Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells transport connexin43 via tunneling nanotubes to alleviate isopreterenol-induced myocardial hypertrophy by Jianghui Zhang, Hongfeng Jiang, Sa Liu, Zhong Xian, Limin Zhao, Yue Li, Wenxiu Lu, Changrong Shao, Sanbao Chai

“…Co-culture conditions were more effective than trans-well culture in alleviating ISO-induced myocardial hypertrophy (P < 0.05). …”
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Distinct Airway Microbiome and Metabolite Profiles in Eosinophilic and Neutrophilic Asthma by Liu S, Lin Z, Zhou J, Yang X, You L, Yang Q, Li T, Hu Z, Zhan X, Jiang Y, Sun B

“…Induced sputum samples were analyzed using 16S rRNA sequencing to profile bacterial composition and non-targeted metabolomics to assess airway metabolites. …”
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Research Progress on the Impact of Amino Acids on Muscle Quality in Aquatic Animals by Wuxiao ZHANG, Qingqing JIANG, Silei XIA, Hongyan TIAN, Fei LIU, Wenping YANG, Yebing YU, Zhigang YANG, Zhiqiang XU, Yongzhi ZHU, Aimin WANG

“…Therefore, this study reviewed the evaluation indices of muscle quality, including meat content, muscle nutrient composition, muscle fiber structure, muscle texture characteristics, and muscle physicochemical indices, to provide a reference for establishing scientific muscle quality evaluation indices. …”
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Association between the early or late onset of gestational diabetes mellitus with neonatal adverse outcomes: a retrospective cohort study by Fabiana Vieira Duarte de Souza Reis, Carlos Izaias Sartorão Filho, Luis Sobrevia, Caroline Baldini Prudencio, Bruna Bologna, Luana Favaro Iamundo, Adriely Magyori, Luiz Takano, Raissa Escandiussi Avramidis, Rafael Guilen de Oliveira, Marilza Vieira Cunha Rudge, Angélica Mércia Pascon Barbosa, Diamater Study Group

“…The maternal baseline characteristics included pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) and pregnancy weight gain (kg), calculated as the difference between the final pregnancy weight (36 gestational weeks or more) and pre-pregnancy maternal weight, classified according to the pre-pregnancy BMI. …”
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Sudden death due to enterotoxemia amongst Arabian camels (Camelus dromedaries) and associated risk factors by Asmaa G. Mubarak, Fatma A. Khalifa, Yumna Elsobky, Ahmed Abdel-Rady, Wael Felefel, Adel Hassan Saad, Ehab Y. Abdelhiee, Abdullah Mohamed Alhassan, Hisham Awny, Eman M. Elghazaly, Ashraf M. Abu-Seida, Abdulrahman Abdulkarim, Asmaa G. Youseef

“…The quantity and composition of feed were also analyzed. Afterward, a commercial multiscreen Ag-ELISA kit technique determined the toxins of Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens). …”
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Xietu Hemu Prescription Improves Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: A Real-World Cohort Study by Xiang LL, Cao YT, Wang XX, Wang GX, Zhang YJ, Li RH, Qi F, Huai JX, Sun J, He XJ, Zhou XQ

“…We assessed the efficacy of the XHP on MASLD by comparing FibroScan parameters, body composition indicators, and liver serological indicators. …”
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Treatment of hypothyroidism with levothyroxine plus slow-release liothyronine: a study protocol for a randomized controlled double-blinded clinical trial by F. Azizi, A. Amouzegar, H. Abdi, M. Tohidi, S. Masoumi, D. Khalili, Y. Mehrabi, A. Zadehvakili, M. Hedayati, A. A. Momenan, L. Mehran

“…Conclusion It is expected that LT4 + SRT3 combined therapy more closely mimics the serum levels of T3, T4, and the T3/T4 ratio of euthyroid subjects than LT4 monotherapy, and improves health outcomes and quality of life, especially in hypothyroid patients with persistent symptoms under LT4 monotherapy. …”
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The effects of tread rubber and road dust particles on stress, immunity and digestive biomarkers in the larvae of the mealworm Tenebrio molitor by Agnieszka Babczyńska, Michalina Bańska, Katarzyna Mizera, Monika Tarnawska, Maria Augustyniak, Katarzyna Rozpędek, Bartosz Łozowski, Jolanta Brożek, Izabela Potocka, Magdalena Kowalewska-Groszkowska, Marta Sawadro, Agnieszka Czerwonka, Jūratė Žaltauskaitė, Gintarė Sujetovienė, Piero Giulianini, Monia Renzi, Anita Giglio

“…RD induced changes in more experimental groups than TR. This may be due to the greater complexity of their composition. …”
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Conjugated bile acids promote metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease through inducing nuclear translocation of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 2 to disrupt perox... by Rong-Rong Miao, Ming-Yong Tan, Han-Bing Shao, Zhi-Meng Sun, Sheng Zhan, Wei-Shi Liang, Xiao-Hui Liu, Ke-Qin Li, Yu-Yao Cheng, Xin-Feng Wu, Rui Xu, Shu-Xiang Cui, Yong Hai, Xian-Jun Qu

“…Villin-SphK2TG mice were fed high-fat diet (HFD) for inducing MASLD. Gut microbiota composition was analyzed by 16 S rDNA Amplicon sequencing assay. …”
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Improving Diet Quality of People Living With Obesity by Building Effective Dietetic Service Delivery Using Technology in a Primary Health Care Setting: Protocol for a Randomized Co... by Deborah A Kerr, Clare E Collins, Andrea Begley, Barbara Mullan, Satvinder S Dhaliwal, Claire E Pulker, Fengqing Zhu, Marie Fialkowski, Richard L Prince, Richard Norman, Anthony P James, Paul Aveyard, Helen Mitchell, Jacquie Garton-Smith, Megan E Rollo, Chloe Maxwell-Smith, Amira Hassan, Hayley Breare, Lucy M Butcher, Christina M Pollard

“…Improving community access to high-quality dietetic services will ensure more effective use of the dietetic workforce to improve outcomes for people living with obesity. …”
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Differential gene expression profiles of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas among African American and caucasian American patients by Prachi Bajpai, Ravi Paluri, Sameer Al Diffalha, Darshan S Chandrashekar, Farrukh Afaq, Dennis Otali, Amr Elkholy, C. Ryan Miller, Shajan Peter, Ashish Manne, Ganji Purnachandra Nagaraju, Madhu Sudhana Saddala, Moh’d Khushman, Sooryanarayana Varambally, Upender Manne

“…Canonical subtype analyses indicated a more heterogenous subtype distribution in AA PDACs, whereas CA PDACs showed a predominance of classical subtypes. …”
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Gradual changes within long-lived influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cells are associated with the loss of public TCR clonotypes in older adultsResearch in context by Carolien E. van de Sandt, Hayley A. McQuilten, Malet Aban, Thi H.O. Nguyen, Sophie A. Valkenburg, Emma J. Grant, Sneha Sant, Jamie Rossjohn, Stephanie Gras, Jane Crowe, Katherine Kedzierska

“…Frequency, phenotype and T-cell receptor (TCR) composition of influenza-specific CD8+ T-cells directed at the prominent A2/M158 influenza epitope change across the human lifespan. …”
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Research progress on lacrimal duct stent materials by TANG Yan, ZHANG Yongxin, YE Lin

“…However, challenges remain in regulating degradation rates, improving 3D printing precision, and reducing costs.Furthermore, the long-term safety and efficacy of these technologies require more clinical data for validation. Future research should explore more precise degradation rate control methods, optimize 3D printing processes to enhance accuracy, lower material production costs, and develop more efficient composite material fabrication techniques. …”
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Modal Passport Concept for Enhanced Non-Destructive Monitoring and Diagnostics of Wind Turbine Blades by Aleksey Mironov, Pavel Doronkin, Aleksejs Safonovs

“…At this stage of the study, algorithms and methods for the formation of a roadmap to develop a modal passport for a series of composite models of a wind turbine blade are considered. …”
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Ontology of functional synergetics in virtual cognitive-semiotic design of information processes and systems by R. G. Bolbakov, V. A. Mordvinov, P. V. Berezkin, I. I. Sivitsky

“…This is a complex and dynamic concept, which includes its interpretation of the positions of classical synergetics and related paradigms of cognitive semiotics, etc. The method of ontologies, which is gaining more and more popularity, is the main means and tool of such unification. …”
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Bonding Surface Designs in Fixed Orthodontic Attachments by Leila Sadeghalbanaei, Saeed Noorollahian, Zahra Zarei

“…Developing more bonding surfaces by increasing the macroscopic size of the attachments has esthetic and hygienic limitations, so the ABS design plays a more important role in maintaining and improving the bond strength. …”
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Etiologic Characteristics of Influenza Epidemics on the Territory of Russia in the Period of Pandemic COVID-­19 in 2020–2023 by P. A. Petrova, N. I. Konovalova, A. Y. Boyarintseva, D. M. Danilenko, A. D. Vasilieva, T. N. Shelepanova, A. V. Prokopets, M. Y. Eropkin

“…According the results of HI- and MN-tests we could conclude that in 2021-2022 there was a partial consistency between the vaccine strain A/Cambodia/е0826360/20 (H3N2) and the strains in circulation which were more like to the reference strain A/ Darwin/9/21. …”
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DNA metabarcoding of benthic algae and associated eukaryotes from Lake Baikal in the face of rapid environmental changes by Yu. S. Bukin, L. S. Kravtsova, T. E. Peretolchina, A. P. Fedotov, A. E. Tupikin, M. R. Kabilov, D. Yu. Sherbakov, E. V. Mincheva

“…The advantage of this method is the possibility to more fully determine the diversity of eukaryotes taxa, which are difficult to identify by morphology, without involving a large number of specialists, while the disadvantage of the method is the distortion that may occur during the PCR. …”
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CREATING THE KULTUK POLYGON FOR EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION: VARIATIONS OF (234U/238U) AND 87SR/86SR IN GROUNDWATER FROM ACTIVE FAULTS AT THE WESTERN SHORE OF LAKE BAIKAL by S. V. Rasskazov, E. P. Chebykin, A. M. Ilyasova, E. N. Vodneva, I. S. Chuvashova, S. A. Bornyakov, A. K. Seminsky, S. V. Snopkov, V. V. Chechel'nitsky, N. A. Gileva

“…Forty sets of samples taken from 27 June 2012 to 28 January 2014 were analysed, and data on 170 samples are discussed in this paper.Methods. Isotope compositions of uranium and strontium were determined by methods described in [Chebykin et al., 2007; Pin et al., 1992] with modifications. …”
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A review on the production of nanofertilizers and its application in agriculture by Birara Melku Ayenew, Neela Satheesh, Zemenu Birhan Zegeye, Desalegn Adisu Kassie

“…The concept of NF technology is highly innovative, utilizing physical, chemical, and biological methods for formulation. Additionally, the precise application and targeted delivery of nano-fertilizers ensures a more sustainable and accurate approach to agriculture. …”
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