Factors Associated with Post-Sternotomy Mediastinitis. Case-Control Study by Débora Cristine Gomes Pinto (5222405)

“…For the statistical analysis, Student’s t test, Mann-Whitney test and Fisher exact test were used, in addition to logistic regression, with a level of significance of 5%. Results: There was a predominance of males (63.1%), and the mean age was 58.8 ± 10.3 years. …”

Down-regulation of endogenous ETS and GATA factors in endothelial cells. by Alexandra Le Bras (243728)

“…<p><b>A</b>. H5V endothelial cells were transfected with siRNA targeting fli-1, erg, or ets-1 (<b>A</b>), gata-2, or gata-4 (<b>B</b>) and cultured 48h before total RNA extraction and qPCR analysis of endogenous <i>VE-statin/egfl7</i> expression. ** p<0.01, ns; not significant. …”

Sorptivity test of HPC at 56 and 90 days. by Fadi Althoey (13040091)

“…At 60% RA content, activated concrete with 40% WSA and 2.5% WTSFs outperformed the control. Durability was enhanced with a 14–17% reduction in water absorption and sorptivity and a 25.2% decrease in chloride penetration. …”

FIGURE 2 from Surgical Inflammation Alters Immune Response to Intraoperative Photodynamic Therapy by Richard W. Davis (16964049)

“…The resulting curve demonstrated a transient decrease in tumor oxygenation 30 minutes after administration of TI which returned to a mean of 100% or 89.4% of the pre-TI level external to the incision and along the incision, respectively. …”

Interplay of Metal-Acid Balance and Methylcyclohexane Admixture Effect on <i>n</i>‑Octane Hydroconversion over Pt/HUSY by Nebojsa Korica (11313724)

“…A lower metal loading of 0.04 wt%Pt led to a pronounced decrease in <i>n</i>-octane conversion in the mixture. …”

Table 1_Oral microbiome components predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer patients.xlsx by Xiaoyan Fu (5578187)

“…A classifier based on these microbial biomarkers yielded an area under the curve (AUC) value of 77.3% (95% CI: 60.5%-94.2%), supporting the potential of the oral microbiome as a predictive tool for chemotherapy sensitivity in TNBC. …”

Hydrogen Sensors Based on Flexible Carbon Nanotube-Palladium Composite Sheets Integrated with Ripstop Fabric by Colin McConnell (8170839)

“…A decrease in signal reversibility was observed after multiple exposure cycles; however, redensification with ethanol significantly restored the original reversibility. …”

Elephant Management in North American Zoos: Environmental Enrichment, Feeding, Exercise, and Training - Fig 7 by Brian J. Greco (2746147)

“…</b> Training Item scores were sorted according to whether an elephant complied with a request. Scores range in half integer values between 1 (never) and 5 (very frequently) and bars represent score ranges. …”

Neuronal morphology is altered after chronic RPM and irradiation exposure, and after ground recovery. by Giuseppe Pani (459448)

“…<p><b>(A, B, C)</b> Morphometric analyses on βIII tubulin stained neurons immediately after 5-day chronic exposure conditions unveiled a significantly decreased neurite area <b>(A)</b> and neurite length <b>(B)</b> after RPM exposure and after combined RPM and radiation exposure. …”

SiRNA-mediated depletion of Dsg2 and Dsg3 in HaCaT cells. by Eva Hartlieb (103934)

“…Under control conditions, band density analysis revealed a five times higher ratio of insoluble over soluble protein levels of Dsg2 compared to Dsg3 indicating a more pronounced extradesmosomal localization of Dsg3 (right panel). …”

Hv1 increases colorectal cell migration and invasion. by Yifan Wang (380120)

“…<p>A, B and C, migration kinetics of SW620 (A), SW480 (B) and HT29 (C) assayed by wounded monolayer model. nc, cells transfected with the negative control (a, b, c, d and e in left panels); si, cells transfected with siRNA (f, g, h, i and j in left panels); and Zn²⁺, cells cultured at a final concentration of 100 µM ZnCl₂ (k, l, m, n and o in left panels). …”

Aging-related limit of exercise efficacy on motor decline - Fig 7 by Jennifer C. Arnold (4621795)

“…</b> TH standard was loaded from 0.5 to 4 ng. A non-exercise (NE) and exercise (E) result is shown representing the overall ~25% decrease in TH expression in the exercise group. …”

The influence of high night temperature on yield and physiological attributes of Soybean cv. Fukuyutaka by Taiyu Lin (9614971)

“…An additional experiment was conducted using a phytotron observing the same cv. under NT as high as 28°C (extreme HNT) and the control at 22 C from a R1 to R6.5 period. …”

The role of hypo- and hypercoagulability in plaque fibrosis. by Julian I. Borissoff (280594)

“…<p>Picrosirius red-stained sections assessed by light (<b>A, top row</b>) and polarized light (<b>A, second row</b>), indicate a significant decrease in the levels of collagen in TM^Pro/Pro:ApoE^−/− carotid atherosclerotic plaques (6.7±4.3% vs. 14.3±7.8% of total plaque area in ApoE^−/− mice, n = 10 per group, p = 0.0193) (<b>B</b>). …”

MAMDC4 deletion inhibits Wnt signaling. by Christopher M. Cox (18611099)

“…Wnt reporter activity is decreased in MAMDC4 KO cells (n = 5). (D) Enteroids were derived from postnatal day 11 mice, grown in Matrigel and treated for 6hrs with Wnt3a, fixed, and counterstained with DAPI. …”

Gene expression-constrained iPst19 highlights the relevance of amino acid metabolism. by Philip J. Tubergen (17706003)

“…The centroids for each condition are shown as a blue circle and a red triangle. (D) Twenty most influential reactions assessed as mean decrease accuracy (as a percent) of a random forest analysis. …”

Evaluation of the injuries caused by Pachycoris torridus (Scopoli, 1772) (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae) in Jatropha curcas (Linnaeus) (Euphorbiaceae) by Andrea Marques Vanderlei Fregadolli (10371824)

“…The injuries (34 days after planting) were considered mild and there was a decrease in the growth and in the biomass accumulation. …”

Diminished Medial Prefrontal Activity behind Autistic Social Judgments of Incongruent Information by Takamitsu Watanabe (156332)

“…Among these five regions, the ACC/vmPFC and dmPFC were most involved in nonverbal-information-biased judgments in the TD group. …”

Effect of Oxidative Phosphorylation Inhibitors on <i>In Vivo</i> Tat Transport and Sensitivity of Fluorescence Detection on Plates. by Umesh K. Bageshwar (2271628)

“…Valinomycin (V; 50 μM) is a K⁺ ionophore, which collapses the Δψ. …”

Including cell content predictions in the analysis of microarray data improves model fit and enhances the detection of previously-identified diagnosis-related genes in some dataset... by Megan Hastings Hagenauer (5523191)

“…<b>B:</b> We examined a series of differential expression models of increasing complexity, including a base model (M1), a standard model (M2), and three models that included cell type co-variates (M3-M5). …”