Impact of noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (level of control) on sex hormone profile and erectile function by Abdullah A. Khawaji, Hossam S. El-Tholoth, Muath A. Albarakati, Bander A. Binjabaan, Abdulaziz Alzahrani, Abdulmajeed Althobity, Abdulmalik Almardawi, Khaled Bedaiwi, Mussa AlNuami

“…Retrieved data include patient’s demographics, body mass index (BMI), hormonal profile, Complete Blood Count (CBC), lipid profile, prostate-specific antigen (PSA), urate, Vitamin D level, and the severity of ED as assessed by the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) scores. …”
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Association of Hematological and Biochemical Parameters with Serological Markers of Acute Dengue Infection during the 2022 Dengue Outbreak in Nepal by Bibek Raj Bhattarai, Abhishek Mishra, Suraj Aryal, Mandira Chhusyabaga, Rajshree Bhujel

“…Platelets consistently demonstrated a higher area under the curve with increased sensitivity and specificity throughout all models, while aspartate aminotransferase (AUC = 0.811) and glucose (AUC = 0.712) demonstrated better results when single IgM positivity was observed. The total leukocyte count performed better when both NS1 + IgM were positive (AUC = 0.814). …”
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Superconducting Nanostrip Photon-Number-Resolving Detector as an Unbiased Random Number Generator by Pasquale Ercolano, Mikkel Ejrnaes, Ciro Bruscino, Syed Muhammad Junaid Bukhari, Daniela Salvoni, Chengjun Zhang, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Lixing You, Loredana Parlato, Giovanni Piero Pepe

“…In particular, photon-number-resolving detectors based on arrays of superconducting nanostrips can offer a high detection efficiency, a low dark count rate, and a recovery time of a few nanoseconds. …”
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Leverage of lysozyme dietary supplementation on gut health, hematological, antioxidant, and immune parameters in different plumage-colors Japanese quails by Ibrahim A. Elkhaiat, Seham El-Kassas, Safaa E Abdo, Karima El-Naggar, Haitham K. Shalaby, Reyad Y. Nofal, Mayada R. Farag, Mahmoud M. Azzam, Antonia Lestingi

“…For gut status, both varieties exhibited increases in intestinal villi length and goblet cell count with significant reductions in the total lactobacillus, total coliform, and total bacterial counts. …”
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Severe Hepatotoxicity in Mushroom Poisoning by Lepiota brunneoincarnata from Complete Recovery to Liver Transplantation: A Case Series with Review on Liver Function Tests and Liver... by Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Neda Soleimani, Kourosh Kazemi, Zahra Jafarpour, Mahsa Hasani, Sahand Mohammadzadeh, Parnia Torfehnezhad, Sedighe Jafarian, Mahsa Farhadi, Mina Salari Sardari

“…In addition, some instances revealed increased LDH, increased WBC, decreased hemoglobin, and decreased platelet count. Most patients had increased prothrombin time; hematuria and positive stool occult blood were observed in few patients. …”
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Factor Analysis Influencing Postoperative Hospital Stay and Medical Costs for Patients with Definite, Suspected, or Unmatched Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis according to the Toky... by Aoi Hayasaki, Koji Takahashi, Takehiro Fujii, Koji Kumamoto, Koji Fujii, Eiichi Matsumoto, Shigeki Miyahara, Tsukasa Kusuta, Yoshinori Azumi, Shuji Isaji

“…Performance status (PS), white blood cell count, and severity grade were identified as preoperative factors influencing PHS by multivariate analysis, and significant independent preoperative factors influencing MC were age, PS, preoperative biliary drainage, hospital stay before surgery, albumin, and severity grade. …”
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Re-analysis of the current status of clinical trial registration in China by Shuwen Li, Shuwen Li, Jianhao Li, Wenjing Zeng, Zhicheng Li, Jietong Zhang, Siying Wang, Nenggui Xu, Zeli Li, Zeli Li

“…The total average citation count of the literature was 3.34. The sources of clinical trial registration platforms analyzed in the literature were divided into three categories: single platform, dual platform, and multiple platforms.ConclusionChiCTR plays a key role in enhancing transparency in clinical research, promoting standardization and normalization of research, strengthening domestic and international scientific research cooperation, and advancing medical innovation and public health improvement. …”
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Transcriptome datasets of salt-stressed tomato plants treated with zinc oxide nanoparticlesMendeley DataSRR30014447 - SRR30014450SRR30014447 - SRR30014450PRJNA1141123SRR30014447 -... by Mostafa Ahmed, Zoltán Tóth, Diaa Attia Marrez, Roquia Rizk, Donia Abdul-Hamid, Kincső Decsi

“…The aforementioned datasets encompass the Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA), the contigs that underwent blasting, mapping, and annotation from the pre-processed datasets, and the count table derived from the quantification of RNA-seq reads. …”
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PC-YOLO11s: A Lightweight and Effective Feature Extraction Method for Small Target Image Detection by Zhou Wang, Yuting Su, Feng Kang, Lijin Wang, Yaohua Lin, Qingshou Wu, Huicheng Li, Zhiling Cai

“…Compared with the baseline YOLO11s model, PC-YOLO11s mAP@0.5 increased from 39.5% to 43.8%, mAP@0.5:0.95 increased from 23.6% to 26.3%, and the parameter count decreased from 9.416M to 7.103M. Not only that, we also applied PC-YOLO11s to tea bud datasets, and experiments showed that its performance is superior to other YOLO-series models. …”
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Distribution and Related Influencing Factors of AMH Level in Family-Planning Women of Childbearing Age: A Cross-Sectional Study from Beijing, China by Song J, Gao S, Zhao L, Tong X

“…The collected blood test results included AMH, fasting blood glucose (FBG), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), creatinine (Cr), and alanine aminotransferase, and hemoglobin levels and platelet count. A structured questionnaire was used to document the subjects’ dietary and lifestyle habits, environmental factors, and emotional and mental stress statuses. …”
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Hake Fish Preservation Using Plant-Based Impregnated Polylactic Acid Food Films as Active Packaging by Fini Sánchez-García, Noelia D. Machado, María Tirado-Fernández, Cristina Cejudo-Bastante, Ana M. Roldán, Casimiro Mantell-Serrano, Lourdes Casas-Cardoso

“…After hake storage using impregnated films, reduced microbial count, and drip loss, maintaining the pH stability was obtained. …”
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Efficacy of double filtration plasmapheresis in hyperlipidemia acute pancreatitis: a retrospective observational study by Rong Qin, Yibei Liu, Rui Ding, Minhui Yang, Yun Huang, Xujia Chen, Feng Zhang, Yanting Liu, Hongping Jia, Yiyao Duan, Lifang Zhou, Hui Wang

“…Within-group analysis revealed significant pre- and post-treatment changes in total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), white blood cell count (WBC), neutrophil percentage (N%), systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), mean arterial pressure (MAP), bedside index for severity in acute pancreatitis (BISAP), and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) scores in the DFPP group (P < 0.05). …”
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Comparison of In Vitro Biotransformation of Olive Polyphenols Between Healthy Young and Elderly by Stef Lauwers, Anne-Sophie Weyns, Annelies Breynaert, Tim Van Rillaer, Valerie Van Huynegem, Erik Fransen, Wout Bittremieux, Sarah Lebeer, Emmy Tuenter, Nina Hermans

“…Results: The study revealed that, while the same metabolites were formed in both age groups, in the young age group, less metabolite formation was observed, likely due to a reduced viable cell count. Most biotransformation reactions took place within the first 24 h of colon incubation, and mainly, deglycosylation, hydrolysis, flavonoid ring cleavage, and demethylation reactions were observed. …”
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An mHealth Intervention With Financial Incentives to Promote Smoking Cessation and Physical Activity Among Black Adults: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial by Adam Alexander, Michael Businelle, Marshall Cheney, Amy Cohn, Lorna McNeill, Kevin Short, Summer Frank-Pearce, David Bradley, Kimberly Estrada, Iván Flores, Jack Fronheiser, Darla Kendzor

“…The primary outcomes include carbon monoxide–verified, 7-day smoking abstinence at 8 weeks postquit date and changes in average daily step count. Feasibility benchmarks include a recruitment rate of ≥5 participants per month, a retention rate of ≥75%, and a smoking abstinence rate of ≥20% at 8 weeks postquit date. …”
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Morphological and functional analysis of colorectal cancer cell lines in 2D and 3D culture models by Seiichi Shinji, Yutaro Ogawa, Takeshi Yamada, Akihisa Matsuda, Kay Uehara, Yasuyuki Yokoyama, Goro Takahashi, Takuma Iwai, Toshimitsu Miyasaka, Shintaro Kanaka, Koki Hayashi, Yuuki Shichi, Masakazu Fujiwara, Kimimasa Takahashi, Tomio Arai, Toshiyuki Ishiwata, Hiroshi Yoshida

“…The Ki-67-positive proliferating cell count varied in 2D and 3D cultures of epithelial cells but remained high and unchanged in mesenchymal cells. …”
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Role of serum sodium on heart, anemia, and diabetes patients by Mahashweta Das, Sunit Kumar Medda, Shipra Banik, Rabindra Nath Das

“…It is derived herein that mean SNa is positively associated with the marginal effects of platelets count (PLC) (P = 0.0019), anemia status (ANS) (P = 0.1053) (partially), creatinine phosphokinase (CRP) (P = 0.0462), smoking habit (SMH) (P= 0.1017), SEX (P = 0.0029), and the joint interaction effects (JIEs) of ejection fraction (EJF) and the status of high blood pressure (HBP), i.e., EJF*HBP (P = 0.1398); ANS and death event (DEE), i.e., ANS*DEE (P = 0.0009); age and time to follow-up (TTF), i.e., AGE*TTF (P = 0.0700); age and serum creatinine (SEC), i.e., AGE*SEC (P = 0.0901); EJF and SEC, i.e., EJF*SEC (P = 0.0044); and CRP and TTF, i.e., CRP*TTF (P = 0.0021). …”
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Prediction of Reproductive Outcomes of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Cycles Using a Multivariate Scoring System by Ahmed Abuelsoud Abden, Momen Ahmed Kamel, Ahmed Nabil Fetih, Ali Haroun Yousef

“…Materials and Methods: The score variables were age, body mass index, antral follicle count, basal follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), basal FSH/luteinising hormone ratio, infertility duration, number of previous cancellations and mean ovarian volume. …”
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Superior biomechanical stability of pedicle screws compared to lateral mass screws: recommendations for bicortical positioning and enhancing bone contact in geriatric C1 vertebrae by Leon-Gordian Leonhardt, Leonie Rörup, Anna Lena Kammal, Michael Hahn, Marc Dreimann, Benjamin Ondruschka, Felix Nikolai von Brackel, Tim Rolvien, Lennart Viezens, Simon von Kroge

“…When comparing microstructural and mechanical properties, the cortical contact length and bone volume in screw trajectories were strongest associated with a high loose and cycle count. Conclusions This study suggests that mono- and bicortical positioning of PS is similarly efficient in creating a stable basis for screw fixation in the atlas. …”
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The relationship between gallstone disease and the genetic variants of the sterol transporter adenosine triphosphate–binding cassette G8 and G5 in Egyptians by Menna A. Hassan, Salwa M. Abo El-Khair, Noha M. Mesbah, Dina M. Abo-Elmatty, Asmaa R. Abdel-Hamed

“…Various laboratory investigations were measured using enzymatic colorimetric methods, and hematology analyzer was used for the whole blood count test. Results Between patients with gallstone disease and healthy controls, there were statistically significant differences in the distribution of these genes polymorphisms. …”
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Microbial abundance and diversity in water, and immune parameters of red tilapia reared in bioflocs system with different fish density (25 fish/m3, 50 fish/m3, and 100 fish/m3) by Frid Agustinus, . Widanarni, Julie Ekasari

“…There was no significant difference in total bacteria count in the water of all treatments; there was however a tendency shown by all treatments that the microbial load in water increased along with the culture period. …”
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