Does Sex Matter in Obesity-Induced Periodontal Inflammation in the SS^LepR Mutant Rats? by Abdulmohsin Alhashim, Kim Capehart, Jocelyn Tang, Karim M. Saad, Rafik Abdelsayed, Marion A. Cooley, Jan M. Williams, Ahmed A. Elmarakby

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Assessing Sedation Depth with PSI in Elderly ERCP Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study by Huang L, Liu LL, Lu YD, Zhuang MY, Dou W, Liu H, Ji FH, Peng K

“…Lei Huang,1,2,* Lin-lin Liu,1,2,* Yong-da Lu,3,* Min-yuan Zhuang,1,2 Wei Dou,1,2 Hong Liu,4 Fu-hai Ji,1,2 Ke Peng1 1Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; 2Institute of Anesthesiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Ke Peng, Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 188 Shizi Street, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-512-67780056 ; +86-15962155989, Email pengke0422@163.comBackground: Adequate sedation is important for elderly patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). …”
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Wearable Loop Sensors for Knee Flexion Monitoring: Dynamic Measurements on Human Subjects by Ian Anderson, Christopher Cosma, Yingzhe Zhang, Vigyanshu Mishra, Asimina Kiourti

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Activity of trypsin inhibitors in common bean seeds (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) from the VIR collection: variability and source material for breeding by T. V. Buravtseva, G. P. Egorova, M. O. Burlyaeva, M. A. Nikishkina

“…The program Statistica 7.0. (StatSoft, Inc., USA) was used for statistical analysis.Results. …”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of the association between residential eviction and fatal overdose in Rhode Island by Jennifer Ahern, Magdalena Cerdá, William C Goedel, Elizabeth A Samuels, Yu Li, Alexandria Macmadu, Benjamin D Hallowell, Kathryn M Leifheit, Alexandra Skinner, Victoria Jent, Bennett Allen, Abigail R Cartus, Claire Pratty, Brandon DL Marshall

“…Objective Policy ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic shape the concurrent housing and overdose crises in the USA. Housing insecurity is a known risk factor for overdose, yet how residential eviction may influence fatal overdose risk is understudied. …”
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Safety, feasibility and initial efficacy of an app-facilitated telerehabilitation (AFTER) programme for COVID-19 survivors: a pilot randomised study by Kristine M Erlandson, Jacob John Capin, Amy Nordon-Craft, Sarah E Jolley, Jennifer E Stevens-Lapsley, Mary Morrow, Meghan Connors, Kristine Hare, Samantha MaWhinney, Michelle Rauzi, Sheryl Flynn

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Deep Lateral Wall Partial Rim-Sparing Orbital Decompression with Ultrasonic Bone Removal for Treatment of Thyroid-Related Orbitopathy by Álvaro Bengoa-González, Alicia Galindo-Ferreiro, Enrique Mencía-Gutiérrez, Hortensia Sánchez-Tocino, Agustín Martín-Clavijo, María-Dolores Lago-Llinás

“…A review was carried out, from January 2015 to September 2017, of all patients treated with ultrasonic DLW-PRS decompression using a SONOPET® (Stryker, Kalamazoo, MI, USA) ultrasonic aspirator, using a lateral, small triangle flap incision for access. …”
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High HDL-C and high LDL-C are risk factors of pterygium in a population-based cross-sectional study in Southern China: the Dongguan Eye Study by Liang Zhang, Min Zhang, Ying Cui, Lixin Zhang, Guanrong Zhang, Qingyang Liu, Haike Guo, Qianli Meng, Siwen Zang, Chun-Han Lo, Yanlei Chen, Jin Zeng

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Exploring urban-rural inequalities of maternal healthcare utilization in Bangladesh by A.T.M. Shariful Alam, Shorful Alam, Kashfia Mobasshira, S.M. Nuruzzaman Anik, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, Md Jamal Uddin

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An Emotion-Driven Vocal Biomarker-Based PTSD Screening Tool by Thomas F. Quatieri, Jing Wang, James R. Williamson, Richard DeLaura, Tanya Talkar, Nancy P. Solomon, Stefanie E. Kuchinsky, Megan Eitel, Tracey Brickell, Sara Lippa, Kristin J. Heaton, Douglas S. Brungart, Louis French, Rael Lange, Jeffrey Palmer, Hayley Reynolds

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Meeting Report on “10th Anniversary Symposium on Inflammatory Skin Disease” by Shirin Emtenani, John F. Baines, Katja Bieber, Evelyn Gaffal, Stephanie Goletz, Gema Hernández, Misa Hirose, Markus Hoffmann, Pascal Joly, Henriette Kirchner, Jörg Köhl, Sripriya Murthy, Sabrina Patzelt, Frank Petersen, Manuela Pigors, Gabriela Riemekasten, Leon F. Schmidt-Jiménez, Tanya Sezin, Malte Spielmann, Diamant Thaçi, Nina van Beek, Jens Waschke, Ralf J. Ludwig, Enno Schmidt

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Misconceptions on COVID-19 Risk Among Ugandan Men: Results From a Rapid Exploratory Survey, April 2020 by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, MacLeod, Ewan, Ssempijja, Fred, Mahero, Michael W., Matama, Kevin, Musoke, Grace Henry, Bardosh, Kevin, Ssebuufu, Robinson, Wakoko-Studstil, Florence, Echoru, Isaac, Tiyo Ayikobua, Emmanuel, Mujinya, Regan, Nambuya, Grace, Onohuean, Hope, Zirintunda, Gerald, Ekou, Justine, Welburn, Susan Christina

“…While respondents considered that all races were susceptible to the signs and symptoms of infection as well as death from COVID-19, they considered mortality would be highest among white people from Europe and the USA. Some respondents (mostly male 33/102, 32.4%) considered COVID-19 to be a “disease of whites” (30.2%). …”
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The Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS). VII. The 20–214 μm Imaging Atlas of Active Galactic Nuclei Using SOFIA by Lindsay Fuller, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Ismael García-Bernete, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Chris Packham, Lulu Zhang, Mason Leist, Nancy A. Levenson, Masatoshi Imanishi, Sebastian Hoenig, Marko Stalevski, Claudio Ricci, Erin Hicks, Enrica Bellocchi, Francoise Combes, Ric Davies, Santiago García Burillo, Omaira González Martín, Takuma Izumi, Alvaro Labiano, Miguel Pereira Santaella, Dimitra Rigopoulou, David Rosario, Daniel Rouan, Taro Shimizu, Martin Ward

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BeatProfiler: Multimodal In Vitro Analysis of Cardiac Function Enables Machine Learning Classification of Diseases and Drugs by Youngbin Kim, Kunlun Wang, Roberta I. Lock, Trevor R. Nash, Sharon Fleischer, Bryan Z. Wang, Barry M. Fine, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

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Outcomes of Idecabtagene Vicleucel Therapy in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma: A Single-Institution Experience by Aaron Trando, Farid Ghamsari, Philip Yeung, Caitlin Costello, Ila Saunders, Ah-Reum Jeong

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A simple, highly sensitive and specific serological test for the detection of antibodies to Varicella-zoster virus (<i>Varicellovirus humanalpha3</i>) by Firaya G. Nagieva, Elena P. Barkova, Olga S. Kharchenko, Alexander V. Sidorov, Galina I. Alatortseva, Bogdan S. Cherepovich, Yulia N. Tarakanova, Olga A. Trubacheva, Evgeny A. Pashkov, Artem A. Rtishchev, Oksana A. Svitich, Vitaly V. Zverev

“…The activity of VZV GP was confirmed in PHAR by an antibody diagnostic assay using formalin-treated sheep erythrocytes sensibilised using monoclonal antibodies to GP E of the “vOka” VZV strain (USA). Using GPs from different VZV strains, PHAR test and GP-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (gpELISA) have been developed to detect antibodies in human and animal immune sera. …”
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Meta Analysis of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism and its association with folate and colorectal cancer by Meng Ye, Guojie Xu, Liming Zhang, Zhihui Kong, Zhenhua Qiu

“…A negative correlation between TT genotype and CRC was observed in ethnics of Asians (OR = 0.83, 95% CI: 0.76, 0.91), Caucasians (OR = 0.93, 95% CI: 0.88, 0.99) and the region of USA (OR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.71, 0.85), Asia (OR = 0.93, 95% CI: 0.86, 1.00) and Europe (OR = 0.93, 95% CI:0.87, 1.00),but not in Indian (TT: OR = 1.67, 95% CI: 1.06, 2.63; CT: OR = 1.31, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.73)). …”
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Real-world outcomes in patients with melanoma brain metastasis: a US multisite retrospective chart review study of systemic treatments by Ning Ning, Sunandana Chandra, Andriy Moshyk, Divya Patel, Isabella C Glitza Oliva, Jennell Palaia, Leon A Sakkal, Natalia Han, Shardul Odak, Jordana K Schmier

“…Objective This study examined real-world treatment patterns and outcomes in patients with melanoma brain metastasis (MBM) treated with first-line immunotherapy consisting of nivolumab plus ipilimumab or anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) monotherapy (nivolumab or pembrolizumab) or targeted therapy consisting of BRAF/MEK inhibitors.Design Retrospective chart review study.Setting Academic medical centres, community hospitals and private practice offices.Participants Included patients diagnosed with melanoma with brain metastasis in the USA.Outcome measures The statistical analysis was descriptive in nature. …”
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How do leaf functional traits influence above-ground tree carbon in tropical hill forests of Bangladesh? by Ariful Khan, Md Rezaul Karim, Mohammed A.S. Arfin-Khan, Md. Shamim Reza Saimun, Fahmida Sultana, Sharif A. Mukul

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Aetiology and Outcomes of Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study in a University Hospital, India by Sudha V. Hooli, Neelima Shah, Prashant Shah, Shrradha Suresh, Bali Sukeshani Sunil

“…The data were analysed using SPSS (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, New York, USA) software. χ2 test was used to compare the proportions between the groups. p<0.05 was considered significant. …”
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