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Assessment of growth factors, cytokines, and cellular markers in saliva of patients with trigeminal neuralgia
Full text linkWe proposed to perform a comparative analysis of growth factors, cytokines, and chemokine receptors on the salivary cells in the saliva obtained from trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and normal subjects. Saliva was collected from TN and healthy subjects. Salivary cells were isolated by centrifugation. The expression of the cell surface marker was analyzed by flow cytometry. A cytometric bead array was done to measure the levels of cytokines and growth factors on the flow cytometer. Saliva from TN subjects showed lower growth factor levels of Angiopoietin-2, bFGF, HGF, SCF, TGF-α, and VEGF and higher cytokine levels of IL-1β, TNF-α, CCL2, IL-17A, IL-6, and CXCL8, as well as higher expression levels of chemokine receptors CCR1 (CD191), CR3 (CD11b), CCR2 (CD192), CXCR5 (CD185), and CCR5 (CD196) in the cells from TN saliva. A certain set of cytokines and growth factors in the saliva, as well as chemokine receptors on salivary cells, could be a useful tool in the diagnostics and prognostics of trigeminal neuralgia. Trigeminal neuralgia is one of the significant pathological conditions in the class of chronic diseases around the world. Many targeted approaches are being tried by various research groups to utilize the information of the inflammatory microenvironment to resolve the pathology of chronic TN
The Importance Of Artificial Wetlands In The Conservation Of Wetland Birds And The Impact Of Land Use Attributes Around The Wetlands: A Study From The Ajara Conservation Reserve, Western Ghats, India
No full textPatil, S., Choudaj, K. (2023): The Importance Of Artificial Wetlands In The Conservation Of Wetland Birds And The Impact Of Land Use Attributes Around The Wetlands: A Study From The Ajara Conservation Reserve, Western Ghats, India. Zoodiversity 57 (1): 41-50, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2023.01.041, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2023.01.04
Fig. 1 in The Importance Of Artificial Wetlands In The Conservation Of Wetland Birds And The Impact Of Land Use Attributes Around The Wetlands: A Study From The Ajara Conservation Reserve, Western Ghats, India
No full textFig. 1. Map of study sites: A — Gavase wetland, B — Dhangarmola wetland, C — Khanapur wetland, D — Erandol wetland, E — Ningudage wetland. Adopted from Patil & Choudaj (2022).Published as part of Patil, S. & Choudaj, K., 2023, The Importance Of Artificial Wetlands In The Conservation Of Wetland Birds And The Impact Of Land Use Attributes Around The Wetlands: A Study From The Ajara Conservation Reserve, Western Ghats, India, pp. 41-50 in Zoodiversity 57 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2023.01.041, http://zenodo.org/record/784127
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Fig. 2 in The Importance Of Artificial Wetlands In The Conservation Of Wetland Birds And The Impact Of Land Use Attributes Around The Wetlands: A Study From The Ajara Conservation Reserve, Western Ghats, India
No full textFig. 2. Total number of wetland and wetland associated birds recorded at five artificial wetlands during 2011– 2015: A —Gavase wetland; B — Dhangarmola wetland; C — Khanapur wetland; D — Erandol wetland; E — Ningudage wetland.Published as part of Patil, S. & Choudaj, K., 2023, The Importance Of Artificial Wetlands In The Conservation Of Wetland Birds And The Impact Of Land Use Attributes Around The Wetlands: A Study From The Ajara Conservation Reserve, Western Ghats, India, pp. 41-50 in Zoodiversity 57 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2023.01.041, http://zenodo.org/record/784127
Fig. 3 in The Importance Of Artificial Wetlands In The Conservation Of Wetland Birds And The Impact Of Land Use Attributes Around The Wetlands: A Study From The Ajara Conservation Reserve, Western Ghats, India
No full textFig. 3. Classification of wetland birds based on feeding guild recorded at five artificial wetlands during 2011– 2015: A — Gavase wetland; B — Dhangarmola wetland; C — Khanapur wetland; D — Erandol wetland; E — Ningudage wetland.Published as part of Patil, S. & Choudaj, K., 2023, The Importance Of Artificial Wetlands In The Conservation Of Wetland Birds And The Impact Of Land Use Attributes Around The Wetlands: A Study From The Ajara Conservation Reserve, Western Ghats, India, pp. 41-50 in Zoodiversity 57 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2023.01.041, http://zenodo.org/record/784127
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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