Clinical and dermoscopic assessment of the efficacy of topical trichloroacetic acid 70% versus methoxsalen 0.2% paint in stable acral vitiligo by Ahmed R. Elshahed, Amr M. Ammar, Abdallah M. Ali, Mohamed L. Elsaie

“…Further larger multi centre studies with different concentration and combination modalities are required to detect promising treatments for vitligo.…”
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Deoxycholate, an Endogenous Cytotoxin/Genotoxin, Induces the Autophagic Stress-Survival Pathway: Implications for Colon Carcinogenesis by Claire M. Payne, Cheray Crowley-Skillicorn, Hana Holubec, Katerina Dvorak, Carol Bernstein, Mary Pat Moyer, Harinder Garewal, Harris Bernstein

“…The DOC-induced increase in autophagy was documented by an increase in autophagic vacuoles (detected using transmission electron microscopy, increased levels of LC3-I and LC3-II (western blotting), an increase in acidic vesicles (fluorescence spectroscopy of monodansycadaverine and lysotracker red probes), and increased expression of the autophagic protein, beclin-1 (immunohistochemistry/western blotting). …”
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WEIGHTED GENE CO-EXPRESSION NETWORK ANALYSIS IDENTIFIES BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS AND BIOMARKER GENES ASSOCIATED WITH CHICKENS' ADAPTATION TO BOTH LOW AND HIGH ALTITUDES by Pshtiwan S.A. Bebane, Paiman Yousif, Sarbast I. Mustafa, Sami mamand

“… The main aim of the study was to identify modules, hub genes, and possible pathways linked with hypoxia adaptation in six types of tissues and organs (heart, kidney, liver, lung, muscle, and spleen) at altitudes ranging from 2,300 to 3,500 metersOn a transcription dataset from hypoxia-sensitive tissues, we performed weighted gene co-expression network analysis on 13,940 selected genes, and 10 transcriptional modules in total were detected (Turquoise 196 genes, Purple 27 genes, Blue 196, Brown 182, Yellow 108, Green 79 genes, Red 69 genes, Black 50 genes, Pink 44 genes, and Magenta 37 genes). …”
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Role of tomato plant-derived food sources on Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris, parasitic wasp of Tuta absoluta by Angeliki Syropoulou, Joel González-Cabrera, Judit Arnó, Pablo Urbaneja-Bernat

“…Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) poses a significant threat to tomato crops worldwide. Following its detection in the Mediterranean basin, considerable efforts have been made to develop biological control programs against this pest. …”
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Microstructured Liquid Metal‐Based Embedded‐Type Sensor Array for Curved Pressure Mapping by Haoyu Li, Chengjun Zhang, Hongyu Xu, Qing Yang, Zexiang Luo, Cheng Li, Lin Kai, Yizhao Meng, Jialiang Zhang, Jie Liang, Feng Chen

“…However, existing stretchable haptic sensors exhibit limited flexibility and stability to detect pressure during deformation, while also solely achieving recognition of planar objects. …”
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Longitudinal Dependence of Heavy Ion Composition in the 2021 October 28 Ground Level Enhancement Event by C. M. S. Cohen, G. M. Mason, E. R. Christian, A. C. Cummings, G. A. de Nolfo, M. I. Desai, J. Giacalone, M. E. Hill, A. W. Labrador, R. A. Leske, D. J. McComas, R. L. McNutt Jr, D. G. Mitchell, J. G. Mitchell, G. D. Muro, J. S. Rankin, N. A. Schwadron, M. M. Shen, M. E. Wiedenbeck, Z. G. Xu, G. C. Ho, R. F. Wimmer-Schweingrüber

“…The 2021 October 28 solar energetic particle (SEP) event was a rare ground level enhancement (GLE) event, where secondary particles from the interactions of SEPs with the Earth’s atmosphere were detected by neutron monitors on the ground. A number of papers have examined the solar signatures, neutron monitor observations, and the characteristics of the SEP protons and electrons for this event. …”
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Reverse mutational scanning of SARS-CoV-2 spike BA.2.86 identifies epitopes contributing to immune escape from polyclonal sera by Najat Bdeir, Tatjana Lüddecke, Henrike Maaß, Stefan Schmelz, Ulfert Rand, Henning Jacobsen, Kristin Metzdorf, Upasana Kulkarni, Anne Cossmann, Metodi V. Stankov, Markus Hoffmann, Stefan Pöhlmann, Wulf Blankenfeldt, Alexandra Dopfer-Jablonka, Georg M. N. Behrens, Luka Čičin-Šain

“…Abstract The recently detected Omicron BA.2.86 lineage contains more than 30 amino acid mutations relative to BA.2. …”
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Hybrid Empirical and Variational Mode Decomposition of Vibratory Signals by Eduardo Esquivel-Cruz, Francisco Beltran-Carbajal, Ivan Rivas-Cambero, José Humberto Arroyo-Núñez, Ruben Tapia-Olvera, Daniel Guillen

“…In this way, this hybrid approach leverages the detection of mode mixing based on the analysis of intrinsic mode functions through Empirical Mode Decomposition to determine the number of components to be estimated and thus provide greater information for Variational Mode Decomposition. …”
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Whole-Genome Expression Analysis and Signal Pathway Screening of Synovium-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Jingyi Hou, Yi Ouyang, Haiquan Deng, Zhong Chen, Bin Song, Zhongyu Xie, Peng Wang, Jinteng Li, Weiping Li, Rui Yang

“…In this study, a whole-genome microarray analysis was used to detect differential gene expression in SMSCs from RA patients and healthy donors (HDs). …”
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Pre-screening of endomysial microvessel density by fast random forest image processing machine learning algorithm accelerates recognition of a modified vascular network in idiopath... by Alessandro Massaro, Gerardo Cazzato, Giuseppe Ingravallo, Nadia Casatta, Carmelo Lupo, Angelo Vacca, Florenzo Iannone, Francesco Girolamo

“…The time spent for this analysis was 90% less than the manual choice of microvessels (estimated time considering the computational time and the time spent to manually detecting the microvessels features). The good performance of the FRF demonstrates that the CD31 pixel percentage of endomysial capillaries is sufficient for a correct estimation. …”
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Accelerated bioconversion of cow dung into concentrated organic fertilizer using microbial composition by Gulnaz F Rafikova, Tatyana Yu Korshunova, Elena V. Kuzina, Oleg N. Loginov

“…When treated with microbial compositions at a dose of 25 ml/kg, no Salmonella bacteria was detected in the compostable mixture on the 29th day. …”
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Melanoma Development and Progression Are Associated with Rad6 Upregulation and β-Catenin Relocation to the Cell Membrane by Karli Rosner, Darius R. Mehregan, Evangelia Kirou, Judith Abrams, Seongho Kim, Michelle Campbell, Jillian Frieder, Kelsey Lawrence, Brittany Haynes, Malathy P. V. Shekhar

“…Cytoplasmic β-catenin was detected in 90% of nevi, 17% of primary, and 8% of metastatic melanoma, whereas 28% of primary and 30% of metastatic melanomas exhibited β-catenin at both locations. …”
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Unconventional Biomarkers in Dementia Trough Neurological Examination: A Literature Review by Salazar-Londoño, Salomón, Pérez-Foucrier, Valeria, Tengonó-Guarín, María José, Franky-Escobar, Isabella, Iragorri, Angela

“…Conclusions: Evidence supporting the use of unconventional biomarkers was found, which may serve as an alternative for early detection of cognitive impairment.…”
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FcFNet: A Challenge-Based Feature Complementary Fusion Network for RGBT Tracking by Wensheng Wang, Congjian Li, Di Zhang, Huihui Zhou, Mingli Xie, Haoran Zhou, Kun Fu

“…Experimental evaluations conducted on the GTOT and RGBT234 datasets demonstrate a notable enhancement in detection performance, with an absolute improvement of 2.4% in success rate and 3.3% in precision rate when leveraging the CBFM and DCFM. …”
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Hyperreflective Intraretinal Spots in Diabetics without and with Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: An In Vivo Study Using Spectral Domain OCT by Stela Vujosevic, Silvia Bini, Giulia Midena, Marianna Berton, Elisabetta Pilotto, Edoardo Midena

“…To evaluate the presence of hyperreflective spots (HRS) in diabetic patients without clinically detectable retinopathy (no DR) or with nonproliferative mild to moderate retinopathy (DR) without macular edema, and compare the results to controls. …”
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Rapid Identification of Pork Adulterated in the Beef and Mutton by Infrared Spectroscopy by Ling Yang, Ting Wu, Yun Liu, Juan Zou, Yunmao Huang, Sarath Babu V., Li Lin

“…Pork meat is the principal adulterated species of beef and mutton. The conventional detection methods have their own limitations; therefore, we sought to develop an efficient and economical identification method using an infrared spectroscopy technique for meat. …”
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High Fasting Plasma Glucose during Early Pregnancy: A Review about Early Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by E. Cosson, L. Carbillon, P. Valensi

“…Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) is nowadays routinely measured during early pregnancy to detect preexisting diabetes (FPG ≥ 7 mmol/L). This screening has concomitantly led to identify early intermediate hyperglycemia, defined as FPG in the 5.1 to 6.9 mmol/L range, also early gestational diabetes mellitus (eGDM). …”
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The Effect of Post-Deposition Heat Treatment on the Microstructure, Texture, and Mechanical Properties of Inconel 718 Produced by Hybrid Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing with Inter-... by Dmitrii Panov, Gleb Permyakov, Stanislav Naumov, Vladimir Mirontsov, Egor Kudryavtsev, Liying Sun, Alexander Aksenov, Nikita Stepanov, Dmitriy Trushnikov, Gennady Salishchev

“…In the as-printed material, particles of (Nb,Ti)C and TiN, and precipitates of a Nb-rich Laves phase that caused premature cracking and failure during mechanical testing, were detected. In the PDHT material, two zones were found, as follows: (i) a zone with coarse uniaxial grains and (ii) a zone with a gradient grain size distribution. …”
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Integrated Bioinformatics-Based Identification of Potential Diagnostic Biomarkers Associated with Diabetic Foot Ulcer Development by Long Qian, Zhipeng Xia, Ming Zhang, Qiong Han, Die Hu, Sha Qi, Danmou Xing, Yan Chen, Xin Zhao

“…The present study was designed to detect possible biomarkers associated with diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) incidence in an effort to develop novel treatments for this condition. …”
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Measurement of Capsaicinoids in Chiltepin Hot Pepper: A Comparison Study between Spectrophotometric Method and High Performance Liquid Chromatography Analysis by Alberto González-Zamora, Erick Sierra-Campos, Rebeca Pérez-Morales, Cirilo Vázquez-Vázquez, Miguel A. Gallegos-Robles, José D. López-Martínez, José L. García-Hernández

“…HPLC-DAD revealed that capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin, and nordihydrocapsaicin comprised up to 98% of total capsaicinoids detected. The absorbance of the diluted samples was read on a spectrophotometer at 215–300 nm and monitored at 280 nm. …”
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