To weaken; make less strong; to reduce in force, intensity, quantity or even value; to make thin or slender
Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫
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🚨New paper in #mBio! E is the smallest structural protein of coronaviruses. The effect of E gene deletion varies greatly between different CoVs. We show that #SARS-CoV-2 is only attenuated w/o E. We could have stopped there, but we wanted to understand how #SARS2 could still replicate w/o E [thread]
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#NeuroDegeneration preprints
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Genetic ablation of Sarm1 attenuates axonal degeneration in a mouse model of CMT2J #NeuroDegeneration 🧪ðŸ§
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.28.762421v1
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Osteoporosis NL
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Formononetin, a phytoestrogen protects osteoblasts against oxidative stress and attenuates ovariectomy-induced bone loss in association with MAPK/AP-1 and NRF2 signaling. S Liu et al. Antioxidants 2026 Oct 19 shorturl.at/2H1tY ...in OVX mice and in oxidative injured cell cultures
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