Impact of Weight Reduction on Thyroid Function and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver among Egyptian Adolescents with Obesity by Mona Karem Amin, Ahmed Ibrahim Ali, Hesham Elsayed

“…It also showed that the percentage of studied adolescents with elevated TSH decreased from 47.5% to 19.7% after the weight reduction program. …”
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BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SALIVARY MALONDIALDEHYDE LEVELS IN 14-15-YEAR-OLD ADOLESCENTS WITH ORAL PATHOLOGY by Alexandra Mihaela Stoica, Oana Elena Stoica, Alexandru Vlasa, Cristina Ioana Bica, Liana Bereșescu, Zsuzsanna Bardocz-Veres, Monica Dana Monea

“…Elevated oxidative stress can contribute to inflammation, which is believed to play a role in oral manifestation such as GT or AU mainly in ages of 14 and 15 years. …”
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Visfatin Amplifies Cardiac Inflammation and Aggravates Cardiac Injury via the NF-κB p65 Signaling Pathway in LPS-Treated Mice by Yewen Hu, Nan Wu, Weiping Du, Shuangshuang Wang, Jian Wang, Chaoxia Zhang, Xiaomin Chen, Caijie Shen

“…Treatment with visfatin also increased the infiltration of CD3+ cells and F4/80+ cells, amplified the cardiac inflammatory response, and elevated myocardial cell apoptosis. Treatment with JSH-23 reversed the effects of visfatin in septic mice. …”
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Giant prolactinoma with progressive cranial settling and central herniation: a case report by Taha Shahbazi, Soheil Abdollahi Yeganeh, Shiva Borzouei, Mahdi Arjipour

“…On the basis of the pathology, immunohistochemistry, and elevated serum prolactin levels, the diagnosis of giant prolactinoma was almost definite. …”
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Assessment of Oxidative Stress by the Estimation of Lipid Peroxidation Marker Malondialdehyde (MDA) in Patients with Chronic Periodontitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Khadijah Mohideen, Krithika Chandrasekar, Saranya Ramsridhar, Chandini Rajkumar, Snehashish Ghosh, Safal Dhungel

“…The analyzed studies showed significantly higher MDA levels in various biological samples of patients with periodontitis, supporting the role of elevated oxidative stress and consequent lipid peroxidation in periodontitis.…”
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Acute Pancreatitis after Additional Trauma in Chronic Traumatic Pancreatic Diaphragmatic Hernia by You Ho Mun, Sin Youl Park

“…The vital signs were stable, but the amylase and lipase levels were elevated to 558 U/L and 1,664 U/L, respectively. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed a left diaphragmatic hernia and an incarceration of the stomach, pancreatic ductal dilatation, and peripancreatic fatty infiltration. …”
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Pituitary Stalk Germ Cell Tumors: Retrospective Case Series and Literature Review by Han Chen, Ming Ni, Yun Xu, Li-Yong Zhong

“…Seven patients initially had elevated human chorionic gonadotropin levels. After chemoradiotherapy, ten patients attended follow-up. …”
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Hemotoxicity Induced by Chronic Chlorpyrifos Exposure in Wistar Rats: Mitigating Effect of Vitamin C by Suleiman F. Ambali, Joseph O. Ayo, King A. N. Esievo, Samuel A. Ojo

“…Blood samples collected at the end of the study revealed reduction in the levels of pack cell volume, hemoglobin, red blood cells, leukocytes (attributed to neutropenia, lymphopenia, and monocytopenia), and platelets in the CPF group, which were ameliorated in the vitamin C- pretreated group. The elevated values of malonaldehyde, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio in the CPF group were restored in those pretreated with vitamin C. …”
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Optic Nerve Sonography in the Diagnostic Evaluation of Pseudopapilledema and Raised Intracranial Pressure: A Cross-Sectional Study by Masoud Mehrpour, Fatemeh Oliaee Torshizi, Shooka Esmaeeli, Salameh Taghipour, Sahar Abdollahi

“…Our study demonstrated a close correlation between optic nerve sheath dilation on ocular ultrasound and evidence of elevated ICP with optic disk swelling. With the aid of noninvasive diagnostic tests we can avoid unnecessary concerns along with expensive and invasive neurological investigations while targeting the correct diagnosis in bilateral optic disk swelling. …”
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Determination of mutagenicity of chemical compounds, physical factors and environmental pollutants by the Drosophila melanogaster wing somatic mutation and recombination test by L. P. Zakharenko, I. K. Zakharov

“…There are modifications to SMART, based on elevated cytochrome P450 expression, allowing more reliable extrapolation of the test results to mammals. …”
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Weighted fuzzy C means and enhanced adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference based chronic kidney disease classification by Maria Lincy Jacquline, Natarajan Sudha

“…Numerous complications, such as elevated blood levels, anemia, weak bones, and nerve damage, constitute a problem. …”
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Candida tropicalis spondylitis in a non-tropical immunocompetent patient: a case report and review of the literature by Hong Yang, Xin Wang, Weijian Zhu, Bei Zhou

“…Inflammatory markers were mildly elevated. MRI fluid sequences revealed lamellar enhancement of the L4-5 vertebral bodies, narrowing of the intervertebral space, peripheral soft tissue edema, and spinal canal compression. …”
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Key Success Factors for Export Structure Optimization in East Asian Countries Through Global Value Chain (GVC) Reorganization by Rongyu Pei, Zhenqing Su

“…Collectively, these factors elevate East Asia’s position and competitiveness within GVCs. …”
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Prevalence of the Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype: Results from the Second Measurement of the CARMEN Initiative by Alain Francisco Morejón Giraldoni, Eloida Rivas Alpízar, Verónica Salas García, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez

“…<strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> women have a higher risk of developing hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype given the increased presence of obesity measured by waist circumference and elevated serum triglyceride level in all age groups, particularly in those over 45 years. …”
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Landslide hazard assessment and agricultural vulnerability using a geospatial approach by Rian Gabriel Girsang, Bistok Hasiholan Simanjuntak

“…Despite the benefits it provides to farmers, the elevated rainfall also poses natural disaster risks, particularly landslides, which can adversely affect surrounding communities. …”
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Unravelling the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on hemostatic and complement systems: a systems immunology perspective by Didar Murad, Rehan Zafar Paracha, Maryum Nisar

“…We explored that the decreased levels of complement factor H and C1-inhibitor significantly elevate these components, whereas tissue factor pathway inhibitor and alpha-2-macroglobulin have more modest effects. …”
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Effect of Honey and Aqueous Garlic Extracts against Short-Term Exposure of Cigarette Tobacco Smoking in Mice: Histopathological and Biochemical Investigations by Ziad Shraideh, Darwish Badran, Ahmed Alzbeede

“…Moreover, cigarette smoking elevates the concentration of carbonyl protein content and cystatin C. …”
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Associations of Trauma Severity with Mean Platelet Volume and Levels of Systemic Inflammatory Markers (IL1β, IL6, TNFα, and CRP) by Baris Alper, Baris Erdogan, Mehmet Özgür Erdogan, Korkut Bozan, Murat Can

“…The TNFα and IL6 levels were useful for determining the severity of injury, and the CRP level was elevated in all trauma patients but did not correlate with the ISS. …”
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Heart Shaped Anterior Neck Lipoma Mimicking Thyroid Mass: A Case Report by Abdus Samad Ansari, Dhiraj Chaurasia, Bikash Yadav, Season Shrestha, Inku Shrestha Basnet

“…Though clinical examination findings suggested lipoma, the location of swelling influenced the decision toward thyroid mass. The elevated thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level further inclined the diagnosis toward thyroid mass. …”
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The Utility of Fecal Calprotectin in the Real-World Clinical Care of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Esmail Abej, Wael El-Matary, Harminder Singh, Charles N. Bernstein

“…Positive FCAL was associated with colonoscopy findings of active IBD (P<0.05), low albumin (P<0.05), anemia (P<0.01), and elevated CRP (P<0.01). There was no significant difference for FCAL results by outcomes on small bowel evaluation among the 21 persons with small bowel CD. …”
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