'Which treatment do you believe you received?' A randomised blinding feasibility trial of spinal manual therapy by Javier Muñoz Laguna, Astrid Kurmann, Léonie Hofstetter, Emanuela Nyantakyi, Julia Braun, Lauren Clack, Heejung Bang, Mazda Farshad, Nadine E. Foster, Milo A. Puhan, Cesar A. Hincapié, the SALuBRITY Blinding Clinician Group

“…Our main objectives were to assess the feasibility of blinding: (1) participants randomly allocated to active or placebo spinal manual therapy (SMT), and (2) outcome assessors. We also explored blinding by levels of SMT lifetime experience and recent LBP, and factors contributing to beliefs about the assigned intervention. …”
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Digital light processing three-dimensional printing with acrylic–titanium composite powders for multiscale porous scaffolds by Guangbin Zhao, Yanlong Wu, Bochen Li, Hang Tian, Bo Li, Xiao Li, Xu Chen, Tao Zhou, Yaning Wang, Yichao Gong, Dingchang Hou, Yaxiong Liu, Xuewen Zong, Bingheng Lu

“…However, dense internal structures produced by the powder bed fusion technique fails to meet the feature of porous materials in scenarios that demand large specific surface areas. Herein, we propose a strategy for 3D printing of titanium scaffolds featuring multiscale porous internal structures via powder modification and digital light processing (DLP). …”
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Side Effects of Chloroquine and Primaquine and Symptom Reduction in Malaria Endemic Area (Mâncio Lima, Acre, Brazil) by Cássio Braga e Braga, Antonio Camargo Martins, Athaid David Escalante Cayotopa, Wagner Werner Klein, Andreus Roberto Schlosser, Aline Ferreira da Silva, Mardelson Nery de Souza, Breno Wilson Benevides Andrade, José Alcântara Filgueira-Júnior, Wagner de Jesus Pinto, Mônica da Silva-Nunes

“…Side effects of antimalarial drug can overlap with malaria symptoms. We evaluated 50 patients with vivax malaria in Mâncio Lima, Acre, treated with chloroquine and primaquine. …”
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Enhanced Antitumor Efficacy and Reduced Toxicity in Colorectal Cancer Using a Novel Multifunctional Rg3- Targeting Nanosystem Encapsulated with Oxaliplatin and Calcium Peroxide by Xie Y, Zhu M, Bao H, Chen K, Wang S, Dai J, Chen H, Li H, Song Q, Wang X, Yu L, Pei J

“…Oxaliplatin (OXA) is currently the primary chemotherapeutic agent for CRC, but its efficacy is limited by the tumor microenvironment (TME). Here, we present a combined approach of chemotherapy and TME modulation for CRC treatment. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of HAPC in Barrett's Esophagus – A Multicenter Italian Prospective Study by Davide Massimi, Roberta Maselli, Silvia Pecere, Cristiano Spada, Gianluca Andrisani, Francesco Maria Di Matteo, Antonella La Terra, Franco Coppola, Antonio Capogreco, Roberto De Sire, Ludovico Alfarone, Maddalena Menini, Marco Spadaccini, Cesare Hassan, Alessandro Repici

“…Patients and methods. We prospectively included patients undergoing H-APC ablation at 4 Italian Hospitals from September 2022 to March 2024. …”
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Identification of serum metabolite biomarkers in premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: protocol for a multicentre prospective observational cohort study by Ping Zhou, Jun Chen, Ying Liu, Cheng Chen, Xin Guo, Zhangbin Yu, Jiebo Liu, Yanping Guo, Dan Dan Rao, Shengnan He, Xudong Yan, Wanxiang He, Songzhou Xu, Ruolin Zhang

“…Additionally, a nested case-control study will be conducted, matching participants 1:1 with a control group sharing similar BPD risk factors.Ethics and dissemination Our protocol has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committees of all participating hospitals, including Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Shenzhen Baoan Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Longgang District Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Nanshan Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital and Shenzhen Luohu People’s Hospital. We will disseminate our study results through academic conferences and peer-reviewed public journals.Trial registration number ChiCTR2400081615.…”
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Multidimensional 1-Year Outcomes After Intensive Care Admission for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children by Thomas C. Seijbel, BSc, Levi Hoste, MD, Corinne M. P. Buysse, MD, PhD, Karolijn Dulfer, PhD, Filomeen Haerynck, MD, PhD, Matthijs de Hoog, MD, PhD, Naomi Ketharanathan, MD, PhD

“…This landscape is currently unfolding with studies reporting sequelae on various domains (physical, cognitive, and psychosocial), although most studies focus on adults or only one domain. We sought to investigate concurrent sequelae on multiple domains 1 year after PICU admission for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). …”
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Studying and enhancing the methods for distance teaching of computer science in Kazakh secondary school students during the pandemic by M. M. Zhamankarin, A. M. Sivinskiy, M. K. Aitkenova, M. B. Zhanibekov

“…By conducting the Mann–Whitney U test, we discovered that the obtained average values of the quality of teaching computer science to the participants statistically increased (I group – Uemp = 6.49 (p ≤ 0.05), II group – Uemp = 7.46 (p ≤ 0.05), III group – Uemp = 6.05 (p ≤ 0.01), IV group – Uemp = 6.71 (p ≤ 0.05), V group – Uemp = 6.91 (p ≤ 0.01), VI group – Uemp = 6.65 (p ≤ 0.05), VII group – Uemp = 6.21 (p ≤ 0.05)). …”
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The Monocyte-to-Lymphocyte Ratio at Hospital Admission Is a Novel Predictor for Acute Traumatic Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage Expansion after Cerebral Contusion by Jiangtao Sheng, Tian Li, Dongzhou Zhuang, Shirong Cai, Jinhua Yang, Faxiu Ding, Xiaoxuan Chen, Fei Tian, Mindong Huang, Lianjie Li, Kangsheng Li, Weiqiang Chen

“…MLR was acquired from routine blood tests upon admission. We constructed two predictive models: basic combined model of clinical and imaging variables and MLR combined model of both MLR and other variables in the basic model. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of calculated serum osmolarity to predict dehydration in older people: adding value to pathology laboratory reports by Lee Shepstone, John F Potter, Lee Hooper, Asmaa Abdelhamid, Amy Jennings, Paul R Hunter, W Garry John, Neil P Walsh, Adam Ali, Diane K Bunn, Susan Kerry, Gregor Lindner, Carmen A Pfortmueller, Fredrik Sjöstrand, Susan J Fairweather-Tait

“…Given costs and prevalence of dehydration in older people we suggest use of the best formula by pathology laboratories using a cutpoint of 295 mOsm/L (sensitivity 85%, specificity 59%), to report dehydration risk opportunistically when serum glucose, urea and electrolytes are measured for other reasons in older adults.Trial registration numbers: DRIE: Research Register for Social Care, 122273; NU-AGE: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01754012.…”
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A Simple Nomogram to Predict Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure Undergoing Coronary Angiography by Li Lei, Yibo He, Zhaodong Guo, Bowen Liu, Jin Liu, Zhiqiang Nie, Guanzhong Chen, Liwei Liu, Mengfei Lin, Wenhe Yan, Shiqun Chen, Chen Jiyan, Yong Liu

“…Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) are vulnerable to contrast-induced kidney injury (CI-AKI), but few prediction models are currently available. Therefore, we aimed to establish a simple nomogram for CI-AKI risk assessment for patients with CHF undergoing coronary angiography. …”
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Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon Content in <italic>Spartina alterniflora</italic> by Using UAV Multispectral and LiDAR Data by Jiannan He, Yongbin Zhang, Mingyue Liu, Lin Chen, Weidong Man, Hua Fang, Xiang Li, Xuan Yin, Jianping Liang, Wenke Bai, Fuping Li

“…Based on 73 measured samples, along with multispectral imagery and LiDAR data collected via unmanned aerial vehicles, machine learning techniques, including random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), were employed to predict the SOC content of <italic>S. alterniflora</italic> and map its spatial distribution. We compared the predictive performance of these different machine learning algorithms to identify the most effective one. …”
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Multiple action sites of ultrasound on Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus by Xinyu Liao, Jiao Li, Yuanjie Suo, Shiguo Chen, Xingqian Ye, Donghong Liu, Tian Ding

“…DNA and enzymes) but with intact cell envelopes. We speculated that the inactivated effects of ultrasound on microbes might more than simply completed disruption of cell exteriors. …”
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The prevalence of cancer in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who received rituximab: a systematic review and meta-analysis by O. Mirmosayyeb, V. Shaygannejad, N. Ebrahimi, H. Ghoshouni, M. Ghajarzadeh

“…Objective: To estimate the pooled prevalence of cancer in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) cases who were under treatment with rituximab. Methods: We searched PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE, Web of Science, and google scholar along with gray literature up to April 2021.The search strategy included the MeSH and text words as ((“CD20 Antibody” AND Rituximab) OR “Rituximab CD20 Antibody” OR Mabthera OR “IDEC-C2B8 Antibody” OR “IDEC C2B8 Antibody” OR IDEC-C2B8 OR “IDEC C2B8” OR GP2013 OR Rituxan OR rituximab) AND ((Sclerosis AND multiple) OR (sclerosis AND disseminated) OR ''disseminated sclerosis'' OR ''multiple sclerosis'' OR ''acute fulminating''). …”
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Leveraging AI to automate detection and quantification of extrachromosomal DNA to decode drug responses by Kohen Goble, Aarav Mehta, Damien Guilbaud, Jacob Fessler, Jingting Chen, William Nenad, William Nenad, Christina G. Ford, Oliver Cope, Darby Cheng, William Dennis, Nithya Gurumurthy, Yue Wang, Kriti Shukla, Elizabeth Brunk, Elizabeth Brunk, Elizabeth Brunk, Elizabeth Brunk, Elizabeth Brunk

“…Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), in contrast, represents a rapid, reversible, and predictable DNA alteration critical for cancer’s adaptive response.MethodsIn this study, we developed a novel post-processing pipeline for automated detection and quantification of ecDNA in metaphase Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH) images, leveraging the Microscopy Image Analyzer (MIA) tool. …”
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Genotype Variations and Association between PAI-1 Promoter Region (4G/5G and -844G/A) and Susceptibility to Acute Myocardial Infarction and Chronic Stable Angina by Sunil Kumar, Amit Kumar Verma, Vinay Sagar, Ravi Ranjan, Rahul Sharma, Preeti Tomar, Deepti Bhatt, Yamini Goyal, Mohammed A. Alsahli, Ahmad Almatroudi, Saleh A. Almatroodi, Arshad Husain Rahmani, Faris Alrumaihi, Khursheed Muzammil, Kapil Dev, Rakesh Yadav, Renu Saxena

“…The genotype and allelic frequencies difference between the cases (AMI and CSA) and control with regard to -844G/A polymorphisms were statistically nonsignificant. Also, we did not detect any significant association of -844G/A polymorphism with AMI and CSA in recessive, dominant, and codominant models. …”
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The multifaceted role of the inferior colliculus in sensory prediction, reward processing, and decision-making by Xinyu Du, Haoxuan Xu, Peirun Song, Yuying Zhai, Hangting Ye, Xuehui Bao, Qianyue Huang, Hisashi Tanigawa, Zhiyi Tu, Pei Chen, Xuan Zhao, Josef P Rauschecker, Xiongjie Yu

“…Through extracellular recordings in monkeys engaged in a sound duration-based deviation detection task, we observed a 'climbing effect' in neuronal firing rates, indicative of an enhanced response over sound sequences linked to sensory prediction rather than reward anticipation. …”
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ROS-induced cytosolic release of mitochondrial PGAM5 promotes colorectal cancer progression by interacting with MST3 by Shiyang Wang, Xi Wu, Wenxin Bi, Jiuzhi Xu, Liyuan Hou, Guilin Li, Yuwei Pan, Hanfu Zhang, Mengzhen Li, Sujuan Du, Mingxin Zhang, Di Liu, Shuiling Jin, Xiaojing Shi, Yuhua Tian, Jianwei Shuai, Maksim V. Plikus, Moshi Song, Zhaocai Zhou, Lu Yu, Cong Lv, Zhengquan Yu

“…Here, using colorectal cancer (CRC) models, we show that upon sensing excessive mtROS, phosphatase PGAM5, which normally localizes to the mitochondria, undergoes aberrant cleavage by presenilin-associated rhomboid-like protein (PARL), becoming released into the cytoplasm. …”
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Assessing learning, behaviour, and stress level in goats while testing a virtual fencing training protocol by L. Wilms, D. Hamidi, C.H.U. Lüntzel, M. Hamidi, M. Komainda, R. Palme, J. Isselstein, S. Waiblinger, M. Egerbacher

“…However, the number of studies testing VF with goats is relatively small. In this study, we used VF collars to test a VF training protocol recently applied to heifers to assess the development of goats’ learning to avoid the electric pulse, their behaviour, and faecal cortisol metabolites (FCMs) as an indicator for physiological stress in a grazing experiment. …”
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SLC1A5 is a key regulator of glutamine metabolism and a prognostic marker for aggressive luminal breast cancer by Lutfi H. Alfarsi, Rokaya El Ansari, Busra Erkan, Ali Fakroun, Madeleine L. Craze, Mohammed A. Aleskandarany, Kiu Wai Cheng, Ian O. Ellis, Emad A. Rakha, Andrew R. Green

“…Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease with varying clinical outcomes. We investigated the role of the amino acid transporter SLC1A5 (ASCT2) and its association with BC subtypes and patient outcomes. …”
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