Probiotics and Prebiotics in the Aspect of Health Benefits and the Development of Novel Plant-Based Functional Food by Barbara Sionek, Aleksandra Szydłowska

“…In the food market, significant changes have been observed in recent years, and what is more, they are associated with an increased “nutritional awareness” among consumers. …”
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Genetic Dissection of Tissue-Specific Apolipoprotein E Function for Hypercholesterolemia and Diet-Induced Obesity. by Tobias Wagner, Alexander Bartelt, Christian Schlein, Joerg Heeren

“…As liver and adipose tissue play important roles for metabolism, this study aims to outline functions of both hepatocyte- and adipocyte-derived apoE separately by investigating a novel mouse model of tissue-specific apoE deficiency. …”
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Functional Characterization of the Osteoarthritis Susceptibility Mapping to CHST11-A Bioinformatics and Molecular Study. by Louise N Reynard, Madhushika Ratnayake, Mauro Santibanez-Koref, John Loughlin

“…Electrophoretic mobility shift assays and supershifts identified several transcription factors that bind more strongly to the risk-conferring G and T alleles of the two SNPs, including SP1, SP3, YY1 and SUB1. …”
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A functional screen uncovers circular RNAs regulating excitatory synaptogenesis in hippocampal neurons by Darren Kelly, Silvia Bicker, Jochen Winterer, Prakruti Nanda, Pierre-Luc Germain, Christoph Dieterich, Gerhard Schratt

“…Overall, our results uncover circRERE-mediated stabilization of miR-128-3p as a means to restrict the formation of silent excitatory synaptic co-clusters and more generally implicate circRNA-dependent microRNA regulation in the control of synapse development and function.…”
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Functional state of peripheral nerves of lower limbs in patients with deforming knee joint arthrosis by T. K. Verkhozina, E. G. Ippolitova, N. I. Arsentieva, E. S. Tsyslyak

“…We examined the tibial and peroneal nerves, and H-reflex in 51 patients undergoing treatment at the clinical department of traumatology and orthopedics of ISCST In all examined patients we revealed changes in the function of the peripheral nerves of the lower limbs (increase in the threshold values of the M-response to 24.8 mA (norm - 16 mA), a decrease in the direct muscle response amplitude to an average of 0.6 mV (norm - 2.0 mV), a decrease in the rate impulse up to 37-39 m/s (norm - 40 m/s), all changed were more pronounced on the affected limb. …”
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Association of TLR4 expression and genomic instability with renal function markers in diabetic nephropathy by Ayat Rasheed Hameed, Rasha Salih Nuhair

“…Chromosomal abnormalities are associated with diabetic nephropathy and impaired renal function.…”
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Development of an in vivo RNAi protocol to investigate gene function in the filarial nematode, Brugia malayi. by Chuanzhe Song, Jack M Gallup, Tim A Day, Lyric C Bartholomay, Michael J Kimber

“…This is the first demonstration of in vivo RNAi in animal parasitic nematodes and results indicate this protocol is more effective than existing in vitro RNAi methods. …”
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Targeting Drug Resistance in Cancer: Dimethoxycurcumin as a Functional Antioxidant Targeting ABCC3 by Jochem Nelen, Valeria Naponelli, José Manuel Villalgordo-Soto, Marco Falasca, Horacio Pérez-Sánchez

“…Targeting ABC transporters with natural compound derivatives could offer a promising strategy for developing more effective and less toxic anticancer therapies.…”
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Transformer-based multimodal precision intervention model for enhancing diaphragm function in elderly patients by Ma Xinli, Zhao Jie, Yan Ming, Zhang Yanping, Li Fan, Jia Jing, Ding Lu

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Pretreatments and Particle Size on the Glycemic Index and Rheological and Functional Food Properties of Bean Flours by Adriana Mejía-Terán, Carla María Blanco-Lizarazo, Jairo Eduardo Leiva Mateus, Indira Sotelo-Díaz, Darío Mejía Terán, Enrique Geffroy

“…SCD3 had the highest flavonoid concentration, while R and D had more quercetin-3-glucoside. SCD24 displayed higher elastic/viscous moduli than R. …”
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Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL in Diabetes: Contributions to Endocrine Pancreas Viability and Function by Atenea A. Perez-Serna, Daniel Guzman-Llorens, Reinaldo S. Dos Santos, Laura Marroqui

“…Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder whose prevalence increases every year, affecting more than 530 million adults worldwide. Type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), the most common forms of diabetes, are characterized by the loss of functional pancreatic β-cells, mostly due to apoptosis. …”
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The Correlation between Computed Tomography Severity Grade and Pulmonary Function in Interstitial Lung Disease by Hui GAO, Yongbin LIU, Min XIAO, Jing ZHANG, Qin LIU

“…Objective: To assess whether there is a correlation between CT scan severity score and pulmonary function in Interstitial Lung Disease, and provide a more reliable basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment. …”
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Short intense psychological stress induced by skydiving does not impair intestinal barrier function. by Maria Fernanda Roca Rubio, Ulrika Eriksson, Robert J Brummer, Julia König

“…Future models aiming to investigate the effect of stress on human intestinal barrier function should consider a more sustained exposure to the psychological stressor.…”
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Soil chemical attributes and soybean performance as a function of acidity management and cover crops by Caio Ericles Kolling, Leandro Rampim, Marcelo Marques Lopes Müller, Cristiano André Pott, Marco Segalla Prazeres, Aline Mariele Czekalski Conrado

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Evolution of Microbial Community Structure and Denitrifying Functional Microorganisms in the Biological Sponge Iron System by Jing Li, Huina Xie, Wei Zhao, Jie Li

“…The relative abundance of nitrifying bacteria exhibited a more complex variation, whereas the abundance of denitrifying bacteria showed a continuous upward trend. …”
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Cognitive functioning and soccer heading: one-year longitudinal assessment among professional players by Giovanni Batista Palma, Mariana Drummond Martins Lima, Ana Carolina Oliveira Rodrigues, Clarisse Vasconcelos Friedlaender, Celso Furtado de Azevedo Filho, Rodrigo Campos Pace Lasmar, Paulo Caramelli

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A study on the psychological functioning of children with specific learning difficulties and typically developing children by Nurul Shafira Adi, Azizah Othman, Hue San Kuay, Qarem Mohamed Mustafa

“…Objective This study examines the psychological functioning of children with dyslexia and compares it with typically developing children. …”
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Relative improvement in language vs. motor functions with reperfusion therapies for large vessel occlusion by Zaka Ahmed, Vivek Yedavalli, Wladimir Sarmiento Gonzalez, Argye E. Hillis

“…Because deep and motor areas often infarct relatively early in acute stroke, we hypothesized that reperfusion therapies improve predominantly cortical functions more than motor function. In this retrospective review of a prospectively collected database of patients with acute stroke due to large vessel occlusion, we evaluated percent improvement (mean change in score/maximum score) for different items of the National Institutes of Health Score Scale with and without endovascular thrombectomy (EVT), and/or intravenous thrombolysis. …”
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Is sharing just a function of viewing? The sharing of political and non-political news on Facebook by Damian Trilling, Juhi Kulshrestha, Claes de Vreese, Denis Halagiera, Jakub Jakubowski, Judith Möller, Cornelius Puschmann, Agnieszka Stępińska, Sebastian Stier, Cristian Vaccari

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The CPEB protein Orb2 has multiple functions during spermatogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. by Shuwa Xu, Nathaniel Hafer, Blessing Agunwamba, Paul Schedl

“…There are two CPEB subfamilies and most animals have one or more genes from each. Drosophila has a single CPEB gene, orb and orb2, from each subfamily. orb expression is only detected at high levels in the germline and has critical functions in oogenesis but not spermatogenesis. …”
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