The Bipolar Depression Electrical Treatment Trial (BETTER): Design, Rationale, and Objectives of a Randomized, Sham-Controlled Trial and Data from the Pilot Study Phase by Bernardo de Sampaio Pereira Junior, Gabriel Tortella, Beny Lafer, Paula Nunes, Isabela Martins Benseñor, Paulo Andrade Lotufo, Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, André R. Brunoni

“…Biological markers such as blood neurotrophins and interleukins, genetic polymorphisms, heart rate variability, and motor cortical excitability will be assessed. …”
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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Patterns and Their Implications for Intervention Strategies in Vietnam by Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Son Thai Pham, Loi Doan Do, Viet Lan Nguyen, Stig Wall, Lars Weinehall, Ruth Bonita, Peter Byass

“…A cross-sectional survey in 2009 (2,130 adults) was done to collect data on behavioural CVDRF, anthropometry and blood pressure, lipidaemia profiles, and oral glucose tolerance tests. …”
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J Point and ST Elevation Resembling Brugada: A Marker of Mortality in Methanol Toxicity by Mohammad Hossein Nikoo, Alireza Estedal, Kiana Khatami, Maryam Pakfetrat, Alireza Arjangzadeh, Shahrokh Sadeghi Boogar, Sina Danesh, Seyed Taghi Heydari

“…Its presence was associated with increased mortality, Glasgow coma scale score <3, and blood sugar levels and was inversely associated with PH, O2 saturation, and calcium levels (P<0.05). …”
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Effect of Imatinib on Bone Marrow Morphology and Angiogenesis in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia by Neetu Pandey, Geeta Yadav, Rashmi Kushwaha, Shailendra Prasad Verma, Uma Shankar Singh, Ashutosh Kumar, Prabhaker Mishra

“…Hematological parameters and BCR-ABL transcript levels were assessed in the peripheral blood. Results. 86.21% of patients showed decrease in marrow cellularity with normalization of M:E ratio. 72.42% of patients had decrease in grade of fibrosis and 17.24% showed no change while 10.34% of patients showed progression of fibrosis grade. …”
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Risk Factors and Medico-Economic Effect of Pancreatic Fistula after Pancreaticoduodenectomy by Renping Huang, Bing Liu, Hua Chen, Xuewei Bai, Rui Kong, Gang Wang, Yongwei Wang, Bei Sun, Yinghui Guan

“…The excessive drinking, soft remnant pancreas, preoperative albumin, and intraoperative blood transfusion are risk factors affecting both PF and CR-PF incidence. …”
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Epidemiology and Control of diabetes - tuberculosis comorbidity in Eswatini: protocol for the prospective study of tuberculosis patients on predictive factors, treatment outcomes a... by Diederick E Grobbee, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Kennedy Otwombe, Victor Williams, Alinda Vos

“…Introduction Previous studies indicate people with diabetes mellitus (DM) may have varying treatment outcomes when receiving treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and that TB infection or its treatment may predispose them to develop an abnormal blood glucose or type 2 DM. This has implications for Eswatini which is a high TB burden country and with increasing cases of non-communicable diseases including DM. …”
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HSPB1 Regulates Autophagy and Apoptosis in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Arteriosclerosis Obliterans by Keqin Chen, Changmiao Hou, Lei Xu, Hanwu Peng, Chaogui He, Jing Liu, Guoqing Wang, Shaoshuai Huang, Xiehong Liu

“…The expression of HSPB1 was measured in normal and sclerotic blood vessels. The role of HSPB1 and its potential downstream signaling pathway were determined in VSMCs by overexpressing and silencing HSPB1. …”
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Challenges in “probing spectroscopic probes” for noninvasive simultaneous disease diagnosis by Lopamudra Roy, Shweta Paul, Amrita Banerjee, Ria Ghosh, Susmita Mondal, Monojit Das, Monojit Das, Nivedita Pan, Ishitri Das, Soumendra Singh, Debasish Bhattacharya, Asim Kumar Mallick, Samir Kumar Pal

“…Finally, a fibre-less, highly portable, and low-cost prototype was developed and tested in human clinical trials for the diagnosis of diseases, and these results were compared with conventional techniques (blood tests).…”
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iPSC-Derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium Allografts Do Not Elicit Detrimental Effects in Rats: A Follow-Up Study by Peter D. Westenskow, Felicitas Bucher, Stephen Bravo, Toshihide Kurihara, Daniel Feitelberg, Liliana P. Paris, Edith Aguilar, Jonathan H. Lin, Martin Friedlander

“…We observed no gross abnormalities in the eyes, livers, spleens, brains, and blood in aging rats with iPSC-RPE grafts. iPS-RPE cells that integrated into the subretinal space outlived the photoreceptors and survived for as long as 2 1/2 years while nonintegrating RPE cells were ingested by host macrophages. …”
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Primary amenorrhoea - cytogenetic study in 40 Indian women by Byapti Banerjee, Atreyee Dutta, Sanchita Roy, Ajanta Halder

“…To screen the chromosomal abnormalities, human leukocyte culture was accomplished with their peripheral venous blood followed by G-banding and then karyotyping was executed according to ISCN-2020.Result Out of 40 patients, 29 were normal among which 46,XX was found in 70% cases (n = 28) and 46,XX,9qh + in 2.5% (n = 1). …”
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Regional Arterial Stiffness in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by V. V. Genkel, R. G. Portnova, T. V. Antipina, I. I. Shaposhnik

“…The laboratory research plan included the analysis of complete blood count, biochemical parameters, fibrinogen and a high sensitivity  C-reactive protein (hsCRP).Results. crPWV, similar to cfPWV, was not significantly different between the groups. …”
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Exploring the Relationship Between Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor (GHSR) Gene and Body Proportions in Bangkok Chickens: Insights from DNA Sequencing and Hin6I Enzyme-Restrict... by Gayuh Syaikhullah, Rosa Tri Hertamawati, Muhammad Adhyatma

“…A total of 125 Bangkok chickens were reared, and blood samples were taken. Bangkok chickens were kept in colony cages with ad libitum feeding and drinking. …”
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Reliability of nociceptive monitors vs. standard practice during general anesthesia: a prospective observational study by Daniel Widarsson Norbeck, Sophie Lindgren, Axel Wolf, Pether Jildenstål

“…Using traditional clinical variables, such as heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and respiratory rate, to assess and manage nociceptive responses is often insufficient and could lead to overtreatment with both anesthetics and opioids. …”
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IgD Multiple Myeloma Paraproteinemia as a Cause of Myositis by I. Colombo, M. E. Fruguglietti, L. Napoli, M. Sciacco, E. Tagliaferri, A. Della Volpe, V. Crugnola, N. Bresolin, M. Moggio, A. Prelle

“…The second muscle biopsy showed the same inflammatory pattern plus an involvement of blood vessels. Direct immunofluorescence for IgD showed diffuse positivity along the sarcolemmal in both muscle biopsies. …”
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Vaginal hysterectomy versus vaginal assisted NOTES hysterectomy (VANH): a protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Merel Kimman, Ilse Bekkers, Lynn Hoen, Huib A A M van Vliet, Nicol A C Smeets, Anne Damoiseaux, Martine M L H Wassen

“…Benefits of a vaginal assisted NOTES hysterectomy (VANH) are no visible scars, less blood loss, shorter surgery time and it allows more women to undergo a hysterectomy in a day-care setting compared with the total laparoscopic hysterectomy. …”
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Intensity of Oestrus Signalling Is the Most Relevant Indicator for Animal Well-Being in High-Producing Dairy Cows by Emanuel Garcia, Jan Hultgren, Pontus Fällman, Johanna Geust, Bo Algers, George Stilwell, Stefan Gunnarsson, Heriberto Rodriguez-Martinez

“…Oestrous intensity of 37 heifers (H) and 30 1st-parity dairy cows (C1) either Swedish Red (32) or Swedish Holstein (35) with high genetic potential for milk production, was studied in relation to AI. P4-levels in blood or milk were monitored on-farm at 0, 7, and 20 d post-AI with a portable ELISA reader (eProCheck800). …”
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Laser Welding of Micro-Wire Stent Electrode as a Minimally Invasive Endovascular Neural Interface by Bo Wen, Liang Shen, Xiaoyang Kang

“…However, conventional stent electrodes often rely on resistive welding and are relatively bulky, restricting their use primarily to large animals or thick blood vessels. In this study, the feasibility is explored of fabricating a laser welding stent electrode as small as 300 μm. …”
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ACTION: Augmentation and computation toolbox for brain network analysis with functional MRI by Yuqi Fang, Junhao Zhang, Linmin Wang, Qianqian Wang, Mingxia Liu

“…It enables automatic fMRI augmentation, covering blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal augmentation and brain network augmentation. …”
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Continuous Hemofiltration Reduces Mortality in Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A Meta-Analysis by Yulin Guo, Feng Cao, Chen Li, Huaxia Yang, Shaoyou Xia, Fei Li

“…Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is a deadly condition, with a mortality rate ranging from 15% to 30%. Recently, blood purification therapy has been adopted in administrating SAP patients. …”
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Anti-hyperglycemic effects of dihydromyricetin in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats by Maojun Yao, Hui Teng, Qiyan Lv, Huifang Gao, Tengming Guo, Yiwen Lin, Sihai Gao, Meihu Ma, Lei Chen

“…Forty-eight freshly-weaned rats were randomly assigned into the negative control (Blank), low dose (100 mg/kg), medium dose (200 mg/kg), high dose (400 mg/kg), and positive (40 mg/kg, met) groups. Fasting blood glucose and body weight were measured at weekly interval. …”
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