Baseline predictors of short-term visual outcomes after intravitreal conbercept injection for neovascular age-related macular degeneration by Peng Zhang (2071)

“…Results: After the 6-month treatment, the mean best-corrected visual acuity improved from 1.10 ± 0.42 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR) to 0.41 ± 0.18 logMAR, the mean retinal sensitivity increased from 5.13 ± 0.86 dB to 7.32 ± 1.21 dB, the mean central retinal thickness decreased from 440.38 ± 61.05 μm to 260.01 ± 24.86 μm, and the total number of hyperreflective dots and the number of hyperreflective dots in each retina layer were significantly reduced as compared with those before treatment (all p<0.05). …”

Baseline predictors of short-term visual outcomes after intravitreal conbercept injection for neovascular age-related macular degeneration by Peng Zhang (2071)

“…Results: After the 6-month treatment, the mean best-corrected visual acuity improved from 1.10 ± 0.42 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR) to 0.41 ± 0.18 logMAR, the mean retinal sensitivity increased from 5.13 ± 0.86 dB to 7.32 ± 1.21 dB, the mean central retinal thickness decreased from 440.38 ± 61.05 μm to 260.01 ± 24.86 μm, and the total number of hyperreflective dots and the number of hyperreflective dots in each retina layer were significantly reduced as compared with those before treatment (all p<0.05). …”

Pueraria lobata Root Constituents as Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitors and Protective Agents against Oxidative Stress Induced in GES-1 Cells by Xiaosheng Tang (1806301)

“…Four compounds were screened out and identified as puerarin, daidzin, daidzein and genistein with half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values of 30.8, 5.31, 14.5 and 3.02 µg mL−1 on XO, respectively. …”

Water quality and survival rate of Rhamdia quelen fry subjected to simulated transportation at different stock densities and temperatures by Fábio Bittencourt (4651879)

“…The density directly affected the water quality parameters, such as the increase in electrical conductivity and turbidity, and decrease in dissolved oxygen and pH at the density of 60 fish 5 L-1. …”

all_calculations_complete.zip by Congqing Yang (20554157)

“…In the end, three materials studied in the current research display close-to-ideal band gaps: O-doped anthracene under 8.75 GPa of pressure (1.353 eV), P-doped anthracene under 10 GPa (1.073 eV), and S-doped anthracene under 2.5 GPa (1.341 eV). …”

Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes with Rhodium Zwitterionic Complexes: Enhanced Catalytic Activity by π-Acidic Diene Ligands by Naoya Onishi (1537438)

“…Catalyst <b>1</b> displayed higher activity to produce higher molecular weight polymer than the conventional nbd analogue, (nbd)Rh⁺[(η⁶-Ph)B⁻Ph₃] (<b>5</b>, nbd = 2,5-norbornadiene). In the case of other zwitterionic Rh catalysts bearing polymethylated tfb ligands [tfb-Me₂, <b>2</b>; tfb-Me₃, <b>3</b>; tfb-Me₄, <b>4</b>], the catalytic activity tended to decrease with increasing number of the incorporated methyl groups. …”

Ultrasonic and Thermal Pretreatments on Anaerobic Digestion of Petrochemical Sludge: Dewaterability and Degradation of PAHs by Jun Zhou (6477)

“…Results showed that the total biogas production volume in the thermal pretreatment system was 4 and 5 times higher than that in the ultrasound pretreatment and in the control system, and the corresponding volatile solid removal efficiencies reached 28%, 15%, and 8%. …”

Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes with Rhodium Zwitterionic Complexes: Enhanced Catalytic Activity by π-Acidic Diene Ligands by Naoya Onishi (1537438)

“…Catalyst <b>1</b> displayed higher activity to produce higher molecular weight polymer than the conventional nbd analogue, (nbd)Rh⁺[(η⁶-Ph)B⁻Ph₃] (<b>5</b>, nbd = 2,5-norbornadiene). In the case of other zwitterionic Rh catalysts bearing polymethylated tfb ligands [tfb-Me₂, <b>2</b>; tfb-Me₃, <b>3</b>; tfb-Me₄, <b>4</b>], the catalytic activity tended to decrease with increasing number of the incorporated methyl groups. …”

Immunofluorescence analysis of control, Aza and Aza+AA treated CDCs. by Reddy Sailaja Mundre (4633873)

“…<p>(<b>A)</b> Immunofluorescence analysis of control and treated CDCs for markers–CD 105, Nkx 2.5, GATA 4 and α-Sarcomeric actinin respectively. …”

Autophagy deficient mice are resistant to the ability of CO to suppress RTV-associated cardiac fibrosis and TGF-β1 signaling. by Jeffrey Laurence (4557229)

“…Phospho-Smad2 positive nuclei were counted using the ImageJ program, which showed no decrease in phospho-Smad2 in the CO/RTV group compared to mice exposed to RTV alone (n = 5).…”

Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes with Rhodium Zwitterionic Complexes: Enhanced Catalytic Activity by π-Acidic Diene Ligands by Naoya Onishi (1537438)

“…Catalyst <b>1</b> displayed higher activity to produce higher molecular weight polymer than the conventional nbd analogue, (nbd)Rh⁺[(η⁶-Ph)B⁻Ph₃] (<b>5</b>, nbd = 2,5-norbornadiene). In the case of other zwitterionic Rh catalysts bearing polymethylated tfb ligands [tfb-Me₂, <b>2</b>; tfb-Me₃, <b>3</b>; tfb-Me₄, <b>4</b>], the catalytic activity tended to decrease with increasing number of the incorporated methyl groups. …”

Assessment of radio frequency heating on composition, microstructure, flowability and rehydration characteristics of milk powder by Yu ZHONG (4628155)

“…For powder flowability, raw sample had low cohesiveness (specific energy = 4.39 mJ/g), and RFH provided better flowability and decreased compressibility. Moreover, RFH had some negative impacts on wettability and solubility of powder particles with contact angle increase at least 5% and solubility decrease of 2%~4%, indicating worse rehydration abilities. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Prenylated indole-terpenoids with antidiabetic activities from Penicillium sp. HFF16 from the rhizosphere soil of Cynanchum bungei Decne.PDF by Xijin Liu (14704195)

“…In this study, four new prenylated indole-terpenoids (1-4), named encindolenes I-L, as well as a known analogue (5), were isolated from the fungus Penicillium sp. …”

Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes with Rhodium Zwitterionic Complexes: Enhanced Catalytic Activity by π-Acidic Diene Ligands by Naoya Onishi (1537438)

“…Catalyst <b>1</b> displayed higher activity to produce higher molecular weight polymer than the conventional nbd analogue, (nbd)Rh⁺[(η⁶-Ph)B⁻Ph₃] (<b>5</b>, nbd = 2,5-norbornadiene). In the case of other zwitterionic Rh catalysts bearing polymethylated tfb ligands [tfb-Me₂, <b>2</b>; tfb-Me₃, <b>3</b>; tfb-Me₄, <b>4</b>], the catalytic activity tended to decrease with increasing number of the incorporated methyl groups. …”

ISO-1-treated NOD- or C57BL/6-macrophages modulate T cell activation <i>in vitro</i>. by Hannelie Korf (636947)

“…<p>(A-C) Ctr- or ISO-1-treated macrophages isolated from either C57BL/6 or NOD mice (5 × 10⁴ cells/well) were washed before addition of OVA_323-339 peptide or BDC2.5 mimotope (1 μg/mL) and culturing together with negatively isolated CD4⁺ T cells from OT-II or BDC2.5 Tg mice (1 × 10⁵ cells/well). …”

Demography of normoxic and hypoxic flies by Paul Vigne (373124)

“…</p> <p>(A) Survivorship analysis.</p> <p>Hypoxia decreased the mean life span from 33.6±0.8 days (n = 79) to 6.3±0.1 days (n = 282).…”

Gene expression by day of differentiation. by Tom Bongiorno (4922701)

“…As for the structural genes, <i>Actn1</i> and <i>Map2</i> both decreased and then increased, and <i>Lmna</i> was stable until a sharp increase on day 5. …”

Generating human striatal organoids. by Xinyu Chen (47670)

“…Quantifying the expression levels of PAX6 and SATB2 in sections after 45 days in culture. Organoids, <i>n</i> = 5. Data, mean ± SD. Student <i>t</i> test. *, <i>P</i> < 0.05. …”

Potential Impacts of Climatic Change on European Breeding Birds by Brian Huntley (38285)

“…</p> <h3>Methodology/Principal Findings</h3><p>For six climate scenarios for 2070–99 changes have been estimated for 431 European breeding bird species using models relating species' distributions in Europe to climate. Mean range centroid potentially shifted 258–882 km in a direction between 341° (NNW) and 45° (NE), depending upon the climate scenario considered. …”

Associations between sedentary behavior level and metabolite measurements. by Kota Fukai (3221151)

“…Blue bars mean lower concentrations in the shorter sitting time groups. …”