The Class III PI3K/Beclin-1 Autophagic Pathway Participates in the mmLDL-Induced Upregulation of ETA Receptor in Mouse Mesenteric Arteries by Xi Xie, Chen Chen, Cang-Bao Xu, Jie Lin, Lei Cao, Gen Chen, Jie Li

“…The dose-effect curve of endothelin-1- (ET-1-) induced mesenteric artery contraction was measured using myography, while ETA receptor mRNA expression was detected using real-time polymerase chain reactions, and the protein levels of the ETA receptor, class III PI3K, Beclin-1, LC3 II/I, p62, NF-κB, and p-NF-κB were observed using Western blot analysis. mmLDL significantly strengthened ET-1-induced contraction (the Emax value increased from 184.87 ± 7.46% in the NS group to 319.91 ± 20.31% in the mmLDL group (P<0.001), and the pEC50 value increased from 8.05 ± 0.05 to 9.11 ± 0.09 (P<0.01). …”
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Potential Value of Circular RNA circTBC1D4 in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors by null Chunyan-Zou, null Yanpeng-He, null Changshun-Xie, null Fulai-Gao, null Xiaoli-Xie, null Xiukun-Chai, null Chenxi-He, null Dongqiang-Zhao

“…GO analysis results revealed that DEGs were involved in negative management of myocardial contraction, regulation of myocardial cell contraction, ethanol oxidation, cellular potassium ion homeostasis, and relaxation of cardiac muscle, and KEGG analysis showed that major DEGs were with cGMP-PKG signaling pathway. …”
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Effects of Walking Pattern-Based Intelligent Electrical Stimulation on Outpatients with Stoke： A Randomized Controlled Study by HE Xuguang, SUN Wei, ZHOU Lu, HE Meiyan, WEI Ni

“…The stimulation frequency was 30 Hz, the wavelength was 200 μs, and the intensity was the minimum intensity of muscle contraction. The stimu- lation electrodes placed in the sham stimulation group were the same with the real stimulation group, and the intensities could only cause weak sensory stimulation but no real muscle contraction. …”
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Prognostic risk factors of pneumonia associated with COVID-19 in patients with lymphoma by Dan Liu, Xia Yin, Hui Wang, Lijie Xing, Ping Li, Haichen Wei, Ji Ma, Qiang He, Linna Xie, Ke Lu, Zengjun Li

“…ObjectivePatients with hematological malignancies have an elevated risk of developing pneumonia after contracting COVID-19. Lymphoma is the most prevalent hematologic malignancy. …”
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A Prediction Method of Tensile Young's Modulus of Concrete at Early Age by Isamu Yoshitake, Farshad Rajabipour, Yoichi Mimura, Andrew Scanlon

“…Knowledge of the tensile Young's modulus of concrete at early ages is important for estimating the risk of cracking due to restrained shrinkage and thermal contraction. However, most often, the tensile modulus is considered equal to the compressive modulus and is estimated empirically based on the measurements of compressive strength. …”
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Temporal expression of bacterial proteins instructs host CD4 T cell expansion and Th17 development. by Seung-Joo Lee, James B McLachlan, Jonathan R Kurtz, Danhua Fan, Sebastian E Winter, Andreas J Baumler, Marc K Jenkins, Stephen J McSorley

“…Flagellin-specific CD4 T cells expanded and contracted early, differentiated into Th1 and Th17 lineages, and were enriched in mucosal tissues after oral infection. …”
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Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother by Fiona Moolla

“…Final contentment of the heroine is undermined by her questionable actions at the end, resulting in psychic and spiritual contraction. The novel is therefore open-ed up to ambiguity and uncertainty in the closure, notwithstanding the faith of the heroine. …”
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Gauging generalised symmetries in linear gravity by Chris Hull, Maxwell L. Hutt, Ulf Lindström

“…Abstract The theory of a free spin-2 field on Minkowski spacetime has 1-form and (d − 3)-form symmetries associated with conserved currents formed by contractions of the linearised Riemann tensor with conformal Killing-Yano 2-forms. …”
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Reversible Shaping of Microwells by Polarized Light Irradiation by Federica Pirani, Angelo Angelini, Francesca Frascella, Emiliano Descrovi

“…By taking advantage of the light responsivity of the azobenzene compound, we demonstrate the possibility to reversibly modulate a contraction-expansion of wells from an initial round shape to very narrow slits. …”
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Existence and Globally Asymptotic Stability of Equilibrium Solution for Fractional-Order Hybrid BAM Neural Networks with Distributed Delays and Impulses by Hai Zhang, Renyu Ye, Jinde Cao, Ahmed Alsaedi

“…The factors of such network systems including the distributed delays, impulsive effects, and two different fractional-order derivatives between the U-layer and V-layer are taken into account synchronously. Based on the contraction mapping principle, the sufficient conditions are derived to ensure the existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium solution for such network systems. …”
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Diminished nitroprusside-induced relaxation of inflamed colonic smooth muscle in mice by J. D. van Bergeijk, H. van Westreenen, P. Adhien, F. J. Zijlstra

“…Smooth muscle segments of proximal, middle and distal colon were mounted in organ baths . Smooth muscle contraction was induced by carbachol, showing an aboral increase in activity, where as in the inflamed middle colonics egment a marked decr ease in activity was observed. …”
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Endometriosis Nodule Causing Spontaneous Haemoperitoneum in Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Junaid Rafi, Geetha Mahindrakar, Debjani Mukhopadhyay

“…Abdominal palpation revealed generalised tenderness with no guarding or palpable contraction. There was no evidence of bleeding and the cervical os was closed on speculum examination. …”
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Correlation Analysis between Rehabilitation Mechanism of Top Tank Walking and Spinal Stability Training Principle by Hua LI, Xinmiao Yao, Guoqing Zhou

“…The study found that top tank walking can mobilize and maintain the relevant muscle groups in the spine posture effectively, affect the deep muscles of the cervical vertebrae, the chest and lumbar muscles, and stimulate the activity of the local stable muscles of the spine; the spine rehabilitation training of using top tank or top tank walking, should based on the fatigue of the patient's muscle contraction, step by step, while paying attention to the principle of specificity and individuality. …”
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ORGANIZATIONAL ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT MECHANISM AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE CHEMICAL AND PETROCHEMICAL SECTOR OF NIGERIA by T. T. Titus, T. Titus

“…To eq implement запасов the optimal development eq нечетко strategy экспорт of the enterprise, directions eq storage were proposed for improving eq крайне long-term нигерии contracts eq between южной enterprises of related eq сегментах business против sectors, namely the eq среди practice called «Vertical eq значительно Integration создав». …”
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Three-dimensional non-relativistic Hietarinta supergravity by Patrick Concha, Evelyn Rodríguez, Sebastián Salgado

“…At the bosonic level, we derive the non-relativistic version of the Hietarinta model by employing a contraction process and addressing the non-degeneracy of the invariant metric. …”
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Chronic Kidney Disease: Phosphorus and Your Diet by Nancy J. Gal, Lauren Headrick, Kate Bennett, Wendy J. Dahl

“… Phosphorous is an essential mineral necessary for the formation of bones and teeth, but also for kidney function and the regulation of muscle contractions, heartbeat, and nerve transmission. High blood levels of phosphorus may lead to adverse effects on bone, kidney, and heart health. …”
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Joint public procurement in European Union Law by Radomír Jakab

“…EU law allows particular contracting authorities or sector procurers to cooperate within public procurement and procure commodities jointly, i.e. to implement the joint public procurement procedure. …”
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Constructions of L∞ Algebras and Their Field Theory Realizations by Olaf Hohm, Vladislav Kupriyanov, Dieter Lüst, Matthias Traube

“…We discuss special cases such as the commutator algebra of octonions, its contraction to the “R-flux algebra,” and the Courant algebroid.…”
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New Public Management and its Implementation in the CEE Region: What do we know and where do we go? by Juraj Nemec

“…Our findings argue in simplified way that: “Adieu NPM” should mean that managing by contracts, objectives, competition, etc. as the goal, is a forgotten story (not only for CEE, but generally). …”
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Protocol for differentiating cardiomyocytes and generating engineered heart tissues from human feeder-free extended pluripotent stem cells by Zhongjun Wan, Shanshan Wen, Ran Zheng, Li Li, Wei Jiang, Donghui Zhang

“…We then detail procedures for constructing and culturing three-dimensional EHTs followed by their contraction force measurement and optical mapping.For complete details on the use and execution of the protocol, please refer to Zheng et al.1 and Li et al.2 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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