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Open AccessThe effect of incorporating inorganic materials into quaternized polyacrylic polymer on its mechanical strength and adsorption behaviour for ibuprofen removal
Quaternized polyacrylic polymer has many applications in water treatment because of its ion exchange effects, but its further industrial applications are largely restricted because of its poor mechanical stren...
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Open AccessBioconversion of rice straw agro-residues by Lentinula edodes and evaluation of non-volatile taste compounds in mushrooms
Rice straw was substituted for sawdust at five different ratios of 0, 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80% (Control, RS20, RS40, RS60 and RS80, respectively) to obtain five kinds of Lentinula edodes. The effects of adding crop...
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NLRP3 inflammasome activation drives tau pathology
Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-beta in plaques, aggregation of hyperphosphorylated tau in neurofibrillary tangles and neuroinflammation, together resulting in neurodegenera...
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Open AccessInfluence of Roasting Condition on Flavor Profile of Sunflower Seeds: A flavoromics approach
Sunflower see/ds (Helianthus annuus L.) were roasted in an electric forced air oven for 15, 30, 45, and 60 min at 125, 135 and 145 °C. The effect of temperature and time on the flavor profile of the samples were ...
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Open AccessDifferential responses of the soil microbial community in two pitaya orchards with different mulch types
To prevent plants from being damaged due to extreme temperature and sunlight, the pitaya orchards in Hainan Province, China, are increasingly adopting living and black fabric cloth mulching. In this study, an ...
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Open AccessA draft genome for Spatholobus suberectus
Spatholobus suberectus Dunn (S. suberectus), which belongs to the Leguminosae, is an important medicinal plant in China. Owing to its long growth cycle and increased use in human medicine, wild resources of S. su...
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Open AccessEffects of Chemical Insecticide Imidacloprid on the Release of C6 Green Leaf Volatiles in Tea Plants (Camellia sinensis)
Chemical insecticides are widely used for pest control worldwide. However, the impact of insecticides on indirect plant defense is seldom reported. Here, using tea plants and the pesticide imidacloprid, effect...
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Open AccessDeletions linked to PROG1 gene participate in plant architecture domestication in Asian and African rice
Improving the yield by modifying plant architecture was a key step during crop domestication. Here, we show that a 110-kb deletion on the short arm of chromosome 7 in Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa), which i...
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Open AccessAge-Structured Population Modeling of HPV-related Cervical Cancer in Texas and US
Human papillomavirus (HPV)–related cervical cancer is a major public health threat to women, with >10,000 new cases diagnosed annually in the United States between 2008 and 2012. Since HPV vaccines can protect...
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Open AccessFull-length transcriptome of Misgurnus anguillicaudatus provides insights into evolution of genus Misgurnus
Reconstruction and annotation of transcripts, particularly for a species without reference genome, plays a critical role in gene discovery, investigation of genomic signatures, and genome annotation in the pre...
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Ketamine blocks bursting in the lateral habenula to rapidly relieve depression
The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist ketamine has attracted enormous interest in mental health research owing to its rapid antidepressant actions, but its mechanism of action has remained elusive....
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Astroglial Kir4.1 in the lateral habenula drives neuronal bursts in depression
Increased expression of the potassium channel Kir4.1 on astrocytes in the lateral habenula drives neuronal bursting in rodent models of depression.
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Open AccessMunicipal sewage sludge compost promotes Mangifera persiciforma tree growth with no risk of heavy metal contamination of soil
Application of sewage sludge compost (SSC) as a fertilizer on landsca** provides a potential way for the effective disposal of sludge. However, the response of landscape trees to SSC application and the impa...
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Open AccessSedum alfredii SaNramp6 Metal Transporter Contributes to Cadmium Accumulation in Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana
The plant natural resistance-associated macrophage protein (Nramp) family plays an important role in tolerance to heavy metal stress. However, few Nramps have been functionally characterized in the heavy metal-ac...
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Open AccessHybrid Printing Metal-mesh Transparent Conductive Films with Lower Energy Photonically Sintered Copper/tin Ink
With the help of photonic sintering using intensive pulse light (IPL), copper has started to replace silver as a printable conductive material for printing electrodes in electronic circuits. However, to sinter...
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Open AccessBHX, a novel pyrazoline derivative, inhibits breast cancer cell invasion by reversing the epithelial-mesenchymal transition and down-regulating Wnt/β-catenin signalling
The novel pyrazoline derivative, BHX, has recently been shown to exhibit potent anti-tumour activity by blocking the Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway. However, its effect on breast cancer growth and invasion a...
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Open AccessEcological Effect of Arginine on Oral Microbiota
Dental caries is closely associated with the microbial dybiosis between acidogenic/aciduric pathogens and alkali-generating commensal bacteria colonized in the oral cavity. Our recent studies have shown that a...
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Open AccessTranscriptomic analysis of short-fruit 1 (sf1) reveals new insights into the variation of fruit-related traits in Cucumis sativus
Fruit size is an important quality trait in different market classes of Cucumis sativus L., an economically important vegetable cultivated worldwide, but the genetic and molecular mechanisms that control fruit si...
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Open AccessEntropy Evolution in Consensus Networks
We investigate the evolution of the network entropy for consensus dynamics in classical and quantum networks. We show that in the classical case, the network differential entropy is monotonically non-increasin...
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Open AccessStructural insights into POT1-TPP1 interaction and POT1 C-terminal mutations in human cancer
Mammalian shelterin proteins POT1 and TPP1 form a stable heterodimer that protects chromosome ends and regulates telomerase-mediated telomere extension. However, how POT1 interacts with TPP1 remains unknown. H...
