The GD3 ganglioside promotes cell growth, plasticity and chemotherapy resistance of human glioblastoma cancer stem cells by Victoria Hein, Nathalie Baeza-Kallee, Raphaël Bergès, Nora Essakhi, Aurélie Soubéran, Carole Colin, Philippe Morando, Romain Appay, Thomas Graillon, Aurélie Tchoghandjian, Dominique Figarella-Branger, Emeline Tabouret

“…GD3+ cells sorted from patient samples had stem-like cell properties: they were plastic, clonogenic, and tumorigenic after orthotopic engraftment. …”
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2′-Fucosyllactose mitigates cognitive deficits in Alzheimer models: targeting amyloid pathology, oxidative stress, and synaptic plasticity by Yeasmin Akter Munni, Khoa Nguyen Tran, Seon-Min Jeon, Meeyul Hwang, Jong-Won Yoon, Young-Ha Song, Tae Woo Oh, Tae Woo Oh, Sang Il Gum, In-Jun Yang

“…IntroductionThe development of new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains a major challenge due to the disorder’s complex and multifactorial nature. 2′-Fucosyllactose (2′-FL), a human milk oligosaccharide, has demonstrated promising neuroprotective properties. …”
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Exposure to plastic debris alters expression of biomineralization, immune, and stress-related genes in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica). by Laura E Eierman, Jacob Landis

“…One male oyster exposed to plastic had "feminized" gene expression patterns despite developing mature sperm, suggesting plastic leachate can alter gene expression and shift protandric individuals to develop as females. …”
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MATERNAL-FETAL TOLERANCE AS A MANIFESTATION OF REGULATORY CONTINUUM AND PLASTICITY OF THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS (in memory of I.P. Ashmarin) by E. P. Kharchenko

“…To explain such an immune tolerance, a notion of immune system plasticity is introduced, as an analogue to the nervous system plasticity, which develops in response to a continuum of changes occurring in fetal and maternal organisms during the nine months of pregnancy. …”
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Study on Thermal Behavior of Some Biocompatible and Biodegradable Materials Based on Plasticized PLA, Chitosan, and Rosemary Ethanolic Extract by Cornelia Vasile, Niță Tudorachi, Traian Zaharescu, Raluca Nicoleta Darie-Nita, Catalina Natalia Cheaburu-Yilmaz

“…It was established that the rosemary ethanolic extract offers an efficient protection against thermoxidative degradation to the new developed plasticized PLA-based biocomposites which show good thermal properties, being suitable for both medical and food packaging applications.…”
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Engineering support for specified quality of parts surface layer under dynamic methods processing of surface plastic deformation by Mikhail A. Tamarkin, Аlexandra S. Shvedova, Roman V. Grebenkin, Sergey А. Novokreshchenov

“…The analytical prediction technique of the parts surface layer quality parameters is developed on the basis of the abovementioned relations. …”
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Delayed complication after lip contour plasticity with a hyaluronic acid-based product: a case report by Marina M. Tlish, Marina I. Sashko, Marina E. Shavilova, Anna Yu. Boltava, Fatima A. Psavok

“…A clinical case of a 38-year-old patient with persistent swelling of the upper lip that occurred one year after contour plastic surgery with hyaluronic acid fillers is presented. …”
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Calculation of the criteria deviator and the vector of normal to the deviator section of the yield surface for the Murnaghan elastic-plastic material 1 by O. L. Shved

“…For the generalized elastic-plastic material of Murnaghan the software implementation procedures were obtained and a set of programs was developed to calculate the criterion deviator and the external normal vector to the surface of the deviator section of the yield surface. …”
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Rapid and Nondestructive On-Site Classification Method for Consumer-Grade Plastics Based on Portable NIR Spectrometer and Machine Learning by Yinglin Yang, Xin Zhang, Jianwei Yin, Xiangyang Yu

“…K-nearest neighbor (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), and back propagation neural network (BPNN) classification models were developed and evaluated, respectively. The result showed that different plastics could be well separated in top three principal components space after pretreatment, and the classification models performed excellent classification results and high generalization capability. …”
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Energy Transfer from the Liquid Crystal Bulk to the Surface Enables Dynamic Topographies via Anisotropic Plasticized Networks by Yuxin You, Zihua Chen, Gayalaxsa Nagalingam, Dirk J. Broer, Dong Yuan, Satoshi Aya, Danqing Liu

“…The plasticized LCONs exhibit more pronounced deformations than the plasticized LCNs due to their greater flexibility. …”
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Composition dependence of the synergistic effect of nucleating agent and plasticizer in poly(lactic acid): A Mixture Design study by M. K. Fehri, C. Mugoni, P. Cinelli, I. Anguillesi, M. B. Coltelli, S. Fiori, M. Montorsi, A. Lazzeri

“…A range of compositions in which the plasticizer and the nucleation agent minimized the crystallization half-time in a synergistic way was clearly identified thanks to the application of the Mixture Design approach. …”
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Statistical optimization of process variables for improved poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic degradation by a rhizospheric bacterial consortium by Vaishali Dhaka, Simranjeet Singh, Raman Rao, Shashank Garg, Jastin Samuel, Nadeem A. Khan, Praveen C. Ramamurthy, Joginder Singh

“…The changes in the structure and surfaces that occurred after biodegradation on the plastic were observed through SEM and FTIR analysis. …”
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Migration of Two Synthetic Phenolic Antioxidants and Their Degradation Products from Wheat Straw-Based Plastic Lunch Boxes by WANG Jinxin, LIANG Yingyin, ZHONG Huaining, HU Changying

“…A method based on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was developed for the determination of the residues of 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol (2,4-DTBP), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and its derivatives 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-benzoquinone (BHT-Q) and 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (BHT-CHO) and their migration to isooctane from wheat straw-based plastic lunchboxes. …”
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Coastal communities’ participation in reducing single-use plastic bags: the role of awareness of harm and responsibility for environmental protection by Huy Van Le, Le Chi Cong, Mark A.A.M. Leenders

“…To this end, this study develops and tests a unique model that explains residents’ intention to reduce the use of SPBs in coastal regions. …”
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Quantitative kinetic rules for plastic strain-induced α - ω phase transformation in Zr under high pressure by Achyut Dhar, Valery I. Levitas, K. K. Pandey, Changyong Park, Maddury Somayazulu, Nenad Velisavljevic

“…Here, we develop a kinetic model, finite element method (FEM) approach, and combined FEM-experimental approaches to determine all fields in strongly plastically predeformed Zr compressed in DAC, and specific kinetic equation for α-ω PT consistent with experimental data for the entire sample. …”
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Electrochemical Upgrading of Waste Polylactic Acid Plastic for the Coproduction of C₂ Chemicals and Green Hydrogen by Daili Xiang, Kexin Zhou, Jiahui Huang, Qing Kang, Hao Li, Yuhui Duan, Jialei Du, Hong Liu

“…Tandem alkali-catalyzed hydrolysis and alkaline electrolysis have gradually become appealing avenues for the reformation of polyester plastics into high-value-added chemicals and green hydrogen with remarkable environmental and economic benefits. …”
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Warpage Prediction in Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing: A Comparative Study of Isotropic and Johnson–Cook Plasticity Models by Saeed Behseresht, Young Ho Park

“…A Johnson–Cook plasticity model with isotropic hardening is implemented through a UMAT user subroutine in Abaqus. …”
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Elastic–Plastic Fracture Analysis on Defective Q345 Steel in the Process of Small-Scale Creep Crack Propagation by Huajing Guo, Wenjie Tang, Xiaolong Tong, Bin Sun

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Global perceptions of plastic surgery, suturing, and wound care among undergraduate medical students: A systematic review by Dr Shubham Gupta, Dr Jennifer Luu, Dr Lakshya Sharma, Jahnavi Kalvala, Professor Ben H Miranda

“…This systematic review aimed to provide a synthesis of current students’ perceptions of plastic surgery and the pedagogical methods used to teach it globally, with a focus on the UK, as the first steps in developing suitable teaching resources. …”
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Calculation of the reliability of frame systems under seismic impact and survivability assessment during the formation of plastic hinges in the nodes by A. D. Abakarov, R. G. Gasanov

“…The research aims to develop mathematical models for evaluating the reliability of two-story frame systems under the seismic impact, covering all possible ways of transition to the mechanism state due to the formation of plastic hinges in the frame nodes. …”
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