Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals Rare Variants in Genes Associated with Metabolic Disorders in Women with PCOS by Priyal Sharma, Ashutosh Halder, Manish Jain, Manish Tripathi

“…We then assessed the relationship between these variants and the clinical outcomes of the patients. …”
Get full text

Diet-derived urolithin A is produced by a dehydroxylase encoded by human gut Enterocloster species by Reilly Pidgeon, Sacha Mitchell, Michael Shamash, Layan Suleiman, Lharbi Dridi, Corinne F. Maurice, Bastien Castagner

“…We show that the ucd operon encodes a predicted molybdopterin-dependent enzyme complex that dehydroxylates urolithins at a specific position (9-OH). …”
Get full text

Trichromacy is insufficient for mate detection in a mimetic butterfly by Andrew Dang, Gary D. Bernard, Furong Yuan, Aide Macias-Muñoz, Ryan I. Hill, J. P. Lawrence, Aline Giselle Rangel Olguin, Armando Luis-Martínez, Sean P. Mullen, Jorge Llorente-Bousquets, Adriana D. Briscoe

“…We model the discriminability of its wing color patches in relation to those of its co-mimic, A. basiloides, through A. fessonia and avian eyes. …”
Get full text

VCAM-1 Promotes Angiogenesis of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from Patients with Trauma-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head by Regulating the Apelin/CCN2 Pathway by Yiming Shao, Lei Sun, Baodong Ma, Ranran Jin, Yueyao Ban, Ruibo Li, Jianfa Wang, Hongkai Lian, Han Yue

“…Subsequently, we constructed BMSCs overexpressing VCAM-1 using a lentiviral vector. …”
Get full text

Investigating Social Vulnerability to Extreme Heat: Heat Islands and Climate Shelters in Urban Contexts: The Case of Bologna by Elisa Maccabiani, Munazza Usmani, Riccardo Nanni, Maurizio Napolitano

“…We elaborated these three indexes to measure social vulnerability to extreme heat in the municipality of Bologna, which serves as this article’s case study. …”
Get full text

Securing Brain-to-Brain Communication Channels Using Adversarial Training on SSVEP EEG by Hossein Ahmadi, Ali Kuhestani, Mohammadreza Keshavarzi, Luca Mesin

“…In this study, we investigate the effects of Adversarial Neural Network Training (ANNT) on the robustness and effectiveness of Brain-to-Brain Communication (B2B-C) systems using Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) EEG data. …”
Get full text

Beyond minutiae: inferring missing details from global structure in fingerprints by Rachel A. Searston, Matthew B. Thompson, Samuel G. Robson, Jason M. Tangen

“…We hypothesized that experts would demonstrate superior performance by leveraging their extensive experience with global fingerprint patterns. …”
Get full text

Reversible Myocarditis after Black Widow Spider Envenomation by Tarek Dendane, Khalid Abidi, Naoufel Madani, Asmae Benthami, Fatima-Zohra Gueddari, Redoune Abouqal, Amine-Ali Zeggwagh

“…We objectively documented progressive clinical and electrical improvement.…”
Get full text

Channels of influence in sustainable finance: A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition by Jan Fichtner, Simon Schairer, Paula Haufe, Nicolás Aguila, Riccardo Baioni, Janina Urban, Joscha Wullweber

“…To shed light on how private financial actors can influence sustainability in a derisking context and to facilitate this broader research perspective on sustainable finance, we introduce the conceptual framework of ‘channels of influence’. …”
Get full text

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Autoimmune Disorders: A Systematic Scoping Review of Published Cases by Mohsen Farjoud Kouhanjani, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Seyedeh Maryam Mousavi, Zahra Noroozi, Paniz Sadeghi, Armita Jokar-Derisi, Mohammad Saleh Jamshidi Mouselou, Meysam Ahmadi, Armin Attar

“…Using keywords related to autoimmune/immune-mediated diseases and TCM, we searched PubMed, Scopus, and WOS in March 2022. …”
Get full text

A Case of a Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Diagnosed at the Postpartum Period by Sefa Kurt, Aras Emre Canda, Emre Karadeniz, Tugba Yavuzsen, Ozgul Sagol, Funda Obuz, Mehmet Serefettin Canda

“…Introduction. We discuss a rare gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) case detected at the 10th postpartum week and we want to pay attention to the challenges and improvements in the diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, and follow-up of this rare tumor accompanied with the review of the current literature. …”
Get full text

Bimolecular Complementation to Visualize Filovirus VP40-Host Complexes in Live Mammalian Cells: Toward the Identification of Budding Inhibitors by Yuliang Liu, Michael S. Lee, Mark A. Olson, Ronald N. Harty

“…We demonstrated the potential broad spectrum activity of a lead candidate inhibitor by demonstrating its ability to block PTAP-dependent binding of HIV-1 Gag to Tsg101 and subsequent egress of HIV-1 Gag VLPs.…”
Get full text

Distributed training of foundation models for ophthalmic diagnosis by Sina Gholami, Fatema-E Jannat, Atalie Carina Thompson, Sally Shin Yee Ong, Jennifer I. Lim, Theodore Leng, Hamed Tabkhivayghan, Minhaj Nur Alam

“…We employed a self-supervised, mask-based pre-training strategy to develop a robust foundation encoder. …”
Get full text

Blood Transcriptional Signatures for Disease Progression in a Rat Model of Osteoarthritis by Michał Korostyński, Natalia Małek, Marcin Piechota, Katarzyna Starowicz

“…Biomarkers of osteoarthritis (OA) that can accurately diagnose the disease at the earliest stage would significantly support efforts to develop treatments for prevention and early intervention. We have sought to determine the time course of alterations in peripheral blood gene expression profile associated with the development of OA. …”
Get full text

PfFBXO1 is essential for inner membrane complex formation in Plasmodium falciparum during both asexual and transmission stages by Sreelakshmi K. Sreenivasamurthy, Carlos Gustavo Baptista, Christopher M. West, Ira J. Blader, Jeffrey D. Dvorin

“…Successful segmentation requires a double-membranous structure known as the inner membrane complex (IMC). Here we demonstrate that PfFBXO1 (PF3D7_0619700) is critical for both asexual segmentation and gametocyte maturation. …”
Get full text

Validation methods for encapsulated faecal microbiota transplantation: a scoping review by Nina Rågård, Simon Mark Dahl Baumwall, Sara Ellegaard Paaske, Mette Mejlby Hansen, Katrine Lundby Høyer, Susan Mikkelsen, Christian Erikstrup, Jens Frederik Dahlerup, Christian Lodberg Hvas

“…The searches identified 324 unique studies, of which 44 were included for data extraction and analysis. We identified eight validation covariables: donor selection, pre-processing, preservation, oxygen-sparing processing, microbial count, viability, engraftment and clinical effect outcomes, from which we constructed a model for quality assessment of encapsulated FMT that exhaustively categorised processing details and validation measures. …”
Get full text

<i>Test Fonetico per la Prima Infanzia (TFPI)</i>: A New Instrument to Assess Italian Toddlers’ Phonetic Development by Claudio Zmarich, Sabrina Bonichini, Marta Motterle, Maria Palmieri, Emanuela Sanfelici, Serena Bonifacio

“…Since currently norm-referenced instruments for Italian are lacking, the TFPI would fill this gap. We recruited 52 monolingual children aged 24–47 months with typical development. …”
Get full text

Modular cone-and-plate device for mechanofluidic assays in Transwell inserts by Daniel Chavarria, Kissamy A. Georges, Brian J. O’Grady, Khalid K. Hassan, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann, Ethan S. Lippmann

“…In this work, we present a cost effective and open-source modular cone-and-plate (MoCAP) device that incorporates shear stress in the popular Transwell® insert system. …”
Get full text

Angus: efficient active learning strategies for provenance based intrusion detection by Lin Wu, Yulai Xie, Jin Li, Dan Feng, Jinyuan Liang, Yafeng Wu

“…We propose two novel active learning strategies: the most similar graph query strategy and the maximum difference query strategy. …”
Get full text

USING THE METHODS OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY FOR PREDICTING PERSPECTIVE TARGET GENES TO SELECT C3 AND C4 CEREALS FOR OXIDATIVE STRESS RESISTANCE by A. V. Doroshkov, A. V. Bobrovskikh

“…In the present research article, we present the results of an integrative analysis of evolution- and expressionrelated characteristics. …”
Get full text