Effects of mercerization in the chemical and morphological properties of amazon piassava by Viviane Rebelo (6484001)

“…The fibers have been treated in 5% and 10% NaOH for 60 min. The XRF results for treated and untreated fibers showed that there is a decrease in the amount of SiO 2 by increasing the NaOH concentration. …”

Consumer Impacts (CI) for each reach (Within) and the differences (ΔCI) between reaches (Between). by Michael C. Marshall (130087)

“…Positive values indicate increase in response variable with consumers, whereas negative values indicate a decrease. Each bar is the mean (±1 SE) of 5 replicates. …”

IL-1β treatment does not induce cell death. by Himakarnika Alluri (2735689)

“…<p>IL-1β (10 ng/mL; 2 hours) treatment had no effect on cell viability (n = 5). Hydrogen peroxide (used as a positive control) treatment decreases cell viability significantly (<i>p<</i>0.05). …”

Phylogenetic analyses correlate with ecological behavior of <i>Sporothrix</i> species. by Anderson Messias Rodrigues (424093)

“…<p>Comparing the clades over the entire tree reveals a consistent decrease of bark beetle and soil association outside <i>Ophiostoma</i>, with a concomitant increase of vertebrate infectivity in <i>S</i>. …”

CD8 T cells from the mesenteric lymph node (MLN) also show reductions in proportion of antigen-experienced subsets with an increase in the naïve compartment. by Robert Harms (295592)

“…</b> After meth treatment<b>,</b> the T_N compartment is increased in proportion, while the T_AE, T_EM, and T_CM compartments all revealed a decrease in proportion. **p<0.01, ***p<0.001 calculated by Mann-Whitney U Test. …”

Comparison of cost estimates for standard and Electronic Data Capture (EDC) methods. by Brigitte Walther (130764)

“…<p>*Salary costs per correctly entered field were calculated according to the formulas which are presented in the methods section. The time a data supervisor (standard method) or a data manager (EDC) would need for the synchronization of the data bases and the performance of range and consistency checks was assumed to be 5 min/questionnaire. …”

EPC-CM effects on tubular structure formation are AKT and ERK dependent. by Stefano Di Santo (359485)

“…Supplementation of EPC-CM with the inhibitor of AKT phosphorylation (CM+LY) ([5 µM]) substantially attenuated all three parameters while the addition of the inhibitor of ERK phosphorylation (CM+PD) ([10 µM]) resulted in a significant decrease of covered area and total tube length but had no significant effect on the reduction of the number of branches. …”

Heat knock-down time of <i>Bicyclus anynana</i> in relation to sex, larval and adult feeding treatment. by Klaus Fischer (82645)

“…<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0015284#pone-0015284-t005" target="_blank">Table 5</a>). …”

Inhibition of mitochondrial oxidation prevents adipogenic differentiation of hMSCs. by Yanmin Zhang (391964)

“…<b>B)</b> Oil Red O staining showed that chronic treatment with 100 nM Rotenone inhibited adipogenic differentiation with a significant decrease in the percentage of surface area stained with Oil Red O (n = 5 for DMSO control and n = 4 for 100 nM Rotenone treatment). …”

Machine learning methods identify putative commitment-associated genes from the committed progenitor (CP1) versus self-renewing (SR) populations. by Jose Teles (5655964)

“…<p>(A) A random forest classifier (1000 trees and 5 variables per node) was trained to discriminate between the SR and CP1 populations using as input expression data for all genes simultaneously. …”

Effects of Taxotere and Furtulon on cell cycle, apoptosis, and other pathway related gene expression analyzed and visualized by GenMAPP software integrated with cDNA microarray dat... by Yiwei Li (15334)

“…</p><p>Copyright © 2005 Li et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</p> A: PC3 cells. B: LNCaP cells. (positive value: increase in fold change; negative value: decrease in fold change; A: PC3 cells; B: LNCaP cells)…”

Evolution of the early transcriptome. by Joel Atallah (498129)

“…<i>melanogaster</i> (star, 2A) stage 2 and stage 5 transcriptomes are more highly correlated with comparable transcriptomes (dots) from the closely related <i>D</i>. …”

VER-155008 abrogated viral protein synthesis pre-translationally in TREx BCBL1-RTA cells. by Belinda Baquero-Pérez (706834)

“…(C) Immunoblot analysis showing that reactivated cells treated with non-cytotoxic inhibitor concentrations (1 to 2.5 μM) for 24 h revealed a decrease in viral proteins compared with DMSO-treated samples while cellular proteins remained unaffected. …”

Effect of dietary flavones on DNA methyltransferase activity and <i>in vitro</i> methylation. by Rajnee Kanwal (533137)

“…<p>(A) Dose-dependent inhibition of DNMT activity by 10- μM and 20-μM concentrations of 5-Aza-dC, Apigenin, Chrysin and Luteolin. …”

Development and characterization ofmembranes of chitosan / Cissus Verticillata (L.) Nicolson & C.E. Jarvis by Antônio Alberto Souza Neto (7395950)

“…The mechanical tensile strength test revealed a decrease in tensile strength when 5% of CAE was added and increased with 20% of CAE. …”

Study the efficiency of Ultrasonic Technology in Removal of Algae from Surface Waters by Maarouf, Alaa

“…The dominant algae genus was identified using a light microscope, and ultrasound waves with a low frequency of 40 kHz and a power density of 0.024 W/cm³ were applied at different time intervals (0 – 80 minutes) at time intervals of 5 minutes. …”
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Long-Term Trends in Visibility and at Chengdu, China by Qiyuan Wang (434809)

“…The visual range exhibited a declining trend before 1982, a slight increase between 1983 and 1995, a sharp decrease between 1996 and 2005, and some improvements after 2006. …”

Dopamine Inhibits Mitochondrial Motility in Hippocampal Neurons by Sigeng Chen (248428)

“…<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The trafficking of mitochondria within neurons is a highly regulated process. In an earlier study, we found that serotonin (5-HT), acting through the 5-HT1A receptor subtype, promotes axonal transport of mitochondria in cultured hippocampal neurons by increasing Akt activity, and consequently decreasing glycogen synthase kinase (GSK3β) activity. …”

Two electrophysiological sleep states exist in the Argentine tegu. by Paul-Antoine Libourel (561599)

“…(H) Histograms per 3 h showing that S2 periods occur significantly more at the beginning and at the end of the sleep time (from left to right, <i>p</i> = 0.0139, <i>p</i> = 0.0287, <i>n</i> = 5). (I) Histograms showing from top to bottom a significant decrease of the heart rate variability (<i>p</i> = 0.0079, <i>n</i> = 5); an increase in the number of eye movements (<i>p</i> = 0.0079, <i>n</i> = 5); and a small decrease in muscle tone computed as the norm of the Hilbert transform (<i>p</i> = 0.0079, <i>n</i> = 5) between S2 (red) and S1 (bluish) for each episode lasting more than two seconds. …”

Parallel Screening of Wild-Type and Drug-Resistant Targets for Anti-Resistance Neuraminidase Inhibitors by Kai-Cheng Hsu (177095)

“…These changes may drive multidrug resistance. Using this strategy, we identified a new inhibitor, Remazol Brilliant Blue R (RB19, an anthraquinone dye), which inhibited WT NA and MDR NA with IC₅₀ values of 3.4 and 4.5 µM, respectively. …”