SINGLE PORT LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY: TECHNICAL ASPECTS AND RESULTS by Murillo de Lima FAVARO (5670416)

“…Conversion to open surgery occurred in three cases (1.76%). The mean surgical time was 67.97 min, showing a marked decrease when was reached close to 50 cases and a stabilization after 100 surgeries. …”

CA and HT abolished the <i>in vivo</i> obesogenic effect of RGZ. by Esmail Lutfi (848005)

“…Exposure to 1 μM RGZ induced a significantly smaller decrease in adiposity compared with CT. The effect of RGZ was abolished by CA 50 μM (A) and HT (100 μM) (B). …”

BMC Neuroscience-5 by Javier A Bravo (19963)

“…Upper microphotograph shows a 40× magnification (scale bar = 50 μm). The middle microphotographs show details of the same field at 100× magnification (scale bar = 20 μm). …”

Effect of signaling pathway inhibitors on ox-LDL-induced Klotho downregulation in proximal tubular cells. by Cristina Sastre (503532)

“…<p>Pretreatment of MCT with parthenolide (1 µM) or PD098059 (50 µM) for 1 hour attenuates the decrease in Klotho mRNA (<b>A</b>) and protein (<b>B</b>) induced by ox-LDL (25 µg/mL). …”

Different simulation protocols of increased firing and depressed activity. by Isabelle Ayumi Spühler (444465)

“…During this initial period the uptake and release of dopamine reach a steady state level of local dopamine concentration. After 4 sec, 50% of release sites increase or decrease their release for a short time window to simulate phasic firing of the dopaminergic neurons. …”

DRE reduces the viability of MV-4-11 cells in a time dependent manner. by Pamela Ovadje (332426)

“…The absorbance readings were analyzed using GraphPad Prism version5.0 and values are expressed as mean ± SD from quadruplicates of 3 independent experiments. …”

Sensitivity of biomass and cumulative harvest to magnitude of climate impacts under alternative management strategies. by Jameal F. Samhouri (10136090)

“…<p>Outcomes of implementing fixed versus annual climate adaptive harvest management strategies on mean population biomass and cumulative harvest over 50-year simulations in a population subject to a gradual decrease or increase in carrying capacity <b>(a, d)</b>, productivity <b>(b, e)</b>, and both carrying capacity and productivity <b>(c, f)</b>. …”

SOCS-1 silencing enhances cytokine production and stimulatory capacity of mo-DCs. by Meenakshi Sachdeva (817136)

“…(a) Mo-DCs treated with siSOCS-1 had around 50% decrease in the expression of SOCS-1 gene which was significantly less than the control cells (p<0.05). …”

Morphological changes in NFs for RF-induced rat sciatic nerve injury. by Samjin Choi (358532)

“…CO, control; SH, sham; PRF, pulsed RF; CRF, continuous RF. Scale bar = 50 µm. (B) Definition of NFs for counting. M, myelin; A, axon. …”

Vascular permeability visualized via FITC-dextran staining. by Steven Hyun Seung Lee (12884158)

“…<p>(a) Significant amounts of retinal vessel leakage, appearing as indistinct regions of blurred staining, can be observed throughout the retinas of the sham-treated STZ-induced diabetic mouse models and those administered with the virus vector containing a control shRNA, whereas rAAV2-shmTOR-SD injection resulted in a marked decrease in vascular permeability. Scale bar = 50 μm. …”

Simulated models of motion can be differentiated based on Heteromotility features. by Jacob C. Kimmel (4768185)

“…(D) The Confusion Matrix of a representative Random Forest classifier trained to distinguish four simulated models of motion shown in (A), mean accuracy of 99.8% (5-fold CV). (E) Features ranked by importance for Random Forest classification, where importance is determined as the decrease in accuracy when the feature is removed across all 36 simulated sample populations. …”

Pro-resorptive activity of human osteoarthritis subchondral bone osteoblasts by Steeve Kwan Tat (87212)

“…They are expressed as the mean resorbed surface per total surface upon treatment with the factors. …”

Supplementary Material for: Effects of acute caffeine intake on Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 responses to total sleep deprivation: interactions with COMT polymorphism, a randomized... by Drogou C. (16030931)

“…Acute caffeine intake exerted a COMT genotype-dependent reducing effect on IGF-1 kinetic response (104 ± 26, 107 ± 27 and 106 ± 26 versus 100 ± 25 ng/ml for A/A genotype, at 25, 35 and 37 h of wakefulness versus 1h; p<0.05 condition X time X SNP), plus on resting levels after overnight recovery (102 ± 5 versus 113 ± 6 ng/ml) (p<0.05, condition X SNP). …”

Directed evolution of HIV-1 to utilize CD4^low target cells. by David Beauparlant (3491435)

“…<b>(C)</b> <u>Adaptation to CD4</u>^<u>low</u> <u>targets increases sensitivity to CD4-IgG</u>₂ <u>(PRO542).</u> Mean neutralization sensitivity (IC50) of envelope-pseudotyped viruses on TZM-bl cells derived from two to seven independent assays (error bars = SD) are shown. …”

DNA damage evoked by <i>K. pneumoniae</i> 1084 infection <i>in vivo</i>. by Yi-Chyi Lai (213766)

“…Each value is the mean ± SEM for 3 mice. An asterisk (*) represents a significant decrease in the Δ<i>clbA</i>-infected group in comparison with the <i>K. pneumoniae</i> 1084-infected group by the Mann-Whitney U test (two-tailed; <i>P</i><0.05). …”

Aβ-associated impairment of EC network activity in vivo. by Gustavo A. Rodriguez (9268596)

Optogenetic simulation to silence interneurons. by Kwangjun Lee (22226994)

Supplementary Material for: TRENDS IN HOSPITAL DISCHARGES WITH PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS OF CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS BY AGE AND SEX IN SPAIN by figshare admin karger (2628495)

“…The rise occurred mainly among older adults—especially men over 50 (+4.6 cases/year) and women over 50 (+3.1)—whereas younger women, despite the highest incidence rates, showed the smallest increase (+0.8). …”

Blood Levels of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor after Successful Resuscitation from Cardiac Arrest by Christian Stoppe (173149)

“…Six hours after admission, MIF levels were decreased by more than 50% (150.5±127.2 ng/ml, p<0.007), but were not further reduced in the subsequent time course and remained significantly higher than the values observed during the ICU stay of cardiac surgical patients. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Long-Term Prognosis of Cognitive Function in Patients With Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus After Shunt Surgery.xlsx by Akihiro Kambara (10006775)

“…Cognitive function was measured using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) preoperatively and at 3 months, 1 and 2 years post-operatively. The mean MMSE score (22.4 ± 5.4 preoperatively) improved at 3 months [23.8 ± 5.0 (p = 0.0002)] and 1 year [23.7 ± 4.8 (p = 0.004)] post-operatively. …”