide reduced through a mild alkaline treatment was used as a humidity sensing material to fabricate a flexible chemiresistive device operating at room temperature. …”
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Hepatic Hemangioma in Celiac Patients: Data from a Large Consecutive Series by Sara Massironi, Federica Branchi, Roberta Elisa Rossi, Mirella Fraquelli, Luca Elli, Maria Teresa Bardella, Federica Cavalcoli, Dario Conte

“…Although mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear, autoimmune and metabolic processes, as well as alterations of gut-liver axis equilibrium, could play a role.…”
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Identifying preferential flow from soil moisture time series: Review of methodologies by John R. Nimmo, Inge Wiekenkamp, Ryoko Araki, Jannis Groh, Nitin K. Singh, Octavia Crompton, Briana M. Wyatt, Hoori Ajami, Daniel Giménez, Daniel R. Hirmas, Pamela L. Sullivan, Matthias Sprenger

“…Most commonly, the chosen signature is either (1) a nonsequential response to infiltrated water, in which soil moisture responses do not occur in order of shallowest to deepest, or (2) a velocity criterion, in which newly infiltrated water is detected at depth earlier than is possible by nonpreferential flow processes. …”
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Feasibility of Vibration Arthrometry in Hip Arthroplasty: A Review by Baikozho R. Tashtanov, Mikhail A. Rajfeld, Vasily N. Vasyukov, Vitaliy V. Pavlov, Andrey A. Korytkin

“…The method makes it possible to detect destructive changes in the bearing components of endoprosthesis, thereby predicting their early loosening and taking appropriate preventive measures. …”
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Transcriptomic Characterization of the Porcine Urinary Bladder Trigone Following Intravesical Administration of Resiniferatoxin: Insights from High-Throughput Sequencing by Ewa Lepiarczyk, Mateusz Maździarz, Łukasz Paukszto, Agnieszka Bossowska, Mariusz Majewski, Jerzy Kaleczyc, Elżbieta Łopieńska-Biernat, Łukasz Jaśkiewicz, Agnieszka Skowrońska, Mariusz T. Skowroński, Marta Majewska

“…High-throughput sequencing identified 126 differentially expressed genes (DEGs; 66 downregulated, 60 upregulated), 5 differentially expressed long non-coding RNAs (DELs), and 22 other RNAs, collectively involved in 175 gene ontology (GO) processes. Additionally, differential alternative splicing events (DASes) and single nucleotide variants (SNVs) were detected. …”
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Estimation of the effective elastic thickness using global gravitational, lithospheric structure, and rheology models by Robert TENZER, Mehdi ESHAGH, Samurdhika RATHNAYAKE

“…Within the domain of the Indian Ocean, the maximum elastic thickness (∼130 km) is detected beneath continental crustal fragments of the South Kerguelen Plateau.…”
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Recommendations for planning UAV flight missions for geodata collection by Hutsul Taras, Lysko Bohdan, Zhezhera Ivan, Tkach Vladyslav, Tsvyk Tetyana

“…It refers to objects on the Earth’s surface, phenomena, or processes from space or the atmosphere, recorded by detecting electromagnetic radiation on the ground across various spectral ranges. …”
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