Functional Status of Pancreatic α and β Cells in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients with Different Plasma Triglyceride Levels: A Retrospective Analysis by Hang Guo, Chunlei Ma, Xiaoming Wu, Congqing Pan

“…A total of 328 patients with T2DM were divided into three groups according to different TG levels: the TGL group: TG < 1.7 mmol/L; TGM group: 1.7 mmol/L ≤ TG < 2.3 mmol/L; and TGH group: TG ≥ 2.3 mmol/L. …”
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Secondary Prevention Using Cholesterol-Lowering Medications in Patients with Prior Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis by Xue Han, Steven Fox, Michelle Chu, Jeff McCombs

“…Eligible patients were categorized by treatment group: (1) patients who initiated treatment before an ASCVD-related hospitalization and (2) patients who either did not initiate treatment until after an ASCVD hospitalization or never initiated treatment. …”
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Testing the effect of ecolabels on the environmental impact of food purchases in worksite cafeterias: a randomised controlled trial by Madison Luick, Cristina Stewart, Michael Clark, Paul Bateman, Elizabeth Biggs, Brian Cook, Melissa Little, Gina M. Wren, Susan A. Jebb, Rachel Pechey

“…Therefore, this group was treated as part of the control, creating two groups: (1) control (no ecolabels) (n = 35), and (2) ecolabels (n = 19). …”
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Gestational weight gain patterns as predictors of cesarean deliveries in women diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus by Tzu-Ling Chen, Su-Fen Cheng, Chien-Lin Kuo, Chu-Yu Huang, Chia-Hsun Wu

“…Results Gestational weight gain patterns were classified into two groups during the pregnancy period: group 1 (non-rapid excessive weight gain) and group 2 (rapid excessive weight gain), comprising 70.2% and 29.8% of participants, respectively. …”
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Effect of intramuscular treatment with different iron dextran dosages and non-inferiority study to gleptoferron by Isabel Hennig-Pauka, Martin Ganter, Dirk Bornhorn, Wesley Lyons, Enric Marco, Glen Almond, Bettina Schneider, Lothar Kreienbrock, Ken Steen Pedersen

“…Within each out of 17 litters eight healthy piglets were allocated to one of the four treatment groups on the second day of life: (1) 200 mg iron dextran, (2) 200 mg gleptoferron and 45 mg toltrazuril in combination, (3) 300 mg iron dextran, (4) 200 mg iron dextran and additional intramuscular administration of 200 mg iron dextran on day 11 of life. Pigs of groups 1, 3 and 4 received toltrazuril orally. Red blood cell measures were determined prior to treatment on day 2 of life and at weaning. …”
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Effects of Semaglutide Treatment on Psoriatic Lesions in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An Open-Label, Randomized Clinical Trial by Jelena Petković-Dabić, Ivana Binić, Bojana Carić, Ljiljana Božić, Sanja Umičević-Šipka, Nataša Bednarčuk, Saša Dabić, Mirna Šitum, Snježana Popović-Pejičić, Miloš P. Stojiljković, Ranko Škrbić

“…This randomized clinical study was conducted on 31 psoriatic patients with T2DM that were randomized into two groups: one that received semaglutide during the 12-week trial (<i>n</i> = 15), while the second was control (<i>n</i> = 16). …”
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Biochemical and Histopathological Studies of Key Tissues in Healthy Male Wistar Rats Fed on African Yam Bean Seed and Tuber Meals by Omena Bernard Ojuederie, John Adebayo Ajiboye, Olubukola Oluranti Babalola

“…Thirty rats were randomly assigned into five groups (n = 6). Group I was fed on standard pelletized rat chow (control), Group II fed on 50% seed meal, Group III fed on 100% seed meal, Group IV fed on 50% tuber meal, and Group-V fed on 100% tuber meal. …”
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Evaluation of the Level of Salivary sHLA-G in Children Aged 3–5 Years with or without Dental Caries by Mansoureh Bijani, Amrollah Mostafazadeh, Mina Motallebnejad, Ali Bijani, Roghiyeh Pourbagher, Samaneh Gharekhani

“…This analytic cross-sectional study was carried out on 83 healthy children aged 3 to 5 years of both genders, who were divided into three groups based on decayed dental surfaces (ds): group 1, caries-free children (CF, n = 29); group 2, children with 1 ≤ ds ≤ 3, 1 ≤ ds ≤ 4, and 1 ≤ ds ≤ 5 for age 3, 4, and 5 years, respectively (ECC, n = 20); and group 3, children with ds ≥ 4, ds ≥ 5, and ds ≥ 6 for age 3, 4, and 5 years, respectively (S-ECC, n = 34). …”
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Anti-arthritic potential of crude sulfated polysaccharide from marine macroalgae Sargassum ilicifolium (Turner) C. Agardh: Regulation of cytokine cascade by Ramamoorthi Lavanya, Jeyabalan Srikanth, Sankar Seethalakshmi, Begum M. Yasmin, Duraipandian Chamundeeswari, Sekar Mahendran, Wong Ling Shing, Subramaniyan Vetriselvan

“…A complete Freund’s adjuvant-induced arthritis was used to test the in vivo activity in female Sprague–Dawley rats, which were divided into five groups: (1) normal control, (2) arthritic control, (3) methotrexate treatment (0.1 mg/kg), (4) crude sulfated polysaccharide (CSP) (5 mg/kg), and (5) CSP (10 mg/kg). …”
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A Comparative Study between outcome of 25% glucose in glycerin and submucosal human placental extract injection in the management of Primary Atrophic Rhinitis by Amlan Debbarma, Bidhan Das, Santanu Saha

“…Patients who had been diagnosed with primary atrophic rhinitis were divided into 2 groups, i.e., Group A and Group B. Group A was administered submucosal human placental extract injection, once a week for 6 months and Group B was advised 25% glucose in glycerin nasal drop, 10 drops in each nostril twice daily for 6 months following which the response of both the groups was recorded. …”
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Analysis of DNA cox1 barcoding revealed novel haplotype in Schistosoma haematobium isolated from Western Sudan by Ishraga Adam Elzain, Abeer Babiker Idris, Abdul Aziz Karim, Nagla Mohamed Ahmed, Salaheldein G. Elzaki, Semih Yılmaz, Mohamed A. Hassan, Hamid Suliman Abdalla

“…Both El-Fasher S. haematobium haplotype (Hap_1) and Gezira haplotype (Hap_31) fall within the mainland Africa group (group 1). In conclusion, this study identified a novel S. haematobium strain and provides insights into the evolutionary history and phylogeography of S. haematobium in Sudan, particularly in the western region. …”
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Contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems deploy a large family of polymorphic ionophoric toxins for inter-bacterial competition. by Tiffany M Halvorsen, Kaitlin A Schroeder, Allison M Jones, Disa Hammarlöf, David A Low, Sanna Koskiniemi, Christopher S Hayes

“…Comparative sequence analyses led to the identification of receptor proteins for ionophore toxins from groups 1 & 3 (AcrB), group 2 (SecY) and groups 4 (YciB). …”
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Comparison of the effects of exergaming and balance training on dynamic postural stability during jump-landing in recreational athletes with chronic ankle instability. by Sadaf Sepasgozar Sarkhosh, Roya Khanmohammadi, Zeinab Shiravi

“…Results indicated a significant decrease in ML SI in both groups one month after treatment compared to before and after treatment (P = 0.013 and P<0.001, respectively). …”
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Immunogenicity in humans of a transdermal multipeptide melanoma vaccine administered with or without a TLR7 agonist by Craig L Slingluff, Gina R Petroni, Walter C Olson, Kimberly A Chianese-bullock, Donna Deacon, Mark Smolkin, William W Grosh, Max O Meneveau, Kevin T Lynch, Elise P Salerno, Elizabeth Woodson, James W Patterson

“…Toxicities were recorded and immune responses assayed by ELIspot.Results CD8+ T cell responses to transdermal vaccination in DMSO occurred in 83% of participants in group 3 and 86% in group 4, and responses to vaccination in IFA were observed in 29% of participants in group 1 and 14% in group 2. Overall, 61% of participants had CD4+ T cell immune responses to the tetanus peptide, with large, durable responses in groups 3 and 4. …”
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Predictors of Young Adult Women’s Psychological Well-Being in Romantic Relationships by Elif Yöyen, Süreyya Çalık, Tülay Güneri Barış

“…Data were collected using the Sociodemographic Data Form, the Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS), the Basic Empathy Scale (BES), the Sexual Quality of Life Scale—Women’s Form (SQLS), the Relationship Stability Scale (RSS), the Passionate Love Scale (PLS) and the Romantic Relationship Closeness Scale (RRCS). Independent group <i>t</i>-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation analysis, and regression analysis were used to analyse the data. …”
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Bioaugmented design and functional evaluation of low damage implantable array electrodes by Ling Wang, Chenrui Zhang, Zhiyan Hao, Siqi Yao, Luge Bai, Joaquim Miguel Oliveira, Pan Wang, Kun Zhang, Chen Zhang, Jiankang He, Rui L. Reis, Dichen Li

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Comparing some blood parameters of ski racers and long-distance athletes by Banu Can, Metin Bayram, Gökhan Bayraktar, Harun Akyol

“…Sixty male and female sedentary and national elite level athletes in the range of 18-22 years voluntarily participated in this research. 60 volunteers were divided into 3 groups as the control group (10 males, 10 females), the experimental group 1 (10 males, 10 female athletes) and the experimental group 2 (10 males, 10 female ski runners). …”
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Development of the genetic classification of Aegilops columnaris Zhuk. chromosomes based on the analysis of introgression lines Triticum aestivum×Ae. columnaris by A. A. Shishkina, A. Yu. Dragovich, A. S. Rouban, S. N. Sibikeev, A. E. Druzhin, E. D. Badaeva

“…Taking into consideration our previous results of FISH analyses, three other Ae. columnaris chromosomes can be assigned to homoeologous groups 1, 5 and 7 of the U-genome based on the location of 5S and 45S rDNA loci (1U and 5U) or pSc119.2 probe distribution (7U). …”
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Effects of information on consumer attitudes towards gene-edited foods: a comparison between livestock and vegetables by Naoko Kato-Nitta, Yusuke Inagaki, Tadahiko Maeda, Masashi Tachikawa

“…Methods Using a web survey, split-ballot experimental design was used to randomly assign the respondents into two groups: (1) the animal group, for which information on breeding technologies, including gene editing, was provided using pig illustrations. (2) The plant group, for which information was provided using tomato illustrations. …”
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Impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus on low-grade inflammation in patients with ST-elevated myocardial infarction by M.V. Bielinskyi, N.M. Seredyuk, A.I. Vytryhovskiy, V.D. Koroliuk

“…The study population was divided into three groups: 1 – consisting of 45 patients with both STEMI and T2DM, and the 2 – consisting of 34 patients with STEMI only, T2DM only group – 69 patients, Control group – 10 healthy patients. …”
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