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Open AccessInvolution of brown adipose tissue through a Syntaxin 4 dependent pyroptosis pathway
Aging, chronic high-fat diet feeding, or housing at thermoneutrality induces brown adipose tissue (BAT) involution, a process characterized by reduction of BAT mass and function with increased lipid droplet si...
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Open AccessCharacterizing and forecasting neoantigens-resulting from MUC mutations in COAD
The treatment for colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) faces challenges in terms of immunotherapy effectiveness due to multiple factors. Because of the high tumor specificity and immunogenicity, neoantigen has been con...
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Military Deception Identification Method Based on Multi-criteria Decision Analysis
Military deception is widely used in war. How to identify military deception is a complicated task. In this paper, the problem of identifying military deception is transformed into a multicriteria decision ana...
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Open AccessThe mitophagy pathway and its implications in human diseases
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles with multiple functions. They participate in necrotic cell death and programmed apoptotic, and are crucial for cell metabolism and survival. Mitophagy serves as a cytoprotec...
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High-Temperature Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior of HS80H Ferritic–Martensitic Steel Under Dynamic Strain Aging
In this work, low-cycle fatigue tests were performed on HS80H ferritic–martensitic steel with the strain amplitudes ranging from 0.5 to 2.0% at room temperature and 350 °C. The cyclic stress response at 350 °...
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The Involvement of Cytochrome c Oxidase in Mitochondrial Fusion in Primary Cultures of Neonatal Rat Cardiomyocytes
Cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) is a copper-dependent enzyme of mitochondrial respiratory chain. In pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy, copper level and CCO activity are both depressed, along with distur...
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Attenuates Withdrawal Symptoms by Regulating Monoaminergic Neurotransmitters and NO Signaling Pathway at Nucleus Accumbens in Morphine-Dependent Rats
In this study, we examined whether hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) plays a detoxification role in withdrawal symptoms in a morphine-dependent rat model. The model was established through injections of morphine at increa...
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Graphene Modified Epoxy Coating Tubing Applied in the Water Injection Wells
Epoxy coatings (EP coating) with or without 0.5% graphene were prepared on the N80 tubing in order to improve its corrosion resistance in the water injection well. The performance of ordinary epoxy coating and...
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Aluminum Alloy Pipe Design and Mechanical Property Analysis
Since the pipes of aluminum alloy have many advantages over traditional carbon steel pipes, the aluminum alloy pipes are gaining their shares in applications in petroleum development. Considering the complexit...
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Ultrafast Precipitation Kinetics in an Ultrafine-Grained Al–Cu Alloy Used for Oil Drill Pipes
In the ultrafine-grained (UFG, <1 μm) Al–Cu alloys having very poor thermal stability, only intergranular equilibrium θ-Al2Cu precipitates were found after aging treatment, which means that the precipitation was ...
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Dropout Failure Analysis for Long Round Thread Connection at Mill End
Round thread casing connection may be dropout failure due to main reasons of material’s property, thread parameter, make-up position or make-up torque, field operation problems etc. Thread connection is easy t...
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Low-Cycle Fatigue Behavior and Fracture Mechanism of HS80H Steel at Different Strain Amplitudes and Mean Strains
This work studied the low-cycle fatigue (LCF) behavior of HS80H steel at room temperature. LCF tests at strain amplitudes of 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.6, and 2.0% were conducted under constant mean strain. In...
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Open AccessAntimicrobial and antibiofilm potential of biosurfactants isolated from lactobacilli against multi-drug-resistant pathogens
Biosurfactants (BS) are amphiphilic compounds produced by microbes, either on the cell surface or secreted extracellularly. BS exhibit strong antimicrobial and anti-adhesive properties, making them good candid...
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Failure Analysis of Weld Cracking in a Thick-Walled 2.25Cr-1Mo Steel Pressure Vessel
A crack in thick-walled 2.25Cr-1Mo steel pressure vessel girth weld was found during manufacturing. To investigate the cause of failure, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spec...
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A study of hydrate plug formation in a subsea natural gas pipeline using a novel high-pressure flow loop
The natural gas pipeline from Platform QK18-1 in the southwest of Bohai Bay to the onshore processing facility is a subsea wet gas pipeline exposed to high pressure and low temperature for a long distance. Blo...
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Reuse the Deleted Labels for Vector Order-Based Dynamic XML Labeling Schemes
Documents obeying XML standard are intrinsically ordered and typically modeled as a tree. Labeling schemes encode both document order and structural information so that queries can exploit them without accessi...
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Full Tree-Based Encoding Technique for Dynamic XML Labeling Schemes
It is important to design dynamic labeling schemes which can process the updates when nodes are inserted into or deleted from the XML tree. One class of these schemes is based on lexicographical order. Lexicog...
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Efficient Encoding Technique for Strings-Based Dynamic XML Labeling Schemes
Several dynamic XML labeling schemes have been proposed to efficiently process updating in dynamic XML data. In this paper, we focus on one class of these schemes which are using strings of lexicographical ord...
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Lipoic acid—an unique plant transformation enhancer
Including lipoic acid (LA) in culture media during Agrobacterium transformation processes of four crop species has significantly improved the transformation methods of the crops, even for previously recalcitrant ...
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Open AccessAcute ablation of PERK results in ER dysfunctions followed by reduced insulin secretion and cell proliferation
A deficiency in Perk (EIF2AK3) causes multiple neonatal defects in humans known as the Wolcott Rallison syndrome. Perk KO mice exhibit the same array of defects including permanent neonatal diabetes (PND). PND in...
