Bacterial culture
The wild-type virulent strain B. abortus 2308 and a previously described isogenic mutant strain, ΔvirB221, were grown on TSA plates (Becton-Dickson, USA) for 4 days at 37 °C and 5% CO2. The selected colonies were resuspended…
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Facial features associated with fear and happiness attract gaze during brief exposure without enhancing emotion recognition
Methods
Transparency and openness
For this and the subsequent experiment, we describe how sample size was determined, we report all data exclusions, all manipulations, and all measures in the study, and we follow the APA Style Journal Article…
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Association between retinal vascular fractal dimension and hearing loss: a cross-sectional study
Principal findings
This cross-sectional study found a significant association between FD and HL in a health checkup population. Our results indicate that higher FDa, FDv, and total FD values were associated with better hearing acuity, as reflected…
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Assessing the impact of the eco-environmental damage compensation system
Test on policy effectiveness
Benchmark findings
Table 2 Main results on the effects of the EDCS reports the results of the benchmark model regression controlling for individual effect, time-fixed effect, and province effect (Province × Year)…
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Hierarchically ordered porous transition metal compounds from one-pot type 3D printing approaches
3D printed BCP SA-directed porous transition metal compounds
We first selected amphiphilic Pluronics-family PEO-b-PPO-b-PEO ABA-type BCP F127 as the structure-directing agent for an inorganic niobia sol (Fig. 1). Directly writing the F127-niobia…
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Contact morphology of sand particles in dunes
Benchmark tests
Here, we present a comparison between traditional and advanced watershed segmentation methods to identify individual grains. The preliminary step for segmentation is image filtering. Raw grayscale images often contain noise and…
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Single cell multiomics approach to analyze replication timing and gene expression in mouse preimplantation embryos
Replication timing was established at the zygote (1-cell) stage and was further defined as embryonic development progresses to 2-cell and 4-cell stages
Single cell RT was analyzed for early preimplantation mouse embryos at zygote/1-cell, 2-cell,…
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Predictive modeling of asthma drug properties using machine learning and topological indices in a MATLAB based QSPR study
Ong, K. Y. Whats new in the Global Initiative for Asthma 2018 report and beyond. Allergo J. Int. 28, 63–72 (2019).
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Mims, J. W. (2015). Asthma: definitions and…
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FGF15/FGFR4 signaling suppresses M1 macrophage polarization and multi-organ inflammation in septic mice by inhibiting H3K18 lactylation-driven Irf7 expression through NF2-Hippo activation
Animals
Male C57BL/6 mice (7–8-week old, weighing 18–22 g) were purchased from Hunan Slake Jingda Experimental Animal Co., Ltd. (Changsha, China). The animals were acclimated for one week in a specific pathogen-free (SPF) environment,…
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Dynamic cerebral autoregulation during and 3 months after endovascular treatment in large vessel occlusion stroke
Baseline characteristics
Baseline information and medical history of all enrolled subjects and grouped into subjects with and without in-person 90-day FU are listed in Table 1 and Supplementary Table S5. No differences between the FU and non-FU…
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