Estimates of Total Dietary Folic Acid Intake in the Australian Population Following Mandatory Folic Acid Fortification of Bread by Jacinta Dugbaza, Judy Cunningham

“…The mean amount of folic acid found in white bread was 200 μg/100 g which demonstrated that folic-acid-fortified wheat flour was used to bake the bread. …”
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Effects of female sexual chemosignals on mucosal immunity in BALB/c and C57BL/6 male mice by G. V. Kontsevaya, E. A. Litvinova, M. P. Moshkin

“…Application of both female urine and LPS increased total white blood cell count and protein concentration in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in BALB/c, but not in C57BL/6 male mice, suggesting an important role of Th2 pathway in lung mucosal immune response. …”
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The Role of Helicobacter pylori Seropositivity in Insulin Sensitivity, Beta Cell Function, and Abnormal Glucose Tolerance by Lou Rose Malamug, Rudruidee Karnchanasorn, Raynald Samoa, Ken C. Chiu

“…We examined data from 4,136 non-Hispanic white (NHW), non-Hispanic black (NHB), and Mexican Americans (MA) aged 18 and over from the NHANES 1999-2000 cohort. …”
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UPLC-DAD-QTOF/MS Analysis of Flavonoids from 12 Varieties of Korean Mulberry Fruit by O-Chul Kwon, Wan-Taek Ju, Hyun-Bok Kim, Gyoo-Byung Sung, Yong-Soon Kim

“…The total flavonoid contents of the mulberry fruits ranged from 35.0 ± 2.3 mg/100 g DW in the Baek Ok Wang variety (white mulberry) to 119.9 ± 7.0 mg/100 g DW in the Dae Shim variety. …”
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Statistical analysis of stress–strength in a newly inverted Chen model from adaptive progressive type-Ⅱ censoring and modelling on light-emitting diodes and pump motors by Refah Alotaibi, Mazen Nassar, Zareen A. Khan, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…By analyzing the failure times of organic white light-emitting diodes and pump motors, we focus on the inferences of the stress–strength index $ \mathfrak{R} = P(Y < X) $, where: (1) the strength $ (X) $ and stress $ (Y) $ are independent random variables following inverted Chen distributions, and (2) the data are acquired using the adaptive progressive type-Ⅱ censoring plan. …”
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Weed Incursion of Irrigated Forage–Forb Mixtures Under Mob Grazing or Mowing in the Mountain West USA by Jennifer MacAdam, Jared Gibbons, Xin Dai

“…Forbs were chicory, plantain, Lewis flax, or small burnet and forages were alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil, creeping foxtail, intermediate wheatgrass, kura clover, meadow bromegrass, orchardgrass, perennial ryegrass, reed canarygrass, sainfoin, smooth bromegrass, tall fescue, and white clover. Four defoliations per year occurred between May and September for two years. …”
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Ship Radiated Noise Recognition Using Resonance-Based Sparse Signal Decomposition by Jiaquan Yan, Haixin Sun, En Cheng, Xiaoyan Kuai, Xiaoliang Zhang

“…High resonance component is multiple simultaneous sustained oscillations, low resonance component is nonoscillatory transients, and residual component is white Gaussian noises. According to the low-frequency periodic oscillatory characteristic of ship radiated noise, high resonance component is the purified ship radiated noise. …”
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A Prediction Model for Recognizing Strangulated Small Bowel Obstruction by Xiaming Huang, Guan Fang, Jie Lin, Keyu Xu, Hongqi Shi, Lei Zhuang

“…In multivariate logistic regression analysis, body temperature ≥ 38.0°C, positive peritoneal irritation sign, white blood cell (WBC) count > 10.0 × 10^9/L, thick-walled small bowel ≥3 mm, and ascites were significantly associated with SSBO. …”
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Factor Analysis Influencing Postoperative Hospital Stay and Medical Costs for Patients with Definite, Suspected, or Unmatched Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis according to the Toky... by Aoi Hayasaki, Koji Takahashi, Takehiro Fujii, Koji Kumamoto, Koji Fujii, Eiichi Matsumoto, Shigeki Miyahara, Tsukasa Kusuta, Yoshinori Azumi, Shuji Isaji

“…Performance status (PS), white blood cell count, and severity grade were identified as preoperative factors influencing PHS by multivariate analysis, and significant independent preoperative factors influencing MC were age, PS, preoperative biliary drainage, hospital stay before surgery, albumin, and severity grade. …”
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Obesity and Chronic Inflammation: Implications for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Spondyloarthritis, and Ulcerative Colitis by Ada Corrado, Ilaria Guadagni, Giovanna Picarelli, Angela Variola

“…Results Obesity contributes to elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines, influencing the inflammatory pathways common to IMIDs. White adipose tissue, acting as an endocrine organ, produces cytokines like TNF‐α and IL‐6, fueling chronic inflammation. …”
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False-Negative CSF Cryptococcal Antigen with Cryptococcus gattii Meningoencephalitis in Southeastern United States: A Case Report and Literature Review by Shawn Esperti, Austen Stoelting, Andrew Mangano, Dveet Patel, Jilian Sansbury, Robert Sherertz

“…Repeat LP revealed increasing white blood cell count with a worsening lymphocytosis and decreasing glucose, and opening pressure remained normal. …”
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The roles of pleiotrophin in brain injuries: a narrative review of the literature by Yupeng Lei, Ruixi Zhou, Qian Mao, Xia Qiu, Dezhi Mu

“…Considering this, this review focuses on the roles and related regulatory pathways of PTN in brain injuries, what is known to date.Methods PubMed and Embase databases have been searched, and related studies are compiled and summarized.Results Our review has found PTN participates in the repairment of brain injuries, including hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, preterm white matter injury, traumatic brain injury, and neurodegenerative diseases, mainly based on animal data and small sample size studies. …”
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Diverse Patient Experiences of Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Guided Peer Support for Generalized Anxiety Disorders by Jill Nault Connors PhD, MSSW, Ernani Magalhaes JD, Kevin Prather MSW, Nida Khan MD, Claire Draucker PhD, RN, FAAN, Johanne Eliacin PhD, HSPP, Chet Montgomery, Julie Hayden BS, Michael Millard MD, Kurt Kroenke MD, Paul Musey MD, MS, FACEP

“…Referral to internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) with guided support is a scalable, evidence-based option that is underused, particularly among non-white patients. In collaboration with a diverse group of patient and community partners, we co-developed and tested an existing iCBT course for generalized anxiety disorder with delivery of guided support by a peer recovery specialist with concordant lived experience. …”
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Prepapillary Vascular Loops Complicated by Suspected Macroaneurysm Rupture by Kei Akaiwa, Yoshinori Mitamura, Takashi Katome, Kentaro Semba, Mariko Egawa, Takeshi Naito

“…Fundus examination disclosed an organized yellowish-white macroaneurysm and resolution of the serous retinal detachment. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Bacterial Meningoencephalitis in a Foal by Judit Viu, Lara Armengou, Cristian de la Fuente, Carla Cesarini, Sònia Añor, Eduard Jose-Cunilleras

“…The lesions had ill-delineated margins, and there was loss of differentiation between gray and white matter. Diffuse hyperintensity was also identified in the left cerebellar cortex on T2WI. …”
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Mixed vitamin C and zinc diet supplements co-administered with artemether drug improved haematological profile and survival of mice infected with Plasmodium berghei by Felicia N. Ekeh, Nkiru E. Ekechukwu, Chimdinma F. Chukwuma, Ifeanyi Oscar N. Aguzie, Chinenye M. Ohanu, Chike Ebido, Stanley N. Oluah

“…Weight, packed cell volume (PCV), white blood cell count (WBC), red blood cell count (RBC), haemoglobin concentration (HB), and mortality were assayed weekly. …”
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HMGB-1 as a Novel Predictor of Disease Severity and Prognosis in Patients with Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome by Hong Du, Jing Li, Haitao Yu, Jianqi Lian, Ye Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xuefan Bai, Pingzhong Wang

“…The concentrations of HMGB-1 in the blood were measured with a commercially available ELISA. The levels of white blood cells (WBC), platelets (PLT), hematocrit (HCT), albumin (ALB), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum creatinine (Scr), and uric acid (UA) were routinely tested in the same time frame. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Physical Activity on Dementia Progression Using Clustering and the MRI-Based Kullback–Leibler Divergence by Agnieszka Wosiak, Małgorzata Krzywicka, Katarzyna Żykwińska

“…Our study mainly focused on crucial parameters such as the body mass index (BMI), skeletal muscle index (SMI), and MRI biomarkers, including the hippocampal volume and white matter integrity. We grouped the participants according to the similarities of their body compositions through clustering techniques. …”
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Oxidative Stress Level as a Predictor of Anastomotic Leakage after Rectal Surgery by Jiajun Luo, Hongxue Wu, Yu Yang, Yue Jiang, Jingwen Yuan, Qiang Tong

“…A prospective study with assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of oxidative stress level (CAT, SOD, MDA) in serum and drain fluid compared to white blood cell count (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP), and neutrophil percentage (NEUT) in prediction of AL in patients undergoing elective rectal surgery with anastomosis. …”
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Hypertriglyceridemia Is Associated with Reduced Leukoaraiosis Severity in Patients with a Small Vessel Stroke by Daqiang Ke, Feng Zhou, Hui Liang, Yang Xu, Haiyan Lou

“…Hyperlipidemia may reduce the risk of ICH or cerebral microbleeds; studies focusing on the relationship between different lipid profiles and severity of periventricular hyperintensities (PVH) and subcortical white matter lesions (SWMLs) in the cerebral small vessel disease are limited. …”
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