Changes in Adipokines following Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery in Chinese Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and BMI of 22–30 kg·m−2 by Chandrama Shrestha, Honghui He, Yiqun Liu, Shaihong Zhu, Jing Xiong, Zhaohui Mo

“…We investigated the changes in adipokines and sICAM-1 in Chinese subjects with low BMI and T2DM after LRYGB and explored their relationship with postsurgical insulin sensitivity. …”
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High-Density Lipoprotein Reduction Differentially Modulates to Classical and Nonclassical Monocyte Subpopulations in Metabolic Syndrome Patients and in LPS-Stimulated Primary Human... by Johanna L. Grün, Aaron N. Manjarrez-Reyna, Angélica Y. Gómez-Arauz, Sonia Leon-Cabrera, Felix Rückert, José M. Fragoso, Nallely Bueno-Hernández, Sergio Islas-Andrade, Guillermo Meléndez-Mier, Galileo Escobedo

“…Our main goal was to examine monocyte subpopulations in metabolic syndrome patients, while also identifying the risk factors that could directly influence these cells. Eighty-six subjects were divided into metabolic syndrome patients and controls. …”
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Impact of Strain on Sub-3 nm Gate-All-Around CMOS Logic Circuit Performance Using a Neural Compact Modeling Approach by Ji Hwan Lee, Kihwan Kim, Kyungjin Rim, Soogine Chong, Hyunbo Cho, Saeroonter Oh

“…The model was trained using 3D technology computer-aided design (TCAD) device simulation data of GAA field-effect transistors (FETs) subjected to both tensile and compressive strain in nMOS and pMOS devices. …”
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Study of the Fracture Law of Overlying Strata under Water Based on the Flow-Stress-Damage Model by Zhijie Wen, Suolin Jing, Yujing Jiang, Lei Tian, Jinhao Wen, Zhiguo Cao, Shaoshuai Shi, Yujun Zuo

“…In the process of mining, the caving zone and fractured zone are, respectively, subjected to tensile failure and shear failure. The development height of the water flowing through the fractured zone in the overlying strata is basically consistent with the range of the “breaking arch.” …”
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NIR-II-excited off-on-off fluorescent nanoprobes for sensitive molecular imaging in vivo by Yufu Tang, Yuanyuan Li, Chunxu He, Zhen Wang, Wei Huang, Quli Fan, Bin Liu

“…Due to its low background, a blind study employing our probes could identify female mice with orthotopic liver tumors with 100% accuracy from mixed subjects of healthy and tumor mice, and implemented sensitive locating of early orthotopic liver tumors with sizes as small as 4 mm. …”
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Genomic and algorithm-based predictive risk assessment models for benzene exposure by Minyun Jiang, Minyun Jiang, Na Cai, Na Cai, Juan Hu, Lei Han, Lei Han, Fanwei Xu, Baoli Zhu, Baoli Zhu, Baoli Zhu, Baoli Zhu, Boshen Wang

“…AimIn this research, we leveraged bioinformatics and machine learning to pinpoint key risk genes associated with occupational benzene exposure and to construct genomic and algorithm-based predictive risk assessment models.Subject and methodsWe sourced GSE9569 and GSE21862 microarray data from the Gene Expression Omnibus. …”
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Assessing Air-Pocket Pressure Peaks During Water Filling Operations Using Dimensionless Equations by Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, Francisco J. Sánchez-Romero, Manuel Saba, Modesto Pérez-Sánchez

“…However, it is surprising that this subject has not received comprehensive attention. …”
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Chronostructure and circadian rhythms of the parameters of the coagulation system and neurohumoral regulatory systems determining diurnal profile of blood pressure by A.O. Ostapenko, Yu.O. Klitsunova, A.S. Kulbachuk, L.L. Vorontsova

“…Fluctuations of insulin and glucose levels during 24 hours are also subject to circadian rhythm, i.e. maximal concentration is observed during the daytime, minimal one at night. …”
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Application of the Uniform Data Set version 3 tele-adapted test battery (T-cog) for remote cognitive assessment preoperatively in older adults by Mika M. Rockholt, Mika M. Rockholt, Rachel R. Wu, Rachel R. Wu, Elaine Zhu, Elaine Zhu, Raven Perez, Raven Perez, Hamleini Martinez, Hamleini Martinez, Jessica J. Hui, Ekow B. Commeh, Romario B. Denoon, Gabrielle Bruno, Braden V. Saba, Daniel Waren, Courtney O'Brien, Vinay K. Aggarwal, Joshua C. Rozell, David Furgiuele, William Macaulay, Ran Schwarzkopf, Evan T. Schulze, Ricardo S. Osorio, Lisa V. Doan, Lisa V. Doan, Jing Wang, Jing Wang, Jing Wang

“…Further, we found 28% of subjects were cognitively impaired in this patient cohort.DiscussionThese findings suggest that the UDS v3.0 T-cog is a feasible tool for assessing cognitive function in the older adult perioperative population. …”
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Women’s understanding and experiences of menopause in low-income and middle-income countries in the Asia Pacific region: a scoping review protocol by Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Karen Cheer, Relmah Baritama Harrington, Dorothy Esau, Emmy Foroasi

“…MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Scopus databases will be systematically searched between February 2022 and May 2022 using subject headings and keywords. The title–abstract and full text of retrieved studies will be assessed against eligibility criteria. …”
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Diet restriction and exercise alleviate cognitive reduction of high fat diet (HFD)-induced obese mice by rescuing inflammation-mediated compromised insulin signaling pathway throug... by Hu Zhang, Ye Zhang, Jiling Liang, Jiahang Li, Miao He, Xin Liu, Jielun Huang, Minghui Wang, Jingjing Fan, Ning Chen

“…In the present study, 4-month-old mice were subjected to HFD feeding for 18 weeks, followed by aerobic exercise and high-intensity intermittent exercise, regular diet feeding, and intermittent fasting for 8 weeks, and then used to evaluate cognitive capacity, inflammation, compromised insulin signaling pathway, and apoptosis in hippocampal tissue, as well as AMPK/SIRT1 and TLR4 signal pathways. …”
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Multiparametric Ultrasound (mpUS) of a Rare Testicular Capillary Hemangioma by Paul Spiesecke, Thomas Fischer, Carsten Stephan, Andreas Maxeiner, Bernd Hamm, Markus Lerchbaumer

“…Two days after surgery, the patient could leave the hospital in subjective wellbeing. While histology remains the gold standard to make a precise diagnosis of capillary hemangiomas due to small case numbers and variety of this benign tumor, the combination of multiparametric US and clinical information may be a promising future tool in preoperative assessment.…”
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Seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori in a population of 15 to 35 years old in Mashhad by Mahdieh Khoshakhlagh, Mohammadreza Tarahomi, Fatemeh Asgharian, Arghavan Kamali, Safoora Sa'd Abadi, Kimia Jafarpour, Samaneh Abolbashari, Mojtaba Meshkat, Aida Gholoobi

“…H. pylori IgG was seropositive in 365 (39.1%) of subjects. Occupation (p=0.002), body mass index (p=0.002), marital status (p<0.0001), and age (p<0.007) were meaningfully related to H. pylori IgG seropositivity. …”
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Lung Matrix Metalloproteinase Activation following Partial Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Rats by Giuseppina Palladini, Andrea Ferrigno, Vittoria Rizzo, Eleonora Tarantola, Vittorio Bertone, Isabel Freitas, Stefano Perlini, Plinio Richelmi, Mariapia Vairetti

“…Male Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to 30 min partial hepatic ischemia by clamping the hepatic artery and the portal vein. …”
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Efficient guided inpainting of larger hole missing images based on hierarchical decoding network by Xiucheng Dong, Yaling Ju, Dangcheng Zhang, Bing Hou, Jinqing He

“…Experiments have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, demonstrating superior performance in both subjective and objective evaluations. When inpainting images with missing regions ranging from 50% to 60%, the proposed method achieves improvements of 0.02 dB (0.22 dB) and 0.001 (0.003) in PSNR and SSIM, on the CelebA-HQ (Places2) dataset, respectively.…”
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A Dynamic Balanced Single-Source Domain Generalization Model for Cross-Posture Myoelectric Control by Tanying Su, Xin Tan, Xinyu Jiang, Xiao Liu, Bo Hu, Chenyun Dai

“…Validation was performed on the sEMG dataset from 16 subjects across four postures: standing, sitting, walking, and lying. …”
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Bone Mineral Density in Thalassemia Major Patients from Antalya, Turkey by Ibrahim Aslan, Duran Canatan, Nihal Balta, Gulizar Kacar, Cengaver Dorak, Ahmet Ozsancak, Nurgul Oguz, Ruya Cosan

“…A moderate relationship was found between the bone mass density age and height. Subjects in low pubertal staging and short stature (<3% percentile) have significantly lower bone mass densities P<0.001. …”
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Rapid Acquisition of High-Pixel Fluorescence Lifetime Images of Living Cells via Image Reconstruction Based on Edge-Preserving Interpolation by Yinru Zhu, Yong Guo, Xinwei Gao, Qinglin Chen, Yingying Chen, Ruijie Xiang, Baichang Lin, Luwei Wang, Yuan Lu, Wei Yan

“…After the inverse transformation, the original image is obtained and subjected to noise reduction to complete the image reconstruction process. …”
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Cathepsin C Is Involved in Macrophage M1 Polarization via p38/MAPK Pathway in Sudden Cardiac Death by Jialin Dai, Jiangjin Liu, Qiong Zhang, Yang An, Bing Xia, Changwu Wan, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yanni Yu, Jie Wang

“…It provides a proteomic analysis of human left anterior descending coronary artery from subjects diagnosed with SCD through histological examination and cases of nondisease accidental deaths through autopsy. …”
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Ginkgo biloba Extract Improves Insulin Signaling and Attenuates Inflammation in Retroperitoneal Adipose Tissue Depot of Obese Rats by Bruna Kelly Sousa Hirata, Renata Mancini Banin, Ana Paula Segantine Dornellas, Iracema Senna de Andrade, Juliane Costa Silva Zemdegs, Luciana Chagas Caperuto, Lila Missae Oyama, Eliane Beraldi Ribeiro, Monica Marques Telles

“…Our data suggest that GbE might have potential as a therapy to treat obesity-related metabolic diseases, with special interest to treat obese subjects resistant to adhere to a nutritional education program.…”
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