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Endotoxin increases adrenomedullin expression in heart, lung and mesenteric artery

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Ageing and adrenomedullin in the male reproductive system of the rat

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Increased adrenomedullin expression in the heart, the lung and the mesenteric artery by endotoxin

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Ageing and adrenomedullin in the female reproductive system of the rat

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Adrenomedullin suppresses migration inhibitory factor production and cytokine response of rat macrophages to lipopolysaccharide

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Time-dependent trapping of pollinators driven by the alignment of floral phenology with insect circadian rhythms

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Video Saliency Detection Using Object Proposals

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to identify salient object regions in videos via object proposals. The core idea is to solve the saliency detection problem by ranking and selecting the salient proposals based on object-level saliency cues. Object proposals offer a more complete and high-level representation, which naturally caters to the needs of salient object detection. As well as introducing this novel solution for video salient object detection, we reorganize various discriminative saliency cues and traditional saliency assumptions on object proposals. With object candidates, a proposal ranking and voting scheme, based on various object-level saliency cues, is designed to screen out nonsalient parts, select salient object regions, and to infer an initial saliency estimate. Then a saliency optimization process that considers temporal consistency and appearance differences between salient and nonsalient regions is used to refine the initial saliency estimates. Our experiments on public datasets (SegTrackV2, Freiburg-Berkeley Motion Segmentation Dataset, and Densely Annotated Video Segmentation) validate the effectiveness, and the proposed method produces significant improvements over state-of-the-art algorithms

Tissue kallikrein mediates pro-inflammatory pathways and activation of protease-activated receptor-4 in proximal tubular epithelial cells.

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In the context of the triple burden of malnutrition: A systematic review of gene-diet interactions and nutritional status

Genetic background interacts with dietary components to modulate nutritional health status. This study aimed to review the evidence for gene-diet interactions in all forms of malnutrition. A comprehensive systematic literature search was conducted through April 2021 to identify observational and intervention studies reporting the effects of gene-diet interactions in over-nutrition, under-nutrition and micronutrient status. Risk of publication bias was assessed using the Quality Criteria Checklist and a tool specifically designed for gene-diet interaction research. 167 studies from 27 populations were included. The majority of studies investigated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in overnutrition (n = 158). Diets rich in whole grains, vegetables, fruits and low in total and saturated fats, such as Mediterranean and DASH diets, showed promising effects for reducing obesity risk among individuals who had higher genetic risk scores for obesity, particularly the risk alleles carriers of FTO rs9939609, rs1121980 and rs1421085. Other SNPs in MC4R, PPARG and APOA5 genes were also commonly studied for interaction with diet on overnutrition though findings were inconclusive. Only limited data were found related to undernutrition (n = 1) and micronutrient status (n = 9). The findings on gene-diet interactions in this review highlight the importance of personalized nutrition, and more research on undernutrition and micronutrient status is warranted