Optimising Growth, Immunity, and Gene Expression in Broiler Chickens Through Dietary Threonine Levels and Oil Inclusion by Mohamed I. El‐Katcha, Mosaad A. Soltan, Heba I. Ghamry, Abeer F. El‐Nahas, Laila A. Al‐Shuraym, Ostan Mihaela, Rada Olga, Rasha E. Azab, Ahmed Abdeen, Mustafa Shukry, Set A. El‐Shobokshy

“…Methods We investigate the growth performance, feed efficiency, immune response, intestinal morphology, absorptive capacity, and expression of some genes related to the feed intake (Pro‐opiomelanocortin [POMC]), fatty acid synthesis (Acetyl‐CoA Carboxylase [ACC]), immunity (lipopolysaccharide‐induced tumour necrosis like alpha factor [LITAF]), and heat shock protein 70 (HSP70). …”
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Injected Human Muscle Precursor Cells Overexpressing PGC-1α Enhance Functional Muscle Regeneration after Trauma by Deana Haralampieva, Souzan Salemi, Thomas Betzel, Ivana Dinulovic, Stefanie D. Krämer, Roger Schibli, Tullio Sulser, Christoph Handschin, Simon M. Ametamey, Daniel Eberli

“…While many groups demonstrated new muscle tissue formation after muscle precursor cell (MPC) injection, the capacity of these cells to heal muscle damage, for example, sphincter in stress urinary incontinence, in long-term is still limited. …”
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Extracellular Lipase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa SB-37: Production by Solid State Fermentation, Immobilization, and Characterization by Titin Haryati, Norman Yoshi Haryono, Dian Nugraheni, Fenti Fatmawati, Alfina Kusuma Dewi, Muhammad Zahran Edlian Syach

“…Immobilization by Ca-alginate entrapment results in loading capacity and recovery activity values of 86.84% and 148%, respectively. …”
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Organomineral fertilizer based on wood ash in bean cultivation in acidic tropical soil by Rackel Danielly de Souza Alves, Edna Maria Bonfim-Silva, Tonny José Araújo da Silva, Jakeline Rosa de Oliveira, Jholian Maicon Ribeiro-Santos, Luana Aparecida Menegaz Meneghetti

“…The highest grain yield of cowpea was observed in wood ash and organomineral, in the absence of liming. The nodulation capacity of cowpea plants was reduced when lime was applied (V = 30% and 60%) and fertilized with wood ash and organomineral. …”
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Piloting an external quality assurance program (QAP) for COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs): findings and lessons learned from Cambodia by Vonthanak Saphonn, John Kaldor, Deborah Williamson, Sothavireak Bory, Philip Cunningham, Jessica Markby, Kennarey Seang, Jacqueline Prestedge, Chan Leakhena Phoeung, Marilyn Ninan, Kanika Heng, Andrew Valley

“…The Tier 1 laboratory reported 100% concordance with the EQA reference result, while some of Tier 2 laboratories’ results were discordant. While continued capacity building and support with troubleshooting have been key to the successful EQA piloting at the UHS laboratory, the programme experienced delays in the shipping/delivery of EQA and QC panels due to customs and border requirements, which could have hindered implementation and potentially impacted the quality of the QA materials. …”
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Stage deformation characteristics of natural and saturated crushed gangue with large particle size by LU Wei, LU Yao, LIAO Changlong, LI Qinghai, LI Weiyu, JIANG Ning, MU Wenqiang, WANG Changxiang

“…When the deformation of crushed gangue exceeds 15%, we observed improved bearing capacity. By observing the gangue compression process, we found that the crushed gangue shows a more uniform internal force chain distribution in the saturated state, with a higher number of cracks, crack growth rate and secondary crushing rate than those in the natural state. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Quality Characteristics and Processing Suitability of Different Varieties of Large-fruited Sea Buckthorn Juice from Xinjiang Using Multivariate Analysis... by Rong HAN, Yan MA, Yu AO, Ting ZHANG, Xintao MENG, Mingqiang XU, Yan PAN

“…The results indicated that ZYH exhibited the highest b* and c, as well as contents for total phenols (0.9 mg/mL), vitamin E (63.14 μg/g), vitamin C (69.61 mg/100 g), DPPH (97.13%), ABTS+ free radical scavenging capabilities (61.99%) , and FRAP antioxidant capacity (0.85 μmol Trolox/mL). XY sea buckthorn juice showed the highest juice yield (56.43%) and total flavonoid content (8.55 mg/mL). …”
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Ginger protects against vein graft remodeling by precisely modulating ferroptotic stress in vascular smooth muscle cell dedifferentiation by Xiaoyu Yu, Weiwei Wu, Jingjun Hao, Yuxin Zhou, Deyang Yu, Wei Ding, Xuejuan Zhang, Gaoli Liu, Jianxun Wang

“…Contractile VSMCs did not die but instead gained a proliferative capacity and switched to the secretory type, forming neointima (NI) after vein transplantation. …”
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Drought-induced shifts in gross primary production pathways in Moso bamboo forests: Insights from improved BIOME-BGC and structural equation modeling by Zhaodong Zheng, Fangjie Mao, Huaqiang Du, Xuejian Li, Fengfeng Ye, Xianfeng Teng, Ningxin Yang, Jiacong Yu, Meixuan Song, Yinyin Zhao

“…However, climate change induced frequent drought events have significantly impacted its carbon fixation capacity, while the response mechanisms still unclear. …”
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Insular infraorbital neurovascular pedicle labial salivary gland transplantation for the treatment of severe dry eye disease: an IDEAL stage 0, 1 and 2a study by Jing Zhou, Xiaohong Chen, Mei Li, Ke Yang, Ying Jie, Yinghui Wang, Yingshi Piao, Yun Cheng

“…All glands remained viable with good blood supply, and no serious complications were observed.Conclusion Insular infraorbital neurovascular pedicle LSGT for severe DED is a feasible and effective treatment, maintaining good secretory capacity and blood supply long-term.Trial registration number ChiCTR2200056015.…”
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Combined biochemical profiling and DNA sequencing in the expanded newborn screening for inherited metabolic diseases: the experience in an Italian reference center by Simona Fecarotta, Lorenzo Vaccaro, Alessandra Verde, Marianna Alagia, Alessandro Rossi, Chiara Colantuono, Maria Teresa Cacciapuoti, Patrizia Annunziata, Sara Riccardo, Antonio Grimaldi, Tonya Fusco, Rosa De Santis, Fernando Barretta, Lucia Albano, Daniela Crisci, Fabiana Vallone, Antonietta Tarallo, Marcella Cesana, Nicola Brunetti-Pierri, Giulia Frisso, Margherita Ruoppolo, Davide Cacchiarelli, Giancarlo Parenti

“…This allows overtaking the actual limitations of NBS on DBS, enhancing our capacity to identify variants that can drive a genetic disease. …”
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Incorporating insulin into alginate-chitosan 3D-printed scaffolds: A comprehensive study on structure, mechanics, and biocompatibility for cartilage tissue engineering by Afsaneh Jahani, Mohammad Sadegh Nourbakhsh, Ali Moradi, Marzieh Mohammadi, Lobat Tayebi

“…Osteoarthritis is a leading cause of disability worldwide, challenging current treatments to limited cartilage self-healing capacity. Cartilage tissue engineering (CTE) integrates cells, scaffolds, and signaling molecules, with Insulin being utilized as a differentiation biomolecule due to cost-effectiveness, dose-dependent influence on chondrogenesis, suitable biological activity, and ability to activate relevant receptors. …”
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New Evidence for <i>Cotinus coggygria</i> Scop. Extracts Application in Gastrointestinal Ailments by Dejan Stojković, Nina Dragičević, Marija Ivanov, Nevena Gajović, Milena Jurišević, Ivan Jovanović, Marina Tomović, Jelena Živković

“…Among the tested samples, the methanolic leaf extract exhibited the highest cytotoxic capacity, and the possible mechanism could be related to its inhibitory effect on the release of proinflammatory cytokine in CD4+ cells. …”
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The association between folic acid supplementation, maternal folate during pregnancy and intelligence development in infants: a prospective cohort study by Shaokang Wang, Jie Wei, Di Wang, Li Hua, Da Pan, Lingmeng Fu, Jin Yang, Guiju Sun

“…The level of vitamin B12 in colostrum may be associated with infants’ social adaptive capacity. This result may be caused by individual differences in folate and homocysteine metabolism in pregnant women.…”
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Synthesis and characterization of zinc oxide nanoparticles-carbon composite derived from pineapple peel wastes for adsorption of methylene blue from solution and photocatalytic act... by Salsa Putri Alzura, Vienna Saraswaty, Safri Ishmayana, Yudha Prawira Budiman, Diana Rakhmawaty Eddy, Evyka Setya Aji, Diah Ratnaningrum, Een Sri Endah, Hanny Meirinawati, Henry Setiyanto

“…The calculated maximum adsorption capacity of the ZnONPs/PPWB composite biosorbent (qmax = 65.43 mg/g) was 1.85 folds higher compared to the non-composite biosorbent (PPWB) (qmax = 35.21 mg/g) under the following conditions; adsorbent dose of 10 mg/30 mL, pH 7, and initial MB concentration of 20 mg/L. …”
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Biomarkers troponin and procalcitonin in addition to CRB-65 enhance risk stratification in patients with community-acquired pneumonia by Imrana Farhat, Maciej Rosolowski, Katharina Ahrens, Jasmin Lienau, Peter Ahnert, Mathias Pletz, Gernot Rohde, Jan Rupp, Markus Scholz, Martin Witzenrath, the CAPNETZ Study Group

“…Methods Our study aimed to enhance the predictive capacity of the clinical CRB-65 score by evaluating eight candidate biomarkers: troponin T high-sensitive (TnT-hs), procalcitonin (PCT), N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide, angiopoietin-2, copeptin, endothelin-1, lipocalin-2 and mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin. …”
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HSRoadNet: Hard-Swish Activation Function and Improved Squeeze&#x2013;Excitation Module Network for Road Extraction Using Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery by Xunqiang Gong, Yingjie Ma, Ailong Ma, Zhaoyang Hou, Meng Zhang, Yanfei Zhong

“…Then, adopting Hard-Swish activation function to improve the accuracy of road extracting, and then finally, using the improved squeeze&#x2013;excitation module to make the trained net a full use of the characteristic information of the road that do not increase excessive capacity. Comparison experimental results indicate that, in various indicators, the proposed method performs serviceably, it, respectively, increased by 16.8&#x0025;, 2.2&#x0025;, 1.5&#x0025;, and 8.5&#x0025; over the suboptimal in <italic>F</italic>-score, global accuracy, class average accuracy, and recall ratio. …”
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Fertigation with alpha-tocopherol enhances morphological, physiological, and antioxidant responses in radish (Raphanus sativus L.) under drought stress by Muhammad Shahbaz Chishti, Muhammad Shahbaz, Muhammad Kaleem, Saba Shafi, Anam Mehmood, Zhang Qingzhu, Musarat Mansha, Nimra Shehzadi, Shamsa Rana, Hina Shahid, Abeer Hashem, Alanoud Alfagham, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah

“…The present work was designed to explore the potential role of alpha-tocopherol (α-Toc), a form of vitamin E, on the morphological, physio-biochemical, and cellular antioxidant responses of two radish genotypes grown under drought conditions (38 ± 3% of field capacity). The individual and combined applications of α-Toc (100 ppm) were used as T0- Control, T1- Control + TF (TF-alpha-tocopherol), T2- Drought (D), and T3- D + TF with three replications. …”
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The impact of drought on forest spring phenology in northern China by Haowen Hu, Pengcheng Xue, Shaodong Huang, Zong Wang, Nina Xiong, Liang Shi, Boyi Liang, Jia Wang

“…Our findings will enhance the current understanding of ecosystem feedback mechanisms and facilitate the assessment of the capacity of the vegetation to cope with extreme climate change in different regions.…”
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Integrated analysis of biochemical, transcriptomic, and metabolomic response mechanisms in Ussuri catfish (Pseudobagrus ussuriensis) under acute heat stress by Qing Liu, Yang Cao, Ruyi Hu, Libo Gu, Lirong Yang, Yu Liu, Weiwei Wang, Liang Xiao, Bugao Li

“…Biochemical results indicated that acute heat stress significantly impacted the activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase, and alanine aminotransferase, as well as the levels of glutathione, malondialdehyde, and total antioxidant capacity, with alterations remaining even after temperature recovery. …”
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