Effectiveness of three biomimetic remineralization procedures in artificial caries-affected dentin – an in-vitro pilot study by Rosário Costa, Sofia Arantes-Oliveira, Lisete Fernandes, Fábio G. Figueiras, João Cardoso Ferreira, Paulo Ribeiro de Melo

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Unveiling the psychosocial and academic implications of living with sickle cell disease among undergraduates in a private university in Nigeria by Olumide T. Adeleke, Olufemi Folaranmi, Yetunde Olasinde, Larry Ayuba, Oludamola V. Adeleke, Modupe M. Ojo-Rufai, Efeturi Agelebe, Oyelola E. Adeoye, Aderemi T. Olabode, Dolapo E. Ajala, Titilola S. Akingbola

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Dexmedetomidine pretreatment enhances protective effect efficacy of pericytes agaist acute lung injury in septic mice by LUO Xi, ZHANG Zisen, YANG Ao

“…Both PC cell treatment effectively alleviated the pulmonary vascular endothelial leakage， reduced Evans blue content per unit tissue， improved lung pathological structure， lung function and inflammatory responses， and significantly improved the survival rates in the PC group and the Dex-PC group （P<0.05）. …”
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Major F plasmid clusters are linked with ColV and pUTI89-like marker genes in bloodstream isolates of Escherichia coli by Cameron J. Reid, Max L. Cummins, Steven P. Djordjevic

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Clinical analysis of risk factors for diarrhea associated with enteral nutrition in post-craniocerebral surgery patients by Lei Zhang, Lulu Zhang, Xiaojie Zhu, Leiming Xu, Lin Zhu, Hai Zhou, Shengkai Yang

“…This study aims to identify the clinical risk factors for diarrhea in patients receiving EN after undergoing craniocerebral surgery.MethodsThe clinical data of patients hospitalized in the Department of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit of Binhai County People’s Hospital were retrospectively collected from January 2021 to December 2022. …”
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L-shaped association of body mass index with prognosis in individuals with sepsis: a multicenter cohort study by Kunping Cui, Xiangnan Teng, Wei liu, Xiaoxiao Zhao, Shanling Xu, Lang Bai

“…Methods This retrospective observational cohort study included adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with sepsis from Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV version 2.2 (MIMIC-IV V2.2) and eICU Collaborative Research Database (eICU-CRD). …”
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Impact of HACOR Score on Noninvasive Ventilation Failure in Non-COPD Patients with Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure by Min Ding, Xiaoli Han, Linfu Bai, Shicong Huang, Jun Duan

“…This study was performed in the respiratory intensive care unit of a teaching hospital. Data had been collected prospectively between June 2011 and January 2019. …”
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Evaluating the Association Between Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (Rs1801131 and Rs1801133) Gene Polymorphisms and Severity of Coronary Lesions in Patients With STEMI and NSTE... by Behnam Nazarzadeh, Saeedeh sadat Ghazanfari, Farzaneh Karimi, Seyed ali Moezibady, Fatemeh Salmani, Kazem Dastjerdi, Hamidreza Mohammadi

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Three-dimensional quantitative temporomandibular joint changes in skeletal class I malocclusion treated with extraction and non-extraction protocols: a comparative study of fixed o... by Majedh Abdo Ali Al-Somairi, Bowen Zheng, Xaiofeng Yang, Yongxin Zhang, Maged S. Alhammadi, Hao xu, Najah Alhashimi, Bushra Sufyan Almaqrami, Naseem Ali Al –Worafi, Enas Senan Alyafrusee, Barakat Al-Tayar, Yi Liu

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Tc99m-DTPA Study to Validate an Experimental Model of Ureteral Obstruction in Rabbits: Preliminary Results by Marcelo Lopes de Lima, Rodolfo Bertti, Juliano César Moro, Fábio Coltro Neto, Ricardo Miyaoka, Adriano Fregonesi, Mariana da Cunha Lopes de Lima, Celso Darío Ramos

“…All the right renal units, which were not submitted to surgical procedure, were nonobstructed by the studies. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE REGION'S INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY INSTRUMENTS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS INVESTMENT POTENTIAL IN WARTIME by Ruslan Boiko, Roman Martsenyuk, Arsen Protsykevych

“…At the same time, the following shortcomings and weaknesses remain in the region's investment development: the presence of systemic deficiencies in the region's investment climate; small volumes of investment (per unit of resources) and limited rates of their increase; low investment activity in the real sector of the economy with high added value; low investment in intangible assets in industries that form human and innovative potential; critically low volumes of foreign investment, especially direct investment; limited public, intermunicipal and cross-border investment; underdeveloped system of risk financing of investment in innovation; underdeveloped stock market and small role of bank lending. …”
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Is CAR T a drug or a therapeutic pathway? Intention to treat versus per protocol analysis of real world studies of CAR-T cell therapy in relapsed refractory diffuse large B cell ly... by Rossana Di Staso, Beatrice Casadei, Frederick L. Locke, Michael Jain, Timothy J. Voorhees, Adam S. Kittai, Mariana Bastos-Oreiro, Antonio Gutiérrez, Alejandro Martin Garcia-Sancho, Maria Jose Terol, Monica Mead, Michael J. Maranzano, Gloria Iacoboni, Pere Barba, Mi Kwon, Rebeca Bailen, Juan Luis Reguera-Ortega, Agrima Mian, Brian Hill, Emmanuel Bachy, Franck Morschhauser, Roch Houot, Catherine Thieblemont, Steven Le Gouill, Riccardo Masetti, Davide Gori, Alessandro Broccoli, Pier Luigi Zinzani, Lisa Argnani

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Symptom network analysis of insomnia-depression-anxiety-stigma in tuberculosis patients by Xiangmin Liu, Xue Qiu, Huizhen Lan, LiuYue Diao, Wei Huang, Yan Wen, Mei Feng, Mei Feng, Xiangdong Tang

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The Impact of Effective Vaccination on Clinical and Radiological Involvement in COVID-19 Patients by Coskun DOGAN, Deniz BILICI, Burcu ARPINAR YIGITBAS, Omer ZENGIN, Orhan ZOR, Oguzhan AKMAN, Ilyas KOCABAG, Gonul Seven YALCIN, Esra ERTAN YAZAR

“…There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of transfer of patients to the intensive care unit (p&gt;0.05). 11.3% (13/115) of the patients in the vaccinated group died, whereas 14% (14/100) died in the unvaccinated group. …”
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Psychosocial well-being index and sick leave in the workplace: a structural equation modeling of Wittyfit data by Rémi Colin-Chevalier, Bruno Pereira, Samuel Dewavrin, Thomas Cornet, Julien Steven Baker, Frédéric Dutheil

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Association of HLA-B Gene Polymorphisms with Type 2 Diabetes in Pashtun Ethnic Population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan by Asif Jan, Muhammad Saeed, Muhammad Hussain Afridi, Fazli Khuda, Muhammad Shabbir, Hamayun Khan, Sajid Ali, Muhammad Hassan, Samiullah, Rani Akbar, Zakiullah

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HDL proteome and apolipoproteins concentrations in severe ICU COVID-19 patients by Floran Begue, Bryan Veeren, Philippe Rondeau, Aline-Marie Florence, Simon Jamard, Philippe Montravers, Sébastien Tanaka, Olivier Meilhac, on behalf of French COVID Study Group

“…Methods Between February and April 2020, our study enrolled 37 COVID-19 patients upon their intensive care unit admission. Among them, 18 survived the disease, while 19 succumbed to it. …”
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Impact of invasive infections on clinical outcomes in acute pancreatitis: early predictive factors and implications for prophylactic anti-infective therapy by Fabienne Bender, Theresa König, Matthias Hecker, Moritz Fritzenwanker, Jacqueline Braun, Joern Pons-Kühnemann, Matthias Wolff, Andreas Hecker, Martin Reichert

“…GERM(+) patients demonstrated significantly worse clinical outcomes with higher rate of intensive care treatment (59.5% vs. 35.0%; p = 0.0011) and consecutive longer stay in intensive care unit (11.5 ± 25.2d vs. 3.0 ± 7.9d; p = 0.0007), longer in-hospital stay (26.8 ± 22.0d vs. 14.7 ± 15.0d; p = 0.0003) as well as worse results in the composite outcome length of in-hospital stay > 15d or death (67.6% vs. 31.7%; p < 0.0001). …”
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Relationship between physical activity during pregnancy and maternal health outcomes: evidence from the MAASTHI cohort study in Bengaluru, India by Yamuna Ana, Floor A. van den Brand, Onno C. P. van Schayck, Giridhara R. Babu

“…We used linear logistic regression to assess the association between a continuous measure of physical activity level and maternal outcomes and performed multivariable logistic regression analysis to understand the association between sedentary behavior and maternal health outcomes and mode of delivery after adjusting for potential confounders.ResultsWe interviewed 2,424 eligible pregnant women at baseline and 1,317 were considered in the final analysis after excluding those who missed follow-ups. We observed that one unit increase in physical activity level was associated with reduced prenatal depressive symptoms (β = −6.36, p &lt; 0.001), fasting (β = 2.06, p = 0.04), and postprandial blood sugar levels (β = −0.99, p = 0.01), respectively. …”
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Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury by Veronica Guadagni, Marco Sarà, Massimiliano Conson, Antonio Carolei, Simona Sacco, Silvia Vadini, Caterina Pistarini, Arcangelo Barbonetti, Giuseppe Iaria, Francesca Pistoia

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