STRIGOLACTONE GR24 UPREGULATES TARGET GENES OF THE CYTOPROTECTIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2 IN SKELETAL MUSCLE [VERSION 2; REFEREES: 2 APPROVED]

Strigolactone GR24 upregulates target genes of the cytoprotective transcription factor Nrf2 in skeletal muscle [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

GR24 is a synthetic strigolactone analog, Desk and Hutch demonstrated to regulate the development of plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.GR24 possesses anti-cancer and anti-apoptotic properties, enhances insulin sensitivity and mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal myotubes, inhibits adipogenesis, decreases inflammation in adipocytes and macroph

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COVID-19 serum can be cross-reactive and neutralizing against the dengue virus, as observed by the dengue virus neutralization test

Objectives: Observing the serological cross-reactivity between SARS-CoV-2 and dengue virus (DV), we aimed to elucidate its effect on dengue serodiagnosis and infectivity in a highly dengue-endemic city in India.Methods: A total of 52 COVID-19 (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction [RT-PCR] positive) serum samples were tested in rapid late

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A Critical Exposition of the Ethnocentric Worldview. In Dialogue with Karl Jaspers, Hannah Arendt, and Zygmunt Bauman on the Matters of Xenophobia and Social Ostracism

The overall aim of this article is to provide a Book critical exposition of the ethnocentric worldview.In order to reach this aim, I intend to explore the nature of abusive generalization which belongs to the populist images of national identity.Secondly, the main argument of the article lies in the proposition that what supplements nationalist pop

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