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Dominik Pfister, Nicolás Gonzalo Núñez, Roser Pinyol et al. · 2021 · Nature
Abstract Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can have viral or non-viral causes 1–5 . Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an important driver of HCC. Immunotherapy has been approved for treating HCC, but biomarker-based stratification of patients for optimal response to therapy is an unmet need 6,7 . Here we report the progressive accumulation of exhausted, unconventionally activated CD8 + PD1 + T cells in NASH-affected livers. In preclinical models of NASH-induced HCC, therapeutic immunotherapy targeted at programmed death-1 (PD1) expanded activated CD8 + PD1 + T cells within tumours but did n
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Victor Shih, Christopher Adolph, Mingxing Liu · 2012 · American Political Science Review
Spectacular economic growth in China suggests the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has somehow gotten it right. A key hypothesis in both economics and political science is that the CCP's cadre evaluation system, combined with China's…
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C. Warren Olanow, Raymond T. Bartus, Tiffany Baumann et al. · 2015 · Annals of Neurology
OBJECTIVE: A 12-month double-blind sham-surgery-controlled trial assessing adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2)-neurturin injected into the putamen bilaterally failed to meet its primary endpoint, but showed positive results for the…
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Raymond T. Bartus, Tiffany Baumann, João Siffert et al. · 2013 · Neurology
OBJECTIVE: In an effort to account for deficiencies in axonal transport that limit the effectiveness of neurotrophic factors, this study tested the safety and feasibility, in moderately advanced Parkinson disease (PD), of bilaterally…
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Eric Ubil, Laura S. Caskey, Alisha Holtzhausen et al. · 2018 · Journal of Clinical Investigation
Tyro3, Axl, Mer (TAM) receptor tyrosine kinases reduce inflammatory, innate immune responses. We demonstrate that tumor-secreted protein S (Pros1), a Mer/Tyro3 ligand, decreased macrophage M1 cytokine expression in vitro and in vivo. In…
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René F. Kizilcec, Justin Reich, Michael Yeomans et al. · 2020 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Online education is rapidly expanding in response to rising demand for higher and continuing education, but many online students struggle to achieve their educational goals. Several behavioral science interventions have shown promise in…
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Eric Lowet, Mark Roberts, Pietro Bonizzi et al. · 2016 · PLoS ONE
Synchronization or phase-locking between oscillating neuronal groups is considered to be important for coordination of information among cortical networks. Spectral coherence is a commonly used approach to quantify phase locking between neural signals. We systematically explored the validity of spectral coherence measures for quantifying synchronization among neural oscillators. To that aim, we simulated coupled oscillatory signals that exhibited synchronization dynamics using an abstract phase-oscillator model as well as interacting gamma-generating spiking neural networks. We found that, wit
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Tracy Hall, Min Zhang, David Bowes et al. · 2014 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
We investigate the relationship between faults and five of Fowler et al.'s least-studied smells in code: Data Clumps, Switch Statements, Speculative Generality, Message Chains, and Middle Man. We developed a tool to detect these five…
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Eric M Kenney, Brenden R Ortiz, Chennan Wang et al. · 2021 · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Abstract We have carried out muon spin relaxation and rotation measurements on the newly discovered kagome metal KV 3 Sb 5 , and find a local field dominated by weak magnetic disorder which we associate with the nuclear moments present,…
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Md Nadim Ferdous Hoque, Mengjin Yang, Zhen Li et al. · 2016 · ACS Energy Letters
Researchers have debated whether methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI 3 ), with a perovskite crystal structure, is ferroelectric and therefore contributes to the current–voltage hysteresis commonly observed in hybrid perovskite solar cells…
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Yaping Lin-Moshier, Michael V. Keebler, Robert Hooper et al. · 2014 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The two-pore channels (TPC1 and TPC2) belong to an ancient family of intracellular ion channels expressed in the endolysosomal system. Little is known about how regulatory inputs converge to modulate TPC activity, and proposed activation…
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Laura Evgin, Amanda L. Huff, Phonphimon Wongthida et al. · 2020 · Nature Communications
The application of adoptive T cell therapies, including those using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells, to solid tumors requires combinatorial strategies to overcome immune suppression associated with the tumor microenvironment. Here we test whether the inflammatory nature of oncolytic viruses and their ability to remodel the tumor microenvironment may help to recruit and potentiate the functionality of CAR T cells. Contrary to our hypothesis, VSVmIFNβ infection is associated with attrition of murine EGFRvIII CAR T cells in a B16EGFRvIII model, despite inducing a robust proinflam
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Gaëtan Ndo, Fabrice Labeau, Marthe Kassouf · 2013 · IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
Transmission over channels impaired by impulsive noise, such as in power substations, calls for peculiar mitigation techniques at the receiver side in order to cope with signal deterioration. For these techniques to be effective, a…
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Douglas C. Woodhams, CC Geiger, LK Reinert et al. · 2011 · Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
Amphibian conservation goals depend on effective disease-treatment protocols. Desirable protocols are species, life stage, and context specific, but currently few treatment options exist for amphibians infected with the chytrid fungus…
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Therésa M. Jones, Joanna Durrant, Ellie B. Michaelides et al. · 2015 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
The mechanisms underpinning the ecological impacts of the presence of artificial night lighting remain elusive. One suspected underlying cause is that the presence of light at night (LAN) supresses nocturnal production of melatonin, a key…
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Kaori Kuramitsu, Deanna Sverdlov, Susan B. Liu et al. · 2013 · American Journal Of Pathology
Failure of fibrotic liver to regenerate after resection limits therapeutic options and increases demand for liver transplantation, representing a significant clinical problem. The mechanism underlying regenerative failure in fibrosis is…
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Thomas R. Lerner, Cristiane de Souza Carvalho‐Wodarz, Urška Repnik et al. · 2016 · Journal of Clinical Investigation
In extrapulmonary tuberculosis, the most common site of infection is within the lymphatic system, and there is growing recognition that lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) are involved in immune function. Here, we identified LECs, which…
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Subhajit Ghosh, Jiayi Huang, Matthew Inkman et al. · 2023 · Science Translational Medicine
Severe and prolonged lymphopenia frequently occurs in patients with glioblastoma after standard chemoradiotherapy and has been associated with worse survival, but its underlying biological mechanism is not well understood. To address this,…
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Robert Steinmetz, David L. Garshelis, Wanlop Chutipong et al. · 2013 · Journal of Mammalogy
Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) and sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) are ecologically similar and coexist extensively across Southeast Asia. We used foraging signs identified to bear species to examine their food selection and…
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Tim B. Bigdeli, Stephan Ripke, Roseann E. Peterson et al. · 2017 · Translational Psychiatry
Abstract Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, complex psychiatric disorder and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Despite twin studies indicating its modest heritability (~30–40%), extensive heterogeneity and a complex genetic architecture have complicated efforts to detect associated genetic risk variants. We combined single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) summary statistics from the CONVERGE and PGC studies of MDD, representing 10 502 Chinese (5282 cases and 5220 controls) and 18 663 European (9447 cases and 9215 controls) subjects. We determined the fraction of SNPs displaying c
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Lori G. Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert et al. · 2013 · American Economic Review
We conducted an experiment providing fertilizer grants to female rice farmers in Mali. We found that women who received fertilizer used both more fertilizer and more complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor. This shows that…
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Lauren A. Wise, Edward Ruiz-Narváez, Julie R. Palmer et al. · 2012 · American Journal of Epidemiology
Rates of uterine leiomyomata (UL) are 2-3 times higher in African Americans than in European Americans. It is unclear whether inherited factors explain the ethnic disparity. To investigate the presence of risk alleles for UL that are…
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Tetsu K. Tokunaga, Jiamin Wan, Jongwon Jung et al. · 2013 · Water Resources Research
In geologic carbon sequestration, reliable predictions of CO 2 storage require understanding the capillary behavior of supercritical (sc) CO 2 . Given the limited availability of measurements of the capillary pressure ( P c ) dependence on…
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Xuhan Liu, Kai Ye, Herman van Vlijmen et al. · 2023 · Journal of Cheminformatics
Abstract Rational drug design often starts from specific scaffolds to which side chains/substituents are added or modified due to the large drug-like chemical space available to search for novel drug-like molecules. With the rapid growth of deep learning in drug discovery, a variety of effective approaches have been developed for de novo drug design. In previous work we proposed a method named DrugEx , which can be applied in polypharmacology based on multi-objective deep reinforcement learning. However, the previous version is trained under fixed objectives and does not allow users to input a
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Michael A. Castello, John D. Jeppson, Salvador Soriano · 2014 · BMC Neurology
BACKGROUND: High-profile Phase 3 clinical trials of bapineuzumab and solanezumab, antibodies targeted at amyloid-beta (Aβ) removal, have failed to meet their primary endpoints. Neither drug improves clinical outcomes in patients with late onset AD, joining a long list of unsuccessful attempts to treat AD with anti-amyloid therapies. DISCUSSION: These therapies are based on the assumption that Aβ accumulation is the primary pathogenic trigger of AD. Current evidence suggests that Aβ may actually accumulate as part of an adaptive response to long-term chronic brain stress stimuli that would make
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Mélanie Abécassis, Inna Senina, Patrick Lehodey et al. · 2013 · PLoS ONE
Habitat preferences for juvenile loggerhead turtles in the North Pacific were investigated with data from two several-year long tagging programs, using 224 satellite transmitters deployed on wild and captive-reared turtles. Animals ranged between 23 and 81 cm in straight carapace length. Tracks were used to investigate changes in temperature preferences and speed of the animals with size. Average sea surface temperatures along the tracks ranged from 18 to 23 °C. Bigger turtles generally experienced larger temperature ranges and were encountered in warmer surface waters. Seasonal differences be
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Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi et al. · 2015 · The Review of Economics and Statistics
Previous studies have demonstrated that a multitude of options can lead to choice overload, reducing decision quality. Through controlled experiments, we examine sequential choice architectures that enable the choice set to remain large…
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Alban de Lavenne, Vazken Andréassian, Guillaume Thirel et al. · 2019 · Water Resources Research
Abstract In semidistributed hydrological modeling, sequential calibration usually refers to the calibration of a model by considering not only the flows observed at the outlet of a catchment but also the different gauging points inside the…
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Darryl Falzarano, David Safronetz, Joseph Prescott et al. · 2015 · Emerging infectious diseases
The antimalarial drug chloroquine has been suggested as a treatment for Ebola virus infection. Chloroquine inhibited virus replication in vitro, but only at cytotoxic concentrations. In mouse and hamster models, treatment did not improve survival. Chloroquine is not a promising treatment for Ebola. Efforts should be directed toward other drug classes.
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Michael Devitt, Nicolas Porot · 2018 · Cognitive Science
Experiments on theories of reference have mostly tested referential intuitions. We think that experiments should rather be testing linguistic usage. Substantive Aim (I): to test classical description theories of proper names against usage…
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