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Assortative Mating for Educational Level in Parents of Public School Children (N > 7000 Individuals) in the Lagos State, Nigeria
Assortative mating for educational level is a widespread phenomenon in Western industrialized societies. However, whether or not the results from Western samples can be generalizable to populations in developi...
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Open AccessGenetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts
Height variation is known to be determined by both genetic and environmental factors, but a systematic description of how their influences differ by sex, age and global regions is lacking. We conducted an indi...
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Open AccessmiR-148a is a downstream effector of X-box-binding protein 1 that silences Wnt10b during adipogenesis of 3T3-L1 cells
Wnt10b, an endogenous inhibitor of adipogenesis, maintains preadipocytes in an undifferentiated state by suppressing adipogenic transcription factors. We have previously demonstrated that Wnt10b transcription ...
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Open AccessOxidative Dimerization of PHD2 is Responsible for its Inactivation and Contributes to Metabolic Reprogramming via HIF-1α Activation
Prolyl hydroxylase domain protein 2 (PHD2) belongs to an evolutionarily conserved superfamily of 2-oxoglutarate and Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenases that mediates homeostatic responses to oxygen deprivation by me...
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Acoustic band structures in two-dimensional phononic crystals consisting of periodic square arrays of stainless-steel cylinders in water
The present study aims to investigate experimentally and theoretically the acoustic band structures in two-dimensional phononic crystals (PCs) consisting of periodic square arrays of stainlesssteel solid cylin...
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Serum Sickness
Serum sickness is a type III hypersensitivity reaction. The classic symptoms are malaise, rash, fever, arthralgias, and lymphadenopathy that occur within 8–12 days of antigen exposure and sooner if it is a re-...
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Laboratory Control and Basic Culture Protocols for Stem Cell Self-Renewal
In this report, we introduce a standard protocol for stem cell self-renewal in vitro. Both fundamental and major procedures of stem cell manipulation, which are required for somatic cell coculture and self-ren...
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OxNASH Score Correlates with Histologic Features and Severity of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Oxidative stress is a core abnormality responsible for disease progression in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). By employing a highly sensitive liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)...
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Comparative analysis of cigarette smoke induced cellular proteome distributions on bovine aortic endothelial cells
Cigarette smoke is a contributory factor for the cardiovascular disease, lung diseases and cancers as the dominant illnesses. The proteomic analysis of bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAECs) exposed to cigare...
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A New Lightweight Protection Method against Impersonation Attack on SIP
Impersonation attack, based on vulnerable authentication of SIP, facilitates an attacker to take malicious actions such as toll fraud and session hijacking. In this paper, we propose a new lightweight protecti...
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Toxicoproteomic analysis of bovine aortic endothelial cell under exposure to cigarette smoking extracts
The major health implications of exposure to cigarette smoke that leads to disease development are still being explored. The overall protein expression pattern of bovine aortic endothelial cell (BAEC) has been...
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Marine-Derived Aspergillus Species as a Source of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites
This report reviews biologically active secondary metabolites from marine-derived members of the fungal genus Aspergillus. Pharmacological activities and biological roles of the secondary metabolites from marine-...
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Open AccessInhibition of mouse brown adipocyte differentiation by second-generation antipsychotics
Brown adipose tissue is specialized to burn lipids for thermogenesis and energy expenditure. Second-generation antipsychotics (SGA) are the most commonly used drugs for schizophrenia with several advantages ov...
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Age Differences in Genetic and Environmental Variations in Stress-Co** During Adulthood: A Study of Female Twins
The way people cope with stressors of day to day living has an important influence on health. The aim of the present study was to explore whether genetic and environmental variations in stress-co** differ ov...
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Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease
Metabolomics studies hold promise for the discovery of pathways linked to disease processes. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents the leading cause of death and morbidity worldwide. Here we used a metabolom...
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Investigation of porcine FABP3 and LEPR gene polymorphisms and mRNA expression for variation in intramuscular fat content
Porcine chromosome 6 (SSC6) has been reported to have QTL affecting intramuscular fat content (IMF) in multiple populations. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of FABP3 and LEPR genetic var...
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Optimization of enantioselective synthesis of methyl (R)-2-chloromandelate by whole cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Methyl (R)-2-chloromandelate, a key intermediate in the synthesis of clopidogrel, was obtained by the reduction of methyl-2-chlorobenzoylformate using whole cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A 100% conversion an...
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Bioactive metabolites from the sponge-derived fungus Aspergillus versicolor
As part of an ongoing search for bioactive metabolites from the fungus Aspergillus versicolor derived from a marine sponge Petrosia sp., an aromatic polyketide derivative (1), two xanthones (2 and 3), and five an...
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Bilateral sclerosing stromal tumor of the ovary in a premenarchal girl
Sclerosing stromal tumor (SST) is a rare benign ovarian neoplasm classified as a type of sex cord stromal tumor that occurs predominantly in young patients. Several reports have described the US, CT and MR fea...
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Open AccessInduction of unfolded protein response during neuronal induction of rat bone marrow stromal cells and mouse embryonic stem cells
When we treated rat bone marrow stromal cells (rBMSCs) with neuronal differentiation induction media, typical unfolded protein response (UPR) was observed. BIP/GRP78 protein expression was time-dependently inc...
