Effect of water activity and storage of tahini on the viability of stressed Salmonella serovars by Tareq OSAILI (10462496)

“…The survival of stressed or unstressed Salmonella in all samples decreased during storage for up to 12 months by ca. 6.0 and 3.3log10 CFU/g, respectively. …”

Molecules altering the synchrony index, modify Cx36-dependent coupling. by Sabine Bavamian (148288)

“…*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001, ****p<0.0007 versus values obtained in cells exposed to DMSO; (<i>C</i>) Computing of total coupling index, assuming independent permeability of Cx36 channels to EB and LY, showed that coupling was significantly increased by all the drugs enhancing the synchrony index (<i>white bars</i>) and reduced by all the drugs decreasing this index (<i>black bars</i>). *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ****p<0.0007 versus values obtained in cells exposed to DMSO, using a chi-square test on the number of injections indicated in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0041535#pone-0041535-t001" target="_blank">Table 1</a>.…”

Mathematical model of colony expansion. by Lin Chen (54305)

“…Interestingly, the maximum value of P2A decreases with increasing glucose levels. This result is likely due to decreased intercellular competition over nutrients in the early stages of expansion and is compatible with experiments in <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003979#pcbi-1003979-g001" target="_blank">Fig. 1</a>, where colonies exhibit less structure as glucose levels increase.…”

Figure 3 by Hyemyung Seo (68791)

“…The overexpression of S5a decreased chymotrypsin-like activities in HD model striatal neurons and decreased PGPH activities in control striatal neurons. …”

The HCV Infection Modulates Interferon-Related Genes in the Human Hepatocyte Culture System. by Martina Buck (82941)

“…Treatment with IFN-α decreased HCV RNA (<i>P<</i>0.05) . C. Day-5 human hepatocyte cultures were treated for 72 hr, 24 hr after the HCV infection with genotypes 1, 2, 3 or 4 without or with IFN-α as described in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002660#s4" target="_blank">Materials and methods</a>. …”

Performance w.r.t. Number of Reaction Blocks. by Ivan Komarov (120593)

“…<p><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0046693#pone-0046693-g009" target="_blank">Figure 9(a)</a> shows the results for a weakly connected system. …”

WBC-thrombus interaction affects the instantaneous mean blood velocity upstream of the thrombogenic site. by He Li (176971)

“…<p>Blue curve: when the mean blood velocity in the microvessel is 0.38 mm/s, the flowing WBC first attaches to the thrombus at the thrombogenic site and subsequently detaches from the thrombus. See <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009892#pcbi.1009892.s010" target="_blank">S4 Movie</a>. …”

Distribution of polymorphisms in the genes for chitotriosidase and for AMCase. by Patricia E. B. Verwer (470580)

“…<p>*Genotype associated with an impaired, normal or decreased enzyme activity according to previous publications [<a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004061#pntd.0004061.ref014" target="_blank">14</a>, <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004061#pntd.0004061.ref016" target="_blank">16</a>, <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004061#pntd.0004061.ref017" target="_blank">17</a>, <a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004061#pntd.0004061.ref019" target="_blank">19</a>–<a href="http://www.plosntds.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004061#pntd.0004061.ref021" target="_blank">21</a>]</p><p>**Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) as assessed by Pearson’s χ² test. …”

Representative example. by Glen J. Weiss (128085)

“…The overall tumor burden decreased from 10.8 cm to 2.3 cm, with CEA tumor marker decreasing from 94.8 to 7.8.…”

Effect of T/HS without or with IL-6 treatment on the liver inflammation transcriptome; impact of Stat3 inhibition on the IL-6 effect. by Ana Moran (80716)

“…In <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021449#pone-0021449-g004" target="_blank">Figure 4B</a>, the 235 inflammation transcriptome genes whose expression levels were changed in SBR50 vs. sham were separated into those genes whose transcript levels were increased in SBR50 vs. sham (126 genes; left side of panel) and those whose transcript levels were decreased in SBR50 vs. sham (109 genes; right side of the panel). …”

Fig 2 - by Hanxin Zhang (4280524)

“…By contrast, in the US <i>all-patient</i> population, cerebrovascular diseases actually decreased significantly (<a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007927#pcbi.1007927.s011" target="_blank">S10 Table</a> and <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007927#pcbi.1007927.s013" target="_blank">S12 Table</a>).…”

MLR-Tregs allospecifically regulate cytotoxic activity in micro-CML generated by purified CD8⁺ plus purified autologous CD4⁺ responders. by Yuming Yu (212650)

“…<p>Micro-CML inhibition assays were performed with purified CD8⁺ responders as described in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0022450#pone-0022450-g005" target="_blank">Figure 5</a>, but in presence of purified CD4⁺ cells autologous to the responders; the data are depicted as: <b>(A) Percent specific lysis:</b> against the specific stimulator used both in MLR-Treg generation and the micro-CML readout. …”

Cumulative Number of Cases for Surgical Masks. by Samantha M. Tracht (367161)

“…<p>The same pattern that was seen in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009018#pone-0009018-g002" target="_blank">Figure 2</a> with respirators is also seen here: as the masks effectiveness is higher the number of cumulative cases decreases and the number of cases also decreases if a higher percentage of people wear masks. …”

The effect of visual angle and frequency bins below 1 Hz. by Emily J. Fox (284223)

“…Visual feedback at a moderate visual angle (0.5°) compared with the lowest visual angle (0.05°) increased power at 0 Hz and decreased power from 0.83–1.0 Hz. …”

Sjogren's disease biopsies show elevated inflammatory markers and suppressed alternative NFκB markers. by Adi Gilboa-Geffen (89967)

“…Excitation and emission wavelengths for Cy2 and Cy3 are as described in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0028727#pone-0028727-g003" target="_blank">Figure 3A</a>. …”

<i>Csp_P</i> exposure causes high mortality in adults and larvae. by Jose Luis Ramirez (179343)

“…In septic <i>Ae. aegypti</i>, survival was significantly decreased after feeding on a 10¹⁰ CFU/ml sugar meal (D, p<0.0001) but not after feeding on a 10⁶ CFU/ml sugar meal (D, p = 0.08). …”

Dynamic matching of the excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic LTD/LTP thresholds and networks response to input perturbations. by Christoph Miehl (8816756)

“…For lower postsynaptic rate than the excitatory postsynaptic LTD/LTP threshold (), decreases, and for , increases. For higher postsynaptic rate than the inhibitory postsynaptic LTD/LTP threshold (), decreases, and for , increases (see <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010682#sec017" target="_blank">Methods</a>). …”

Gradual changes during mouse preimplantation development could affect chromosome segregation fidelity. by Isabell Schneider (6429893)

“…Because centrosomes are degraded during early oogenesis [<a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000173#pbio.3000173.ref026" target="_blank">26</a>], multiple acentriolar MTOCs functionally replace them in meiotic spindle assembly [<a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000173#pbio.3000173.ref019" target="_blank">19</a>,<a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000173#pbio.3000173.ref027" target="_blank">27</a>]. …”

Upstream Regulators. by Hayley R. Inglis (122410)

“…*<p><b>Gene abbreviations are given in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0048555#pone.0048555.s021" target="_blank">Tables S1</a> and <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0048555#pone.0048555.s022" target="_blank">S2</a>.…”

Conduction of vasomotor signals along the smooth muscle cell layer. by Volker J. Schmidt (313862)

“…B: Likewise, the maximal amplitude of the adenosine-induced dilation decreased significantly with distance in Cx45fl/fl mice (n = 10 in 3 animals) and a similar trend was observed in less experiments in Cx45fl/fl:Nestin-Cre (n = 6 in 3 animals). …”