Insula Volume and Salience Network Are Associated with Memory Decline in Parkinson Disease: Complementary Analyses of Voxel-Based Morphometry versus Volume of Interest by Yan-Ting Lu, Wen-Neng Chang, Chiung-Chih Chang, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Nai-Ching Chen, Chi-Wei Huang, Wei-Che Lin, Ya-Ting Chang

“…We investigated structural brain change in subjects with a clinical diagnosis of Parkinson disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) and examined its relationship with memory impairment. …”
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L-theanine promotes angiogenesis in limb ischemic mice by modulating NRP1/VEGFR2 signaling by Jingyi Wang, Yinghui Xu, Yating Ruan, Xinyang Hu

“…To evaluate L-theanine's pro-angiogenic effects, human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were subjected to tube formation, migration, sprouting, and proliferation assays. …”
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Antinociceptive and Antioxidant Activity of Zanthoxylum budrunga Wall (Rutaceae) Seeds by Md. Khirul Islam, Nripendra Nath Biswas, Sanjib Saha, Hemayet Hossain, Ismet Ara Jahan, Tanzir Ahmed Khan, Khalijah Awang, Jamil A. Shilpi

“…In the present study, a number of phytochemical and pharmacological investigations were done on the ethanol extract of Z. budrunga seeds (ZBSE) to evaluate its antinociceptive and antioxidant potential. ZBSE was also subjected to HPLC analysis to detect the presence of some common antioxidants. …”
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Dickkopf-1 Is a Biomarker for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Active Lupus Nephritis by Jing Xue, Jiali Yang, Lijuan Yang, Shaolan Zhou, Chen Ji, Xuemei Wang, Nan Yu, Xiaoming Liu, Shuhong Chi

“…Significantly more abundances of DKK-1 protein were determined in both of sera and urine of SLE patients compared to healthy cohorts (p<0.0001); in particular the serum DKK-1 concentration was even higher in LN-SLE patients relative to non-LN SLE subjects (p<0.0001). Intriguingly, concentrations of above examined proteins in SLE patients showed no correlation between serum and urine. …”
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Nanocomposite treatment of hospital wastewater; Prophylaxis toxicity in the freshwater crayfish muscles and hepatopancreas by Hend A. Sabry, Sally M. Salaah, Marwa M. El-Naggar, Elham H.A. Ali, Magdy T. Khalil, Amal A.E. Ibrahim, Amr B. Mostafa

“…Three groups of crayfish were subjected to study, each containing 20 individuals. …”
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Case study of a neuroendocrine tumor of uncertain origin: single-cell transcriptomics unravels potential primary location by Frolova Tatyana, Ekaterina Avsievich, Diana Salimgereeva, Zoia Antysheva, Alesia Maluchenko, Denis Maksimov, Ilia Feidorov, Mark Voloshin, Olga Glazova, Natalia Bodunova, Nikolay Karnaukhov, Pavel Volchkov, Julia Krupinova

“…Methods Initial diagnostic methods, including imaging and histopathology, failed to resolve the tumor’s origin. The tumor was subjected to single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and whole exome sequencing (WES). …”
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Temperature dependence of liverwort diversification reveals a cool origin and hot hotspots by Karola Maul, S. Robbert Gradstein, Dietmar Quandt, Michael Kessler

“…Abstract The evolutionary history underlying gradients in species richness is still subject to discussions and understanding the past niche evolution might be crucial in estimating the potential of taxa to adapt to changing environmental conditions. …”
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Relationship between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients and the Analysis of the Intervention of Vitamin D by Wan Zhou, Shan-Dong Ye

“…The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations and lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and to investigate the intervention effect of vitamin D. 145 subjects were assigned to a control group (Group NC), T2DM group (Group DM1), and T2DM complicated with LEAD group (Group DM2); then Group DM2 were randomly divided into Group DM3 who received oral hypoglycemic agents and Group DM4 who received oral hypoglycemic drugs and vitamin D3 therapy. …”
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Incidence and Risk Factors of Surgical Site Infection After Knee Arthroplasty; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ayub Bagheri, Alireza Sharifi Niknafs, Bahar Farhadi, Seyed Amirhossein Mazhari, Parnia Karimian, Nafiseh Hekmati Pour, Hamid Hojjati, Iman Nosratabadi, Azadeh Emami, Reza Salehi

“…The search strategy involved the use of keywords derived from Medical Subject Headings, such as “incidence”, “Surgical wound infection”, “Surgical site infection”, and “Arthroplasty”, covering records from the earliest available up to March 17, 2024. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book New Left Thinkers by Tayebe Domanlou

“…Although criticizing the mainstream of Scruton’s time is a courageous subject, special and scares, and we can admire Scruton for doing this, in final analysis of this work, I must say Scruton argued and criticized the new left in a way that he should be criticized too. …”
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The Decreased Treg Cells Number Associated with Retinal Lesion Size in Ocular Toxoplasmosis by Ovi Sofia, Muna Amalia, Herryanto Thomassawa, Loeki Enggar Fitri, Seskoati Prayitnaningsih, Hani Susianti

“…This analytic observational study, conducted for 8 months, involved 11 OT patients and 10 seropositive individuals without ocular lesions. All subjects underwent a comprehensive ophthalmological examination. …”
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Monitoring Cortical and Neuromuscular Activity: Six-month Insights into Knee Joint Position Sense Following ACL Reconstruction by Aglaja Busch, Lorena R. R. Gianotti, Frank Mayer, Heiner Baur

“…Linear mixed models were performed with group (ACL or controls), the measurement time point, and respective limb as fixed effect and each grouping per subject combination as random effect with random intercept…”
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Anthropometric profile, body composition and somatotyping of national Iranian cross-country runners by Bahman Mırzaeı, Hadi Nobarı, Hamid Arazı

“…Cross-country personal best 36min 55s (47s); training volume: 120-180 km.wk; All subjects were assessed for height, weight, breadths, lengths, girths and skin-fold thickness. …”
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An Assessment of City Council Performance in Improving Urban Management and Development Process from Citizen\'s Perspective: Case Study Tabriz Metropolitan by Abolfazl Ghanbari

“…Cochran formula was used to determine the number of samples from 327 subjects were selected. The data for the analysis of quantitative methods, descriptive and inferential statistics (one-sample t, Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA, regression and path analysis) were used. …”
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Knowledge and attitude of nursing students regarding pediatric palliative care in a teaching nursing institute by Dinabndhu Barad, Kalpana Panda, Soumya Satpathy, Neelanjana Jena, Nirupama Behera, Syed Ghulam Mustafa, Jayeeta Dey, Jami Bikrant Kumar Prusty

“…Nursing students who have already been exposed to pediatric subjects such as B.Sc. 3rd and 4th year, GNM 2nd and 3rd year, and all nursing students of post basic B.Sc, and M.Sc., were included in the study. …”
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Molecular Detection of Bladder Cancer by Fluorescence Microsatellite Analysis and an Automated Genetic Analyzing System by Sarel Halachmi, Michal Cohen, Raymond Szargel, Nadin Cohen

“…The PCR products were placed into the automated genetic analyser (ABI Prism 310, Perkin Elmer, USA) and were subjected to fluorescent scanning with argon ion laser beams. …”
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Resin-Dentin Bonding Interface: Mechanisms of Degradation and Strategies for Stabilization of the Hybrid Layer by D. E. Betancourt, P. A. Baldion, J. E. Castellanos

“…Thus, unprotected fibrils are exposed to undergo denaturation and are susceptible to cyclic fatigue rupture after being subjected to repetitive loads during function. The aqueous inclusions within the hybrid layer serve as a functional medium for the hydrolysis of the resin matrix, giving rise to the activity of esterases and collagenolytic enzymes, such as matrix metalloproteinases, which play a fundamental role in the degradation process of the hybrid layer. …”
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Chloride Ingress in Chemically Activated Calcined Clay-Based Cement by Joseph Mwiti Marangu, Joseph Karanja Thiong’o, Jackson Muthengia Wachira

“…After the 28th day of curing, mortar specimens were subjected to accelerated chloride ingress, porosity, compressive strength tests, and chloride profiling. …”
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The Use of a Novel Quantitative Marker of Echogenicity of Pleural Fluid in Parapneumonic Pleural Effusions by Charalampos Varsamas, Alexandros Kalkanis, Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis, Foteini Malli

“…Demographics, laboratory measurements, and clinical data were collected prospectively and recorded in all subjects. Results. Twenty-four patients with PPE were included in the study. …”
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