Microarray Analysis Reveals a Potential Role of lncRNA Expression in 3,4-Benzopyrene/Angiotensin II-Activated Macrophage in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm by Yingying Zhou, Jiaoni Wang, Yangjing Xue, Aili Fang, Shaoze Wu, Kaiyu Huang, Luyuan Tao, Jie Wang, Yigen Shen, Jinsheng Wang, Lulu Pan, Lei Li, Kangting Ji

“…Thus, lncRNAs may exert a key role in activated macrophages and intervene the core lncRNAs and may inhibit the occurrence of a series of cascade reactions in the macrophages, which may provide potential targets for AAA caused by smoking.…”
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Hydrogen-Rich Saline Inhibits NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation and Attenuates Experimental Acute Pancreatitis in Mice by Jian-Dong Ren, Jie Ma, Jun Hou, Wen-Jin Xiao, Wei-Hua Jin, Juan Wu, Kai-Hua Fan

“…Therefore, in this study, we evaluated the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome and meanwhile assessed the degree of oxidative stress and inflammatory cascades, as well as the histological alterations in mice suffering from cerulein-induced AP after the treatment of HRS. …”
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Ecological Conscience and Peace in the Social Doctrine of the Church by Fabio Caporali

“…They constitute the eco-linguistic cascade that has innovated the recent development of the social doctrine of the Church such as that expressed in the Encyclical Letters and in The World Days of Peace Messages for building a culture of peace based on ecological conscience. …”
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Modeling and 1 : 1 Internal Resonance Analysis of Cable-Stayed Shallow Arches by Jiangen Lv, Zhicheng Yang, Xuebin Chen, Quanke Wu, Xiaoxia Zeng

“…The frequency- and force-response curves are obtained by using the Newton–Raphson method in conjunction with the pseudoarclength path-following algorithm. The cascades of period-doubling bifurcations leading to chaos are obtained by applying numerical simulations. …”
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¿Somos todos iguales ante una inundación? Análisis de la vulnerabilidad social en el litoral mediterráneo español by Alfredo Pérez Morales, Salvador Gil Guirado, Aarón Quesada García

“…Los resultados obtenidos evidencian una mayor vulnerabilidad social en secciones censales no inundables que en las inundables y pone de manifiesto un patrón de desigualdad social en ámbitos donde la red hidrográfica presenta un funcionamiento efímero y súbito como las ramblas.   …”
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Design and application of depth control methods for autonomous underwater profilers in challenging marine environments by Isabel P. Morales-Aragón, Jaime Giménez-Gallego, Javier Gilabert, Roque Torres-Sánchez, Fulgencio Soto-Valles

“…The second methodology, based on a variable ballast system, is effective even in environments with significant fouling. It employs a cascaded control structure with a rule-based dynamic operating point, achieving a mean absolute depth error of 5.7 cm and an autonomy of 48 days in locations of the Mar Menor.…”
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Inhibition of tumour necrosis factor alpha by Etanercept attenuates Shiga toxin-induced brain pathology by Robin Christ, Devon Siemes, Shuo Zhao, Lars Widera, Philippa Spangenberg, Julia Lill, Stephanie Thiebes, Jenny Bottek, Lars Borgards, Andreia G. Pinho, Nuno A. Silva, Susana Monteiro, Selina K. Jorch, Matthias Gunzer, Bente Siebels, Hannah Voss, Hartmut Schlüter, Olga Shevchuk, Jianxu Chen, Daniel R. Engel

“…LC–MS/MS proteomics of mice injected with a combination of Shiga toxin (Stx) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) revealed extensive alterations of the brain proteome, in particular enrichment of pathways involved in complement activation and coagulation cascades. Inhibition of TNF-α by the drug Etanercept strongly mitigated these changes, particularly within the complement pathway, suggesting TNF-α-dependent vasodilation and endothelial injury. …”
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Inflammation and Inflammasomes: Pros and Cons in Tumorigenesis by Liliana R. Balahura, Aida Selaru, Sorina Dinescu, Marieta Costache

“…In this review, we aim to highlight the dual role of inflammasomes and proinflammatory cytokines during carcinogenesis paired with the distinguished effects of miRNAs upon inflammation cascades during tumor growth and progression.…”
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A simple model of HIV epidemic in Italy: The role of the antiretroviral treatment by Federico Papa, Francesca Binda, Giovanni Felici, Marco Franzetti, Alberto Gandolfi, Carmela Sinisgalli, Claudia Balotta

“…To represent the intra-host disease progression, the untreated infected population is distributed over four compartments in cascade according to the CD4 counts. A further compartment is added to represent infected people under antiretroviral therapy. …”
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Transforming Growth Factor Beta Family: Insight into the Role of Growth Factors in Regulation of Fracture Healing Biology and Potential Clinical Applications by Łukasz A. Poniatowski, Piotr Wojdasiewicz, Robert Gasik, Dariusz Szukiewicz

“…This process is a cascade of local and systemic phenomena spread over time, involving whole cell lineages and various cytokines and growth factors. …”
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Possible Involvement of TLRs and Hemichannels in Stress-Induced CNS Dysfunction via Mastocytes, and Glia Activation by Adam Aguirre, Carola J. Maturana, Paloma A. Harcha, Juan C. Sáez

“…In the central nervous system (CNS), mastocytes and glial cells (microglia, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes) function as sensors of neuroinflammatory conditions, responding to stress triggers or becoming sensitized to subsequent proinflammatory challenges. …”
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Hemodynamic disturbance and mTORC1 activation: Unveiling the biomechanical pathogenesis of thoracic aortic aneurysms in Marfan syndrome by Ming-Yuan Liu, Meili Wang, Junjun Liu, An-Qiang Sun, Chang-Shun He, Xin Cong, Wei Kong, Wei Li

“…Our investigation delves into the pivotal role of hemodynamic disturbance in the pathogenesis of TAA, with a particular emphasis on the mechanistic contributions of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling cascade. We uncovered that activation of the mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) within smooth muscle cells, instigated by the oscillatory wall shear stress (OSS) that stems from disturbed flow (DF), is a catalyst for TAA progression. …”
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Protective Effects of Celastrol on Diabetic Liver Injury via TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway in Type 2 Diabetic Rats by Li-ping Han, Chun-jun Li, Bei Sun, Yun Xie, Yue Guan, Ze-jun Ma, Li-ming Chen

“…We firstly found that celastrol treatment could delay the progression of diabetic liver disease in type 2 diabetic rats via inhibition of TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB signaling cascade pathways and its downstream inflammatory effectors.…”
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Modeling and Analysis of Silicon Reflective-type Microring Resonator Assisted MZI as Filtering Device by Esraa El-edresee, Alhuda A. Al-mfrji

“…This paper presented a comprehensive optical transmission analysis of a reflective-type microring resonator (R-MRR) using coupled mode theory, and design guidelines for MPF through two cascaded R-MRR using COMSOL software simulation results. …”
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An ultrasound-driven PLGA/Zn-KNN hybrid piezoelectric scaffold with direct and immunoregulatory antibacterial activity for bone infection by Yuhao Zheng, Shu Wang, Wenhe Jin, Zhuoxuan Li, Guoju Yang, Xiaoxu Li, Ning Li, Yue Wang, Fan Sheng, Zhiming Song

“…Mechanistic investigation suggested that extracellular matrix ligands and complement and coagulation cascades may have a moderate effect on macrophage phagocytosis. …”
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Features of modern organization management when implementing a digital transformation strategy by A. V. Zheregelya

“…In turn, this will require, on the one hand, the transformation of the technologization process of management, intensifying interaction with personnel and creating effective communication channels, on the other hand, the cascadability of management processes that form other methods of this interaction, having a positive impact on both the effectiveness of managerial, economic and organizational processes, and on a quality solution of specific tasks.…”
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A novel method for encoding and decoding based on enhanced parity-check-concatenated polar codes by Yan WANG, Shunlan LIU, Zhenzhen XI, Jianrong BAO

“…In additive white Gaussian noise channel, when the code length is 128, the code rate is 1/2 and the bit error rate is 10^-3, the proposed method achieves a gain of about 0.3 dB over the PC codes cascaded polar codes, about 0.4 dB over the CRC assisted polar codes.…”
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Text to Realistic Image Generation with Attentional Concatenation Generative Adversarial Networks by Linyan Li, Yu Sun, Fuyuan Hu, Tao Zhou, Xuefeng Xi, Jinchang Ren

“…First, we propose a multilevel cascade structure, for text-to-image synthesis. During training progress, we gradually add new layers and, at the same time, use the results and word vectors from the previous layer as inputs to the next layer to generate high-resolution images with photo-realistic details. …”
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Characterizing Climatic Socio‐Environmental Tipping Points in Coastal Communities: A Conceptual Framework for Research and Practice by J. E. Shortridge, A. Bukvic, M. Mitchell, J. Goldstein, T. Allen

“…This framework is then used to describe three mechanisms by which socio‐environmental tipping could occur: feedback processes, cascading linkages, and nonlinear relationships. We presented this conceptual framework to an expert panel of coastal practitioners and found that it has potential to characterize the effects of secondary climatic impacts that are rarely the focus of coastal risk analyses. …”
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Dysbiosis and extraintestinal cancers by Ruishan He, Pingqian Qi, Linzhen Shu, Yidan Ding, Peng Zeng, Guosheng Wen, Ying Xiong, Huan Deng

“…The dissemination of pathogens through the circulation may contribute to the establishment of an immune-suppressive environment that promotes carcinogenesis in extraintestinal organs either directly or indirectly. The oncogenic cascade always engages in the disruption of hormonal regulation and inflammatory responses, the induction of genomic instability and mutations, and the dysregulation of adult stem cell proliferation. …”
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