The Diagnostic Value of Bile Acids and Amino Acids in Differentiating Acute Coronary Syndromes by Yu Q, Zhao F, Wang S, Jia X, Shen S, Zhao X, Li Y, Song J, Sun M, Liu X, Liu Z

“…., Ltd, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Laboratory Medicine, General Hospital of Fushun Mining Bureau of Liaoning Health Industry Group, Fushun, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China; 6Ultrasound Department, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Zhining Liu, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, Liaoning, 121001, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 15941695215, Email liuzhiningfuyi@163.com Xin Liu, Huludao Central Hospital Teaching Base of Jinzhou Medical University, Huludao, Liaoning, 125001, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 15941695215, Email lyy66112@163.comPurpose: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS), comprising unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction, is the most dangerous and fatal form of coronary heart disease. …”
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Genomic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in Morocco: Insights from whole genome sequences collected from 2020 to 2024 by Hamza GHAMMAZ, Marouane MELLOUL, Ahlam MBARKI, Mouhssine HEMLALI, Taha CHOUATI, Hicham EL ANNAZ, Nadia TOUIL, Mostafa ELOUENNASS, Khalid ENNIBI, Elmostafa EL FAHIME

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Clinical Study on Lumbar Disc Herniation Treated by Sling and Tuina Exercise Technique by Yi DING, Chenchen GUO, LI Li

“…All three groups received health education including activity mode adjustment, bed rest and braking, prevention and correction of bad posture, bad habits of daily life, and self-training of waist and abdomen core strength during recovery. …”
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Whole genome sequencing in early onset advanced heart failure by Erik Linnér, Tomasz Czuba, Olof Gidlöf, Jakob Lundgren, Entela Bollano, Maria Hellberg, Selvi Celik, Neha Pimpalwar, Philipp Rentzsch, Molly Martorella, Anders Gummesson, Olle Melander, Sebastian Albinsson, Göran Dellgren, Jan Borén, Anders Jeppsson, R. Thomas Lumbers, Sonia Shah, Johan Nilsson, Pradeep Natarajan, Tuuli Lappalainen, Malin Levin, Hans Ehrencrona, J. Gustav Smith

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Unveiling the nutraceutical potential of indigenous and exotic eggplant for bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity as well as its suitability to the nutraceutical industry by Yvonne Angel Lyngdoh, Yvonne Angel Lyngdoh, Partha Saha, Partha Saha, Bhoopal Singh Tomar, Rakesh Bhardwaj, Laxman L. Nandi, Mohita Srivastava, Bishal Gurung, Jeetendra Kumar Ranjan, Paresh Chaukhande

“…Eggplant is a nutritionally rich crop that has beneficial effects on human health. Wide diversity exists in eggplant in terms of biochemical content; however, extensive research work has not been undertaken to gain more in-depth knowledge on its antioxidant capacity to improve the quality of the existing popular cultivated varieties and develop/identify nutrient-rich germplasms. …”
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Establishing an Electrophysiological Recording Platform for Epidural Spinal Cord Stimulation in Neuropathic Pain Rats by Yang CT, Shyu BC, Lin WT, Lu KH, Lin CR, Wen YR, Chen CC

“…Chin-Tsang Yang,1– 3 Bai-Chuang Shyu,1 Wei-Tso Lin,4 Kuo-Hsiang Lu,4 Chung-Ren Lin,5 Yeong-Ray Wen,6– 8,* Chih-Cheng Chen1,9,10,* 1Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Department of Leisure Industry and Health Promotion, National Ilan University, Yilan, Taiwan; 3Department of Biotechnology and Animal Sciences, National Ilan University, Yilan, Taiwan; 4Gimer Medical Co., New Taipei City, Taiwan; 5Department of Anesthesiology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan; 6Pain Management and Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; 7Chun Chuan Orthopedic and Pain Specialty Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; 8Pain Management Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Jen-Ai General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; 9Neuroscience Program of Academia Sinica, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 10Taiwan Mouse Clinic, Biomedical Translational Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Chih-Cheng Chen; Yeong-Ray Wen, Email chih@ibms.sinica.edu.tw; yray.wen@gmail.comPurpose: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is pivotal in treating chronic intractable pain. …”
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Aurora B inhibition induces hyper-polyploidy and loss of long-term proliferative potential in RB and p53 defective cells by Shivam Vora, Saptarshi Chatterjee, Ariel Andrew, Ramyashree Prasanna Kumar, Martina Proctor, Zhen Zeng, Rituparna Bhatt, Deborah Nazareth, Madushan Fernando, Mathew J. K. Jones, Yaowu He, John D. Hooper, Nigel A. J. McMillan, Jelena Urosevic, Jamal Saeh, Jon Travers, Daniela Cimini, Jing Chen, Brian Gabrielli

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Time-dynamic associations between symptom-related expectations, self-management experiences and somatic symptom severity in everyday life: an ecological momentary assessment study... by Bernd Löwe, Yvonne Nestoriuc, Anne Toussaint, Stefanie Hahn, Franz Pauls, Simon Kirchhof

“…Multilevel mixed-effects linear regression analyses were conducted for data analysis.Setting Data was collected in real-time from university students via smartphones, with three predetermined assessments per day over seven consecutive days.Participants A total of 104 students (63.5% male, 0% diverse) who were 18 years or older, possessing sufficient German language skills and had access to an Android-powered smartphone were included.Interventions Participants were randomised to one of two different expectation framing groups, either receiving questionnaires for the expected impairment due to somatic symptoms (negative framing) or for the expected freedom from impairment due to somatic symptoms (positive framing).Primary outcome measures Somatic symptom severity was assessed using an adapted version of the Patient Health Questionnaire, with 11-point instead of 3-point Likert-scales. …”
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Adapting the Technology Acceptance Model to Examine the Use of Information Communication Technologies and Loneliness Among Low-Income, Older Asian Americans: Cross-Sectional Survey... by Pauline DeLange Martinez, Daniel Tancredi, Misha Pavel, Lorena Garcia, Heather M Young

“…PEOU was positively associated with PU (β=.15; P=.01); PEOU and PU were positive predictors of ICT use (PEOU β=.26, P<.001; PU β=.18, P=.01); and ICT use was negatively associated with loneliness (β=–.28, P<.001). Demographic and health covariates also significantly influenced PU, PEOU, ICT use, and loneliness. …”
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Biodegradation of CAHs and BTEX in groundwater at a multi-polluted pesticide site undergoing natural attenuation: Insights from identifying key bioindicators using machine learning... by Feiyang Xia, Tingting Fan, Mengjie Wang, Lu Yang, Da Ding, Jing Wei, Yan Zhou, Dengdeng Jiang, Shaopo Deng

“…These contaminants pose serious risks to ecosystems and human health. Natural attenuation (NA) has emerged as a sustainable solution, with microorganisms playing a crucial role in pollutant biodegradation. …”
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Application of stone needle hot compress with Traditional Chinese Medicine in nursing management of diabetic patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction (砭石中药热熨敷技术在糖尿病胃肠功能紊乱患者护理中的应用... by CHI Yu (池宇), ZHU Lin (朱琳), HOU Hailing (侯海玲), WANG Xin (王鑫)

“…Patients in the control group were given the routine treatment, which included health education, routine treatment and nursing. The observation group was additionally given the stone needle hot pressing technology. …”
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Optimizing Tongue Fluid Sampling and Testing Protocols for Enhanced PRRSV Isolation from Perinatal Swine Mortalities by Onyekachukwu Henry Osemeke, Isadora Machado, Elisa De Conti, Mariah Musskopf, Mafalda Pedro Mil-Homens, Samuel Stutzman, Baoqing Guo, Thomas Petznick, Gustavo De-Sousa-E Silva, Phillip Gauger, Jianqiang Zhang, Daniel C. L. Linhares

“…Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) remains a major concern for swine health. Isolating PRRSV is essential for identifying infectious viruses and for vaccine formulation. …”
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Enhancing predictive accuracy for urinary tract infections post-pediatric pyeloplasty with explainable AI: an ensemble TabNet approach by Hongyang Wang, Junpeng Ding, Shuochen Wang, Long Li, Jinqiu Song, Dongsheng Bai

“…By improving prediction accuracy, this model supports proactive interventions, reduces postoperative infections and re-obstruction rates, enhances pyeloplasty outcomes, and alleviates health and economic burdens. Level of evidence IV Case series with no comparison group.…”
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Polymorphisms in Adipokines in Mexican Children with Obesity by Angélica Saraí Jiménez-Osorio, Alma Olivia Aguilar-Lucio, Helios Cárdenas-Hernández, Claudette Musalem-Younes, Jacqueline Solares-Tlapechco, Paula Costa-Urrutia, Oscar Medina-Contreras, Julio Granados, Martha Eunice Rodríguez-Arellano

“…The high prevalence of childhood obesity in Mexico is alarming in the health-science field. We propose to investigate the contribution of adipokines and cytokines polymorphisms and common BMI/obesity-associated loci, revealed in genome-wide association studies in Caucasian adult cohorts, with childhood obesity. …”
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Evaluation of diesel engine performance and emissions using biodiesel from waste oils synthesized with Fe3O4-SiO2 heterogeneous nano catalyst by Suleiman Ibrahim Shelash Mohammad, Asokan Vasudevan, K.D.V. Prasad, Inas Ridha Ali, Abhinav Kumar, Ankur Kulshreshta, Vikasdeep Singh Mann, I.B. Sapaev, Teku Kalyani, Mohammad Sina

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Quantitative Validation of Hematocrit Percentage Drop Cutoff Points in Postpartum Hemorrhage: An Automated Gravimetric Approach by Venance Basil Kway, José Enrique Calacuayo Rojas, Josué Sidonio Rodríguez Cuevas, Ursula Medina Moreno, José Sergio Camacho Juárez, Jorge Francisco Ayala González, Karla Krebs Larraga, Ilse Veronica Castro Martinez, Roberto Arturo Castillo Reyther, Antonio Gordillo Moscoso, Yang Pan

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Changes in the critical nutrient content of packaged foods and beverages after the full implementation of the Chilean Food Labelling and Advertising Law: a repeated cross-sectional... by Natalia Rebolledo, Pedro Ferrer-Rosende, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Camila Corvalán

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Summer Research Internship Curriculum to Promote Self-Efficacy, Researcher Identity, and Peer-to-Peer Learning: Retrospective Cohort Study by Yulia A Levites Strekalova, Rachel Liu-Galvin, Samuel Border, Sara Midence, Mishal Khan, Maya VanZanten, John Tomaszewski, Sanjay Jain, Pinaki Sarder

“…HuBMAP, a 400-member research consortium funded by the Common Fund at the National Institutes of Health, offered a 10-week summer research internship that included an academic enrichment curriculum delivered synchronously via the web to all students across multiple sites. …”
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Serological Diagnosis of <i>Brucella</i> Infection in Cetaceans by Rapid Serum Agglutination Test and Competitive ELISA with <i>Brucella abortus</i> and <i>Brucella ceti</i> as Ant... by Tiziana Di Febo, Gabriella Di Francesco, Carla Grattarola, Luigina Sonsini, Ludovica Di Renzo, Giuseppe Lucifora, Roberto Puleio, Cristina Esmeralda Di Francesco, Camilla Smoglica, Giovanni Di Guardo, Manuela Tittarelli

“…Rose Bengal antigen and smooth lipopolysaccharide (s-LPS) were produced from a field strain of <i>Brucella ceti</i> (“homologous” antigens) and from the reference strain <i>B. abortus</i> S99 (“heterologous” antigens); they are currently used for the diagnosis of brucellosis in cattle, water buffaloes, sheep, goats, and pigs, as recommended in the Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). “Homologous” and “heterologous” antigens were used in a rapid serum agglutination test (Rose Bengal test, RBT) and a competitive ELISA assay (c-ELISA) to test a panel of sera, blood, and other body fluids (cerebrospinal fluid, pericardial fluid, tracheal fluid, and aqueous humor) collected from 71 individuals belonging to five cetacean species (<i>Stenella coeruleoalba</i>; <i>Tursiops truncatus</i>; <i>Grampus griseus</i>; <i>Globicephala melas</i>; and <i>Ziphius cavirostris</i>), which were found stranded on the Italian coastline. …”
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Exploration of the mechanism of fermented turmeric preventing glucolipid metabolic disorder: Insights into signaling of microbiota-SCFAs-brown adipose tissue axis in mice by Xingliang Xiang, Yukun Liu, Zhaoxiang Zeng, Xueyan Zhao, Qingxin Shi, Xing Huang, Haijun Yang, Chengwu Song, Shunqing Xu, Shuna Jin

“…Glucolipid metabolic disorder (GMD) is an urgent global public health problem. Fermented turmeric (FT) might be a functional food resource for prevention and treatment of GMD, but its effect and mechanism remain unclear. …”
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