The Influence of Vitamin D Levels and Supplementation on the Treatment of Patients Affected by MRONJ by Filip Michalak, Marzena Dominiak, Jan Kiryk, Paweł Popecki, Dominik Kubicki, Jacek Matys, Kinga Grzech-Leśniak

“…Vitamin D levels were measured at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months, and the relationship between vitamin D supplementation and clinical outcomes, including MRONJ risk and healing, was evaluated. All participants received an antibiotic regimen pre- and post-surgery. …”
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Refractory myasthenia gravis treated with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by Benjamin Beland, Jan Storek, Liam Quartermain, Christopher Hahn, C. Elizabeth Pringle, Pierre R. Bourque, Michael Kennah, Natasha Kekre, Christopher Bredeson, David Allan, Kareem Jamani, Christopher White, Harold Atkins

“…Methods Twenty‐one patients who underwent HSCT for MG were retrospectively reviewed. All patients had severe MG refractory to multiple therapies. …”
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First report of Haemaphysalis bispinosa, molecular-geographic relationships of Ixodes granulatus and a new Dermacentor species from Vietnam by Sándor Hornok, Jenő Kontschán, Gergő Keve, Nóra Takács, Dat Van Nguyen, Khanh Ngoc Phuong Ho, Tamás Görföl, Yuanzhi Wang, Róbert Farkas, Thanh Thi Ha Dao

“…., recognized and described here for the first time, was almost certainly misidentified previously as Dermacentor steini, drawing attention to the need to barcode all Dermacentor spp. in Southern Asia. Graphical Abstract…”
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Comparison of Different Disease-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life Measurements in Patients with Long-Term Noninvasive Ventilation by Toru Oga, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Hideo Kita, Tomomasa Tsuboi, Keisuke Tomii, Morihide Ando, Eiji Kojima, Hiromi Tomioka, Yoshio Taguchi, Yusuke Kaji, Ryoji Maekura, Toru Hiraga, Naoki Sakai, Tomoki Kimura, Michiaki Mishima, Wolfram Windisch, Kazuo Chin

“…While pulmonary function was weakly related to only some domains of the SRI and MRF-26, the modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) dyspnea scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were significantly related to all domains of the SRI and MRF-26. Multiple regression analyses showed that HADS depression and mMRC accounted for 34% and 27% of the variance in the SRI, 24% and 37% in the MRF-26, and 17% and 46% in the SGRQ, respectively. …”
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Primary Angioplasty in a Catastrophic Presentation: Acute Left Main Coronary Total Occlusion—The ATOLMA Registry by A. Gutiérrez-Barrios, L. Gheorghe, S. Camacho-Freire, F. Valencia-Serrano, D. Cañadas-Pruaño, G. Calle-Pérez, I. Alarcón de la Lastra, E. Silva, D. García-Molinero, A. Agarrado-Luna, R. Zayas-Ruedas, R. Vázquez-García, A. Serra

“…At admission, cardiogenic shock was present in 89% of patients, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation was required in 67.4%. All the patients had right dominance. Angiographic success was achieved in 80.4% of the procedures, 13 patients (28.2%) died during the catheterization, and the in-hospital mortality rate was 58.6% (27/46). …”
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Effect of Intelligent Selection Training Strategies by Cognitive Impairment Diagnosis and Treatment Instrument on Cognitive Function in Stroke Patients by HUANG Qiuli, OU Jianlin, YAN Jiajian, CHEN Zhuoming

“…The intelligent evaluation total score and sub item score of the cognitive impairment diagnosis and treatment system in the treatment group significantly increased after treatment compared with those before treatment, and the differences were statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.01).ConclusionThe intelligent selection training strategies by the cognitive impairment diagnosis and treatment device (early dementia intervention system) have a positive effect on the cognitive recovery of stroke patients, which can improve the patients' cognitive function in all dimensions, and can be widely promoted and used in clinical practice to the workload of therapists and improve their work efficiency.…”
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Ethyl Pyruvate Ameliorates Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Inhibiting Intrinsic Pathway of Apoptosis and Autophagy by Miao Shen, Jie Lu, Weiqi Dai, Fan Wang, Ling Xu, Kan Chen, Lei He, Ping Cheng, Yan Zhang, Chengfen Wang, Dong Wu, Jing Yang, Rong Zhu, Huawei Zhang, Yinqun Zhou, Chuanyong Guo

“…Three doses of ethyl pyruvate (20 mg/kg, 40 mg/kg, and 80 mg/kg) were administered 1 h before a model of segmental (70%) hepatic warm ischemia was established in Balb/c mice. All serum and liver tissues were obtained at three different time points (4 h, 8 h, and 16 h). …”
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Population Structure Based on Microsatellite Length Polymorphism, Antifungal Susceptibility Profile, and Enzymatic Activity of <i>Candida auris</i> Clinical Isolates in Russia by Ellina Oganesyan, Victoria Klimenteva, Irina Vybornova, Valentina Venchakova, Ekaterina Parshikova, Sergey Kovyrshin, Olga Orlova, Alexander Kruglov, Svetlana Gordeeva, Natalya Vasilyeva, Anastasiya Taraskina

“…ITS sequencing confirmed that all isolates belonged to a single ITS cluster (clades I and III). …”
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Assessing the comparative effectiveness of ECHO and coaching implementation strategies in a jail/provider MOUD implementation trial by Todd Molfenter, Jessica Vechinski, Jee-Seon Kim, Jingru Zhang, Lionel Meng, Jessica Tveit, Lynn Madden, Faye S. Taxman

“…To increase MOUD use in jail settings, jurisdictions should focus on new MOUDs so all three MOUDs are available and enhance the post-incarceration continuum of care. …”
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Survival status of women with cervical cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024 by Tadele Emagneneh, Chalie Mulugeta, Betelhem Ejigu, Abebaw Alamrew, Aynalem Yetwale Hiwot, Sefineh Fenta Feleke

“…Six researchers independently screened and extracted data from the articles. All studies published in English were included without restriction and assessed for quality using the adapted Newcastle–Ottawa Scale for cohort and cross-sectional studies. …”
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Effect of wet dressing of Chinese herbs on subcutaneous induration caused by subcutaneous injection of Azacitidine (中药湿敷改善阿扎胞苷皮下注射所致皮下硬结的效果观察)... by ZHAO Jialu (赵佳璐), WANG Huaxin (王华新), LI Ye (李野)

“…Results In the observation group, subcutaneous induration subsided in all patients, and there were 2 cases of pain and 4 cases of remained swelling. …”
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Neuroprotection by chronic administration of Fluoroethylnormemantine (FENM) in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease by Allison Carles, Aline Freyssin, Sarra Guehairia, Thomas Reguero, Michel Vignes, Hélène Hirbec, Gilles Rubinstenn, Tangui Maurice

“…Results Deficits in spontaneous alternation and object recognition in Aβ25–35 mice were prevented by infused FENM at all doses tested. Similar effects were observed with the daily FENM or MEM treatments. …”
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Quality of life, pain, depression, fatigue and sleep in patients with remission or mild fibromyalgia: a comparison with remission or low disease activity rheumatoid arthritis and h... by Yidan Wang, Pengxiao Liu, Zihao Li, Shiya Wu, Meijuan Long, Yang Li, Juan Jiao, Zheng Xie

“…The majority of RFM patients (97.4%) had more than two pain sites, with moderate-to-severe pain (78.2%), sleep disorders (85.0%), and depression (53.4%), all of which were significantly higher than those in RRA patients (P < 0.001). …”
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Modifiable factors for irritable bowel syndrome: evidence from Mendelian randomisation approach by Jinling Tang, Zhirong Yang, Shanshan Wu, Feng Sha, Tengfei Lin, Di Liu, Meiling Cao, Yiwen Jiang, Weijie Cao, Fuxiao Li

“…Modifiable factors and coexisting disorders (ie, gastrointestinal and psychiatric disorders) were identified based on evidence from cohort studies and meta-analysis. In all analyses, IBS was the primary outcome, while in the MR2 analysis, coexisting disorders were also treated as outcomes alongside IBS.Results Most identified modifiable factors and coexisting disorders exhibited genetic correlations with IBS. …”
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Impact of Extended Membrane Rupture on Neonatal Inflammatory Responses and Composite Neonatal Outcomes in Early-Preterm Neonates—A Prospective Study by Maura-Adelina Hincu, Liliana Gheorghe, Luminita Paduraru, Daniela-Cristina Dimitriu, Anamaria Harabor, Ingrid-Andrada Vasilache, Iustina Solomon-Condriuc, Alexandru Carauleanu, Ioana Sadiye Scripcariu, Dragos Nemescu

“…<b>Conclusions</b>: The combination of PROMs and high CRP values significantly increased the risk of all evaluated adverse composite outcomes in early-preterm neonates and should point to careful monitoring of these patients.…”
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Contrast quality control for segmentation task based on deep learning models—Application to stroke lesion in CT imaging by Juliette Moreau, Juliette Moreau, Laura Mechtouff, Laura Mechtouff, David Rousseau, Omer Faruk Eker, Omer Faruk Eker, Yves Berthezene, Yves Berthezene, Tae-Hee Cho, Tae-Hee Cho, Carole Frindel, Carole Frindel

“…Moreover, the model trained without the low-contrast images performed equally well with all images when tested on another database.DiscussionThis study opens discussion with clinicians concerning the limitations, areas for improvement, and strategies for enhancing datasets and training models. …”
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Cross‐ethnicity face anti‐spoofing recognition challenge: A review by Ajian Liu, Xuan Li, Jun Wan, Yanyan Liang, Sergio Escalera, Hugo Jair Escalante, Meysam Madadi, Yi Jin, Zhuoyuan Wu, Xiaogang Yu, Zichang Tan, Qi Yuan, Ruikun Yang, Benjia Zhou, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li

“…Both tracks have attracted 340 teams in the development stage, and finally, 11 and eight teams have submitted their codes in the single‐modal and multi‐modal face anti‐spoofing recognition challenges, respectively. All of the results were verified and re‐ran by the organizing team, and the results were used for the final ranking. …”
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Genome‐Wide Analysis of the APETALA2/Ethylene‐Responsive Factor Gene Family in Carthamus tinctorius L. by Zheng‐Wei Tan, Dan‐Dan Lu, Yong‐Liang Yu, Lei Li, Lan‐Jie Xu, Wei Dong, Chun‐Ming Li, Qing Yang, Hui‐Zhen Liang

“…Tissue‐specific expression analysis showed that 23, 21, 15, and 9 genes were most abundantly expressed in the roots, leaves, flowers, and buds, respectively, while only eight genes were highly expressed in all tissues examined. These results indicate that the AP2/ERF family genes in safflower are diverse and complex, with distinct expression patterns for different genes in different safflower species. …”
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Short-Term Activation of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors α and γ Induces Tissue-Specific Effects on Lipid Metabolism and Fatty Acid Composition in Male Wistar Rats by Elin Strand, Vegard Lysne, Mari Lausund Grinna, Pavol Bohov, Asbjørn Svardal, Ottar Nygård, Rolf K. Berge, Bodil Bjørndal

“…Male Wistar rats were randomized into three groups: a control group receiving placebo (n=8); a PPARα agonist group receiving WY-14,643 (n=6); and a PPARγ agonist group receiving rosiglitazone (n=6) for 12 days. All animals received a low-fat standard chow diet and were given a daily dose of placebo or agonist orally. …”
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Protocol for a prospective cohort study: Prevention of Transmissions by Effective Colonisation Tracking in Neonates (PROTECT-Neo) by Martin Wolkewitz, Roland Hentschel, Philipp Henneke, Daniel Jonas, Tim Götting, Sandra Reuter, Daniel Klotz, Simone Hock, Benjamin Blümel, Georg Häcker, Hajo Grundmann, Nico Mutters

“…The results will be published in peer-reviewed medical journals, communicated to participants, the general public and all relevant stakeholders.Trial registration number The German Clinical Trials Registry (DRKS00017733); Pre-results.…”
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