A baenid turtle shell from the Mesaverde Formation (Campanian, Late Cretaceous) of Park County, Wyoming, USA by Wu, Ka Yan, Heuck, Jared, Varriale, Frank J., Farke, Andrew

“…The entire carapace would have been around 450 mm long and 380 mm wide, indicating a fairly large individual. The preserved portions of the carapace are smooth and unornamented, and the overall oval dorsal profile of the shell is similar to taxa such as Neurankylus spp. …”
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Multi-organ frailty is enhanced by periodontitis-induced inflammaging by Yoshitaka Kase, Satoru Morikawa, Yuji Okano, Tatsuya Hosoi, Takazumi Yasui, Yoko Taki-Miyashita, Mitsutaka Yakabe, Maraku Goto, Kazuyuki Ishihara, Sumito Ogawa, Taneaki Nakagawa, Hideyuki Okano

“…Abstract Background The incidence of periodontitis is high in older individuals. However, its impact on multi-organ frailty remains unclear. …”
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Sarcopenia in IBD patients and the role of nutritional and physical activity interventions in its management – a systematic review by Michalina Jurkiewicz, Karolina Siembab, Julia Białeta, Katarzyna Rowińska, Agnieszka Napieralska, Wiktor Garbarczyk, Albert Kapla, Alicja Černohorská, Daria Bednarczyk, Wiktoria Pysiewicz

“…There is increased probability of therapy failure such as change of pharmacotherapy, hospitalization or surgical intervention, in individuals with sarcopenia. There are multiple mechanisms underlying this complication in IBD: e.g. malnutrition, disrupted gut microbiota, pharmacotherapy, and elevated inflammatory cytokines. …”
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Differences in specificity, development time and virulence between two acanthocephalan parasites, infecting two cryptic species of Gammarus fossarum by Bauer, Alexandre, Develay Nguyen, Lucie, Motreuil, Sébastien, Teixeira, Maria, Debrosse, Nelly, Rigaud, Thierry

“…The mortality of infected individuals increased significantly after several weeks of development of both parasite species. …”
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Natural compounds in the management of polycystic ovary syndrome: a comprehensive review of hormonal regulation and therapeutic potential by Jingyi Yuan, Zhenmin Li, Yongjiang Yu, Xiuge Wang, Yunyun Zhao

“…This disorder affects approximately 6–20% of individuals, primarily emerging during early adolescence, and considerably increases the risk of conditions such as impaired glucose tolerance, type 2 diabetes, endometrial cancer, cardiovascular diseases, dyslipidemia, and postpartum complications. …”
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Fighting Alzheimer’s with Movement: The Role of Physical Activity in Disease Management by Agnieszka Kosińska, Magdalena Balwierz, Karolina Kalinowska, Urszula Świrk, Jan Karczmarz, Joanna Orzechowska, Marika Gutowska, Michał Orzechowski, Aleksandra Paprocka, Paulina Fijałek

“…The goal is to provide valuable insights for individuals and healthcare professionals on using physical activity as a non-pharmacological approach to managing Alzheimer's disease. …”
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The Switchmaze: an open-design device for measuring motivation and drive switching in mice by Hartmann, Clara, Mahajan, Ambika, Borges, Vinicius, Razenberg, Lotte, Thönnes, Yves, Karnani, Mahesh Miikael

“…In this study, we use it to establish a behavioural assay of motivational switching in mice. Individual animals access the Switchmaze from the home-cage and choose between entering one of two chambers containing different goal objects or returning to the home-cage. …”
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Genotype B of deformed wing virus and related recombinant viruses become dominant in European honey bee colonies by Fabrice Sircoulomb, Eric Dubois, Frank Schurr, Pierrick Lucas, Marina Meixner, Alicia Bertolotti, Yannick Blanchard, Richard Thiéry

“…In this study, we quantified both DWV genotypes by real-time PCR from pools or individual honey bees and from V. destructor mites sampled in 15 European countries between 2010 and 2017. …”
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MacSyFinder v2: Improved modelling and search engine to identify molecular systems in genomes by Néron, Bertrand, Denise, Rémi, Coluzzi, Charles, Touchon, Marie, Rocha, Eduardo P.C., Abby, Sophie S.

“…This is done by integrating the identification of each individual gene at the level of the molecular system. …”
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Sarcoidosis: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies by Danfeng Xu, Xiaohua Tao, Yibin Fan, Yan Teng

“…Antigen stimulation in genetically predisposed individuals enhances the phagocytic activity of antigen-presenting cells, including macrophages and dendritic cells. …”
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Integrated treatment of depression and moderate to severe alcohol use disorder in women shows promise in routine alcohol use disorder care – a pilot study by Anna Persson, Anna Persson, Daniel Wallhed Finn, Alice Broberg, Amanda Westerberg, Åsa Magnusson, Åsa Magnusson, Olof Molander

“…IntroductionMajor depression and alcohol use disorder affect millions of individuals worldwide and cause significant disability. …”
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Interdisciplinarity and intersectoriality in the Family Health Strategy and Nuclei of Support to Family Health: potentialities and challenges by Luís Felipe Ferro, Emelin Cristina da Silva, Ana Beatriz Zimmermann, Regina Célia Titotto Castanharo, Fernanda Rodrigues Leite de Oliveira

“…The Family Health Strategy (ESF) was implanted in order to reorient the health care model through the development of activities to promote health, prevent illness, recovery and rehabilitation with focus on the individual, the family and the community. To support ESF, the Ministry of Health created, in 2008, the Nuclei of Support to Family Health (NASF). …”
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In Vitro Acid Resistance of Pathogenic Candida Species in Simulated Gastric Fluid by Eri Ikeda, Masaya Yamaguchi, Masayuki Ono, Shigetada Kawabata

“…The stomach is the most acidic niche in the GI tract and is maintained at pH 1–2 in healthy individuals. The aim of the present study was to determine whether Candida species can survive in gastric fluid and to observe their morphology under varied pH conditions. …”
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Verbal Encoding Strategies in Visuo-Spatial Working Memory by Joana Pereira Seabra, Vivien Chopurian, Alessandra S. Souza, Thomas B. Christophel

“…We found a diverse set of labels employed frequently and with a consistent distribution across stimulus types, the stimulus space, and among participants. The use of individual spatial words, predicted class 1 cardinal biases in memory (i.e. the observation that cardinal stimuli are more accurately recalled than non-cardinal ones). …”
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Visually-guided compensation of deafening-induced song deterioration by Manon Rolland, Anja T. Zai, Anja T. Zai, Richard H. R. Hahnloser, Richard H. R. Hahnloser, Catherine Del Negro, Nicolas Giret

“…Human language learning and maintenance depend primarily on auditory feedback but are also shaped by other sensory modalities. Individuals who become deaf after learning to speak (post-lingual deafness) experience a gradual decline in their language abilities. …”
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Spectrum of Chronic Gastritis Based on Morphological Examination of Gastric Biopsies by А. S. Tertychnyy, Т. L. Lapina, D. Р. Nagornaya, N. V. Pachuashvili, А. Р. Kiryukhin, А. А. Fedorenko, Р. V. Pavlov, D. D. Protsenko, V. Т. Ivashkin

“…The study included 3162 individuals who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy collection between 2017 and 2022. …”
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Effect of 3-hydrazinylquinoxaline-2-thiol hydrogel on skin wound healing process in diabetic rats by Jehan Barakat Alamre, Huda Alkreathy, Ahmed S. Ali, Abdelbagi Alfadil, Sahar S. Alghamdi

“…Abstract Impaired wound healing in diabetic individuals creates huge social and financial burdens for both diabetic patients and the health system. …”
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Ethical Issues in Uncontrolled Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death: A Scoping Review to Reveal Areas of Broad Consensus, and Those for Future Research by Anastasia Georgiou, Weiyi Tan, Mihnea I. Ionescu, Isla L. Kuhn, Zoe Fritz

“…Several areas of continued ethical debate were delineated: the role of advanced life support techniques; the ethical acceptability of aortic occlusion balloons; the nature and timing of consent to organ preserving techniques; whether best interests can/should extend beyond individual bodily integrity in this context. Further empirical research and ethical analyses are needed in these domains. …”
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Differences of active substances in different fruit phenotypes of Lycium ruthenicum Murr. by SHI Cui, KONG Dongsheng, WU Yao, BAO Jingwei

“…[Results] (1) The coefficient of variation of roundness, correlation value and entropy of phenotypic characteristics was small, the difference between individuals was small, and the stability was high. The coefficient of variation of area, yellow-blue channel value, red-green channel value, contrast and angular second moment value was large…”
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ARV1 p.Gln62Ter, a novel mutation linked to developmental and epileptic encephalopathy-38 by Mostafa Neissi, Ayoob Radhi Al-Zaalan, Misagh Mohammadi-Asl, Mojdeh Roghani, Javad Mohammadi-Asl, Kamele Jorfi

“…In this case report, we performed whole exome sequencing in an individual diagnosed with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy-38 in an Iranian family, revealing a novel homozygous mutation in the ARV1 gene (c.184C > T [p.Gln62Ter] in exon 2, NM_022786.3). …”
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