Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its association with adverse obstetric outcomes among pregnant women in Uganda: a cross-sectional study by Cristina Reverzani, Daniel Zaake, Faridah Nansubuga, Herman Ssempewo, Leonard Manirakiza, Anthony Kayiira, Gilbert Tumwine

“…The data were analysed by logistic regression analysis at the univariate, bivariate and multivariate levels.Results The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, defined as a serum 25(OH)D concentration less than 20 ng/mL, was 40.2%. This was seen more among the Muslims (OR 2.4, 95% CI 1.33 to 4.43, p value 0.004), members of the Banyankore tribe (OR 2.1, 95% CI 1.02 to 4.36, p value 0.043) and primigravidae (OR 0.6 for women with parity of 1–4 compared with primigravidity, 95% CI 0.36 to 0.94, p value 0.028). …”
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MicroRNA-132, Delivered by Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes, Promote Angiogenesis in Myocardial Infarction by Teng Ma, Yueqiu Chen, Yihuan Chen, Qingyou Meng, Jiacheng Sun, Lianbo Shao, Yunsheng Yu, Haoyue Huang, Yanqiu Hu, Ziying Yang, Junjie Yang, Zhenya Shen

“…Expression levels of miR-132 in exosomes and HUVECs were quantified by real-time PCR. The mRNA levels of miR-132 target gene RASA1 in HUVECs were quantified by real-time PCR. …”
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Th1/Th2 Cells and Associated Cytokines in Acute Hepatitis E and Related Acute Liver Failure by Jian Wu, Yurong Guo, Xuan Lu, Fen Huang, Feifei Lv, Daqiao Wei, Anquan Shang, Jinfeng Yang, Qiaoling Pan, Bin Jiang, Jiong Yu, Hongcui Cao, Lanjuan Li

“…Seventeen healthy controls (HCs) were also included who were negative for anti-HEV IgM and IgG. Results. There was no significant difference in viral load and HEV RNA in the AHE and HEV-ALF groups (both P>0.05). …”
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外周血循环细胞和三种肿瘤标志物检测对Ⅰ期子宫内膜癌的诊断价值 by 蔡春芳, 古家美, 官燕飞

“…方法选取2016年5月至2021年11月期间，335例健康女性体检者（对照组）、291例子宫内膜良性病变患者（良性病变组）、268例Ⅰ期EC患者（EC组）为研究对象，抽取体检者，患者的术前静脉血液标本3.2 mL，采用免疫荧光杂交和染色技术测定CTC水平，乳胶增强免疫比浊法测定SAA水平，电化学发光法测定HE4、CA125水平，观察3组研究对象的CTC、SAA、HE4、CA125阳性率及水平差异，比较CTC、SAA、HE4、CA125、（SAA+HE4+CA125）、（CTC+SAA+HE4+CA125）检测对Ⅰ期EC诊断的灵敏度、特异度、符合率、阳性预测值、阴性预测值、约登指数和受试者工作特征（ROC）曲线面积（AUC）的差异。…”
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Genomic and resistome analysis of Salmonella enterica isolates from retail markets in Yichun city, China by Xiaowu Jiang, Abubakar Siddique, Li Chen, Lexin Zhu, Haiyang Zhou, Li Na, Chenghao Jia, Yan Li, Min Yue

“…Additionally, forty ESBL genes, particularly critical genes such as blaCTX-M and blaNDM-1, were also identified in Salmonella isolates. …”
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Immune Modulation Effect of Administration of Rice Bran Extract with Increased Solubility Fermented by <i>Lentinus edodes</i> UBC-V88 in Cyclophosphamide-Treated Mice Model by Gi-Jung Kim, Yelim Jang, Ji-Yoon Hong, Kyoung-Tae Kwon, Dae-Weon Kim, Dae-Jung Kang, Sung-Joo Hwang, Jung-Yun Lee, Emmanouil Apostolidis, Young-In Kwon

“…The levels of the immunoglobulin (Ig) G in the group treated with FRB (21.98 ± 2.17, <i>p</i> < 0.01) were significantly increased when compared to the RB group (18.48 ± 1.52 μg/mL, <i>p</i> < 0.01). The expression of serum cytokines, including IL-1α (<i>p</i> < 0.05), IL-2 (<i>p</i> < 0.05), IL-6 (<i>p</i> < 0.001), IL-12 p70 (<i>p</i> < 0.01), IFN-γ (<i>p</i> < 0.01), and TNF-α (<i>p</i> < 0.01) were also significantly increased by the administration of FRB (0.5 g/kg-b.w.). …”
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Epidemiology and impact of device-specific infections on patients receiving left ventricular assist devices by Amit Iyengar, MD MSE, Jason Feinman, MD, Joyce Jiang, BS, Cindy Song, BA, Spencer Kim, BA, Alvin Mathew, MD, Sophia Golec, MD, Aarti Rao, MD, Ankitha Radakrishnan, MD, Michaela Asher, MPhil, David Rekhtman, BS, John DePaolo, MD PhD, Noah Moss, MD, Shinobu Itagaki, MD, Anelechi Anyanwu, MD, Joyce Wald, DO, Marisa Cevasco, MD MPH, Aditya Parikh, MD

“…Predictors of infection included Black race (LSI vs No LSI: 46.2% vs 29.2%, p=0.021) and body mass index (median 29.7 vs 26.2 kg/m2, p=0.007). Median time to infection was 231 days (112−423), with 19 (26.8%) patients requiring surgical debridement. …”
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Litiasis urinaria en el donante cadavérico: respuestas a la penumbra urológica desde un análisis bibliométrico by Federico Solórzano-Torrejano, Gabriela Castañeda-Millán, Juan C. Álvarez-Restrepo, Kateir Contreras-Villamizar, William Fajardo-Cediel, David A. Castañeda-Millán

“…Objetivo: Exponer la producci&oacute;n bibliogr&aacute;fica y las implicaciones cl&iacute;nicas de la urolitiasis en el proceso de donaci&oacute;n y TxR incluyendo la perspectiva con injertos de donante cadav&eacute;rico. M&eacute;todos: An&aacute;lisis bibliom&eacute;trico ejecutado mediante una b&uacute;squeda sistem&aacute;tica de la literatura en Medline, Embase, SciELO, Cochrane Central, Google Acad&eacute;mico y Web of Science utilizando combinaciones de los t&eacute;rminos MesH &ldquo;urolithiasis&rdquo;, &ldquo;kidney calculi&rdquo;, &ldquo;ureteral calculi&rdquo;, &ldquo;tissue and organ procurement&rdquo;, &ldquo;brain death&rdquo;, &ldquo;living donors&rdquo; y &ldquo;kidney transplantation&rdquo;. …”
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بررسی دیاژنز، ژئوشیمی و کیفیت مخزنی سازند فهلیان در یکی از میادین نفتی جنوب غرب ایران by امیر کاظمی, محمدعلی صالحی, جواد سبحانی, جواد هنرمند, نواب خدائی

“…تخلخل و تراوایی مغزه در بخش مخزنی سازند فهلیان در توالی مورد مطالعه به ترتیب دارای تغییراتی در محدوده 01/0 تا 5/27% و کمتر از 01/0 تا بیشتر از mD 630 می‌باشد. این تغییرات در تخلخل و تراوایی شدیداً وابسته به فرآیندهای دیاژنزی با پیروی از الگوی تغییرات رخساره‌ای است. …”
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Differences in the Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Cardiology Outpatients in Mali: Comparison between Framingham Body Mass Index-Based Tool and Low-Information World Health Organ... by Bâ Hamidou Oumar, Sangaré Ibrahima, Camara Youssouf, Sidibé Noumou, Coulibaly Souleymane, Cissoko Yacouba, Sidibé Samba, Konaté Massama, Maiga Asmaou Kéita, Doumbia Coumba Thiam, Touré Mamadou, Diakité Mamadou, Menta Ichaka, Diall Ilo Bella

“…Means for age, body mass index (BMI), and systolic blood pressure (SBP) were, respectively, 53.81 ± 16.729 years, 25.29 ± 06.151 kg/m2, and 139.49 ± 27.110 mm Hg. Using the li-WHO prediction chart gives a much higher proportion of low-risk patients compared to bmi-Frm (83.6 vs. 37.7). …”
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Cardiovascular function shows early impairment in asymptomatic adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus: an ultrasound-derived myocardial work study by Martina Ghirardo, Martina Ghirardo, Irene Cattapan, Irene Cattapan, Jolanda Sabatino, Jolanda Sabatino, Alice Pozza, Alice Pozza, Jennifer Fumanelli, Jennifer Fumanelli, Martina Avesani, Joaquin Gutierrez De Rubalcava Doblas, Carlo Moretti, Biagio Castaldi, Giovanni Di Salvo

“…Patients with stage 1 hypertension or a pre-hypertensive state exhibited pathological pulse wave velocities with values exceeding 8 m/s (&gt;99th percentile).ConclusionsTo the best of our knowledge, this was the first study to investigate MW in T1D adolescents. …”
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Association between Loa loa microfilaremia and anatomical hyposplenia in a rural area of the Republic of Congo: a population-based cross-sectional study by Charlotte Boullé, Elodie Lebredonchel, Jérémy T. Campillo, Valentin Dupasquier, Marlhand C. Hemilembolo, Sébastien D. S. Pion, Jean Claude Djontu, Ludovic Rancé, Philippe Souteyrand, François Missamou, Michel Boussinesq, Francine Ntoumi, Cédric B. Chesnais

“…Blood samples were analyzed for L. loa MFD, Plasmodium-PCR, Anti-Plasmodium falciparum-IgG, total IgM, sickle-cell disease status, and hematological abnormalities. …”
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Reactive agility training to prevent frailty in older adults – a randomized controlled trial. by Eric Lichtenstein, Martin Keller, Ralf Roth, Sebastian Ludyga, Oliver Faude

“…Methods Forty-six healthy older adults (28 females, mean age 69.5 ± 6.8 years, BMI 25.9 ± 3.4 kg/m²) were randomly assigned to either a control (CON) or agility training (AT) group. …”
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Neobacillus driksii sp. nov. isolated from a Mars 2020 spacecraft assembly facility and genomic potential for lasso peptide production in Neobacillus by Asif Hameed, Francesca McDonagh, Pratyay Sengupta, Georgios Miliotis, Shobhan Karthick Muthamilselvi Sivabalan, Lukasz Szydlowski, Anna Simpson, Nitin Kumar Singh, Punchappady Devasya Rekha, Karthik Raman, Kasthuri Venkateswaran

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Spatiotemporal Variation of Water Use Efficiency and Its Responses to Climate Change in the Yellow River Basin from 1982 to 2018 by Jie Li, Fen Qin, Yingping Wang, Xiuyan Zhao, Mengxiao Yu, Songjia Chen, Jun Jiang, Linhua Wang, Junhua Yan

“…This research was conducted based on Gross Primary Productivity (GPP), Evapotranspiration (ET), meteorological station data, and land use/cover data, and the methods of Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD), trend variation analysis, the Mann–Kendall Significant Test (M-K test), and Partial Correlation Analysis (PCA) methods. …”
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Kinetics of flocculation of kaolinite by chitosan-based flocculants and the floc structure by Ting XIAO, Wenjie ZOU, Kexin YU, Xuqin DUAN, Zhijun ZHANG, Ruijing XU

“…The settling test results reveal that kaolinite suspensions treated by the above flocculant achieve a settling rate of 12.18 m·h–1, the highest among all tested flocculants. …”
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A Case of Euthyroid Graves’ Ophthalmopathy in a Patient Sero-Negative for TSH Receptor Autoantibody by Asami Hotta, Tomohiro Tanaka, Haruka Kato, Shota Kakoi, Yuki Shimizu, Chie Hasegawa, Akiko Hayakawa, Satoshi Yasuda, Kento Ogawa, Shunsuke Ito, Hideomi Ohguchi, Takashi Yagi, Hiroyuki Koyama, Mihoko Kawamura, Kazuhiko Sugitani, Yuichiro Ogura, Takashi Joh, Kenro Imaeda

“…Serum thyroid function tests and 99mTc uptake were both within the normal range. Anti-thyroid autoantibodies were all negative except for the cell-based assay for serum TSH receptor stimulating activity. …”
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超声心动图多参数评估特发性室颤患者的心肌功能 by 吕函璐, 刘英梅

“…方法纳入2019年1月至2023年12月在中山大学孙逸仙纪念医院首次诊断为特发性心室颤动（IVF）的患者，同时纳入年龄和性别匹配的健康个体作为对照。基于二维灰阶、M型、双平面、频谱多普勒、组织多普勒、斑点追踪、压力-应变环等技术，对纳入人群进行超声心动图多参数分析。…”
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Therapeutic potential of the neutralizing monoclonal antibody 45G3 against encephalomyocarditis virus by Yanfang Zhang, Zhiying Wang, Yaohui Fang, Qiong Zhu, Jie Fu, Sijing Hu, Jiayin Jin, Min Zhou, Xijia Liu, Danna Zhang, Shouwei Huang, Yali Deng, Lingling Xie, Shu Shen, Jing Ye, Fei Deng, Shengbo Cao

“…This antibody exhibited high specificity for EMCV conformational epitopes, excluding linear epitopes, and demonstrated potent in vitro neutralizing activity, with an IC50 of 0.01873 μg/mL. Immunoelectron microscopy (IEM) revealed a strong direct interaction between the 45G3 antibody and EMCV particles. …”
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Effects of electrolytes on electrochemical behaviour and performance of Ti6Al4V alloy prepared by laser directed energy deposition by Jun Yu, Linzeng Wang, Guoqiang Kang, Xin Lin, Lijun Tian, Pengfei Guo, Liangyi Wu, Weidong Huang

“…The results demonstrate that the NaCl + EDTA-2Na electrolyte attains a moderate EC machining efficiency and the optimal surface roughness of 0.31 μm at its best performance. Transmission electron microscopy reveals distinct dissolution variations between the α and β phases during ECM. …”
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