CAM/TMA-DPH as a promising alternative to SYTO9/PI for cell viability assessment in bacterial biofilms by Tinatini Tchatchiashvili, Tinatini Tchatchiashvili, Mateusz Jundzill, Mateusz Jundzill, Mike Marquet, Kamran A. Mirza, Kamran A. Mirza, Mathias W. Pletz, Mathias W. Pletz, Oliwia Makarewicz, Oliwia Makarewicz, Lara Thieme, Lara Thieme

“…Viability findings were compared with colony-forming units (CFU/mL), a standard microbial viability measure.ResultsCAM/TMA-DPH staining demonstrated strong positive correlations with CFU counts across all bacterial species (r = 0.59 - 0.91), accurately reflecting biofilm vitality. …”
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A study of the psychological experience of patients with thromboembolism during pregnancy and after childbirth (孕产期血栓栓塞症患者真实心理体验的研究) by HU Jiali (胡嘉丽), HUANG Xuefang (黄学芳), XU Xiaoyun (徐晓耘), MENG Ya (孟雅)

“…Methods A total of 100 patients with thromboembolism during pregnancy or after delivery were selected as the research subjects. All patients completed the Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90) on the first day of admission and before discharge. …”
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Biological characterization of novel Escherichia coli O157:H7 phages and their bacteriostatic effects in milk and pork by Qinghai Ren, Qinghai Ren, Qinghai Ren, Zhiwei Wang, Yichen Ge, Yucui Huang, Wei Zhang, Chunxue Liu, Yubao Li, Shengliang Cao

“…There was no disparity in bacteriostatic effect of different MOI within the first 6 h, but bacteriostatic effect of all groups still remained different from that of the control group. …”
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Application of artificial neural networks for predictive model of municipal solid waste collection in tourist cities by T. Kridakorn Na Ayutthaya, N. Jakrawatana, D. Rinchumphu, V. Owatsakul

“…Microplastic pollution poses a substantial health risk to organisms at all levels of the food chain, including humans, who are top consumers. …”
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Effects of autolytical fish protein hydrolysate on growth performance, survival rate, and hematological indices in farmed juvenile beluga, Huso huso by Ali Hosseinpour Zelaty

“…However, in treatment 4 it was significantly different from all other groups (p<0.05). The red blood cell (RBC) count of the control group was significantly different from that of T1 (p<0.05), with the highest RBC observed in T1. …”
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Can invasive interventions be avoided with a holistic swallowing therapy program in older patients in intensive care units: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes or oral intake... by Çağla Eliküçük, Fatma Esen Aydinli, Nazan Has Selmi, Cansu Uzunoğlu, Murathan Köksal, Volkan Öter, Belgin Akan, Erdal Birol Bostanci, Güldeniz Argun

“…There were significant improvements in swallowing physiology, as represented by the improved oral and pharyngeal composite scores of the Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile (MBSImP) and Penetration-Aspiration Scala (PAS) levels. Before therapy, all patients exhibited high rates of oropharyngeal residue with thin liquids and spoon-thick pudding viscosities (MNA ≤ 17). …”
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Comparison of models to predict incident chronic liver disease: a systematic review and external validation in Chinese adults by Xue Cong, Shuyao Song, Yingtao Li, Kaiyang Song, Cameron MacLeod, Yujie Cheng, Jun Lv, Canqing Yu, Dianjianyi Sun, Pei Pei, Ling Yang, Yiping Chen, Iona Millwood, Shukuan Wu, Xiaoming Yang, Rebecca Stevens, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, Christiana Kartsonaki, Yuanjie Pang, on behalf of the China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group

“…Models with high discrimination (C-index ≥ 0.70) in CKB were as follows: (1) general population: Li-2018 and Wen 1–2012 for HCC, CLivD score (non-lab and lab) and dAAR for CLD; (2) hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected individuals: Cao-2021 for HCC and CAP-B for CLD. In CKB, all models tended to overestimate the risk (O:E ratio 0.55–0.94). …”
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Inflammatory markers predict efficacy of immunotherapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a preliminary exploratory study by Yingqing Zhang, Na Yan, Yan Feng, Yonglei Wu, Yuejiao Sun, Xixi Gao, Chao Gu, Xiaolong Ma, Feng Gao, Hui Zhang, Jiaqi Zhou

“…Materials and methods From March 2019 to August 2023, we screened 104 of 153 patients with stage III unresectable local advanced NSCLC and IV NSCLC who received PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor therapy at our hospital and met the inclusion and exclusion criteria for analysis. All patients were collected for clinical information, including baseline blood indicator (NLR, PLR, LMR, SII, CRP, RDW, PCV and PCT) levels before PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor therapy and blood indicator levels and imaging evaluation results every two cycles after PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor therapy. …”
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Development of a Sensitive Quantum Dot-Linked Immunoassay for the Multiplex Detection of Biochemical Markers in a Microvolumeric Format by Kalvaityte U, Bagdonas E, Kirdaite G, Kausaite-Minkstimiene A, Uzieliene I, Ramanaviciene A, Popov A, Butkiene G, Karabanovas V, Denkovskij J, Mobasheri A, Bernotiene E

“…Comparison of median fluorescence intensity (MFI) of 50 nM COMP, 25 nM COMP, and 5 nM COMP detection using QD655 with the dilution of the detached samples with PBS and without dilution resulted in significant MFI differences in all cases. The FL signal readouts from QD655 in the microvolume format were from 10 to 40 times stronger than those measured directly from a 96-well plate QLISAs. …”
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Investigation of vitamin D deficiency in girls with growth and development variations—a single center study by Panwang Huang, Panwang Huang, Beilei Zeng, Beilei Zeng, Feng Ren, Yuan Zhou, Yuan Zhou, Ye Li, Ye Li, Yinyin Huang, Yinyin Huang, Xingyu Liu, Xingyu Liu, Jiaxiu Zhou, Jiaxiu Zhou, Yaping Ma, Yaping Ma

“…Vitamin D were measured in all girls. The 25(OH)D &lt;20 ng/ml was used as the standard for vitamin D deficiency.ResultsThe levels of vitamin D in the early puberty group, menarche group, obesity group, short stature group, and control group were as follows: 20.23 ± 5.90 ng/ml, 17.85 ± 5.69 ng/ml, 21.31 ± 8.99 ng/ml, 27.90 ± 12.27 ng/ml, and 29.42 ± 12.65 ng/ml, respectively. …”
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Innovations in Medical Education in Gastrointestinal Surgery Using Interactive Anatomical Tables by A. D. Kashtanov, E. O. Stetsyk, S. S. Dydykin, O. V. Kytko, E. M. Trunin, O. Yu. Aleshkina, A. N. Lavrentieva, A. N. Andreeva, D. S. Alekseeva, A. A. Muratova, A. Yu. Kharina, V. V. Tatarkin, A. S. Sokolova, V. N. Filatov, I. L. Samodova, E. A. Makeeva, E. S. Pekeldina, M. Yu. Kapitonova, T. S. Bikbaeva, I. A. Polkovova, B. A. Volel, T. M. Litvinova, E. N. Dudnik, N. V. Kireeva, K. V. Ivashkin, Yu. L. Vasil’ev

“…To control the effectiveness of the educational process, before the start of training, entrance testing was conducted in all groups. At the end of classes on individual topics, participants completed exit testing, as well as a questionnaire.Results. …”
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The report of Chief of the General Staff of USSR marshal Alexander Jegorov about his visit in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on 15th-26th of February, 1937 by Zenonas Butkus, Magnus llmjarv

“…The fact that the Soviet policy was supervised by the only person - Stalin - and the hasty preparation of the visit without prior decision whether it had to be a visit only to Lithuania or to all three Baltic States makes it necessary to analyze it within the broader context of international relations. …”
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Evaluation of the efficacy of transpupillary hexagonal pattern laser coagulation of the retina in the treatment of active stages of retinopathy of prematurity by A.V. Tereshchenko, I.G. Trifanenkova, Yu.A. Sidorova, V.V. Firsova

“…</p> <p> <b>Patients and Methods:</b> from 2017-2020, transpupillary LCR was performed for 161 infants (161 eyes) with an unfavorable course of ROP, active stages 2 and 3. All infants were divided into the study and control groups. …”
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Effectiveness of a specialist palliative home care nurse–patient consultation followed by an interprofessional telephone case conference compared with usual care among patients wit... by Judith Dams, Hans-Helmut König, Tim Friede, Nils Schneider, Stephanie Stiel, Martin Scherer, Silke Böttcher, Gabriella Marx, Ingmar Schäfer, Nadine Janis Pohontsch, Hendrik van den Bussche, Friedemann Nauck, Michael Freitag, Eva Hummers, Tina Mallon, Franziska Schade, Manuel Zimansky, Thomas Asendorf, Christiane A Mueller

“…Intervention will be evaluated after the observation period using qualitative methods.Ethics and dissemination The responsible ethics committees of the cooperating centres approved the study. All steps of data collection, quality assurance and data analysis will continuously be monitored. …”
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Influencing factors of occupational stress and health effect among grassroots medical and health personnel in Xiong’an New Area, Hebei Province based on Bayesian network by Huixia LI, Junqin ZHAO, Lixin YANG, Qiuying DONG, Jinmei SHI, Jianguo LI, Chunxiang ZHAO, Yan GAO

“…MethodsIn August 2021, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among all the staff (2675 medical and health personnel) at 7 secondary public hospitals and 8 health institutions in Xiong’an New Area of Hebei Province by cluster sampling. …”
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Determining dry oak lumber consumption for the production of solid edge-glued panels by Volodymyr Mayevskyy, Rostislav Moroz, Serhiy Kopynets, Oleh Ferents, Roman Shchupakivskyy, Yevstakhii Myskiv

“…During the experimental studies, an analysis was carried out of all stages of the technological process of manufacturing glued panels from solid and spliced billets. …”
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Studying the Beneficial Indicators of Intercropping of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) with Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik), and Bitter Vetch (Lath... by Amin Yari, Farzad Mondani, Alireza Bagheri, Hamid Reza Chaghazardi

“…The amount of actual yield reduction was positive for all intercropping patterns, but in the conditions where the chickpeas were cultivated as a companion crop in the intercropping, it was significantly more than the condition where the bitter vetch was cultivated as a companion crop (AYL=0.62). …”
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Efficacy and safety of guanabenz acetate treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a study protocol for a randomised investigator-initiated phase IIa study by Atsushi Nakajima, Yasushi Honda, Kento Imajo, Masato Yoneda, Yuji Ogawa, Takaomi Kessoku, Takashi Kobayashi, Anna Ozaki, Asako Nogami, Satoru Saito, Michihiro Iwaki, Kosuke Tanaka, Atsushi Yamamoto, Kota Takahashi, Yuki Kasai, Noritoshi Kobayashi

“…Guanabenz acetate, a selective α2-adrenoceptor stimulator used in the treatment of hypertension, binds at a high-affinity constant to a nuclear transcriptional coregulator, helicase with zinc finger 2 (Helz2) and inhibits Helz2-medaited steatosis in the liver; chronic oral administration of guanabenz acetate produces a dose-dependent inhibition of lipid accumulation by inhibiting lipogenesis and activating fatty acid Β-oxidation in the liver of obese mice, resulting in improvement of insulin resistance and hyperlipidaemia. Taken all together, guanabenz acetate has a potentially effective in improving the development of NAFLD/NASH and metabolic abnormalities. …”
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Intrinsic subtype and immunity score in identification of triple-negative breast cancer at low risk by Xinyu Ren, Tong Zhou, Yu Song, Huanwen Wu, Jeff Chou, Lance D. Miller, Zhiyong Liang, Songjie Shen

“…When combining intrinsic subtype and immunity status to predict the benefit from ACT, all high-risk subtype patients demonstrated improved DMFS(P = 0.075) and OS(P < 0.0001), with istrong patients exhibiting greater benefit; low-risk subtype plus iweak patients showed marginal benefit, whereas low-risk subtype plus istrong patients demonstrated least benefit from ACT. …”
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Abortion-related complications in Brazil: results from the World Health Organization Multi-country Survey on Abortion (MCS-A) by Nelio Neves Veiga Junior, Luiz Francisco Cintra Baccaro, Adriana Mendonça da Silva Alexandrino, Alexandre Volta Andrade do Nascimento, Camila Tereza Camilo Clerot, Cintya Andreia do Nascimento Santos, Claudia Lucrécia de Matos Silva, Claudio Lucio de Medeiros Albuquerque, Débora Paulo Santos, Demétrio Antonio Gonçalves da S. Gomes, Édson Cunha de Araújo Junior, Elizabete das Chagas Vilanova, Georgina Costa Teixeira, Graciete Helena Nascimento dos Santos, Guilherme Augusto Guerra Avelar, Iara Elce Lopes Barros, Jaqueline Polon Abboud, Jeane Cristina Antas Lins, Joanne Thalita Pereira Silva, Kelma H. Aguiar de Lucena, Lara Wanderley Paes Barbosa, Lia Ferreira Caixeta Barreto de Siqueira, Luciana de Melo Freitas Carneiro, Lucila Nagata, Márcia de Oliveira Pereira Lúcio, Maria Cleane Rodrigues da Silva, Maria da Conceição Ribeiro Simões, Maria Fernanda da Mota Magalhães, Mariana Viana Almeida, Michelle Regina Faria Lira, Nádia Martins de Paula Souza, Rafael Martins Papa, Rafael Ribeiro Matos, Renata Porto Pinheiro, Roberta Souza dos Anjos, Suelen Miranda de Jesus, Tedy Roger Flores Ynturias, Valéria Cristina Gonçalves, Viviane Resende de Abreu Caetano

“…A cross-sectional study in twenty hospitals (10 in Federal District, 3 in Rondônia and 7 in Maranhão). For 3 months, all women treated for abortion/miscarriage had their data collected. …”
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