Combined Use of Chitosan and Olfactory Mucosa Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells to Promote Peripheral Nerve Regeneration In Vivo by Rui D. Alvites, Mariana V. Branquinho, Ana C. Sousa, Irina Amorim, Rui Magalhães, Filipa João, Diogo Almeida, Sandra Amado, Justina Prada, Isabel Pires, Federica Zen, Stefania Raimondo, Ana L. Luís, Stefano Geuna, Artur S. P. Varejão, Ana C. Maurício

“…Over 20 weeks, the intervened animals were subjected to a regular functional assessment (determination of motor performance, nociception, and sciatic indexes), and after this period, they were evaluated kinematically and the sciatic nerves and cranial tibial muscles were evaluated stereologically and histomorphometrically, respectively. …”
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Self-Monitoring Home Blood Pressure in Community-Dwelling Older People: Age Differences in White-Coat and Masked Phenomena and Related Factors—The SONIC Study by Jinmei Tuo, Kayo Godai, Mai Kabayama, Yuya Akagi, Hiroshi Akasaka, Yoichi Takami, Yasushi Takeya, Koichi Yamamoto, Ken Sugimoto, Saori Yasumoto, Yukie Masui, Yasumichi Arai, Kazunori Ikebe, Yasuyuki Gondo, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Hiromi Rakugi, Kei Kamide

“…Thus, the aim of the present study was to clarify the current situation of white-coat and masked phenomena defined by on-site and home BP measurements in community-dwelling old and oldest-old populations. The study subjects were 380 participants from the SONIC study, a cohort study of a community-dwelling old population, who measured their HBP in a series of 3–5 days by themselves and brought their HBP records to the venue on the survey day. …”
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Study on the Mechanism of Organic Matter Enrichment in Early Cambrian Marine Shales in the Lower Yangtze Area, South China: An Example Using Well JXY1 by Sihong Cheng, Bin Li, Kun Zhang, Weiwei Liu, Jun Peng, Mingcai Hou, Ming Wen, Qingsong Xia, Xin Wang, Xiaoxue Liu, Li Zhong, Yizhou Huang, Yongyang Liu, Muhe Yuan, Yue Yao

“…In this paper, the Lower Cambrian marine shales from the Lower Yangtze region are selected as the research subject, most of which originate from a typical area well called Well JXY1. …”
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Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Surgery of Inferior Oblique Muscle Ectopia by Zhipeng Xue, Xiaoshan Min, Jieyue Wang, Ying Zhu, Sujun He, Kangcheng Liu, Yi Ding

“…To summarize the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis for inferior oblique muscle ectopia (IO-E). Subjects and Methods. Patients diagnosed with IO-E during strabismus surgery from March 2017 to September 2018 were included in this retrospective, cross-sectional study. …”
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Effects of Intercropping and Mowing Frequency on Biological Nitrogen Fixation Capacity, Nutritive Value, and Yield in Alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i> L. cv. Vernal) by Yao Wang, Jinsong Zhang, Chunxia He, Ping Meng, Jie Wang, Jun Gao, Pan Xue

“…This study investigated the rooting, nitrogen fixation, nutritive value, and yield of alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i> L.) under intercropping and varying mowing frequencies (CK, 2, and 3) from 2021 to 2023, using walnut (<i>Juglans regia</i> L.) and alfalfa as experimental subjects. The results indicated that intercropping suppressed root growth, whereas increased mowing frequency stimulated root development in the topsoil (0–20 cm). …”
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Effect of ON and OFF Axis Open Hole Tensile Testing of GFRP/Epoxy Composites by Sunith Babu Loganathan, Ashok Kumar Krishnappa, Jaya Christiyan Kumaravelu Grace Jesu Bai, Ritin Pavirala, Rajesh Mathivanan

“…In the present study, GFRP/Epoxy composite laminates are subjected to open hole tensile test under ON and OFF axis orientations. …”
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Blue elixir of youth and wellness: The multicomponent-multitarget paradigm of Curcuma caesia Roxb by Sabrina Burattini, Federico Gianfanti, Francesco Onesimo, Sabrina Donati Zeppa, Barbara Canonico, Mariele Montanari, Giovanna Panza, Daniele Lopez, Giosuè Annibalini, Fabiana Fanelli, Roberta Saltarelli, Michele Mari, Michele Retini, Riham Osman, Aghna Mariam, Matteo Micucci, Giovanni Caprioli, Agnese Santanatoglia, Deborah Agostini, Michela Battistelli

“…., a less explored species within the turmeric family, focusing on its effects on HaCaT cells subjected to UV radiation. Curcuma caesia Roxb. rhizome was extracted for a phytocomplex (CCRE). …”
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Inhibiting the alternative pathway of complement by reducing systemic complement factor B: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1 studies with Sefaxersen by Michael L. McCaleb, Steven G. Hughes, Tamar R. Grossman, Ashley Frazer-Abel, Bill Jung, Lixuan Yin, Scott P. Henry, Brett P. Monia, Eugene Schneider, Richard Geary, Gary T. Brice

“…Safety and plasma complement protein levels were assessed throughout the studies and during 90-day follow-up periods. All subjects (54) completed the studies and no safety signals or clinically meaningful changes in blood chemistry, urinalysis, hematology, ECG, vital signs or ocular endpoints were observed. …”
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Detection and quantification of pathogens in saliva of adolescents with cerebral palsy: a cross-sectional study by Rosemeire Arai Yoshida, Tiago Bertola Lobato, Renata Gorjão, Lucas Santiago França, Lívia Araujo Alves, Maria Teresa Botti Rodrigues Santos

“…Data were analyzed by Mann–Whitney and Kruskal–Wallis tests, analysis of variance t-test (ANOVA) with Tukey–Kramer post-hoc tests (p &lt; 0.05).ResultsThe quantification of DNA of periodontopathogens in saliva samples showed that adolescents with CP present a variability (22.93–39.56) in the detection of P. gingivalis and that some subjects with CP and gingivitis (n = 4) present high quantification of P. gingivalis (ranging 39.56–37.65), although no significant difference was found between the groups (p &gt; 0.05). …”
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Characteristics and bioinformatics of peptides from natural and cultured sandfish (Holothuria scabra) by Pawitporn Daopa, Chakkapat Aenglong, Sittiruk Roytrakul, Teerasak E-kobon, Xue Zhao, Wanwimol Klaypradit

“…Sandfish from both sources were subjected to double enzymatic hydrolysis using neutral protease–alcalase (NA), papain–neutral protease (PN), and papain–alcalase (PA) to obtain protein hydrolysates. …”
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Experimental study of the effects of siestas on the nocturnal sleep quality and thermal comfort levels under thermoneutral environment in summer by Huili Yu, Xue Zhao, Liping Chen, Xiaohui Tian, Shimin Liang, Songtao Hu

“…In order to explore the potential influences of siestas on nocturnal sleep, twenty subjects were recruited and divided into two groups based on whether they took siestas or not. …”
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High lipid diet can keep liver health but cause muscle oxidative stress of triploid rainbow trout treated with acute hypoxic challenge by Changye Li, Buying Han, Guoliang Sun, Haining Tian, Zezhong Wu, Changzhong Li, Yuqiong Meng, Rui Ma

“…In the study, two isonitrogenous diets with a lipid level of 23 % (normal control, NC) and 30 % (high lipid, HL), respectively, were fed to triploid rainbow trout with initial average weight of 233 g for 80 days, and then subjected to an acute hypoxic challenge, and estimated the effect of HL diet on acute hypoxic tolerance of triploid rainbow trout. …”
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Biotin's protective effects against nicotine withdrawal-induced anxiety and depression: Mechanistic insights into serotonin, inflammation, BDNF, and oxidative stress in male rats by Dawood Hossaini, Mohammad Jalal Nazari, Khan Baba Ghazanfar, Mohammad Edris Amiri, Mohammad Tariq Anwary, Mohammad Jawad Jawad, Murtaza Haidary

“…Materials and Methods: Sixty male Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to nicotine administration and subsequently, nicotine withdrawal, after which behavioral assessments included the open-field test, the elevated plus-maze test, and the forced-swimming test performed after withdrawal to assess anxiety and depression behaviors. …”
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Expression of Angiogenesis Regulatory Proteins and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Factors in Platelets of the Breast Cancer Patients by Hui Han, Fang-Li Cao, Bao-Zhong Wang, Xue-Ru Mu, Guang-Yao Li, Xiu-Wen Wang

“…Angiogenesis-associated expression of VEGF (2.1 pg/106 platelets versus 0.9 pg/106 platelets, P < 0.001), PF4 (21.2 ng/106 platelets versus 10.2 ng/106 platelets, P < 0.001), PDGF-BB (42.9 pg/106 platelets versus 19.1 pg/106 platelets, P < 0.001), and TGF-β1 (15.3 ng/106 platelets versus 4.3 ng/106 platelets, P < 0.001) differed in the PP samples of cancer and control subjects. In addition, protein concentrations were associated with clinical characteristics (P<0.05). …”
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The Effect of IL-4 Gene Polymorphisms on Cytokine Production in Patients with Chronic Periodontitis and in Healthy Controls by Jirina Bartova, Petra Borilova Linhartova, Stepan Podzimek, Tatjana Janatova, Kazi Svobodova, Antonin Fassmann, Jana Duskova, Jaromir Belacek, Lydie Izakovicova Holla

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of IL-4 gene polymorphisms in chronic periodontitis and to investigate the association between polymorphisms and cytokines production after bacterial stimulation. Sixty-two subjects (47 CP patients and 15 healthy controls) with detected two polymorphisms in the IL-4 gene (-590C/T and intron 3 VNTR) were examined. …”
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Exploring the role of epileptic focus lateralization on facial emotion recognition in the spectrum of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy by Fabio Iannaccone, Chiara Pizzanelli, Francesca Lorenzini, Francesco Turco, Chiara Milano, Claudia Scarpitta, Luca Tommasini, Gloria Tognoni, Riccardo Morganti, Enrica Bonanni, Gabriele Siciliano

“…Analysis indicated that early epilepsy onset was associated with poorer FER in right-focused patients; febrile seizures and mesial temporal sclerosis significantly impacted FER in left-focused patients.ConclusionMTLE affects circuits of FER even in mild subjects, although to a lesser extent than in refractory ones. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of Amino Acid/Auxin Permease (AAAP) Genes in Grapes (<i>Vitis vinifera</i> L.) Under Abiotic Stress and During Development by Xufeng Guo, Na He, Biying Huang, Chongyao Chen, Yanxia Zhang, Xiaoyu Yang, Jie Li, Zhigang Dong

“…<i>VvAAAP23</i> and <i>VvAAAP46</i> exhibited significantly higher expression levels, while <i>VvAAAP30</i> demonstrated lower expression when subjected to salt and drought stress. <i>VvAAAP</i> genes exhibited diverse expression patterns, suggesting that the <i>AAAP</i> gene family possesses both diversity and specific functions in grapes. …”
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Evaluation of transcriptomic changes after photobiomodulation in spinal cord injury by Andrew R. Stevens, Mohammed Hadis, Hannah Alldrit, Michael R. Milward, Valentina Di Pietro, Deena M. A. Gendoo, Antonio Belli, William Palin, David J. Davies, Zubair Ahmed

“…Here, we used an in-vivo model of SCI in adult rats that received daily PBM (660 nm, 24 mW/cm2, 1 min) and at three days post-injury, the injured spinal cord segment was harvested and subjected to whole transcriptome sequencing and subsequent pathway analysis (generally applicable gene-set enrichment (GAGE)). …”
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Evolutionary patterns and research frontiers in autophagy in podocytopathies: a bibliometric analysis by Feng Liu, Ziyu Xu, Gaijie Chen, Xiaojing Xu, Huixia Cao, Jiefang Chen

“…Then, VOSviewer and CiteSpace software were employed to reveal the leading subjects and generate visual maps of countries/regions, organizations, authors, journals, and keyword networks in this field.Results and discussionA total of 825 publications regarding autophagy in podocytopathies published between 2008 and 2022 were included, with China contributing the most followed by the United States and Japan. …”
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Comparative impact of synthetic and natural animal-derived carotenoids on growth, feed utilization, and pigment enhancement in Amphiprion ocellaris by Dung Van Tran, Trang Le Thi Tran, Nam Xuan Doan, Thanh Trung Dang, Nhan Thai Hua, Hung Quoc Pham

“…Juvenile specimens (3.14 ± 0.02 cm in total length and 0.54 ± 0.02 g in body weight) were subjected to five carotenoid-enriched diets, each supplemented with an identical dosage of 250 mg/kg of feed, in addition to a control group without supplementation. …”
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