Urocortin in Second Trimester Amniotic Fluid: Its Role as Predictor of Preterm Labor by C. Iavazzo, K. Tassis, D. Gourgiotis, M. Boutsikou, S. Baka, D. Hassiakos, C. Vogiatzi, L. Florentin-Arar, A. Malamitsi-Puchner

“…Mean amniotic fluid urocortin concentrations in women with preterm labor were 1.55±0.63 ng/mL while those in women with term labor were 1.6±0.49 ng/mL (p: NS). No statistical significant results were found when comparing amniotic fluid urocortin concentrations in women with preterm premature rupture of membranes leading to preterm labor (𝑛=19) to women with term delivery without premature rupture of membranes. …”
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Outcomes after reversed corneal graft rejection: a report from the European VISICORT project by W John Armitage, Uwe Pleyer, Conor C Murphy, Derek Tole, Matthew D Griffin, Jesper Hjortdal, Katja C Iselin, Bertrand Vabres

“…Stratified by the preoperatively determined risk status for immunological rejection, the outcome parameters analysed included visual acuity, intraocular pressure, endothelial cell density and central corneal thickness before and after reversed rejection episodes.Results Fourty-seven (52%) out of a total of 91 identified rejection episodes were successfully reversed and were available for analysis (23 penetrating and 24 endothelial keratoplasties). No statistically significant change was found for any of the parameters studied between the values before and the values 3 months after the rejection episode, irrespective of the preoperative risk status.Conclusion The outcome of corneal grafts that survive immunological rejection may be clinically indistinguishable from the state before immunological rejection, irrespective of graft type and risk status. …”
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Titanium Surface Properties Influence the Biological Activity and FasL Expression of Craniofacial Stromal Cells by Enrico Conserva, Alessandra Pisciotta, Francesco Borghi, Milena Nasi, Simone Pecorini, Laura Bertoni, Anto de Pol, Ugo Consolo, Gianluca Carnevale

“…Cell proliferation, morphology, osteogenic markers, and FasL were evaluated on MSCs isolated from the mandibular bone after seeding on these three different surfaces. No statistically significant differences in cell proliferation were observed whereas different morphologies and growth patterns were detected for each type of surface. …”
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Treatment of Corneal Neovascularization Using Anti-VEGF Bevacizumab by Deli Krizova, Magdalena Vokrojova, Katerina Liehneova, Pavel Studeny

“…In both groups we noticed a statistically significant reduction in the extent of NV. Conclusion. …”
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The known genetic variants of BRCA1, BRCA2 and NOD2 in pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer risk assessment by Jarosław Matykiewicz, Wioletta Adamus-Białek, Monika Wawszczak-Kasza, Bartosz Molasy, Magdalena Kołomańska, Rusłan Oblap, Łukasz Madej, Dorota Kozieł, Stanisław Głuszek

“…The NOD2 (rs2066847), BRCA1 (rs80357914) and BRCA2 (rs276174813) were genotyped. The statistically significant 3-fold increased risk of pancreatic cancer was detected among the patients with rs2066847 polymorphism (OR = 2.77, p-value = 0.019). …”
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Repeated intravenous infusions of esketamine in inpatients with bipolar depression: A retrospective real-world study by Naima Guhad Shire, Michael Ioannou, Örjan Falk, Ane Bakken Wold, Caroline Wass, Zoltán Szabó, Steinn Steingrimsson

“…Results: Thirteen patients received 4–6 IV esketamine infusions over two weeks. Statistically significant improvements were observed in MADRS-S total scores (p = 0.002) and rCGI-S scores (p < 0.001) but not in MADRS-S suicidal thoughts item (p = 0.125). …”
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Depth of Anesthesia as a Risk Factor for Perioperative Morbidity by Argyro Petsiti, Vassilios Tassoudis, George Vretzakis, Dimitrios Zacharoulis, Konstantinos Tepetes, Georgia Ganeli, Menelaos Karanikolas

“…Five variables (DHT, hypotension, age, comorbidity, and duration of surgery) showed statistically significant association with complications, when examined independently. …”
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Effects of testosterone undecanoate treatment on serum biochemical parameters in new zealand rabbits by Beyza Suvarikli Alan, Avni Camgoz, Mustafa Orhun Dayan, Seyfullah Haliloglu, Nida Karakaya

“…<p> <b>Results:</b> The results of the study, in which a total of 22 biochemical parameters were evaluated, showed that aspartate aminotransferase, amylase, triglyceride, total cholesterol, total protein, creatinine, uric acid, phosphate, potassium, sodium, calcium, and glucose levels were statistically significantly higher in the TU group than in the control and castor oil groups, and high-density lipoprotein levels were significantly lower in the other groups compared to the control group.…”
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Analyzing solid waste management practices for the hotel industry by S.T. Pham Phu, M.G. Hoang, T. Fujiwara

“…The differences in waste generation rate of the hotels were proved to be statistically significant. The higher the scale of hotels, the higher the waste generation rate. …”
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Elevated Plasma Levels of sIL-2R in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Pathogenic Role for T-Lymphocytes? by Krishna D. Bharwani, Maaike Dirckx, Dirk L. Stronks, Willem A. Dik, Marco W. J. Schreurs, Frank J. P. M. Huygen

“…CRPS patients had statistically significant elevated levels of sIL-2R as compared to healthy controls (median sIL-2R levels: 4151 pg/ml (Q3 − Q1 = 5731 pg/ml − 3546 pg/ml) versus 1907 pg/ml (Q3 − Q1: 2206 pg/ml − 1374 pg/ml), p<0.001, resp.). …”
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Wool properties in kangal akkaraman sheep by Mustafa Garip, Behiç Coşkun, Esad Sami Polat, Alper Yılmaz, Mehmet Emin Tekin, Tamer Çağlayan, Necip Kılıç

“…Fiber diameters and wool percentages were calculated as 28.63 and 26.96 and 60.78 and 53.77%, respectively. Statistically significance was determined (p<0.05) only in greasy wool weighs and wool percentage.…”
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Comparison of the Effect of Sertraline and Escitalopram on the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Tahereh Sabaghian, Roya Vaziri-Harami, Seyed Alireza Ebadi, Minoo Heidari Almasi, Azadeh Ahmadi Koomleh, Amir Behnam Kharazmi, Ehsan Farhadi, Mahdiyeh Miri, Amir Ahmad Nassiri

“…However, the depression score in the sertraline group was slightly lower than that in the escitalopram group, although this difference was not statistically significant. Side effects, treatment compliance, and mortality were comparable between the two groups. …”
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Serum Ischemia Modified Albumin Levels in Infertile Couples Underwent in Vitro Fertilization by Fatma Beyazıt, Osman Balcı, Magdi Adam, Hasan İnal, Yeşim Bardakcı, Nafiye Yılmaz

“…RESULTS: Serum IMA levels were 0.27 (0.07-0.58), 0.35(0.08-0.88), and 0.37(0.06-1.07) ABSU for patients with IVF cycle failure, successful IVF cycle and controls respectively. No statistically significant difference was observed between study participants. …”
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Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer&#x2019;s Disease Using Adaptive Neuro K-Means Clustering Technique by Karan Kumar, Shweta Agrawal, Isha Suwalka, Celestine Iwendi, Cresantus N. Biamba

“…Compared to existing techniques such as Fuzzy C-means (FCM) and hybrid Self-Organizing Mapping-K-means (SOM-FKM), the proposed method demonstrates statistically significant improvements in tissue segmentation and classification. …”
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Immunohistological Localization of BMP-2, BMP-7, and Their Receptors in Knee Joints with Focal Cartilage Lesions by Hagen Schmal, Alexander T. Mehlhorn, Ingo H. Pilz, David Dovi-Akue, Christina Kirchhoff, Norbert P. Südkamp, Ulrike Gerlach, Christian Lohrmann, Philipp Niemeyer

“…Defect size, KOSS, Henderson or Kellgren-Lawrence score did not statistically significant correlate with the expression of the analyzed proteins or Mankin and Pritzker scores. …”
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Modeling the Combined Effects of Temperature, pH, and Sodium Chloride and Sodium Lactate Concentrations on the Growth Rate of Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 8014 by Francieli Dalcanton, Elena Carrasco, Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez, Guiomar Denisse Posada-Izquierdo, Gláucia Maria Falcão de Aragão, Rosa María García-Gimeno

“…All the factors were statistically significant at a confidence level of 90%  (p<0.10). …”
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Serum Concentrations of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta 1 in Predicting the Occurrence of Diabetic Retinopathy in Juvenile Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Katarzyna Zorena, Ewa Malinowska, Dorota Raczyńska, Małgorzata Myśliwiec, Krystyna Raczyńska

“…The group of patients with T1DM and nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) had statistically significant higher serum levels of TGF-β1 (P=0.001) as compared to T1DM patients without retinopathy as well as the healthy control subject. …”
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Late pregnancy analysis with Yunban’s remote fetal monitoring system by Qiuping Wang, Weihua Yang, Lie Li, Guokai Yan, Huihui Wang, Jianqiang Li

“…The incidence of neonatal abnormal non-stress test in the experimental group and the control group was 33.6% and 17.3%, respectively; the difference was statistically significant ( p  < 0.05). The incidence of neonatal asphyxia in the experimental group was 12.5%, which was significantly lower than in the control group (30%; p  < 0.05). …”
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Clinicopathological Features and Increased Expression of Toll-Like Receptor 4 of Gastric Cardia Cancer in a High-Risk Chinese Population by Guangcan Chen, Muming Xu, Jingyao Chen, Liangli Hong, Wenting Lin, Shukun Zhao, Guohong Zhang, Guo Dan, Shuhui Liu

“…Survival was shorter with lymph node metastasis. We found a statistically significant trend for progressive increase of TLR4 expression from normal mucosa to inflammation in GCC. …”
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Modern potential of preparation of intestine to endoscopy in pediatric practice by S. I. Erdes, N. M. Leonevskaya, M. M. Lokhmatov, M. A. Ratnikova, T. N. Budkina

“…Hemodynamic parameters did not undergo statistically significant changes.Conclusion. Solution of sodium phosphate (FLEET® phospho-soda) is an efficient agent for preparation of intestine for endoscopic investigations as it provides good visualization of mucosa and has few side effects. …”
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