Interprofessional collaborative practice in health and social care for people living with multimorbidity: a scoping review protocol by Josephine-L. K. Murray, Virginia Hernandez-Santiago, Frank Sullivan, Joanna Hornal, Farhana Badshah, Ben Keatley, Jillian Galbraith, Pam Channer, Anne Fearfull, Anne Haddow, Eleanor Johnston, Maureen Ward, Veronica O’Carroll

“…If appropriate, qualitative content analysis may be undertaken. Where sufficient numbers of homogeneous interventions exist, meta-analysis techniques will be applied. …”
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Exploring the relationship between established HIV risk factors and depressive symptoms amongst young women without HIV in two sites in South Africa. by Zanenhlanhla Gumbi, Celia Mehou-Loko, Lindi Masson, Makhosazana Mdladla, Nokuthula Maphumulo, Jo-Ann Passmore, Sanele Mbeje, Linda Gail Bekker, Disebo Potloane, Heather Jaspan, Nina Radzey, Andrea Abrahams, Rushil Harryparsad, Pamela Mkhize, Hilton Humphries

“…Socio-behavioural HIV risk factors associated with depressive symptoms include: age disparate relationships (OR 2.98; 95% CI 1.52-5.84), high (four or more) numbers of lifetime partners (OR 8.15; 95% CI 3.60-18.45) and engaging in sex under the influence of alcohol (OR 2.58; 95% CI 1.32-5.04). …”
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Effects of cassava pellets and enzymes addition on growth performance, meat quality, serum biochemical indices and cecum microbiota of broilers by Dan Yue, Ying Lu, Jin Zhao, Xiaoming He, Junhong Zhu, Jiawei Liang, Weidong Deng

“…LEfSe analysis showed increased numbers of specific bacteria in treated groups. Serum analysis revealed significantly higher ALT levels in the K4 group and higher IBIL levels in the K5 group (P < 0.05), with Bacteroides plebeius and Megamonas positively correlated with ALT (P < 0.05). …”
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Plastid genome comparison and phylogenetic analyses of the Chinese group of medicinal species and related taxa within Asparagus genus by Pingxuan Xie, Tinglu Wang, Jiawei Tan, Linyuan Fan, Changkun Liu, Hanjing Yan

“…The genus displayed mono-, di-, tri-, tetra-, penta-, and hexa-nucleotide repeats, but with variations in types and numbers among different species. Additionally, we identified 12 special SSR motifs and seven divergent hotspot regions that may serve as potential molecular markers for future identification efforts. …”
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Human Papillomavirus Prevalence in Oral and Oropharyngeal Rinse and Gargle Specimens of Dental Patients and of an HIV-Positive Cohort from Pretoria, South Africa by Neil H. Wood, Koketso S. Makua, Ramokone L. Lebelo, Nina Redzic, Ina Benoy, Olivier M. Vanderveken, Johannes Bogers

“…No significant relationships were found between HPV presence and demographic data or sexual, oral sexual, tobacco use, or alcohol use, and no associations were seen with numbers of sexual and oral-sex partners.…”
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Vermicomposting of coir pith and cow manure: Influence of initial total phenolic content on earthworms’ performance by Kanokwan Pundee, Saengchai Akeprathumchai, Sudarut Tripetchkul

“…High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) results showed that the total numbers of water-soluble phenolics of coir pith and cow manure were, respectively, 17 and 16 out of which 5 and 4 were unique to coir pith and cow manure, respectively. …”
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Pengamanan Pesan E-Complaint Fasilitas dan Kinerja Civitas Akademika Menggunakan Algoritma RSA by Dwi Yuny Sylfania, Fransiskus Panca Juniawan, Laurentinus Laurentinus, Hengki Hengki

“…The choice of RSA as a cryptographic algorithm is due to the difficulty of factoring prime numbers in key generation. This factoring will generate a public key for the message encryption process and a private key for the message decryption process. …”
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Increases in the susceptibility of human endometrial CD4+ T cells to HIV-1 infection post-menopause are not dependent on greater viral receptor expression frequency by Landon G. vom Steeg, Zheng Shen, Jane Collins, Mickey V. Patel, Fiona D. Barr, Daniel C. Hopkins, Christina Ochsenbauer, Charles R. Wira

“…Here, we evaluated how menopause-associated changes in CD4+ T cell numbers and subsets as well as HIV coreceptor expression, particularly CCR5, in the endometrium (EM), endocervix (CX), and ectocervix (ECX) may alter HIV infection susceptibility. …”
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Fusobacterium nucleatum and Treponema denticola are robust biomarkers for gingivitis and periodontitis in small dogs by Daehyun Kwon, Daehyun Kwon, Kisuk Bae, Kwangsik Jang, Kwangsik Jang, Hyun Min Jo, Hyun Min Jo, Seong Soo Kang, Seong Soo Kang, Jonghoe Byun, Se Eun Kim, Se Eun Kim

“…In contrast to studies examining only the prevalence of bacteria, a recent study analyzed 336 gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) samples in dogs to evaluate the prevalence of 11 putative periodontopathic bacteria and the correlation and association of bacterial numbers individually and in combination with periodontal disease stages. …”
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Biomarkers of pembrolizumab efficacy in advanced anal squamous cell carcinoma: analysis of a phase II clinical trial and a cohort of long-term responders by Jeffrey A Meyerhardt, Sunil Kumar, Jessica A Zerillo, Aparna Parikh, James M Cleary, Scott Rodig, Benjamin Schlechter, Kimmie Ng, Stephanie K Dougan, Nora Horick, Glenn J Hanna, Andrew L Coveler, Anuj K Patel, Nadine J McCleary, Douglas A Rubinson, Jeffrey W Clark, Kent Mouw, Kathleen Pfaff, Thomas A Abrams, Matthew B Yurgelun, Eliezer M Van Allen, S Jennifer Wang, Leah H Biller, Harshabad Singh, Emma L Welsh, Brandon M Huffman, Lestat R Ali, Megan T Hoffman, Katherine A Metayer, Shayla Murray, Alexandra Bird, Jennifer A Chan, Wolfram Goessling, Jeffrey S Wisch, Brendan Reardon, Robert J Mayer, Catherine Del Vecchio Fitz, Charlotte Kuperwasser

“…However, despite persistence of HPV infection, indicated by circulating HPV DNA, most advanced anal cancers have low numbers of tumor-associated CD8+PD-1+ T cells and are resistant to pembrolizumab.…”
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Tregs levels and phenotype modifications during Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis course by Elisabetta Zucchi, Elisabetta Zucchi, Federico Banchelli, Cecilia Simonini, Sara De Biasi, Ilaria Martinelli, Giulia Gianferrari, Giulia Gianferrari, Domenico Lo Tartaro, Andrea Cossarizza, Andrea Cossarizza, Roberto D’Amico, Roberto D’Amico, Jessica Mandrioli, Jessica Mandrioli

“…Treg concentrations showed a modesty association with FVC decline but were not associated with ALSFRS-r decline.DiscussionTreg levels remained stable during the ALS observation period and were not significantly associated with ALSFRS-r variations, suggesting that Treg numbers alone may have limited utility as a pharmaco-dynamic biomarker for ALS trials. …”
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Developing an automatic treatment record review system for quality assurance of patient treatment delivery in radiation therapy by Peng Huang, Yingjie Xu, Fukui Huan, Yanxin Zhang, Min Ma, Kuo Men, Jianrong Dai

“…Comparing with the manual process, the time efficiency of TRRS is improved by a factor of 72. The average numbers of anomalies detected by the automatic and manual processes are 21 and 13 per day, respectively. …”
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Effectiveness of an online food shopping intervention to reduce salt purchases among individuals with hypertension – findings of the SaltSwitch Online Grocery Shopping (OGS) random... by Jason HY Wu, Damian Maganja, Liping Huang, Kathy Trieu, Fraser Taylor, Eden M. Barrett, Clare Arnott, Xiaoqi Feng, Aletta E. Schutte, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Adrian J. Cameron, Mark D. Huffman, Bruce Neal

“…While the reductions in sodium density of purchases were moderate in size, population health benefits could nonetheless be large if they were sustained over time and at scale, with large and growing numbers of online grocery shoppers and a high prevalence of elevated blood pressure amongst adults. …”
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Sustainability index analysis of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) cultivation from food waste substrate by A.D. Santoso, T. Handayani, R.A. Nugroho, A.I. Yanuar, N. Nadirah, E.S. Rohaeni, E. Widjaja, M.A.M. Oktaufik, U. Ayuningtyas, Y.P. Erlambang, R. Herdioso, M.N. Rofiq, R. Hutapea, A.L. Sihombing, B. Rustianto, I.M.A.D Susila, D. Irawan, D. Iskandar, S. Indrijarso, G.D. Widiarta

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Most food waste is dominated by domestic activities consisting of large numbers of organic pollutants, such as nitrogen and phosphate potentially hazardous to the environment. …”
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The expression of BHLHE22 in endometrial carcinoma: Associations with mismatch repair protein expression status, tumor-infiltrating immune cells, programmed death-ligand 1 and clin... by Lin-Yu Chen, Hsing-Yu Chen, Hung-Cheng Lai, Shiou-Fu Lin, Kuo-Chang Wen, Darmawi, Phui-Ly Liew

“…Conclusion: Increased numbers of CD8-positive cytotoxic T lymphocytes, CD68-positive macrophages, and PD-L1-positive tumor/immune cells were observed in MMR-deficient EC. …”
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Prognostic signature of multimorbidity, geriatric syndromes and resources cluster in older in- and outpatients: a pooled secondary analysis with a 6-month follow-up by Thomas Benzing, Jill Stegemann, Anna Maria Affeldt, Luisa Mück, Anne Ferring, Laura Gerhards, Lena Pickert, Annika Bausch, Philipp Antczak, M Cristina Polidori

“…Furthermore, membership in the fluid dysbalance or psychosocial cluster was associated with a significantly increased mortality rate during follow-up (p&lt;0.001).Conclusions A feasible combination of GR and GS in clinical routine enables the identification of clusters with clear prognostic relevance, which may improve prognosis through tailored treatment.Trial registration numbers DRKS00010606/DRKS00013791/DRKS00017094 MPI_InGAH, DRKS00012820 MPI_NoGeP and DRKS00015996 VNKN.…”
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Development of a latency model for HIV-1 subtype C and the impact of long terminal repeat element genetic variation on latency reversal by Shreyal Maikoo, Robert-Jan Palstra, Krista L. Dong, Tokameh Mahmoudi, Thumbi Ndung'u, Paradise Madlala

“…Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for almost 70 % of people living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide, with the greatest numbers centred in South Africa where 98 % of infections are caused by subtype C (HIV-1C). …”
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Cardiovascular events observed among patients in the etrasimod clinical programme: an integrated safety analysis of patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis by Xiang Guo, Peter M Irving, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Séverine Vermeire, Joseph Wu, Irene Modesto, David T Rubin, Marla C Dubinsky, Andres J Yarur, Miguel Regueiro, Martina Goetsch, Krisztina Lazin, Guibao Gu, Aoibhinn McDonnell, Jesse Green, Alexis B Dalam

“…Most cardiovascular-related TEAEs were non-serious.Trial registration numbers NCT02447302; NCT03945188; NCT03996369; NCT02536404; NCT03950232; NCT04176588.…”
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Mulberry leaf extract reduces damage by regulating the oxidative response, immune response and intestinal flora of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) under chronic heat stress by Bing Fu, Donglai Zhou, Xiaotong Qiu, Xiaotong Qiu, Jieqiu Zheng, Jieqiu Zheng, Qiong Yang, Yang Xiao, Sentai Liao, Qingrong Li, Dongxu Xing

“…Compared with the HS group, dietary MLE significantly improved lipase, trypsin, GPx, ACP, and LZM activities, and ACE and Chao1 indices in intestine, but significantly decreased the numbers of vacuoles and inflammatory cells, AST activity, and the GLU, MDA, and ROS contents. …”
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AlphaFold-based AI docking reveals AMPK/SIRT1-TFEB pathway modulation by traditional Chinese medicine in metabolic-associated fatty liver disease by Lulu Zhang, Yi Zheng, Mingyan Shao, Aiping Chen, Meiyi Liu, Wenlong Sun, Tianxing Li, Yini Fang, Yang Dong, Shipeng Zhao, Hui Luo, Juan Feng, Qi Wang, Lingru Li, Yanfei Zheng

“…Intriguingly, QGJZF decreased lipid droplets and its levels are negative correlated with the numbers of autolysosomes, indicating that QGJZF’s mechanism of ameliorating liver lipid deposition may be related to the regulation of autophagy. …”
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