A sustainable breakthrough in rodent pest control: laboratory validation of novel neem-andrographolide bait with dual toxic and contraceptive effects by Meenu Verma, Harjinder Kaur, Bhupinder Kaur Babbar

“…Abstract Background Rattus rattus causes damage to physical infrastructure and spreads diseases under commensal conditions. …”
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MENTHA SPİCATA UÇUCU YAĞ EKSTRESİNİN İÇERİK ANALİZİYLE, SIÇANLARDA YARA İYİLEŞMESİNE ETKİSİNİN İNCELENMESİ by Nezahat Akpolat, Melek Atille, Ela Tules Kadiroğlu, Fırat Aşır, Engin Deveci, Berna Ersöz Kanay, Abdulselam Ertaş

“…Amaç: Bu çalışmadaki amacımız Mentha spicata (MS) türünün uçucu yağ ekstresinin kimyasal ve antioksidan kompozisyonunu, bu bitkiye ait ekstrenin antibakteriyel aktivitesini ve sıçan damak bölgesinde yara iyileşmesi üzerindeki etkinliğini değerlendirmektir. …”
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Composition of the sputum bacterial microbiome of patients with different pathomorphological forms of non-small-cell lung cancer by V. G. Druzhinin, E. D. Baranova, P. S. Demenkov, L. V. Matskova, A. V. Larionov

“…Such microbiome changes may include the occurrence of bacteria that cause oxidative stress and that are capable of causing genome damage in the cells of the host organism directly and indirectly. …”
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Failure Mechanisms and the Control of a Longwall Face with a Large Mining Height within a Shallow-Buried Coal Seam by Haijun Wang, Yingjie Liu, Yuesong Tang, Hao Gong, Guoliang Xu

“…Our results show that the failure region inward of the longwall face is small in shallow-buried coal seams, and the damage degree of the exposed coal wall is low. The medium and higher sections of the coal wall display a dynamic failure mode, while the broken coal blocks, given their initial speed, threaten the safety of coal miners. …”
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An experimental study of the effects of SNPs in the TATA boxes of the <i>GRIN1, ASCL3</i> and <i>NOS1</i> genes on interactions with the TATA-binding protein by E. B. Sharypova, I. A. Drachkova, I. V. Chadaeva, M. P. Ponomarenko, L. K. Savinkova

“…The effect of allele A of the –27G&gt;A SNP (rs1195040887) in the NOS1 promoter is suggestive of an increased risk of ischemic damage to the brain in carriers. A comparison of experimental TBP–TATA affinity values (KD) of wild-type and minor alleles with predicted ones showed that the data correlate well (linear correlation coefficient r = 0.94, p &lt; 0.01).…”
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Numerical modelling of rope elasticity for heave compensation lifting in offshore crane operations by Bassey Asanga, Akanimo Ekpenyong, Aniekan Ikpe

“…An attempt to prolong and continue window operation during harsh weather condition can incur severe damages in the life of the workers; equipment and machine thereby inflect the cost of production. …”
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Oxidative Stress, Lipid Peroxidation, and Loss of Hyaluronic Acid in the Human Vitreous Affected by Synchysis Scintillans by Loredana Bergandi, Oleksii A Skorokhod, Rosalba La Grotta, Evelin Schwarzer, Raffaele Nuzzi

“…The data consistently show that synchisis scintillans is accompanied by a redox imbalance with increased oxidative modifications of 4-HNE proteins and loss of HA, both of likely importance for remote damages of the retina. It remains to be proven whether a therapeutic strategy which targets oxidative stress may be effective in the treatment of synchysis patients.…”
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Metataxonomic Characterization of Enriched Consortia Derived from Oil Spill-Contaminated Sites in Guimaras, Philippines, Reveals Major Role of Klebsiella sp. in Hydrocarbon Degrada... by Kiara Nicole D. Rodriguez, Russel T. Santos, Michael Joseph M. Nagpala, Rina B. Opulencia

“…In the Philippines, traditional methods of rehabilitating oil-polluted areas were proven to be less efficient and cause further damage to the environment. Microbial degradation has poised itself to be a promising alternative to those traditional methods in remediating oil spills. …”
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Explaining the Unexplained: Examining the Predictive Value of Semen Parameters, Sperm DNA Fragmentation and Metal Levels in Unexplained Infertility by Navdeep Kaur Ghuman, Kamla Kant Shukla, Srividhya Nandagopal, Sunil Raikar, Shailendra Kumar, Priyanka Kathuria, Dinesh Choudhary, Poonam Elhence, Pratibha Singh

“…Aims: To compare the semen parameters, sperm DNA damage and seminal metal levels of Zinc, Lead and Aluminium among the male partners of couples with unexplained infertility and men with proven fertility. …”
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Expression divergence of BAG gene family in maize under heat stress by Babar Farid, Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Muhammad Hammad Nadeem Tahir, Rao Muhammad Ikram, Zulfiqar Ali, Waseem Akbar

“…Once the plant is under heat stress, the BAG genes act as co-chaperones and modulate the molecular functions of HSP70/HSC70 saving the plant from the damage of high temperature stress. The study was planned to identify and characterize the BAG genes for heat stress responsiveness in maize. …”
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Interspecific Competition Between <i>Eotetranychus sexmaculatus</i> Riley and <i>Oligonychus biharensis</i> Hirst (Acari: Tetranychidae) by Lijiu Zheng, Yong Zhang, Xia Shi, Wei Gan, Fangping Zhang, Yueguan Fu, Ya Liu, Junyu Chen, Zhengpei Ye

“…Recently, increasing damage from <i>Oligonychus biharensis</i> has elevated its importance as a key spider mite pest. …”
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Animal Models of Steatosis (NAFLD) and Steatohepatitis (NASH) Exhibit Hepatic Lobe-Specific Gelatinases Activity and Oxidative Stress by Giuseppina Palladini, Laura G. Di Pasqua, Clarissa Berardo, Veronica Siciliano, Plinio Richelmi, Stefano Perlini, Andrea Ferrigno, Mariapia Vairetti

“…Animal models of obstructive cholestasis and ischemia/reperfusion damage have revealed the functional heterogeneity of liver lobes. …”
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IL-33/ST2 axis in diverse diseases: regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic potential by Feiya Sheng, Mi Li, Jia-Mei Yu, Si-Yu Yang, Liang Zou, Guan-Jun Yang, Le-Le Zhang, Le-Le Zhang

“…While most cytokines are actively synthesized within cells, IL-33 is produced passively in response to tissue damage or cell necrosis, indicating its role as a signaling molecule following cellular infection, stress, or trauma. …”
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Trimetazidine: Activating AMPK Signal to Ameliorate Coronary Microcirculation Dysfunction after Myocardial Infarction by Xiaolong Qu, Pan Yang, Li Jiao, Yuehui Yin

“…However, the effects of trimetazidine on endothelial cell function and barrier damage were attenuated after co-treatment with compound C and trimetazidine. …”
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Problems and prospects of grapevine genetic resources preservation at “Magarach” Institute by A. A. Polulyakh, V. A. Volynkin, V. V. Likhovsko

“…At present, the method of cryopreservation of the vine, considering the difficulties of overcoming the cryogenic damages of the biological material of grapes at ultra-low temperatures, remains the most difficult and chances of losing the collection are quite high. …”
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Simvastatin Posttreatment Controls Inflammation and Improves Bacterial Clearance in Experimental Sepsis by Flora Magno de Jesus Oliveira, Cassiano Felippe Gonçalves-de-Albuquerque, Isabel Matos Medeiros de Moraes, Patrícia Alves Reis, Vinicius Novaes Rocha, Patrícia Torres Bozza, Adriana Ribeiro Silva, Hugo Caire de Castro Faria Neto

“…In previous study from our group, statin pretreatment avoided cognitive damage and neuroinflammation in sepsis survivors. …”
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Image inpainting forensics method based on dual branch network by Dengyong ZHANG, Huang WEN, Feng LI, Peng CAO, Lingyun XIANG, Gaobo YANG, Xiangling DING

“…Image inpainting is a technique that uses information from known areas of an image to repair missing or damaged areas of the image.Image editing software based on it has made it easy to edit and modify the content of digital images without any specialized foundation.When image inpainting techniques are used to maliciously remove the content of an image, it will cause confidence crisis on the real image.Current researches in image inpainting forensics can only effectively detect a certain type of image inpainting.To address this problem, a passive forensic method for image inpainting was proposed, which is based on a two-branch network.The high-pass filtered convolutional network in the dual branch first used a set of high-pass filters to attenuate the low-frequency components in the image.Then features were extracted using four residual blocks, and two transposed convolutions were performed with 4x up-sampling to zoom in on the feature map.And thereafter a 5×5 convolution was used to attenuate the tessellation artifacts from the transposed convolutions to generate a discriminative feature map on the high-frequency components of the image.The dual-attention feature fusion branch in the dual branch first added a local binary pattern feature map to the image using a preprocessing block.Then the dual-attention convolution block was used to adaptively integrate the image’s local features and global dependencies to capture the differences in content and texture between the inpainted and pristine regions of the image.Additionally, the features extracted from the dual-attention convolution block were fused, and the feature maps were up-sampled identically to generate the discriminative image content and texture on the feature maps.The extensive experimental results show the proposed method improved the F1 score by 2.05% and the Intersection over Union(IoU) by 3.53% for the exemplar-based method and by 1.06% and 1.22% for the deep-learning-based method in detecting the inpainted region of the removed object.Visualization of the results shows that the edges of the removed objects can be accurately located on the detected inpainted area.…”
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The Th17/Treg ratio, IL-1RA and sCD14 levels in primary HIV infection predict the T-cell activation set point in the absence of systemic microbial translocation. by Mathieu F Chevalier, Gaël Petitjean, Catherine Dunyach-Rémy, Céline Didier, Pierre-Marie Girard, Maria Elena Manea, Pauline Campa, Laurence Meyer, Christine Rouzioux, Jean-Philippe Lavigne, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Daniel Scott-Algara, Laurence Weiss

“…Levels of I-FABP, a marker of mucosal damages, were similar to healthy controls at baseline but increased at month 6. …”
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Comparative analysis of deep learning models for crack detection in buildings by S. Siva Rama Krishnan, M. K. Nalla Karuppan, Adil O. Khadidos, Alaa O. Khadidos, Shitharth Selvarajan, Saarthak Tandon, Balamurugan Balusamy

“…Cracks are also generated due to the shuffle of climatic conditions, which leads to the contraction and expansion of the building surfaces, and other damages. The guarantee on building safety and serviceability depends on how these buildings are successfully assessed and maintained. …”
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Akkermansia muciniphila identified as key strain to alleviate gut barrier injury through Wnt signaling pathway by Xin Ma, Meng Li, Yuanyuan Zhang, Tingting Xu, Xinchen Zhou, Mengqi Qian, Zhiren Yang, Xinyan Han

“…We further investigated the alleviatory effects of these two strains on ETEC infection in the AIMD mice model, which revealed that A. muciniphila and B. fragilis relieved ETEC-induced intestinal inflammation by maintaining the proportion of Treg/Th17 cells and epithelial damage by moderately activating the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, while the effect of A. muciniphila was better than B. fragilis. …”
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