Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Synchronous Bilateral Testicular Seminoma: A Case Report and a Review of the Pertinent Literature by Daniel A. Jones, Elizabeth C. Ester, David Leavitt, Robert Sweet, Badrinath Konety, Gautam Jha, L. Chinsoo Cho

“…After 18 months of followup, he remains well, without evidence of recurrence. Bilateral germ cell tumors (BGCTs) are reported consistently at a low rate. …”
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Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease in children: a single-center retrospective analysis by Junye Du, Jiafeng Yao, Honghao Ma, Li Li, Ang Wei, Liping Zhang, Dong Wang, Zhigang Li, Rui Zhang, Tianyou Wang

“…Results A total of 9 children were enrolled, with a median age of onset of median 11 (2–15) years, 6 males and 3 female. 3 cases were pathologically typed as plasma cell type, 1 case was mixed type, and the remaining 5 cases were hyaline vascular type. 9 children received different regimens of chemotherapy. …”
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A Chinese drug-compatibility-based approach to purslane hydrogels for acute eczema therapy by Ling Wang, Yuzhong Zhang, Shenglin Geng, Lan Ma, Yiran Wang, Dongxu Han, Guojuan Fan, Weifen Zhang, Weifen Zhang, Weifen Zhang, Yanna Lv, Jinlong Ma, Jinlong Ma, Jinlong Ma

“…It also improves the symptoms of acute eczema by promoting cell proliferation and migration. Importantly, it resulted in improved skin lesion scores, scratching behavior, eosinophil infiltration, swelling and inflammation levels, immune homeostasis, and histopathological changes in rats with acute eczema. …”
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Phylogenetic, Expression, and Bioinformatic Analysis of the ABC1 Gene Family in Populus trichocarpa by Zhanchao Wang, Haizhen Zhang, Jingli Yang, Yunlin Chen, Xuemei Xu, Xuliang Mao, Chenghao Li

“…According to the heatmap, PtrABC1P14 was highlighted because of the high expression in tension wood which related to secondary cell wall formation and cellulose synthesis, thus making a contribution to follow-up experiment in wood formation. …”
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Strengthened microstructure and mechanical properties of austenitic 316L stainless steels by grain refinement and solute segregation by Yurong Wang, Buwei Xiao, Xiaoyu Liang, Huabei Peng, Jun Zhou, Feng Lin

“…The austenitic stainless steel is strengthened through grain size refinement and the presence of dislocation cell boundaries enriched with Nb/Cr phases, leading to yield and tensile strengths exceeding 0.8 GPa and 1.1 GPa, respectively. …”
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Replication-IDentifier links epigenetic and metabolic pathways to the replication stress response by Sophie C. van der Horst, Leonie Kollenstart, Amandine Batté, Sander Keizer, Kees Vreeken, Praveen Pandey, Andrei Chabes, Haico van Attikum

“…This triggers a replication stress response that stabilizes these forks, activates cell cycle checkpoints, and induces expression of DNA damage response genes. …”
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Primary Dural Spinal Lymphoma Presentation of a Rare Spinal Tumor Case by Dilber Ayçiçek Çeçen, Necati Tatarlı, Hikmet Turan Süslü, Selçuk Özdoğan, Nagehan Özdemir Barışık

“…The patient underwent surgical decompression, with his final histopathology showing diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Systemic work-up was negative for nodal disease. …”
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Sustainable Design in Agriculture—Energy Optimization of Solar Greenhouses with Renewable Energy Technologies by Danijela Nikolić, Saša Jovanović, Nebojša Jurišević, Novak Nikolić, Jasna Radulović, Minja Velemir Radović, Isidora Grujić

“…A greenhouse is designed with an Open Studio plug-in in the Google SketchUp environment, the EnergyPlus software (8.7.1 version) was used for energy simulation, and the GenOpt software (2.0.0 version) was used for optimization of the azimuth angle and PV cell efficiency. Results for different solar greenhouse orientations and different photovoltaic module efficiency are presented in the paper. …”
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Molecular Detection of Bladder Cancer by Fluorescence Microsatellite Analysis and an Automated Genetic Analyzing System by Sarel Halachmi, Michal Cohen, Raymond Szargel, Nadin Cohen

“…We investigated 11 with pathology proven bladder Transitional Cell Carcinoma (TCC) for microsatellite alterations in blood, urine, and tumor biopsies. …”
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Understanding Epistatic Interactions between Genes Targeted by Non-coding Regulatory Elements in Complex Diseases by Min Kyung Sung, Hyoeun Bang, Jung Kyoon Choi

“…Accordingly, to identify the genes affected by the SNPs, we employed whole-genome multiple-cell-type enhancer data which discovered using DNase I profiles and Cap Analysis Gene Expression (CAGE). …”
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The Use of a Novel Quantitative Marker of Echogenicity of Pleural Fluid in Parapneumonic Pleural Effusions by Charalampos Varsamas, Alexandros Kalkanis, Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis, Foteini Malli

“…We observed a statistically significant correlation of HI with pleural fluid total cell number (p<0.001, r = −0.657) and polymorphonuclears percentage (p=0.02, r = −0.590), as well as days to afebrile (p=0.046, r = −0.411), duration of chest tube placement (p<0.001, r = −0.806), and days of hospitalization (p=0.013, r = −0.501). …”
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The mucosal barrier and anti-viral immune responses can eliminate portions of the viral population during transmission and early viral growth. by Ryan V Moriarty, Athena E Golfinos, Dane D Gellerup, Hannah Schweigert, Jaffna Mathiaparanam, Alexis J Balgeman, Andrea M Weiler, Thomas C Friedrich, Brandon F Keele, Miles P Davenport, Vanessa Venturi, Shelby L O'Connor

“…We also characterized the sequences of T cell epitopes targeted during acute SIV infection, and found that the emergence of escape variants in acutely targeted epitopes can occur on multiple virus templates simultaneously, but that elimination of some of these templates is likely a consequence of additional host factors. …”
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TPX2 Serves as a Cancer Susceptibility Gene and Is Closely Associated with the Poor Prognosis of Endometrial Cancer by Jun Wang, Hua Zheng, Hui He, Shuying Meng, Yatian Han, Zhe Su, Hanbing Yan, Yanan Zhang

“…A high CNV was associated with the overexpression of TPX2; this suggested that modifications in the cell-cycle pathway might be crucial in the advancement of EC. …”
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The Counter-Order of Simulacra: Alan Duff’s gut novel, Once Were Warriors by Christian Gutleben

“…Publié en 1990, Once Were Warriors, le roman néo-zélandais d’Alan Duff, partage avec la fiction britannique de la même époque (celle de Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Charles Palliser, Kazuo Ishiguro ou Jeanette Winterson) le souci de renouveler la présentation romanesque de l’histoire, de retérritorialiser le passé en donnant la parole aux oubliés de l’histoire, aux marginalisés et aux maltraités. …”
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Inactivation of foot and mouth disease virus for vaccine production by D. V. Mikhalishin, V. V. Mikhalishin, Y. М. Gochmuradov, Yu. S. El’kina

“…At the same time, the removal of cell debris had no significant effect on the inactivation process. …”
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The Relationship between a New Biomarker of Vagal Neuroimmunomodulation and Survival in Two Fatal Cancers by Y. Gidron, M. De Couck, D. Schallier, J. De Greve, J. L. Van Laethem, R. Maréchal

“…Sample 1 included 202 Belgian patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (PC), while sample 2 included 71 Belgian patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In both samples, we examined the overall survival, while in sample 2, we additionally examined the survival time in deceased patients. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Efficacy and Safety of the Diode Laser (980 nm) and Sclerotherapy in the Treatment of Oral Vascular Malformations by Peeyush Shivhare, Naqoosh Haidry, Neha Sah, Ajay Kumar, Abhishek Gupta, Ankur Singh, Mohan Raju Penumatcha, Shalini Subramanyam

“…Vascular malformations are structural abnormalities which are formed by progressively enlarging aberrant and ecstatic vessels without endothelial cell proliferation and composed of the type of vessel involved, i.e., capillary, veins, and arteriovenous. …”
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Serum Cytokines in Young Pediatric Patients with Congenital Cardiac Shunts and Altered Pulmonary Hemodynamics by Leína Zorzanelli, Nair Yukie Maeda, Mariana Meira Clavé, Vera Demarchi Aiello, Marlene Rabinovitch, Antonio Augusto Lopes

“…In contrast, RANTES chemokine (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted) was characteristically elevated in Group I (p=0.022). …”
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An Atraumatic Symphysiolysis with a Unilateral Injured Sacroiliac Joint in a Patient with Cushing’s Disease: A Loss of Pelvic Stability Related to Ligamentous Insufficiency? by Andreas Höch, Philipp Pieroh, Faramarz Dehghani, Christoph Josten, Jörg Böhme

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Flexible, Front-Facing Luminescent Solar Concentrators Fabricated from Lumogen F Red 305 and Polydimethylsiloxane by Ian A. Carbone, Katelynn R. Frawley, Melissa K. McCann

“…Bulk-doped devices proved to be less effective than thin-film devices at collecting direct light due to the placement of fluorescent dyes above the front-facing solar cell. Thin-film devices demonstrated less light collection than bulk-doped devices further from the device centers possibly due to quenching and self-absorption losses at higher dye concentrations. …”
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