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Cultivation of Green Algae Chlorella sp. in Different Wastewaters from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant by Wang, Liang, Min, Min, Li, Yecong, Chen, Paul, Chen, Yifeng, Liu, Yuhuan, Wang, Yingkuan, Ruan, Roger

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth of green algae Chlorella sp. on wastewaters sampled from four different points of the treatment process…”
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Inflammatory Neurodegeneration and Mechanisms of Microglial Killing of Neurons by Brown, Guy C, Neher, Jonas J

“…Inflammatory neurodegeneration contributes to a wide variety of brain pathologies. A number of mechanisms by which inflammatory-activated microglia and…”
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Multiple Drug Resistance Mechanisms in Cancer by Baguley, Bruce C

“…Multiple drug resistance (multidrug resistance; MDR), a phenomenon whereby human tumours that acquire resistance to one type of therapy are found to be…”
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Culture of Microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in Wastewater for Biomass Feedstock Production by Kong, Qing-xue, Li, Ling, Martinez, Blanca, Chen, Paul, Ruan, Roger

“…The objective of this research was to develop large-scale technologies to produce oil-rich algal biomass from wastewater. The experiments were conducted using…”
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Resveratrol as a Therapeutic Agent for Neurodegenerative Diseases by Sun, Albert Y, Wang, Qun, Simonyi, Agnes, Sun, Grace Y

“…Excess production of reactive oxygen species in the brain has been implicated as a common underlying risk factor for the pathogenesis of a number of…”
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Ligninolytic Fungal Laccases and Their Biotechnological Applications by Singh Arora, Daljit, Kumar Sharma, Rakesh

“…Lignin is amorphous in nature, lacks stereoregularity, and is not susceptible to hydrolytic attack. Despite its resistant nature, it is however degraded by…”
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Astrogliosis in CNS Pathologies: Is There A Role for Microglia by Zhang, Dan, Hu, Xiaoming, Qian, Li, O'Callaghan, James P, Hong, Jau-Shyong

“…Astrogliosis, a cellular reaction with specific structural and functional characteristics, represents a remarkably homotypic response of astrocytes to all…”
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Estrogen Receptors in Immunity and Autoimmunity by Cunningham, Melissa, Gilkeson, Gary

“…Due to the female predominance of autoimmune diseases, the role of gender and sex hormones in the immune system is of long-term interest. Estrogen's primary…”
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Phytochelatins: Peptides Involved in Heavy Metal Detoxification by Pal, Rama, Rai, J. P. N

“…Phytochelatins (PCs) are enzymatically synthesized peptides known to involve in heavy metal detoxification and accumulation, which have been measured in plants…”
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Immunogenicity of Anti-TNF-α Agents in Autoimmune Diseases by Emi Aikawa, Nádia, de Carvalho, Jozélio Freire, Artur Almeida Silva, Clovis, Bonfá, Eloísa

“…Prognosis of several autoimmune diseases, especially rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease (CD), and psoriasis, usually refractory…”
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Review of the Antioxidant Mechanisms of Polyphenol Compounds Related to Iron Binding by Perron, Nathan R, Brumaghim, Julia L

“…In this review, primary attention is given to the antioxidant (and prooxidant) activity of polyphenols arising from their interactions with iron both in vitro…”
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Structural Characterization and Comparison of Switchgrass Ball-milled Lignin Before and After Dilute Acid Pretreatment by Samuel, Reichel, Pu, Yunqiao, Raman, Babu, Ragauskas, Arthur J

“…To reduce the recalcitrance and enhance enzymatic activity, dilute H₂SO₄ pretreatment was carried out on Alamo switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). Ball-milled…”
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Reperfusion and Neurovascular Dysfunction in Stroke: from Basic Mechanisms to Potential Strategies for Neuroprotection by Jung, Joo Eun, Kim, Gab Seok, Chen, Hai, Maier, Carolina M, Narasimhan, Purnima, Song, Yun Seon, Niizuma, Kuniyasu, Katsu, Masataka, Okami, Nobuya, Yoshioka, Hideyuki, Sakata, Hiroyuki, Goeders, Christina E, Chan, Pak H

“…Effective stroke therapies require recanalization of occluded cerebral blood vessels. However, reperfusion can cause neurovascular injury, leading to cerebral…”
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Extraction and Characterization of Chitin, Chitosan, and Protein Hydrolysates Prepared from Shrimp Waste by Treatment with Crude Protease from Bacillus cereus SV1 by Manni, Laila, Ghorbel-Bellaaj, Olfa, Jellouli, Kemel, Younes, Islem, Nasri, Moncef

“…Chitin is a polysaccharide found in abundance in the shell of crustaceans. In this study, the protease from Bacillus cereus SV1 was applied for chitin…”
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Multifaceted Profile of Activated Microglia by Lynch, Marina A

“…Although relatively neglected previously, research efforts in the past decade or so have identified a pivotal role for glial cells in regulating neuronal…”
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Purinoceptors on Neuroglia by Verkhrasky, Alexei, Krishtal, Oleg A, Burnstock, Geoffrey

“…Purinergic transmission is one of the most ancient and widespread extracellular signalling systems. In the brain, purinergic signalling plays a unique role in…”
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Myelin Proteomics: Molecular Anatomy of an Insulating Sheath by Jahn, Olaf, Tenzer, Stefan, Werner, Hauke B

“…Fast-transmitting vertebrate axons are electrically insulated with multiple layers of nonconductive plasma membrane of glial cell origin, termed myelin. The…”
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Metamorphosis of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research: from Delayed Vasospasm to Early Brain Injury by Sehba, Fatima A, Pluta, Ryszard M, Zhang, John H

“…Delayed vasospasm that develops 3-7 days after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has traditionally been considered the most important determinant of…”
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Convenient Gram-Scale Metabolite Synthesis by Engineered Fission Yeast Strains Expressing Functional Human P450 Systems by Drăgan, Călin-Aurel, Peters, Frank T, Bour, Pierre, Schwaninger, Andrea E, Schaan, Stefanie M, Neunzig, Ina, Widjaja, Maria, Zapp, Josef, Kraemer, Thomas, Maurer, Hans H, Bureik, Matthias

“…The growing need for the characterization of cytochrome P450 (P450) metabolites often necessitates their synthesis up to Gram-scale. This task may in principle…”
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Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Common Final Pathway in Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease—Therapeutic Aspects by Müller, Walter E, Eckert, Anne, Kurz, Christopher, Eckert, Gunter Peter, Leuner, Kristina

“…As a fully differentiated organ, our brain is very sensitive to cumulative oxidative damage of proteins, lipids, and DNA occurring during normal aging because…”
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