Evaluation of the protective efficacy of OlysetPlus ceiling nets for reduction of malaria incidence in children in Homa Bay County, Kenya: a cluster-randomised controlled study pro... by Daisuke Yoneoka, Jesse Gitaka, James Kongere, Wataru Kagaya, Akira Kaneko, Yura K Ko, Chim W Chan, Mariko Kanamori, Bernard N Kanoi, Gordon Odhiambo Okomo, Protus Omondi, Kelvin B Musyoka, Takatsugu Okai, Victor Opiyo, Jared Oginga, Samuel Mungai, Kibor K Keitany, Elijah Songok, Noboru Minakawa

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Exploring and detecting predictors associated with survival and mortality of cervical cancer patients: a 10-year retrospective study by Shaba Muneeha, Raushan Kumar Chaudhary, Vijith Vittal Shetty, Soumya Patil, Uday Venkat Mateti

“…Most of the patients had abnormal body mass index (BMI) (46.96%), postmenopausal stage (75.76%), stage II cancer (43.03%), histologically poorly differentiated grade (47.88%) and squamous cell carcinoma (87.88%), with radiation plus chemotherapy being popular treatment choice (48.79%) and with the overall mean age of 56 years. …”
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Sugarcane: an unexpected habitat for black yeasts in Chaetothyriales by Flávia de F. Costa, Rafael S. C. de Souza, Morgana F. Voidaleski, Renata R. Gomes, Guilherme F. Reis, Bruna J. F. de S. Lima, Giovanna Z. Candido, Marlon R. Geraldo, Jade M. B. Soares, Gabriela X. Schneider, Edvaldo da S. Trindade, Israel H. Bini, Leandro F. Moreno, Amanda Bombassaro, Flávio Queiroz-Telles, Roberto T. Raittz, Yu Quan, Paulo Arruda, Derlene Attili-Angelis, Sybren de Hoog, Vania A. Vicente

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Durable responders in advanced NSCLC with elevated TMB and treated with 1L immune checkpoint inhibitor: a real-world outcomes analysis by David P Carbone, David Spigel, Jeffrey S Ross, Karthikeyan Murugesan, Gerald Li, Richard S P Huang, Ryon P Graf, Geoffrey R Oxnard, Alexa Schrock, Liangliang Zhang, Khaled Tolba, Jacob Sands

“…Background For patients with advanced non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICPI) and chemotherapy (chemo) ICPI represent two distinct first-line standard-of-care regimens without clear and established biomarkers to inform the optimal choice for individual patients. …”
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Exposure to Subclinical Doses of Fumonisins, Deoxynivalenol, and Zearalenone Affects Immune Response, Amino Acid Digestibility, and Intestinal Morphology in Broiler Chickens by Revathi Shanmugasundaram, Laharika Kappari, Mohammad Pilewar, Matthew K. Jones, Oluyinka A. Olukosi, Anthony Pokoo-Aikins, Todd J. Applegate, Anthony E. Glenn

“…Higher mycotoxin groups T2 to T6 had a reduction in the digestibility of amino acids methionine (<i>p</i> < 0.05), aspartate (<i>p</i> < 0.05), and serine (<i>p</i> < 0.05); a reduction in CD4+, CD8+ T-cell populations (<i>p</i> < 0.05) and an increase in T regulatory cell percentages in the spleen (<i>p</i> < 0.05); a decrease in splenic macrophage nitric oxide production and total IgA production (<i>p</i> < 0.05); and upregulated cytochrome P450-1A1 and 1A4 gene expression (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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OUTPOST: A comprehensive analysis software for whole‐metagenome shotgun sequencing incorporating group stratification by Yihang Zhou, Jihong Zheng, Wenqi Song, Xinyi Yan, Li Du, Zhonglin Ma, Yanbin Fu, Zhaohui Ouyang, Yuchen Xiao, Zhuoqun Liu, Feng Tian, Jason Wing Hon Wong, Jen Hao David Shih, Shikang Liang, Honglei Tian, Liu Liu, Ke Wei, Chao Zhang, Jiangtao Li, Xiaozhu Wang

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IDENTIFIKASI PIGMEN KLOROFIL DAN CELAH ENERGI PADA DAUN CINCAU (CYCLEA BARBATA) SEBAGAI FOTOSENSITIZER ALAMI UNTUK APLIKASI DSSC by Ismail Saleh, Wa Ode Nirwana Sari Halidun

“…Moreover, it can transfer electrons, so it can be used as a natural photosensitizer on dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) device. Natural photosensitizer has several advantages, such as its lower cost, abundant quantities, eco-friendly, and easy to synthesize. …”
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MXene-based materials for enhanced water quality: Advances in remediation strategies by Ali Mohammad Amani, Milad Abbasi, Atena Najdian, Farzaneh Mohamadpour, Seyed Reza Kasaee, Hesam Kamyab, Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan, Mostafa Shafiee, Lobat Tayebi, Ahmad Vaez, Atefeh Najafian, Ehsan Vafa, Sareh Mosleh-Shirazi

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Reduction of elevated Gli3 does not alter the progression of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease by Lauren G. Russell, Maria Kolatsi‐Joannou, Laura Wilson, Jennifer C. Chandler, Nuria Perretta Tejedor, Georgie Stagg, Karen L. Price, Christopher J. Rowan, Tessa Crompton, Norman D. Rosenblum, Paul J. D. Winyard, David A. Long

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Intravitreal Bevacizumab Injection Attenuates Diabetic Retinopathy in Adult Rats with Experimentally Induced Diabetes in the Early Stage by Jiao Lv, Miao-Miao Chen, Zhi-Hao Mu, Fang Wang, Zhong-Yi Qian, Lei Zhou, Qiu-Ting Guo, Zhi-Min Zhao, Yu-Ping Pan, Xin-Yu Liao, Zhi-Hong Yang, Ning Cai, Ying-Ying Zou, Shu-De Li

“…In diabetic rats given bevacizumab injection, the ganglion cell loss and alterations of retinal thickness were ameliorated. …”
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DNA Copy Number Changes at 8q11–24 in Metastasized Colorectal Cancer by T. E. Buffart, J. Coffa, M. A. J. A. Hermsen, B. Carvalho, J. R. M. van der Sijp, B. Ylstra, G. Pals, J. P. Schouten, G. A. Meijer

“…Results and Discussion: MLPA results obtained of the colo205 colorectal cell line were comparable with previous array-CGH results, thus validating the MLPA probe mixture. …”
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Identifying disulfidptosis-related biomarkers in epilepsy based on integrated bioinformatics and experimental analyses by Sijun Li, Lanfeng Sun, Hongmi Huang, Xing Wei, Yuling Lu, Kai Qian, Yuan Wu

“…One of the underlying mechanisms of epilepsy (EP), a brain disease characterized by recurrent seizures, is considered to be cell death. Disulfidptosis, a proposed novel cell death mechanism, is thought to play a part in the pathogenesis of epilepsy, but the exact role is unclear. …”
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Host–virus interactions during infection with a wild-type ILTV strain or a glycoprotein G deletion mutant ILTV vaccine strain in an ex vivo system by Gayathri Gopakumar, Mauricio J.C. Coppo, Andrés Diaz-Méndez, Carol A. Hartley, Joanne M. Devlin

“…Furthermore, differential regulation of genes encoding certain structural components and receptors with roles in cell migration, in the absence of gG, is consistent with the immunomodulatory role of ILTV gG.…”
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Classification of distinct tendinopathy subtypes for precision therapeutics by Chenqi Tang, Zetao Wang, Yuanhao Xie, Yang Fei, Junchao Luo, Canlong Wang, Yue Ying, Peiwen He, Ruojing Yan, Yangwu Chen, Jiayun Huang, Yiwen Xu, Zicheng Wang, Boon Chin Heng, Hengzhi Liu, Jianyou Li, Zi Yin, Haobo Wu, Weishan Chen, Hongwei Ouyang, Xiao Chen, Weiliang Shen

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Early prediction of in-hospital mortality in patients with congestive heart failure in intensive care unit: a retrospective observational cohort study by Tao Huang, Rui Yang, Jun Lyu, Didi Han, Fengshuo Xu, Shuai Zheng, Luming Zhang, Haiyan Yin

“…Multivariate analysis determined that the independent risk factors were age, race, norepinephrine, dopamine, phenylephrine, vasopressin, mechanical ventilation, intubation, hepatic failure (HepF), heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, systolic blood pressure (SBP), anion gap (AG), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, chloride, mean corpuscular volume (MCV), red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and white cell count (WCC). …”
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The Effect of Laboratory Parameters on the Hospital Stay and Mortality in Pediatric Patients Who Underwent Lobectomy and Pneumonectomy by Ahmet Ulusan, Hilal Zehra Kumbasar Danaci, Bekir Elma, Maruf Sanli, Ahmet Feridun Isik

“…Laboratory parameters included white blood cell (WBC) count, red cell distribution width (RDW), platelet (PLT) count, neutrophil count, mean platelet volume (MPV), monocyte count and lymphocyte count. …”
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The Effect of the Concurrent Use of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Receptor Blockers on Toxicity and Outcomes in Patients Treated with Radiotherapy: A Systematic Revie... by Wan-Chuen Liao, Hala Shokr, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Clare Dempsey, Kaye Janine Williams, Li-Chia Chen

“…Among six studies reporting survival, ACEI/ARB users had longer median survival in early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer and glioblastoma but shorter survival in small cell lung cancer and brain metastases. …”
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Tacedinaline (CI-994), a class I HDAC inhibitor, targets intrinsic tumor growth and leptomeningeal dissemination in MYC-driven medulloblastoma while making them susceptible to anti... by Arndt Borkhardt, Nan Qin, Stephen T Keir, Darell D Bigner, Allison Cole, Matthias Wölfl, Viktoria Marquardt, Johanna Theruvath, David Pauck, Daniel Picard, Lena Blümel, Mara Maue, Jasmin Bartl, Ulvi Ahmadov, Maike Langini, Frauke-Dorothee Meyer, Joselyn Cruz-Cruz, Claus M Graef, Till Milde, Olaf Witt, Anat Erdreich-Epstein, Gabriel Leprivier, Ulf Kahlert, Anja Stefanski, Kai Stühler, Julia Hauer, Thomas Beez, Christiane B Knobbe-Thomsen, Ute Fischer, Jörg Felsberg, Finn K Hansen, Rajeev Vibhakar, Sujatha Venkatraman, Samuel H Cheshier, Guido Reifenberger, Thomas Kurz, Marc Remke, Siddhartha Mitra

“…We further show interferon-γ release and cell surface expression of engulfment (‘eat-me’) signals (such as calreticulin). …”
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Fundamentals and Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels and Their Applications: A Review by Iryna S. Protsak, Yevhenii M. Morozov

“…Additionally, we highlight emerging and unconventional applications such as local micro-thermometers and cell mechanotransduction. This review concludes with a discussion of current challenges and future prospects in the field, aiming to inspire further innovations and advancements in stimuli-responsive hydrogel research and applications to bring them closer to the societal needs.…”
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