The influence of nicotine on granulocytic differentiation – Inhibition of the oxidative burst and bacterial killing and increased matrix metalloproteinase-9 release-1 by Minqi Xu (91869)

“…(E) DMSO exposure increased the mean percentage of cells differentiating beyond the promyelocytic stage over five-days, compared to DMSO-untreated control cells (= 6, *< 0.001); but nicotine had no statistically significant influence on the percentage of DMSO-treated HL-60 cells differentiating past the promyelocytic stage. …”

DataSheet1_Low-Order Scaling Quasiparticle Self-Consistent GW for Molecules.pdf by Arno Förster (11381271)

“…The first ionization potential in vacuum decreases by nearly 1 electron volt and the electron affinity increases by 0.4 eV going from the smallest to the largest considered oligomer. …”

Correlations between predictors on different landscapes. by Dusan Misevic (53765)

“…Each cross mark (+) represents a predictor value for a single simulation. Red (blue) crosses indicate simulations in which the frequency of sexually reproducing individuals increased (decreased) in the competition phase. …”

Effect of MitoCEHC on lowering ROS. by Mohanad Mossalam (104416)

“…The effect of 2 µM α-CEHC and 2 µM MitoCEHC on lowering ROS induced by high glucose in endothelial cells was tested 36 hours after treatment. MitoCEHC displays a higher significant effect on decreasing ROS than α-CEHC alone. …”

CR reduced Panc02 tumor volume and inflammatory profile. by Alison E. Harvey (560954)

“…<p>CR decreased <i>A</i>, tumor growth and <i>B</i>, median tumor weight compared to CON mice (n = 15/group). …”

Reverse phase protein analyses of ErbB2⁺Ph⁺ALL with canertinib treatment. by Mary E. Irwin (293687)

“…<p>(A) Unsupervised clustering analyses were performed on RPPA data from Z181 or Z119 cells treated with 0.1–5 µM of canertinib for 18 hours. …”

Cardiac morphologic parameters. by Craig Bolte (299486)

“…Five sections from 3 <i>Foxm1^fl/fl</i> and <i>Nkx2.5-Cre/Foxm1^fl/fl</i> embryos were measured to calculate mean±SEM. …”

Placental Cadmium Levels Are Associated with Increased Preeclampsia Risk by Jessica E. Laine (801664)

“…There was an increased odds ratio for PE in relationship to placental levels of Cd (OR = 1.5; 95% CI: 1.1–2.2). The Cd-associated OR for PE increased when analyzed in relationship to lower placental Se levels (OR = 2.0; 95% CI: 1.1–3.5) and decreased with higher placental Se levels (OR = 0.98; 95% CI: 0.5–1.9). …”

Impact of optimal 1/week/6 m allopregnanolone treatment regimen on neurogenesis and survival in 3xTgAD male mouse. by Shuhua Chen (11649)

“…CldU positive cells were not significantly increased in both ages suggesting that this APα treatment regimen sustained survival of newly generated cells, and that neurogenic capacity of APα decreased with age. The percentage increase was presented as mean ± SEM; * <i>P</i><0.01; <i>n</i> = 2–5/group.…”

Homoleptic Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes with Highly Efficient Red Phosphorescence and Application to Organic Light-Emitting Diode by Akira Tsuboyama (1921528)

“…The complexes studied have the general structure Ir(III)(C−N)₃, where (C−N) is a monoanionic cyclometalating ligand:  2-(5-methylthiophen-2-yl)pyridinato, 2-(thiophen-2-yl)-5-trifluoromethylpyridinato, 2,5-di(thiophen-2-yl)pyridinato, 2,5-di(5-methylthiophen-2-yl)pyridinato, 2-(benzo[<i>b</i>]thiophen-2-yl)pyridinato, 2-(9,9-dimethyl-9<i>H</i>-fluoren-2-yl)pyridinato, 1-phenylisoquinolinato, 1-(thiophen-2-yl)isoquinolinato, or 1-(9,9-dimethyl-9<i>H</i>-fluoren-2-yl)isoquinolinato. …”

Comparison of the p-values of YAP N/C ratio on different stiffnesses of substrates during the first 10 hours of the spreading process. by Qin Luo (2182514)

“…<p>(<b>A</b>) The p-values of the YAP N/C ratio on 2-kPa substrates and 5-kPa substrates (red dots) increased from 0.1725 at 0^th hour to 0.9642 at 4^th hour and decreased to 0.3103 at 10^th hour. …”

Caddisfly biodiversity in Pernambuco state, Brazil: overcoming the biodiversity knowledge shortfall and insights into the effects of climate change by Rafael Pereira (6635264)

Data_Sheet_1_Decline of Orientation and Direction Sensitivity in the Aging Population.docx by Lin Xia (317748)

“…In the orientation task, the threshold of the discrimination angle and bias (i.e., the difference between the perceived midpoint from the logistic function and the reference point) was increased, while the lapsing rate (i.e., 1—the maximum logistic function) did not significantly change in the old group compared with the young group. …”

Cancer mutation signature can be reproducibly detected in blood in patients with stage II or III breast cancer. by Zhenbin Chen (259190)

“…</p><p>c: The number of positive signals appearing in the total number of MAP reactions per time point.</p><p>d: The expected average number of mutants per reaction is estimated using a formula (the frequency of zero mutants per reaction = e^−x, where x is the average number of mutants per reaction), assuming that: the mutant distributes in the reaction according to a Poisson distribution; if one or more mutants are in the reaction, the amplification is positive; and if zero mutants are in the reaction, it is negative.…”

Overview of the SEB model. by Joseph A. Heng (21175983)

“…However, these biases are reduced in the case of high capacity. The crossover point between under- and overestimation increases with the variance of the numerosity distribution. c) Illustration of the coefficient of variation (i.e., SD[]/E[]) for different capacities. …”

Data_Sheet_1_Decline of Orientation and Direction Sensitivity in the Aging Population.docx by Lin Xia (317748)

“…In the orientation task, the threshold of the discrimination angle and bias (i.e., the difference between the perceived midpoint from the logistic function and the reference point) was increased, while the lapsing rate (i.e., 1—the maximum logistic function) did not significantly change in the old group compared with the young group. …”

Influence of imaging parameters on light-induced perturbation during multiphoton imaging of <i>Drosophila</i> embryos at 1.18 <i>µ</i>m. by Delphine Débarre (613244)

“…(E,F) Influence of the pulse duration on development photoperturbation. …”

Diversity portraits. by Hans-Rolf Gregorius (711517)

“…Bottom: Four diversity portraits based on the above difference matrix showing Rényi diversity of different orders <i>a</i> as functions of difference level. In all cases, the diversity function shows a stepwise decrease as the difference level increases (see [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115312#pone.0115312.ref017" target="_blank">17</a>]).…”

<i>NEK8</i> mutations prevent ANKS6 localization at the INVS compartment and interaction in patient fibroblasts and shNEK8 mIMCD3 cells. by Valentina Grampa (3181188)

“…<p>(A) Serum-starved fibroblasts from control (CTRL) and affected individual II.1 of families 1 and 5 (PT1 and PT5) were stained for ANKS6 (red) and acetylated α-tubulin (green). …”

Comparisons of <i>Mycosphaerella graminicola</i> genome assembly versions 1 and 2 against that of <i>Stagonospora nodorum</i> isolate SN15. by Stephen B. Goodwin (114865)

“…For example, <i>M. graminicola</i> v2 chromosomes 6 and 16 (B, circle IV) and 12 and 21 (B, circle V) were derived from split version 1 scaffolds 4 (A, circle IV) and 9 (A, circle V), respectively. …”