The Effect of Electroacupuncture on PKMzeta in the ACC in Regulating Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Rats Experiencing Chronic Inflammatory Pain by Junying Du, Junfan Fang, Cun Wen, Xiaomei Shao, Yi Liang, Jianqiao Fang

“…Chronic inflammatory pain can induce emotional diseases. Electroacupuncture (EA) has effects on chronic pain and pain-related anxiety. …”
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Association of ABO Blood Group and Body Mass Index: A Cross-Sectional Study from a Ghanaian Population by Samuel Smith, Isaac Okai, Chrissie Stansie Abaidoo, Emmanuel Acheampong

“…ABO blood group and body mass index (BMI) have individually been appraised as risk factors for certain diseases. From statistical perspective, it may be important to examine the relationship between the ABO blood antigen and BMI. …”
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Thyme Essential Oil as a Potential Tool Against Common and Re-Emerging Foodborne Pathogens: Biocidal Effect on Bacterial Membrane Permeability by Martina Di Rosario, Leonardo Continisio, Giuseppe Mantova, Francesca Carraturo, Elena Scaglione, Daniela Sateriale, Giuseppina Forgione, Chiara Pagliuca, Caterina Pagliarulo, Roberta Colicchio, Mariateresa Vitiello, Paola Salvatore

“…Over the past decade, foodborne diseases have become a significant public health concern, affecting millions of people globally. …”
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Obesity Phenotypes, Lifestyle Medicine, and Population Health: Precision Needed Everywhere! by Jean-Pierre Després, Dominic J. Chartrand, Adrien Murphy-Després, Isabelle Lemieux, Natalie Alméras

“…The worldwide prevalence of obesity is a key factor involved in the epidemic proportions reached by chronic societal diseases. A revolution in the study of obesity has been the development of imaging techniques for the measurement of its regional distribution. …”
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Effect of cyclosporin A on inflammatory cytokine production by U937 monocyte-like cells by Juan E. Losa Garcia, María Rosa Martín de Cabo, Fernando Mateos Rodríguez, Jesús Pérez Losada, Antonio Jiménez López, José Luis Pérez Arellano

“…Cyclosporin A (CsA) is an immunosuppresor drug that has been used in the treatment of several types of inflammatory diseases. In some of them the inhibition of T-lymphocyte activation does not suitably account for the observed beneficial effect, suggesting that CsA could act on other types of cells. …”
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Dystrophic Adipocytes Mimicking Metastatic Signet Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma: A Diagnostic Pitfall in a Cachectic Patient by Xin Zhang, Jennifer J. Findeis-Hosey

“…Cachexia is a debilitating condition and complex syndrome commonly associated with a variety of chronic diseases. It is caused by metabolic dysregulation and characterized by profound loss of adipose tissue and skeletal muscles. …”
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Correlation of Abdominal Fat Distribution with Different Types of Diabetes in a Chinese Population by Anhui Zhu, Bin Cui, Haodan Dang, Dan Yao, Haitao Yu, Hongmin Jia, Zhijun Hu, Xiaojin Zhang

“…No subject has history of severe diseases. Multi-slice CT was used to measure total abdominal adipose (TA) and visceral adipose (VA) tissues. …”
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Anticancer potential of coumarins from the Ferulago genus by Mansour Mofasseri, Elham Eini, Saber Mofasseri, Bahram Hanifehpour, Fatemeh Zanbili, Ahmad Poursattar Marjani

“…Possessing a wide range of chemicals, natural products are considered rich sources of bioactive compounds in treating a broad scope of diseases, especially cancer. Harness the power of coumarins, a natural compound that has shown remarkable efficacy in treating many cancers. …”
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High Steroid Sensitivity among Children with Nephrotic Syndrome in Southwestern Nigeria by Taiwo Augustina Ladapo, Christopher Imokhuede Esezobor, Foluso Ebun Lesi

“…This is likely attributable to the lower age structure of our cohort as well as possible changing epidemiology of some other childhood diseases. Surveillance of the epidemiology of childhood nephrotic syndrome and corresponding modifications in practice are therefore recommended.…”
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Knowledge about oral health in older adults from a medical office in Ciego de Ávila by Wendy Guerra López, Lina Isabel Torres Gárriz, Evelyn Sardiñas Montero, Yenise García Aldave, Daniela Rivas Torres, Marcos Daniel Estrada López

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: 68.3% of older adults presented difficulties in the questions about performing oral self-examination. 67.5% of them answered the questions about periodontal diseases incorrectly, because they did not consider ailments related to the gums as harmful to oral health. 40.0% of the participants reported that inappropriate habits, such as smoking, cause alterations in the oral cavity.…”
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Ex Vivo Antioxidant Activity of Selected Medicinal Plants against Fenton Reaction-Mediated Oxidation of Biological Lipid Substrates by Namratha Pai Kotebagilu, Vanitha Reddy Palvai, Asna Urooj

“…Free radical-mediated oxidation is often linked to various degenerative diseases. Biological substrates with lipids as major components are susceptible to oxygen-derived lipid peroxidation due to their composition. …”
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Genetic markers in sheep meat breeding by A. V. Deykin, M. I. Selionova, A. Yu. Krivoruchko, D. V. Kovalenko, V. I. Truhachev

“…The problem of finding reliable communication between productivity features and genetic markers has not yet been solved, because productivity is a set of features (unlike, for example, monogenic diseases) and its expression depends on the balance between various physiological functions. …”
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Anti-cancer activity of synthetic gefitinib-1,2,3-triazole derivatives against Hela cells via induction of apoptosis by Zhihong Hu, Xixi Hou, Yongjing Ren, Ziyuan Wu, Dong Yan, Hong Chen, Lan Wang

“…However, the current treatments have significant side effects and limited therapeutic effects on advanced diseases, so it is necessary to discover better treatments for cervical cancer. …”
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CARDIOVASCULAR RISK BEFORE AND AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT OF SEVERE OBESITY by Lilian CARDIA, Alexandre Viera GADDUCCI, Denis PAJECKI, Marco Aurelio SANTO, Roberto DE CLEVA

“…CONCLUSIONS: Bariatric surgery resulted in a significant effect on the AIP, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and therefore, the risk of cardiovascular diseases.…”
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Diabetes mellitus educational intervention in patients at risk from a medical office. Nuevitas, 2020-2023 by Maigret Calderón Cruz, Julio Michel Arias Manganelly, Olenis Alicia Aldana Ramos, Lieter Ailed Vidal Rodríguez, Pedro Figueredo Guerra, Aned Hernández Clavijo

“…These types of strategies, applicable from the primary level of care, imply a benefit in the prevention of this and other non-communicable diseases.</p>…”
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Changes in the Intestinal Microbiota in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis: Systematizing Literature Data by I. V. Maev, A. I. Levchenko, D. N. Andreev

“…At present, the differences in the intestinal microbiota in pancreatic diseases are poorly understood. The severe CP is associated with impaired synthesis of antimicrobial peptides, bicarbonates, and digestive enzymes by the pancreas, which is a risk factor for dysbiotic changes in the intestinal microbiota, consisting in the development of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and gut dysbiosis. …”
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Lifestyles characterization in hypertensive patients of the doctor´s office 7 area IV. Cienfuegos, 2021 by Lianet Pérez Rodríguez, Grissel Utrera Díaz, Laritza Rodríguez Martínez

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> high blood pressure is considered one of the three most relevant risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Healthy lifestyles prevent its damage.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to characterize the hypertensive patients’ lifestyles in the doctor´s office 7 from area IV of the Cienfuegos’ municipality. …”
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Comparisons of Vitreal Angiogenic, Inflammatory, Profibrotic Cytokines, and Chemokines Profile between Patients with Epiretinal Membrane and Macular Hole by Lu Chen, Weiwei Zhang, Ping Xie, Jiangdong Ji, Huiming Qian, Songtao Yuan, Qinghuai Liu, Zizhong Hu

“…Idiopathic epiretinal membrane (iERM) or idiopathic macular hole (iMH) is frequently used as a “healthy” control in comparison of vitreous cytokines with other vitreoretinal diseases. This study aimed to investigate if there is a difference in vitreal cytokines expression between patients with iERM and iMH. …”
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The impact of war on animal welfare: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s manipulation of pigeon behavior in WW II by Cheng Peng, Zi-qi Luo, Lin-hui Guo, Yi-fei Zhu

“…Furthermore, the prolonged shortage of specialized military personnel led to inadequate care and neglect of the pigeons, resulting in the outbreak of infectious diseases and then deaths that could have been avoided among the birds. …”
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A Rare Case of Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy Associated with Hodgkin Lymphoma by Keiki Nagaharu, Yuka Sugimoto, Keiki Kawakami

“…Immunotactoid glomerulopathy (ITG) is characterized by Congo red-negative microtubular deposits, and it has been reported as a rare paraneoplastic syndrome due to hematologic malignancies, viral infections, or autoimmune diseases. In hematologic malignancies, multiple myeloma and other mature B-cell malignancies are the most common hematologic malignancies, and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is extremely rare. …”
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