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Cadmium-induced endothelial dysfunction mediated by asymmetric dimethylarginine.
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
Cadmium (Cd) is a naturally occurring toxic heavy metal with no known essential biological functions. Exposure to Cd increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by disrupting vascular homeostasis at the endothelium. The ...
Yemen: Unsettled Media for an Unsettled Country
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Open Book Publishers
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Throughout history, successive governments in Yemen have realized the importance of the media. Consequently, they have tightened the grip on the media by imposing a monopoly on ownership and by selecting editors-in-chief ...
Application of yeasts and yeast derivatives for the biological control of toxigenic fungi and their toxic metabolites
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Mycotoxins, the metabolites of toxigenic fungi are important contaminants of food and agriculture industry throughout the world. Among the different strategies to minimize the mycotoxins synthesis and decontamination of ...
Effect of flow-induced shear stress in nanomaterial uptake by cells: Focus on targeted anti-cancer therapy
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MDPI
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Recently, nanomedicines have gained a great deal of attention in diverse biomedical applications, including anti-cancer therapy. Being different from normal tissue, ...
Modulation of Plant Defense System in Response to Microbial Interactions
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Frontiers Media
, 2020 , Article)
© Copyright © 2020 Nishad, Ahmed, Rahman and Kareem. At different stages throughout their life cycle, plants often encounter several pathogenic microbes that challenge plant growth and development. The sophisticated innate ...
Environmental impact of utilization of “produced water” from oil and gas operations in turfgrass systems
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Nature Research
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020, The Author(s). This study attempted to use produced water (PW) to irrigate turfgrass species, Cynodon dactylon and Paspalum sp. Assessment on established grasses, heavy metal accumulation and germination tests for ...
Production of flexible nanocomposite membranes for x-ray detectors
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Flexible membranes of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) polymer and CuO nanoparticles for x-ray detection applications are reported in this work. PVA represents a polymer matrix for nanoparticles, and its flexibility and electrical ...
First principle investigation of H2Se, H2Te and PH3 sensing based on graphene oxide
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Detecting toxic gases is of great importance to protect our health and preserve the quality of life. In this work, graphene (G) and graphene oxide with three different modifications (G–O, G–OH, and G–O–OH) have been used ...
DFT investigation of H2S adsorption on graphenenanosheets and nanoribbons: Comparative study
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Graphenenanosheet (GNS), armchair graphenenanoribbon (AGNR), and zigzag graphenenanoribbon (ZGNR) systems were investigated by first principle calculations using the density functional theory (DFT). The DFT calculations ...
خطاب الصدمة : الصيغة والتحول أثر الفراشة للشاعر محمود درويش نموذجاً
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عمادة البحث العلمي والدراسات العليا - جامعة اليرموك
, 2020 , Article)
يهدف هذا البحث إلى اختبار فرضية تحقق ما يعرف بخطاب الصّدمة في الشعر الفلسطيني، من منطلق أن آداب الصّدمة تتقاطع مع آداب الكولونيالية. ومن هنا تكمن أهمية هذا البحث الذي يتغيّا تفعيل مقاربة نقديّة تتأسس على تجربة الشاعر ...