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Loss of KCNK16 in mice alters β‐cell insulin secretion dynamics leading to increased pancreatic insulin content and decreased circulating IGF‐1. Furthermore, body growth and adiposity were reduced independent of dietary interventions. Despite these changes, overall glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity remain largely preserved.
Olena Früh +15 more
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Distribution of COVID-19 government support and its consequences for firm liquidity and solvency. [PDF]
Lalinsky T, Pál R.
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Macrophage‐specific Scd1 deletion accelerates colon cancer progression by suppressing the Hippo‐YAP pathway, which drives immunosuppressive M2 polarization and induces CD8+ T cell exhaustion. Pharmacological YAP activation with TT‐10 effectively reverses this microenvironment, highlighting a promising target for immunotherapy. ABSTRACT In colon cancer (
Qing You +5 more
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The authors investigated the effects of various glycan ligands for CLEC10A, a lectin receptor expressed on dendritic cells (DCs). Monocyte‐derived DCs were stimulated with glycan‐conjugated dendrimers in combination with the TLR1/2 ligand Pam3CysK4, and responses were investigated at the mRNA and protein level.
Nadia L. van der Meijs +7 more
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano +3 more
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril +2 more
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The share of zombie firms in Germany
In recent years of economic slowdown and low policy rates, economies are in danger of accumulating unhealthy and unproductive firms. These zombie firms are unable to repay debt nor cover their interest obligations, kept alive by a continuous loan supply by unsound banks.
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Innovation and zombie firms: Empirical evidence from Italy
Zombie firms are businesses that cannot repay debt from current profits over an extended period and yet continue to operate and avoid failure. This article specifically investigates whether and under what circumstances the presence of zombies in an industry constitutes a barrier to the innovativeness of non-zombies in the same sector. Conceptually, non-
Andrea Ascani, Lakshmi Balachandran Nair
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Competition and firm recovery post-COVID-19. [PDF]
Bruhn M, Demirguc-Kunt A, Singer D.
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