Efficacy and Safety of Immunotherapy with Interferon-Gamma in the Management of Chronic Sulfur Mustard-Induced Cutaneous Complications: Comparison with Topical Betamethasone 1% by Yunes Panahi, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Seyyed Masoud Davoudi, Mojtaba Amiri, Fatemeh Beiraghdar

“…The present trial investigated the efficacy of immunotherapy with interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) in the treatment of sulfur mustard (SM)-induced chronic skin complications. Forty subjects who were suffering from chronic skin complications of SM and were diagnosed to have severe atopic dermatitis, were assigned to IFN-γ (50 μg/m2) subcutaneously three times per week (n=20) or betamethasone valerate topical cream 0.1% (n=20) every night for 30 days. …”
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Changes Related to Age in Natural and Acquired Systemic Self-IgG Responses in Malaria by Romuald Dassé, Didier Lefranc, Sylvain Dubucquoi, Patricia Dussart, Virginie Dutoit-Lefevre, Boualem Sendid, François Sombo Mambo, Patrick Vermersch, Lionel Prin

“…To investigate the involvement of regulatory process related to self-reactivity, we evaluated potent changes in auto-antibody reactivity profiles in children and older subjects living in malaria-endemic zones comparatively to none-exposed healthy controls. …”
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Myasthenic Crisis in an Elderly Patient with Positive Antibodies against Acetylcholine and Anti-MuSK, Successfully Treated with Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation by José A. Fernández, Antonio Fernández-Valiñas, Daniel Hernández, Joel Orozco, Antonio Lugo

“…Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease characterized by muscle weakness. Subjects with antibodies against acetylcholine usually have greater ocular symptoms, lower bulbar weakness, and fewer respiratory complications, compared to individuals with anti-MuSK antibodies. …”
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Cognitive Function Characteristics of Parkinson’s Disease with Sleep Disorders by Jing Huang, Wenyan Zhuo, Yuhu Zhang, Hongchun Sun, Huan Chen, Peipei Zhu, Xiaobo Pan, Jianhao Yang, Lijuan Wang

“…Consecutive patients with PD (n=96), patients with primary sleep disorders (n=76), and healthy control subjects (n=66) were assessed. The patients with PD were classified into sleep disorder (PD-SD) and non-sleep disorder (PD-NSD) groups. …”
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Effects of on-Board Unit on Driving Behavior in Connected Vehicle Traffic Flow by Xin Chang, Haijian Li, Jian Rong, Zhufei Huang, Xiaoxuan Chen, Yunlong Zhang

“…Collected trajectory data of the subject vehicle and the vehicle in front, as well as sociodemographic characteristics of the test drivers were used to evaluate the potential impact of such OBUs on driving behavior and traffic safety. …”
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Prevalence, Correlates, and Prognosis of Peripheral Artery Disease in Rural Ecuador—Rationale, Protocol, and Phase I Results of a Population-Based Survey: An Atahualpa Project-Anci... by Oscar H. Del Brutto, Mark J. Sedler, Robertino M. Mera, Pablo R. Castillo, Elizabeth H. Cusick, Jadry A. Gruen, Kelsie J. Phelan, Victor J. Del Brutto, Mauricio Zambrano, David L. Brown

“…A poor cardiovascular health status was noticed in 464 (70%) persons of which 27 (4%) had a stroke and 14 (2%) had ischemic heart disease. Forty-four subjects (7%) had suspected symptomatic PAD and 170 (26%) had suspected asymptomatic PAD. …”
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Retrospective analysis of patients with immediate decannulation in severe acquired brain injury (RAPID-SABI) by Robbert-Jan van Hooff, Mette Lindelof, Emma Ghaziani, Trine Hørmann Thomsen, Christina Kruuse, Christian Gunge Riberholt, Charlotte Rath

“…Design: Retrospective, observational cohort study. Subjects/patients: Tracheotomized SABI patients ≥ 18 years admitted to a neurorehabilitation unit. …”
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Rapid isolation and recovery of Salmonella using hollow glass microspheres coated with multilayered nanofilms by Rutwik Joshi, Hesaneh Ahmadi, Md Nayeem Hasan Kashem, Fariha Afnan, Siva Parameswaran, Chau-Chyun Chen, Gizem Levent, Wei Li

“…The HGMS can then be washed and subjected to enzymatic degradation of the LbL film to recover the captured bacteria. …”
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Basic Anthropometric Measures in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and Individually Sex- and Age-Matched Controls from the General Population by Göran Nilsson, Pär Hedberg, Jerzy Leppert, Andreas Rosenblad, John Ohrvik

“…We compared weight, height, waist and hip circumferences (hip), body mass index (BMI), and waist-to-hip ratio in acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients and individually sex- and age-matched control subjects from the general population in the catchment area of the patients and predicted the risk of MI status by these basic anthropometric measures. …”
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Usefulness of Acoustic Monitoring of Respiratory Rate in Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection by Takayoshi Suzuki, Shingo Tsuda, Hirohiko Nakae, Jin Imai, Kana Sawamoto, Maiko Kijima, Yoko Tsukune, Tetsufumi Uchida, Muneki Igarashi, Jun Koike, Masashi Matsushima, Toshiyasu Suzuki, Tetsuya Mine

“…The study assessed the usefulness of a recently developed method for respiratory rate (RR) monitoring in patients undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) under deep sedation. Methods. Study subjects comprised 182 consecutive patients with esophageal cancer or gastric cancer undergoing ESD. …”
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Assessment of School Readiness in Chronic Cholestatic Liver Disease: A Pilot Study Examining Children with and without Liver Transplantation by Anna Gold, Alaine Rogers, Elizabeth Cruchley, Stephanie Rankin, Arpita Parmar, Binita M. Kamath, Yaron Avitzur, Vicky Lee Ng

“…Median Full-Scale IQ was 98 (range 102–116) for LT and 116 [(range 90–106), p=0.35, NS] for NL subjects. LT recipients had significantly greater visual based difficulties, poorer caregiver rated daily living skills (p=0.04), and higher levels of executive function based difficulties (e.g., inattention, inhibition). …”
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The relationship between healthy eating index and Mediterranean diet adherence score with inflammatory indices and disease severity: a case-control study of hospitalized COVID-19 p... by Reihaneh Mousavi, Somayeh Rostami, Saba Shourideh Yazdi, Akram Kooshki, Elaheh Foroumandi

“…Totally, 300 individuals (150 patients with COVID-19 as cases and 150 subjects who had not affected by COVID-19 as controls) was selected using convenience random sampling method to participate in the study. …”
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Olive Oil Total Phenolic Contents and Sensory Sensations Trends during Oven and Microwave Heating Processes and Their Discrimination Using an Electronic Tongue by Rafaela Prata, José A. Pereira, Nuno Rodrigues, Luís G. Dias, Ana C. A. Veloso, Susana Casal, António M. Peres

“…Finally, the potentiometric electronic tongue together with linear discriminant analysis-simulated annealing algorithm allowed satisfactory discrimination (sensitivities of 94±4%, for repeated K-fold cross-validation) of olive oils subjected to intense microwave heating (5–10 min, 160–205°C) from those processed under usual cooking conditions (oven heating during 15–60 min or microwave heating during 1.5–3 min, 72–165°C). …”
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Anti-Inflammatory therapeutic potential of Bungur (Lagerstroemia speciosa L.) leaves ethanolic extract against LPS-activated macrophage through TLR4/MD2 signaling: A computational... by Rosyadah Nuraini, Dwijayanti Dinia Rizqi, Annisa Yuslinda, Kamila Fairuz Sarah, Widyananda Muhammad Hermawan, Ulfa Siti Mariyah, Widodo Nashi

“…Bungur leaves (L. speciosa L.) were extracted using MAE extraction and subjected to phenol, flavonoid, terpenoid, alkaloid content and antioxidant DPPH assay. …”
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How to Distinguish Patients with pSS among Individuals with Dryness without Invasive Diagnostic Studies by Agata Sebastian, Maciej Sebastian, Maria Misterska-Skóra, Patryk Woytala, Katarzyna Jakuszko, Piotr Wiland

“…Chronic fatigue syndrome is more common in pSS patients and can be subjective distinguishing factor in the group of people with dryness.…”
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Herbicide Widespread: The Effects of Pethoxamid on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Steatosis In Vitro by Anna Virginia Adriana Pirozzi, Antonietta Stellavato, Chiara Schiraldi, Mariateresa Giuliano

“…Glyphosate scientific literature has demonstrated an observational link between herbicide exposure and liver disease in human subjects. Identifying and ranking the risk to the public that pethoxamid could exert on target organs has not been evaluated so far. …”
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Determination of Polyphenols, Capsaicinoids, and Vitamin C in New Hybrids of Chili Peppers by Zsuzsa Nagy, Hussein Daood, Zsuzsanna Ambrózy, Lajos Helyes

“…Six hybrids were subjected to chromatographic analyses by HPLC for the determination of phytochemicals such as capsaicinoid, polyphenol, and vitamin C. …”
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Identification of a metabolic brain network characterizing essential tremor by Solange Volnov, Hamzah Baagil, Oliver Winz, Hans-Juergen Kaiser, Sanne Katherina Meles, Joerg Bernhard Schulz, Kathrin Reetz, Felix Manuel Mottaghy, Florian Holtbernd

“…There were no significant DBS effects on ETRP expression at the group level, but all but one subject showed higher scores in the ON state. Our findings suggest ET is characterized by an abnormal brain network associated with disease phenotype.…”
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Effect of Seasonality and Ecological Factors on the Prevalence of the Four Malaria Parasite Species in Northern Mali by Ousmane A. Koita, Lansana Sangaré, Hammadoun A. Sango, Sounkalo Dao, Naffet Keita, Moussa Maiga, Mamadou Mounkoro, Zoumana Fané, Abderrhamane S. Maiga, Klénon Traoré, Amadou Diallo, D. J. Krogstad

“…We performed 2 cross-sectional studies in Ménaka in the Northeastern Mali across 9 sites in different ecological settings: 4 sites have permanent ponds, 4 without ponds, and one (City of Ménaka) has a semipermanent pond. We enrolled 1328 subjects in May 2004 (hot dry season) and 1422 in February 2005 (cold dry season) after the rainy season. …”
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Changes in Serum TSH and T4 Levels after Switching the Levothyroxine Administration Time from before Breakfast to before Dinner by S. Ala, O. Akha, Z. Kashi, A. Bahar, H. Askari Rad, N. Sasanpour, A. Shiva

“…The aim of this study was evaluating the effect of changing levothyroxine administration time from before breakfast to before dinner on the serum levels of TSH and T4. Subjects and Methods. Fifty patients between 18 and 75 years old with hypothyroidism were included in the study and were randomly divided into two groups. …”
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