Altered functional network topology properties to detect anxiety and depression caused by Crohn’s disease and disease severity by Jiaxing Yang, Kechen Yue, Jingwen Sun, Changjie Pan, Xintong Wu, Yongjun Cheng, Xiaomeng Wu, Haifeng Shi

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Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair versus Optimal Medical Therapy in Patients with Functional Mitral Regurgitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Muhammad Uzair Lodhi, Muhammad Shariq Usman, Tariq Jamal Siddiqi, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Muhammad Arbaz Arshad Khan, Safi U. Khan, Intekhab Askari Syed, Mustafa Rahim, Srihari S. Naidu, Rami Doukky, Mohamad Alkhouli

“…In comparison with OMT, PMVR significantly reduces 1-year mortality, 2-year mortality, and cardiovascular mortality in patients with HF and severe MR.…”
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Identification of potential druggable targets for endometriosis through Mendelian randomization analysis by Peng Chen, Xin Wei, Xiao-Ke Li, Yi-Hang Zhou, Yi-Hang Zhou, Qi-Fang Liu, Ling Ou-Yang

“…This study aimed to identify both cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma protein markers as promising therapeutic targets for EM.MethodsWe utilized Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to explore potential disease-causing proteins, utilizing genetic datasets from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) analyses. …”
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How does gut microbiota affect the vaginitis axis? The mediating role of plasma metabolites by Mo Li, Qianyu Zhang, Tong Wu, Lanfang Ma, Dianxing Hu, Zixuan Yuan, Shixuan Wang, Aiyue Luo, Jinjin Zhang

“…We further explored the mediation effect of the plasma metabolites by two-step Mendelian randomization (MR) and multivariable MR. The findings indicated that 3-phosphoglycerate and lysophosphatidylcholine antagonistically act against the two identified risk factors (Candidatus Soleaferrea and Dialister, respectively) of vaginitis, thus appearing to confer protective effects against vaginitis. …”
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DeepCERES: A deep learning method for cerebellar lobule segmentation using ultra-high resolution multimodal MRI by Sergio Morell-Ortega, Marina Ruiz-Perez, Marien Gadea, Roberto Vivo-Hernando, Gregorio Rubio, Fernando Aparici, Maria de la Iglesia-Vaya, Gwenaelle Catheline, Boris Mansencal, Pierrick Coupé, José V. Manjón

“…Finally, a new online pipeline, named DeepCERES, has been developed to make available the proposed method to the scientific community requiring as input only a single T1 MR image at standard resolution.…”
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Iatrogenic intracranial hypotension complicated to dural venous sinus thrombosis and lobar hemorrhage: A case report by Hidayatullah Hamidi, MD, Mohammad Iqbal Haqyar, MD

“…The diagnosis was made via cerebral magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and the patient was treated medically.This case study aimed to assist clinicians in considering the possible complications of intracranial hypotension when evaluating patients with a recent history of spinal procedures, leading to early diagnosis and treatment to prevent devastating consequences.…”
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El modelo cubano en la guerrilla guatemalteca by Lino Martínez-Rebollar, Saúl Hurtado-Heras, Alfredo Ramírez-Membrillo, Guadalupe Melchor-Díaz

“…Se analizaron los testimonios de los combatientes y un comunicado estatal que muestran la influencia de la Revolución cubana en el surgimiento de tres organizaciones guerrilleras en Guatemala: el Movimiento Revolucionario 13 de Noviembre (MR-13), el Movimiento Revolucionario 20 de Octubre o guerrilla de Concuá y las Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (FAR). …”
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Acuphagia on the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum in an Adolescent Male by William Butler, Luis Allen

“…Its classification has been speculated to belong on a spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). This case involves Mr. C, a 16-year-old male with a history of depression, anxiety, and ten previous intentional foreign body ingestions involving sharp objects such as needles, forks, and thumbtacks. …”
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A Modified Phase Cycling Method for Complex-Valued MRI Reconstruction by Wei He, Yu Zhang, Junling Ding, Linman Zhao

“…The phase cycling method is a state-of-the-art method to reconstruct complex-valued MR image. However, when it follows practical two-dimensional (2D) subsampling Cartesian acquisition which is only enforcing random sampling in the phase-encoding direction, a number of artifacts in magnitude appear. …”
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3D Winding Number: Theory and Application to Medical Imaging by Alessandro Becciu, Andrea Fuster, Mark Pottek, Bart van den Heuvel, Bart ter Haar Romeny, Hans van Assen

“…We illustrate our method by considering three different biomedical applications, namely, detection and counting of ovarian follicles and neuronal cells and estimation of cardiac motion from tagged MR images. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation emphasizes the reliability of the results.…”
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Hemifacial Spasm due to Compression of the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm Treated with Botulinum Toxin Type-A: A Case Report by Azize Esra Gürsoy, Gülsen Babacan Yildiz, Adam Mehmet Gülhan, Mehmet Kolukisa

“…A 79-year-old female presented with five months history of progressive involuntary twitching movement on left face. Brain MR imaging revealed a heterogeneous T2 hyperintense lesion at left cerebellopontine angle. …”
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Cystic Meningioma Simulating Arachnoid Cyst: Report of an Unusual Case by Docampo Jorge, Gonzalez Nadia, Vazquez Claudio, Morales Carlos, Gonzalez-Toledo Eduardo

“…Cystic portion of the tumor is hypodense on CT, and evidences fluid signal intensity on T1- and T2-weighted MR imaging.…”
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Mjolnir: Extending HAMMER Using a Diffusion Transformation Model and Histogram Equalization for Deformable Image Registration by Lotta M. Ellingsen, Jerry L. Prince

“…An extensive validation of the algorithm was performed on T1-weighted SPGR MR brain images from the NIREP evaluation database. …”
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Cardiac Hypertrophy and Fibrosis in the Metabolic Syndrome: A Role for Aldosterone and the Mineralocorticoid Receptor by Eric E. Essick, Flora Sam

“…There has been much investigation into the role that an increase in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) plays in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome and in particular, how aldosterone mediates left ventricular hypertrophy and increased cardiac fibrosis via its interaction with the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR). Here, we review the pertinent findings that link obesity with elevated aldosterone and the development of cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis associated with the metabolic syndrome. …”
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On Curvilinear Regression Analysis via Newly Proposed Entropies for Some Benzene Models by Guangwu Liu, Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui, Shazia Manzoor, Muhammad Naeem, Douhadji Abalo

“…Other remaining physical characteristics include Gibb’s energy qℰ, logP, molar refractivity ℳℛ, and Henry’s law ℋℒ that can be predicted by using sixth ND entropy.…”
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Editorial by Adriana Delbó

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Visual and High-Efficiency Secretion of SARS-CoV-2 Nanobodies with <i>Escherichia coli</i> by Shuai Zhao, Wanting Zeng, Fang Yu, Pingping Xu, Chin-Yu Chen, Wanping Chen, Yanming Dong, Fei Wang, Lixin Ma

“…Several receptor-binding domain (RBD)-specific nanobodies of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S) were secreted onto the surface of <i>E. coli</i> cells and even into the culture medium, including Fu2, ANTE, mNb6, MR3-MR3, and n3113.1. The nanobodies secreted by <i>E. coli</i> retained equal activity as prior research, regardless of whether sfGFP was removed. …”
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Isolation of probiotics bacterium from coral reef for controlling vibriosis in tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) larvae by Ade Dwi Sasanti, . Widanarni, . Sukenda

“…., Porites sp. dan Haliophora sp, dilakukan penapisan untuk melihat aktivitas kemampuannya melawan V. harveyi MR 5339 RfR dalam uji in vitro dan uji in vivo. …”
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Association between sex steroid hormones and α-klotho: Results from the NHANES 2013-2016 and Mendelian randomization study by Andong Guo, Pengcheng Chen, Jishuang Cao, Chenrui Wu, Sentai Ding

“…Then, utilizing summary data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) was conducted to assess the causal relationship between sex steroid hormones and α-Klotho. …”
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Resurgence of Mumps among Lower Socioeconomic Class of Children in Ahmedabad: A Cross-sectional Study of 115 Cases in a Tertiary Care Center by Dipti V Patel, Zeel Patel, Snehal V Patel, Pooja Gandhi, Gayatri Parmar, Param S Patel

“…Detailed history in the form of demographic data, clinical presentation, vaccination status for measles–rubella (MR)/measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), reasons for nonvaccination, and history related to complications. …”
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