Urban-Rural Disparity of Generics Prescription in Taiwan: The Example of Dihydropyridine Derivatives by Chia-Chen Hsu, Chia-Lin Chou, Shu-Chiung Chiang, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Li-Fang Chou, Yueh-Ching Chou

“…Among the total 21,606,914 defined daily doses of DHP, 35.7% belonged to generics. The aggregate generic prescribing ratio rose from 6.7% at academic medical centers to 15.3% at regional hospitals, 29.4% at community hospital, and 66.1% at physician clinics. …”
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Evaluation on Antidiabetic Properties of Medicinal Plants from Myanmar by Dongdong Zhang, Karuppusamy Arunachalam, Yuehu Wang, Yu Zhang, Jun Yang, Pyae Phyo Hein, Aye Mya Mon, Jianwen Li, Angkhana Inta, Xuefei Yang

“…Hydroalcoholic extracts of 130 medicinal plants belonging to 66 families were evaluated using porcine pancreatic lipase (PPL) inhibition and glucose uptake methods together with a literature review. …”
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Molecular Genetic Assessment Aids in Clarifying Phylogenetic Status of Iranian Kerman Wild Sheep by Arsen V. Dotsev, Mohammad Hossein Moradi, Tatiana E. Deniskova, Ali Esmailizadeh, Neckruz F. Bakoev, Olga A. Koshkina, Darren K. Griffin, Michael N. Romanov, Natalia A. Zinovieva

“…</i> Additionally, we examined complete mitochondrial genomes and it was demonstrated that the matrilineal ancestor of Kerman sheep belonged to <i>O. vignei</i>. Our results lead to the conclusion that Kerman wild sheep can be recognized as a separate subspecies of <i>O. vignei</i>.…”
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Comment agir au cœur d’un paysage fluvial en mutation ? by Anourak Visouthivong

“…The Si Phan Don archipelago is a collection of river islands in the lower Mekong River on the border between Laos and Cambodia. …”
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Role of Nanotechnology in Ischemic Stroke: Advancements in Targeted Therapies and Diagnostics for Enhanced Clinical Outcomes by Virendra Kumar Yadav, Rachna Gupta, Abdullah A. Assiri, Jalal Uddin, Azfar A. Ishaqui, Pankaj Kumar, Khalid M. Orayj, Shazia Tahira, Ashish Patel, Nisha Choudhary

“…Nanoparticles (NPs) belonging to several classes, including metallic (metallic and metal oxide), organic (lipids, liposome), and carbon, can cross the blood–brain barrier and may exhibit immense potential for managing various strokes. …”
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Safety of oil from Schizochytrium limacinum (strain ATCC‐20889) for use in infant and follow‐on formula as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 by EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA), Dominique Turck, Torsten Bohn, Montaña Cámara, Jacqueline Castenmiller, Stefaan De Henauw, Karen Ildico Hirsch‐Ernst, Ángeles Jos, Alexandre Maciuk, Inge Mangelsdorf, Breige McNulty, Androniki Naska, Kristina Pentieva, Alfonso Siani, Frank Thies, Margarita Aguilera‐Gómez, Francesco Cubadda, Thomas Frenzel, Marina Heinonen, Helle Katrine Knutsen, Monika Neuhäuser‐Berthold, Morten Poulsen, Miguel Prieto Maradona, Josef Rudolf Schlatter, Alexandros Siskos, Henk vanLoveren, Irene Nuin Garciarena, Emanuela Turla, Harry J. McArdle

“…The available evidence indicates that the source organism (strain ATCC‐20889) belongs to the species Schizochytrium limacinum. The applicant intends to market the NF as an ingredient in infant formulae (IF) and follow‐on formulae (FOF). …”
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Diversity of Chroogomphus (Gomphidiaceae, Boletales) in Europe, and typification of C. rutilus by Ross Scambler, Tuula Niskanen, Boris Assyov, A. Martyn Ainsworth, Jean-Michel Bellanger, Michael Loizides, Pierre-Arthur Moreau, Paul M. Kirk, Kare Liimatainen

“…Comparison of the ITS regions (nuc rDNA ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) of all species studied shows that there is a minimum interspecific difference of 1.5 %, with the exception of the two species belonging to sect. Fulminei which differ by a minimum of 0.9 %. …”
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WEIGHTED GENE CO-EXPRESSION NETWORK ANALYSIS IDENTIFIES BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS AND BIOMARKER GENES ASSOCIATED WITH CHICKENS' ADAPTATION TO BOTH LOW AND HIGH ALTITUDES by Pshtiwan S.A. Bebane, Paiman Yousif, Sarbast I. Mustafa, Sami mamand

“…Furthermore, we discovered that the majority of variable genes were screened by sub-setting 1000 genes; samples belonging to the same tissue clearly clustered together, and the expression in the liver and lung was more associated than in the heart and spleen. …”
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Possible Roles of IL-33 in the Innate-Adaptive Immune Crosstalk of Psoriasis Pathogenesis by Serafinella Patrizia Cannavò, Lucrezia Bertino, Eleonora Di Salvo, Valeria Papaianni, Elvira Ventura-Spagnolo, Sebastiano Gangemi

“…Background. IL-33 belongs to the IL-1 family, playing a role in several biologic processes as well as in the pathogenesis of different diseases, including skin pathologies. …”
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Is the skull of the black-headed gull dimorphic? Analysis of shape variation by P. Indykiewicz, N. Manuta, J. Bonecka, O. Gündemir, T. Szara

“…The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small bird belonging to the Laridae family. Their distribution and breeding broad area primarily cover the northern part of the Eurasian continent. …”
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Discovery of a novel Mediterranean Haemaphysalis (Ornithophysalis) doenitzi group tick species infesting Falco eleonorae on Antikythira Island, Greece by Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Christos Barboutis, Anastasios Bounas, Christina Kassara, Ben J. Mans, Anastasios Saratsis, Ala Tabor

“…In total, 104 adults and 149 nymphs (all belonging to Haemaphysalis genus) were collected. All ticks, apart from 2 nymphs, exhibited broadly salient palpi and did not possess the pronounced palpal segment 2 spurs or spur-like angles that are characteristic of adults, nymphs and most larvae of Rhipistoma, thus placed them in the Ornithophysalis subgenus. …”
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A Unique Case of Malignant Pleuropericardial Effusion: HHV-8-Unrelated PEL-Like Lymphoma—A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Farhan Mohammad, Muhammad Neaman Siddique, Faraz Siddiqui, M. Popalzai, Masoud Asgari, Marcel Odaimi

“…Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) or body cavity lymphoma is a rare type of extra nodal lymphoma of B-cell origin that presents as lymphomatous effusion(s) without any nodal enlargement or tumor masses. It belongs to the group of AIDS related non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. …”
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Attraction and aversion of noctuid moths to fermented food sources coordinated by olfactory receptors from distinct gene families by Xiao-Qing Hou, Dan-Dan Zhang, Hanbo Zhao, Yang Liu, Christer Löfstedt, Guirong Wang

“…We deorphanized the olfactory receptors detecting these two compounds and found that they belonged to two distinct gene families and were functionally conserved across four noctuid subfamilies; HarmOR52 orthologues responded to the attractive isoamyl alcohol and HarmIR75q.1 orthologues responded to the aversive octanoic acid. …”
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A comparative analysis of livelihood sustainability among farmers in Ca Mau Province, Vietnam: a case study of organic mangrove–shrimp and rice–shrimp farming systems by Hieu Hong Hua, Duyen My Chau, Thuy Thanh Thi Ngo, Man Le Nguyen

“…Mangrove-shrimp and rice-shrimp farming are vital organic models supporting shrimp farmers’ livelihoods in Ca Mau, a coastal province in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. This study examines the livelihood capital farmers utilize to implement these aquaculture systems, examining the methods employed, benefits gained, and strategies to address challenges of achieving sustainable livelihoods. …”
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An Effective Manifold Learning Approach to Parametrize Data for Generative Modeling of Biosignals by Lorenzo Manoni, Claudio Turchetti, Laura Falaschetti

“…Neverthless the main drawback of methods based on manifold learning is that they learn data implicitly, that is with no explicit model of data belonging to the manifold. The aim of this article is to develop a manifold learning approach to parametrize data for generative modeling of biosignals, by deriving an explicit function that represents the local parametrization of the manifold. …”
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Interleukin-18 Increases TLR4 and Mannose Receptor Expression and Modulates Cytokine Production in Human Monocytes by Luciane Alarcão Dias-Melicio, Reginaldo Keller Fernandes, Daniela Ramos Rodrigues, Marjorie Assis Golim, Angela Maria Victoriano Campos Soares

“…Interleukin-18 is a proinflammatory cytokine belonging to the interleukin-1 family of cytokines. …”
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Maintenance of inflorescence size variability within common buckwheat (<i>Fagopyrum esculentum</i> Moench) cultivars of various origin: the phenomenon and its possible causes by A. N. Fesenko, I. N. Fesenko, O. V. Biryukova

“…A set of buckwheat cultivars of various origin and belonging to different morphological types were analyzed. …”
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Investigating the Lower Limit of Metallicity for the Galactic Thin Disk by Guozhen Hu, Zhengyi Shao, Erbil Gügercinoǧlu, Wenyuan Cui

“…We explore the metal-poor regime of the Galactic disk on the distribution of stars in the [ α /M]– V _ϕ plane, to identify the most metal-poor thin disk (MPTnD) stars belonging to the low- α sequence. Chemical abundances and velocities of sample stars are either taken or derived from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia DR3 catalogs. …”
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Magnetic Molecularly Imprinted Polymers with Hydrophilic Shells for the Selective Enrichment and Detection of Rosmarinic Acid in Aqueous Extraction by Yanhui Wang, Linlin Yan, Guangyao Zheng

“…Rosmarinic acid (RA) is a natural active compound widely found in many plants belonging to the family of <i>Lamiaceae</i>, <i>Boraginaceae</i>, and so on, which has various important bioactivities, including being anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, etc. …”
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Mechanistic insights toward progress in alogliptin beyond glycemic control: translational perspective by Faraha Ahmed, Syed Sufian Ahmad, M. Mumtaz Alam, M. Shaqiquzzaman, Abul Kalam Najmi, Mohammad Ahmed Khan

“…Abstract Background Alogliptin belongs to gliptin family of drugs that inhibits ubiquitous enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4). …”
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