Interrelationship between altered metabolites and the gut microbiota in people living with HIV with different immune responses to antiretroviral therapy by Xuebin Tian, Zhongyao Gao, Yiwen Xie, Xiangyun Lu, Yulong Zhao, Peng Yao, Mingqing Dong, Lifeng Yu, Nanping Wu

“…We observed negative associations of Parabacteroides with activation markers on CD4+ T-cells, and positive correlations with CD4/CD8 ratios. …”
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Phantom motor execution as a treatment for phantom limb pain: protocol of an international, double-blind, randomised controlled clinical trial by Brian E McGuire, Lina Bunketorp-Käll, Eva Lendaro, Liselotte Hermansson, Helena Burger, Corry K Van der Sluis, Monika Pilch, Katarzyna Kulbacka-Ortiz, Ingrid Rignér, Anita Stockselius, Lena Gudmundson, Cathrine Widehammar, Wendy Hill, Sybille Geers, Max Ortiz-Catalan

“…Secondary outcomes include: frequency, duration, quality of pain, intrusion of pain in activities of daily living and sleep, disability associated to pain, pain self-efficacy, frequency of depressed mood, presence of catastrophising thinking, health-related quality of life and clinically significant change as patient’s own impression. …”
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Recent Developments to the ANSWERS® Monte Carlo Codes MONK® and MCBEND® by Fildes Jessica, Richards Simon, Bird Adam, Cox Andrew, Fry Timothy, Hanlon David, Jones Brian, Long David, Tantillo Francesco, Wright George, Hiles Richard

“…These codes continue to be actively developed to meet the needs of their users. …”
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Danlian-Tongmai formula improves diabetic vascular calcification by regulating CCN3/NOTCH signal axis to inhibit inflammatory reaction by Wenting Wang, Yiwen Li, Mengmeng Zhu, Qian Xu, Jing Cui, Yanfei Liu, Yanfei Liu, Yue Liu

“…In vivo experiments confirmed that DLTM could upregulate CCN3, inhibit the activation of NOTCH signaling ligands DLL1 and downstream transcription factors hes1 and hey1, and reduce the release of inflammatory cytokines IL6, IL1β, and TNFα.ConclusionDLTM alleviates DVC by regulating the CCN3/NOTCH signaling axis to inhibit inflammatory responses. …”
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Association between behavioral and sociodemographic factors and high subjective health among adolescents: a nationwide representative study in South Korea by Jaehyun Kong, Seohyun Hong, Seunghwan Lee, Seokjun Kim, Soeun Kim, Jiyeon Oh, Wonwoo Jang, Hanseul Cho, Sooji Lee, Jiseung Kang, Yejun Son, Lee Smith, Selin Woo, Dong Keon Yon

“…Healthier behavioral factors (ROR, breakfast consumption, 1.13 [95% CI, 1.10–1.16]; sufficient fruit intake, 1.12 [95% CI, 1.09–1.15]; sufficient physical activity, 2.02 [95% CI, 1.95–2.09]) were associated with higher subjective health, and the disparities increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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A genomic duplication spanning multiple P450s contributes to insecticide resistance in the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti by Bacot, Tiphaine, Haberkorn, Chloe, Guilliet, Joseph, Cattel, Julien, Kefi, Mary, Nadalin, Louis, Filee, Jonathan, Boyer, Frederic, Gaude, Thierry, Laporte, Frederic, Tutagata, Jordan, Vontas, John, Dusfour, Isabelle, Bonneville, Jean-Marc, David, Jean-Philippe

“…Resistance of mosquitoes to insecticides is one example of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic selection pressures having a strong impact on human health and activities. Target-site modification and increased insecticide detoxification are the two main mechanisms underlying insecticide resistance in mosquitoes. …”
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Transcriptional landscape and predictive potential of long noncoding RNAs in peritoneal recurrence of gastric cancer by Xiao-Xia Cai, Guo-Ming Chen, Zi-Qi Zheng, Yi-Xin Yin, Shuang Wang, Li Qiao, Xiao-Jiang Chen, Bai-Wei Zhao, Jin-Ling Duan, Cheng-Cai Liang, Ruo-Peng Zhang, Cheng-Zhi Wei, Fei-Yang Zhang, Bo-Wen Huang, Ze-Xian Liu, Zhi-Wei Zhou, Dan Xie, Mu-Yan Cai, Shu-Qiang Yuan, Yuan-Fang Li, Run-Cong Nie

“…Mechanistic analysis demonstrated that CASC15 promoted EMT and metastasis by activating the JNK and p38 pathways. Conclusion A lncRNA-based integrated score was constructed in this study to predict peritoneal recurrence in patients clinically.…”
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Rosiglitazone, a Ligand to PPARγ, Improves Blood Pressure and Vascular Function through Renin-Angiotensin System Regulation by María Sánchez-Aguilar, Luz Ibarra-Lara, Leonardo Del Valle-Mondragón, María Esther Rubio-Ruiz, Alicia G. Aguilar-Navarro, Absalom Zamorano-Carrillo, Margarita del Carmen Ramírez-Ortega, Gustavo Pastelín-Hernández, Alicia Sánchez-Mendoza

“…Rosiglitazone (RGZ), a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) ligand, has been reported to act as insulin sensitizer and exert cardiovascular actions. …”
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ONC213: a novel strategy to resensitize resistant AML cells to venetoclax through induction of mitochondrial stress by Jenna L. Carter, Yongwei Su, Eman T. Al-Antary, Jianlei Zhao, Xinan Qiao, Guan Wang, Holly Edwards, Lisa Polin, Juiwanna Kushner, Sijana H. Dzinic, Kathryn White, Steven A. Buck, Maik Hüttemann, Joshua E. Allen, Varun V. Prabhu, Jay Yang, Jeffrey W. Taub, Yubin Ge

“…Here we investigated the antileukemic activity and underlying molecular mechanism of the combination of ONC213 + venetoclax against AML cells. …”
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Cardiac Gene Therapy With Phosphodiesterase 2A Limits Remodeling and Arrhythmias in Mouse Models of Heart Failure by Rima Kamel, Aurélia Bourcier, Jean Piero Margaria, Valentin Jin, Audrey Varin, Agnès Hivonnait, Françoise Mercier‐Nomé, Delphine Mika, Alessandra Ghigo, Flavien Charpentier, Vincent Algalarrondo, Emilio Hirsch, Rodolphe Fischmeister, Grégoire Vandecasteele, Jérôme Leroy

“…Conclusions Cardiac gene therapy with PDE2A limits left ventricle remodeling, dysfunction, and arrhythmias evoked by catecholamines, providing evidence that increasing PDE2A activity acutely could prevent progression toward heart failure.…”
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Targeting enolase 1 reverses bortezomib resistance in multiple myeloma through YWHAZ/Parkin axis by Xuejie Gao, Qilin Feng, Qikai Zhang, Yifei Zhang, Chaolu Hu, Li Zhang, Hui Zhang, Guanli Wang, Ke Hu, Mengmeng Ma, Zhuning Wang, Yujie Liu, Dong An, Hongfei Yi, Yu Peng, Xiaosong Wu, Gege Chen, Xinyan Jia, Haiyan Cai, Jumei Shi

“…Conclusion Our data suggest that ENO1 promotes MM tumorigenesis and progression. ENO1 activates mitophagy by promoting the stability of YWHAZ and inhibits apoptosis and thus, leads to the drug resistance. …”
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Zipper Pattern: An Investigation into Psychotic Criminal Detection Using EEG Signals by Gulay Tasci, Prabal Datta Barua, Dahiru Tanko, Tugce Keles, Suat Tas, Ilknur Sercek, Suheda Kaya, Kubra Yildirim, Yunus Talu, Burak Tasci, Filiz Ozsoy, Nida Gonen, Irem Tasci, Sengul Dogan, Turker Tuncer

“…In this context, we aimed to investigate the cortical activities of psychotic criminal subjects by deploying an explainable feature engineering (XFE) model using an EEG psychotic criminal dataset. …”
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Cisplatin resistance alters ovarian cancer spheroid formation and impacts peritoneal invasion by Lydia C. Powell, Marcos Quintela, David W. James, Emenike Onyido, David Howard, Kadie Edwards, Jordan L. Turney, Charlotte R. Morgan, Jenny Worthington, Nicole Williams, Alexander Dulebo, Heiko Haschke, Deyarina Gonzalez, R. Steven Conlan, Lewis W. Francis

“…In this interdisciplinary study, light and atomic force microscopy was used, alongside quantitative gene and protein expression analysis, to reveal distinct differences in the biophysical properties of CR spheroids, which correlated with altered protein expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and Tenascin-C. CR SKOV3 spheroids (IC50: 25.5 µM) had a significantly greater area and perimeter and were less spherical, with a reduced Young’s modulus, (p < 0.01) compared to parental (P) SKOV3 spheroids (IC50: 5.4 µM). …”
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Scenario Simulation of Ecosystem Services Based on Land Use/Land Cover Change in the Bailong River Basin, in China by Shuangying Li, Yanyan Zhou, Dongxia Yue, Zhongling Guo, Zhi Li

“…Studying LUCC and its impact on ESs is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the impact of human activities on ecosystems. The InVEST model coupled with the predicted land use data were used to analyze the spatiotemporal characteristics of four ESs (soil conservation (SC), water yield (WY), carbon storage (CS), and habitat quality (HQ)) under three scenarios from 2040 to 2100 and quantified trade-offs/synergies and bundles of these ESs within the Bailong River Basin (BRB). …”
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Genetic Association and Expression Correlation between Colony-Stimulating Factor 1 Gene Encoding M-CSF and Adult-Onset Still’s Disease by Yi-Ming Chen, Wei-Ting Hung, Wan-Chun Chang, Chia-Wei Hsieh, Wen-Hung Chung, Joung-Liang Lan, Ning-Rong Gung, Yun-Shien Lee, Der-Yuan Chen, Shuen-Iu Hung

“…Plasma levels of M-CSF increased in AOSD patients (n=82, median: 9.31 pg/mL), particularly in the cases with activity score≥6 (n=42, 10.94 pg/mL), compared to the healthy donors (n=68, 5.31 pg/mL) (P<0.0001). …”
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Novel digital droplet inverse PCR assay shows that natural clearance of hepatitis B infection is associated with fewer viral integrations by Dong Li, Vikki Ho, Chiao-Fang Teng, Hung-Wen Tsai, Yuanyuan Liu, Sarah Bae, Harout Ajoyan, Jochen M. Wettengel, Ulrike Protzer, Brian S. Gloss, Rebecca J. Rockett, Rafid Al Asady, Jane Li, Simon So, Jacob George, Mark W. Douglas, Thomas Tu

“…The frequency of integrated HBV DNA in those who had undergone HBsAg loss (n = 14, mean ± SD of 1.514 × 10−3 ± 1.839 × 10−3 integrations per cell) was on average 9-fold lower than those with active HBV infection (n = 18, 1.16 × 10−2 ± 1.76 × 10−2 integrations per cell; p = 0.0179). …”
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Multiparameter resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging as an indicator of neuropsychological changes in Binswanger’s disease with mild cognitive impairment by Haiyi Zhang, Lu Zhang, Juan Lu, Jiajun Yue, Zhengzhen Yuan, Jidan Hu, Qi Yao, Yuting Fu, Guiquan Chen, Jiliang Fang, Jie Zhao

“…In summary, the results of our study suggest that patients diagnosed with BD-MCI display atypical activity across several brain regions. The observed changes in these areas encompass a range of functional networks. …”
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NORDIC denoising on VASO data by Lasse Knudsen, Lasse Knudsen, Luca Vizioli, Federico De Martino, Lonike K. Faes, Daniel A. Handwerker, Steen Moeller, Peter A. Bandettini, Peter A. Bandettini, Laurentius Huber

“…The use of submillimeter resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is increasing in popularity due to the prospect of studying human brain activation non-invasively at the scale of cortical layers and columns. …”
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Disturbed shear stress promotes atherosclerosis through TRIM21‐regulated MAPK6 degradation and consequent endothelial inflammation by Feng Wang, Shu‐Yu Wang, Yue Gu, Shuai Luo, Ai‐Qun Chen, Chao‐Hua Kong, Wen‐Ying Zhou, Li‐Guo Wang, Zhi‐Mei Wang, Guang‐Feng Zuo, Xiao‐Fei Gao, Jun‐Jie Zhang, Shao‐Liang Chen

“…Key points Disturbed flow activates the ubiquitin‒proteasome degradation pathway of MAPK6 in endothelial cells, which is contingent on the binding of the ubiquitin ligase TRIM21 to MAPK6. …”
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Unveiling the Cosmic Chemistry: Revisiting the Mass–Metallicity Relation with JWST/NIRSpec at 4 < z < 10 by Arnab Sarkar, Priyanka Chakraborty, Mark Vogelsberger, Michael McDonald, Paul Torrey, Alex M. Garcia, Gourav Khullar, Gary J. Ferland, William Forman, Scott Wolk, Benjamin Schneider, Mark Bautz, Eric Miller, Catherine Grant, John ZuHone

“…This trend underscores the “Grand Challenge” in understanding the factors driving high-redshift galactic metallicity trends, such as inflow, outflow, and active galactic nucleus/stellar feedback—and emphasizes the need for further investigations with larger samples and enhanced simulations.…”
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