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Polymers (Basel)
December 2024
Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1/3, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
Macrophage (Mph) polarization and functional activity play an important role in the development of inflammatory lung conditions. The previously widely used bimodal classification of Mph into M1 and M2 does not adequately reflect the full range of changes in polarization and functional diversity observed in Mph in response to various stimuli and disease states. Here, we have developed a model for the direct assessment of Mph from bronchial alveolar lavage fluid (BALF) functional alterations, in terms of phagocytosis activity, depending on external stimuli, such as exposure to a range of bacteria (, and ).
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January 2025
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Form-function relationships often have tradeoffs: if a material is tough, it is often inflexible, and vice versa. This is particularly relevant for the elephant trunk, where the skin should be protective yet elastic. To investigate how this is achieved, we used classical histochemical staining and second harmonic generation microscopy to describe the morphology and composition of elephant trunk skin.
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January 2025
Center for Lasers and Applications, Energy and Nuclear Research Institute (IPEN-CNEN), Av. Lineu Prestes, 2242, São Paulo, Brazil.
Purpose: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) accounts for 20% of all breast cancer cases and is notably resistant to radiotherapy (RT). Photodynamic therapy (PDT) using porphyrins or their derivatives has shown promise as a potential cancer treatment and immune activator. This study evaluated the effects of combining PDT and RT in sublethal conditions for TNBC using in vitro and in vivo models.
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December 2024
Laboratory of Ecophysiology and Molecular Evolution, Brazilian National Institute for Research of the Amazon (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.
The pirarucu is one of the very few obligate air-breathing fish, employing a gigantic, highly vascularized air-breathing organ (ABO). Traditionally, the ABO is thought to serve mainly for O uptake (ṀO), with the gills providing the major route for excretion of CO (ṀCO) and N-waste. However, under aquatic hypercapnia, a common occurrence in its natural environment, branchial ṀCO to the water may become impaired.
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November 2024
Department of Radiology, Yan an Hospital of Kunming City (Yanan Hospital Affiliated to Kunming Medical University), 245 Renmin East Road, Kunming, Yunnan, China. Electronic address:
Background: Leveraging the radiomics information from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) primary lesion and brain metastasis (BM) to develop and validate a bimodal radiomics nomogram that can accurately predict epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) status.
Methods: A total of 309 NSCLC patients with BM from three independent centers were recruited. Among them, the patients of Center I were randomly allocated into the training and internal test cohorts in a 7:3 ratio.
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