Implementing sustainability frameworks at a product-level – Exploring the usability by Paule Bhérer-Breton, Anna Woodhouse, Bente Aspeholen Åby, Hilke Bos-Brouwers, Melanie Kok, Hanne Fjerdingby Olsen

“…The study revealed a trade-off: frameworks with higher usability tended to sacrifice depth and comprehensiveness in the information provided about food products. …”
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Blood transcriptome resources of chinstrap () and gentoo () penguins from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica by Bo-Mi Kim, Jihye Jeong, Euna Jo, Do-Hwan Ahn, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Jae-Sung Rhee, Hyun Park

“…Blood transcriptome studies such as this may be useful for checking the immune and health status of penguins without sacrifice.…”
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Prior immunity to Ureaplasma urealyticum protects against respiratory infection in immunosuppressed mice by Maha Y. Al-Jabri, Robin Patel, Derek Fleming

“…Relative U. urealyticum antibody levels in plasma were assessed over time, and lungs were harvested at sacrifice for bacterial load quantification, assessed using a color-changing unit assay. …”
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Near-Peer Coaching to Enhance Operative Learning: An Educational Innovation for Surgical Training by Alexander J. Papachristos, MSurgicalEd, Elizabeth Molloy, PhD, Juanita N. Chui, MD, Monica Ghidinelli, PhD, Simon Kitto, PhD, Debra Nestel, PhD, Benjamin P. T. Loveday, PhD

“…Trainees find barriers to operative learning difficult to navigate and often sacrifice educational opportunities for the sake of impression management. …”
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Effects of Exercise Training on Molecular Markers of Lipogenesis and Lipid Partitioning in Fructose-Induced Liver Fat Accumulation by Siham Yasari, Denis Prud'homme, Frédérique Tesson, Marek Jankowski, Jolanta Gutkowska, Emile Levy, Jean-Marc Lavoie

“…Rats were further subdivided as follow: rats were fasted for 24 h, refed a standard diet for 24 h, starved for another 24 h, and refed with a standard or a high-fructose diet 24 h before sacrifice. Fructose refeeding was associated with an increase in hepatic lipid content, endocannabinoid receptor 1, sterol regulatory element-binding protein1c, and stearoyl-CoA desaturase1 gene expression in both Sed and TR rats. …”
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Snap diagnosis of fulminant type 1 diabetes by the normalized glucose/HbA1c ratio by Jun-Ichiro Mori, Takahiro Miyakoshi, Hanae Yuzuriha, Teruki Kondo, Eita Nishimori, Motoji Naka, Ai Sato, Mitsuhisa Komatsu, Koh Yamashita, Toru Aizawa

“…Rounding of the figure into [PG (mmol/L) – 5.0]/[HbA1c (%) – 5.0] did not significantly sacrifice the discriminating ability of the index. …”
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Oncological and functional outcomes following transoral laser microsurgery in patients with T2a vs T2b glottic squamous cell carcinoma by David Forner, Matthew H. Rigby, Robert D. Hart, Jonathan R. Trites, S. Mark Taylor

“…The overall laryngeal preservation rate was 94.7%, with 11.5% of T2b patients requiring salvage organ sacrifice. Conclusions This study highlights positive functional outcomes for T2a glottic SCC. …”
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Reversal of acetaminophen-generated oxidative stress and concomitant hepatotoxicity by a phytopharmaceutical product by Afolabi C. Akinmoladun, Kehinde O. Oguntunde, Lawrence O. Owolabi, Omotayo B. Ilesanmi, Joan O. Ogundele, M.Tolulope Olaleye, Afolabi A. Akindahunsi

“…Hepatotoxicity was induced by the oral administration of acetaminophen (2 g/kg), 24 h prior to sacrifice. Biochemical liver function tests, oxidative stress indicators and histoarchitectural changes were evaluated. …”
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Fn14 Deficiency Ameliorates Anti-dsDNA IgG-Induced Glomerular Damage in SCID Mice by Jiawen Wu, Xiaoyun Min, Li Wang, Jie Yang, Ping Wang, Xingyin Liu, Yumin Xia

“…In two weeks, the urine, serum, and kidney tissue samples were harvested from mice at sacrifice. It showed that the injection of anti-dsDNA IgG, but not control IgG hybridoma cells, induced proteinuria and glomerular damage in SCID mice. …”
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Mouse Models of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: Head-to-Head Comparison of Dietary Models and Impact on Inflammation and Animal Welfare by Andreas Kroh, Vanina Ivanova, Hannah Drescher, Julia Andruszkow, Thomas Longerich, Jochen Nolting, Roman Eickhoff, D. Heise, Karl P. Rheinwalt, Ulf P. Neumann, Florian T. Ulmer

“…Metabolic assessment was conducted at baseline and before scheduled sacrifice, and liver inflammation was analyzed via fluorescence-associated cell sorting and histopathological examination. …”
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Gender disparity in living organ donation: a qualitative analysis of experiences and perceptions of female donors in Pakistan by Muhammad Ishaq, Javeria Saleem, Ruhma Binte Shahzad, Mahrukh Iqbal, Abida Tehreem, Raja Sajjad Asghar, Aleena Touqeer, Gul Mehar Javaid Bukkhari

“…These themes transcended the medical considerations and highlighted the interplay between social norms, family dynamics and gendered expectations surrounding caregiving and self-sacrifice.Conclusion The findings of this study underscore the significant relationship between gender roles, economic pressures and social expectations in the context of living organ donation. …”
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Dealing with data gaps for TianQin with massive black hole binary signal by Lu Wang, Hong-Yu Chen, Xiangyu Lyu, En-Kun Li, Yi-Ming Hu

“…The easy-to-implement window function method can already perform well, except that it will sacrifice some SNR due to the adoption of the window. …”
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Damping characteristic analysis of grid-forming PMSG-based WT under different power oscillation damping controls by Xiaotian Yuan, Zhengchun Du, Yujun Li, Tong Qu, Han Jiang

“…Then, by analyzing the coupling effects between WT dynamics and the active power loop, it was found that the previous active power-based grid-forming controls may sacrifice maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for damping provision and consequently affect the system damping coefficient. …”
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Hypolipidemic effect of coffee silver skin in rats fed a high-fat diet by Ayman Mohammed El-Anany, Rehab Farouk M. Ali

“…Blood samples were collected at the end of the experiment. At the time of sacrifice, the weights of heart, liver, kidneys, epididymal fat and retroperitoneal fat of the experimental rats with respect to body weight were recorded. …”
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FTIR: A novel method for identifying fish gut contents by Abolfazl Aminimehr, Mohammad Amini Chermahini, Laleh Moosavi Dehmoordi

“…Introduction: If the composition of ingested food changes along the digestive tract in such a way that fish feces reflect the initial composition of the consumed food, there would be no need to sacrifice fish to identify the contents of their gut. …”
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Assessment of effectiveness of oral supplementation of isolated fiber of carrot on metabolic parameters in mature rats by Maria Rosana Ramirez, Debora Manuale, Juan Carlos Yori

“…Blood samples were collected at the time of sacrifice. The weights of heart, liver, kidneys and spleen of the experimental rats with respect to body weight were recorded. …”
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Jane Eyre between the Wars by Patsy Stoneman

“…Le seul de ces quatre romans à se terminer sur une note d’espoir est South Riding, dont la réponse passe par le sacrifice radical de l’amour.…”
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Cryopreservation of primary neonatal rat oligodendrocytes and recapitulation of in vitro oligodendrocyte characteristics by Hanki Kim, Hanki Kim, Bum Jun Kim, Bum Jun Kim, Seungyon Koh, Seungyon Koh, Seungyon Koh, Hyo Jin Cho, Byung Gon Kim, Byung Gon Kim, Jun Young Choi, Jun Young Choi

“…After induction of differentiation for four days, ~43% of both control and cryopreserved OPCs differentiated into mature OLs, and when differentiation was induced on aligned nanofibers mimicking axonal structure, myelin sheath-like structures indicative of in vitro myelination was observed in all experimental groups.ConclusionThe validation of cryopreserved primary OLs as a functionally robust in vitro model can help improve the efficiency of primary OL culture, expand its applications, and reduce the inevitable sacrifice of animals.…”
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Pursuing healthy homeownership: an evaluation of the neighborhood health trajectories of shared equity homeowners by Geoffrey M. Gusoff, Alex Ramiller, Arthur Acolin, Ruoniu Wang, Frederick J. Zimmerman

“…However, studies suggest low- and moderate-income households may sacrifice neighborhood quality when becoming homeowners, which can undermine the health benefits of homeownership. …”
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Achilles Tendon Repair by Decellularized and Engineered Xenografts in a Rabbit Model by Marta Bottagisio, Daniele D’Arrigo, Giuseppe Talò, Matilde Bongio, Marco Ferroni, Federica Boschetti, Matteo Moretti, Arianna B. Lovati

“…Then, animals were implanted with autograft (AG) as the gold standard control, decellularized graft (DG), or in vitro tissue-engineered graft (TEG) and evaluated postoperatively at 12 weeks. After sacrifice, histological, immunohistochemical, biochemical, and biomechanical analyses were performed along with the matrix metalloproteinases. …”
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