Effect of Topically Administered Chitosan-N-acetylcysteine on Corneal Wound Healing in a Rabbit Model by Corinna Fischak, Robert Klaus, René M. Werkmeister, Christine Hohenadl, Martin Prinz, Leopold Schmetterer, Gerhard Garhöfer

“…Administration of C-NAC containing eye drops twice daily leads to a faster corneal wound healing in a rabbit model of corneal debridement as compared to placebo. …”
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Enpostil Lowers Elevated Serum Gastrin Concentrations in Patients with Pernicious Anemia by P Kirdeikis, M Mant, L Zuk, D Fisher, L Bynum, ABR Thomson

“…In random order patients received twice daily enprostil 350 μg bid, enprostil 700 μg bid and placebo for one week, with a one week washout between treatment phases. …”
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Establishment and Mechanism Study of a Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Mouse Model Using Lipopolysaccharide by Si-Ji Lv, Shu-Hui Hou, Lei Gan, Jing Sun

“…C57BL/6N female mice were intraperitoneally injected with low-dose LPS (0.5 mg/kg) once daily for 14 days, high-dose LPS (2.5 mg/kg) twice weekly for 2 weeks, or cyclophosphamide (CTX; 150 mg/kg) once weekly for 2 weeks. …”
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Comparative Study of Ectopic Lymphoid Aggregates in Sheep and Murine Models of Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis by Udari Eshani Perera, Louise Organ, Simon G. Royce, Chrishan S. Samuel, Habtamu B. Derseh, Sasika N. V. Dewage, Emmanuel Koumoundouros, Andrew Stent, Kenneth J. Snibson

“…Merino sheep (n = 8) were bronchoscopically administered with two bleomycin infusions, two weeks apart, into a caudal lung segment, with a saline (control) administered into a caudal segment in the opposite lung. Balb/c mice were twice intranasally instilled, one week apart, with either bleomycin (n = 7); or saline (control, n = 7). …”
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An Investigation Towards Resampling Techniques and Classification Algorithms on CM1 NASA PROMISE Dataset for Software Defect Prediction by Agung Fatwanto, Muh Nur Aslam, Rebbecah Ndugi, Muhammad Syafrudin

“…Training processes were carried out twice, each of which used the 5-fold cross-validation and the 70% training and 30% testing data splitting (holdout) method. …”
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Beverage Intake and Its Effect on Body Weight Status among WIC Preschool-Age Children by Andrea Charvet, Fatma G. Huffman

“…Independent of body weight status, the preschool-age children were consuming on average over twice as much as the recommended intake of 100% fruit juice per day for that age group. …”
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Low-Frequency rTMS over Contralesional M1 Increases Ipsilesional Cortical Excitability and Motor Function with Decreased Interhemispheric Asymmetry in Subacute Stroke: A Randomized... by Ka Yan Luk, Hui Xi Ouyang, Marco Yiu Chung Pang

“…Following the 2-week intervention period, the task practice was continued twice weekly for another 10 weeks in both groups. …”
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Realized stable BP-N at ambient pressure by phosphorus doping by Guo Chen, Chengfeng Zhang, Yuanqin Zhu, Bingqing Cao, Jie Zhang, Xianlong Wang

“…For a configuration with 12.5% doping concentration, a gravimetric energy density of 8.07 kJ/g can be realized, which is nearly twice that of trinitrotoluene.…”
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Roquefort Cheese Proteins Inhibit Chlamydia pneumoniae Propagation and LPS-Induced Leukocyte Migration by Ivan M. Petyaev, Naylia A. Zigangirova, Natalie V. Kobets, Valery Tsibezov, Lydia N. Kapotina, Elena D. Fedina, Yuriy K. Bashmakov

“…Moreover, short term feeding of mice with Roquefort cheese (twice, 10 mg per mouse with an interval of 24 hours) led to the inhibition of the migration of peritoneal leukocytes caused by intraperitoneal injection of E. coli lipopolysaccharide. …”
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Extreme Maternal Metabolic Acidosis Leading to Fetal Distress and Emergency Caesarean Section by Nicolas Cecere, Corinne Hubinont, Arnauld Kabulu Kadingi, Marie-Françoise Vincent, Peter Van den Bergh, Anna Onnela, Philippe Hantson

“…The patient had reduced food intake during the last 24 hours prior to admission and vomited twice. Serum glucose level was normal (112 mg/dL), while urinalysis revealed glucosuria 4+ and ketonuria 4+. …”
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Rectal Application of Ozone to Patients with Diabetes Mellitus by Omar Morejón Barroso, Imandra María García Menéndez, Leticia Varela Castro, Ernesto Julio Bernal Valladares

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> a quasi-experimental study was carried out with pre and post therapy, where the universe consisted of 121 diabetic patients from the family doctor's office, number 15 of the José Luis Chaviano Community Teaching Polyclinic in Cienfuegos, applying rectal ozone therapy prior medical evaluation for 15 sessions twice a year. Demographic variables were collected: age and sex; clinics: hemochemical parameters, time of evolution of the disease and nutritional status; as neurovascular complications: diabetic foot, diabetic polyneuropathy and diabetic retinopathy; treatments: hypoglycemic; modifiable risk factors: arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, alcoholism, physical exercise; calculation of body mass index. …”
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Health Care Consumption during Pregnancy in relation to Maternal Body Mass Index: A Swedish Population Based Observational Study by Elisabeth S. Lindholm, Daniel Altman, Margareta Norman, Marie Blomberg

“…Underweight mothers had longer stay in hospitals (p<0.05) and hydronephrosis and hyperemesis gravidarum were more than twice as common (both p<0.001). Conclusion. Obese and underweight mothers consumed significantly more health care resources and obese women were significantly more often sick-listed during their pregnancy when compared to pregnant women of normal weight.…”
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Effects of tanniferous oak leaves (quercus hartwissiana) on some haematological parameters in lambs by Metehan Uzun, Feyyaz Önder, Metin Çenesiz, Mehmet Kaya, Sedat Yıldız

“…The lambs were fed in individual metabolism cages twice daily at 08.00 and 16.00 h and had access to water at all times. …”
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Effects of Multicomponent Exercise on Functional and Cognitive Parameters of Hypertensive Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study by Hélio José Coelho Junior, Bruno Rodrigues, Daniele Jardim Feriani, Ivan de Oliveira Gonçalves, Ricardo Yukio Asano, Samuel da Silva Aguiar, Marco Carlos Uchida

“…The program of exercise was performed twice a week, for 26 weeks. The physical exercises were thought to mimic the activities of daily living and, therefore, aggregated functional and walking exercises. …”
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Pleiotropic effect of teneligliptin versus glimepiride add-on therapy on hs-CRP and cardiorenal parameters in Indian type 2 diabetes patients: An open-labeled randomized controlled... by M Kanimozhi, Manisha Bisht, Ravikant, Arkapal Bandyopadhyay, Manisha Naithani, Shailendra Handu

“…Results: Seventy participants were randomized (1:1) to receive either teneligliptin 20 mg once daily (n = 35) or glimepiride 1 mg twice daily (BD) (n = 35) as an add-on to metformin 500 mg BD. …”
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Effects of Strength Training on Muscle Properties, Physical Function, and Physical Activity among Frail Older People: A Pilot Study by Atle Hole Saeterbakken, Hilde Bremseth Bårdstu, Anine Brudeseth, Vidar Andersen

“…Thirty participants were randomly assigned (by sex) to a control group (CON) or a strength training group (ST) performing a supervised training programme using elastic bands, box-lifting, and body weight exercises twice per week. Twenty-three participants were selected to complete the study (age 84.9 ± 6.1 years). …”
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Improvement of pregnancy ratios in the mating of bitches carried out with the aid of rapid progesterone assay by Aytekin Günay, Ülgen Günay

“…Five of the bilches with progesterone values between 2.5-8 ng/ml were mated once, and 7 of them were mated twice with 12-24 h intervals. Birth ratios of 0/12 and 10/12 were obtained in the firsl and second groups, respectively. …”
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Efficacy of Oregano Extract Ointment on Fibroblast Cells and Epidermis in Albino Rats with Excisional Wound Model by Muhammad Arfan Lesmana, Indah Amalia Amri, Ardilla Rachma Cahyanissa, Kartika Myrnandari Geoputri, Agri Kaltaria Anisa, Andreas Bandang Hardian

“…., (C-) not excised and without ointment, (C+) excised and without ointment, and the treatment group were excised using a 5 x 5 mm biopsy punch and treated with oregano extract ointment using concentrations of (T1) 3%, (T2) 6% and (T3) 9% twice daily for 14 days in an excised wound. The variables observed in this study were the number of fibroblast cells and the epidermal thickness by the HE staining method then measured using ImageJ. …”
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Effects of Age and Gender on Hand Motion Tasks by Wing Lok Au, Irene Soo Hoon Seah, Wei Li, Louis Chew Seng Tan

“…Methods. 80 healthy subjects performed hand motion tasks twice for each hand, with movements measured using a wireless motion sensor device (Kinesia, Cleveland Medical Devices Inc., Cleveland, OH). …”
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Cognitive Stimulation for Apathy in Probable Early-Stage Alzheimer's by Linda L. Buettner, Suzanne Fitzsimmons, Serdar Atav, Kaycee Sink

“…Interventions were offered twice weekly after baseline evaluations were completed. …”
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