The Efficacy of 480 ml Oral Sodium Sulfate for Improving Insufficient Bowel Preparation of Colonoscopy with High-Concentrated Polyethylene Glycol by Naohisa Yoshida, Yoshikazu Inagaki, Daisuke Hasegawa, Reo Kobayashi, Yuri Tomita, Hikaru Hashimoto, Ryohei Hirose, Osamu Dohi, Ken Inoue, Yasutaka Morimoto, Yutaka Inada, Takaaki Murakami, Yoshito Itoh

“…We evaluated 125 cases (77 males) with an average age of 72.1±8.8 years. The completion rate of 480 ml of OSS was 97.6% (122/125). …”
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Efficacy and Prognostic Factors for Y-90 Radioembolization (Y-90) in Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors with Liver Metastases by Erica S. Tsang, Jonathan M. Loree, Janine M. Davies, Sharlene Gill, David Liu, Stephen Ho, Daniel J. Renouf, Howard J. Lim, Hagen F. Kennecke

“…Of the 49 patients who received Y-90, the median age was 56 years (range 21–78), 49% were male, and 94% had an ECOG performance status of 0–1. …”
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Combination of Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L.) Pericarp Extract and Physical Exercise Decreases Atherosclerotic Lesions in Atherogenic Diet-Fed Rats by Andreas Arie Setiawan, . Sugiri, Awal Prasetyo, Eirin Yovita Kurniawan, Dominikus Evano Putra

“…This study aimed to investigate the effect of MP extract combined with PE on atherosclerotic changes in rats fed an atherogenic diet. Twenty-five male Wistar rats (Rattus norvegicus) aged 6-8 weeks were randomly divided into five groups of five rats each: C (control, normal diet), CH (atherogenic diet), T1 (atherogenic diet plus MP extract 800 mg/kg/day in three divided doses with PE), T2 (atherogenic diet plus MP extract-loaded nanoemulsion 50 mg/kg/day with PE), and T3 (atherogenic diet plus atorvastatin 1.44 mg/day with PE). …”
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Clinical manifestations, para-clinical features and outcome of Iranian adults with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection: a report from hospitalized patients by Maryam Shafaati, Abbas Shakoori Farahani, Mohammadreza Salehi, Mohammad Arabzadeh, Helya Bolouki Azari, Arman Soleimany, Maryam Edalatifard, Vahid Salimi, Alireza Abdollahi

“…The mean age of the hospitalized patients was 53.28 ± 20.37 years (range: 15–83), with a slightly higher proportion of females (52.80%) compared to males (47.20%). Dyspnea, productive cough, and fever were the most common symptoms, with a mean symptom duration of 10.50 days. …”
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Association of Plasma Levels of Nitric Oxide Oxidative Metabolites with Acute Stroke in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department of a Low-Middle Income Country by Shahan Waheed, Ayaz Ghouse Kalsekar, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal, Nathan S. Bryan, Asad I. Mian

“…Seventy-five patients were enrolled, with median age of 57 years (IQR 47-66 years), 53 (71%) were males, and 46 (61%) had ischemic stroke. Overall, median NOx was 20.8 μM (IQR 13.4-35.3); there was no statistically significant difference between NOx in ischemic versus hemorrhagic stroke (21.2 μM vs. 17.9 μM; p=0.2). …”
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Gender Disparities in Medical and Dental Admissions: Students' Perspectives on Barriers by Nabiha Farasat Khan, Muhammad Ilyas, Usama Saeed Usama, Muhammad Saeed, Muhammad Saim, Raz Muhammad

“…Results: The five-year data analysis revealed persistent gender inequity, with female admissions consistently lower than male admissions. In MBBS, female admissions ranged from 39.2% (n=89/227) in 2019-2020 to 30.62% (n=105/343) in 2023-2024, while female enrollment in BDS remained relatively equal, at 61.36% (n=27/44) in 2019-2020 and 52.27% (n=23/47) in 2023-2024. …”
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Blind Spot in the Radar of MEST-C Score: Type and Severity of Tubulointerstitial Nephritis in IgA Nephropathy by Iram Asrar, Mudassar Hussain, Aurangzeb Afzal, Usman Hassan, Sheeba Ishtiaq

“…The mean age at the time of biopsy was 31.90 ± 12.48 with 63.6% in the age group between 21 and 40 years, and 69.6% were male. Tubulointerstitial inflammation was observed in 90.2% cases with 49.4% showing moderate while 4.5% showing severe degree of inflammation. …”
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Association between frailty, as measured by the FRAIL scale, and 1-year mortality in older patients undergoing hip fracture surgery by Shaohua Xi, Zhibin Wu, Jian Cui, Suran Yin, Shaozhi Xi, Chaoyang Liu

“…Results Among the 194 older hip fracture patients, 78 (40.2%) were male, with a mean (standard deviation [SD]) age of 84.4 (6.3) years. …”
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Reproductive and persistence strategy of the liverwort Arnellia fennica after the last glaciation in the area of disjunction in Central Europe (Polish Tatra Mountains, carpathians) by Piotr Górski, Monika Szczecińska, Jakub Sawicki

“…For the first time, the production of gemmae in the Tatra population of A. fennica was observed and documented, along with the presence of male specimens of this dioecious species. Genetic studies have shown that individuals from all three groups of sites are genetically homogeneous, indicating a lack of sexual reproduction. …”
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Knowledge and confidence in managing obstructive sleep apnea patients in Canadian otolaryngology - head and neck surgery residents: a cross sectional survey by Saad Ansari, Amanda Hu

“…Results Sixty-six (38.4%) out of 172 residents responded (60.6% male; 80.3% English-speaking). Median OSAKA knowledge score was 16/18 (88.9%; Interquartile range: 14–16). …”
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Dapagliflozin inhibits ferroptosis to improve chronic heart failure by regulating Nrf2/HO-1/GPX4 signaling pathway. by Jing Zhang, Xuefeng Chen, Shilin Lv, Qingqing Hao

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Nine healthy adult male New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into Sham group (only thorax opening was performed in Sham group, no ascending aorta circumferential ligation was performed), Heart failure group (HF group, ascending aorta circumferential ligation was performed in HF group to establish the animal model of heart failure), and Dapagliflozin group (DAPA group, after the rabbit chronic heart failure model was successfully made in DAPA group). …”
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Post-traumatic patellar tendon ossification in children: a case series by Kirill A. Kartavenko, Vyacheslav I. Zorin, Sergey A. Lukyanov

“…We present a monocenter retrospective series of 4 male patients. Anamnestic, clinical, radiological and histological data were analyzed. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of left atrial thrombus in patients with rheumatic atrial fibrillation undergoing cardiac surgery: a cross-sectional study by Jie Cui, Yixiao Zhang, Yulin Wang, Fangyu Liu, Hao Lai, Qiang Ji, Chunsheng Wang

“…Results A total of 530 patients (mean age: 59.7 ± 9.5 years; male: 29.8%) with a predominance of mitral stenosis (59.6%) were included. …”
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Physical and emotional abuse with internet addiction and anxiety as a mediator and physical activity as a moderator by Jinyin Peng, Yang Liu, Xubo Wang, Zhenxiu Yi, Lei Xu, Fulan Zhang

“…A total of 1591 participants (806 males and 692 females) from Shanxi, Henan, Hunan and Hubei provinces in China were investigated. …”
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Functional and Radiological Outcome Analysis of Osteoperiosteal Decortication Flap in Nonunion of Tibia by Vineet Kumar, Shah Waliullah, Sachin Avasthi, Swagat Mahapatra, Ajai Singh, Sabir Ali

“…Thirty-four cases were shortlisted for analysis, fulfilling our inclusion and exclusion criteria. There were 22 males (64.7%) and 12 females (35.3%) with a mean age of 34.17 ± 10.3 years. …”
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Mortality and risk of cardiac complications among immediate survivors of accidental electric shock: a Danish nationwide cohort study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Sam Riahi, Lars Køber, Steen Møller Hansen, Peter Søgaard, Rikke Mortensen, Søren Hjortshøj

“…In both groups, most patients were male (74.0% and 76.8%). Few of the electric shock patients had a record of cardiovascular disease at baseline (364/11 462, 3.2%). …”
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Factors associated with decreased anal sphincter tone and the accuracy of forced anal examinations to detect individuals having receptive anal intercourse: an observational study by John A Schneider, Alan G Nyitray, Derek Smith, Michael W Ross, Elizabeth Y Chiao, Timothy J Ridolfi, Bridgett Brzezinski, B R Simon Rosser, Aniruddha Hazra, Jenna Nitkowski, Sandrine Sanos, Ever Mkonyi, Lucy Mgopa

“…Multivariable regression assessed factors associated with decreased sphincter tone while the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) estimated the accuracy of sphincter tonality to detect receptive anal intercourse.Results Of 838 participants, 94.0% of whom were cisgendered males, 11.3% had decreased RT (95/838) and 6.3% had decreased ST (53/838). …”
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TLR4 Inhibition Attenuated LPS‐Induced Proinflammatory Signaling and Cytokine Release in Mouse Hearts and Cardiomyocytes by Christine W. Wiger, Trine Ranheim, Henriette Arnesen, Jarle Vaage, Søren E. Pischke, Arne Yndestad, Kåre‐Olav Stensløkken, May‐Kristin Torp

“…Methods Isolated C57BL/6N male mouse hearts were perfused for 120 min, with either LPS, E. coli, with and without CLI‐095 (TLR4 inhibitor). …”
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The role of homogenization cycles and Poloxamer 188 on the quality of mitochondria isolated for use in mitochondrial transplantation therapy by Ryosuke Takegawa, Kei Hayashida, Atsushi Murao, Yusuke Endo, Cyrus E. Kuschner, Jacob Kazmi, Eriko Nakamura, Ping Wang, Lance B. Becker

“…Mitochondria were isolated from pectoral muscle biopsies of adult male Sprague–Dawley rats using an automated homogenizer. …”
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Elevated Plasma Level of 8-Hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine Is Associated with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma by Altaf A. Kondkar, Taif A. Azad, Tahira Sultan, Essam A. Osman, Faisal A. Almobarak, Saleh A. Al-Obeidan

“…Both mean and median 8-OHdG levels were significantly elevated in POAG cases and male subjects. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve value for plasma 8-OHdG was 0.653 (95% confidence interval = 0.54–0.76, p=0.010). …”
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