Cloning and Expression Characteristics of BhARF4 Gene in Wax Gourd (Benincasa hispida) by Xiaoxin CHENG, Xuling ZHAI, Jinqiang YAN, Baochen WANG, Renliang MO, Wenrui LIU, Zhiming WU, Biao JIANG

“…In contrast, the expression level of BhARF4 was lowest in male flower. Subcellular localization analysis showed that BhARF4 protein was located in the nucleus.…”
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Comprehensive health assessment of retired martial arts athletes: bone density, dietary intake, physical activity, and wellbeing by Tasneem Alshaer, Nihad Battikhi, Adam Tawfiq Amawi, Khalid Trabelsi, Khalid Trabelsi, Haitham Jahrami, Haitham Jahrami, Philippe Bouedo, Hadeel Ali Ghazzawi

“…Therefore, this study investigates the long-term effects of elite athletic experience by comparing retired Jordanian male elite athletes (ages 40–50) with non-athletes of the same age. …”
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Factors associated with the revolving door phenomenon in patients with schizophrenia: results from an acute psychiatric hospital in Romania by Vlad Dionisie, Vlad Dionisie, Maria Gabriela Puiu, Maria Gabriela Puiu, Mihnea Costin Manea, Mihnea Costin Manea, Emanuel Moisa, Ana Maria Dumitru, Leila Ibadula, Aliss Madalina Mares, Aliss Madalina Mares, Corina Ioana Varlam, Mirela Manea, Mirela Manea

“…Patients had a mean age of 44.55±12.83 years and most of them were single (81.7%) and receiving a disability pension (68.7%) and had an illness duration of more than 5 years (81.9%). Male gender (p=0.000), younger age (p<0.05), presence of psychiatric comorbidity (p<0.05), substance use disorder (p=0.000) and alcohol use disorder (p<0.01) were associated with the revolving door patients. …”
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Association of lipid accumulation product index with self-reported diabetes among residents aged 18 – 44 years in Hebei province, 2020: a surveillance data analysis by Qi QI, Lijuan TANG, Yuhuan LIU, Jinchai GAO, Xiuli NIU, Qianyu LI, Shifan WANG, Xiaoli LIU, Ze CUI

“…ResultsThe median (25th percentile, 75th percentile) of the LAP index was 29.47 (13.67, 62.33) for 3 177 (49.85% of all participants) male residents and 16.58 (9.24, 31.50) for 3 196 (50.15%) female residents. …”
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Evaluation of the Sterile Insect Technique for the Control of the Melon Fly (<i>Bactrocera cucurbitae</i>) Under Laboratory and Semi-Field Conditions in Sri Lanka by Muditha Nawarathne, Lahiru Udayanga, Hasini Ekanayake, Bader Alhafi Alotaib, Ananda Pathirage, Nayana Siriwardena, Athula Jayarathne, Hassan Ammouneh, Mohamed M. M. Najim, Abou Traore, Tharaka Ranathunge

“…Further, the 50% and 75% adult longevity periods of irradiated <i>B. cucurbitae</i> males significantly decreased with the increasing irradiation dosage (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Effects of a Meal Replacement on Body Composition and Metabolic Parameters among Subjects with Overweight or Obesity by Xiaohui Guo, Yifan Xu, Hairong He, Hao Cai, Jianfen Zhang, Yibin Li, Xinyu Yan, Man Zhang, Na Zhang, Rolando L. Maddela, Jessie Nicodemus-Johnson, Guansheng Ma

“…Further improvements in visceral fat area (−7.7 ± 10.1%), accompanying with improvements in systolic (−3.7 ± 6.9%) and diastolic (−5.3 ± 7.7%) blood pressure, were only found in male subjects. To conclude, meal replacement intake with 388 kcal in total energy at dinner time for 12 weeks contributed to improvement in body composition and clinically significant metabolic parameters in both male and female participants with overweight/obesity. …”
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Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy misdiagnosed as intracranial infectious diseases: case reports and literature review by Runhua Bai, Runhua Bai, Li An, Wei Du, Zhiwei Wang, Xiaokun Qi, Jianguo Liu, Ming Ren, Yingxin Yu

“…Case 3 was a 54-year-old male, presenting with fever, personality changes, and memory decline. …”
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Food-related behaviors of rural (Asaase Kooko) and peri-urban (Kaadjanor) households in Ghana by Prince Kwabena Osei, Megan A. McCrory, Matilda Steiner-Asiedu, Edward Sazonov, Mingui Sun, Wenyan Jia, Tom Baranowski, Gary Frost, Benny Lo, Alex Kojo Anderson

“…The mean (SD) ages of female key informants were 35.5 (19.8) years in rural households and 38.9 (19.2) years in peri-urban households. The ages of two male key informants in rural households were 45 and 60 years, and the age of the only male key informant in a peri-urban household was 53 years. …”
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Concentrations and human health risks attributed to potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in water resources in China: Systematic review and meta-analysis by Xiaomei Hui, Anhui Li, Sheng Chang, Aihua Wang, Lu Wang, Chao Li

“…The rank order of PTEs based on percentage studies with high carcinogenic risk (TCR ≥ 1E-4) for male was As (60.28 %) > Cd (33.33 %) and for female, As (56.73 %) > Cd (29.93 %). …”
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Hubungan Faktor Risiko terhadap Kejadian Asma pada Anak di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Adefri Wahyudi, Finny Fitry Yani, Erkadius .

“…In conclusion, there are no correlation among age &lt;5 years old, male for sex, low birth-weight, and obesity with children asthma. …”
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Karakteristik Klinis dan Patologis Karsinoma Nasofaring di Bagian THT-KL RSUP Dr.M.Djamil Padang by Shofi Faiza, Sukri Rahman, Aswiyanti Asri3 Asri

“…The result demonstrated 44 cases found on that period, of which 52,27% was male and 47,72% was female, hence the male and female ratio was 1,2 : 1.  …”
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Two-stage revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction reduces failure risk but leads to lesser clinical outcomes than single-stage revision after primary anterior cruciate l... by Anna M. Ifarraguerri, George D. Graham, Alexander B. White, Alexander N. Berk, Kennedy K. Gachigi, Patrick N. Siparsky, David P. Trofa, Dana P. Piasecki, James E. Fleischli, Bryan M. Saltzman

“…A total of 147 (83.5%) had a single-stage revision ACLR (87 male, 60 female), and 29 (16.5%) had a two-stage revision ACLR (13 male, 16 female). …”
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Neuropsychiatric Outcome of an Adolescent Who Received Deep Brain Stimulation for Tourette's Syndrome by S. J. Pullen, C. A. Wall, K. H. Lee, S. M. Stead, B. T. Klassen, T. M. Brown

“…This case reports on the positive neurologic and neuropsychiatric outcome of an adolescent male with bilateral CM-Pf stimulation.…”
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Heterotopic Gastric Mucosa Presenting as Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding: An Unusual Case Report by Syed Muhammad Ali, Ayman Abdelhafiz Ahmed, Leena Amin Hussain Saaid, Gihan Mustafa Kamal Mohamed, Amjad Ali Shah, Mohannad Al-Tarakji, Zia Aftab, Inamulla, Sameera Rashid

“…We describe a case of young male who presented with an episode of large amount of melena, from a bleeding jejunal lesion, diagnosed by endoscopy. …”
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Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure from Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Secondary to Leptospirosis by Shannon M. Fernando, Pierre Cardinal, Peter G. Brindley

“…We describe a case of a 25-year-old male with undiagnosed leptospirosis, presenting with fever and severe hypoxemic respiratory failure, returning from a Costa Rican holiday. …”
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and dilated cardiomyopathy. A rare combination. by Rafael Pila Pérez, Víctor Adolfo Holguín Prieto, Leandro Segura Pujol

“…<p>The case of a 50 years old male patient is presented. Along 14 years of clinical evolution, four limbs musculoskeletal disorders with atrophy of the thenar and hypothenar prominences and muscles of both legs had been emphasized. …”
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Functional and developmental convergence in the reproductive “nurse cells” of flowering plants by Doll, Nicolas Max, Truskina, Jekaterina, Ingram, Gwyneth

“…The successful sexual reproduction of flowering plants depends upon double fertilisation, during which pollen grains, produced within the male floral organ (the anther) deliver two sperm cells to the ovule, buried deep within the ovary, triggering the development of the embryo and the surrounding tissues of the seed. …”
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Multimodality Imaging Evaluation of an Uncommon Entity: Esophageal Heterotopic Pancreas by Takman Mack, Debra Lowry, Peter Carbone, Brian Barbick, Joshua Kindelan, Robert Marks

“…A 25-year-old male was referred to the Radiology Department with new onset of right upper quadrant and epigastric abdominal pain. …”
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Hypertrophic Nonunion Humerus Mimicking an Enchondroma by N. K. Magu, Amanpreet Singh, Reetadyuti Mukhopadhyay, Jitendra Wadhwani, Paritosh Gogna, Rohit Singla, Sahil Arora, Pragnashree Mukhopadhyay Chatterjee

“…We bring forth the case of a young male with a 1.5-year-old hypertrophic nonunion of the humerus mimicking an enchondroma. …”
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Colonic Necrosis in a 4-Year-Old with Hyperlipidemic Acute Pancreatitis by Tiffany J. Patton, Timothy A. Sentongo, Grace Z. Mak, Stacy A. Kahn

“…Here we report the case of a 4-year-old male with severe acute pancreatitis due to hyperlipidemia, who presented with abdominal pain, metabolic abnormalities, and colonic necrosis. …”
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