Duguetia confinis Engl. & Diels (Annonaceae) inhibitory and cytotoxic effects on breast adenocarcinoma growth both in vitro and in vivo by Ornella Bernie Kami Nkuimi, Kevine Kamga Silihe, Yves Omgba Tabi, Judith Christiane Ngo Pambe, Dieudonné Njamen, Stéphane Zingue

“…Plants continue to offer encouraging leads, in particular those of the Annonaceae family, to which belongs Duguetia confinis, used by Cameroonian traditional healers to fight cancers. This study was aimed at investigating the effect of Duguetia confinis against human breast cancer cells. …”
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Biodegradation of polylactic acid-based bio composites reinforced with chitosan and essential oils as anti-microbial material for food packaging by Teuku, Rihayat, Agung Efriyo, Hadi, Nurhanifa, Aidy, Aida, Safitri, Siregar, J. P., Cionita, Tezara, Agustinus Purna, Irawan, Mohammad Hazim, Mohamad Hamdan, Deni Fajar, Fitriyana

“…Chitosan is a non-toxic and antibacterial cationic polysaccharide that needs to be improved in its ability to fight microbes. TEO must be added to increase antibacterial properties due to a large number of hydroxyl (-OH) and carbonyl functional groups. …”
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Covid-19 Mortality: A Matter of Vulnerability Among Nations Facing Limited Margins of Adaptation by Quentin De Larochelambert, Andy Marc, Juliana Antero, Eric Le Bourg, Jean-François Toussaint, Jean-François Toussaint

“…Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate.Conclusion: Countries that already experienced a stagnation or regression of life expectancy, with high income and NCD rates, had the highest price to pay. …”
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Human BBB-on-a-chip reveals barrier disruption, endothelial inflammation, and T cell migration under neuroinflammatory conditions by Arya Lekshmi Nair, Arya Lekshmi Nair, Linda Groenendijk, Roos Overdevest, Tania M. Fowke, Rumaisha Annida, Orsola Mocellin, Helga E. de Vries, Nienke R. Wevers

“…In conclusion, we demonstrate a high-throughput microfluidic model of the human BBB that can be used to model neuroinflammation and assess anti-inflammatory and barrier-restoring interventions to fight neurological disorders.…”
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Substratum interactions determine immune response to allogeneic transplants of endothelial cells by Elise C. Wilcox, Elazer R. Edelman, Elazer R. Edelman

“…Changes in endothelial state enable immune cells to migrate into the tissue to facilitate repair and fight infection. ECs modulate the function of immune cells through the expression of adhesion molecules, chemokines, major histocompatibility complex (MHC), and an array of co-stimulatory and inhibitor molecules. …”
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Flt1 produced by lung endothelial cells impairs ATII cell transdifferentiation and repair in pulmonary fibrosis by Maria Concetta Volpe, Giulio Ciucci, Giulia Zandomenego, Roman Vuerich, Nadja Anneliese Ruth Ring, Simone Vodret, Francesco Salton, Pietro Marchesan, Luca Braga, Thomas Marcuzzo, Rossana Bussani, Andrea Colliva, Silvano Piazza, Marco Confalonieri, Serena Zacchigna

“…Collectively, these data indicate the existence of a complex endothelial-epithelial paracrine crosstalk in vitro and in vivo and position lung endothelial cells as a relevant therapeutic target in the fight against pulmonary fibrosis.…”
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Developing Beach Litter Monitoring System Based on Reflectance Characteristics and its Abundance by I Made Oka Guna Antara, I Wayan Nuarsa, I Made Sudarma, I Gede Hendrawan, Muhammad Reza Cordova

“…Addressing the knowledge gap is critical for establishing successful solutions to fight that problem. In recent years, a variety of remote sensing techniques have been used to better understand litter abundance, distribution patterns, and dynamics in marine and coastal ecosystems. …”
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Preparation, characterization and antimicrobial analyses of chitosan and starch mediated copper nanoparticles by Usman, Muhammad Sani

“…The nanoparticles concept can serve as positive step in the fight against pathogenic microorganisms.…”
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Automated Impact Damage Detection Technique for Composites Based on Thermographic Image Processing and Machine Learning Classification by Muflih Alhammad, Nicolas P. Avdelidis, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo, Muhammet E. Torbali, Marc Genest, Hai Zhang, Argyrios Zolotas, Xavier P. V. Maldgue

“…Composite material diagnostics is a promising area in the fight against structural damage in aircraft and spaceships. …”
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The In Vitro Inhibitory Effect of Sivelestat on Elastase Induced Collagen and Metallopeptidase Expression in Equine Endometrium by Ana Amaral, Carina Fernandes, Maria Rosa Rebordão, Anna Szóstek-Mioduchowska, Karolina Lukasik, Barbara Gawronska-Kozak, Luís Telo da Gama, Dariusz J. Skarzynski, Graça Ferreira-Dias

“…Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) fight endometritis, and elastase (ELA), a protease found in NETs, might induce collagen type I (COL1) accumulation in equine endometrium. …”
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Targeting Adenosine Signalling in Knee Chondropathy: The Combined Action of Polydeoxyribonucleotide and Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields: A Current Concept Review by Lorenzo Moretti, Davide Bizzoca, Alessandro Geronimo, Andrea Michele Abbaticchio, Francesco Luca Moretti, Arianna Carlet, Francesco Fischetti, Biagio Moretti

“…These are presented as an extra weapon in the fight against knee chondropathy.…”
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Modification of Dispersin B with Cyclodextrin-Ciprofloxacin Derivatives for Treating Staphylococcal by Jinan Abdelkader, Magbool Alelyani, Yazeed Alashban, Sami A. Alghamdi, Youssef Bakkour

“…To address the high tolerance of biofilms to antibiotics, it is urgent to develop new strategies to fight against these bacterial consortia. An innovative antibiofilm nanovector drug delivery system, consisting of Dispersin B-permethylated-β-cyclodextrin/ciprofloxacin adamantyl (DspB-β-CD/CIP-Ad), is described here. …”
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Biodegradation of Polylactic Acid-Based Bio Composites Reinforced with Chitosan and Essential Oils as Anti-Microbial Material for Food Packaging by Teuku Rihayat, Agung Efriyo Hadi, Nurhanifa Aidy, Aida Safitri, Januar Parlaungan Siregar, Tezara Cionita, Agustinus Purna Irawan, Mohammad Hazim Mohamad Hamdan, Deni Fajar Fitriyana

“…Chitosan is a non-toxic and antibacterial cationic polysaccharide that needs to be improved in its ability to fight microbes. TEO must be added to increase antibacterial properties due to a large number of hydroxyl (-OH) and carbonyl functional groups. …”
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Three-Dimensional Bioprinting of an In Vitro Lung Model by Nádia Nascimento da Rosa, Julia Maurer Appel, Ana Carolina Irioda, Bassam Felipe Mogharbel, Nathalia Barth de Oliveira, Maiara Carolina Perussolo, Priscila Elias Ferreira Stricker, Lívia Rosa-Fernandes, Cláudio Romero Farias Marinho, Katherine Athayde Teixeira de Carvalho

“…Within this context, there is a significant search for new drugs to fight the disease and a need for in vitro models for preclinical drug tests. …”
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Detection of Frozen–Thawed Duck Fatty Liver by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry: A Chemometrics Study by Laurent Aubry, Thierry Sayd, Claude Ferreira, Christophe Chambon, Annie Vénien, Sylvie Blinet, Marie Bourin, Angélique Travel, Maeva Halgrain, Véronique Santé-Lhoutellier, Laetitia Théron

“…For this, the spectral fingerprint of liver proteins was acquired using Matrix-Assisted Laser Dissociation Ionization-Time-Of-Flight mass spectrometry. …”
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Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms regulating stress-induced neutrophil redistribution in fish by Katarzyna Klak, Katarzyna Klak, Magdalena Maciuszek, Lukasz Pijanowski, Magdalena Marcinkowska, Magdalena Marcinkowska, Joanna Homa, B. M. Lidy Verburg-van Kemenade, Krzysztof Rakus, Magdalena Chadzinska

“…Stress however also may prepare the immune system for challenges such as wounding or infection, which are likely to happen during a fight or flight stress response.MethodsIn common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) we studied the stress-induced redistribution of neutrophils into circulation, and the expression of genes encoding CXC chemokines known to be involved in the regulation of neutrophil retention (CXCL12) and redistribution (CXCL8), and their receptors (CXCR4 and CXCR1-2, respectively) in blood leukocytes and in the fish hematopoietic organ – the head kidney. …”
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis among Brazilian men who have sex with men: a comparative study between migrants and non-migrants by Álvaro Francisco Lopes Sousa, Álvaro Francisco Lopes Sousa, Shirley Verônica Melo Almeida Lima, Shirley Verônica Melo Almeida Lima, Caíque Jordan Nunes Ribeiro, Anderson Reis de Sousa, Emerson Lucas Silva Camargo, Layze Braz de Oliveira, João Cruz Neto, Inês Fronteira, Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes

“…IntroductionInvestigating the use and adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in MSM is a global health priority in the fight against HIV. Strategies must be capable of increasing usage and reaching not only the population living in the country but also those who immigrate, who face additional vulnerabilities. …”
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Omics Studies of Tumor Cells under Microgravity Conditions by Jenny Graf, Herbert Schulz, Markus Wehland, Thomas J. Corydon, Jayashree Sahana, Fatima Abdelfattah, Simon L. Wuest, Marcel Egli, Marcus Krüger, Armin Kraus, Petra M. Wise, Manfred Infanger, Daniela Grimm

“…This novel approach has the potential to fight cancer and to develop future cancer strategies. …”
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Sotaques e sintaxes: acentuando o falar caboclo nas religiões afro-brasileiras by Mauricio dos Santos, Thiago de Azevedo Pinheiro Hoshino

“…Considered a dispute, not a fight, a sotaque generally dramatizes conflicts in an allegorical way, opening up possibilities for performing, innovating, versifying, providing contexts for building on traditional texts. …”
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Use of aqueous compositions of polyacrylamide with zinc and copper cations as a possible way to reduce the risks of microbial contamination in objects in the hospital environment by M.V. Kuznetsova, E.V. Afanasievskaya, N.V. Nikolaeva, E.S. Gorovitz, A.S. Averkina, I.N. Feklistova, V.A. Valtsifer

“…Covering abiotic surfaces with a thin polymer film can be a promising way to fight against microbial adhesion and colonization. …”
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