A Liquid Chromatography with Tandem Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomic Analysis of Primary Cultured Cells and Subcultured Cells Using Mouse Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Yoshiki Nakashima, Saifun Nahar, Chika Miyagi-Shiohira, Takao Kinjo, Naoya Kobayashi, Issei Saitoh, Masami Watanabe, Jiro Fujita, Hirofumi Noguchi

“…In this study, a protein expression analysis was performed by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) using mouse primary cultured cells (P0) and cells passaged three times (P3) as samples. A total of 256 proteins were classified as cellular process-related proteins, while 179 were classified as metabolic process-related proteins in P0. …”
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A Generalized Phase-Shift PWM Extension for Improved Natural and Active Balancing of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverters by Georgios Kampitsis, Efstratios I. Batzelis, Antonis Kolokasis, Elison Matioli, Bikash C. Pal

“…Conventional <italic>natural balancing</italic> techniques exhibit poor settling times, while most improved natural balancing methods are not easily scalable to more than five levels. …”
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<i>Musa paradisiaca</i> L. Inflorescence Abrogates Neutrophil Activation by Downregulating TLR4/NF-KB Signaling Pathway in LPS-Induced Acute Lung Injury Model by Francisco Allysson Assis Ferreira Gadelha, Raquel Fragoso Pereira Cavalcanti, Cosmo Isaias Duvirgens Vieira, Joao Batista De Oliveira, Louíse Mangueira De Lima, Adriano Francisco Alves, Matheus Marley Bezerra Pessoa, Leônia Maria Batista, Naiara Naiana Dejani, Marcia Regina Piuvezam

“…<b>Methods</b>: Swiss mice were challenged with lipopolysaccharide and treated with HEM after 1, 24, and 48 h (five animals/group, three times). <b>Results</b>: The HEM-treated ALI mice presented a decrease in neutrophil migration in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), in the alveolar region, and in the blood, correlating to downregulation of CD18 expression. …”
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Detecting Subtle Signs of School Attendance Issues Using Smartphone-Based Sensing by Viktor Erdelyi, Teruhiro Mizumoto, Yuichiro Kitai, Daiki Ishimaru, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Teruo Higashino, Manabu Ikeda

“…The indicators can then be used to notify at-risk students and medical practitioners, enabling timely intervention. This screening is not intended to replace traditional face-to-face medical examinations, but rather to selectively flag at-risk students and connect them with medical experts.…”
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Modulating Brain Connectivity by Simultaneous Dual-Mode Stimulation over Bilateral Primary Motor Cortices in Subacute Stroke Patients by Jungsoo Lee, Eunhee Park, Ahee Lee, Won Hyuk Chang, Dae-Shik Kim, Yong-Il Shin, Yun-Hee Kim

“…We assessed each patient’s motor function using the Fugl-Meyer assessment score and acquired their resting-state fMRI data at two times: prior to stimulation and 2 months after stimulation. …”
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Income-related inequalities in the prevalence of dental pain intensity in adults: gender differences by Carolina Veloso Lima, Alanna Barros de Arruda, Mayara dos Santos Noronha, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Marise Fagundes Silveira, Andrea Maria Eleuterio de Barros Lima Martins, Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Aline Netto de Godoy, Daniela Marques da Silva Sousa, Patrick Pereira Garcia, Cyrene Piazera Silva Costa, João Gabriel Silva Souza, Bárbara Emanoele Costa Oliveira

“…Those living in municipalities with higher Gini Index values reported 1.26 times (95% CI: 1.01–1.56) greater dental pain intensity compared to adults living in cities with lower Gini Index values, even after adjustment by variables. …”
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Quantifying preferential flow occurrence in dependence of land cover on the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania by Frank Paul Shagega, Fabia Codalli, Suzanne Jacobs, Subira Eva Munishi, David Windhorst, Lutz Breuer

“…After a separation and clustering of rainfall events we assessed the dynamics of soil moisture responses. The sequence and timing of soil moisture changes informed about the occurrence of preferential versus sequential (matrix) flow. …”
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The Usage of Lion’s Mane in Sports and Its Metabolic Impact – a literature review by Karolina Stankevič, Kamila Fuczyło, Ewelina Kopczyńska, Piotr Kulej, Wiktor Biesiada, Justyna Weronika Kmieć, Justyna Woźniak, Anna-Mariia Chernysh, Aleksandra Dusińska, Jakub Waszczyński

“…However, direct evidence on its impact on athletic metrics such as endurance, strength, or recovery times is limited. Preclinical studies are promising but need to be validated in well-designed human trials. …”
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Meat Production in a Feedlot System of Zebu—Holstein Steers and Heifers with Dairy Genetics: Productive and Biological Analyses by Gustavo Chamon de Castro Menezes, Sebastião de Campos Valadares Filho, José Reinaldo Mendes Ruas, Edenio Detmann, Arismar de Castro Menezes, Diego Zanett, Lays Débora Silva Mariz, Luciana Navajas Rennó, Jarbas Miguel da Silva Junior

“…They were distributed over four feedlot times, 30, 60, 90, and 120 days with four replications for each sex, and were slaughtered at the end of each period. …”
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Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Patients Reveals a Potential Risk of Hypoglycemia in Older Men by Feng-fei Li, Bing-li Liu, Hong-hong Zhu, Ting Li, Wen-li Zhang, Xiao-fei Su, Jin-dan Wu, Xue-qin Wang, Ning Xu, Wei-Nan Yu, Qun Yuan, Guan-cheng Qi, Lei Ye, Kok-Onn Lee, Jian-hua Ma

“…CSII therapy was maintained for 3 weeks after the glycemic target was reached. CGM was performed 2 times before and after completion of insulin treatment. …”
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Morphology and biochemical variables in rats’placentas with pregestational visceral obesity by Catherina Capote Guitian, Nínive Núñez López, Gladys González Aguilar, Amanda Llanes Tamayo, Maryanis Mosqueda Furones, Gipsis Suárez Román

“…An increase in the area of the trophoblast and a decrease in the area of maternal blood in the labyrinth and an increase in glycogen reserve cells in the junction zone were observed at both times of development.<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The rats’ placentas with pregestational visceral obesity induced by monosodium glutamate present structural alterations that show a decrease in maternal-fetal exchange.…”
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Examining the Specificity of Smartphone ECG Devices in Decision-Making for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Sahil mahajan, Salil Garg, Yogendra Singh, richa sharma, Tanuj Bhatia, nitin chandola, deeksha agarwal

“…Despite its portable nature, smartphone ECG technology demonstrates utility within Critical Care Units for timely monitoring and diagnosis. …”
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Socioeconomic status and delayed surgery: impact on non-metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma outcomes by Kun Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Jianyong Lei, Anping Su, Tao Wei, Zhihui Li, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen

“…In this study, we aim to investigate the interplay among various oncological factors, socioeconomic status, and surgical timing with respect to survival outcomes of papillary thyroid cancer.MethodsA total of 58,378 non-metastatic papillary thyroid cancer patients from 2000 to 2018 were screened from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. …”
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Three-dimensional diffractive acoustic tomography by Luca Menozzi, Tri Vu, Aidan J. Canning, Harshal Rawtani, Carlos Taboada, Marie Elise Abi Antoun, Chenshuo Ma, Jesse Delia, Van Tu Nguyen, Soon-Woo Cho, Jianing Chen, Theresa Charity, Yirui Xu, Phuong Tran, Jun Xia, Gregory M. Palmer, Tuan Vo-Dinh, Liping Feng, Junjie Yao

“…Moreover, powered by the fast focal line volumetric reconstruction, 3D-DAT has achieved 50-fold faster reconstruction times than traditional photoacoustic imaging reconstruction. …”
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The spatiotemporal and paradoxical roles of NRF2 in renal toxicity and kidney diseases by Yiying Bian, Jize Dong, Zhengsheng Zhou, Hua Zhou, Yuanyuan Xu, Qiang Zhang, Chengjie Chen, Jingbo Pi

“…The spatiotemporal and paradoxical characteristics of NRF2 in mitigating nephrotoxicity suggest that translational application of NRF2 activation strategy for prevention and interventions of kidney injury are unlikely to be straightforward – right timing and spatial precision must be taken into consideration.…”
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Stress-Driven Production of γ-Aminobutyric Acid Using Non-Conventional Yeast Strains <i>Kluyveromyces marxianus</i> JMY140K and <i>Metschnikowia reukaufii</i> JMY075 by Ting-Ting Fan, Chao Chen, Du-Wen Zeng, Feng-Lou Wang, Zhao-Xian Xu, Ming-Jie Jin, Yue Zou, Jun Li, Xin-Qing Zhao

“…In particular, <i>K. marxianus</i> JMY140K showed 7.93 times higher GABA titers under thermal stress than that of the control. …”
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Decellularized Liver Matrices for Expanding the Donor Pool—An Evaluation of Existing Protocols and Future Trends by Marcin Morawski, Maciej Krasnodębski, Jakub Rochoń, Hubert Kubiszewski, Michał Marzęcki, Dominik Topyła, Kacper Murat, Mikołaj Staszewski, Jacek Szczytko, Marek Maleszewski, Michał Grąt

“…This method may lead to shorter detergent exposure times and less scaffold damage. The introduction of apoptosis induction in the field of organ engineering may provide a valuable alternative to existing long perfusion protocols, which lead to significant matrix damage. …”
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Differential Diagnosis between Ulcerative Colitis and Clostridium Difficile-Associated Disease in a Patient with Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type 1 by Elizaveta A. Trush, Alexander V. Korolev, Elena A. Poluektova, Pavel V. Pavlov, Maria G. Pavlova, Alexander S. Tertychny, Yulia O. Sidorina, Natalia A. Ponkratova, Oleg S. Shifrin

“…A 25-year-old patient with autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1 (APS-1) complained of loose stools up to 10 times a day with blood admixture, rapidly growing weakness and a weight loss of 5 kg per week. …”
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Chronological trend of social contact patterns in Japan after the emergence of COVID-19 by Hwichang Jeong, Sehyun Park, June Young Chun, Norio Ohmagari, Yongdai Kim, Shinya Tsuzuki

“…Contact matrices were obtained from the survey data. The impacts of the timing of the survey and the ILIs were examined using negative binomial regression analysis. …”
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Athermal Tantalum Pentoxide Mach-Zehnder Interferometers Based on Structural Compensation Method by Mingjian You, Zhenyu Liu, Weiren Cheng, Xingyu Tang, Ning Ding, Zhengqi Li, Min Wang, Li Shen, Qiancheng Zhao

“…The temperature-dependent wavelength shift (TDWS) of the AMZI device is only 1.98 pm/K around 1550 nm which is 4.6 times smaller than a regular MZI. The TDWS remains below 2.23 pm/K across a broad bandwidth from 1480 nm to 1580 nm. …”
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