Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Sepsis and Associated Organ Dysfunction: A Promising Future or Blind Alley? by Jan Horák, Lukáš Nalos, Vendula Martínková, Jan Beneš, Milan Štengl, Martin Matějovič

“…This article provides an update of the current knowledge regarding MSC in preclinical models of sepsis and sepsis-induced acute kidney injury. Recommendations for further translational research in this field are discussed.…”
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Comparing the Effect of Albumin 5% versus Ringer Lactate on Blood Coagulation in Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy during Initial Resuscitation by Yahya Abdel Tawab Mohammed Meky*

“…Background: Trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC) denotes abnormal blood clotting that occurs as a result of a physical injury. During the initial stages of trauma-induced coagulopathy development, there is usually a condition of reduced blood clotting ability, leading to bleeding. …”
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An occupational risk assessment approach for construction and operation period of wind turbines by M. Gul, A.F. Guneri, M. Baskan

“…Although this sector is not suffering an excessive amount of fatal injury accidents, there are many aspects open for improvements in occupational health and safety management. …”
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Risk Factors Associated with First Time and Recurrent Shoulder Instability: A Systematic Review by Alexis Wright, Brandon Ness, Angela Spontelli-Gisselman, Dora Gosselin, Joshua Cleland, Craig Wassinger

“…Male sex, age \<30 years, and history of glenohumeral instability with concomitant injury demonstrated moderate to large risk associated with recurrent shoulder instability…”
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The Organotypic Longitudinal Spinal Cord Slice Culture for Stem Cell Study by Joanna Sypecka, Sylwia Koniusz, Maria Kawalec, Anna Sarnowska

“…The urgent need for an appropriate in vitro model for spinal cord regeneration results from a greater number of clinical trials concerning regenerative medicine in the spinal cord injury and from still insufficient knowledge of the molecular mechanisms involved in the neuroreparative processes. …”
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Silencing RNA for MMPs May Be Utilized for Cardioprotection by Marta Banaszkiewicz, Anna Krzywonos-Zawadzka, Agnieszka Olejnik, Agnieszka Noszczyk-Nowak, Iwona Bil-Lula

“…Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is accompanied by an increase of matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2) activity, which degrades heart contractile proteins. …”
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Perforated colon cancer complicated by necrotizing soft tissue infection: A case report and literature review by Xin Xiang, Jian Zheng, Cheng-Wei Ma, Lei Ruan, Jing-Zheng Zhuang, Qing-Chun Li

“…Following admission, the patient developed septic shock and acute kidney injury. Emergency surgery was performed, including radical resection of the colon cancer, proximal colostomy, and extensive debridement of necrotic tissue. …”
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Preventive role of Pastinaca sativa in mitigating metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease via modulation of metabolic endotoxemia by Ji-Eun Park, Hye-Bin Lee, Yu Ra Lee, Guijae Yoo, Hee-Kyoung Son, Sang Yoon Choi, Miri Park, Ho-Young Park

“…Mice fed a high-fat diet with 50 or 100 mg/kg PRE for eight weeks showed reduced fat accumulation, improved serum metabolic profiles, and decreased liver injury markers. PRE also lowered hepatic lipogenic protein levels induced by the high-fat diet. …”
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Costs of surgical futility in emergency laparotomy by C.L. Downey, D.G. Jayne

“…It is associated with patient distress, moral injury and opportunity costs. This study aimed to determine the rates of surgical futility after emergency laparotomy at a single high-volume centre, and to attribute costs to cases of surgical futility. …”
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Cocaine Induced Pleural and Pericardial Effusion Syndrome by Shehabaldin Alqalyoobi, Omkar Vaidya, Al-Ma’Mon Abu Ghanimah, Ahmed Elkhanany, Ashraf Gohar

“…She was admitted three years back with acute kidney injury and skin rashes. At that time, skin biopsy was consistent with leukocytoclastic vasculitis and renal biopsy revealed proliferative glomerulonephritis. …”
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Comparative evaluation of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and conventional oxygen therapy (COT) in infants after non-cardiac surgery: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial... by Diwei Zhang, Tianqing Gong, Qinghua Huang, Qianqian Zhang, Kai Liu, Jia Li, Hai Yu, Yu Cui

“…Secondary outcomes include the rate of mild upper airway obstruction, the rate of severe respiratory depression, the rate of transfer to PICU, duration of oxygen therapy, length of PACU stay, the time to reach full enteral feeding, and postoperative adverse events, including nasal injury, agitation, vomiting, and unplanned secondary surgery related to the initial surgery.…”
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The Beneficial Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Other than Their Anti-Diabetic and Anti-Obesity Properties by Chenqi Lu, Cong Xu, Jun Yang

“…In recent years, different beneficial effects of GLP-1R agonists were discovered, such as reducing ischemia-reperfusion injury, improving the function of various organs, alleviating substance use disorder, affecting tumorigenesis, regulating bone metabolism, changing gut microbiota composition, and prolonging graft survival. …”
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Therapeutic effect of natural melanin from edible fungus Auricularia auricula on alcohol-induced liver damage in vitro and in vivo by Ruolin Hou, Xin Liu, Xiaoping Wu, Mingfeng Zheng, Junsheng Fu

“…Human normal liver L02 cells were pre-treated with ethanol and then treated with AAM to explore the therapeutic effect of AAM on ethanol-induced hepatocyte injury. The results show that AAM significantly elevated the cell viability, ameliorated the cell morphology, reduced the ROS and increased the GSH/GSSG of ethanol-pretreated L02 cells. …”
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Research on the improvement method of imbalance of ground penetrating radar image data by Ligang Cao, Lei Liu, Congde Lu, Ruimin Chen

“…So the number of datasets of various types of road injuries is not balanced. This leads to poor accuracy of deep learning for injury classification. …”
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Headache in a Child with Pseudohypoparathyroidism: An Alarming Symptom Not to Miss by Sarah Wing-yiu Poon, Brian Hon-yin Chung, Anita Man-ching Tsang, Grace Wing-kit Poon

“…We herein present a case of known pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a who presented initially with minor head injury. She later developed progressive worsening headache, increased irritability, and vomiting. …”
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Multifocal electroretinogram evaluation of different optical coherence tomography patterns of diabetic macular edema by Abdelrahman W.M. Mohamed, Yehia M. Khairat, Heba R. AttaAllah, Amr A.M. Abdelrahman

“…From a practical point of view, combining OCT and multifocal electroretinogram testing may offer a potent method to assess the degree of retinal injury.…”
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Resistin as a Prooxidant Factor and Predictor of Endothelium Damage in Patients with Mild Acute Pancreatitis Exposed to Tobacco Smoke Xenobiotics by Milena Ściskalska, Grzegorz Marek, Zygmunt Grzebieniak, Halina Milnerowicz

“…Endothelin-1 (ET-1) and resistin concentrations, markers of endothelium injury, were determined. Results. An increased IL-6 concentration in healthy smokers compared to nonsmokers and AP patients compared to controls was shown. …”
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Progressive FastICA Peel-Off and Convolution Kernel Compensation Demonstrate High Agreement for High Density Surface EMG Decomposition by Maoqi Chen, Ales Holobar, Xu Zhang, Ping Zhou

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Sub-prosthesis stomatitis in patients of Area VI. Cienfuegos. 2015-16 by María Julia Vázquez Vega, Ricardo Aguiar Sanabia, María de los Reyes González Ramos, Ricardo Aguiar Vázquez

“…To determine the degree of injury, an observation of the oral cavity was made. …”
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Biocompatible Peritoneal Dialysis Fluids: Clinical Outcomes by Yeoungjee Cho, Sunil V. Badve, Carmel M. Hawley, Kathryn Wiggins, David W. Johnson

“…These are inevitable consequences of peritoneal injury, which is thought to result primarily from continuous exposure to PD fluids that are characterised by their “unphysiologic” composition. …”
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