Metronidazole and Vancomycin Have a Synergic Effect, with Plant Extracts as Helpful Tools to Combat <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> Infections by Nancy C. Ruiz-Pérez, Yuli Bayona-Pérez, Silvia Laura Guzmán-Gutiérrez, Ricardo Reyes-Chilpa, Víctor M. Luna-Pineda, Javier Torres, Mariana Romo-Castillo

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> The prolonged use of antibiotics is closely related to increased infections caused by <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> (Cdiff). Plant-origin compounds have been expanding in recent years as the best opportunity to identify new synergic therapies to combat antibiotic-associated diseases. …”
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Metastatic Malignant Melanoma of the Inguinal Lymph Node with Unknown Primary Lesion by Sherif Ali Eltawansy, Ryane Panasiti, Samaa Hasanien, Dennis Lourdusamy, David Sharon

“…Around 90% of melanomas have cutaneous origin, but still there are melanomas that could be found in visceral organs or lymph nodes with unknown primary site. …”
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Helioseismic inference of the solar radiative opacity by Gaël Buldgen, Jean-Christophe Pain, Philippe Cossé, Christophe Blancard, Franck Gilleron, Anil K. Pradhan, Christopher J. Fontes, James Colgan, Arlette Noels, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Morgan Deal, Sergey V. Ayukov, Vladimir A. Baturin, Anna V. Oreshina, Richard Scuflaire, Charly Pinçon, Yveline Lebreton, Thierry Corbard, Patrick Eggenberger, Peter Hakel, David P. Kilcrease

“…Using the Sun as a laboratory of fundamental physics, we show that quantitative comparisons between various opacity tables are required to understand the origin of the discrepancies between reported helioseismic, theoretical and experimental opacity values.…”
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A Critique on the Book Studies on Iconology, Humanistic Themes in the Art of Renaissance by Erwin Panofsky by Atefeh Amiri, Zeinab Saber, Nahid Abdi

“…In its form, the book looks into the basic relations between the form and subject in analyzing art forms and shows analyzing and interpreting artworks according to their historical context in which they originated and the multiplicity of visual and textual sources which refers to the artworks. …”
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B-cell multicentric lymphoma in a creole mare - a case report by T.G. Cristo, L. Marian, T.C. Valente, J.J.S. Sá, E.V. Rocha, N.C.C.A. Fernandes, C.S.C. Borges, R.A. Casagrande

“…ABSTRACT Lymphomas are neoplasms of origin in lymphocytes, rarely reported in equines, and classified as multicentric, alimentary, mediastinal, cutaneous, and extranodal in this species. …”
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BIM Adoption in Construction Companies of Tehran Province, Using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by Sahar Taheripour, Mojtaba Azizi, Ehsanallah Eshtehardian

“…Both of these variables lead to a greater intention to adopt BIM technology.Originality/Value: The study indicates that improving the BIM adoption status in the Iranian construction industry may be possible by strengthening individual and behavioural dimensions to further BIM adoption.…”
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Does an Association between the Idiopathic Left-Sided Varicocele and Eye Colour Exist? by Philip Kumanov, Ralitsa Robeva, Analia Tomova

“…Therefore, we aimed to extend our investigation on the relationship between the eye colour and varicocele in adult men. 231 andrology outpatients from Caucasian origin were included in the study. The presence of varicocele, sperm disturbances, and the iris pigment of the patients were investigated. …”
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Ischemic heart disease and reflux-esophagitis: complexities of the differential diagnosis and treatment. by Yu. N. Belenkov, Ye. V. Privalova, A. O. Yusupova, M. V. Kozhevnikova

“…To illuminate state-of-the-art of issue of ischemic heart disease and reflux-esophagitis combination and options of treatment of comorbide patients.Original positions. Ischemic heart disease (IHD) and reflux-esophagitis (RE) are one of the most frequent diseases of cardio-vascular and alimentary systems. …”
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The evolution patterns of active functional groups and reaction pathways during the low-temperature oxidation process of coal by CHEN Xiangyuan, LIU Xingyu, YAO Yutong, ZHAO Zining

“…The reactions of key active functional groups in coal with O2 were found to be endothermic, requiring external heat input, while those with ·OH were exothermic, albeit initial dependance on the original ·OH in coal. This research contributes to the further understanding of the mechanism underlying low-temperature oxidation of coal.…”
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Super-enhancers and efficacy of triptolide in small cell carcinoma of the ovary hypercalcemic type by Jessica D. Lang, William Selleck, Shawn Striker, Nicolle A. Hipschman, Rochelle Kofman, Anthony N. Karnezis, Felix K.F. Kommoss, Friedrich Kommoss, Jae Rim Wendt, Salvatore J. Facista, William P.D. Hendricks, Krystal A. Orlando, Patrick Pirrotte, Elizabeth A. Raupach, Victoria L. Zismann, Yemin Wang, David G. Huntsman, Bernard E. Weissman, Jeffrey M. Trent

“…This may further support neuronal cell-of-origin previously proposed. We found high sensitivity of SCCOHT cell lines to triptolide. …”
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Donor-Recipient Size Mismatch in Paediatric Renal Transplantation by J. Donati-Bourne, H. W. Roberts, R. A. Coleman

“…Manual search of the bibliographies was also performed to supplement the original search. Results. Size-matching kidneys for transplantation into children is not feasible due to limited organ availability from paediatric donors, resulting in prolonged waiting list times. …”
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Secretomes from Mesenchymal Stem Cells against Acute Kidney Injury: Possible Heterogeneity by Kenji Tsuji, Shinji Kitamura, Jun Wada

“…Nevertheless, these studies have revealed the heterogeneity of trophic factors from MSCs that depend on the cell origins and different stimuli including hypoxia, inflammatory stimuli, and aging. …”
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THE SANDY HILL LANDSCAPE (CORRIENTES, ARGENTINA) FROM LATE PLEISTOCENE TO THE PRESENT by Félix Ignacio Contreras, Silvina Andrea Contreras, Cecilia Romina Méndez, Mariana Noemí Baruzzo, Elsie Araseli Ojeda, Ivana Evelin Kovalsky

“…In this context, water plays a fundamental role in the configuration of sandy hills landscape in Corrientes province, both originally and the modeling evolving over time, nowadays manifested by spatial patterns. …”
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Mast Cell-Derived Exosomes Promote Th2 Cell Differentiation via OX40L-OX40 Ligation by Fei Li, Yuping Wang, Lihui Lin, Juan Wang, Hui Xiao, Jia Li, Xia Peng, Huirong Dai, Li Li

“…Exosomes of different origin play a role in antigen presentation and modulation of immune response to infectious disease. …”
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The $ L_1 $-induced norm analysis for linear multivariable differential equations by Junghoon Kim, Jung Hoon Kim

“…Combining these bounds led to an upper bound and a lower bound on the original $ L_1 $-induced norm on $ [0, \infty) $, within the order of $ 1/M^{p+1} $. …”
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Critical Analysis of the Content of French Textbooks in the First and Second Year of Educational Guidance for Iranian Students from the Perspective of Language and Culture Educati... by Hoda Khayat

“…In this research, we examined the place of teaching culture and mother tongue (origin) and foreign language (destination) in these two books. …”
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A Ship Collision Analysis Program Based on Upper Bound Solutions and Coupled with a Large Rotational Ship Movement Analysis Tool by Hervé Le Sourne, Nicolas Besnard, Cedric Cheylan, Natacha Buannic

“…As a first step, the paper gives a brief description of the upper bound method originally developed for perpendicular collisions and recently enhanced for oblique ones. …”
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The Role of Protein Modifications of T-Bet in Cytokine Production and Differentiation of T Helper Cells by Sera Oh, Eun Sook Hwang

“…T-Bet (T-box protein expressed in T cells, also called as TBX21) was originally cloned as a key transcription factor involved in the commitment of T helper (Th) cells to the Th1 lineage. …”
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Single‐egg comet assay: A protocol to quantify DNA damage in natural bioarchives by Rejin Salimraj, Alessio Perotti, Marcin W. Wojewodzic, Dagmar Frisch

“…Abstract The comet assay (CA), originally developed as toxicity test, quantifies DNA integrity from DNA distribution across an electric field. …”
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Noise Robustness of Quantum Relaxation for Combinatorial Optimization by Kentaro Tamura, Yohichi Suzuki, Rudy Raymond, C. Hiroshi Watanabe, Yuki Sato, Ruho Kondo, Michihiko Sugawara, Naoki Yamamoto

“…Quantum random-access optimization (QRAO) is a quantum-relaxation-based optimizer that uses fewer qubits than the number of bits in the original problem by encoding multiple variables per qubit using quantum random-access code (QRAC). …”
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