Rare Cell Population Analysis in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients by Stefan Schreier, Prapaphan Budchart, Suparerk Borwornpinyo, Lakkana Adireklarpwong, Prakasit Chirappapha, Wannapong Triampo, Panuwat Lertsithichai

“…The platform includes red blood cell lysis, leukocyte depletion and high-resolution fluorescence image recording. …”
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Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria on the Mobile Phones and Computer Keyboards of Healthcare University Students in Ghana by Michael Olu-Taiwo, Christian Afotey Laryea, David Kweku Mykels, Akua Obeng Forson

“…Swabs were cultured on MacConkey, blood, and mannitol salt agar. Bacteria identification was performed with a standard bacteriological method. …”
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An Incarcerated Colon Inguinal Hernia That Perforated into the Scrotum and Exhibited an Air-Fluid Level by Seisuke Ota, Toshio Noguchi, Tomoya Takao, Takumi Sakamoto, Yuichiro Kanie, Ken-ichi Omae, Shunji Fujie, Yoshiaki Kanaya, Akinori Kasahara, Tadashi Matsumra

“…He reported a history of gastric cancer that was surgically treated more than 30 years ago. His white blood cell count and C-reactive protein level were elevated. …”
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Immediate management of a cirrhosis-induced severe pericardial effusion: a case report and review of the literature by Maryam Taheri, Arash Hassanpour Dargah, Pedram Ramezani, Mohsen Anafje, Amir Nasrollahizadeh, Pouya Ebrahimi, Mohammad Hossein Mandegar

“…Laboratory tests indicated severe hepatic and renal dysfunction, with elevated liver enzymes, bilirubin, and blood urea nitrogen. Imaging studies, including electrocardiogram, computed tomography angiography, and transthoracic echocardiogram, confirmed large pericardial effusion with signs of cardiac tamponade. …”
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Role of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Spinal Fusion Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Daudi R. Manini, Frank D. Shega, ChaoFeng Guo, YuXiang Wang

“…PRP facilitates new bone formation and bone fusion with a minimum concentration of the growth factor 5 times that of the peripheral blood. PRP stimulatory effects are not continuous and are very effective within six months of implantation.…”
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Whole exome sequencing enables the correct diagnosis of Frank–Ter Haar syndrome in a Saudi family by Y. N. Khan, M. Imad A.M. Mahmud, N. Othman, H. M. Radzuan, S. Basit

“…DNA was extracted from the blood samples of six members of the family. Whole exome sequencing was done for the two affected individuals and the variant was validated in the whole family by using Sanger sequencing approach. …”
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Impact of hydroxyurea on clinical and biological parameters of sickle cell anemia in children in Abidjan by MIREILLE YAYO- AYE, Adia Eusèbe Adjambri, Boidy Kouakou, Rebecca N'guessan-Blao, Louis Missa Adjé, Taïratou Kamagaté, Vincent Yapo, Duni Sawadogo

“…Biologically, from M0 to M12 the mean hemoglobin level increased significantly, from 7.24 to 8.55 g/dL; white blood cell (WBC) and platelet counts decreased; Fetal hemoglobin (Hb F) increased significantly from 10.3% to 19.7%. …”
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Diagnostic performance of optical spectral transmission compared to magnetic resonance imaging in patients with inflammatory arthritis by Konstantinos Triantafyllias, Mohammed Alhaddad, Andreas Schwarting, Veronika Balaklytska, Xenofon Baraliakos

“…Abstract Background Optical spectral transmission (OST) is a modern diagnostic method capable of quantifying inflammation in the finger and wrist joints of arthritis patients by assessing the blood-specific absorption of light transmitted through a tissue. …”
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KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE NECROTIZING FASCIITIS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY IN A 7-MONTH-OLD MALE: A CASE REPORT by Marelno Zakanito, Iswinarno Doso Saputro

“…Laboratory evaluation demonstrated decreased hemoglobin of 6.2 g/dL and elevated leukocyte of 28,850 g/dL. Blood cultures demonstrated that K. pneumoniae was present. …”
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Anti-diabetic effect of aloin via JNK-IRS1/PI3K pathways and regulation of gut microbiota by Ruting Zhong, Lanbin Chen, Yuanyuan Liu, Shouxia Xie, Sumei Li, Bin Liu, Chao Zhao

“…Additionally, it diminished the weight loss, reduced fasting blood glucose levels and hemoglobin A1c activity, and promoted glucose tolerance and fasting serum insulin activity in T2D mice. …”
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Study Imbalance of Some Cytokines and Vaginitis Agents in Women with Recurrent Abortion Women by Muna Hamid Al-sallami, Samara Abd Al-Hameed Ouda Al-Salihi, Mayyada Farhan Darweesh

“…Materials and Methods: A case-control study was designed on 65 aborted women attending AL-Hakeem Hospital in AL-Najaf province suffering from at least two or more aborting cases and 40 healthy delivery women as the control group. Two milliliters of blood samples were collected from all participants to measure interleukin-17 (IL-17), interleukin-23 (IL-23), and interleukin-10 (IL-10) levels by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). …”
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Physicians’ and nurses‘ knowledge and attitudes in management of sepsis: An Italian study by Gabriella Nucera, Anna Esposito, Naomi Tagliani, Chiara Jane Baticos, Pietro Marino

“…Results: Nurses and physicians reported both ‘good’ levels (> 75%) of knowledge of procedures that increase risk of sepsis, ‘fairly‘ (50-75%) levels of knowledge, attitudes and behaviour towards blood culture techniques, and ‘poor’ (< 50%) levels of knowledge concerning early identification, methods and scores for diagnosis and management of sepsis. …”
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Research progress of Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing for patients with diabetes (糖尿病中医护理研究进展) by ZHENG Xiaoyan (郑晓艳), LI Jiayue (李佳玥), ZHANG Ying (张莹), GUO Peng (郭鹏)

“…Patients with diabetes will suffer from systemic vascular injury and various complications due to the continuous increase of blood sugar. Diabetes has become a member of the epidemic that seriously threatens human health through concentric cerebrovascular disease, tumors, etc. …”
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Obesity Index That Better Predict Metabolic Syndrome: Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, Waist Hip Ratio, or Waist Height Ratio by Abdulbari Bener, Mohammad T. Yousafzai, Sarah Darwish, Abdulla O. A. A. Al-Hamaq, Eman A. Nasralla, Mohammad Abdul-Ghani

“…Data was collected from 1552 participants followed by blood sampling. MetS was defined according to Third Adult Treatment Panel (ATPIII) and International Diabetes Federation (IDF). …”
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A Chinese Family with Familial Dysalbuminemic Hyperthyroxinemia (FDH) due to R242H Mutation on Human Albumin Gene: Reevaluating the Role of FDH in Patients with Asymptomatic Hypert... by Hongbing Liu, Jianmin Ran, Chuping Chen, Guangshu Chen, Ping Zhu, Rongshao Tan, Yan Liu

“…All thyroid auto-antibodies were in the normal range. Blood samples were collected from her and most of her immediate family members for target gene sequencing and verification. …”
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Energy transfer aspects of chemically reactive Casson fluid between a conical gap of cone-disk system with multiple rotations by M. Qamar, M. Khan, A.S. Alqahtani, M.Y. Malik

“…Casson fluids have been widely used in engineering and biotechnology including, energy systems, polymer fluids, pharmaceuticals, chocolate, automotive industries, blood, and honey. In view of such useful applications, the current study examines the thermal properties of a steady Casson fluid flow squeezing within a permeable cone-disk object depending on Ohmic dissipation, activation energy, variable thermal conductivity, magnetic field, non-uniform heat source/sink, and thermal radiation. …”
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Inhaled corticosteroids in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease combined phenotype: when to use and what to expect? by Srishankar Bairy, Tarun Tiwari, Himanshu Mittal, Neeraj Gupta, Meghana M

“…Follow-up spirometry along with reversibility, fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), blood investigations like total eosinophil count (TEC) and immunoglobulin E (IgE) were done; sputum eosinophils were measured, and a history of exacerbations was noted. …”
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Understanding the impact of racism on surgical outcomes in settler nation-states USA and Canada: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mary Brindle, Oluwatomilayo Daodu, Tyara Marchand, Saffa Aziz, Ifeoluwa Adedipe, Mirna Matta

“…The outcomes will be mortality, length of stay in hospital, readmission, reoperation, wound dehiscence, surgical site infection, pulmonary embolism, sepsis or septic shock, pneumonia, blood transfusion, stroke, myocardial infarction and bile duct injury. …”
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Non – Invasive, smartphone image-based screening for sickle cell disease at the point-of-need by Eudorah F. Vital, Meredith Haak LiCalzi, Robert G. Mannino, Patrick T. McGann, Wilbur A. Lam

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Reciprocal Effects of Oxidative Stress on Heme Oxygenase Expression and Activity Contributes to Reno-Vascular Abnormalities in EC-SOD Knockout Mice by Tomoko Kawakami, Nitin Puri, Komal Sodhi, Lars Bellner, Toru Takahashi, Kiyoshi Morita, Rita Rezzani, Tim D. Oury, Nader G. Abraham

“…EC-SOD(−/−) mice exhibited oxidative stress, renal histopathological abnormalities, elevated blood pressure, impaired endothelial function, reduced p-eNOS, p-AKT and increased HO-1 expression; although, HO activity was significantly (P<0.05) attenuated along with attenuation of serum adiponectin and vascular epoxide levels (P<0.05). …”
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