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    Comparative analyses of the in vivo induction and transmission of α-synuclein...

    Abstract α-synuclein (αS) is the major component of several types of brain pathological inclusions that define neurodegenerative diseases termed synucleinopathies. Central...
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    Comprehensive analysis of LDHAP5 pseudogene expression and potential pathogen...

    Abstract Background We aimed to identify differentially expressed pseudogenes and explore their potential functions in four types of common gynecological malignancies (e.g.,...
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    Human-like NSG mouse glycoproteins sialylation pattern changes the phenotype ...

    Abstract Background The use of immunodeficient mice transplanted with human hematopoietic stem cells is an accepted approach to study human-specific infectious diseases such as...
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    Horizontal gene transfer is not a hallmark of the human genome

    Abstract Crisp et al. recently reported that 145 human genes have been horizontally transferred from distant species. Here, I re-analyze those genes listed by Crisp et al. as...
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    Oxygen transfer rate identifies priming compounds in parsley cells

    Abstract Background In modern agriculture, the call for an alternative crop protection strategy increases because of the desired reduction of fungicide and pesticide use and the...
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    Statistics of Primes (and Probably Twin Primes) Satisfy Taylor's Law from Eco...

    Taylor's law, which originated in ecology, states that, in sets of measurements of population density, the sample variance is approximately proportional to a power of the sample...
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    Optimal design for universal multiport interferometers

    Universal multiport interferometers, which can be programmed to implement any linear transformation between multiple channels, are emerging as a powerful tool for both classical...
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    One-pot synthesis of chromeno[2,3-<i>b</i>]isoindolo[1,2-<i>e</i>]pyrrole-12,...

    Stirring an equimolar mixture of ninhydrin 1 and 2-aminochromen-4-ones 2 in CH3COOH at room temperature produced...
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    Genome-wide RNA pol II initiation and pausing in neural progenitors of the rat

    Abstract Background Global RNA sequencing technologies have revealed widespread RNA polymerase II (Pol II) transcription outside of gene promoters. Small 5â ˛-capped RNA...
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    Legal assessment tool (LAT): an interactive tool to address privacy and data ...

    Abstract Background In an unprecedented rate data in the life sciences is generated and stored in many different databases. An ever increasing part of this data is human health...
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    The role of protein-protein interactions mediated by the PB1 domain of NLP tr...

    Abstract Background NIN-LIKE PROTEIN (NLP) transcription factors are master regulators of nitrate-inducible gene expression in higher plants. NLP transcription factors contain a...
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    One-way surface magnetoplasmon cavity and its application for nonreciprocal d...

    We theoretically analyze surface magnetoplasmon modes in a compact circular cavity made of magneto-optical material under a static magnetic field. Such a cavity provides two...
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    Using ecological socioeconomic position (SEP) measures to deal with sample bi...

    Abstract Background When studying the influence of socioeconomic position (SEP) on health from data where individual-level SEP measures may be missing, ecological measures of...
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    Promoter expression of HERV-K (HML-2) provirus-derived sequences is related t...

    Abstract Background Increased transcription of the human endogenous retrovirus group HERV-K (HML-2) is often seen during disease. Although the mechanism of its tissue-specific...
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    Murine versus human apolipoprotein E4: differential facilitation of and co-lo...

    Abstract Introduction Amyloid β (Aβ) accumulates in the extracellular space as diffuse and neuritic plaques in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Aβ also deposits on the walls of...
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    Therapeutic efficacy of artesunate–amodiaquine and artemether–lumefantrine co...

    Abstract Background Routine surveillance on the therapeutic efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has been ongoing in Ghana since 2005. The sixth round of...
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    Umbilical cord as a long-term source of activatable mesenchymal stromal cells...

    Abstract Background Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are used in over 800 clinical trials mainly due to their immune inhibitory activity. Umbilical cord (UC), the second leading...
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    A self-marker-like protein governs hemocyte allorecognition in Halocynthia ro...

    Abstract Background Self-incompatibility, fusion/non-fusion reactions, and contact reactions (CRs) have all been identified as allorecognition phenomena in ascidians. CR is a...