Hearing Thresholds Changes after MRI 1.5T of Head and Neck by Maryam Bahaloo, Mohammad Hossein Davari, Mohammad Sobhan, Seyyed Jalil Mirmohammadi, Mohammad Taghi Jalalian, Mohammad Javad Zare Sakhvidi, Farimah Shamsi, Sam Mirfendereski, Abolfazl Mollasadeghi, Amir Houshang Mehrparvar

“…SPSS version 18 was used to compare the mean hearing thresholds before and after MRI using paired T test and repeated measures analysis. Results. Comparison of auditory thresholds in conventional and extended high frequencies before and immediately after MRI showed a significant shift at 4 KHz (P = 0.008 and P = 0.08 for right and left ears), 6 KHz (P = 0.03 and P = 0.01 for right and left ears), and 14 KHz (P =0.03 and P = 0.31 for right and left ears). …”
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Trabeculectomy Augmented with Limited Deep Sclerectomy and Cyclodialysis with Use of Scleral Tissue as a Spacer by Tanuj Dada, Jyoti Shakrawal, Priyanka Ramesh, Anin Sethi

“…Lower success rates have been found in secondary glaucomas like neovascular glucoma, uvietic glaucoma, post-traumatic glaucoma, and for repeat surgeries. To illustrate improvement of the efficacy of trabeculectomy, enhancement with cyclodialysis has been introduced. …”
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Silica-exposed patients with silicosis show shorter telomeres than do unexposed individuals: a pilot study in a population in southeastern Brazil by Marcos César Santos de Castro, Lucas de Carvalho Costa, Kaio Cezar Rodrigues Salum, Hermano Albuquerque de Castro, Patrícia Canto Ribeiro, Walter Costa, Angela Santos Ferreira Nani, Fabiana Barzotto Kohlrausch

“…This oxidative stress affects telomeres, which are short tandem DNA repeats that cap the end of linear chromosomes. We aimed to determine whether telomere length (TL) correlates with silicosis or severity of silicosis in silica-exposed workers in Brazil. …”
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A combined recombinase polymerase amplification CRISPR/Cas12a assay for detection of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 by Megan Ceris Matthews, Jos van der Linden, Isabelle Robène, Samuel Rozsasi, Beatrix Coetzee, Manuela Campa, Johan Burger, Uzoma Nobel Akwuruoha, Ndubuisi Johnkennedy Madufor, Willem Perold, Umezuruike Linus Opara, Altus Viljoen, Diane Mostert

“…In this study, a single-tube detection technique was developed by combining recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas12a technology (RPA-Cas12a) for detection of Foc TR4. …”
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Molecular characterization of chicken DA systems reveals that the avian personality gene, DRD4, is expressed in the mitral cells of the olfactory bulb by Toshiyuki Fujita, Naoya Aoki, Chihiro Mori, Koichi J. Homma, Shinji Yamaguchi

“…Associations between the personality of birds and polymorphisms in the dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) gene have been repeatedly observed. In mammals, our understanding of the role of the dopamine (DA) system in higher cognitive functions and psychiatric disorders is improving, and we are beginning to understand the relationship between the neural circuits modulating the DA system and personality traits. …”
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Highly Tunable, Nanomaterial‐Functionalized Structural Templating of Intracellular Protein Structures Within Biological Species by Dae‐Hyeon Song, Chang Woo Song, Seunghee H. Cho, Tae Yoon Kwon, Hoeyun Jung, Ki Hyun Park, Jiyun Kim, Junyoung Seo, Jaeyoung Yoo, Minjoon Kim, Gyu Rac Lee, Jisung Hwang, Hyuck Mo Lee, Jonghwa Shin, Jennifer H. Shin, Yeon Sik Jung, Jae‐Byum Chang

“…CamBio enables the formation of dense nanogap hot spots among metal nanoparticles, templated by diverse fibrous proteins comprising densely repeated monomers. Furthermore, iterative antibody labeling strategies to adjust the antibody density surrounding targets, amplifying the number of nanogaps and consequently improving SERS performance are employed. …”
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Genetic structure and diversity of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae based on a MLVA typing scheme by Pablo Tamiozzo, Virginia García, Raúl E. González-Ittig, Raúl E. González-Ittig, Maria Pieters, Maria Pieters, Maria Pieters

“…BackgroundSeveral epidemiological studies have been carried out using Multiple-Locus Variable-number tandem repeat Analysis (MLVA) for M. hyopneumoniae typing. …”
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Hydrogel carrier with bubble vibration enhancer for ultrasound-triggered drug release by Ryuto Yamakawa, Hiroaki Onoe, Yuta Kurashina

“…The carriers demonstrated repeated responsiveness when ultrasound was applied in three 5-minute intervals. …”
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Diagnosing MALT Gastric Lymphoma in Gastroenterologist’s Practice, a Clinical Observation by E. Ya. Selezneva, N. A. Shcherbakova, Yu. V. Embutnieks, E. V. Bystrovskaya, S. G. Khomeriki

“…A 60-yo patient was admitted to the Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Centre with epigastric pain and an 18 kg weight loss over past 4 months. A history of repeated outpatient endoscopic examinations revealing subse-quently ulcerative and infiltrative ulcerative gastric lesions of unestablished origin. …”
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Determination of microstructural changes by severely plastically deformed copper-aluminum alloy: Optical study by Romčević N., Gilić M., Anžel I., Rudolf R., Mitrić M., Romčević M., Hadžić B., Joksimović D., Petrović-Damjanović M., Kos M.

“…Production technology continues with repeated application of severe plastic deformation (SPD) of the resulting metalmatrix composite to produce the bulk nanoscaled structural material. …”
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Civil Liability of Banks for Sayadi Checks by Ahmad Reza Davarpanah, Mehdi kazemi Moghadam, Jamileh Jafari

“…The result of his research showed that banks are responsible for the loss caused by failure to perform work based on the provisions of paragraph c of Article 35 of the monetary and banking law, article 8 of the civil liability law, and Note 5, Article 5 Repeated of the Check Law. They are responsible for registering, issuing and paying Sayadi checks. …”
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Graph pangenome reveals the regulation of malate content in blood-fleshed peach by NAC transcription factors by Wenbo Chen, Qi Xie, Jia Fu, Shaojia Li, Yanna Shi, Jiao Lu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yingjie Zhao, Ruijuan Ma, Baijun Li, Bo Zhang, Donald Grierson, Mingliang Yu, Zhangjun Fei, Kunsong Chen

“…Pangenome analysis reveals a long terminal repeat retrotransposon insertion in the promoter of the NAC transcription factor (TF) PpBL in blood-fleshed peaches, which enhances PpBL expression. …”
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IgG4-Related Disease without Overexpression of IgG4: Pathogenesis Implications by Naoshi Nishina, Yuko Kaneko, Masataka Kuwana, Hironari Hanaoka, Hideto Kameda, Shuji Mikami, Tsutomu Takeuchi

“…This case indicated that, to clarify the pathogenesis of IgG4-related disease, current cases should repeat specimen evaluations over the course of IgG4-related disease to define diagnostic markers.…”
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SIAT-WEXv2: A Wearable Exoskeleton for Reducing Lumbar Load during Lifting Tasks by Xinyu Ji, Dashuai Wang, Pengfei Li, Liangsheng Zheng, Jianquan Sun, Xinyu Wu

“…Specifically, in the working scenarios that require long-term and repeated bending and rising movements, active lumbar exoskeleton (ALE) can provide effective protection and flexible assistance to wear’s waist muscles and bones, which will significantly reduce the risk of lumbar muscle strain. …”
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Predicting the Rate of Fast Radio Bursts in Globular Clusters from Binary Black Hole Observations by Aryamann Rao, Claire S. Ye, Maya Fishbach

“…The repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source in an old globular cluster (GC) in M81 proves that FRBs, which are typically associated with young magnetars, can also occur in old stellar populations. …”
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Management Options and Factors Affecting Control of a Common Waterhemp (Amaranthus rudis) Biotype Resistant to Protoporphyrinogen Oxidase-Inhibiting Herbicides by Dana B. Harder, Kelly A. Nelson, Reid J. Smeda

“…Repeated use of protox-inhibiting herbicides has resulted in a common waterhemp (Amaranthus rudis Sauer) biotype that survived lactofen applied up to 10 times the labeled rate. …”
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Heterozygous mutation in BRCA2 induces accelerated age-dependent decline in sperm quality with male subfertility in rats by Yashiro Motooka, Hideaki Tanaka, Yuki Maeda, Misako Katabuchi, Tomoji Mashimo, Shinya Toyokuni

“…Here, we established a rat model with a frameshift on the seventh BRC repeat in Brca2 exon 11 (Brca2 +/p.T1942fs), which is homologous to human BRCA2 +/p.T1974fs, using CRISPR/Cas9 system. …”
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Exenatide Treatment Causes Suppression of Serum Ghrelin Levels following Mixed Meal Test in Obese Diabetic Women by Figen Topyildiz, Sinem Kiyici, Zulfiye Gul, Deniz Sigirli, Metin Guclu, Gurcan Kisakol, Sinan Cavun

“…The following week, exenatide treatment of the patients was paused for 24 hours and the same experimental procedures were repeated. Results. Serum ghrelin levels were suppressed significantly at 180 minutes with exenatide treatment compared with baseline (294.4±57.5 versus 234.5±59.4 pg/mL) (p<0.001). …”
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Role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in allergic and endotoxin-induced airway inflammation in mice by M. Korsgren, L. Källström, L. Uller, T. Bjerke, F. Sundler, C. G. A. Persson, O. Korsgren

“…Anti-MIF serum validated with respect to MIF neutralizing capacity or normal rabbit serum (NRS) was administered i.p. repeatedly during allergen aerosol exposure of ovalbumin (OVA)-immunized mice in an established model of allergic asthma, or once before instillation of a minimal dose of LPS into the airways of mice, a tentative model of COPD. …”
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Lifetime Attributable Risk for Breast Cancer Induced by High-Resolution Computed Tomography During COVID-19 Pandemic by Roya Sahebi, Jafar Hassanzadeh, Rezvan Ravanfar Haghighi, Mehrzad Lotfi, Alireza Mirahmadizadeh

“…Physicians, pulmonologists, and infectious disease specialists are advised to avoid unnecessary and repeated requests for chest HRCT in a short period. …”
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