To Hemoadsorb or Not to Hemoadsorb—Do We Have the Answer Yet? An Updated Meta-Analysis on the Use of CytoSorb in Sepsis and Septic Shock by Carmen Orban, Angelica Bratu, Mihaela Agapie, Tudor Borjog, Mugurel Jafal, Romina-Marina Sima, Oana Clementina Dumitrașcu, Mihai Popescu

“…We did not observe any significant difference in either intensive care unit length of stay (<i>p</i> = 0.93) or between end-of-treatment severity scores in the two groups (<i>p</i> = 0.24). Conclusions: Although it has a high risk of bias, current evidence does not support the routine use of CytoSorb in critically ill septic patients. …”
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An In Vitro Comparative Study of the Push-out Bond Strengths of Various Endodontic Sealers to Radicular Dentin by Mohamed Abdelaziz El Sayed, Safiya Saeed Alderei

“…The roots were divided into 4 groups (N = 10) according to the type of root canal sealers: Group 1 (control group): AH Plus/Gutta-percha lateral condensation technique (LC); Group 2: AH Plus/Gutta-percha single-cone technique (SC); Group 3: GuttaFlow 2/SC; Group 4: Realseal SE/SC. …”
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Relation between Headache and Mastication Muscle Tone in Adolescents by Ewa Wozniak, Jolanta E. Loster, Aneta Wieczorek

“…Then, volunteers were divided into two groups: group I reporting headache and group II without any pain. …”
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Effect of age on the treatment duration and proposed “impacted incisor severity score” of impacted maxillary incisor: A retrospective study by Umer Mukhtar, Manoj kumar Jaiswal, Rigzen Tamchos, Ashima Goyal, Satinder Pal Singh, Aditi Kapur

“…Patients were then divided into group 1 (<11years) and group 2 (11–15years) with a mean age of 9.51 ± 1.2 and 13.31 ± 1.74, respectively. …”
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Clinical efficacy of a virtual reality tool for the treatment of obesity: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial by Dimitra Anastasiadou, Jose Antonio Ramos-Quiroga, Mel Slater, Bernhard Spanlang, Desiderio Cano Porras, Marta Comas, Andreea Ciudin, Gemma Parramon Puig, Julia Vázquez-De Sebastián, Pilar Lusilla-Palacios

“…Participants will be recruited from the external consultations of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and be randomly assigned to three groups. The experimental group 1 will engage in a virtual self-conversation using the ConVRself platform, the experimental group 2 will participate in a ‘pre-established discourse’ provided by the virtual counsellor, who will give psychoeducation advice, and the control group will continue with treatment as usual. …”
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Evaluation of patient comfort and satisfaction after the surgical removal of mandibular impacted molars using a piezo-electric technique: A randomized double-blind clinical trial by Khalid Zabin Alotaibi, Waleed Mohammed Al Rasheed, Jiingade Krishnojirao Dayashankara Rao, Abdulrahman Altwaijri, Gharam Mefleh Alharbi, Shatha saleh Aljaber

“…Tactile sensation was less in the Piezo group (1.24 ± 0.436) vs (2.28 ± 0.678) (p = 0.001). …”
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Human Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of ARDS in Rat by Zurab Kakabadze, Nicholas Kipshidze, Teona Paresishvili, Nodar Kipshidze, Zurab Vadachkoria, David Chakhunashvili

“…The rats were randomly divided into five groups: I: LPS, II: LPS+dexamethasone, III: LPS+HPMSCs, IV: HPMSC, and V: saline. …”
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Research Note: Reduction of Salmonella load in Brazilian commercial chicken farms using INSPEKTOR®: a bacteriophage-based product by Michael Pino, Karen Mujica, Paola Mora-Uribe, Héctor Garcias-Papayani, Braulio Paillavil, Camilo Avendaño, Diego Flores-Crisosto, Rodrigo Norambuena, Victoria Rojas-Martínez, Matías Aguilera, Nicolás Cifuentes Muñoz, Pablo Cifuentes, Hans Pieringer, Soledad Ulloa

“…This study evaluated the effectiveness of the INSPEKTOR® phage cocktail for controlling Salmonella on 17 commercial broiler farms on a total of 4 experimental groups (1 control cycle and 3 consecutive treatment cycles) using 3 doses of the cocktail for each cycle. …”
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The Anti-Cytokine Storm Activity of Quercetin Zinc and Vitamin C Complex by Hayder B. Sahib, Omer Abid Kathum, Rafal Shakeeb Alanee, Rehab A. M Jawad, Ahmed Majeed Al-Shammari

“…Thirty mice were used to investigate the acute toxicity; mice were distributed into six groups: one control group and five treated groups; then several serial dilutions from the complex have been prepared for different concentrations from 5 g/kg to 0.312 g/kg. …”
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Pelvic Floor Muscle Training vs. Vaginal Vibration Cone Therapy for Postpartum Dyspareunia and Vaginal Laxity by Federico Villani, Izabella Petre, Florina Buleu, Stela Iurciuc, Luciana Marc, Adrian Apostol, Chiara Valentini, Elisabetta Donati, Tommaso Simoncini, Ion Petre, Cristian Furau

“…FSFI scores improved significantly in both groups, with greater enhancements in arousal, desire, and pain domains observed in the VCG group (<i>p</i> < 0.01). Vaginal cone therapy also resulted in slightly higher gains in overall pelvic floor strength. …”
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Comparative efficacy of programmed death ligand 1 inhibition and chemotherapy in advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer with combined positive score – a meta-analysis... by Zakari Shaibu, Fumeng Yang, Liu Ting, Lily Dzidula, Amina Elmi Yusuf, Zhi-hong Chen, Wei Zhu

“…Our analysis revealed no statistically significant difference in CPS values between PD-L1 inhibitors and chemotherapy groups (≥ 1 : 1.03 [95% CI: 0.86–1.24], ≤ 1 : 0.92 [95% CI: 0.77–1.11]). …”
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Renal Dysfunction Is an Independent Risk Factor for Poor Outcome in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Treated with Intravenous Thrombolysis: A New Cutoff Value by Elyar Sadeghi-Hokmabadi, Demet Funda Baş, Mehdi Farhoudi, Aliakbar Taheraghdam, Daryoush Savadi Oskouei, Mohammad Yazdchi, Maziyar Hashemilar, Nevzat Uzuner, Reshad Mirnour, Ertugrul Colak, Atilla Özcan Özdemir

“…Patients were divided into two groups: (1) control group with GFR ≥ 45 mL/min/1.73 m2 and (2) low GFR group with GFR < 45 mL/min/1.73 m2. …”
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In Vitro and In Vivo Wound Healing Activity of Astragalus floccosus Boiss. (Fabaceae) by Fatemeh Akbari, Mohammad Azadbakht, Ali Bagheri, Lale Vahedi

“…The rats were put into four groups and treated on a daily basis for 21 days with a cream containing 1.5% of the RFF (group 1), silver sulfadiazine (group 2), and Vaseline (group 3) separately. …”
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Immunomodulatory effects of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum CCFM8661 + stachyose on cyclophosphamide-induced immunosuppression mice by Weiwei Ma, Hang Sun, Lian Lian, Lidong Guo, Yanyan Wang, Lili Huang

“…This study aims to investigate the immunoregulatory effects of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum CCFM8661 combined with stachyose in cyclophosphamide-induced immunocompromised mice.MethodsMice were divided into the normal control group, model control group (normal saline), positive drug control group (levamisole hydrochloride, 10 mg/kg), and low, medium, and high-dose groups (1.5×105, 1.5×106, and 1.5×107 CFU of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum CCFM8661 + 1.5 mg stachyose). …”
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Influence of Nursing Time and Staffing on Medication Errors: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Administrative Data by Mutsuko Moriwaki, Michiko Tanaka, Masayuki Kakehashi, Masato Koizumi, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Kenshi Hayashida

“…The mean nursing time per patient during day shift was 1.95 h (SD = 0.58) in the non-medication error group and 2.06 h (SD = 0.58) in the medication error group (<i>p</i> < 0.01). The nursing time per patient in the medication error group compared to that in the non-medication error group had an odds ratio of 1.31 (<i>p</i> < 0.01) during day shifts. …”
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Assessing Gender Dimorphism Indicators in Anthropometric Characteristics and Features of the Bony Pelvis of Female Representatives of Pair and Group Types in Sports Acrobatics by Nataliia Veronika Bachynska, Eduard Doroshenko, Andrii Svatiev, Victor Bohuslavskyi

“…Girls of the same age categories (12-15 and 16-23 years old) who did not engage in playing sports (control group 1 and 2) also took part in the study. The research methods employed included the measurements of body length (cm), body weight (kg), shoulder width (cm), determination of body mass index (conventional unit); pelvimetry was performed to detect the transverse and longitudinal dimensions of the bony pelvis, as well as the degree of maturity of the pelvic bones using the index of pelvic bone (IPB). …”
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Efficacy of Hi-Lo Evac Endotracheal Tube in Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Poisoned Patients by Ahmad Ghoochani Khorasani, Shahin Shadnia, Mohammad Mashayekhian, Mitra Rahimi, Abbas Aghabiklooei

“…In this clinical randomized trial, 91 eligible patients with an expected duration of mechanical ventilation of more than 48 hours were recruited and randomly assigned into two groups: (1) subglottic secretion drainage (SSD) group who were intubated by Evac ETT (n=43) and (2) control group who were intubated by C-ETT (n=48). …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Stem Cells on Male Infertility in a Rat Model: Histological, Molecular, Biochemical, and Functional Study by Sally S. Mohammed, Mona F. Mansour, Noha A. Salem

“…Thirty rats were divided randomly into three groups (ten rats each): group 1 (control): animals received an intraperitoneal injection of 2 ml phosphate-buffered saline per week for 4 weeks, group 2 (MTX-treated group): animals were intraperitoneally injected with methotrexate (8 mg/kg) once weekly for 4 weeks, and group 3 (ADMSC-treated group): methotrexate-treated animals received a single dose of 1×106 stem cells/rat at the 5th week. …”
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Evaluation of humoral immune response and milk antibody transfer in calves and lactating cows vaccinated with inactivated H5 avian influenza vaccine by Mohamed Samy Abousenna, Nermeen G. Shafik, Mahmoud M. Abotaleb

“…Results showed a dose-dependent immune response, with higher doses producing stronger and more sustained antibody levels. Group 1 maintained a stable HI titer of 6 log2, while Groups 2, 3, and 4 peaked at 8, 9, and 9 log2, respectively, by the fourth week post-vaccination. …”
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Fenofibrate Protects Cardiomyocytes from Hypoxia/Reperfusion- and High Glucose-Induced Detrimental Effects by Fabiola Cortes-Lopez, Alicia Sanchez-Mendoza, David Centurion, Luz G. Cervantes-Perez, Vicente Castrejon-Tellez, Leonardo del Valle-Mondragon, Elizabeth Soria-Castro, Victoria Ramirez, Araceli Sanchez-Lopez, Gustavo Pastelin-Hernandez, Wylly Ramses Garcia-Niño, Maria Sanchez-Aguilar, Luz Ibarra-Lara

“…Cardiomyocyte cultures were divided into four main groups: (1) control (CT), (2) HG (25 mM), (3) H/R, and (4) HG+H/R. …”
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