Comparison of laparoscopic supported gastropexy and classic gastropexy operation on dogs by Mustafa Arıcan, Kurtuluş Parlak, Hanifi Erol, Nuri Yavru

“…Biochemical analysis and blood gas have been investigated for examination in the preoperative and postoperative period by the 9th day. …”
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Outcomes in Emergency Department Patients with Dyspnea versus Chest Pain: A Retrospective Consecutive Cohort Study by Erik Jemt, Magnus Ekström, Ulf Ekelund

“…Dyspnea patients were older than patients with chest pain (64 vs. 56 years, p<0.001) and had more comorbidity and higher average blood troponin T and c-reactive protein levels. Dyspnea patients also had higher hospitalization rates (48% vs. 30%; adjOR (95% CI) 2.1–2.3), including the intensive care unit (1.4% vs. 0.1%; adjOR 6.9–15.9), and more ED revisits (11% vs. 7%; adjOR 1.2–1.7) in 30 days. …”
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Concentration Kinetics of Serum MMP-9 and TIMP-1 after Blunt Multiple Injuries in the Early Posttraumatic Period by M. Brumann, T. Kusmenkov, L. Ney, K.-G. Kanz, B. A. Leidel, P. Biberthaler, W. Mutschler, V. Bogner

“…The aim of this paper was now to evaluate the posttraumatic serum levels and the time course of both proteins depending on distinct clinical parameters. 60 multiple traumatized patients (ISS > 16) were included. Blood samples were drawn on admission and 6 h, 12 h, 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h after trauma. …”
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High pulse pressure is associated with an increased risk of prediabetes in hypertensive individuals: A retrospective study based on an adult Chinese population. by Zhanxing Wu, Zhongqing Chen, Wenfei Zeng, Ganggang Peng, Zhenhua Huang

“…However, we observed that this relationship was not significant in the normal blood pressure group (HR: 1.06, 95% CI: 0.94-1.18, P = 0.3529). …”
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Pulse2AI: An Adaptive Framework to Standardize and Process Pulsatile Wearable Sensor Data for Clinical Applications by Sicong Huang, Roozbeh Jafari, Bobak J. Mortazavi

“…<italic>Results:</italic> a dataset preprocessed by Pulse2AI improved systolic blood pressure estimation by 29.58&#x0025;, from 11.41 to 8.03 mmHg in root-mean-square-error (RMSE) and its diastolic counterpart by 26.01&#x0025;, from 7.93 to 5.87 mmHg in RMSE. …”
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Epidemiology of Plague: Problems with the Use of Mathematical Epidemiological Models in Plague Research and the Question of Transmission by Human Fleas and Lice by Ole J. Benedictow

“…An important or predominant vectorial role in plague epidemics for human fleas and lice requires that several necessary conditions are satisfied, which are generally not considered by advocates of the human ectoparasite hypothesis of plague transmission: (1) the prevalence and levels of human plague bacteraemia (human plague cases as sources of infection of feeding human ectoparasites); (2) the general size of blood meals ingested by human fleas and lice; (3) the consequent number of ingested plague bacteria; (4) the lethal dose of bacteria for 50% of a normal sample of infected human beings, LD50; and (5) efficient mechanism of transmission by lice and by fleas. …”
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Why Asplenic Patients Should Not Take Care of the Neighbour’s Dog? A Fatal Course of Capnocytophaga canimorsus Sepsis by Patrick Langguth, Lothar Leissner, Günther Zick, Arno Fischer, Christiane Stuhlmann-Laiesz, Mona Salehi Ravesh, Friederike Austein, Olav Jansen, Marcus Both

“…After the patient had died despite forced treatment in the intermediate care unit, the differential diagnosis of CC was confirmed by culture of blood smears. Later on, a retrospective third-party anamnesis revealed that the patient had contact to his neighbour’s dog a few days before disease onset. …”
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Ethics and Biosafety in Dental Care for Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus by Ana Ibis Betancourt García, Carlos Lázaro Nodal García, Jorge Manuel García Rodríguez, Diosky Ferrer Vilches, Elizabeth Álvarez Heredia

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the only way of contracting human immunodeficiency virus during dental treatment is through contact with the blood of an HIV-positive patient with non-intact skin or mucosa of the professional. …”
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Altered Expressions of miR-1238-3p, miR-494, miR-6069, and miR-139-3p in the Formation of Chronic Brucellosis by Ferah Budak, Salih Haldun Bal, Gulcin Tezcan, Halis Akalın, Guher Goral, Haluk Barbaros Oral

“…Here, more than 2000 miRNAs were screened in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with acute or chronic brucellosis and healthy controls by using miRNA array, and the results of the miRNA array were validated through qRT-PCR. …”
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Histopathological Study of Gallbladder Associated with Gallstone Disease by Seerwan Raheem, Ismail Kakey

“…The tissue section showed infiltration of some inflammatory cells, lymphocytes, and plasma cells, and some types of macrophages of the gallbladder mucosa with chronic inflammatory cells associated with epithelial hyperplasia, bleeding in blood vessels was frequently occurring. The study concluded that pathological alterations in the gallbladder epithelium may contribute to gallstone development.…”
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The effects of the combination of resistance exercise and heat stress on cell production and plasma levels of cytokines by Maryam Zilaei Bouri, Hamid Agha-Alinejad, Shirin Zilaei Bouri, Saeed Daneshmandi

“…However, post-exercise LPS-TNF-α release decreased immediately only in a heated environment (P=0.029). The concentration of blood cortisol was unaffected by normal or heat conditions. …”
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Nebivolol Ameliorates Nitric Oxide–Deficient Hypertension by L.A. Fortepiani, M.C. Ortiz, N.M. Atucha, Joaquin Garcia-Estan

“…Nebivolol (1 mg/kg/day, 14 days) was given concurrently with the NO synthesis inhibitor Nw-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 0.1, 1, and 10 mg/kg/day, 14 days) to several groups of rats. Blood pressure, renal function, plasma renin activity (PRA), and NO activity and metabolites were measured at the end of the treatment period. …”
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Sweets and other sugary foods – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023 by Henna Vepsäläinen, Emily Sonestedt

“…We found some evidence linking chocolate consumption with lower blood pressure, lower risk of type 2 diabetes, and improved insulin markers, but the evidence was ranked low or very low. …”
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Weight status influences the effect of hyperglycemia at admission on clinical outcomes after endovascular thrombectomy by Tao Tang, Xu-Sheng Zhao, Zhong-Jun Chen, Tie-Ping Fan, Aline M. Thomas, Man-Hong Zhao, Di Li, Shen Li

“…Hyperglycemia at admission was described as venous blood glucose ≥7.8 mmol/L and overweight as body mass index ≥24 kg/m2. …”
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S-Calprotectin (S100A8/S100A9): A Potential Marker of Inflammation in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis by Claes Hansson, Catharina Eriksson, Gerd-Marie Alenius

“…To analyse levels of S100A8/S100A9 (calprotectin) and selected cytokines, in blood, in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). …”
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The comparisons of clinical efficacy of steroidal and nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs in the treatment of canine food allergies by Mehmet Maden, Mutlu Sevinç, Erman Or

“…Al dogs were examined physically and the age, breed and sex of the dogs and the skin lesions (pruritis, alopecia, erythema. hyper-pigmentation. papules. pustules. crusts. saborhea. acute moist dermatitis, folliculitis and pyoderma) and their severity and localisation were recorded before the treatment in all dogs. The blood samples were taken and serum biochemistry profile were interpreted before and after treatment Autohaemotherapy was applied in all dogs While Ery tromycine (5 mg/kg body weight). dexamethasone (0.5-1 mg body weight) and tripelennamine (1 cc/20 kg body weight) therapy was applied to the steroid group of dogs. in the dogs of nonsteroid group erytromycine (5 mg/kg body weight) and fluniksin meglumine (0.3 mg/kg body weight) were given. …”
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S100 calcium-binding protein A8 exacerbates deep vein thrombosis in vascular endothelial cells by Junyu Chi, Qitao Wang, Zhen Wang, Wenjie Zeng, Yangyang Gao, Xin Li, Wanpeng Wang, Jiali Wang, Ming Qu

“…Therefore, we aimed to establish a connection between S100A8 and DVT and investigate the role of S100A8 in DVT development. Blood specimens were taken from 23 patients with DVT and 31 controls. …”
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Biocomposite’s Multiple Uses for a New Approach in the Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease Using a Machine Learning Algorithm by Abdallah Al-Husban, Mustafa Mahdi Abdulridha, A. A. Hamad Mohamad, Abdelrahman Mohamed Ibrahim

“…To identify this disease, a thorough medical history, previous treatment history, physical examinations, and some blood tests and brain films must be completed. Diagnoses are more critical since they are less expensive and less time-consuming. …”
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Anthropometric Indicators to Determine the Obesity and its Relations with the Cardiometabolic Risk by Raúl Cedeño Morales, Maricel Castellanos González, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Luis Mass Sosa, Carlos Mora Hernández, Jorge Carlos Parada Arias

“…There were operationalized like clinical variables: measurement of the abdominal waist, index of corporal mass, cutaneous crease and blood pressure; and like variables of laboratory: total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, glucemia and tri-glycerides. …”
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The Effect of Erythritol Injection in Decreasing of Abortion Rate in Local Breed Ewes by Maher Saber Owain, Mustafa Salah Hasan, Ali Ghazi Atiyah

“…The experiment takes 12 weeks. Blood was withdrawn at different times of experiment (0, 2 weeks and end of experiment). …”
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