Highly-sensitive quantification of carbamazepine and identification of its degradation and metabolism products in human liver by high performance liquid chromatography – High resol... by Andrei Pirogov, Ekaterina Shirokova, Samvel Barsegyan, Nikita Gandlevskiy, Valeriya Akimova, Alessandro Barge, Aleksander Nosyrev

“…Validation has been carried out and the main analytical characteristics of the developed method have been determined. …”
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Mortality Trends in Patients Hospitalized with the Initial Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Middle Eastern Country over 20 Years by Emad Ahmed, Jassim Al Suwaidi, Ayman El-Menyar, Hajar A. H. AlBinali, Rajvir Singh, A. A. Gehani

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that higher utilization of antiplatelet drugs, β-blockers, and ACEI were the main contributors to better hospital outcomes. Over the study period, there was a significant increase in the hospitalization rate in patients presenting with initial AMI. …”
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Perspectives on the use of decellularized/devitalized and lyophilized human perinatal tissues for bone repair: Advantages and remaining challenges by Lauriana Solecki, Mathilde Fenelon, Halima Kerdjoudj, Roberta Di Pietro, Gianmarco Stati, Camille Gaudet, Eugenie Bertin, Jeremie Nallet, Aurélien Louvrier, Thomas Gualdi, Jessica Schiavi-Tritz, Florelle Gindraux

“…In its cryopreserved form—one of the main storage formats—the presence of viable cells has often been questioned. …”
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Chinese Torreya grandis cv. Merrillii seed oil affects obesity through accumulation of sciadonic acid and altering the composition of gut microbiota by Huan Wang, Ye Li, Rui Wang, Huaifei Ji, Chenyang Lu, Xiurong Su

“…Merrillii (Taxace, Torreya) is mainly distributed across the hilly areas of subtropical China and is well known for its nutritional value. …”
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Structural Characteristics and Inhibiting Oxidative Stress of Nine-steaming-nine-processing Polygonatum Kingianum Coll.et Hemsl Polysaccharides by LIU Yu-bin, CHEN Chang-an, SU Yi-lin, LUO Zhen, YAN Jin, LI Pan, DU Bing

“…Molecular weight analysis revealed two main components in NPKP, with molecular weights of 196,857 Da and 13,653 Da. …”
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New Insights on Quality, Safety, Nutritional, and Nutraceutical Properties of Honeydew Honeys from Italy by Andrea Mara, Federica Mainente, Vasiliki Soursou, Yolanda Picó, Iratxe Perales, Asma Ghorab, Gavino Sanna, Isabel Borrás-Linares, Gianni Zoccatelli, Marco Ciulu

“…Honeydew honey is less studied than nectar honey, although it is characterized by peculiar nutritional properties. This is mainly due to its challenging production, which leads to easy counterfeiting and difficult valorization. …”
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FluKB: A Knowledge-Based System for Influenza Vaccine Target Discovery and Analysis of the Immunological Properties of Influenza Viruses by Christian Simon, Ulrich J. Kudahl, Jing Sun, Lars Rønn Olsen, Guang Lan Zhang, Ellis L. Reinherz, Vladimir Brusic

“…FluKB is a knowledge-based system focusing on data and analytical tools for influenza vaccine discovery. The main goal of FluKB is to provide access to curated influenza sequence and epitope data and enhance the analysis of influenza sequence diversity and the analysis of targets of immune responses. …”
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Untargeted NMR Study of Metabolic Changes in Processing Tomato Treated with <i>Trichoderma atroviride</i> Under Open-Field Conditions and Exposed to Heatwave Temperatures by Lorenzo Pin, Anatoly Petrovich Sobolev, Giulio Testone, Giuseppe Scioli, Flavia Pinzari, Francesco Magnanimi, Giuseppe Colla, Mariateresa Cardarelli, Donato Giannino

“…The hotter year affected the water-soluble fraction (28 compounds), causing an increase in amino acids, citrate, and formate contents while decreasing carbohydrates together with a significant drop in β-sitosterol + campesterol in the organic fraction (11 compounds). The site mainly affected the linolenic acid levels, which were more abundant in Tarquinia than Viterbo in the hotter year, whereas ascorbate and myo-inositol were higher in Tarquinia in both years. …”
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Higher education for sustainable development in the digital era: Mapping the bibliometric analysis by Artur Zhavoronok, Nataliia Kholiavko, Olha Popelo, Maksym Dubyna, Liudmyla Verbivska, Maiia Fedyshyn

“…Visualization maps of keywords and scientific publications showed the existing interdisciplinary nature and the main thematic directions of research on higher education for sustainable development in the digital era. …”
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Complete Genome Sequence Analysis of Bacillus subtilis MC4-2 Strain That against Tobacco Black Shank Disease by Chunlan Shi, Shuquan Zeng, Xi Gao, Mehboob Hussain, Mingchuan He, Xurong Niu, Congcong Wei, Rui Yang, Mingxian Lan, Yonghui Xie, Zhijiang Wang, Guoxing Wu, Ping Tang

“…Genomic prediction analysis revealed that a total of 145 genes were annotated by the CAZy, containing mainly GH and CE enzymes that break down carbohydrates such as glucose, chitin, starch, and alginate, and a large number of enzymes involved in glycosylation were present. …”
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Exosomal non-coding RNAs in the regulation of bone metabolism homeostasis: Molecular mechanism and therapeutic potential by Chengxiong Huang, Yu Xiao, Liming Qing, Juyu Tang, Panfeng Wu

“…At present, the treatment of metabolic bone disease is still mainly to relieve pain and improve joint function. …”
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Soft Wireless Passive Chipless Sensors for Biological Applications: A Review by Mingguang Zhang, Mengyun Li, Wei Xu, Fan Zhang, Daojin Yao, Xiaoming Wang, Wentao Dong

“…The purpose of this review paper is to outline the biological applications of soft wireless passive chipless sensors and provide a classification of wireless passive sensors and an overall explanation of the main work. Three kinds of soft wireless sensors, soft wireless passive LC-resonant sensors, soft wireless radio frequency (RF) sensors, and soft wireless surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors, are introduced with their working principles, equitant circuits, and biological applications. …”
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Preliminary and Comparative Experiment Study Between F-Flurpiridaz and N-NHHO Myocardial Perfusion Imaging With PET/CT in Miniature Pigs by Jiao Wang MD, Shuai Li Mpharm, Tian-wen Liu BS, Jie-min Zhang MD, PhD, Yue Chen MD, Jian-ming Li MD, PhD, Wen-gui Xu MD, PhD

“…The changes of the ratio of left ventricular myocardium to main organs with time were calculated and the best imaging time was confirmed for 18 F-Flurpiridaz imaging in normal group. …”
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Optimization of a large-area grid electrode for negative ion source in fusion neutral beam injector by Jinhong Wang, Yan Wang, Yuwen Yang, Yuming Gu, Yahong Xie, Lizhen Liang, Jianglong Wei

“…Two simulation conditions before Cs seeding (Je∼350 A/m2, JH-∼50 A/m2) and after sufficient Cs conditioning (Je∼150 A/m2, JH-∼250 A/m2) were considered to evaluate the power load on EG, which peak power density were 11 and 6 MW/m2 respectively and were concentrated on locate near the two aperture rows. This paper mainly studies three designs of minor cooling channels (double bending channels, double straight channels, and single straight channel). …”
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A review of reported stakeholder engagement in early-stage translational research by Thomas W. Concannon, Marguerite Fenwood Hughes, Amy E. LaVertu, Jonathan Garlick, Alice M. Rushforth

“…One in four reported engagement in the publication’s acknowledgments but not in the main text. More than half drew unmeasured conclusions about the outcomes of engagement. …”
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Corneal Backscatters as an Objective Index for Assessing Fuchs’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy: A Pilot Study by Hsueh-Yen Chu, Ching-Hsi Hsiao, Phil Yeong-Fong Chen, David Hui-Kang Ma, Chee-Jen Chang, Hsin-Yuan Tan

“…The study group consisted of 53 eyes in 27 patients diagnosed with FECD, with normal subjects paired as control. Main outcome measures were corneal thickness, morphological patterns on densitograms, and indices of corneal density including the average area density (mean AD) and the average ratio of Descemet’s membrane density versus area density (DM/AD) in Pentacam Scheimpflug images. …”
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A nationwide cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia for the assessment of understanding and practices of clinicians towards personalized genetic testing by Mohy Uddin, Ahmad Deeb, Husam Ardah, Marwan Nashbat, Mohammad Yahya Ayoub, Majid Alfadhel

“…The results of the study revealed that almost two-fifths of participants were responsible for ordering genetic tests directly (39.0%). The main concerns of the participants were the lack of clinical practice guidelines on personalized genetic tests (50.0%) and the cost of these tests (50.9%). …”
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A hyperspectral stealth material design method based on the composition and mixing spectral feature of desert soil by Xiaodong Ma, Biao Wei, Xiaolong Qing, Yaqin Wang, Lun Qi, Xueyu Wu, Le Yuan, Xiaolong Weng

“…It was found that the color and the spectrum of the desert soil in the range of 400–1000 nm were influenced by different types of iron oxides. The main spectral characteristic and reflection intensity at 1000–2500 nm were impacted by quartz and montmorillonite. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Establishment of an Acanthamoeba keratitis mouse model confirmed by amoebic DNA amplification by Heekyoung Kang, Hae-Jin Sohn, A-Young Park, A-Jeong Ham, Jeong-Heon Lee, Young-Hwan Oh, Yong-Joon Chwae, Kyongmin Kim, Sun Park, Hongseok Yang, Suk-Yul Jung, Jong-Hyun Kim, Ho-Joon Shin

“…Abstract Acanthamoeba castellanii, the causative agent of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), occurs mainly in contact lens users with poor eye hygiene. …”
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Process-based VOCs Source Profiles and Contributions to Ozone Formation in Typical Organic Solvent-used Industries in Hangzhou by Zhinian Li, Wenjuan Li, Rong Zhou, Xiaoping Miao, Jianhai Lu, Zhongren Wang, Zhongping Yang, Jian Wu

“…Process-based source profiles suggested that aromatics and alkanes accounted for more than 76.5% of VOCs, mainly including toluene, styrene, n-decane, n-undecane and n-dodecane. …”
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