Dietary exposure to Arsenic, Cadmium, and lead amongst under-five Syrian refugee and Lebanese children in rural Lebanon by Sara Daher, Fouad Ziade, Moomen Baroudi

“…Mean and 95th percentile dietary exposure of arsenic exceeded HBGVs, but not those for cadmium and lead which showed somewhat elevated exposure levels (reaching 78.5 %). Differences in dietary exposure between Syrian refugee and Lebanese infants and children were investigated and no significant differences were observed. …”
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The Association of Adipokines and Myokines in the Blood of Obese Children and Adolescents with Lipoprotein Lipase rs328 Gene Variants by Alexander V. Shestopalov, Vadim V. Davydov, Genrik T. Tumanyan, Elena D. Teplyakova, Tatiana P. Shkurat, Elena V. Mashkina, Mikhail A. Shkurat, Andrey M. Gaponov, Anastasia A. Sadova, Olga V. Borisenko, Sergey A. Roumiantsev

“…Obese boys homozygous for Ser447Ser have more elevated leptin levels than girls. They also demonstrate lower adiponectin, apelin, prolactin, and osteocrine levels than those in obese girls with the same genotype. …”
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Preclinical evaluation of DC-CIK cells as potentially effective immunotherapy model for the treatment of glioblastoma by Annika Simone Lück, Jingjing Pu, Ahmad Melhem, Matthias Schneider, Amit Sharma, Ingo G. H. Schmidt-Wolf, Jarek Maciaczyk

“…Moreover, a significant increase in apoptosis and elevated levels of IFN-γ (and not TNF-α) secretion were observed as a targeting mechanism of DC-CIK cells against GBM cell models. …”
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Low-Level Social Demand Is Associated with Anxiety-Related Gamma Wave Responses in Autistic Male Youth by Vicki Bitsika, Christopher F. Sharpley, Ian D. Evans, Christopher B. Watson, Rebecca J. Williams, Kirstan A. Vessey

“…Background: The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) characteristic of difficulties in social communication and interaction has been previously associated with elevated anxiety and the degree of mental effort required to understand and respond to social cues. …”
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Association of BMI and WC for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes among Brazilian adolescents by Cesar Pirajá Bandeira, Beatriz D. Schaan, Felipe Vogt Cureau

“…The only groups significantly associated with prediabetes and T2DM were those with obesity by BMI with elevated WC (POR 1.68, 95 % CI 1.45; 1.94) and obesity with normal WC (POR 1.58, 95 % CI 1.01; 2.46). …”
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The Opposite Effects of High-Sucrose and High-Fat Diet on Fatty Acid Oxidation and Very Low Density Lipoprotein Secretion in Rat Model of Metabolic Syndrome by Monika Cahova, Helena Dankova, Eliska Palenickova, Zuzana Papackova, Ludmila Kazdova

“…We found that in rats prone to the development of MetS associated diseases dietary-induced steatosis is not simply a result of impaired TAG degradation but that it depends on other mechanisms (elevated FFA synthesis or attenuated VLDL secretion) that are specific according to diet composition.…”
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Lifespan trajectories of motor control and neural oscillations: A systematic review of magnetoencephalography insights by Xinbi Zhang, Mingming Huang, Xiaoxia Yuan, Xiaoke Zhong, Shengyu Dai, Yingying Wang, Qiang Zhang, Kanya Wongwitwichote, Changhao Jiang

“…In older adults, motor performance deteriorates, presenting as slower movement and prolonged duration, alongside heightened resting beta power, elevated MRBD, and reduced PMBR. Alterations in MRGS remain insufficiently explored. …”
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Diagnostic potential of urinary CX3CL1 for amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease by Yali Xu, Yali Xu, Jie Zhang, Jie Zhang, Ying-Ying Shen, Wei-Wei Li, Bin Li, Hai-Ping Cheng, Gui-Hua Zeng

“…Comparatively, AD patients exhibited significantly elevated urinary CX3CL1 levels when contrasted with both the CN controls and the aMCI cohort. …”
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Genomic insights into the dynamic antibiotic resistance landscape of Vibrio cholerae during the Cholera outbreak 2022 in Odisha, India by Debasish Samal, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Smruti Ranjan Nayak, Swatishree Pany, Bibhuti Bhusan Pal, Sanghamitra Pati

“…Substitution of amino acid position in the QRDR Region was examined to understand the development of Fluoroquinolone resistance. Elevated resistances in V. cholerae strains were observed against doxycycline, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, and chloramphenicol. …”
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Rare Case of Gut-associated Lymphoid Tissue Carcinoma in the Sigmoid Colon of a Very Elderly Patient: A Case Report by Kou Kanesada, Kazuhiko Yoshimatsu, Yoshitomo Ito, Shuya Yano, Masaaki Hori, Masaharu Higashida, Toshimasa Okada, Shunji Endo, Yoshinori Fujiwara, Yasuto Fujimoto, Tatsushi Shiomi, Tomio Ueno

“…In this case, a 90-year-old female presented with an irregularly elevated tumor in the sigmoid colon, diagnosed via colonoscopy. …”
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Enhanced ferroptosis sensitivity promotes the formation of highly myopic cataract via the DDR2-Hippo pathway by Dongling Guo, Yu Du, Xin Liu, Dan Li, Ling Wei, Xiangjia Zhu

“…In HMC lens epithelia, levels of Fe2+ and lipid peroxidation were found elevated, with increased vulnerability towards ferroptosis as revealed by transmission electron microscopy. …”
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Severe COVID-19 disease is associated with genetic factors affecting plasma ACE2 receptor and CRP concentrations by Verena Vogi, David Haschka, Lukas Forer, Simon Schwendinger, Verena Petzer, Stefan Coassin, Ivan Tancevski, Thomas Sonnweber, Judith Löffler-Ragg, Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl, Marianne Graninger, Dominik Wolf, Florian Kronenberg, Johannes Zschocke, Emina Jukic, Günter Weiss

“…Abstract A hyperinflammatory state with highly elevated concentrations of inflammatory biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) is a characteristic feature of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). …”
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Female mice lacking GluA3 show early onset of hearing loss, cochlear synaptopathy, and afferent terminal swellings in ambient sound levels by Indra Pal, Atri Bhattacharyya, Babak V-Ghaffari, Essence Devine Williams, Maolei Xiao, Mark Allen Rutherford, María Eulalia Rubio

“…However, after switching to ambient sound, ABR thresholds were elevated and wave-1 amplitudes were diminished at 5-week and older in Gria3KO. …”
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Geographical origin traceability of kiwifruit products using stable isotope and multi-element analysis with multivariate modeling: Feature extraction, selection of model and variab... by Wang Shuanhui, Chen Chang, Tian Jing, Liu Zhi, Mei Xianxian, Zhou Jialu, Wang Dongguang, Zhu Shaohua

“…Supervised methods, partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and its derivative algorithm (OPLS-DA), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), enhanced identification performance and finally elevated the accuracies to 100 % for all kiwifruit origins. …”
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Single Intramammary Infusion of Recombinant Bovine Interleukin-8 at Dry-Off Induces the Prolonged Secretion of Leukocyte Elastase, Inflammatory Lactoferrin-Derived Peptides, and In... by Atsushi Watanabe, Jiro Hirota, Shinya Shimizu, Shigeki Inumaru, Kazuhiro Kimura

“…A single intramammary infusion of recombinant bovine interleukin-8 (IL-8) at 50 μg/quarter/head, but not 10 μg/quarter/head, induced clinical mastitis in three of four cows during the dry-off period, resulting in an elevated rectal temperature, redness and swelling of the mammary gland, extensive polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMNL) infiltration, and milk clot formation from 1 to 28 days post infusion (PI). …”
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Square Duct Cleaning Machine Using a Multistage Planetary Gear Mechanism for Removing Grease by Yosuke Momma, Takehiro Hitomi, Fumio Ito, Taro Nakamura

“…It is difficult for conventional duct cleaning robots to clean grease because they do not consider the distinct properties inherent to grease, characterized by its elevated viscosity and tenacious adhesion. This study described the design and experiments of the cleaning machine, which enabled the machine to scrub the entire inner wall of a duct at a relative velocity of the brushes of 60 mm/s or higher, required to scrub off grease from the duct. …”
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New-onset gastrointestinal disorders in COVID-19 patients 3.5 years post-infection in the inner-city population in the Bronx by Sagar Changela, Samad Ashraf, Justin Y. Lu, Kevin E. Duong, Sonya Henry, Stephen H. Wang, Tim Q. Duong

“…COVID-19 patients had an elevated risk of developing new GID (adjusted HR = 1.18 (95% CI 1.12–1.25) compared to propensity-matched controls, after adjusting for confounders that included smoking, obesity, diabetes, hypertension. …”
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Influence of Febrile Neutropenia Period on Plasma Viscosity at Malignancy by Ibrahim Tek, Selami Kocak Toprak, Efe Hasdemir, Samed Rahatli, Aysegül Yesilkaya

“…We have demonstrated significantly elevated plasma viscosity in our patients during febrile neutropenic episode. …”
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The Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Circulating Ischaemia-Modified Albumin Concentrations by Firat Uygur, Hakan Tanriverdi, Murat Can, Tacettin Ornek, Fatma Erboy, Bulent Altinsoy, Figen Atalay, Murat Damar, Furuzan Kokturk, Meltem Tor

“…The results showed that OSAS is associated with elevated concentrations of IMA, which can be reversed by effective CPAP treatment.…”
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New therapies in pulmonary arterial hypertension: Recent insights by Giulia Guglielmi, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, S. John Wort

“…Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a complex and progressive disease characterized by elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and right heart failure. …”
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