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Essential Role of Sperm-Specific PLC-Zeta in Egg Activation and Male Factor Infertility: An Update.
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Frontiers Media
, 2020 , Article Review)
Sperm-specific phospholipase C zeta (PLCζ) is widely considered to be the physiological stimulus responsible for generating calcium (Ca) oscillations that induce egg activation and early embryonic development during mammalian ...
Autosomal Recessive Primary Microcephaly: Not Just a Small Brain
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Frontiers Media
, 2022 , Article Review)
Microcephaly or reduced head circumference results from a multitude of abnormal developmental processes affecting brain growth and/or leading to brain atrophy. Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH) is the prototype ...
Software security management in critical infrastructures: a systematic literature review
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Turkiye Klinikleri
, 2022 , Article Review)
Critical infrastructure (CI) is an integrated set of systems and assets that are essential to ensure the functioning of a nation, including its economy, the public's health and/or safety. Hence, protecting critical ...
Review on recent progress in chitosan/chitin-carbonaceous material composites for the adsorption of water pollutants
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2020 , Article Review)
Chitosan and chitin are categorized as low cost, renewable and eco-friendly biopolymers. However, they have low mechanical properties and unfavorable pore properties in terms of low surface area and total pore volume that ...
The Spectrum of Antibiotic Prescribing During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review
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Mary Ann Liebert
, 2021 , Article Review)
Objectives: Over the last decades, there has been a significant increase in antimicrobial prescribing and
consumption associated with the development of patients’ adverse events and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
to the ...
Information, Thermodynamics and Life: A Narrative Review
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article Review)
Information is probably one of the most difficult physical quantities to comprehend. This applies not only to the very definition of information, but also to the physical entity of information, meaning how can it be ...
Biorefinery perspectives of microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) for hydrogen and valuable chemicals production through wastewater treatment
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Green Wave Publishing of Canada
, 2020 , Article Review)
The degradation of waste organics through microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) generates hydrogen (H2) gas in an economically efficient way. MEC is known as the advanced concept of the microbial fuel cell (MFC) but requires ...
Dicarbonyl stress, protein glycation and the unfolded protein response
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Springer
, 2021 , Article Review)
The reactive dicarbonyl metabolite, methylglyoxal (MG), is increased in obesity and diabetes and is implicated in the development of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus and vascular complications of diabetes. ...
A review on fractional order (FO) controllers' optimization for load frequency stabilization in power networks
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article Review)
Keeping generation and demand balance is a fundamental requirement in power networks. It maintains frequency of the system within permissible limits. For microgrids, this balance is important to keep tie-line power below ...
Warfarin dosing strategies evolution and its progress in the era of precision medicine, a narrative review
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Springer
, 2022 , Article Review)
Background For decades, vitamin K antagonists and specifically warfarin, have been the sole agents used orally to manage thromboembolic conditions, including stroke and venous thromboembolism (VTE). Several factors lead ...