In situ forming gels as subcutaneous delivery systems of curcumin and piperine by Walter Pula, Alessia Pepe, Francesca Ferrara, Agnese Bondi, Paolo Mariani, Maria Grazia Ortore, Alessandra Pecorelli, John Ivarsson, Giuseppe Valacchi, Elisabetta Esposito

“…Structural characterization, performed by X-ray scattering, revealed disordered reverse micellar phases, undergoing transition to hexagonal and cubic Pn3m phase upon hydration. In vitro dialysis release study demonstrated a sustained release of both drugs over 96 h, with a faster release in the case of jointly loaded drugs. …”
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Treatment of Complex Mandibular Body Fractures and Functional Reimplantation of the Maxillary Alveolar Fragment by Beatriz Sobrinho Sangalette, Rafaella Ferrari Pavoni, Thayna da Silva Emídio, Tiago Levatti, Marcos Capelari, Cláudio Maldonado Pastori, Gustavo Lopes Toledo

“…Case Report. Patient E.M.S, 25 years old, male, leucoderma, referred to the Emergency Room of our institute. …”
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Face Detection Using Hybrid SNN-ANN to Process Neuromorphic Event Stream by Waseem Shariff, Paul Kielty, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran

“…The proposed Spiking-Face approach demonstrates a 57.76% improvement in mean average precision (mAP) over state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, the paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the system’s performance across different temporal resolutions, showing that the system performs robustly and adapts effectively to varying conditions. …”
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Isolation, characterization and therapeutic efficacy of lytic bacteriophage ZK22 against Salmonella Typhimurium in mice by Yihong Sun, Qing Qu, Yanhua Huang, Shuo Zhou, Hua Xiang, Wei Wang

“…The results showed that phage ZK22 at a dose of 108 PFU/mL increased the survival rates of infected mice, effectively suppressed the dissemination and colonization of the host bacteria in the mice, and alleviated the inflammatory response caused by the infection. …”
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Application of sewage sludge for cereal production in a Mediterranean environment (Lebanon) by Danny Romanos, Nabil Nemer, Yara Khairallah, Marie Therese Abi Saab

“…The considered treatments of 4, 8 and 16 kg.m-2 rates were compared to a control treatment. …”
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Development and Evaluation of Evidence-Informed Clinical Nursing Protocols for Remote Assessment, Triage and Support of Cancer Treatment-Induced Symptoms by Dawn Stacey, Gail Macartney, Meg Carley, Margaret B. Harrison, The Pan-Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support Group (COSTaRS)

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Structure elucidation, immunomodulatory activity, antitumor activity and its molecular mechanism of a novel polysaccharide from Boletus reticulatus Schaeff by Siyuan Su, Xiang Ding, Yiling Hou, Binbin Liu, Zhouhe Du, Junfeng Liu

“…Bioactivity assays indicated that BRS-X displayed a strong proliferative activity in T cells and B cells and promoted the secretion of immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgE, IgD and IgM. In addition, BRS-X could facilitate the proliferation and phagocytosis of RAW264.7 cells and could significantly inhibit the growth of tumors in S180-bearing mice. …”
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Macrophage Activation Syndrome/Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Adult‐Onset Still's Disease: An Uncommon Initial Presentation in a Young Nepalese Female: A Case Repo... by Kanchan Bishwakarma, Kajal Bishwakarma, Sunil Bogati, Saket Jha

“…ESR/CRP and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were elevated, and ferritin was 38,291 ng/mL. Tropical disease screening, blood culture, viral serologies, imaging for malignancies, and autoimmune disease panels were negative. …”
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Physicochemical, Rheological, Structural, Antioxidant, and Antimicrobial Properties of Polysaccharides Extracted from Tamarind Seeds by Likun Ren, Yang Yang, Xin Bian, Xiaomei Li, Bing Wang, Dangfeng Wang, Dan Su, Linlin Liu, Dehui Yu, Xiaoxue Guo, Xiumin Zhang, Na Zhang

“…The DPPH radical scavenging activity of TSP was 40.34% at 10 mg/mL. Furthermore, TSP displayed moderate hydroxyl radical scavenging and anti-bacterial activities, owing to its special structure and composition. …”
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Chitosan Modulates Inflammatory Responses in Rats Infected with Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli by Gang Liu, Shuai Chen, Guiping Guan, Jun Tan, Naif A. Al-Dhabi, Hongbing Wang, Veeramuthu Duraipandiyan, Jun Fang

“…At day 7 after infection, the bacterial load in the jejunum and faeces was significantly lower in the COS group than that in the control group. Moreover, the mRNA and protein levels of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-17, IL-18, and TNF-α were significantly lower in the group of mice receiving the COS diet; also the jejunal production of toll-like receptor-4 (TLR-4) was suppressed in the COS group. …”
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An energy‐efficient dynamic comparator in Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor technology for successive approximation register ADC applications by Hamid Mahmoodian, Mehdi Dolatshahi, S. Mohammadali Zanjani, Mohammad Amin Honarvar

“…Monte‐Carlo analysis shows that the standard deviation of the offset voltage is approximately 1.24 mV. Finally, the kickback noise of the proposed comparator is obtained as 80 μV, which shows the proper performance of the proposed comparator circuit in comparison with other reported designs.…”
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Magnetic resonance angiography in diagnostic long-term follow-up of primary patency of the MOTIV drug-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold in the region below the knee: 5 years... by Christian Nasel, Mario Kirschner, Karoline Rizzi, Nicola Schweinhammer, Ewald Moser

“…In the BTK-region metallic drug-eluting stents (mDES) yielded best results concerning primary patency (PP), but also annihilate signal in magnetic resonance angiography (MR-A). …”
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Sızma Zeytinyağı Fenoliklerinin İnsan Periferik Kan Mononükleer Hücrelerinde Oksidatif Mitokondriyal ve Nükleer DNA Hasarına Karşı Etkisi by Özlem Erol Tınaztepe

“…Hücreler üzerinde oksidatif stres oluş-turmak için 30 dakika hidrojen peroksit (H2O2, 200 µM) ile uygulama yapıldı. DNA hasarları gene-özgü QPCR yöntemi ile ölçüldü. …”
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E-Tourism in Nigeria: An Examination of Internet as a Tool for Tourism Marketing in Ikogosi Warm and Cold Spring Holiday Resort by Deborah Olasupo, Ibidapo Adebayo, Olakunle Orimaye

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Diagnosis and Prognosis of Neuroendocrine Tumours of the Lung by Means of High Resolution Image Analysis by Uta Jütting, Peter Gais, Karsten Rodenacker, Joachim Böhm, Susanne Koch, Heinz W. Präuer, Heinz Höfler

“…In this study 32 cases of SCLC, 13 of WDNEC and 14 of TC with a follow‐up time up to 7 years were collected. Sections 4 μm thick from paraffin embedded tissue were Feulgen stained. …”
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Effects of 6 Months of Active Commuting and Leisure-Time Exercise on Fibrin Turnover in Sedentary Individuals with Overweight and Obesity: A Randomised Controlled Trial by Anne Sofie Gram, Martin Bæk Petersen, Jonas Salling Quist, Mads Rosenkilde, Bente Stallknecht, Else-Marie Bladbjerg

“…Ninety younger (20–40 years), sedentary, healthy women and men who are overweight and obese (BMI: 25–35 kg/m2) were randomised to 6 months of habitual lifestyle (CON, n=16), active commuting (BIKE, n=19), or leisure-time exercise of moderate (MOD, ∼50% VO2peak reserve, n=31) or vigorous intensity (VIG, ∼70% VO2peak reserve, n=24). …”
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Characterizations and growth kinetics of the borided layer formed on pure nickel by molten salt electrolysis by Wang B.-X., Yuan W.-L., Wang Z.-Y., Li J.-X., Ma H.-Z., Song Y.-H.

“…The borided layer was composed of nickel borides and its thickness ranged from 71 to 184 μm. After 1 h of boronizing, the hardness of the silicon rich borides is 966 HK, which is a little lower than that of the nickel borides (992-1008 HK); the surface hardness reached 1755 HK after 4 h electrolysis. …”
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Stability of Encapsulated Lactobacillus reuteri during Harsh Conditions, Storage Period, and Simulated In Vitro Conditions by Abdolazim Soltani Lak, Mohammad Hossein Marhamatizadeh, Hossein Fattahi

“…At 60°C and 40°C, the cell count of free bacteria decreased to 5.81 and 8.04 log CFU/mL, respectively. The bacteria encapsulated within SPI4I showed the highest viability at these temperatures. …”
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Evaluation of Toxicological Risks and Effects of Microplastics on Nile Tilapia (Oreochromisniloticus) under in Vitro Laboratory Conditions by Macarius Pancras Mtega, Matobola Joel Mihale, Kessy Fidel Kilulya

“…The digestion of fish gills and intestines involved 10 mL of 10% (w/v) KOH solution and incubation at 65oC for 24 hours. …”
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Leptin/Adiponectin Ratios Using Either Total Or High-Molecular-Weight Adiponectin as Biomarkers of Systemic Insulin Sensitivity in Normoglycemic Women by Carolina Bravo, Luis Rodrigo Cataldo, José Galgani, Javier Parada, José Luis Santos

“…A standard 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT; 75 g of glucose) and a short minimal-model intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT; 0.3 g/kg body weight) were performed in 58 Chilean normoglycemic women (age: 27 ± 6.3 years, BMI 23.6 ± 3.2 kg/m2). LAR was negatively associated with HOMA-S (r=−0.49; p<0.0001), Matsuda-ISICOMP (r=−0.54; p<0.0001), and the calculated sensitivity index (CSi) derived from IVGTT (r=−0.38; p=0.007). …”
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