Application of a new highly multiplexed amplicon sequencing tool to evaluate Plasmodium falciparum antimalarial resistance and relatedness in individual and pooled samples from Dsc... by Jacob M. Sadler, Alfred Simkin, Valery P. K. Tchuenkam, Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza, Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza, Abebe A. Fola, Kevin Wamae, Ashenafi Assefa, Ashenafi Assefa, Karamoko Niaré, Kyaw Thwai, Samuel J. White, William J. Moss, Rhoel R. Dinglasan, Sandrine Eveline Nsango, Christopher B. Tume, Jonathan B. Parr, Jonathan B. Parr, Jonathan B. Parr, Innocent Mbulli Ali, Jeffrey A. Bailey, Jeffrey A. Bailey, Jonathan J. Juliano, Jonathan J. Juliano, Jonathan J. Juliano, Jonathan J. Juliano

“…No K13 candidate or validated artemisinin partial resistance mutations were detected, but one low-level non-synonymous change was observed. Pf-SMARRT’s hypervariable targets, used to assess complexity of infections and parasite diversity and relatedness, showed similar levels and patterns compared to molecular inversion probe (MIP) sequencing. …”
Get full text

Th2-Immune Polarizing and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Insulin Are Not Effective in Type 2 Diabetic Pregnancy by Adnette Fagninou, Magloire Pandoua Nekoua, Darius Sossou, Kabirou Moutairou, Nadine Fievet, Akadiri Yessoufou

“…The frequencies of total CD3+ and CD4+ T cells and nonclassical monocytes significantly increased in insulin-treated T2D pregnant women compared to pregnant controls. …”
Get full text

Elite Alleles of EPE1 Identified via Genome-wide Association Studies Increase Panicle Elongation Length in Rice by Hao Sun, Qiqi Yao, Mei Hai, Tianhu Li, Jinghan Sun, Zhengbo Liu, Yang Ang, Yingying Zhao, Yanan Zhang, Xianping Cheng, Tao Huang, Yinping Chang, Mingyu Du, Erbao Liu

“…Three candidate genes associated with PEL were predicted by non-synonymous SNPs and functional annotation. We characterize one gibberellin (GA)-related gene, LOC_Os02g41954 (OsGA2ox9), which encodes gibberellin 2-beta-dioxygenase 7 located in the cell membrane and nucleus. …”
Get full text

Transition metal-based MOFs for Fenton-like photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants: Performance, stability, and biocompatibility by S.M. Tikhanova, Yu.A. Tishchenko, E.Yu. Stovpiaga, M. Timofeeva, D.V. Lipin, S.A. Povarov, V.A. Milichko, A.S. Timin, S.A. Shipilovskikh, V.I. Popkov

“…In vitro studies conducted on human monocytes (THP-1), murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEF-NF), breast cancer cells (4T1), melanoma cells (B16-F10), and colorectal cancer cells (CT26) demonstrated high biocompatibility of the developed MOFs. …”
Get full text

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato inhibits CIITA transcription through pSTAT3 activation and enhanced SOCS1 and SOCS3 expression leading to limited IFN-γ production by Michelle A.E. Brouwer, Zara Karami, Samuel T. Keating, Hedwig Vrijmoeth, Heidi L.M. Lemmers, Helga Dijkstra, Frank L. van de Veerdonk, Mihaela Lupse, Hadewych J.M. ter Hofstede, Mihai G. Netea, Leo A.B. Joosten

“…In primary human PBMCs and monocyte populations, B. burgdorferi s.l. also specifically interfered with CIITA isoforms normally expressed in antigen presenting dendritic cells. …”
Get full text

Development and assessment of an intestinal tri-cellular model to investigate the pro/anti-inflammatory potential of digested foods by Marina Ramal-Sanchez, Chiara Bravo-Trippetta, Veronica D’Antonio, Elena Corvaglia, Angela A. M. Kämpfer, Roel P. F. Schins, Mauro Serafini, Donato Angelino

“…This study aims to develop and test an in vitro tri-culture model, simulating the complexity of the intestinal tract and its multiple cell interactions.MethodsTo achieve this, the intestinal epithelial barrier was established by co-culturing human Caco-2 enterocyte-like and HT29-MTX-E12 mucus producing goblet-like colon cells, then adding human monocyte THP-1 cells to the basolateral compartment. …”
Get full text

Peripheral blood immunoinflammatory biomarkers: prospective predictors of postoperative long-term survival and chronic postsurgical pain in breast cancer by Baoli Li, Li Che, Huixian Li, Fangdi Min, Bolun Ai, Linxin Wu, Taihang Wang, Peixin Tan, Bingbing Fu, Jiashuo Yang, Yi Fang, Hui Zheng, Tao Yan

“…The relationships among the perioperative neutrophil count (NEU), monocyte count (MONO), lymphocyte count (LYM), platelet count (PLT), SII, SIRI, NLR, PIV, dynamic changes in peripheral blood cell counts, and CPSP were further assessed using logistic regression analysis.ResultsKaplan−Meier curves revealed a considerable prolongation of disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) in the low preoperative SII, SIRI, NLR, and PIV groups. …”
Get full text

Normal butanol fraction of Polygonum hydropiper L. flavonoids reduces inflammation caused by PCV2 infections in cell and mouse models by Yu-heng Wei, Shu-mian Zhou, Shu-mian Zhou, Shu-mian Zhou, Wen Zhao, Qi Chen, Qiu-hua Wang, Qiu-hua Wang, Mei-ling Yu, Ying-yi Wei, Ting-jun Hu, Ting-jun Hu, Ting-jun Hu

“…Inflammatory factors such as Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-8, IL-10, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α), Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), and Nitric Oxide (NO) were quantified using ELISA, RT-qPCR and immunohistochemistry.ResultsResults showed that a PCV2 titer of 104.5 TCID50/0.1 mL when applied to RAW264.7 cells effectively established an in vitro inflammatory model at 12 and 24 h post-infection. …”
Get full text

Associations of the levels of adipokines and cytokines in individual follicles with in vitro fertilization outcomes in women with different ovarian reserves by Xuelan Li, Chujun Li, Jie Yang, Min Lin, Xianli Zhou, Ziyang Su, Yuting Zhang, Xinning Li, Xin Chen

“…The levels of 5 adipokines (including visfatin-1, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 [MCP-1], resistin, leptin, and chemerin) and 3 cytokines (including interleukin [IL]-6, IL-12p70, and tumor necrosis factor [TNF]-α) in FF were determined by Luminex technology. …”
Get full text

CD40-TRAF6 inhibition suppresses cardiovascular inflammation, oxidative stress and functional complications in a mouse model of arterial hypertension by Lea Strohm, Henning Ubbens, Dominika Mihalikova, Alexander Czarnowski, Paul Stamm, Michael Molitor, Stefanie Finger, Matthias Oelze, Dorothee Atzler, Philip Wenzel, Philipp Lurz, Thomas Münzel, Christian Weber, Esther Lutgens, Andreas Daiber, Steffen Daub

“…Additionally, FACS analysis revealed that TRAF6 inhibition prevents immune cell migration into the aortic vessel wall observed by reduced CD45+ leukocyte, Ly6G+/Ly6C+ neutrophil, and Ly6Chigh inflammatory monocyte content. The hypertensive cell type-specific CD40(L) knockout animals showed only a minor effect on endothelial function, blood pressure, and oxidative stress. …”
Get full text

Cell culture expansion media choice affects secretory, protective and immuno-modulatory features of adipose mesenchymal stromal cell-derived secretomes for orthopaedic applications by Enrico Ragni, Andrea Papait, Michela Maria Taiana, Paola De Luca, Giulio Grieco, Elsa Vertua, Pietro Romele, Cecilia Colombo, Antonietta Rosa Silini, Ornella Parolini, Laura de Girolamo

“…Secretomes effect was tested in in vitro models of chondrocytes, lymphocytes and monocytes to mimic the OA microenvironment. Results: Within a conserved molecular signature, a divergent fingerprint emerged for ASCs' secretomes collected after expansion in standard FBS/hPL or next-generation S/X formulations. …”
Get full text

Identification and Analysis of Key Immune- and Inflammation-Related Genes in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by Tan Y, Qian B, Ma Q, Xiang K, Wang S

“…Six distinct immune cells, including naive CD4 T cells, T cells CD4 memory resting, T cells regulatory (Tregs), Monocytes, Macrophages M2, Neutrophils were identified. …”
Get full text

Rescue of in vitro models of CSF1R-related adult-onset leukodystrophy by iluzanebart: mechanisms and therapeutic implications of TREM2 agonism by Kelley C. Larson, Frederick W. Gergits, Abigail J. Renoux, Elizabeth J. Weisman, Borislav Dejanovic, Liyue Huang, Bhaumik Pandya, Donald G. McLaren, Berkley A. Lynch, Richard Fisher, Evan Thackaberry, David Gray, Francois Gaudreault, Christian Mirescu

“…Iluzanebart treatment rescued viability of human monocyte-derived macrophages (hMDM) and induced pluripotent stem cell-derived human microglia (iMGL) in multiple in vitro models of CSF1R-ALSP, including in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) differentiated microglia carrying the heterozygous I794T mutation found in CSF1R-ALSP patients. …”
Get full text

Public Benefit and Public Interest – Two Sides of the Same Coin? by Tina Sever

“…Constitutional case law refers to both concepts in a general way without fully defining their content, yet it does not treat them as synonyms. Academic contribution to the field: Public interest and public benefit are central concepts of public administration science. …”
Get full text

La ‘sofisticación’ como dimensión de cambio en el desarrollo epistemológico / “Sophistication” as a Dimension of Change in Developing a Personal Epistemology by Constanza Ruiz-Danegger, Yolanda Fernández-Acevedo, José Eduardo Moreno

“…In that context, “sophistication” would be the dimension usually seen as synonymous with “developmental change”. It is proposed to probe it from a) a formal criterion: (statistical significance of differences) and two substantial ones: (b) the contrast of the “weak” vs. …”
Get full text

Main topics in assisted reproductive market: A scoping review. by Janaina Ferreira Aderaldo, Beatriz Helena Dantas Rodrigues de Albuquerque, Maryana Thalyta Ferreira Câmara de Oliveira, Mychelle de Medeiros Garcia Torres, Daniel Carlos Ferreira Lanza

“…<h4>Design</h4>We apply an LDA topic modeling process to identify the main terms, and clustered them into semantic synonymous topics. We extracted the patterns and information to these topics and purposed a factor/consequence correlation to them.…”
Get full text

Observations on old Serbian terminology for iron mining and processing: Želězo and gvozdje by Loma Aleksandar B.

“…Otherwise, since at least the 14th century, želězo has been an archaism surviving in the toponymy across the major part of Serbian lands. Some toponymic instances, however, are assumed to have been imported from other Slavic lands, such as Železnik, a medieval mine near Belgrade, attested since 1358; it may be interpreted as having arisen through univerbation from a descriptive denomination *želězьnъjь potokъ ‘iron stream’, but also from a possessive noun phrase *potokъ želěznikь ‘ironsmiths’ stream’, i.e., the one by which their hammer mills were situated, where the second element is the old genitive plural of *želěznikъ ‘ironsmith’, which is homophonous with its nominative singular form. …”
Get full text

Association between ABCB4 variants and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy by Dekun Zhang, Yuhong Li, Shufeng He, Jing Shu, Tiechen Li, Qing Sun

“…Four exonic variants of ABCB4 gene were detected in ICP patients and healthy pregnant women, including synonymous variants c.175 C > T, c.504 C > T,c.711 A > T and missense variant c.1954 A > G(p.Arg652Gly). …”
Get full text

Assessing the Causal Relationship Between Various Immune Cells and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Mendelian Randomization Study by Qian Ge, Zhongyan Li, Weijing Meng, Chen Cai, Mengdi Qiu, Yafei Liu, Haibo Zhu

“…Immune cell phenotypes that may act as a safeguard against ADHD included CD3 on resting Treg (OR = 0.925, 95% CI = 0.888–0.963, p = 1.5E−4) and SSC‐A on monocytes (OR = 0.951, 95% CI = 0.924–0.980, p = 8.5E−4), among others. …”
Get full text

Systemic Inflammatory Markers for Predicting Overall Survival in Patients with Osteosarcoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Xiaotong Song, Hao Zhang, Fanxing Yin, Panpan Guo, Xiaocheng Yang, Jinzhu Liu, Yanshuo Han, Zhaozhou Ren

“…These inflammatory markers include C-reactive protein (CRP), neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and Glasgow prognostic score (GPS). …”
Get full text