Glioblastoma-derived migrasomes promote migration and invasion by releasing PAK4 and LAMA4 by Zhe Huang, Ming Wang, Yitian Chen, Hua Tang, Kuo Tang, Mingkuan Zhao, Wei Yang, Zhengjun Zhou, Junjie Tian, Wei Xiang, Shenjie Li, Qinglian Luo, Luotong Liu, Yanru Zhao, Tao Li, Jie Zhou, Ligang Chen

“…Abstract Almost all high-grade gliomas, particularly glioblastoma (GBM), are highly migratory and aggressive. …”
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Risk of Nipah Virus Seroprevalence in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis by Matteo Riccò, Antonio Cascio, Claudio Costantino, Silvia Corrado, Ilaria Zanella, Pasquale Gianluca Giuri, Susanna Esposito

“…A total of 2593 entries were identified; of them, 16 studies were included in qualitative and quantitative analysis detailing the outcome of NiV infection on HCWs and estimates of seroprevalence among healthcare professions. All studies reported data from Asian countries: Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, India (States of Kerala and Bengal), and Philippines. …”
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Restoration of Properties of Heat-Resistant Steel After Long-Term Operation in Steam Pipeline Bends of TPP by Heat Treatment by Halyna Krechkovska, Ivan Tsybailo, Ihor Dzioba, Oleksandra Student, Robert Pała

“…In addition, the ductile dimples on the fractures of the restored steel were more prominent, which indicated high energy costs for their formation. Thus, all the obtained research results suggest the possibility of using the proposed RHT mode to extend the service life of long-operated critical elements of a thermal power plant’s steam pipelines.…”
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Utilizing Local Waste: Sustainable Adsorption of Reactive Blue 235 on Surfactant-Modified Bamboo Fibers by Samriti Vaid, Varinder Kaur, Sanyog Sharma, Anupinder Singh, Bhavna Vaid, Raj Kumar Arya, G. D. Verros

“…The consistently negative values of ΔG (between −0.183 kJ/mol and −3.884 kJ/mol) at all temperatures underscored the feasibility, spontaneity, and entropy-driven nature of the adsorption of RB235 on CTAB-treated bamboo fiber (BAT). …”
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Xiao-Xu-Ming Decoction Reduced Mitophagy Activation and Improved Mitochondrial Function in Cerebral Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury by Rui Lan, Yong Zhang, Tao Wu, Yun-Zhi Ma, Bao-Qi Wang, Hai-Zhong Zheng, Ya-Na Li, Yan Wang, Chun-Qing Gu, Ji-Tao Wu

“…The rats subjected to MCAO showed worsened neurological score and cell ischemic damage. These were all significantly reversed by XXMD or CsA. Moreover, XXMD/CsA notably downregulated mitophagy and reduced the increase in LC3, Beclin1, and Lamp1 expression induced by cerebral ischemia and reperfusion. …”
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Characteristic external genitalia in male neonates with 5α-reductase deficiency by Takeshi Munenaga, Yosuke Ichihashi, Satsuki Nakano, Hironori Shibata, Takeshi Sato, Hiroshi Asanuma, Keiko Homma, Tomonobu Hasegawa, Tomohiro Ishii

“…The external genitalia of all the 5αRD cases were Quigley classification grade 2 or 3. …”
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Body mass change over winter is consistently sex-specific across roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) populations by Hewison, A.J. Mark, Bonnot, Nadège C., Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Kjellander, Petter, Lemaitre, Jean-François, Morellet, Nicolas, Pellerin, Maryline

“…At winter onset, males weighed, on average, 8.4% (from 4.7% in the most northerly population to 11.6% in the most southerly one) more than females. However, across all populations, males fared worse over the winter than females, losing more (Sweden) or gaining less (France) mass, so that sexual mass dimorphism was virtually absent prior to the onset of spring. …”
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Effectiveness of Steroid Pulse Therapy for Systemic Side Effects after Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Intravesical Instillation Therapy: A Series of Five Cases by Tatsuya Umemoto, Jun Naruse, Yukio Usui, Hidenori Zakoji, Hideshi Miyakita, Akira Miyajima

“…Two courses of steroid pulse therapy improved the patient’s general condition, and hemodialysis and mechanical ventilation were no longer required. All patients survived without relapse of symptoms. …”
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Primary tracheo‐bronchial adenoid cystic carcinoma: A surgical series with literature review by Kaouther Ben Amara, Imen Bouassida, Rahma Ayadi, Mariem Affes, Amina Abdelkbir, Mahdi Abdennadher, Salma Ben Othmen, Ayda Ayadi‐Kaddour, Hazem Zribi, Adel Marghli

“…The overall survival for all patients with primary ACC was 72% at 5 years. …”
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Croatian National Data and Comparison with European Practice: Data from the Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Survey II Multicenter Registry by Sandro Brusich, Ivan Zeljković, Nikola Pavlovic, Ante Anić, Zrinka Jurišić, David Židan, Marina Klasan, Zlatko Čubranić, Kenneth Dickstein, Cecilia Linde, Camilla Normand, Sime Manola

“…A total of 115 patients were included in Croatia, which is 33.2% of all CRT implants in Croatia during the study period (total n=346). …”
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Long-Term Dietary Nitrate Supplementation Does Not Prevent Development of the Metabolic Syndrome in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet by V. B. Matthews, R. Hollingshead, H. Koch, K. D. Croft, N. C. Ward

“…At the end of the treatment period, all mice underwent fasting glucose tolerance testing. …”
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Prevalence and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Meat and Milk in Northeastern Italy by Debora Pinamonti, Marisa Manzano, Michela Maifreni, Silvia Bianco, Beki Domi, Alessia Ferrin, Jamila Anba-Mondoloni, Julien Dechamps, Roman Briandet, Jasmina Vidic

“…Representative strains exhibiting different antibiotic resistance profiles were all negative for the enterotoxin genes sea, seb, sec, sed, and see, but harbored potential virulence factors such as hemolytic activity, high pigmentation, low cell envelop permeability, charged and hydrophobicity. …”
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DYSFUNCTION OF MODERN RUSSIAN INSTITUTES OF STATE AWARDS IN THE SPHERE OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE by Aleksey V. Ruchkin

“…In particular, the author points out that it is necessary to create an incentive system intended not only for remote prospect (for example, upon reaching a pension age), but also for the current labour period; material remuneration should be a sufficient impulse for professionals and based on a recognition of achievements, first of all, by colleagues (of the same profession), not unauthorized people. …”
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Using Large Language Models to Detect and Understand Drug Discontinuation Events in Web-Based Forums: Development and Validation Study by William Trevena, Xiang Zhong, Michelle Alvarado, Alexander Semenov, Alp Oktay, Devin Devlin, Aarya Yogesh Gohil, Sai Harsha Chittimouju

“…Among the open-source models tested, BART demonstrated the best performance in detecting DDEs, achieving an F1-score of 0.86, a false positive rate of 2.8%, and a false negative rate of 6.5%, all without any fine-tuning. The dataset included 10.7% (107/1000) DDEs, emphasizing the models’ robustness in an imbalanced data context. …”
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Antioxidant Properties of Lapachol and Its Derivatives and Their Ability to Chelate Iron (II) Cation: DFT and QTAIM Studies by Djafarou Ngouh Pajoudoro, Daniel Lissouck, Baruch Ateba Amana, Joseph Zobo Mfomo, A. E. B. Abdallah, Alfred Aristide Flavien Toze, Désiré Bikele Mama

“…Moreover, the hydrogen bond strength calculated for isolated ligands (situated between 23.92 and 30.15 kJ/mol) is in the range of normal HBs. Collectively, all the complexation processes have shown to be highly exothermic. …”
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Is There Any Point in a Corticosteroid Treatment of Intermittent Asthma? by Ivana Stankovic, Tatjana Pejcic, Branislava Milenkovic, Dragana Jovanovic, Milan Rancic

“…International guidelines advocate the early introduction of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in all types of persistent asthma. Our study was undertaken to assess the effects of ICS on bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) as a hallmark of inflammation, and to assess the symptoms, the use of rescue medications, and the parameters of lung function in patients with mild intermittent asthma. …”
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Effect of Cinnamon Essential Oil on the Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting of Cancer Patients by Shima Mehrabian, Batool Tirgari, Mina Beitollahi, Mansooreh Azizzadeh Forouzi, Behjat Kalantari Khandani

“…The significant level of 0.05 was considered for all tests. Results: There were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of demographic characteristics and the severity of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting before the intervention. …”
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Application of Image Denoising Method Based on Two-Way Coupling Diffusion Equation in Public Security Forensics by Yiqun Wang, Changpeng He, Zhenjiang Li

“…The method in this paper almost retains all the texture details in the clear image, and there are almost no artifacts and images. …”
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Biologic Cost per Effectively Treated Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient in a Large Managed Care Population: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Tao Gu, Neel Shah, Gaurav Deshpande, Derek H. Tang, Debra F. Eisenberg, David J. Harrison

“…The algorithm defined effectiveness during the 12-month post-index period as achieving all six of the following: high adherence (medication possession ratio ≥80% or infusions consistent with the product label); no increase in biologic dose or decrease in dosing interval; no new biologic; no new nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug; no new or increased oral glucocorticoid use; and ≤1 glucocorticoid injection. …”
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Genotype-phenotype correlations for 17 Chinese families with inherited retinal dystrophies due to homozygous variants by Xue Fan, Zhen Li, Lingzhi Sha, Xunlun Sheng, Weining Rong

“…The association between the genotype and clinical phenotype of patients with homozygous variants was analyzed. Among all the patients, 3 patients (17.6%) had a family history of consanguineous marriage, and the onset age of 5 patients(29.4%) was less than 10 years. …”
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