Immunosuppression and Outcomes in Patients with Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck by Doriana Iancu, Ana Fulga, Doina Vesa, Iuliu Fulga, Dana Tutunaru, Andrei Zenovia, Alin Ionut Piraianu, Elena Stamate, Corina Sterian, Florentin Dimofte, Mihail Alexandru Badea, Alin Laurentiu Tatu

“…Advanced age, accumulated sun exposure, light pigmentation, and prior skin cancer diagnosis are all significant risk factors for cSCC. …”
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Contemporary approach to the surgical management of traumatic submacular hemorrhage with choroidal rupture (case series) by A.V. Seleznev, U.L. Amashova, A.Yu. Brezhnev, Z.M. Nagornova, A.C. Egorova, A.V. Kuroyedov

“…The intravitreal injection of drugs and a gas-air mixture resulted in a significant improvement of visual acuity due to the displacement of the subretinal blood clot to the extramacular area, reduction in the height and area of hemorrhage, and elimination of the toxic effect of blood elements on the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors. This management strategy for SMH helps improve vision in a short time interval and to reduce potential negative effects of this condition. …”
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Preclinical pharmaco-toxicological screening of biomimetic melanin-like nanoparticles as a potential therapeutic strategy for cutaneous melanoma by Iasmina Marcovici, Iasmina Marcovici, Raul Chioibas, Raul Chioibas, Istvan Zupko, Iulia Pinzaru, Iulia Pinzaru, Alina Moaca, Alina Moaca, Adriana Ledeti, Adriana Ledeti, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Andreea Geamantan, Andreea Geamantan, Iasmina Predescu, Iasmina Predescu, Cristina Adriana Dehelean, Cristina Adriana Dehelean

“…Melanin is a polymeric pigment naturally produced within melanocytes and CM cells that gained a noteworthy attention due to its pharmacological properties, and potential for the design of nanoplatforms with biomedical applications. …”
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The Thermal Tolerance of Springtails in a Tropical Cave, with the Description of a New <i>Coecobrya</i> Species (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from Thailand by Nongnapat Manee, Louis Deharveng, Cyrille A. D’Haese, Areeruk Nilsai, Satoshi Shimano, Sopark Jantarit

“…However, the new species is morphologically different from <i>C. chompon</i> in having orange dot pigmentation on its body and a combination of other morphological characteristics such as the number of sublobal hairs on the maxillary outer lobe and the number of medio-sublateral mac on Th. …”
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Astaxanthin mitigates doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity via inhibiting ferroptosis and autophagy: a study based on bioinformatic analysis and in vivo/vitro experiments by Bowen Yin, Jingyi Ren, Xuanyi Liu, Yadong Zhang, Jinshi Zuo, Rui Wen, Huanting Pei, Miaomiao Lu, Siqi Zhu, Zhenao Zhang, Ziyi Wang, Yanyi Zhai, Yuxia Ma

“…Astaxanthin (ASX), a natural carotenoid pigment, has garnered significant attention for its numerous health benefits. …”
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Co-isolation of human donor eye cells and development of oncogene-mutated melanocytes to study uveal melanoma by Yunxi Chen, Eva Jin, Mohamed Abdouh, Éric Bonneil, Daniel Alexander Jimenez Cruz, Thupten Tsering, Qianqian Zhou, Aurélie Fuentes-Rodriguez, Alexandra Bartolomucci, Alicia Goyeneche, Solange Landreville, Miguel N. Burnier, Julia V. Burnier

“…Results Given the precious value of human donor eyes for studying multiple ocular cell types, we validated a co-isolation protocol of both human NCMs and retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells from a single eye. …”
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The Prevalence of Dermoscopy Use Among Dermatology Residents in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Study by Abdullah Almeziny, Rahaf Almutairi, Amal Altamimi, Khloud Alshehri, Latifah Almehaideb, Asem Shadid, Mohammed Al Mashali

“…Dermoscopy is an evidence-based practice used to enhance the early detection of skin malignancies and to help distinguish between various skin conditions, including pigmented and nonpigmented skin malignancies. Currently, the vast majority of global guidelines for skin cancer recommend dermoscopy as a critical component. …”
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Carotenoids in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration: a drug delivery system does matter by M.L. Maximov, Zh.G. Oganezova, I.D. Kanner, Voznesenskaya A.A

“…However, it is known that the major pathways include age-related alterations of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells, oxidative stress, dysregulated lipid metabolism, inflammation, hemodynamic changes, and neovascularization. …”
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Solitary vitreous cysts: a series of case reports by A.B. Galimova, I.V. Baranchikova, G.I. Garipova, I.R. Karachurina, R.Yu. Ziyazetdinova

“…The potential etiology of these cysts is the migration of the retinal pigment epithelium into the vitreous, particularly during the formation of retinal tears. …”
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Association of Differing Qatari Genotypes with Vitamin D Metabolites by Youssra Dakroury, Alexandra E. Butler, Soha R. Dargham, Aishah Latif, Amal Robay, Ronald G. Crystal, Stephen L. Atkin

“…This study was undertaken to determine if there was an increased risk of deficiency of vitamin D and its metabolites associated with differing genotypes, perhaps due to genetic differences in skin pigmentation. Methods. 398 Qatari subjects (220 type 2 diabetes and 178 controls) had their genotype determined by Affymetrix 500 k SNP arrays. …”
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Synthesizing field plot and airborne remote sensing data to enhance national forest inventory mapping in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska by Pratima Khatri-Chhetri, Hans-Erik Andersen, Bruce Cook, Sean M. Hendryx, Liz van Wagtendonk, Van R. Kane

“…In addition, we found that canopy height and vegetation indices including Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) (R531 &amp; R570), Pigment Specific Normalized Difference (PSND) (R635 &amp; R800), and Gitelson and Merzlyak (GM1) (R550 &amp; R750) were important for differentiating between hardwood and softwood while Anthocyanin Reflectance Index (ARI1) (R550 &amp; R700) was important for differentiating between forest and nonforest. …”
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Nano-Zinc Oxide Can Enhance the Tolerance of Apple Rootstock M9-T337 Seedlings to Saline Alkali Stress by Initiating a Variety of Physiological and Biochemical Pathways by Jietao Zhai, Xulin Xian, Zhongxing Zhang, Yanxiu Wang

“…Specifically speaking, ZnO NPs can improve the photosynthetic capacity of M9-T337 by increasing the content of photosynthetic pigment, regulating photosynthetic intensity and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters. …”
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The Effect of Weed Control with Pre-Emergence Herbicides on the Yield Level of Mung Bean Yield by Cailing Jing, Junying Wang, Yonghong Wu, Yufan Zhou, Huijun Zhu, Yaowen Zhang, Shuqi Dong, Xiaorui Li, Juan Zhao, Junli Cao, Xiangyang Yuan, Xi’e Song

“…Compared to the control, under imazethapyr (100.50 g a.i ha⁻¹) and oxadiazon (507.00 g a.i ha⁻¹), the agronomic traits, photosynthetic pigment content, yield, and yield components were not inhibited; the activities of superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, and catalase were increased; and gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence were not inhibited. …”
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物理法和化学法精制对酶解法沙丁鱼油品质的影响 "Effect of physical and chemical refining on the quality of sardine oil prepared by enzymatic hydrolysis" by 魏文聪1 ,张雪冰1 ,陶宁萍1,2 WEI Wencong1, ZHANG Xuebing1, TAO Ningping1,2

“…The results showed that both the physical refining method and chemical refining method could remove the pigment and impurities, and significantly reduce the acid value and peroxide value of the crude fish oil（p<0.05). …”
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The initial results of using brolucizumab (Beovu®), an angiogenesis inhibitor, for choroidal neovascularization in patients with age-related macular degeneration by N.S. Zhayvoronok, O.V. Kolenko, L.P. Danilova, E.L. Sorokin

“…After one month in 22 of 25 patients and after three intravitreal injections of brolucizumab in 3 patients an adhesion of the neuro- and pigment epithelium was recorded with the complete resorption of the subretinal fluid, and the subretinal fluid was not found. …”
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Short-Term Results of Switch from Conbercept to Bevacizumab or Ranibizumab in Eyes with Persistent Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Zongyi Wang, Mengyang Li, Yuou Yao, Jie Hu, Jiyang Tang, Ran Tang, Zhenyu Piao, Jinfeng Qu

“…The demographic data, treatments, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), central macular thickness (CMT), and the height of pigmented epithelial detachment (PED) before and after switching were recorded and analyzed. …”
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Local factors determining the response to antiangiogenic therapy with first-line drugs in macular neovascularization by V.G. Likhvantseva, S.G. Kapkova, E.B. Tretyak, S.I. Rychkova, A.S. Gevorkyan, T.E. Borisenko

“…</p> <p> <b>Results</b>: improvement of MNV activity markers in the setting of treatment manifested as reduction in area and height of subretinal fluid (k=0.9432, p&lt;0.01, and k=0.58959, p&lt;0.001), reduction in height and area of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) detachment (k=0.82808, p&lt;0.05; k=0.50221, p&lt;0.05) and reduction in sub-RPE fluid (k=0.84515, p&lt;0.05) were strongly directly correlated with baseline IOP. …”
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Risk factors affecting progression and course of primary open-angle glaucoma in patients with different disease stages (multicenter study) by N.E. Fomin, P.Ch. Zavadskiy, A.V. Kuroyedov, A.V. Seleznev, Z.M. Nagornova, D.A. Baryshnikova, R.V. Avdeev, A.M. Getmanova, I.A. Glushnev, A.A. Gusarevich, D.A. Dorofeev, S.V. Kosmynina, O.S. Myakonkaya, N.A. Rebenok, Yu.I. Razhko, I.I. Semenova, T.V. Chernyakova

“…The most common risk factors, comorbidities, and other variables characterizing refractory glaucoma were pseudoexfoliative syndrome/PEX (53.5%), pigment dispersion syndrome/PDS (16.7%), dry eye disease/DED (38.6%), high myopia (7.9%), coronary heart disease/CHD (40.3%), smoking (16%), and disability resulting from a general illness (12.6%). …”
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