Development of the novel gene chip and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) methods for rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in broth culture by Wen-Hung Wang, Chun-Yu Lin, Shu-Huei Jain, Po-Liang Lu, Yen-Hsu Chen

“…Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global public health issue. Prompt and accurate TB diagnosis is crucial for starting appropriate treatments and preventing the disease's spread. …”
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Automated diagnosis and grading of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration based on a modified YOLO framework by Aobo Wang, Tianyi Wang, Xingyu Liu, Xingyu Liu, Xingyu Liu, Ning Fan, Shuo Yuan, Peng Du, Congying Zou, Ruiyuan Chen, Yu Xi, Zhao Gu, Hongxing Song, Qi Fei, Yiling Zhang, Yiling Zhang, Lei Zang

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Comparative study on the weight loss and lipid metabolism by tea polyphenols in diet induced obese C57BL/6J pseudo germ free and conventionalized mice by Kashif Hussain, Yingying Yang, Jie Wang, Hengjuan Bian, Xi Lei, Junjie Chen, Qianying Li, Li Wang, Qingping Zhong, Xiang Fang, Yutao Wang, Hong Wei, Yigang Tong, Zhenlin Liao

“…The role of gut microbiota in terms of host health is becoming increasingly important. In this study, the comparative effects of tea polyphenols (TPs) on weight loss and lipid metabolism on conventionalized mice (CVZ) and pseudo germ-free (PGF) mice (treated with antibiotics) were investigated. …”
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Jaringan Komunitas Berbasis Similaritas Topik Bahasan dan Emosi untuk Mengidentifikasi Perilaku Pengguna Twitter by Apriantoni Apriantoni, Diana Purwitasari, Agus Budi Raharjo

“…On the other hand, after the COVID-19 period, 54 representative users were dominated by 65% of community behavior related to health with anger. Behavior changes in both periods are influenced by the transition from a distributed network pattern to a clique graph network pattern, so the centralization of information dissemination could affect the potential for increasing user behavioral changes in the community network. …”
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Rancang Bangun Aplikasi Berbasis Android untuk Perbaikan Kualitas Citra Tanaman Atas Perbedaan Spesifikasi Kamera Smartphone pada Prediksi Kandungan Pigmen Fotosintesis Secara Real... by Felix Adrian Tjokro Atmodjo, Kestrilia Rega Prilianti, Hendry Setiawan

“…Its content can be examined to determine the status of plants health. The destructive approach of evaluating pigment content is expensive and necessitates specialized handling. …”
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Glypican-3 is a key tuner of the Hedgehog pathway in COPD by Laure M.G. Petit, Lynda Saber Cherif, Maëva A. Devilliers, Sarah Hatoum, Julien Ancel, Gonzague Delepine, Anne Durlach, Xavier Dubernard, Jean-Claude Mérol, Christophe Ruaux, Myriam Polette, Gaëtan Deslée, Jeanne-Marie Perotin, Valérian Dormoy

“…Here, we investigated the co-receptors to fully decipher the complex machinery of airway HH pathway activation in health and COPD. The core elements and co-receptors of HH signalling were investigated in lung cell populations using single-cell RNAseq analysis. …”
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Sistem Monitoring Tekanan Darah Berbasis Maximum Amplitude Algorithm Menggunakan Android Secara Realtime by Barlian Henryranu Prasetio, Brylliano Maza Putra, Dahnial Syauqy

“…The value of blood pressure can be used as a reference in determining the health condition of the body. To check the blood pressure values can be done using invasive and non-invasive methods. …”
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Evolution of Treatment Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Esophageal Cancer Surgery: A Retrospective Analysis of 1500 Consecutive Esophagostomies by Yasue Kimura, MD, PhD, Eiji Oki, MD, PhD, Tomonori Nakanoko, MD, PhD, Qingjiang Hu, MD, PhD, Keita Natsugoe, MD, Sho Nanbara, MD, PhD, Ryota Nakanishi, MD, PhD, Yuichiro Nakashima, MD, PhD, Mitsuhiko Ota, MD, PhD, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, MD, PhD

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High Serum Advanced Glycation End Products Are Associated with Decreased Insulin Secretion in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Brief Report by Tsuyoshi Okura, Etsuko Ueta, Risa Nakamura, Yohei Fujioka, Keisuke Sumi, Kazuhisa Matsumoto, Kyoko Shoji, Kazuhiko Matsuzawa, Shoichiro Izawa, Yuri Nomi, Hitomi Mihara, Yuzuru Otsuka, Masahiko Kato, Shin-ichi Taniguchi, Kazuhiro Yamamoto

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Development and nutritional evaluation of pomegranate peel enriched bars. by Rameeza Abbas, Muhammad Aamir, Farhan Saeed, Amar Shankar, Jaspreet Kaur, Rutaba Nadeem, Ashish Singh Chauhan, Ali Imran, Muhammad Afzaal, Abdela Befa Kinki

“…Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is well known fruit belongs to punicaceae family having multiple health benefits, not only limited to its edible parts but also in its non-edible parts mostly the peel. …”
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One-Year Review Of Reduced Fetal Movements In Izzat Ali Shah MCH Center: A Predictor Of Poor Perinatal Outcome by Humera Rani, Gulwish Salahuddin, Ayesha Naz, Noreen Majeed, Faiza Safdar, Shazia Rafique

“…Methodology: This Prospective, Observational study was conducted at Izzat Ali Shah Maternal and child health center, unit III Gynae, Wah medical college Wah Cantt, from January 2019 to December 2019. …”
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Machine learning based on blood test biomarkers predicts fast progression in advanced NSCLC patients treated with immunotherapy by Jie Yang, Jian-Guo Zhou, Benjamin Frey, Hu Ma, Haitao Wang, Markus Hecht, Rainer Fietkau, Udo Gaipl, Xiaofei Chen, Ada Hang-Heng Wong, Fangya Tan, Si-Si He, Gang Shen, Yun-Jia Wang, Wenzhao Zhong

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Comparative evaluation of antifungal susceptibility testing methods of invasive Candida species and detection of FKS genes mutations in caspofungin intermediate and resistant isola... by Dalia Saad ElFeky, Doaa Mahdy El-Wakil, Mai M. Mwafy, Mohamed M.A. Atia, Noha Mahmoud Gohar

“…Abstract Background Fungal invasive infections caused by Candida species pose a substantial public health risk with limited therapeutic options. Antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) is necessary to optimize the therapy. …”
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Increasing prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity in childhood type 1 diabetes in the pre-COVID but not during the COVID era by Vivien Herczeg, Eszter Muzslay, Diána Czipó, Lili Terkovics, Johanna Takács, Réka Garai, Réka Garai, Fanni Kovács, Andrea Luczay, Anna Körner, Péter Tóth-Heyn

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Secretory mitophagy: an extracellular vesicle-mediated adaptive mechanism for cancer cell survival under oxidative stress by Purva V. Gade, Angela Victoria Rojas Rivera, Layla Hasanzadah, Sofie Strompf, Thomas Raymond Philipson, Matthew Gadziala, Atharva Tyagi, Arnav Bandam, Rithvik Gabbireddy, Fatah Kashanchi, Amanda Haymond, Lance A. Liotta, Marissa A. Howard

“…Accumulated damaged mitochondria are toxic and their proper removal is crucial for maintaining mitochondrial health. We propose a new cancer cell mechanism for survival that is activated when the demand for segregating and eliminating damaged mitochondria exceeds the capacity of the lysosome or proteasome. …”
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Aetiology and Outcomes of Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in a University Hospital, India by Sudha V. Hooli, Neelima Shah, Prashant Shah, Shrradha Suresh, Bali Sukeshani Sunil

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N1-methylnicotinamide promotes age-related cochlear damage via the overexpression of SIRT1 by Toru Miwa, Toru Miwa, Akihito Tarui, Akihito Tarui, Teppei Kouga, Yasunori Asai, Yasunori Asai, Hideaki Ogita, Hideaki Ogita, Taro Fujikawa, Nobuhiro Hakuba, Nobuhiro Hakuba

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Minimal disease activity and associated factors in patients with psoriatic arthritis: cross-sectional study from a single center by Murat Bektas, Berk Çelik, Burak İnce, Yasemin Yalçınkaya, Bahar Artım Esen, Ahmet Gül, Murat İnanç

“…Patients who met at least 5 of 7 criteria (tender joint count ≤ 1/68, swollen joint count ≤ 1/66, Psoriasis Area Severity Index [PASI] ≤ 1, Visual Analogue Scale [VAS] ≤ 15, patient global VAS ≤ 20, Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index [HAQ-DI] ≤ 0.5, and enthesitis number ≤ 1) were considered to achieve MDA. …”
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Malaria prevalence, transmission potential and efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapy in the Kenyan Central highlands: a zone previously characterized as malaria-free by Francis T. Kimani, Kelvin K. Thiongó, Maureen A. Otinga, Lewis K. Mbabu, Mary N. Ombati, Stanley K. Kitur, Sarah A. Ochieng’, Lucy N. Wachira, Damaris K. Matoke-Muhia, Luna Kamau

“…The malaria clinical study was an open label non-randomized clinical trial where the efficacy of one ACT drug, was evaluated in two health facilities. Microscopy was used at the facility while nested 18 s rRNA subunit gene PCR amplification and MSP-1 and MSP-2 family alleles genotyping was done in the laboratory. …”
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Impact of a positive end-expiratory pressure on oxygenation, respiratory compliance, and hemodynamics in obese patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery in reverse Trendelenburg pos... by Gulfairus A. Yessenbayeva, Aizhan M. Meyerbekova, Sergey I. Kim, Murat B. Zhumabayev, Gulbanu S. Berdiyarova, Sanzhar B. Shalekenov, Dinara S. Zharlyganova, Irina Y. Mukatova, Yekaterina A. Yukhnevich, Dmitriy A. Klyuyev, Andrey I. Yaroshetskiy

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