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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a hepatic manifestation of metabolic syndrome. Vitamin E (VE) has antioxidant properties and can mediate lipid metabolism. Non-targeted metabolomics technology was ...
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Glucose, a primary fuel source under homeostatic conditions, is transported into cells by membrane transporters such as glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1). Due to its essential role in maintaining energy homeostasi...
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Metabolic variation and oxidative stress response of blue mussels (Mytilus sp.) perturbed by norfloxacin exposure
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Modified umbilical cord-blood transplantation for pediatric patients with mucopolysaccharidosis
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The hormone leptin exerts its function in the brain to reduce food intake and increase energy expenditure to prevent obesity. However, most obese subjects reflect the resistance to leptin even with elevated se...
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Open AccessIdentification and characterization of a new geminivirus from soybean plants and determination of V2 as a pathogenicity factor and silencing suppressor
Soybean is one of the four major crops in China. The occurrence of viruses in soybean causes significant economic losses.
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Barley yellow dwarf viruses (BYDVs) cause significant economic losses on barley, wheat, and oats worldwide. 17-kDa protein (17K) of BYDVs plays a key role in viral infection in plants, whereas the underlying r...
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Government data sharing can effectively improve the efficiency and quality of government services and enhance the ability of providing government services. However, data sharing may bring the risk of citizen p...
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Open AccessAdvances in blood–brain barrier modeling in microphysiological systems highlight critical differences in opioid transport due to cortisol exposure
The United States faces a national crisis involving opioid medications, where currently more than 130 people die every day. To combat this epidemic, a better understanding is needed of how opioids penetrate in...
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The degradation of organic contaminants in aquatic systems has raised immense attention worldwide, and the second-order rate constant (kSO4.−\( {k}_{{\mathrm{SO}}_4^{.-}} \)) of water pollutants oxidized by sulfa...
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Open AccessIdentification of cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus P4.9 as a possible movement protein
Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus (CCYV) is a bipartite cucurbit-infecting crinivirus within the family Closteroviridae. The crinivirus genome varies among genera. P4.9 is the first protein encoded by CCYV RNA2. P...
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In Vitro Blood-Brain Barrier Functional Assays in a Human iPSC-Based Model
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a key biological interface that controls trafficking between the bloodstream and brain to maintain neural homeostasis. To carry out this role, the BBB exhibits several speciali...
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The yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) assay, a powerful tool for identifying protein–protein interactions, has been widely used to study viral protein interactions and to elucidate the functions of viral proteins. In th...
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Spatial variability and temporal trends in concentrations of the organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), in surface soils around Bei**g Guantin...
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Factors affecting HCH and DDT in soils around watersheds of Bei**g reservoirs, China
The factors that influence the dynamics of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) in soils around the watersheds of Bei**g reservoirs were examined. Compared with other studies ...
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Fifty-seven typical surface soils and 108 deeper soils were collected from five former industrial sites in Bei**g and concentrations of total Hg (ΣHg) as well as pH, total carbon (TC), total nitrogen (TN), to...
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Identification of sources of elevated concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in an industrial area in Tian**, China
The concentrations of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were determined by gas chromatography equipped with a mass spectrometry detector in 105 topsoil samples from an industrial area around Bohai Bay...
