Efficacy and Safety of the Triple Therapy Containing Ilaprazole, Levofloxacin, and Amoxicillin as First-Line Treatment in Helicobacter pylori Infections by Hyo Jun Ahn, Dong Pil Kim, Myeong Su Chu, Hyeon Jeong Yun, Seok-Hwan Kim, Seung Woo Lee, Dong Soo Lee

“…H. pylori eradication was confirmed by a 13C-urea breath test at 6–8 weeks after the end of treatment. Results. Of 84 patients included in the analysis, the eradication rate was 88.8% in the per protocol group (n=80). …”
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Metabolomic characteristics of cord blood from neonates with hyperkalemia after antenatal exposure to ritodrine and magnesium sulfate by Masanori Inoue, Kazuhito Sekiguchi, Haruka Tsushita, Naomi Inoue, Tomoki Maeda, Hiroki Itoh, Kenji Ihara

“…We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 142 preterm infants born between 24 and 36 weeks of gestation, categorized into groups exposed to antenatal ritodrine, MgSO4, both agents, or neither. …”
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Metformin Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes in Pregnancy: An Active Controlled, Parallel-Group, Randomized, Open Label Study in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Pregnancy by Jahan Ara Ainuddin, Nasim Karim, Sidra Zaheer, Syed Sanwer Ali, Anjum Ara Hasan

“…Maternal characteristics were comparable in metformin and insulin treated group. 84.9% patients in metformin group required add-on insulin therapy at mean gestational age of 26.58 ± 3.85 weeks. Less maternal weight gain (P<0.001) and pregnancy induced hypertension (P=0.029) were observed in metformin treated group. …”
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Interocular Shift of Visual Attention Enhances Stereopsis and Visual Acuities of Anisometropic Amblyopes beyond the Critical Period of Visual Development: A Novel Approach by Liwen Huang, Xinghuai Sun, Gang Luo, Shuai Liu, Rui Liu, Behzad Mansouri, Vicky wing lai Wong, Wen Wen, Hong Liu, Ai-Hou Wang

“…Ten patients with anisometropic amblyopia older than age 14 (average age: 26.7) were recruited and received ISVA treatment for 6 weeks, with 2 training sessions per day. Results. …”
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Progressive Improvement of T-Scores in Men with Osteoporosis and Subnormal Serum Testosterone Levels upon Treatment with Testosterone over Six Years by Ahmad Haider, Ulrich Meergans, Abdulmaged Traish, Farid Saad, Gheorghe Doros, Paul Lips, Louis Gooren

“…In a cumulative, prospective, registry study of hypogonadal men (mean age: 53 ± 7 years) they received parenteral testosterone undecanoate of 1000 mg/12 weeks for up to six years. After one year 44 men were included in the registry, after two years 36 men, after three years 32 men, after four years 25 men, after five years 10 men and after six years 4 men. …”
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Paradoxical Glucose-Sensitizing yet Proinflammatory Effects of Acute ASP Administration in Mice by Alexandre Fisette, Pegah Poursharifi, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Mercedes N. Munkonda, Marc Lapointe, Katherine Cianflone

“…C57Bl/6 wild-type mice were put on a high-fat-high-sucrose diet for 12 weeks. Mice were then subjected to both glucose and insulin tolerance tests, each manipulation being preceded by recombinant ASP or vehicle (control) bolus injection. …”
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Differences in specificity, development time and virulence between two acanthocephalan parasites, infecting two cryptic species of Gammarus fossarum by Bauer, Alexandre, Develay Nguyen, Lucie, Motreuil, Sébastien, Teixeira, Maria, Debrosse, Nelly, Rigaud, Thierry

“…The mortality of infected individuals increased significantly after several weeks of development of both parasite species. P. tereticollis was less virulent than P. laevis, perhaps due to differences in host exploitation, since we evidenced that P. tereticollis had a much slower growth rate.…”
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Intrauterine growth‐restricted pregnant rats, from placental ischemic dams, display preeclamptic‐like symptoms: A new rat model of preeclampsia by Jonna Smith, Madison Powell, Whitney Cromartie, Savanna Smith, Kylie Jones, Angie Castillo, Jordan Shaw, Joseph Editone III, Ahfiya Howard, Robert Tatum, Alex Smith, Brandon Fisher, George W. Booz, Mark Cunningham

“…Offspring from NP and RUPP dams were mated at 10 weeks of age to generate pregnant IUGR (IUGR Preg) and pregnant control (CON Preg) rats. …”
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Diffusion-driven transient hydrogenation in metal superhydrides at extreme conditions by Yishan Zhou, Yunhua Fu, Meng Yang, Israel Osmond, Rajesh Jana, Takeshi Nakagawa, Owen Moulding, Jonathan Buhot, Sven Friedemann, Dominique Laniel, Thomas Meier

“…We found that this diffusive state of hydrogen results in a dynamic de-hydrogenation of the sample over the course of several weeks, approaching a composition similar to its precursor materials. …”
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Effects of Repetitive Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment in Patients with Acute Cerebral Infarction: A Pilot Study by Cheng-Hsin Chen, Shao-Yuan Chen, Vinchi Wang, Chao-Ching Chen, Kaw-Chen Wang, Chih-Hao Chen, Yi-Chien Liu, Kuo-Cheng Lu, Ping-Keung Yip, Wen-Ya Ma, Chuan-Chieh Liu

“…The HBOT group (n=16) received conventional medical treatment with 10 sessions of adjunctive HBOT within 3–5 days after stroke onset, while the control group (n=30) received the same treatment but without HBOT. Early (around two weeks after onset) and late (one month after onset) outcomes (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, NIHSS scores) and efficacy (changes of NIHSS scores) of HBOT were evaluated. …”
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A single-site randomized controlled trial of partner navigation to HCV treatment for people who inject drugs: a study protocol for the You’re Empowered for Treatment Initiation (YE... by Meghan D. Morris, Judy Y. Tan, Claire C. McDonell, Maia Scarpetta, Tiffany N. Nguyen, Jennifer C. Price, Torsten B. Neilands

“…The primary outcome is the initiation of HCV treatment, with secondary outcomes including treatment completion and sustained virologic response 12 weeks post-treatment. Data will be collected through questionnaires and electronic health records and analyzed using intention-to-treat and mixed-effects models. …”
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Tripterygium Glycosides Tablet Ameliorates Renal Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis via the Toll-Like Receptor 4/Nuclear Factor Kappa B Signaling Pathway in High-Fat Diet Fed and Streptoz... by Ze-jun Ma, Xiao-na Zhang, Li Li, Wei Yang, Shan-shan Wang, Xin Guo, Pei Sun, Li-ming Chen

“…Rats were randomly divided into normal control rats (NC group), diabetic rats without drug treatment (DM group), and diabetic rats treated with TGT (1, 3, or 6 mg/kg/day, respectively) for 8 weeks. The results showed that 24 h proteinuria and urinary N-acetyl-glucosaminidase (NAG) in diabetic rats were decreased by TGT treatment without affecting blood glucose. …”
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Feasibility of using an automated call service to collect quality of life and functional outcome data in trauma patients by Jan O Jansen, Russell L Griffin, Shannon W Stephens, Emily W Baird, Jonathan A Black, John P Winkler

“…Call attempts were made at 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year after discharge.Results A total of 110 patients initially agreed to participate. 368 attempted patient encounters (calls or attempted calls) took place, with 104 (28.3%) patients answering a least one question in the study. 21 unique patients (19.1% of those enrolled) completed 27 surveys.Conclusions Automated, scripted phone calls to survey patients after discharge are not a feasible way of collecting functional and quality of life data.Level of evidence Level II/prospective.…”
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In vivo MRI visualization of growth and morphology in the orthotopic xenotrasplantation U87 glioblastoma mouse SCID model by E. L. Zavjalov, I. A. Razumov, L. A. Gerlinskaya, A. V. Romashchenko

“…The study of glioblastoma growth with T2-weighed images showed that a significant tumor development began not earlier than 3 weeks after cell culture intracranial injection and then the tumor grew exponentially. …”
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No more flying blind: Leveraging weather forecasting for clear-cut risk-based decisions by Manuel Lombardi, David Sladek, Francesco Simone, Riccardo Patriarca

“…The decision support methodology presented in this study involves four phases, which consider different timespans (i.e., from more than two weeks before up to two hours before the mission), eventually assessing dedicated feasibility indexes. …”
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Early life stress, kangaroo care, parenting behavior and secure attachment predict executive functioning in 2 year olds born preterm by Bieke Bollen, Astrid Van den Brande, Chiara Bernagie, Alexandra Seghers, Steffie Amelynck, Christine Vanhole, Bart Boets, Gunnar Naulaers, Guy Bosmans, Els Ortibus

“…We examined the effect of early life neonatal stress, maternal perinatal stress, kangaroo care, maternal parenting behavior and secure child attachment on executive function at 2 years corrected age (CA) in children born preterm (i.e. < 34 weeks of gestation and/or < 1500 g birth weight). …”
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The Optimal Intervention Time of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Ameliorating Cardiac Fibrosis Induced by Viral Myocarditis: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Mice by Tingting Wu, Yuan Xie, Jing Huang, Ping Li, Xuliang Wang, Yaoyao Yan, Tianhe Xia, Lei Li, Feng Zhu, Hao Li, Rongzhou Wu

“…With a 28-day follow-up after inoculation, we found that the ventricular function was significantly improved in the BMSCs treatment group and cardiac fibrosis markedly ameliorated, especially when BMSCs were injected between 1 and 2 weeks after CVB3 inoculation. Furthermore, we demonstrated that after BMSCs treatment, the expressions of TGF-β, col1α1, and col3α1 were significantly decreased. …”
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Ameliorative effect of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus Fmb14 from Chinese yogurt on hyperuricemia by Hongyuan Zhao, Xiaoyu Chen, Fanqiang Meng, Libang Zhou, Xinyi Pang, Zhaoxin Lu, Yingjian Lu

“…The in vivo results showed that the serum UA level decreased from 236.28 to 149.28 μmol/L after 8 weeks of oral administration of L. rhamnosus Fmb14 in inosine-induced hyperuricemia model mice. …”
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A Dilemma in Staging of Esophageal Cancer: How Should We Stage ypT0 N2 M0 Esophageal Cancer after Neoadjuvant Therapy? by Sebahattin Celik, Remzi Erten, Abdulsamed Batur, Burak Suvak

“…Neoadjuvant therapy decision was taken by oncology committee. Six weeks after neoadjuvant therapy, with a curative intention, minimal invasive surgery was performed. …”
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Assessment of effectiveness of oral supplementation of isolated fiber of carrot on metabolic parameters in mature rats by Maria Rosana Ramirez, Debora Manuale, Juan Carlos Yori

“…The groups were as follows: animals fed a standard diet, control group; high fiber supplementation (70 mg); low fiber supplementation (35 mg); for 12 weeks. Blood samples were collected at the time of sacrifice. …”
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