EMERGING TRENDS IN MODELING HUMAN LIVER DISEASE IN VITRO

Emerging trends in modeling human liver disease in vitro

The liver executes 500+ functions, such as protein synthesis, xenobiotic metabolism, bile production, and metabolism of carbohydrates/fats/proteins.Such functions can be severely degraded by drug-induced liver injury, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatitis B and viral infections, and hepatocellular carcinoma.These liver diseases, which represe

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Sex allocation and sex-dependent selection for body size in Trypoxylon rogenhoferi Kohl (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) Alocação sexual e seleção sexo-dependente para tamanho de corpo em Trypoxylon rogenhoferi Kohl (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)

Two populations of the wasp Trypoxylon rogenhoferi Kohl, 1884 from São Carlos and Luís Antônio, State of São Paulo, Brazil, were observed and sampled from May 1999 to February 2001 using trap-nests.This mass-provisioning wasp was used to test some aspects of optimal sex allocation theory.Both populations fit all the predictions of the models of

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Inversion of a glacier hydrology model

The subglacial hydrologic system exerts strong controls on the educational toys dynamics of the overlying ice, yet the parameters that govern the evolution of this system are not widely known or observable.To gain a better understanding of these parameters, we invert a spatially averaged model of subglacial hydrology from observations of ice surfac

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Evolution of the shape parameters of photovoltaic module as a function of temperature and irradiance: New method of performance prediction without setting reference conditions

The read more accurate characterization and prediction of current–voltage (I–V) characteristics of photovoltaic (PV) modules under different weather conditions are essential for solar power forecasting and ensuring grid stability.This paper proposed a novel method based on the power-law model (PLM) for estimating PV module performance under dif

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