Sunflower biometrics and chemical salinity attributes of soil irrigated with waters of different qualities by Paulo Vitor Santa Rosa Silva (10423636)

“…Irrigation with effluent promoted a better development of the sunflower crop, and the increase in the salinity of the irrigation water in the other treatments promoted a decrease in the total fresh and dry phytomasses, plant height, stem diameter, number of leaves, leaf area, internal and external diameters of the capitula and in the consumption and efficiency of water use. …”

Decitabine pre-treatment enhances cytotoxic and apoptotic activity of cisplatin. by Chi T. Viet (659100)

“…(<b>E</b>) The graph depicts apoptosis activity (caspase 3/7 activity, measured as luminescence on y-axis) at different cisplatin concentrations (3-300 µM). A decrease in apoptotic activity at high dose ranges is an expected phenomenon in this assay due to early cell death from high drug doses prior to quantification. …”

Investigating genetic-and-epigenetic networks, and the cellular mechanisms occurring in Epstein–Barr virus-infected human B lymphocytes via big data mining and genome-wide two-side... by Cheng-Wei Li (2831708)

Pore formation in the membranes of GUVs induced by 3.33 μg/mL NPs. by Sharif Hasan (11204586)

“…<p>Fluorescence images of (A) 40%DOPG/60%DOPC-GUVs and (B) DOPC-GUVs show the progressive decrease of calcein from inside the GUVs at 50 mM sugar concentration. …”

Table_1_Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Health in the Countries of the European Union.docx by Beata Gavurova (10960588)

“…The revealed positive link between CO₂ and DALYs indicated that a decrease in CO₂ may be associated with a decrease in DALYs, but it is also true that this cannot be done without reducing emissions of other combustion products. …”

Shizukaol D inhibited the growth of liver cancer cells. by Lisha Tang (2580367)

“…Cell proliferation was measured by CCK-8 assay. (A) The viability of Focusand SMMC-7721cells were decreased when the cells were treated with increasing concentration of shizukaol D for 48h.…”

Nuclear import of Avian Sarcoma Virus integrase is facilitated by host cell factors-2 by Mark D Andrake (95479)

“…Digitonin permeabilized HeLa cells were either treated with buffer (PBS – top row), or with a 50 ug/ml antibody 3E9 against Impβ (bottom row)during the import reaction. . …”

Significant downregulation of <i>Cebpe</i> in human <i>Evi1</i> overexpressed leukemic cells. by Carolyn Glass (427882)

“…U937+<i>Evi1</i> cells had 8 point increase in Ct value (or 256 fold decrease) compared to the U937 wildtype cells (p<0.001).…”

Carbon Dynamics, Development and Stress Responses in <em>Arabidopsis</em>: Involvement of the APL4 Subunit of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase (Starch Synthesis) by Cécile Sulmon (86782)

“…This enhanced atrazine tolerance mutant was shown to be affected in the promoter structure and in the regulation of expression of the APL4 isoform of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, a key enzyme of the starch biosynthesis pathway, thus resulting in decrease of <em>APL4</em> mRNA levels. …”

Additional performance tests also exhibited persistent deficits/changes after tMCAO. by Jin Zhou (90734)

“…<p><b><u>A</u>:</b> Hindlimb Placement performance deficits were significant and exhibited no spontaneous recovery of function (i.e., no decrease from the original d1 deficit) for the full 10 weeks of observation post-tMCAO. …”

Representative slices of the threshold-aware optimal policy (top row) and the corresponding probability of success (bottom row) for the Carrère example. by MingYi Wang (2807581)

“…Bottom row shows the probability of “eradication within the budget” if the optimal policy is followed from this time point and onward. Each column corresponds to a specific budget level <i>s</i>, which is shown below each square. …”

Effects of COS on retinal cell apoptosis. by I-Mo Fang (470460)

“…Treatment with low-dose or high-dose of COS caused significantly decrease in Bax/Bcl-2 ratio at day 7 and 14. (*<i>P</i> < 0.05 compared with PQ only or PBS-treated group; # <i>P</i> < 0.05 compared with normal; & <i>P</i>< 0.05 by ANOVA test with post hoc Bonferroni test; N=3 for each group in each time point).…”

Basal LDLR gene expression and activity is higher in PC-3 than LNCaP cells. by James Robert Krycer (104817)

“…Expression is represented as a fold change (relative to PC-3 cells), whereby a one-unit increase in ΔC_t results in a two-fold decrease in mRNA expression. …”

Analysis of ON axons. by Damián Dorfman (293002)

“…In SE-housed animals, experimental diabetes induced a significant decrease in the axon number at the distal (but not proximal) portion of the ON which was prevented by EE housing. …”

Increasing risk of invasive adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix in Cali, Colombia by Luis Eduardo Bravo (652275)

“…</p> <p>CONCLUSION: A significant increase in the incidence of cervical adenocarcinomas in women younger than 50 years was observed. …”

Deconvolution of Kombucha Tea facilitates the creation of fermenting and non-fermenting mixes of KTM. by Rachel N. DuMez-Kornegay (18271479)

“…(C) Oil Red O staining of day 1 adult animals fed an <i>E</i>. <i>coli</i> OP50, KTM-Mix, or KTMs diet, as well as a 5X concentrated version of the KTM diet (mean ± SD, ****, <i>P</i><0.0001, one-way ANOVA). …”

Sensitivity analysis. by Daniela S Santurio (21030812)

“…For each patient, a constant 50% reduction in each activation mechanism was simulated and the mean reduction in IL6 peak was calculated (reference scenario, black dots, same values as shown in <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012908#pcbi.1012908.g008" target="_blank">Fig 8A</a> fourth panel); this analysis was then repeated by increasing ( + ) and decreasing (–) each parameter in 50% increments.…”

Stock and flow diagram of insect-based food adoption in the Netherlands. by Andrijana Horvat (8963135)

“…The running model is in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0234538#pone.0234538.s002" target="_blank">S1 Dataset</a>. ( positive causal influence–other things being equal, an increase in variable A causes an increase in variable B, or a decrease in variable A causes a decrease in variable B; negative causal influence–other things being equal, an increase in variable A causes a decrease in variable B, or a decrease in variable A causes an increase in variable B. …”

Silibinin sensitizes chemo-resistant breast cancer cells to chemotherapy by Ommoleila Molavi (3604277)

“…Interestingly treatment of DOX-resistant MDA-MB-435 cells with silibinin at 400 μM concentration for 48 h induced a 50% decrease in the numbers of colonies as compared with DMSO-treated cells. …”

CIBZ protein expression level in the spinal cord after SCI injury. by Yafei Cai (178423)

“…Positive cells were observed in both gray and white matter, and the staining in the white matter was much more intense than those in other regions. c: Statistic analysis of CIBZ-IR IOD. CIBZ-IR IOD decreased at first and up-regulated later, the inflection point was at 8 h. …”