PPAR-α Agonist Fenofibrate Decreased Serum Irisin Levels in Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Hypertriglyceridemia by Xiaomeng Feng, Xia Gao, Yumei Jia, Heng Zhang, Qingrong Pan, Zhi Yao, Ning Yang, Jia Liu, Yuan Xu, Guang Wang, Xinchun Yang

“…Group A was treated with fenofibrate (200 mg/day) for 8 weeks. Serum irisin and clinical characteristics were examined. …”
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Does preeclampsia impact the gut microbiota of preterm offspring during early infancy? by Yang Chen, Zhou-Ting Yi, Hai-Long Yu, Xiao-Yan Wu, Jun-Ping Wang, Chuan Nie, Hui Li, Sheng-Hui Li, Qiu-Long Yan, Tian-Wen He, Min-Chai Chen, Xin-Yue Yang, Ji-Ying Wen, Li-Juan Lv

“…Fecal samples were collected from preterm neonates of PE and PR mothers at 2 and 6 weeks postpartum and analyzed using shotgun metagenomic sequencing. …”
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The Reduced Expression of EOLA1 May Be Related to Refractory Diabetic Foot Ulcer by Mingxia Wu, Weiling Leng, Hang Pan, Xiaotian Lei, Liu Chen, Xinshou Ouyang, Ziwen Liang

“…The patients with DFU were divided into 2 groups based on the formation time of ulcer: the acute wound (AW) group with the course of disease≤4 weeks and the chronic wound (CW) group with the course of disease>4 weeks. …”
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Fetal Cartilage Progenitor Cells in the Repair of Osteochondral Defects by Bruno C. Menarim, DVM, PhD, Chan Hee Mok, PhD, Kirsten E. Scoggin, PhD, Alexis Gornik, DVM, Emma N. Adam, DVM, PhD, Shavahn C. Loux, PhD, James N. MacLeod, VMD, PhD

“…Osteochondral repair was assessed after 2, 6, and 16 weeks. Results:. Untreated lesions unexpectedly failed to represent critical-sized defects and at 2 weeks exhibited new subchondral bone covered by a fibrocartilage layer that thinned over time. …”
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New insights into the effects of Aspergillus oryzae administration during the transition period in Bubalus bubalis by Sameh A. Abdelnour, Walaa M. Essawi, Nasser Ghanem, Ibrahim T. El-Ratel, Abdel-Wahab A. Abdel-Warith, Elsayed M. Younis, Ahmed N. F. Neamat-Allah, Shimaa A. Amer, Simon J. Davies, Ali Ali El-Raghi

“…Thirty buffalo cows were divided into two homogeneous experimental groups (15 buffalo cows in each group) from 3 weeks pre-partum to 3 weeks post-partum. The first group received the basal diet and served as a control, while the second group was orally administered with 5 g of ASG per head per day. …”
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Mural cell dysfunction contributes to diastolic heart failure by promoting endothelial dysfunction and vessel remodelling by Mandy O. J. Grootaert, Alessandra Pasut, Jana Raman, Steven J. Simmonds, Bram Callewaert, Ümare Col, Mieke Dewerchin, Peter Carmeliet, Stephane Heymans, Elizabeth A. V. Jones

“…Results Db/db mice given 1% salt for 8 weeks developed diastolic dysfunction preceded by capillary density loss, pericyte loss and vessel regression. …”
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Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation using post-transplant cyclophosphamide in patients with inborn errors of immunity: Experience in a reference center in Colomb... by Diego Medina, Jhonier Orlando Castro, David Esteban Castro, Estefanía Beltrán, Eliana Manzi, Alexis Antonio Franco, Manuela Olaya

“…To determine survival, usefulness of weekly chimerism monitoring, immune reconstitution, and complications in patients with inborn errors of immunity who underwent haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at a reference center in Colombia. …”
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Steroid use for established bronchopulmonary dysplasia: study protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Roy K Philip, Joanna Seliga-Siwecka, Eduardo Villamor, Maria Pierro, Niazy Al Assaf, Sabina Strashun, Roberto Chioma, Kinga Zielińska, Krzysztof Włodarczyk

“…Introduction Postnatal steroids during the first few weeks of life have been demonstrated to be effective in decreasing the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a serious chronic respiratory condition affecting preterm infants. …”
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Longitudinal maternal glycemia during pregnancy and placental epigenetic age acceleration by Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Prabhavi Wijesiriwardhana, Richard J. Biedrzycki, Cuilin Zhang, Katherine L. Grantz, Jagteshwar Grewal, Fasil Tekola-Ayele

“…Among Asian/Pacific Islander women, medium insulin cumulative exposure level was associated with lower PAA (β = − 0.94 weeks, 95% CI = − 1.74 to − 0.14). No significant association was observed among White and Hispanic women as well as in the full cohort. …”
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Study on the Therapeutic Effects of Bisdemethoxycurcumin on a Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Mouse Model Established via Chronic Treatment With Five Vascular Risk Factors by Shudong Lin, Guanghua Zhu, Juan Xie, Xuanwei Wen, Limin Deng, Sijing Li, Guozhi Liu, Feiyan Wang, Shuangxi Chen, Zijian Xiao

“…Method The 30 male C57BL/6 mice were subjected to chronic treatment with five vascular risk factors (lipopolysaccharide, social stress, streptozotocin, high‐cholesterol diet, and copper‐containing drinking water) for 35 weeks to establish a CAA mouse model. Of these, 15 CAA mice received oral administration of BDMC (50 mg/kg) for two consecutive weeks as an intervention, while the remaining 15 CAA mice received an equal volume of physiological saline by gavage. …”
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Histopathological Finding of Microdamage Accumulation in Atypical Subtrochanteric Femoral Fracture by Yo Watanabe, Naoki Kondo, Tomomi Fukuhara, Norio Imai, Masahiko Yamada, Naoto Endo

“…Implant breakage was discovered 8 weeks after the primary surgery. The patient underwent a revision surgery in which the entry point for the revised intramedullary hole was created to prevent varus position. …”
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Sigmoid Volvulus in Pregnancy Assessed by Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography Scanning by Toshiaki Watanabe, Tadatsugu Kinjo, Yoshino Kinjyo, Hayase Nitta, Hitoshi Masamoto, Keiko Mekaru, Yoichi Aoki

“…She was suspected of having a sigmoid volvulus at 33 weeks and 3 days of gestation. We decided to perform a cesarean section to secure the operative field for an intestinal resection following delivery. …”
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Inflammatory Breast Diseases during Lactation: Health Effects on the Newborn—A Literature Review by Achim Wöckel, Michael Abou-Dakn, Anna Beggel, Petra Arck

“…Breastfeeding-associated inflammatory breast diseases appear especially during the first twelve weeks postpartum and are the most common reason for early cessation of breastfeeding. …”
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Colonic Necrosis in a 4-Year-Old with Hyperlipidemic Acute Pancreatitis by Tiffany J. Patton, Timothy A. Sentongo, Grace Z. Mak, Stacy A. Kahn

“…This colonic complication was secondary to the extension of a large peripancreatic fluid collection causing direct serosal autodigestion by pancreatic enzymes. Two weeks following the initial presentation, the peripancreatic fluid collection developed into a mature pancreatic pseudocyst, which was percutaneously drained. …”
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Inferior medial genicular artery pseudoaneurysm after primary total knee arthroplasty: a case report by Ahmed M. Abdelaal, Ahmed A. Khalifa

“…We present a 65-year-old female patient, who was admitted three weeks after primary total knee arthroplasty with fresh bleeding from the lower end of the surgical wound. …”
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McConnell Sign in a Patient with Massive Acute Pulmonary Embolism by Qaiser Shafiq, Ragheb Assaly, Yousuf Kanjwal

“…A 48-year-old female was admitted after experiencing a brief syncopal episode. Three weeks ago the patient sustained a right arm humerus bone fracture in a motor vehicle accident. …”
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Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Presenting as High Output Cardiac Failure during Pregnancy by Tareq Goussous, Alex Haynes, Katherine Najarian, Marcos Daccarett, Shukri David

“…Here we report a 43-year-old woman who presented at 29 weeks gestation of her second pregnancy with complications of right-sided heart failure and preterm labor. …”
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Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis by Jeanneth Elizabeth Jami Carrera, John Sebastián Carvajal Gavilanes, Karen Gabriela Sulca Espín, Dennis Alexander Montenegro Montenegro

“…Drugs are the main trigger factor, usually in the first weeks of treatment. These pathologies can be fatal when more than 60 % of the body surface is affected. …”
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Discurso sobre las mujeres, a las mujeres y de mujeres en el semanario anarquista El Corsario. A Coruña, 1890-1896 by Gérard Brey

“…El Corsario, a weekly journal published in A Coruña from May 1890, is one of the few spokespaper of the Spanish anarchist movement during the last decade of the 19th century. …”
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Kerk, koerant en die kwessie van nuus toegepas op die Rapport-berig oor huise van NG Welsyn Vrystaat vir predikante by P. J. Strauss

“… This article analyses the question of what news and news values are as well as the handling of church news in daily or weekly newspapers. The author deems the norms for news as accepted and applied by these papers to be acceptable from a Christian ethical point of view. …”
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