A Combined Therapy with Myo-Inositol and D-Chiro-Inositol Improves Endocrine Parameters and Insulin Resistance in PCOS Young Overweight Women by Elena Benelli, Scilla Del Ghianda, Caterina Di Cosmo, Massimo Tonacchera

“…Thus, we analyzed pretreatment and posttreatment FSH, LH, 17-beta-Estradiol, Sex Hormone Binding Globulin, androstenedione, free testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, HOMA index, and fasting glucose and insulin. …”
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Acute Liver Failure Caused by ‘Fat Burners’ and Dietary Supplements: A Case Report and Literature Review by Y Radha Krishna, V Mittal, P Grewal, MI Fiel, T Schiano

“…Despite patient perceptions that herbal remedies are free of adverse effects, some supplements are associated with severe hepatotoxicity. …”
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Pearls and Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Adult Celiac Disease by Hugh J Freeman

“…Rarely, recurrent (or refractory) celiac disease may occur after an initial gluten-free diet response. Finally, some with ‘sprue-like intestinal disease’ cannot be classified because a diet response fails to occur. …”
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Clinical Usefulness of Haptoglobin Levels to Evaluate Hemolysis in Recently Transfused Patients by Shilpi Gupta, Kathleen Ahern, Fadi Nakhl, Frank Forte

“…Since stored blood contains free hemoglobin, transfusion may affect haptoglobin levels. …”
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Taurine Prevents Ibuprofen-Induced Gastric Mucosal Lesions and Influences Endogenous Antioxidant Status of Stomach in Rats by T. Balasubramanian, M. Somasundaram, A. John William Felix

“…Recently, free radicalinduced tissue damage is implicated in the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)involved gastric mucosal lesion. …”
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The Efficiency of Direct Maturation: the Comparison of Two hiPSC Differentiation Approaches into Motor Neurons by Catherine Schaefers, Simone Rothmiller, Horst Thiermann, Theo Rein, Annette Schmidt

“…In this study, a virus-, feeder-, and antibiotic-free method was used for reprogramming hiPSC, which were maintained in culture medium produced under clinical good manufacturing practice. …”
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War crimes and spirituality: to prosecute or to forgive and reconcile by Goran Šimić

“…The New Testament says that only the truth will set us free, but is that immanent to the human being? Can a human being truly forgive, or is mercy only reserved for divine beings? …”
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Active Vibration Control of Helicopter Maneuvering Flight Using Feedforward-Robust Hybrid Control Based on Reference Signal Reconstruction by Yifan Qin, Yang Lu, Jinchao Ma, Huiyu Yue

“…Further experiments of real-time free-free beam vibration control are performed, driven by a stacked piezoelectric actuator. …”
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Thiamine and Thiamine Pyrophosphate as Non-Competitive Inhibitors of Acetylcholinesterase—Experimental and Theoretical Investigations by Łukasz Szeleszczuk, Dariusz Maciej Pisklak, Błażej Grodner

“…In vivo, vitamin B₁ occurs in free form as thiamine or as its ester with phosphate residue(s), i.e., as mono-, di-, or triphosphate. …”
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A Simple Way to Achieve Self-Cleaning Surfaces with Unique Antifouling Property by Caizhen Yao, Shizhen Xu, Xiaodong Jiang, Jiaxuan Chen, Xiaodong Yuan

“…New insight is developed through a detailed analysis of the antifouling behavior of the self-cleaning surfaces. The surface free energy and its polar and disperse components were calculated by using the Owens–Wendt-–Rabel–Kaelble (OWRK) method. …”
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Large N limit of the Yang–Mills measure on compact surfaces II: Makeenko–Migdal equations and the planar master field by Antoine Dahlqvist, Thibaut Lemoine

“…Our result on the torus justifies the introduction of an interpolation between free and classical convolution of probability measures, defined with the free unitary Brownian motion but differing from t-freeness of [5] that was defined in terms of the liberation process of Voiculescu [67]. …”
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Social support for families raising children with autism spectrum disorders by Danutė Klokmanienė, Loreta Klokmanienė, Audronė Rimkuvienė

“…It has been revealed that families raising children with Autism Spectrum Disorders lack free psychological counselling, greater financial support and information about autism spectrum disorder in one place. …”

Investigating Pb2 CAP-binding domain inhibitors from marine bacteria for targeting the influenza A H5N1. by Taha A Kumosani, Aymn T Abbas, Balogun Basheer, Ahmed M Hassan, Soonham S Yaghmoor, Areej H Alyahiby, Amer H Asseri, Vivek Dhar Dwivedi, Esam I Azhar

“…Additional analyses, including post-simulation free energy calculations and free energy landscape analysis, strengthened the potential of these compounds as effective PB2-cap binding domain inhibitors. …”
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Assessing factors influencing adolescent sexual debut in Nigeria: a multi-cluster survival analysis approach by Fabio Mathias Correa, Peter Enesi Omaku, Joseph Odunayo Braimah, Joseph Odunayo Braimah

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Can We Trust the Literature on Risk Factors and Triggers for Low Back Pain? A Systematic Review of a Sample of Contemporary Literature by Emad M. Ardakani, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Bruce F. Walker

“…Investigating RFs for the onset of the “disease” and the triggers of LBP is problematic if researchers fail to discern the different types of pain-free status of participants at and before baseline. …”
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The Electric Current Effect on Electrochemical Deconsolidation of Spherical Fuel Elements by Xiaotong Chen, Zhenming Lu, Hongsheng Zhao, Bing Liu, Junguo Zhu, Chunhe Tang

“…The results showed that the morphology, size distribution, and element content of deconsolidated graphite matrix and free particles were notably affected by electric current intensity. …”
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Kinetics of oil palm empty fruit bunch fiber pyrolysis by Bashar Abdullahi Hadi, Abdullahi Muhammad Sokoto, Aminu Bayawa Muhammad, Yahaya Alhassan, Chika Muhammad

“…The changes in entropy (−123 to 135), Gibbs free energy (150–156 kJ/mol), and activation enthalpy (63–71 kJ/mol) were computed using the best-fitting model. …”
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Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics with Vaccination: A Case Study in Ethiopia by Sileshi Sintayehu Sharbayta, Henok Desalegn Desta, Tadesse Abdi

“…From these analyses, for the full model (model with vaccination), we found that the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable for Rv<1 and is unstable for Rv>1. …”
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Analysis of the Influencing Factors on the Well Performance in Shale Gas Reservoir by Cheng Dai, Liang Xue, Weihong Wang, Xiang Li

“…The hydraulic fractured formations can be divided into two regions, stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) region and non-SRV region, and the produced shale gas may exist as free gas or adsorbed gas under the initial formation condition. …”
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The prognostic utility of the ratio of lymphocyte to monocyte in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Pingping Mei, Li Huang, Lu Lin, Yan Chen, Xiutian Guo

“…The primary outcomes of interest included prognosis measures such as overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), disease-free survival (DFS), and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. …”
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