Characterization of polyethylene and polyurethane microplastics and their adsorption behavior on Cu2+ and Fe3+ in environmental matrices by Ilaria Zanoni, Lucia Briccolani, Lara Faccani, Magda Blosi, Simona Ortelli, Matteo Crosera, Giovanna Marussi, Stefania Albonetti, Anna Luisa Costa

“…In this study, we investigated their physicochemical characteristics, presence of impurities, colloidal behavior, and sorption capacity to understand better how microplastics behave and transform in the environment, including their role in transporting heavy metals. …”
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Ebbs and Flows of Marine Biodiversity: Navigating Spatiotemporal Patterns of Environmental DNA in a Coastal Tidal Ecosystem by Michelle Scriver, Ulla vonAmmon, Xavier Pochon, Martin Zirngibl, Francois Audrezet, Kaeden Leonard, Kylie Pedersen, Nick Bamford, Ngairo Tahere, Jo‐Ann L. Stanton, Neil J. Gemmell, Anastasija Zaiko

“…., the mussel Arcuatula senhousia) were consistently detected and behaved similar to the core community. Overall, species‐specific eDNA detection patterns may be linked to the biology and movement of the organism. …”
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Information as a tool for management decision making: a case study of Singapore

“…The main objective of this study was to develop an understanding of how Singapore's managers behave as information users and determine if their behavioural patterns are similar to their counterparts in other countries (as disclosed in the literature) or if it differs, in what ways. …”
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Material screening for the development of a photovoltaic module using biodegradable materials from renewable raw materials by Pander Matthias, Koepge Ringo, Jaeckel Bengt, Mordvinkin Anton

“…It is shown how these materials behave under the standard requirements of the PV industry, which materials are generally suitable and which mechanisms could prove to be showstoppers. …”
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Adaptation of Anopheles Vectors to Anthropogenic Malaria-Associated Rubber Plantations and Indoor Residual Spraying: Establishing Population Dynamics and Insecticide Susceptibility by Suntorn Pimnon, Adisak Bhumiratana

“…An. campestris, a suspected vector of Plasmodium vivax, had a tendency to appear throughout the study and behaved both exophagy and endophagy. It was highly susceptible to BT, showing 95.0% mortality (95% CI, 79.1–100) while decreasing sensitivity of 87.2% (95% CI, 78.4–95.9) to DEL. …”
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Performance of GGBS Cement Concrete under Natural Carbonation and Accelerated Carbonation Exposure by Jun Zhao, Eskinder Desta Shumuye, Zike Wang, Gashaw Assefa Bezabih

“…The combination of 70% OPC and 30% GGBS behaved well enough with respect to accelerated carbonation exposure, the depth of carbonation being roughly equivalent to that of control group (100% OPC). …”
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Behavioral phenotyping of Kaiso-deficient mice by V. S. Korostina, A. V. Kulikov

“…These results are the first piece of experimental evidence for the involvement of Kaiso protein in the regulation of brain functioning and beha­vior. The Kaiso-deficient strain is a new and promising model of the genetic, molecular, and neuronal mechanisms mediating the epigenetic regulation of brain functions and behavior.…”
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Concentration of viruses and electron microscopy by I. D. Petrova, B. N. Zaitsev, O. S. Taranov

“…The paper reviews studies on unique traps, magnetic beads, and composite polyaniline and carbon nanotubes, including those of changeable size to concentrate viral particles. …”
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Purification and Optimization of Extracellular Lipase from a Novel Strain Kocuria flava Y4 by Adyasa Barik, Sudip Kumar Sen, Geetanjali Rajhans, Sangeeta Raut

“…Hardening time of gel beads in calcium chloride was used. For the first time, K. flava Y4 lipase was purified using ammonium sulphate precipitation followed by dialysis and DEAE-Sepharose anion exchange chromatography with Sepharose-6B gel filtration chromatography, yielding ∼15-fold purified lipase with a final yield of 96 U/mL. …”
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PD-1 suppresses human CD38+ circulating Tfr cells and regulates humoral immunity by Heng Zhang, Hui Zheng, Lin Guo, Ying Tong, Xiaolu Ma, Yanchun Wang, Renquan Lu, Cuncun Chen, Suhong Xie

“…However, the impact of anti-PD-1 therapy on host humoral immunity in humans during cancer immunotherapy requires further investigation.Methods We evaluated immunoglobulin titers by ELISA and screened the immune landscape of immune cells from 25 healthy donors and 50 cases including 25 new-onset hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients prior to systemic treatment and 25 HCC patients undergoing anti-PD-1 therapy by multicolor flow cytometry. Flow or beads sorted cells were cultured ex vivo for proliferation and functional analysis.Results Anti-PD-1 therapy significantly increased the levels of IgG and IgA in the periphery of HCC patients. …”
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Strontium(II) Ion Surface-Imprinted Polymers Supported by Potassium Tetratitanate Whiskers: Synthesis, Characterization and Adsorption Behaviours by Chunxiang Li, Xiaojie Zhang, Jianming Pan, Pingping Xu, Yan Liu, Yongsheng Yan, Zulei Zhang

“…The new Sr(II) ion-imprinted micro-beads were successfully applied for the separation of Sr(II) ions from river and clay samples. …”
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The Pharmacodynamic Impact of Apremilast, an Oral Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitor, on Circulating Levels of Inflammatory Biomarkers in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Substudy Res... by Peter H. Schafer, Peng Chen, Lorraine Fang, Andrew Wang, Rajesh Chopra

“…Of 504 patients randomized in PALACE 1, 150 (placebo: n=51; apremilast 20 mg BID: n=51; apremilast 30 mg BID: n=48) provided peripheral blood plasma samples for analysis in a multiplexed cytometric bead array assay measuring 47 proteins associated with systemic inflammatory immune responses. …”
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A Sensitive, Specific and Fast Electrochemical‐based Nanobiosensor Diagnostic for Xanthomonas albilineans, the Cause of Sugarcane Leaf Scald Disease by Moutoshi Chakraborty, Shamsul Arafin Bhuiyan, Simon Strachan, Muhammad J.A. Shiddiky, Nam‐Trung Nguyen, Narshone Soda, Rebecca Ford

“…This method involves three key steps: i) DNA isolation from sugarcane samples via boiling lysis; ii) magnetic purification of target sequences from the lysate using magnetic bead‐bound capture probes; and iii) EC detection of the target DNA. …”
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A new immunofluorescence determination of Parkinson's disease biomarkers using silver nanoparticles by Chao Qin, Jun Xia, Yong Wen, Jun Wang, Chen Zhong

“…Using polyethylene glycol (PEG)-functionalized magnetic beads (MBs) and an Ag+ fluorescence probe (Ag+-FP) based on Rhodamine 6 G, the suggested method makes use of an immunofluorescence detection system. …”
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Real-Life Report on Chemoembolization Using DEBIRI for Liver Metastases from Colorectal Cancer by M. Stutz, A. Mamo, D. Valenti, A. Hausvater, T. Cabrera, P. Metrakos, P. Chaudhury, G. Steacy, E. Garoufalis, P. Kavan

“…Patients with LMCRC, ECOG 0–2, who failed at least 1 line of systemic chemotherapy, received embolizations with 2 mL of microspheres preloaded with 100 mg of irinotecan. Beads were delivered selectively into hepatic arteries. …”
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Deep Learning‐Assisted Label‐Free Parallel Cell Sorting with Digital Microfluidics by Zongliang Guo, Fenggang Li, Hang Li, Menglei Zhao, Haobing Liu, Haopu Wang, Hanqi Hu, Rongxin Fu, Yao Lu, Siyi Hu, Huikai Xie, Hanbin Ma, Shuailong Zhang

“…With HeLa cells and polystyrene beads as samples, the method achieved 98.5% sorting precision, 96.49% purity, and an 80% recovery over three cycles. …”
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Early osteogenic differentiation of human dental stem cells by gelatin/calcium phosphate- Punica granatum nanocomposite scaffold by Atefeh Abedi, Simin Sharifi, Mahsa Baghban Shaker, Maryam Jalili, Solmaz Maleki Dizaj, Elaheh Dalir Abdolahinia

“…Besides, the prepared scaffold did not have beads (structural defects). No new interactions were observed in the spectroscopic spectra of the scaffold and these peaks showed the successful formation of the fibrous nanocomposite as well. …”
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Clinical Features of iatrogenic Pharyngo-esophageal perforation in very low birth weight infants by Shu Eguchi, Yoshiya Hisaeda, Toshiko Ukawa, Mayu Koto, Miku Hosokawa, Chisa Tsurisawa, Tomohiro Takeda, Shusuke Amagata, Atsushi Nakao

“…In three cases, contrast studies demonstrated contrasted mediastinum tapering like a bead. Laryngoscope was used to view the perforation sites but this was not useful in the smallest patient. …”
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Coupling of an Au@AgPt nanozyme array with an micrococcal nuclease-specific responsiveness strategy for colorimetric/SERS sensing of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with sepsis by Xueqin Huang, Yingqi Yang, Hanlin Zhou, Liping Hu, Annan Yang, Hua Jin, Biying Zheng, Jiang Pi, Jun Xu, Pinghua Sun, Huai-Hong Cai, Xujing Liang, Bin Pan, Junxia Zheng, Haibo Zhou

“…In the presence of S. aureus, the secreted MNase preferentially cut the nucleobase AT-rich regions of DNA sequences on magnetic beads (MBs) to release alkaline phosphatase (ALP), which subsequently mediated the oxTMB reduction for inducing the colorimetric/SERS signal fade away. …”
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Lack of HLH in FMF by Ozge Basaran, Erdal Sag, Elif Arslanoglu Aydın, Busra Aydın, Nur Kübra Tasdemir, Elif Celikel, Yagmur Bayındır, Semanur Özdel, Yelda Bilginer, Alexei A Grom, Seza Ozen

“…Levels of IFN-γ-induced chemokines CXCL9, CXCL10, and IL-18 in supernatants were measured using cytometric bead arrays before and after stimulation. Results PBMCs from MAS patients produced higher baseline CXCL9 levels compared to FMF patients in a flare, with differences increasing post-IFN-γ stimulation. …”
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