Physiological and Biochemical Effects of Potassium Deficiency on Apple Tree Growth by Evangelia-Vasiliki Ladikou, Gerasimos Daras, Marco Landi, Theocharis Chatzistathis, Thomas Sotiropoulos, Stamatis Rigas, Ioannis E. Papadakis

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Effect of partial oocyte maturation before ovum pick up on developmental competence of buffalo oocytes by Amjad Riaz, Muhammad K. Ashraf, Talha Ashraf, Ali Husnain, Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad H. Mushtaq, Burhan E. Azam

“…The estrous cycle of buffalo was synchronized by double shot prostaglandin (PGF2α, Fatro, Ozzano Emilia, Italy) with 11-day intervals. On the last PGF2α, dominant follicle ablation and supplementation of progesterone by inserting intra- vaginal controlled internal drug release was performed to synchronize the follicle wave emergence and considered as Day 0 of the experiment. …”
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Non-Invasive Detection of Tumors by Volatile Organic Compounds in Urine by Tomoaki Hara, Sikun Meng, Yasuko Arao, Yoshiko Saito, Kana Inoue, Aya Hasan Alshammari, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Eric di Luccio, Andrea Vecchione, Takaaki Hirotsu, Hideshi Ishii

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Environmental maternal exposures and the risk of premature birth and intrauterine growth restriction: The Generation Gemelli study protocol of newborn exposome. by Leonardo Villani, Angelo Maria Pezzullo, Roberta Pastorino, Alessandra Maio, Francesca Stollagli, Chiara Tirone, Marta Barba, Angela Maria Cozzolino, Denise Pires Marafon, Martina Porcelli, Annamaria Sbordone, Maria Letizia Patti, Anthea Bottoni, Angela Paladini, Simona Fattore, Domenico Marco Romeo, Ornella Parolini, Wanda Lattanzi, Guido Rindi, Luca Tamagnone, Marco Marazza, Maurizio Genuardi, Elisabetta Tabolacci, Eugenio Maria Mercuri, Antonio Chiaretti, Tina Pasciuto, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Vincenzo Valentini, Giovanni Scambia, Walter Ricciardi, Giovanni Vento, Antonio Lanzone, Stefania Boccia

“…Generation Gemelli is a recently launched case-control study that enrolls mother-newborns pairs in one of the largest university hospitals in Italy, in order to examine the association between maternal environmental exposures and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and the risk of premature birth. …”
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Comparative profitability of agroecological practices in Ethiopian wheat farming by Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’a, Sylvester Ochieng Ogutu, Degefie Tibebe, Devinia Akinyi, Jonathan Mockshell

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Torque visuomotor feedback training versus standard eccentric exercise for the management of patellar tendinopathy: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by David Evans, Francesco Negro, Michail Arvanitidis, Eduardo Martinez-Valdes, Ragul Selvamoorthy, Patricio Pincheira

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Model analysis of biases in the satellite-diagnosed aerosol effect on the cloud liquid water path by H. Kokkola, H. Kokkola, J. Tonttila, S. M. Calderón, S. Romakkaniemi, A. Lipponen, A. Peräkorpi, T. Mielonen, E. Gryspeerdt, T. H. Virtanen, P. Kolmonen, A. Arola

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RESISTANCE TO THE BLAST AGENT AND THE MORPHOBIOLOGICALFEATURES OF GENOTYPES IN THE Oryza sativa L. COLLECTION FROM VARIOUS ECOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL GROUPS IN CONDITIONS OF КUBAN... by T. L. Korotenko, O. A. Bragina, I. I. Suprun, Zh. M. Mukhina, Yu. V. Epifanovich, A. A. Petrukhnenko, T. А. Khorina

“…Most often stable forms were found among the germplasm from China, Italy, the Philippines and Korea, and the unstable ones were from African countries, Japan, Primorye and Vietnam. …”
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Risk Factors for Microvascular Complications of Diabetes in a High-Risk Middle East Population by Sohaila Cheema, Patrick Maisonneuve, Mahmoud Zirie, Amin Jayyousi, Hekmat Alrouh, Amit Abraham, Sura Al-Samraye, Ziyad Mahfoud, Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Janahi, Buthaina Ibrahim, Albert B. Lowenfels, Ravinder Mamtani

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Longitudinal assessment of thyroid function in dogs with hypoadrenocorticism: Clinical outcomes and prevalence of autoantibodies by Nadja S. Sieber‐Ruckstuhl, Barbara Riond, Federico Fracassi, Claudia Kuemmerle‐Fraune, Solène Meunier, Regina Hofmann‐Lehmann, Claudia E. Reusch, Claudia Mueller, Natalie Hofer‐Inteeworn, Felicitas S. Boretti

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Relevance of the GH-VEGFB/VEGFA axis in liver grafts from brain-dead donors with alcohol-associated liver disease by Marc Micó-Carnero, Marc Micó-Carnero, Carlos Rojano-Alfonso, Carlos Rojano-Alfonso, Cristina Maroto-Serrat, Cristina Maroto-Serrat, Juan Carlos Cutrin, Araní Casillas-Ramírez, Araní Casillas-Ramírez, Carmen Peralta

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The People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR in the City of Kuibyshev (1941-1943) by S. I. Chernyavsky

“…Due to the opposition of the Western powers, domestic diplomacy failed to create a collective security system to prevent the aggression of Germany, Italy and Japan. Negotiations with representatives of Great Britain and France, which were conducted in 1939, were interrupted and relations with these countries were virtually frozen.Some important strategic tasks were set before Soviet diplomacy. …”
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Prospective Application of the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) as a Possible Inflammatory Marker in Feline Patients by Eleonora Gori, Anna Pasquini, Saverio Paltrinieri, George Lubas, Carlo Militello, Daniela Diamanti, Carlo Carletti, Marianna Pantoli, Veronica Marchetti

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Promoter Methylation Precedes Chromosomal Alterations in Colorectal Cancer Development by Sarah Derks, Cindy Postma, Peter T. M. Moerkerk, Sandra M. van den Bosch, Beatriz Carvalho, Mario A. J. A. Hermsen, Walter Giaretti, James G. Herman, Matty P. Weijenberg, Adriaan P. de Bruïne, Gerrit A. Meijer, Manon van Engeland

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Training received, knowledge, and use of Silver Diamine Fluoride among Italian dentists: a nationwide survey by Claudia Salerno, Giulio Conti, Silvia Cirio, Cinzia Maspero, Andrea Senna, Guglielmo Campus, Maria Grazia Cagetti

“…The use of SDF among Italian dentists is still far from being a reality. In Italy, it is necessary to increase training on SDF, primarily through the university, to hopefully increase its use, especially in non-invasive caries treatment.…”
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Gut-Heart Axis: Microbiome Involvement in Restrictive Cardiomyopathies by Samuel Jaimez-Alvarado, Itzel Ivonn López-Tenorio, Javier Barragán-De los Santos, Dannya Coral Bello-Vega, Francisco Javier Roldán Gómez, Amedeo Amedei, Enrique Alexander Berrios-Bárcenas, María Magdalena Aguirre-García

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Hemorrhoidal disease: what role can rectal artery embolization play? by Julien Panneau, Julien Panneau, Julien Panneau, Diane Mege, Mathieu Di Bisceglie, Mathieu Di Bisceglie, Mathieu Di Bisceglie, Julie Duclos, Idir Khati, Vincent Vidal, Vincent Vidal, Vincent Vidal, Gaetano Gallo, Farouk Tradi, Farouk Tradi, Farouk Tradi

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Perioperative estimations of oxygen consumption from LiDCO™plus-derived cardiac output and Ca-cvO2 difference: Relationship with measurements by indirect calorimetry in elderly pat... by Julia Jakobsson, Carl Norén, Eva Hagel, Magnus Backheden, Sigridur Kalman, Erzsébet Bartha

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We investigated the relationship between perioperative estimations of VO2 (EVO2), from LiDCO™plus-derived (LiDCO Ltd, Cambridge, UK) cardiac output and arterial-central venous oxygen content difference (Ca-cvO2), with indirect calorimetry (GVO2) by QuarkRMR (COSMED srl. Italy), using data collected 2017-2018 during a prospective observational study on perioperative oxygen transport in 20 patients >65 years during epidural and general anaesthesia for open pancreatic or liver resection surgery. …”
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Demographics and Clinical and Endoscopic Characteristics of Patients with Helicobacter pylori Infection and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Case-Control Study by Amir Mari, Naim Mahroum, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Mahran Shalaata, Tawfik Khoury, Abdulla Watad, Mahmud Mahamid

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Case report of the first use of a hydrogel rectal spacer for prostate cancer reirradiation via LDR brachytherapy: applications and technical notes by Amina Lazrek, Sebastiano Finocchi Ghersi, Adeline Petre, Sarah Houabes, Anne-Agathe Serre, Frederic Gassa, Magali Sandt, Cecile Laude, Camille Roukoz, Salvatore Cozzi

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