HIV-Infected Individuals Do Not Present Significant Differences regarding Periodontal Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Lucas Ribeiro Teixeira, Diana Estefania Ramos Peña, Leticia Rodrigues de Castro, Márcia dos Santos, Maria da Conceição Pereira Saraiva, Fernando Chahud, Bruno Pozzetto, Alan Grupioni Lourenço, Ana Carolina Fragoso Motta

“…The qualitative analysis indicated similarities in periodontal parameters within both groups, with no significant mean difference (MD) within both groups regarding clinical periodontal parameters; severe heterogeneity was also detected. Conclusions. No significant differences were found in the periodontal profile of HIV-infected and non-HIV-infected individuals. …”
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Incidental left paraaortic mass in a patient with gall bladder adenocarcinoma: A diagnostic challenge by Manali Bhatta, Sharma Paudel, Ongden Yonjen Tamang, Prajwal Dahal, Santosh Shrestha, Sabina Parajuli

“…Incidental adrenal masses are frequently detected due to the extensive use of cross-sectional imaging, with about 3% to 7% of adults estimated to have them. …”
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Using Internet of things technology to construct an integrated intelligent sensing environment for long-term care service by Lun-Ping Hung, Nan-Chen Hsieh, Li-Ju Lin, Zong-Jie Wu

“…Therefore, residential institutions are eager to build an effective Internet of Things integration mechanism to assist institutions with automatic sensor detection and early warning capabilities. Although Internet of Things facilities have enabled prompt notification and warning of emergency events, the following problems exist when implementing Internet of Things in the facilities: (1) low compatibility between sensors has led to excessive installation costs; (2) warning systems that are based on fixed threshold values and lack of flexibility can cause false or omitted reports that result in the incapability of reflecting real conditions and additional labor costs would be required. …”
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Cybersecurity in microgrids: A review on advanced techniques and practical implementation of resilient energy systems by Ijaz Ahmed, Ali M. El-Rifaie, Fazia Akhtar, Hasnain Ahmad, Zuhair Alaas, M.M.R. Ahmed

“…Thus, emphasizing the importance of preventing, detecting, and isolating cyber-attacks is essential for the effective management of MG. …”
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Skin microbiome differences in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, other cancers, and healthy controls: a pilot study by Taylor Davis, Katherine T. Decker, Dana Hosseini, Gayle Jameson, Erkut Borazanci

“…This differentiation is supported by differential abundance methods, including ANCOM-BC and MaAsLin2.DiscussionThis pilot study suggests that skin microbiome profiling could serve as a non-invasive biomarker for cancer detection and monitoring, which warrants a larger, longitudinal study to validate these results.…”
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Stromal Derived Factor-1/CXCR4 Axis Involved in Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Recruitment to Injured Liver by Kuai Xiao Ling, Li Peng, Zhang Jian Feng, Cao Wei, Yuan Wei Yan, Shao Nan, Guan Cheng Qi, Wang Zhi Wei

“…The SDF-1 or liver lysates induced BMSCs migration was detected by transwell inserts. CXCR4 antagonist, AMD3100, and anti-CXCR4 antibody were used to inhibit the migration. …”
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High-Speed Counter-Current Chromatography in Separation and Identification of Saponins from Beta vulgaris L. Cultivar Red Sphere by Aneta Ewa Spórna-Kucab, Sławomir Wybraniec

“…The separation of saponins in the HSCCC solvent system enabled the fractionation and preconcentration of 13 saponins for further fragmentation experiments in the LC-MS/MS system. Nine saponins were detected for the first time ever in B. vulgaris L. cv. …”
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Stroma-derived Dickkopf-1 contributes to the suppression of NK cell cytotoxicity in breast cancer by Seunghyun Lee, Biancamaria Ricci, Jennifer Tran, Emily Eul, Jiayu Ye, Qihao Ren, David Clever, Julia Wang, Pamela Wong, Michael S. Haas, Sheila A. Stewart, Cynthia X. Ma, Todd A. Fehniger, Roberta Faccio

“…Importantly, increased DKK1 levels and reduced cytotoxic NK cells are detected in women with progressive breast cancer. Our findings indicate that DKK1 represents a barrier to anti-tumor immunity through suppression of NK cells.…”
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An Improved Speed Sensing Method for Drive Control by Manuel R. Arahal, Manuel G. Satué, Juana M. Martínez-Heredia, Francisco Colodro

“…The proposal uses a novel transient detector to determine the actual operational regime of the drive: transient or stationary. Transient detection is not based on measured speeds but works directly with the train of incoming encoder pulses. …”
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Thermal Decarboxylation of Betacyanins in Red Beet Betalain-Rich Extract by Agnieszka Kumorkiewicz, Katarzyna Sutor, Boris Nemzer, Zbigniew Pietrzkowski, Sławomir Wybraniec

“…The first tentative structures formed by decarboxylation of the main pigment present in BRE, betanin and its diastereomer, were established by means of liquid chromatography coupled to diode array detection and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC-DAD-ESI-MS/MS). …”
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The Effect of Cataract on Eye Movement Perimetry by G. Thepass, J. J. M. Pel, K. A. Vermeer, O. Creten, S. R. Bryan, H. G. Lemij, J. van der Steen

“…The subjects had to fix a central stimulus presented on the eye tracker monitor and to look at any detected peripheral stimulus upon its appearance. A multilevel mixed model was used to determine the factors that affected the sensitivity threshold and the SRT as a function of cataract grade. …”
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Profile of Phenolic Acids and Flavonoids of Red Beet and Its Fermentation Products. Does Long-Term Consumption of Fermented Beetroot Juice Affect Phenolics Profile in Human Blood P... by Natalia Płatosz, Tomasz Sawicki, Wiesław Wiczkowski

“…The performed analysis revealed that beetroot and its products were the notable sources of phenolic acids and flavonoids, with isoferulic acid, protocatechuic acid, epicatechin, and apigenin predominating among the twenty compounds detected. However, the compounds analyzed appeared mainly in the bound form in the fresh material. …”
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De novo transcriptome assembly of the Mediterranean sea-rock pool mosquitoes Aedes mariae and Aedes zammitii by Valentina Mastrantonio, Daniele Porretta, Franco Liberati, Roberta Bisconti, Tiziana Castrignanò, Daniele Canestrelli

“…Using RNA-seq data obtained from larval stages, we assembled and annotated 95,059,578 reads for Ae. mariae and 101,050,236 reads for Ae. zammitii, detecting 49,352 transcripts with N50 of 2,615 for the former and 43,461 transcripts with N50 of 2,570 for the latter. …”
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Management of Congenital Clinical Anophthalmos with Orbital Cyst: A Kinshasa Case Report by Thomas Stahnke, Andreas Erbersdobler, Steffi Knappe, Rudolf F. Guthoff, Ngoy J. Kilangalanga

“…Additionally, pigmented epithelial structures, which seem to be of ciliary body, iris, and choroidal or retinal-type epithelium origin, could be detected, prompting the final diagnosis, microphthalmia with dominant cyst formation.…”
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Determination of Traces of Pd(II) in Spiked Samples by Using 3,4-Dihydroxybenzaldehydeisonicotinol-hydrazone as a Chelating Agent with UV Visible Spectrophotometer by S. Lakshmi Narayana, C. Ramachandraiah, A. Varada Reddy, Dongyeun Lee, Jaesool Shim

“…The molar absorptivity, Sandell’s sensitivity and detection limit were found to be 0.53×104 L mol-1 cm-1, 0.02 μg cm-2 and 0.0948 μg mL-1, respectively. …”
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Selection of DNA Aptamers for Ovarian Cancer Biomarker CA125 Using One-Pot SELEX and High-Throughput Sequencing by Delia J. Scoville, Tae Kyu Brian Uhm, Jamie A. Shallcross, Rebecca J. Whelan

“…CA125 is a mucin glycoprotein whose concentration in serum correlates with a woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer and also indicates response to therapy in diagnosed patients. Accurate detection of this large, complex protein in patient samples is of great clinical relevance. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Ophiocordyceps gracilis and its comparison with related species by Aifeire Abuduaini, Yuan-Bing Wang, Hui-Ying Zhou, Rui-Ping Kang, Ming-Liang Ding, Yu Jiang, Fei-Ya Suo, Luo-Dong Huang

“…As the second largest mitogenome reported in the family Ophiocordycipitaceae, the mitogenome of O. gracilis (voucher OG201301) is a circular DNA molecule of 134,288 bp that contains numerous introns and longer intergenomic regions. UCA was detected as anticodon in tRNA-Sec of O. gracilis, while comparative mitogenome analysis of nine Ophiocordycipitaceae fungi indicated that the order and contents of PCGs and rRNA genes were considerably conserved and could descend from a common ancestor in Ophiocordycipitaceae. …”
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Encapsulated human islets in alginate fiber maintain long-term functionality by Junko Nishida, Takahiro Tsuno, Shigeharu G. Yabe, Tatsuya Kin, Satsuki Fukuda, Fujie Takeda, Jun Shirakawa, Hitoshi Okochi

“…Encapsulated islets maintained C-peptide and glucagon secretion for more than 75 days in 5 cases; in two cases, their secretion was also successfully detected even on day 180. α- and β-cell composition and β-cell survival in islets were unaltered in the fiber after 75 or 180 days of culture. …”
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Visual Features in Alzheimer’s Disease: From Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Overview by María Alejandra Cerquera-Jaramillo, Mauricio O. Nava-Mesa, Rodrigo E. González-Reyes, Carlos Tellez-Conti, Alejandra de-la-Torre

“…Current biomarkers tend to be expensive, insufficient, or invasive, raising the need for novel, improved tools aimed at early disease detection. AD is characterized by brain atrophy due to neuronal and synaptic loss, extracellular amyloid plaques composed of amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ), and neurofibrillary tangles of hyperphosphorylated tau protein. …”
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Sensorimotor Cortical Neuroplasticity in the Early Stage of Bell’s Palsy by Wenwen Song, Minhui Dai, Lihua Xuan, Zhijian Cao, Sisi Zhou, Courtney Lang, Kun Lv, Maosheng Xu, Jian Kong

“…Our results suggest that the early stages of BP are associated with functional neuroplasticity in both the face and hand regions of S1/M1 and that resting-state functional fMRI may be a sensitive tool to detect these early stages of plasticity in patient populations.…”
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