Associations between air pollution and cardio-respiratory physiological measures in older adults exercising outdoors by David Stieb (3547763)

“…In the control group, an interquartile range increase in fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) was associated with increases of 1.4% in heart rate (standard error (SE) = 0.7%) and 5.6% (SE = 2.6%) in malondialdehyde, and decreases of 5.6% (SE = 2.5%) to 16.5% (SE = 7.5%) in heart rate variability measures. …”

The application of nano-enrichment in CTC detection and the clinical significance of CTCs in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment by Tengteng Wei (7041785)

“…During six chemotherapy cycles, the average CTC number decreased from 5.8/7.5 ml in cycle #1 to 2.4/7.5 ml in cycle #4 and remained at almost the same level from 4 to 6 cycles. …”

Importance of vegetation variables among bird species with different habitat preferences. by Maria Triviño (190728)

“…For BRT model species number for V1 = 44, V2 = 63 and V3 = 69 whereas for RF model (Mean Decrease Gini measure) the species number for V1 = 21, V2 = 33 and V3 = 31.…”

Supplementary Material for: Microfluidic Assays for Probing Neutrophil-<b><i>Borrelia</i></b> Interactions in Blood During Lyme Disease by Muldur S. (10324079)

“…Preventing complement factor 5 cleavage decreased spontaneous neutrophil motility in Bb-spiked blood. …”

Intrinsic discriminability is determined by the interplay of the dynamic encoding and the free evolution. by Fabiano Baroni (234173)

“…<p>Probability distributions of the difference in the dynamical variables immediately after the last spike of the input train for different values of the average input ISI, which increases along the rows (0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5). The isolines of the cumulative discriminability as a function of are represented as white lines. …”

Identification of Novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Inflammatory Genes as Risk Factors Associated with Trachomatous Trichiasis by Berna Atik (270071)

“…TT risk decreased 5 times [odds ratio = 0.2 (95% confidence interval 0.11.–0.33), <em>p</em> = 0.001] with the combination of TNFA (-308A), LTA (252A), VCAM1 (-1594C), SCYA 11 (23T) minor allele, and the combination of TNFA (-308A), IL9 (113M), IL1B (5′UTR-T), and VCAM1 (-1594C). …”

Datasheet1_Oscillometric measurement of the ankle-brachial index and the estimated carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity improves the sensitivity of an automated device in screening... by Krisztina Fendrik (17618109)

“…</p>Methods<p>Among 230 patients (mean age 64 ± 14 years), ABI measurements were performed using a Doppler device and a manual sphygmomanometer. …”

Cell morphology drives consortial population dynamics and strain fixation. by James J. Winkle (7181861)

“…Bottom panel: A snapshot taken approximately 5 generations (1.5 hours) after the mutant (orange) strain’s average division length was reduced by a factor of <i>a</i> = 0.6 (resulting ). …”

Diabetes increases vascular remodeling. by Roshini Prakash (282722)

“…*p<0.05 vs control. Mean ± SEM, n = 5.</p>…”

Kinetic of the inflammation in murine smoking model. by Sandra Grumelli (70834)

“…(A) Top plot show significantly less IL12 (average ± SD) secretion in C5aR −/− (*, p<0.001, n = 3) compared to Wt, while (B) CXCR3−/− shows significantly decrease C5a secretion (**, p = 0.02, n = 3) at 4 weeks smoke and (C) decreased IL10 (§, p = 0.03, and n = 3) relative to Wt (n = 6). …”

Extended Stochastic Model (Ten Cells): Robustness Analysis of the Period and Amplitude of the Internal cAMP Oscillations with Respect to Perturbations in the Model Parameters and I... by Jongrae Kim (36310)

“…The distributions of the amplitudes show a similar tendency, i.e., the mean decreases and the standard deviation increases as the magnitude of the perturbation increases. …”

Developmental trends of children's social play from 2 to 6 years. by Stéphanie Barbu (231438)

“…<p>Interactions with adults (Adu), unoccupied behavior (Uno), solitary play (Sol), onlooker behavior (Onl) and parallel play (Par) decreased significantly over the preschool years while associative play (Aso), cooperative play (Cop) and interactions with peers (Int) increased, notably with an abrupt change at 4–5 years with the predominance of associative play, and thereafter of cooperative play at 5–6 years. …”

Image_1_Neural Tube Defects and ZIC4 Hypomethylation in Relation to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure.TIF by Yun Huang (169805)

“…Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a group of environmental pollutants that are reported as a risk factor of NTDs, may cause decreased genome-wide DNA methylation. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Neural Tube Defects and ZIC4 Hypomethylation in Relation to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure.docx by Yun Huang (169805)

“…Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a group of environmental pollutants that are reported as a risk factor of NTDs, may cause decreased genome-wide DNA methylation. …”

Image_4_Neural Tube Defects and ZIC4 Hypomethylation in Relation to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure.TIF by Yun Huang (169805)

“…Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a group of environmental pollutants that are reported as a risk factor of NTDs, may cause decreased genome-wide DNA methylation. …”

Image_2_Neural Tube Defects and ZIC4 Hypomethylation in Relation to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure.PNG by Yun Huang (169805)

“…Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a group of environmental pollutants that are reported as a risk factor of NTDs, may cause decreased genome-wide DNA methylation. …”

Image_3_Neural Tube Defects and ZIC4 Hypomethylation in Relation to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure.TIF by Yun Huang (169805)

“…Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a group of environmental pollutants that are reported as a risk factor of NTDs, may cause decreased genome-wide DNA methylation. …”

Actin oscillations depend on the extent and timing of Gβ sequestration. by Oliver Hoeller (2148580)

“…To achieve stable, intermediate levels of Gβ sequestration, cells were cotreated with 300 nM rapamycin and 0, 5, 10, 20 or 40 μM FK506, a competitive inhibitor of rapamycin. …”

Tumour before resistance and at acquired resistance. by Oluf Dimitri Røe (109870)

“…Two novel putative resistance markers, KRT7/CK7 and TYMP both gene and protein was significantly increased at resistance. SPARCL1 showed a significant decrease in gene expression, but its encoded protein, hevin, showed only a slight decrease in protein staining intensity.…”

Calf circumference: clinical validation for evaluation of muscle mass in the elderly by Valéria Pagotto (4830771)

“…Conclusion: CC can be used as a measure for early identification of muscle mass decrease in routine evaluations of the elderly in primary care.…”