Wet Feeding Promotes Growth without Affecting Hypothalamic Peptide Gene Expression in Growing Broiler Chicks by Tomoya Matsunami, Yuhui Zhang, Yuji Taniguchi, Sei-ichi Hinomoto, Takaoki Saneyasu, Hiroshi Kamisoyama, Kazuhisa Honda

“…Again, weights of the body, breasts, and legs were significantly increased by wet feeding. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Paclitaxel-Loaded Silver Nanoparticles: Evaluation of Cytotoxic Effects and Antimicrobial Activity by Tutku Tunç, Ceylan Hepokur, Afşin Kari̇per

“…We investigated the antiproliferative activities of silver nanoparticles synthesized by adding paclitaxel on MCF-7 (breast adenocarcinoma cell line), A549 (lung carcinoma cell line), C6 (brain glioma cell line) cells, and healthy WI-38 (fibroblast normal cell line) cell lines and their antimicrobial activities on 10 different microorganisms. …”
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Reduced irradiation exposure areas enhanced anti-tumor effect by inducing DNA damage and preserving lymphocytes by Huiqin Chen, Yuan Li, Qiaofeng Shen, Guanqun Guo, Zhigang Wang, Hanyu Pan, Min Wu, Xueqing Yan, Gen Yang

“…In this study, we evaluated the antitumor efficacy of reduced-tumour-area radiotherapy (RTRT) , and explored the relationship between tumor control and immune preservation and the molecular mechanisms underlying of them. Methods In mouse breast cancer models, we compared the anti-tumor effects of RTRT and conventional radiotherapy (CNRT) by assessing tumor growth, metastasis, and survival rates. …”
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Fluorescent, Plasmonic, and Radiotherapeutic Properties of the Lu–Dendrimer-AuNP–Folate–Bombesin Nanoprobe Located Inside Cancer Cells by Héctor Mendoza-Nava PhD, Guillermina Ferro-Flores PhD, Flor de María Ramírez PhD, Blanca Ocampo-García PhD, Clara Santos-Cuevas PhD, Erika Azorín-Vega PhD, Nallely Jiménez-Mancilla PhD, Myrna Luna-Gutiérrez PhD, Keila Isaac-Olivé PhD

“…The aim of this research was to evaluate the fluorescent properties and the plasmonic–photothermal, therapeutic, and radiotherapeutic potential of 177 Lu–dendrimer conjugated to folate and bombesin with gold nanoparticles in the dendritic cavity ( 177 Lu–DenAuNP–folate–bombesin) when it is internalized in T47D breast cancer cells. The intense near-Infrared (NIR) fluorescence emitted at 825 nm from the conjugate inside cells corroborated the usefulness of DenAuNP–folate–bombesin for optical imaging. …”
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Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Patients with Solid Tumours by Diamantis P. Kofteridis, Antonios Valachis, Eirini Koutsounaki, Sofia Maraki, Eleni Mavrogeni, Foteini N. Economidou, Dimitra Dimopoulou, Kostas Kalbakis, Vassilis Georgoulias, George Samonis

“…The most common underlying malignancy was breast cancer in 17 patients (24%). Most episodes (89%) occurred in nonneutropenics. …”
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A forestry investigation: Exploring factors behind improved tree species classification using bark images by Gokul Kottilapurath Surendran, Deekshitha, Martin Lukac, Martin Lukac, Jozef Vybostok, Martin Mokros

“…These methods enable the measurement of various tree parameters important for forest inventory or ecological research, such as diameter at breast height, tree height and volume, and crown parameters. …”
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Cancer incidence and the influence of immunosuppressive agents in Korean patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a retrospective cohort study by Soo-Kyung Cho, Jung-Yong Han, Yena Jeon, Seung-Hun You, Sun-Young Jung, Eun Jin Jang, Yoon-Kyoung Sung

“…The most prevalent cancers (measured in IRs per 10,000 PYs) were thyroid (17.01, 95% CI 13.78–20.25), breast (8.67, 95% CI 6.36–10.98), stomach (4.49, 95% CI 2.83–6.16), colorectal (4.17, 95% CI 2.57–5.78), and cervical (3.85, 95% CI 2.31–5.39). …”
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New parameterized quantum gates design and efficient gradient solving based on variational quantum classification algorithm by Xiaodong Ding, FuDong Liu, Weilong Wang, Yu Zhu, Yifan Hou, Yizhen Huang, Jinchen Xu, Zheng Shan

“…Experimental validation on benchmark datasets such as breast cancer and iris shows that the method proposed in this paper exhibits excellent performance on quantum classification tasks. …”
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Cross-sectional study on the association between neutrophil-percentage-to-albumin ratio (NPAR) and prevalence of stroke among US adults: NHANES 1999–2018 by Chenglin Ye, Yong Mo, Tiansheng Su, Guangxiang Huang, Jiachao Lu, Shuling Tang, Qianrong Huang, Qiuyun Li, Qian Jiang, Fangzhou Guo, Pinghua Wu, Guozhong Zhang, Jun Yan

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Socioeconomic disparity in stage at cancer diagnosis among patients with type 2 diabetes in Dutch primary care: a cross-sectional study by Geertruida H De Bock, Gijs W D Landman, Nanne Kleefstra, Bert van der Vegt, Sabine Siesling, Klaas H Groenier, Jing de Haan-Du

“…However, the ORs varied by cancer type: breast, 1.46 (95% CI 0.90 to 2.39); male colorectal, 1.00 (95% CI 0.70 to 1.43); female colorectal, 1.72 (95% CI 1.06 to 2.77); prostate, 0.81 (95% CI 0.57 to 1.15); male lung, 1.06 (95% CI 0.62 to 1.80) and female lung, 2.56 (95% CI 1.32 to 4.95).Conclusions Among patients treated for T2DM in Dutch primary care, our data suggest the need to target females with low SES to decrease inequalities in the early detection of colorectal and lung cancer.…”
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Oxidative Stability of the Meat of Broilers Fed Diets Supplemented with Various Levels of Blackcurrant Extract (Ribes nigrum L.) during Different Time Period by Kamil Sierżant, Małgorzata Korzeniowska, Barbara Król, Janusz Orda, Aneta Wojdyło

“…In the 20 d experiment, the influence of different concentration and supplementation period of commercial blackcurrant extract (BC) in the broiler diets on the oxidative stability of breast and thigh meat, as well as selected performance indices, was investigated. …”
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Adenosine cyclic phosphate with ultrasonic-assisted pectinase extraction alleviated allergic reactions in RBL-2H3 through inhibiting the influx of intracellular Ca2+ by Qiao Bai, Xiaoping Feng, Yu Wang, Chunyu Wu, Ye Liu, Jiao Sun, Tianli Yue, Fangyu Long

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Identifying Complex Scheduling Patterns Among Patients With Cancer With Transportation and Housing Needs: Feasibility Pilot Study by Allan Fong, Christian Boxley, Laura Schubel, Christopher Gallagher, Katarina AuBuchon, Hannah Arem

“…We apply the scheduling complexity algorithm to scheduling data from 38 patients with breast cancer enrolled in a 6-month comorbidity management intervention at an urban hospital in the Washington, DC area that serves low-income patients. …”
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Primary and tertiary management of ocular surface lesions in HIV-infected patients in Ehlanzeni, Mpumalanga Province by S Mhlanga, A C Turner, S J Biddulph

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Deep Learning-Enabled Integration of Histology and Transcriptomics for Tissue Spatial Profile Analysis by Yongxin Ge, Jiake Leng, Ziyang Tang, Kanran Wang, Kaicheng U, Sophia Meixuan Zhang, Sen Han, Yiyan Zhang, Jinxi Xiang, Sen Yang, Xiang Liu, Yi Song, Xiyue Wang, Yuchen Li, Junhan Zhao

“…Validated with datasets from human lung, breast, and colorectal cancers, GIST effectively reveals spatial domains and substantially improves the accuracy of segmenting the microenvironment after denoising transcriptomics data. …”
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The p85 Regulatory Subunit of PI3K Mediates cAMP-PKA and Insulin Biological Effects on MCF-7 Cell Growth and Motility by E. Di Zazzo, A. Feola, C. Zuchegna, A. Romano, C. F. Donini, S. Bartollino, C. Costagliola, R. Frunzio, P. Laccetti, M. Di Domenico, A. Porcellini

“…This study highlights the p85αPI3KS83 role as a key regulator of cell proliferation and motility induced by insulin in MCF-7 cells breast cancer model.…”
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Studies on the Dual Cytotoxicity and Antioxidant Properties of Berberis vulgaris Extracts and Its Main Constituent Berberine by Lamyae El khalki, Mounir Tilaoui, Abdeslam Jaafari, Hassan Ait Mouse, Abdelmajid Zyad

“…It also consists of studying the combination effect of berberine and S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP), a nitric oxide (NO) donor, against the human breast adenocarcinoma cell line (MCF-7). Using the MTT assay, we report a differential cytotoxic effect of ethanol and ethyl acetate extracts since the ethanol extract is more cytotoxic than the ethyl acetate one, with IC50 = 3.54 μg/mL and 596.71 μg/mL, respectively. …”
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Rational strategies for designing next-generation oncolytic viruses based on transcriptome analysis of tumor cells infected with oncolytic herpes simplex virus-1 by Naeme Javid, Shahriyar Abdoli, Majid Shahbazi, Majid Shahbazi

“…Subsequently, the expression of hub genes was verified by real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) in MDA-MB-231 (a breast cancer cell line) infected with oHSV-1 and non-infected cells.ResultsThe results of our data analysis indicated notable disparities in the genes associated with the proteasome pathway between infected and non-infected cells. …”
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Development and pilot testing of INTERVENER, a web-based tool to match barriers to the cancer continuum organization to evidence-based interventions by Isabel Mosquera, Hannah Theriault, Dominique Meunier, Partha Basu, Andre L. Carvalho

“…Systematic searches were conducted on interventions for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer. Interventions were matched with the barriers they helped to overcome, and were classified in one of these groups for each barrier and cancer site: EBI as a single strategy, EBI within a multicomponent strategy, limited-evidence interventions, and macro level approaches. …”
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How can the buffalo carcass be used rationally? by Ricardo Alexandre Silva Pessoa

“…The percentages observed for the cuts (in each half carcass) were: soft drumstick, 5.3%; hard cushion, 3.7%; duckling, 3.8%; lizard, 1.8%; sirloin steak, 1.1%; grill flank steak, 0.75%; red flank steak, 0.61%; breast, 0.96%; rump baby beef, 1.3%; rump bonbon, 0.8%; ossobuco, 4.2%; muscle, 2.0%; turkey bone, 1.1%; duckling bone, 0.5%; oxtail, 0.38%; ancho steak, 1.3%; chorizo steak, 1.9%; filet mignon, 1.2%; fillet shell, 0.35%; chest, 3.9%; neck, 4.2%; acm, 4.3%; window rib, 8.7%; strip roast, 2.5%; banana, 0.23%; goldfish, 0.87%; palette heart, 0.77%; flat iron, 0.95%; Denver stake, 0.6%; beef steak, 0.40%; edible shavings, 19.43%; fat, 1.8%; scraps of disposal, 0.4%; discard bones, 17.9%. …”
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