Evaluation of Three Adolescent Sexual Health Programs in Ha Noi and Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam by Van Pham, Hoang Nguyen, Le Huu Tho, Truong Tan Minh, Porntip Lerdboon, Rosemary Riel, Mackenzie S. Green, Linda M. Kaljee

“…Sustained changes are observed in all three interventions for self-efficacy condom use, self-efficacy abstinence, response efficacy for condoms, extrinsic rewards, and perceived vulnerability for HIV. …”
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Modulation of Acid Sphingomyelinase in Melanoma Reprogrammes the Tumour Immune Microenvironment by Emma Assi, Davide Cervia, Laura Bizzozero, Annalisa Capobianco, Sarah Pambianco, Federica Morisi, Clara De Palma, Claudia Moscheni, Paolo Pellegrino, Emilio Clementi, Cristiana Perrotta

“…In contrast, the restoration of A-SMase in melanoma cells not only reduced tumour growth and immunosuppression, but also induced a high recruitment at tumour site of effector immune cells with an antitumoural function. Indeed, we observed a poor homing of MDSCs and Tregs and the increased recruitment of CD8+ and CD4+ T lymphocytes as well as the infiltration of DCs and CD8+/CD44high T lymphocytes. …”
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Minimal Impacts of Tyre Particle Exposure on Estuarine Meiofaunal Community Structure, Primary Production, and Nutrient Cycling by Charlotte Woodhouse, Dannielle Senga Green, Andy Foggo, Paul J. Somerfield, Richard C. Thompson, Samantha L. Garrard

“…An increase in Tanaidacea was observed in 1% and 5% tyre particle treatments, putatively due to reduced macrofaunal predation. …”
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Loss of Cochlear Ribbon Synapse Is a Critical Contributor to Chronic Salicylate Sodium Treatment-Induced Tinnitus without Change Hearing Threshold by Wei Zhang, Zhe Peng, ShuKui Yu, Qing-Ling Song, Teng-Fei Qu, Lu He, Ke Liu, Shu-Sheng Gong

“…No significant losses of outer HCs, inner HCs, or HC cilia were observed (all p>0.05). Thus, our study suggests that loss of cochlear inner HC ribbon synapse after SS exposure is a contributor to the development of tinnitus without changing hearing threshold.…”
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A Step toward Tuberculosis Elimination in a Low-Incidence Country: Successful Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a Refugee Clinic by Elissa Rennert-May, Elisabeth Hansen, Toktam Zadeh, Valerie Krinke, Stan Houston, Ryan Cooper

“…LTBI treatment was offered to 147 of 151 eligible patients, 141 accepted, and 103 completed a treatment course. Conclusion. We observed high proportions of patient retention, completion of investigations, and treatment. …”
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Arthroscopic Quadriceps Tendon Repair: Two Case Reports by Hidetomo Saito, Yoichi Shimada, Toshiaki Yamamura, Shin Yamada, Takahiro Sato, Koji Nozaka, Hiroaki Kijima, Kimio Saito

“…Two years after surgery, retearing was not observed on MRI and both Japan Orthopedic Association (JOA) Knee and Lysholm scores had recovered to 100. …”
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A Simple Separation Method of the Protein and Polystyrene Bead-Labeled Protein for Enhancing the Performance of Fluorescent Sensor by Hye Jin Kim, Dong-Hoon Kang, Seung-Hoon Yang, Eunji Lee, Taewon Ha, Byung Chul Lee, Youngbaek Kim, Kyo Seon Hwang, Hyun-Joon Shin, Jinsik Kim

“…In the optimized condition, the relative AIF was observed approximately 4.908 ± 0.299. Finally, in 3 μm and 15 μm hole, the AIFs were approximately 3.143 and −1.346 by 2 nm of protein and about −2.515 and 4.211 by 30 nm of the PS beads, respectively. …”
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Correlation of MRI Visual Scales with Neuropsychological Profile in Mild Cognitive Impairment of Parkinson’s Disease by Luiz Felipe Vasconcellos, João Santos Pereira, Marcelo Adachi, Denise Greca, Manuela Cruz, Ana Lara Malak, Helenice Charchat-Fichman, Mariana Spitz

“…Statistically significant inverse correlation was observed between GCA scale and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), semantic verbal fluency, Stroop test, figure memory test, trail making test (TMT) B, and Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT). …”
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Phenolic compounds and biological activities of grape (Vitis vinifera L.) seeds at different ripening stages: insights from Algerian varieties by F. Kamah, A. Basli, R. Erenler, A. Bouzana, C. Bensouici, T. Richard, F.A. Al-Mekhlafi, M.A. Wadaan, M.S. Al-Khalifa, F. Boulkenafet

“…Antioxidant activities were consistent with phenolic content trends, with significant tyrosinase enzyme suppression and high SPF factor observed. Principal Component Analysis highlighted strong correlations between phenolic profiles and antioxidant activities. …”
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Gender Variations in the Oral Microbiomes of Elderly Patients with Initial Periodontitis by Jie Zhao, Ying-Hui Zhou, Ya-Qiong Zhao, Yao Feng, Fei Yan, Zheng-Rong Gao, Qin Ye, Yun Chen, Qiong Liu, Li Tan, Shao-Hui Zhang, Jing Hu, Marie Aimee Dusenge, Yun-Zhi Feng, Yue Guo

“…Males had higher Chao1 index, observed species, and phylogenetic diversity whole tree values than females. …”
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Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue from Obese and Lean Adults Does Not Release Hepcidin In Vivo by Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, Keith N. Frayn, Steven R. Smith, Mark Westerman, A. Louise Dennis, Elizabeta Nemeth, Jessica Thomson, Cenk Pusatcioglu

“…Significant correlations between AbScAT venous and arterialized plasma hepcidin concentrations with anthropometric variables were not observed. Findings from this vein drainage study suggest there is no net release of hepcidin from the AbScAT depot and thereby no ability to signal systemically, even in obesity.…”
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Polymorphism in the Vesicular Monoamine Transporter 2 Gene Decreases the Risk of Parkinson’s Disease in Han Chinese Men by Xinglong Yang, Pingrong Xu, Quanzhen Zhao, Ran An, Hua Jia, Zhuolin Liu, Yanming Xu

“…Both of patient and control groups showed similar genotype frequencies between patients and controls at both rs363371 and rs363324, as well as similar minor A allele frequencies at rs363371 (P=0.452) and rs363324 (P=0.413). None of the observed haplotypes showed a significant association with PD. …”
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Efficacy and Acceptability of Orthokeratology for Slowing Myopic Progression in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Daizong Wen, Jinhai Huang, Hao Chen, Fangjun Bao, Giacomo Savini, Antonio Calossi, Haisi Chen, Xuexi Li, Qinmei Wang

“…At 2-year follow-up, a statistically significant difference was observed in axial length change between the orthokeratology and control groups, with a weighted mean difference (WMD) of −0.25 mm (95% CI, −0.30 to −0.21). …”
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The Outcomes of Total Hip Replacement in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Comparison of the Elective and Hip Fracture Groups by Pavel Šponer, Tomáš Kučera, Michal Grinac, Aleš Bezrouk, Daniel Waciakowski

“…Excellent pain relief with preserved walking ability without support of another person and acceptable complication profile was observed in Parkinson’s disease patients at 36 months after elective total hip arthroplasty. …”
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Explainable machine learning framework for cataracts recognition using visual features by Xiao Wu, Lingxi Hu, Zunjie Xiao, Xiaoqing Zhang, Risa Higashita, Jiang Liu

“…Motivated by these observations, an explainable machine learning framework to recognize cataracts severity levels automatically using AS-OCT images was proposed, consisting of three stages: visual feature extraction, feature importance explanation and selection, and recognition. …”
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Postnatal Growth Patterns in a Chilean Cohort: The Role of SES and Family Environment by D. E. Kang Sim, M. Cappiello, M. Castillo, B. Lozoff, S. Martinez, E. Blanco, S. Gahagan

“…SES (Graffar Index), the Life Experiences Survey, and the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) were assessed in infancy. …”
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Progenitor Diversity in the Accreted Stellar Halos of Milky Way–like Galaxies by Sy-Yun Pu, Andrew P. Cooper, Robert J. J. Grand, Facundo A. Gómez, Antonela Monachesi

“…Chemical and kinematic observations can be used to separate the contributions of different progenitor galaxies to the present-day stellar halo. …”
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Burden and trends of dietary iron deficiency in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990–2021 by Saeid Safiri, Saeid Safiri, Fatemeh Amiri, Nahid Karamzad, Nahid Karamzad, Mark J. M. Sullman, Mark J. M. Sullman, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Morteza Abdollahi

“…The highest age-standardised prevalence rates were observed in Yemen (30146.5), Sudan (19296.9), and Morocco (15,303) per 100,000 population. …”
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Functional connectome gradient of prefrontal cortex as biomarkers of high risk for internet gaming disorder by Xinwen Wen, Lirong Yue, Zhe Du, Jiahao Zhao, Mengjiao Ge, Cunfeng Yuan, Hongmei Wang, Qinghua He, Kai Yuan

“…The abnormal FCG in the inferior frontal gyrus and posterior cingulate cortex at baseline were observed in subtype 3, which were correlated with impulsivity. …”
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Rare Manifestation of a Rare Disease, Acute Liver Failure in Adult Onset Still’s Disease: Dramatic Response to Methylprednisolone Pulse Therapy—A Case Report and Review by Nalini Valluru, Venkata S. Tammana, Michael Windham, Eyasu Mekonen, Rehana Begum, Andrew Sanderson

“…Hepatic involvement is frequently observed in the course of AOSD with mildly elevated transaminases and/or hepatomegaly. …”
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