Dietary Fiber-Rich <i>Spartina anglica</i> Improves Intestinal Health and Antioxidant Capacity of Zhedong White Geese by Xiao Zhou, Li Wang, Jiuli Dai, Huiyan Jia, Kai Shi, Jian Zhao, Shufang Chen

“…This study investigates the integration of SA as a novel dietary ingredient for Zhedong white geese, with a specific focus on evaluating its effects on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, antioxidant capacity, intestinal health, and cecal microbiota composition. A total of 360 1-day-old Zhedong white geese with an average weight of 114.94 ± 0.81 g were randomly allocated to 4 dietary treatments, with 6 replicates per treatment and 15 geese per pen. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK DURATION, LENGTH OF WORK, AND SLEEP DURATION WITH WORK FATIGUE AMONG ONLINE TAXI BIKE DRIVERS IN GREATER JAKARTA by Istianah Surury, Aisya Alawiyah, Fitri Anggraeni, Vicky Abiansyah, Nastiti Dyah Prastiwi

“…Result: The majority of respondents (84.6%) were under 40 years old, male (92.3%), worked more than eight hours a day (55.8%), had experience as online taxi bike drivers for more than 3 years (73.1%), sleep duration less than 8 hours (78.8%), and there were 36 online taxi bike drivers (69.2%) reported experiencing high-very high levels of fatigue. …”
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TERT de novo mutation-associated dyskeratosis congenita and porto-sinusoidal vascular disease: a case report by Ge Yu, Guijie Xin, Xu Liu, Wanyu Li, Chen Shao, Runping Gao

“…Case presentation A 16-year-old Han male patient experienced unexplained black stool for 7 days, accompanied by dizziness and fatigue. …”
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Epidemiological Features, Clinical Symptoms, and Environmental Risk Factors for Notifiable Japanese Encephalitis in Taiwan From 2008 to 2020: Retrospective Study by Fu-Huang Lin, Yu-Ching Chou, Chi-Jeng Hsieh, Chia-Peng Yu

“…Comparing sex, age, season, and place of residence, the incidence rate was highest in males, 40‐ to 59-year-old patients, summer, and the Eastern region, with 1.89, 3.27, 1.25, and 12.2 cases per million people, respectively. …”
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Development and psychometric evaluation of a theory of planned behavior model-based instrument for evaluation of determinants of oral health behaviors in mothers of children younge... by Rusul Abdulameer Hadi Al-Sarray, Ahmadreza Shamshiri, Muhammad Alzubidi, Mahdia Gholami, Simin Z. Mohebbi

“…Conclusion The psychometric evaluation of the designed instrument showed that it was a valid and reliable tool in Arabic-speaking countries for determining child-related oral health behaviors in mothers of children under six years old.…”
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Immunogenicity of Type IV Pilin Proteins from <i>Clostridium perfringens</i> in Chickens by Audrey Charlebois, Nicolas Deslauriers, Lila Maduro, Martine Boulianne

“…Chickens were immunized twice with 50 µg of recombinant proteins and adjuvant, resulting in a good and specific serum antibody response. Next, one-day-old chicks were injected three times with the same vaccines, and then infected with <i>C. perfringens</i>. …”
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Assessing paramedic performance and background factors in emerging disease outbreak by Karim Javanmardi, Abbas Dadashzadeh, Hossein Feizollahzadeh, Neda Gilani, Mansour Ghafourifard, Javad Dehghannejad

“…Results: The average age of the paramedics was 32.81 years (71.3% were 35 years old or younger). Results showed that assessing patients' vital signs, checking for COVID-19 symptoms/signs, administering oxygen and IV fluids, recommending home care, and transporting patients to the emergency department were the most common actions taken by paramedics. …”
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Genetic Testing Distinguishes Multiple Chondroid Chordomas with Neuraxial Bone Metastases from Multicentric Tumors by Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masahiro Shin, Naohiro Makise, Aya Shinozaki-Ushiku, Masachika Ikegami, Yuki Taniguchi, Yusuke Shinoda, Shinji Kohsaka, Tetsuo Ushiku, Katsutoshi Oda, Kiyoshi Miyagawa, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Hiroyuki Mano, Sakae Tanaka

“…Here, we present the case of a 57-year-old woman with multiple chordomas at the clivus, C6, and T12 upon initial presentation. …”
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Chronic Atrophic Gastritis Presenting as Hemolytic Anemia due to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency by Amanda M. Woodford, Rabhea Chaudhry, Gabriella A. Conte, Varsha Gupta, Madhurima Anne

“…This case describes a 46-year-old male with no past medical history who presented with chest pain, fatigue, and progressive weakness, found to have hemolytic anemia, ultimately attributed to vitamin B12 deficiency. …”
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Case report: Monitoring consciousness with fNIRS in a patient with prolonged reduced consciousness following hemorrhagic stroke undergoing adjunct taVNS therapy by Fei Gao, Likai Wang, Likai Wang, Zhan Wang, Yaru Tian, Jingyi Wu, Mengchun Wang, Litong Wang

“…This study describes the effects of taVNS on fronto-parietal network connectivity and arousal in a 77-year-old female patient with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS). …”
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Metronidazole-Induced Pancreatitis: Is There Underrecognition? A Case Report and Systematic Review of the Literature by Ibrahim Youssef, Naba Saeed, Mohammad El Abdallah, Kara Huevelhorst, Kais Zakharia

“…Case Summary. A 60-year-old female presented with constant severe epigastric pain associated with nausea, vomiting, and anorexia for one day. …”
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Increased Corneal Toricity after Long-Term Orthokeratology Lens Wear by Zhi Chen, Jiaqi Zhou, Feng Xue, Xingtao Zhou, Xiaomei Qu

“…This study investigated 136 subjects aged between 6 and 14 (9.1 ± 1.5) years old at the commencement of ortho-k treatment, who had been undergoing overnight ortho-k treatment for 24 to 72 (37.4 ± 11.9) months. …”
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Case report: Chemotherapy plus sintilimab for the treatment of gastroesophageal junction hepatoid adenocarcinoma with liver metastasis: a case study with literature review by Genlin Lu, Jiarui Tu, Jinming Tu, Renya Jiang

“…Chemotherapy (SOX or S-1) plus sintilimab was administered.ResultsA 65-year-old male patient with a history of hypertension was admitted to the hospital due to a one-week increase in serum AFP levels. …”
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Clinical Dental Midline Shift Is Not a Predictor of the Side of Shorter Hemimandible: A Cone Beam Computed Tomography Diagnostic Study by Lígia Pereira da Silva, Alicia López-Solache, Urbano Santana-Penín, José López-Cedrún, María Jesus Mora, Pablo Varela-Centelles, Antonio González-Mosquera, Almudena Rodríguez-Fernández, Urbano Santana Mora

“…<b>Methods</b>: Thirty-eight CBCT scans were analyzed: thirty-five (92.1%) females, three (7.9%) males; mean (SD) age 34.6 (11.9) years old. Tomographic images were acquired using the i-CAT^® Imaging System; mandibular/maxillary measurements were obtained with the Planmeca Romexis^® software v.6.This is an ancillary study of a clinical trial (NCT02144233) that included chronic pain (TMD diagnosis; DC/TMD criteria), fully dentate, and stable normo-occlusion participants. …”
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Bifidobacterium animalis Probio-M8 improves sarcopenia physical performance by mitigating creatine restrictions imposed by microbial metabolites by Zeng Zhang, Yajing Fang, Yangli He, Mohamed A. Farag, Min Zeng, Yukai Sun, Siqi Peng, Shuaiming Jiang, Xian Zhang, Kaining Chen, Meng Xu, Zhe Han, Jiachao Zhang

“…This study investigated the impact of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis Probio-M8 (Probio-M8) on old mice and sarcopenia patients. We analyzed 43 subjects, including gut microbiome, fecal metabolome, and serum metabolome, using a multi-omics approach to assess whether Probio-M8 can improve sarcopenia by modulating gut microbial metabolites. …”
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Effect of lethal yellow (AY) mutation and photoperiod alterations on mouse behavior by E. Y. Bazhenova, D. V. Fursenko, N. V. Khotskin, I. E. Sorokin, A. V. Kulikov

“…The main aims of the study were to investigate the effects of AY mutation, photoperiod and the interaction between these factors on daily activity dynamics, feeding, locomotor and exploratory activities, anxiety-related and depressive-like behaviors in mild stress condition. Six weeks old mouse males of AY/a and a/a lines were divided into four groups eight animals each and exposed to long- (14 h light and 10 h darkness) or short- (4 h light and 20 h darkness) day conditions for 28 days. …”
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Histologic and Endoscopic Similarity between Nodular Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia and Gastric Hyperplastic Polyps Potentially Causing Treatment Delays by Pujitha Kudaravalli, Sheikh A. Saleem, Rachana Mandru, Sekou Rawlins

“…Case Report. A 70-year-old male with a past medical history significant for coronary artery disease s/p drug-eluting stent placement on Plavix, coronary artery bypass grafting, mechanical aortic valve replacement on warfarin, and iron deficiency anemia on replacement was admitted for the evaluation of fatigue and melena for a month. …”
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Evaluation of the Palatal Features in Relation to Graft Harvesting in the Saudi Population by Razan Alaqeely, Sumaiah Ajlan, Faisal Alsanqar, Abdulmahsin Alaqil, Abdulaziz Almansour, Mohammad A. Aldosari

“…<i>Materials and Methods:</i> Digital casts for adult Saudi patients at the age of 18–60 years old with a mean age of 37.76 ± 12.68 years were collected and analyzed using EXOCAD software. …”
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Possibility of Using NO Modulators for Pharmacocorrection of Endothelial Dysfunction After Prenatal Hypoxia by Igor Belenichev, Olena Popazova, Oleh Yadlovskyi, Nina Bukhtiyarova, Victor Ryzhenko, Sergii Pavlov, Valentyn Oksenych, Oleksandr Kamyshnyi

“…<b>Results:</b> We have shown that only two representatives of this group—Angiolin and Thiotriazoline—are able to exert full effect on the indices of endothelial dysfunction after PH to decrease sEPCR, increase Tie-2, VEGF-B and VEGF-B mRNA, Cu/ZnSOD, and GPX in myocardial cytosol, and increase the area of endotheliocyte nuclei in 1- and 2-month-old rats in comparison with the control. <b>Conclusions:</b> Our results experimentally substantiate the necessity of early postnatal cardio- and endothelioprotection using NO modulators, taking into account the role of NO-dependent mechanisms in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular system disorders in neonates after PH.…”
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The Prevalence of Undiagnosed Age-Related Sight-Threatening Diseases in Self-Proclaimed Healthy Individuals by Sophie Lemmens, João Barbosa Breda, Karel Van Keer, Tine Jacobs, Ruben Van Landeghem, Patrick De Boever, Ingeborg Stalmans

“…The frequency of prior ophthalmological examinations does not seem to be relevant to this proportion, meaning that everyone above 55 years old needs a routine ophthalmological evaluation.…”
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