Bilateral Neck Pyomyositis Caused by Staphylococcus capitis and Staphylococcus saccharolyticus in a Diabetic Adult by Nicholas Young, Hasan Bhally

“…Inflammation in the spermatic cords was an additional feature of this infection. Treatment with six weeks of first-generation cephalosporin therapy resulted in complete clinical and radiological resolution.…”
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A 10-Year Retrospective Review of Salmonella Infections at the Children’s Hospital in London, Ontario by Tania Cellucci, Jamie A Seabrook, Yasmine Chagla, Susan L Bannister, Marina I Salvadori

“…OBJECTIVES: To describe Salmonella infections in children presenting to the Children’s Hospital (London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario), to assess risk factors for infection and to examine whether younger children, particularly infants younger than 12 weeks of age, experience higher morbidity than older children.…”
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Analysis of small extracellular vesicles from dried blood spots by Rikke Bæk, Jenni Kathrine Sloth, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Getnet Midekessa, Getnet Midekessa, Malene Møller Jørgensen, Malene Møller Jørgensen

“…The protocol proves to be robust, reliable and displays very interesting performances even after several weeks (up to 3 weeks) of storage of the DBS when analyzing the sEVs using protein microarray for the presence of the markers CD9, CD63, CD81, EpCAM, Flotilin-1, CD62E/P, CD142 and CD235a. …”
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Cholinergic Potentiation of Restoration of Visual Function after Optic Nerve Damage in Rats by Mira Chamoun, Elena G. Sergeeva, Petra Henrich-Noack, Shaobo Jia, Lisa Grigartzik, Jing Ma, Qing You, Frédéric Huppé-Gourgues, Bernhard A. Sabel, Elvire Vaucher

“…To this end, we evaluated for 4 weeks the effect of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor donepezil on brightness discrimination, visually evoked potentials, and visual cortex reactivity after a bilateral and partial optic nerve crush in adult rats. …”
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High-Fat Diet-Induced Neuropathy of Prediabetes and Obesity: Effect of PMI-5011, an Ethanolic Extract of Artemisia dracunculus L. by Pierre Watcho, Roman Stavniichuk, David M. Ribnicky, Ilya Raskin, Irina G. Obrosova

“…C57Bl6/J mice fed high-fat diet for 16 weeks developed obesity, moderate nonfasting hyperglycemia, nerve conduction deficit, thermal and mechanical hypoalgesia, and tactile allodynia. …”
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Fetal Tachycardia Treated Successfully with Maternally Administered Propylthiouracil by Barbara V. Parilla, Farhan Hanif, Keren Hasbani, Thomas Iannucci

“…A 32-year-old woman, gravida 4, para 2, and abortus 1, with hypothyroidism and a history of Graves’ disease, presented at 23 6/7 weeks of gestation with a persistent fetal tachycardia. …”
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Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer by Preben Bendtsen, Diana Stark Ekman, AnneLie Johansson, Siw Carlfjord, Agneta Andersson, Matti Leijon, Kjell Johansson, Per Nilsen

“…Staff-referred responders reported reduced weekly alcohol consumption with an average decrease of 8.4 grams. …”
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Celecoxib-Loaded Electrospun Fibrous Antiadhesion Membranes Reduce COX-2/PGE2 Induced Inflammation and Epidural Fibrosis in a Rat Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Model by Wei Wang, Yunhao Wang, Tengfei Lou, Mingqian Ding, Juehong Li, Hao Xiong, Zhixiao Yao, Yingying Ma, Huajiang Chen, Shenghe Liu

“…In the rat laminectomy model after 4 weeks, magnetic resonance imaging of epidural fibrosis was least in the PCL-CEL group. …”
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Managing two cases of twin anemia–polycythemia sequence in monochorionic twin pregnancies by Yongke Zhang, Yiheng Liang, Ran Chen, Dirong Zhang, Jing Wu

“…Patient 2 was a nulligravida who was diagnosed with stage 2 TAPS at 18 weeks of gestation. The patient underwent fetoscopic laser surgery. …”
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Effect of Low Dose Aspirin in Low Risk Pregnant Ladies with Abnormal Uterine Artery Doppler Results, and the Evaluation of Maternal and Fetal outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Parzhin Jalal Ali, Chro Najmaddin Fattah

“…Patients and Methods: A randomized clinical trial was performed on 50 pregnant ladies (?16 weeks of gestation) in Sulaymaniyah Maternity Teaching Hospital during January 2017 to January 2018. …”
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Primary Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Melanoma in the Lower Thoracic Spine by Kathrin Hering, Anke Bresch, Donald Lobsien, Wolf Mueller, Rolf-Dieter Kortmann, Clemens Seidel

“…Adjuvant radiotherapy was administered two weeks after surgery. The patient was recurrence-free at 104 weeks after radiotherapy but presents with unchanged neurological symptoms. …”
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Heavy metal accumulation in a bioindicator species, Limpet Patella caerulea, in Yalova (İzmit Bay): Risk assessment for human health by Çulha Saniye Türk, Dalkıran Görkem, Horzum Nesrin

“…The estimated daily intakes and estimated weekly intakes determined for each heavy metal were below the acceptable daily intakes and provisional tolerable weekly intakes. …”
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Effect of Topical Brimonidine 0.15% on Conjunctival Injection after Strabismus Surgery in Children by Dong Hyun Kim, Hee Kyung Yang, Sang Beom Han, Jeong-Min Hwang

“…Patients received topical brimonidine 0.15% after surgery for up to 4 weeks. Conjunctival injection was objectively assessed using a software that automatically scored the region of interest from the image of the bulbar conjunctiva. …”
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Chemopreventive Potential of Synergy1 and Soybean in Reducing Azoxymethane-Induced Aberrant Crypt Foci in Fisher 344 Male Rats by V. P. Gourineni, M. Verghese, J. Boateng, L. Shackelford, K. N Bhat

“…Rats were injected with two s/c injections of AOM at 7 and 8 weeks of age at 16 mg/kg body weight and killed at 17 weeks by CO2 asphyxiation. …”
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Fertility induction associated with improved peripheral reproductive parameters in male Prop1df/dfmice subjected to GH and levothyroxine replacement by Bruna Viscardi Azevedo, Juliana Moreira Marques, Nicholas Trigueiro, Victor Yuji Yariwake, Mariana Matera Veras, Leticia Kaory Tamashiro, Robison Cruz, Luciani R. Silveira de Carvalho

“…Results: The Prop1df/df treated group developed sexual maturation 2 weeks later than the Prop+/+ group and presented an increase in testicular weight, complete spermatogenesis, and enhanced LH and FSH expression. …”
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Chitosan Modulates Inflammatory Responses in Rats Infected with Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli by Gang Liu, Shuai Chen, Guiping Guan, Jun Tan, Naif A. Al-Dhabi, Hongbing Wang, Veeramuthu Duraipandiyan, Jun Fang

“…After two weeks, the mice fed the supplemented diet had a lower body weight. …”
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Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Obstetric Complications in Moroccan Population by Latifa Mochhoury, Rachid Razine, Jalal Kasouati, Mariam Kabiri, Amina Barkat

“…We recruited nondiabetic women without several HTAs, delivering singletons from 37 completed weeks up to 42 weeks gestation. Results. Total of 1408 were analyzed. …”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Exhibit Both a Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Effect on Saccular Aneurysm Formation in a Rabbit Model by Michael B. Avery, Brooke L. Belanger, Amy Bromley, Arindom Sen, Alim P. Mitha

“…Angiography was used to compare aneurysm measurements four weeks postcreation, and aneurysms were harvested for histological properties. …”
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Unusual Localization of Clostridium Difficile Infection in an Isolated Segment of the Descending Colon in a Critical Care Patient by Evgeni Brotfain, Leonid Koyfman, Amit Frenkel, Jochanan G. Peiser, Abraham Borer, Benjamin F. Gruenbaum, Alexander Zlotnik, Moti Klein

“…The patient recovered after three weeks of intraluminal vancomycin (250 mg diluted in 150 ml of normal saline  x Q6) and metronidazole (500 mg  x Q8). …”
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An Evaluation of Cellulose Hydrogels Derived from <i>tequilana</i> Weber Bagasse for the Regeneration of Gingival Connective Tissue in Lagomorphs by Silvia López-Domínguez, Juan Carlos Cuevas-González, León Francisco Espinosa-Cristóbal, Judith Virginia Ríos-Arana, Rosa Alicia Saucedo Acuña, María Verónica Cuevas-González, Erasto Armando Zaragoza-Contreras, Karla Lizette Tovar Carrillo

“…The general characteristics were analyzed and histopathological studies were carried out at 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks. A chi-squared test was performed using IBM-SPSS version 25, indicating that cellulose hydrogels implanted in lagomorph’s gingival tissue showed the presence of greater angiogenesis and fibrogenesis at the four evaluation intervals during 16 consecutive weeks. …”
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