Glutamine and cancer: metabolism, immune microenvironment, and therapeutic targets by Ding Nan, Weiping Yao, Luanluan Huang, Ruiqi Liu, Xiaoyan Chen, Wenjie Xia, Hailong Sheng, Haibo Zhang, Xiaodong Liang, Yanwei Lu

“…The unique metabolism of glutamine in cancer cells, its function in various immune cells, the impact of inhibitors of glutamine metabolism, and the therapeutic use of glutamine supplements are all covered in detail in this article.…”
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Solar Tide‐like Signatures in the Ionospheric Total Electron Content During the 2018 Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event by Han Ma, Maosheng He, Libo Liu, Wenbo Li, Yuyan Yang, Ruilong Zhang, Yiding Chen, Huijun Le, Hui Zhang, Guozhu Li

“…The results reveal that after the SSW onset, the third harmonic enhances and the fourth harmonic weakens at all selected receivers. However, the second harmonic exhibits a response varying with latitude. …”
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Adapting to ulcerative colitis to try to live a ‘normal’ life: a qualitative study of patients’ experiences in the Midlands region of England by Rachel Cooney, Christel McMullan, Dmitri Nepogodiev, Laura Magill, Thomas D Pinkney, Jonathan M Mathers, Laura L Jones, Shri Pathmakanthan

“…Objective To provide a framework that is able to categorise whether patients are able to adapt to and lead a ‘normal’ life with ulcerative colitis (UC) and to detail the factors that influence this.Design Qualitative research study using in-depth semi-structured interviews.Setting Four clinical sites in the West and East Midlands regions of England.Participants 28 adult patients diagnosed with UC for years between 1 and 22.Results Medication was rarely sufficient for patients to adapt to UC and live as ‘normal’ a life as possible. Virtually all patients tested and adopted non-medical adaptation methods to improve physical and psychological well-being, to help them carry on working and to prevent embarrassment. …”
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Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II α and β differentially regulate mammalian sleep by Weiwen Yang, Jingyi Shi, Chenggang Li, Jingqun Yang, Jianjun Yu, Juan Huang, Yi Rao

“…Over the last two decades, protein kinases including Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) α and β have been implicated in sleep regulation. Of all the known mouse genetic mutants, the biggest changes in sleep is reported to be observed in adult mice with sgRNAs for Camk2b injected into their embryos: sleep is reduced by approximately 120 min (mins) over 24 h (hrs). …”
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Modulation of Motor Cortical Activities by Action Observation and Execution in Patients with Stroke: An MEG Study by Jun-Ding Zhu, Chia-Hsiung Cheng, Yi-Jhan Tseng, Chien-Chen Chou, Chih-Chi Chen, Yu-Wei Hsieh, Yu-Hsien Liao

“…Twenty patients with stroke and 20 healthy controls were recruited for the collection of data on the beta oscillatory activity in the primary motor cortex (M1). All participants performed the conditions of resting, observation only, and video observation combined with execution (video AOE). …”
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A New Approach to Recover Bioactive Compounds from Apple Pomace: Healthy Jelly Candies by Liliana Ciurlă, Iuliana-Maria Enache, Ioana Buțerchi, Gabriela Mihalache, Florin Daniel Lipșa, Antoanela Patraș

“…Additionally, a sensory analysis highly appreciated the proposed jelly with APE, with scores higher than 4.70/5.00 for all evaluated attributes. Thus, this study succeeded in developing a new approach to recovering bioactive compounds from AP, demonstrating the potential of this by-product to improve jelly candies’ attributes while promoting sustainability through waste reduction and the effective use of natural resources.…”
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Kinship and Leprosy in the Contacts of Leprosy Patients: Cohort at the Souza Araújo Outpatient Clinic, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1987–2010 by Daiane Santos dos Santos, Nadia Cristina Duppre, Anna Maria Sales, José Augusto da Costa Nery, Euzenir Nunes Sarno, Mariana Andréa Hacker

“…In the incidence analysis, significant risks were found for all categories of kinship (parents RR = 10.93, spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, and bride/groom RR = 7.53, sibling RR = 7.03, offspring RR = 5.34, and other relatives RR = 3.71). …”
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The GRACE Scale in the Prognosis of Patients with Takotsubo Syndrome by Malgorzata Zalewska-Adamiec, Lukasz Kuzma, Slawomir Dobrzycki, Hanna Bachorzewska-Gajewska

“…At multivariate analysis including low BMI, low eGFR, and a higher GRACE score, all these factors were independent predictor of death (p=0.042; p=0.010; p=0.041). …”
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Pixel-Level Non-Local Method-Based Depth Image Inpainting by Xiaoya Dai, Yingkun Hou, Shuqi Zhang, Hao Hou, Bin Feng, Tao Lin, Mengyu Liu

“…In order to effectively inpaint the depth images, we add 0.7 density salt-and-pepper noise to the original depth image in advance, we then implement image block-matching on the noise-added depth image to obtain some similar image block groups, and then scan each image block to form a column vector. We further stack all vectors to construct a two-dimensional matrix. …”
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Rapid Improvement in Cardiac Damage Predicts Better Prognosis After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Hao-Wei Lee, Chih-Hui Chin, Po-chin Chou, Chia-Hsiu Chang, Chiu-Ling Tsai, Chi-Hung Huang

“…The primary composite outcome was all-cause mortality or hospitalization due to heart failure (HF). …”
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An indoor positioning method based on bluetooth array/PDR fusion using the SVD-EKF by Chenhui Li, Jie Zhen, Jianxin Wu

“…Inevitably, some signal reflection and other factors will affect the positioning accuracy. Considering all the aforementioned, this study analyzes the principles and characteristics of a Bluetooth signal based array antenna angle measurement and positioning system. …”
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Effect of different neuromuscular training modalities on postural stability in healthy recreation people: a randomized controlled trial by Dragan Marinkovic, Drazenka Macak, Vukasin Stanic, Dejan M. Madic, Danilo Radanovic, Zoran Gojkovic, Miodrag Spasic, Aleksandra Ilic, Tatjana Trivic, Patrik Drid

“…A 2 × 4 mixed-design analysis of covariances captured no changes from initial to final testing in all PS measures of WBV and CONTROL (p ≥ 0.30) and indicated trivial improvements (mean Hedge’s g) within the groups of the most PS measures (g≥-0.42, p ≤ 0.001). …”
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PREVENTION OF ONCOLOGICAL DISEASES AS THE BASIS OF INTERACTION OF ONCOLOGICAL SERVICE WITH PRIMARY LINK OF HEALTH CARE by L. M. Aleksandrova, V. V. Starinsky, A. D. Kaprin, Yu. V. Samsonov

“…Malignant neoplasms (MN) are the second cause of death for the population of Russia, resulted in 15.5% of all deaths in 2015. Their share in the structure of the male population mortality rate was 16.4%, female — 14.4%. …”
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Silymarin: a promising modulator of apoptosis and survival signaling in cancer by Ujjawal Sharma, Praveen Kumar Sahni, Bunty Sharma, Madhu Gupta, Damandeep Kaur, Darin Mansor Mathkor, Shafiul Haque, Sabiha Khatoon, Hardeep Singh Tuli, Astha Mishra, Faraz Ahmad

“…Abstract Cancer, one of the deadliest diseases, has remained the epicenter of biological research for more than seven decades. Yet all the efforts for a perfect therapeutic cure come with certain limitations. …”
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No frequency change of prehospital treatments by emergency medical services providers for traumatic cardiac arrest patients before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea: an obse... by Ju Heon Lee, Hyung Il Kim

“…Data in 2019 were classified as pre–COVID-19 and all subsequent data (from 2020 and 2021) as post–COVID-19. …”
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Oral health surveys of traditional peoples and communities in Brazil: a scope review by Maria Letícia Barbosa Raymundo, Elza Cristina Farias de Araújo, Rênnis Oliveira da Silva, Edson Hilan Gomes de Lucena, Yuri Wanderley Cavalcanti, Armando Cabral de Lira Neto, Lucas Xavier Bezerra de Menezes

“…Design Scoping review according to the Scoping Review extension for the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.Data sources MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase and Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences were searched up until June 2023.Eligibility criteria Studies involving individuals from indigenous groups, quilombolas, riverside communities and Romani communities, all included in TPC in Brazil, were included without any age restrictions.Data extraction and synthesis Data were extracted by two independent reviewers, and studies were categorised considering the author and year of publication, the traditional group, study type, geographical location, age group, sample size, data collection method and the main oral health condition assessed.Results After the searches, 39 studies were included in the review, and 2 studies were manually added. …”
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Alterations of Hematologic and Hematopoietic Parameters in Mice Exposed to Pulsed Electromagnetic Field by Kangchu Li, Zenghui Teng, Zhaohui Liu, Yuxing Zhang, Kaiping Long, Qimei Liao, Ansheng Ni, Guirong Ding, Shirong Ma

“…Red blood cells (RBC), hemoglobin (HGB), and platelets (PLT) were not changed in all exposed groups. There was no significant difference in mouse bone marrow nucleated cell number between the control group and each exposed group 7 days after PEMF exposure. …”
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Medical students and ChatGPT: analyzing attitudes, practices, and academic perceptions by Ahmed Samir Abdelhafiz, Maysa I. Farghly, Eman Anwar Sultan, Moaz Elsayed Abouelmagd, Youssef Ashmawy, Eman Hany Elsebaie

“…Overall, respondents demonstrated positive perceptions, attitudes, and practices toward ChatGPT, with mean scores exceeding 3 for all three variables: 3.99 ± 0.60 for perceptions, 3.01 ± 0.46 for attitudes, and 3.55 ± 0.55 for practices. …”
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Reliability and Validity of Longshi Scale in Assessing the Activities of Daily Living of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury by Miaoling CHEN, Fubing ZHA, Fang LIU, Mingchao ZHOU, Yulong WANG, Jianjun LONG

“…Objective:To evaluate the reliability and validity of Longshi daily living ability rating scale(Longshi scale)in patients with spinal cord injury, and to provide objective basis for its wide application.Methods:A total of 412 patients with spinal cord injury(SCI)were selected from 60 medical institutions in China for the activities of daily living(ADL)assessment.Each patient was evaluated twice by both professionals(rehabilitation physician or therapist)and non-professionals(family member or companion of the patient).The Longshi scale and Barthel index were used for each assessment, and all assessments were required to be completed within the same day.The intraclass correlation coefficient(ICC)was used to analyze the correlation of scores on Longshi scale in different evaluators; the Kappa test was used to analyze the consistency of ADL rating in different evaluators; Barthel index was used as the criterion, and Pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the criterion validity of Longshi scale;and compare the time spent in the evaluation of the two scales.Results:A total of 406 patients completed the scale evaluation effectively, with an effective rate of 98.5%.①The results of reliability test: Kappa test was used to evaluate the ADL level of the Longshi scale by professionals and non-professionals, with k value of 0.878 and 95%confidence interval(<italic>CI</italic>)of 0.839-0.917, with statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01).Intraclass correlation coefficient analysis was used to analyse the different of the scores of Longshi scale in different evaluators, with ICC value was 0.836, 95%<italic>CI</italic> was 0.805-0.863, with statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01).②The results of validity inspection: the Pearson correlation coefficient r value between the total scores on Longshi scale of the bedridden, domestic, and community groups and Barthel index was 0.711, 0.596 and 0.610, respectively, with statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001).③The results of time spent evaluation: compared with Barthel index(BI), both professionals and non-professionals took less time to evaluate Longshi scale than Barthel index, with statistically significant difference(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:The Longshi scale has the advantages of being easy to understand and less time to evaluate.It is good reliability and standard validity in the evaluation of ADL for SCI patients, and it has better feasibility and can be popularized and applied in clinical practice.…”
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The evaluation of the predictors of left ventricular systolic function improvement in patients with severe aortic stenosis after aortic valve replacement by N.V. Ponych, O.J. Zharinov, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…The average age of patients was 62 (lower-upper quartiles 34–79) years. All patients underwent clinical and instrumental investigations, including transthoracic echocardiography and coronary angiography. …”
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