Development and Evaluation of User‐Friendly Modeled Approach for Sustainable Polymer Membranes for Advanced Hemodialysis by Ahmed Khan, Zaib Jahan, Muhammad Ahsan, Muhammad Bilal Khan Niazi, Muhammad Nouman Aslam Khan, Ahmed Sayed M. Metwally, Farooq Sher

“…Validation against experimental data from polymer membrane studies demonstrated that at a blood flow rate of 300 mL min−1, the model predicted a clearance of 262 mL min−1, showing 7% difference from the actual value of 281 mL min−1. …”
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The efficacy of a low-dose combination of febuxostat and benzbromarone versus each drug used alone for the treatment of gout by Caiyu Zheng, Caiyu Zheng, Qingwen Tong, Qingwen Tong, Zhijun Zhang, Chunmei Lin, Zhiyi Wang, Dongshu Kang, Yanmei Lin, Jianqing Tian

“…Similarly, there were no statistically significant differences in blood lipid levels, CRP, CA724, eGFR, and ALT among the three groups post-treatment. …”
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Effect of dietary lecithin on antioxidant defense of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss broodstock and offspring by Fatemeh Jafari, Naser Agh, Farzaneh Noori, Abdoljabbar Irani, Reyhaneh Ravanbakhsh, Mahdi Imani

“…Results and discussion: The results obtained showed that 4-6% dietary SBL supplementation significantly increased the antioxidant enzymes activity, including catalase and superoxide dismutase in the fish blood serum, eggs, and larvae compared to the control. …”
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Prevalence of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria among Patients Attending Diabetic Clinic at Fort Port Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda Patients by Wardat Rashid Ali, Alina Peris, Stella Nabirye, Awil Abdi, Nihfadh Tamali, Venance Emmanuel, Dayyabu Shehu

“…The availability of high concentration of sugar in the blood of diabetic patients makes them more susceptible to developing bacterial infections which are asymptomatic commonly referred to as asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) than the non-diabetic patients. …”
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Plasma IL-6/IL-10 Ratio and IL-8, LDH, and HBDH Level Predict the Severity and the Risk of Death in AIDS Patients with Pneumocystis Pneumonia by Jia Sun, Junwei Su, Yirui Xie, Michael T. Yin, Ying Huang, Lijun Xu, Qihui Zhou, Biao Zhu

“…Objective. To identify blood biomarkers to predict severity and mortality in AIDS PCP patients. …”
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Cortical Gyrification and Cognitive Decline in the Human Brain With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Weiye Lu, Yuna Chen, Zidong Cao, Zhizhong Sun, Wenbin Qiu, Limin Ge, Xin Tan, Yi Liang, Shijun Qiu

“…In addition, the relationship between fasting blood glucose and working memory was mediated by the LGI in the right temporal pole. …”
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[18F]-(2S,4R)4-Fluoroglutamine PET Imaging of Glutamine Metabolism in Murine Models of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) by Youngho Seo, Miranda C. Craig, Stephanie T. Murphy, Jinjin Feng, Xin Chen, Mariia Yuneva

“…The influx rate constants (K1) using the one-tissue compartment model were derived for each tumor with the left ventricular blood pool input function. Results. Influx rate constants were significantly higher for MYC tumors (K1=0.374±0.133) than for MET tumors (K1=0.141±0.058) under fasting conditions (P=0.0002). …”
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Magnetoelectric Extracellular Vesicle Latency-Targeting (MELT) Nanotherapeutic for the Block-Lock-and-Kill HIV Eradication Strategy by Mickensone Andre, Nagesh Kolishetti, Adriana Yndart, Arti Vashist, Madhavan Nair, Andrea D. Raymond

“…Results: Using a mixed-cell blood–brain barrier (BBB) Transwell model, we demonstrated that 20% of MELT crossed the BBB, was taken up by HC69 cells, and reduced LTR reactivation by 10%. …”
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Can GastroPanel be used as a triage tool to select patients with advanced atrophic gastritis for gastroscopy? A prospective clinical validation study by Eleanor Wood, Marco Novelli, Laura Marelli, Roger Feakins, Cinzia Papadia, Ray Shidrawi, Kari Juhani Syrjänen

“…The aim of this study was to assess GastroPanel performance in the identification of moderate to severe AG in dyspepsia.Methods In this UK, single-centre, prospective diagnostic accuracy study, 324 patients [56.8% (n=184) female; median age 57 years (range 39–92 years)] were recruited for gastroscopy with biopsy and histology according to the updated Sydney System (USS). Blood (plasma) samples were collected for GastroPanel analysis. …”
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Intraspecific epigenomics divergence in brown bears (Ursus arctos): insights from genome-wide DNA methylation patterns by Paolo Colangelo, Paolo Colangelo, Ian Marc Bonapace, Laura Gramolini, Emanuela Solano, Emanuela Solano, Elisa Desiato, Paolo Franchini, Leonardo Gentile, Roberto Guadagnini, Oddmund Kleven, Jonas Kindberg, Jonas Kindberg, Alexander Kopatz, Paolo Ciucci

“…Here, using a Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing approach (RRBS), we compared the methylation patterns in blood and muscle across three European brown bear populations. …”
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Role of Transforming Growth Factor-β1 and Smads Signaling Pathway in Intrauterine Adhesion by Umme Salma, Min Xue, Md Sayed Ali Sheikh, Xiaoming Guan, Bin Xu, Aiqian Zhang, Lihua Huang, Dabao Xu

“…This altered ratio recommended that IUA was positively correlated to the mRNA and protein expression levels of Smad3, Smad7, and TGF-β1 in blood and uterine tissue. Moreover, we used the specific inhibitor of Smad3 (SIS3) in experimental rabbit. …”
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Trace elements levels in growing camels’ (Camelus dromedarius) biological tissues from semi-arid areas by Mutassim M. Abdelrahman, Ibrahim A. Alhidary, Mohsen M. Alobre, Abdulkareem M. Matar, Mohammed A. Al-Badwi, Mohammed M. Qaid, Riyadh S. Aljumaah

“…This study focused on the variation of copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), selenium (Se), iron (Fe), and iodine (I) concentrations in whole blood, rumen fluid, and tissues of slaughtered growing camels (>one-year-old) raised in five regions of Saudi Arabia in spring. …”
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Serum biochemical profile in case of cardiorenal syndrome in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by Yu. A. Vatnikov, E. D. Sotnikova, V. I. Kuznetsov, A. A. Razumova, I. V. Shchurov, O. A. Petrukhina, A. A. Rudenko

“…The purpose of the work is to study the biochemical profile of blood serum in cats with cardiorenal syndrome arising against the background of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. …”
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Different immunological characteristics of asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID-19 patients without vaccination in the acute and convalescence stages by Li Li, Xin Zhang, Huimin Yan, Muwei Dai, Huixia Gao, Yuling Wang, Ping Jiang, Erhei Dai

“…In this study, we performed high-throughput single-cell mass cytometry on peripheral blood samples from 10 COVID-19 patients and four healthy donors to analyze their immune status at acute and convalescence phases. …”
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Prednisolone pharmacokinetics in dogs with protein‐losing enteropathy by Sara A. Jablonski, Jessica L. Strohmeyer, John P. Buchweitz, Andreas F. Lehner, Daniel K. Langlois

“…Dogs were treated with 1 mg/kg prednisolone PO once daily for approximately 3 weeks. Venous blood samples were collected at set timepoints before and after prednisolone administration on the first (T1) and final (T2) study days. …”
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Epidemiology of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Patients Attending at Hiwa Hospital in Sulaimani City, Iraq by Bushra Mohammed Ali, Hiwa Abas Ahmed

“…Most of the cases 32 (45.7%) with type (O) blood group, not smoking cigarette 51 (72.9%) and not drinking alcohol 69 (98.6%). …”
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Detection of serum composition in pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome associated with SARS-CoV-2 and the response for the treatment by FTIR by Joanna Depciuch, Izabela Sieminska, Pawel Jakubczyk, Bartosz Klebowski, Katarzyna Ptak, Izabela Szymońska, Przemko Kwinta, Maciej Siedlar, Jan Jakub Kęsik, Magdalena Parlinska-Wojtan, Jarek Baran

“…In this paper, we propose Fourier Transform InfraRed spectrometry (FTIR) to identify chemical changes in blood serum of children induced by PIMS and caused by subsequent treatment of the syndrome. …”
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IL-6–174 G/C transversion might decrease male infertility risk: A case-control study by Tayyebeh Zamani-Badi, Mohammad Karimian, Javad Amini Mahabadi, Atieh Rafatmanesh, Hossein Nikzad

“…Following the screening, 2 ml of whole blood was collected from each participant. Cases were categorized into 3 subgroups based on World Health Organization criteria: (i) nonobstructive azoospermia (n = 42), (ii) oligozoospermia (n = 61), and (iii) asthenozoospermia (n = 60). …”
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Distribution of Abdominal Obesity and Fitness Level in Overweight and Obese Korean Adults by Sue Kim, Ji-Young Kim, Duk-Chul Lee, Hye-Sun Lee, Ji-Won Lee, Justin Y. Jeon

“…Through stepwise multiple regression analyses after adjustment for age, sex, BMI, lifestyle factors, mean blood pressure, fasting glucose, HOMA-IR, lipid profiles, and hsCRP, recovery heart rate was identified as an independent variable associated with VAT (β=0.204, P<0.001) and VAT/SAT ratio (β=0.163, P=0.008) but not with SAT (β=0.097, P=0.111). …”
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Reusable Tourniquets as Potential Transmitters of Infection: A Microbiological Analysis by Julia Szymczyk, Monika Kurpas, Bartosz Krasiński, Katarzyna Zorena, Wioletta Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska

“…Bacterial contamination on the surfaces of the tourniquets was measured using Columbia agar blood medium and expressed as colony-forming units (CFUs) per cm². …”
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