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The Green Premium: Environmental Regulation, Environmental Risk and Property Value
This paper estimates the effect of the closure and relocation of chemical enterprises along the Yangtze River on housing prices in China. With a difference-in-differences (DiD) model and detailed data on pollu...
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Aromatic-turmerone ameliorates DSS-induced ulcerative colitis via modulating gut microbiota in mice
Curcuma longa L. is one of the traditional Chinese herbs in the list of medicinal and food homology. Aromatic-turmerone is the main ingredient in turmeric essential oil. The aim of the present study is to investi...
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Open AccessActivation of dopamine receptor D1 promotes osteogenic differentiation and reduces glucocorticoid-induced bone loss by upregulating the ERK1/2 signaling pathway
The inhibition of osteogenic differentiation is a major factor in glucocorticoid-induced bone loss, but there is currently no effective treatment. Dopamine, a major neurotransmitter, transmits signals via five...
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Microparticles and microplastics released from daily use of plastic feeding and water bottles and plastic injectors: potential risks to infants and children in China
Daily use of plastic feeding and water bottles occur widely in China, and they could be sources for release of microplastics (MPs), which threaten the health of Chinese infants and children during daily usage....
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Open AccessActivation of cannabinoid receptor 2 alleviates glucocorticoid-induced osteonecrosis of femoral head with osteogenesis and maintenance of blood supply
In glucocorticoid (GC)-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH), downregulated osteogenic ability and damaged blood supply are two key pathogenic mechanisms. Studies suggested that cannabinoid receptor...
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Microplastics in Freshwater Environments: Sources, Fates and Toxicity
Plastic debris at micro- and nanoscales has been detected in widespread aquatic environments. Accordingly, microplastics primarily pose serious threats to freshwater ecosystems, causing physical and histophysi...
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Fate and toxicity of silver nanoparticles in freshwater from laboratory to realistic environments: a review
The fate and risk assessment of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) is an important environmental health issue. The toxic effects, mechanisms, and modes of action of Ag NPs on aquatic organisms have been extensively...
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Open AccessAdsorption of phosphate in water using one-step synthesized zirconium-loaded reduced graphene oxide
In this account, a one-step green hydrothermal method for zirconium-loaded reduced graphene oxide (RGO-Zr) adsorbent was developed in pure water. It is based on the formation of initially strong-coupling RGO-Z...
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Evaluation of nano-specific toxicity of zinc oxide, copper oxide, and silver nanoparticles through toxic ratio
For safety and environmental risk assessments of nanomaterials (NMs) and to provide essential toxicity data, nano-specific toxicities, or excess toxicities, of ZnO, CuO, and Ag nanoparticles (NPs) (20, 20, and...
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Open AccessThe neglected nano-specific toxicity of ZnO nanoparticles in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Nanoparticles (NPs) with unique physicochemical properties induce nano-specific (excess) toxicity in organisms compared with their bulk counterparts. Evaluation and consideration of nano-specific toxicity are ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stand Height Estimation Based on Polarization Coherence Tomography
With the information of interferometric coherence coefficient of different polarization states, Polarization Coherence Tomography (PCT) technology can reconstruct the vegetation vertical structure, it is an im...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Petroleum Sulfonates as Oil Displacement Agent and Application
In terms of the condition of injection water after polymer flooding of Gudao oilfield, the following water quickly broke though the bank to the production wells, while most of residual oil remains in the forma...
