Beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) improves daily activity and whole-body protein metabolism in Duchenne muscular dystrophy dogs: a pilot study by Peter P. Nghiem, Alexis M. Rutledge, Kyle Tehas, Corine Kaderli, Meredith Poling, Sidney Arnim, Vitaliy Dernov, Celine van Sas, Macie L. Mackey, Gabriella A. M. ten Have, Mariëlle P. K. J. Engelen, Nicolaas E. P. Deutz

“…We collected blood before and six times after until two hours post tracer pulse administration and measured amino acid enrichments and concentrations by LC–MS/MS, subsequently followed by (non) compartmental modeling of the decay enrichment curves. …”
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Effects of Exergaming on Morphological Variables, Biochemical Parameters, and Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity: A Systematic Review with Meta-Anal... by Jordan Hernandez-Martinez, Joaquín Perez-Carcamo, Hassan Melki, Izham Cid-Calfucura, Edgar Vasquez-Carrasco, Pedro Delgado-Floody, Claudio Romero, Tomás Herrera-Valenzuela, Braulio Henrique Magnani Branco, Pablo Valdés-Badilla

“…Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted until September 2024 using five databases: PubMed, Medline, CINAHL Complete, Scopus, and Web of Science. …”
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Systematic analysis and prediction of the burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias caused by hyperglycemia by Dongying He, Dongying He, Manting Liu, Yujin Tang, Xiaona Tian, Lisi Zhou, Yizhen Chen, Xiaoxia Liu, Xiaoxia Liu

“…The platform is accessible at http://116.196.73.86:3838/GBD/HFPG-ADOD/.ConclusionThe global burden of HFPG-related ADOD has been increasing, even in high SDI regions, over the past 5 years and is expected to continue rising until 2050. Implementing appropriate health policies to mitigate this trend could significantly reduce the substantial burden caused by HFPG-induced ADOD. …”
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First-in-human, multicenter, open-label, phase I study of ATOR-1017 (evunzekibart), a 4-1BB antibody, in patients with advanced solid malignancies by Peter Ellmark, Jeffrey Yachnin, Ana Carneiro, Lena Schultz, Amanda Hahn, Sumeet Ambarkhane, Karin Enell Smith, Gustav J. Ullenhag

“…Escalating doses were given until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or withdrawal of consent. …”
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Presenting the Model of Eco-Leadership in Elementary Schools with an Interpretive Phenomenological Approach by Adel Zahed babolan, Seyyedmohammad Seyyedkalan

“…They were selected using a targeted snowball sampling method to reach 23 participants until theoretical saturation was achieved. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview developed based on the understanding and experiences of teachers and school principals in different regions of Ardabil province. …”
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Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Henan, China from 2023 to 2024 by Yun Song, Bicong Wu, Hongxia Ma, Yafei Li, Su Yan, Jingjing Pan, Haifeng Wang, Ying Ye, Xueyong Huang, Wanshen Guo

“…The predominant variants included BA.5.2, XBB, and BA.2.86. BA.5.2 was dominant until April 2023, after which it was gradually replaced by XBB. …”
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Post-therapeutic support and rehabilitation for breast cancer women in complete remission in a thermal resort: study protocol for the PACThe Real-Life conditions observational tria... by Mélanie Godiveau, Judith Passildas, Emilie Thivat, Mélanie Casile, Céleste Pinard, Alexia Giro, Marie-Ange Mouret-Reynier, Ioana Molnar, Catherine Abrial, Claude-Eugène Bouvier, Yves-Jean Bignon, Xavier Durando

“…Primary objective is to assess the quality of life until 12 months. The outcome will be measured with the self-questionnaire SF-36 [3] at five timepoints (inclusion visit, end of thermal resort, 6 months post-cure, 12 months post-cure and 18 months post-cure). …”
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Variabilidade espacial dos parâmetros da equação de van Genuchten em um Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo by Jaedson Cláudio Anunciato Mota, Paulo Leonel Libardi, Alexsandro Santos Brito, Sergio Oliveira Moraes, Ícaro Vasconcelos Nascimento, Thiago Leite Alencar

“…A curva foi construída considerando as tensões 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 e 10 kPa (no funil de Haines) e 30, 50, 70 e 100 kPa (no extrator de placa porosa de Richards). …”
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The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Female Patients Seeking or Undergoing Fertility Treatment in a Single In Vitro Fertilisation Clinic in Greece: An International,... by Konstantina Pappa, Emmanouil M. Xydias, Apostolos C. Ziogas, Kanelina Bimba, Elias Tsakos, Efstratios Kolibianakis

“…Settings and Design: This study was a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study, distributed to 409 patients of a single in vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinic in Greece, during the period between January until the end of April 2021. Materials and Methods: The survey was conducted online via E-mail and was distributed to national and international female patients of a single IVF clinic in Greece, who were undergoing ART treatment during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Susceptibility to Ventricular Arrhythmias Resulting from Mutations in FKBP1B, PXDNL, and SCN9A Evaluated in hiPSC Cardiomyocytes by Hector Barajas-Martinez, Maya Smith, Dan Hu, Robert J. Goodrow, Colleen Puleo, Can Hasdemir, Charles Antzelevitch, Ryan Pfeiffer, Jacqueline A. Treat, Jonathan M. Cordeiro

“…The proband displayed right bundle branch block and exhibited episodes of syncope. …”
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Long-Term Evaluation of Capsulotomy Shape and Posterior Capsule Opacification after Low-Energy Bimanual Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery by Tommaso Verdina, Chiara Peppoloni, Lucrezia Barbieri, Maria Rosaria Carbotti, Bruno Battaglia, Rodolfo Mastropasqua, Gian Maria Cavallini

“…Another 91 eyes, which underwent standard bimanual microincision cataract surgery (B-MICS), served as a control group. In all cases, a BunnyLens AF (Hanita Lenses, Israel) intraocular lens was implanted in the bag. …”
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The serum hepcidin and the hepcidin/ferritin ratio in NAFLD: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jingmin Song, Heqing Wang, Xiaolian Gao, Fen Yang, Xinhong Zhu, Guiyuan Qiao, Ting Gan, Junxiu Tao

“…Methods A systematic search was conducted across the Web of Science platform, Cochrane, Scopus, Embase, and PubMed databases from their inception until December 18, 2024. The analysis primarily focused on serum hepcidin levels and the hepcidin/ferritin ratio. …”
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Study protocol: type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of routine functional status screening in VA primary care by Francesca M. Nicosia, Kara Zamora, LauraEllen Ashcraft, Gregory Krautner, Marybeth Groot, Bruce Kinosian, Cathy C. Schubert, Sumedha Chhatre, Helene Moriarty, Orna Intrator, Andrea Wershof Schwartz, Ariela R. Orkaby, Jason Prigge, Rebecca T. Brown

“…During an Implementation phase, we will launch a standard bundle of implementation strategies (coalition building, champions, technical assistance) and system-level audit and feedback, identify sites with low uptake, and randomize those sites to receive continued standard vs. enhanced strategies (standard strategies plus clinician-level audit and feedback). …”
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Economic evaluation of a strategy to shorten the time to surgery with neuraxial anaesthesia compared with usual clinical practice in patients on chronic antiplatelet therapy with a... by Claudia Erika Delgado-Espinoza, Rosa Maria Antonijoan, Ignasi Gich, Ignasi Gich, Rafael Anaya, Mireia Rodriguez, Angélica Millan, Jordi Llorca, Gemma Usua, Ana Ruiz, Angela Merchán-Galvis, Angela Merchán-Galvis, Maria Jose Martinez-Zapata, Maria Jose Martinez-Zapata

“…Direct costs associated with hospitalisation until one-month post-discharge were considered and measured from a hospital perspective. …”
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Liras into Lyres: Talking Across Difference in the Works of Edith Nesbit by Melissa Jenkins

“…Yet, I posit that this focus on mishearings and misunderstandings restores unexpected power to the child’s speech, especially when the child is speaking to other children. Being unable (or unwilling) to understand an adult’s verbal directive can be liberating, and a child’s verbal play can have an effect on the adult world and even on the adult perspective. …”
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Evaluation of the Urine POC-CCA Test Accuracy in the Detection of Schistosoma mansoni Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Getaneh Alemu, Endalkachew Nibret

“…Methods. Studies published until May 2022 were searched from PubMed, Google Scholar, and grey literature for systematic review and meta-analysis following the PRISMA guideline. …”
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Shining light on knee osteoarthritis: an overview of vitamin D supplementation studies by Di Zhang, Miaoyu Ye, Yao Xu, Luyu Jiang, Yanmei Hu, Qi Zhang, Xiao Han, Qian Dai, Junhui Qian, Jian Luo, Qiang Yuan

“…Then, provides clinical evidence and recommendations the clinical use of vitamin D supplementation.MethodsTwo individuals reviewed and collected data from four databases until October 2023. AMSTAR-2, ROBIS, PRISMA 2020, and GRADE tools were used to evaluate the methodological quality, bias risk, reporting quality, and evidence strength of all SR/MA. …”
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Assessment of Treatment Outcomes and Associated Factors Among Pediatric Patients With Burkitt Lymphoma at Kenyatta National Hospital by Divya Kumari Toor, Amsalu Degu, Peter N. Karimi

“…The patients were retrospectively monitored from the initial cancer diagnosis until either death or the last follow‐up appointment visit in the facility. …”
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Features of the initial stage of digitalization of the executive authority of Ukraine: historical and legal overview by E. Najafli

“…It is highlighted that this process continued within the stage of primary digitalization (1993–2003) without a clear conceptual vision of its political and legal essence, specificity and purpose of digitalization of the executive power, and its deployment in these conditions coincided in time with the unfinished institutionalization of the system of executive power bodies in Ukraine, which was determined first by the incompleteness of the constitutional process and the conceptual ambiguity of the constitutional model of the executive power system institutionalized in Ukraine (until 1996), and later by attempts to combine the digitalization of the executive power with attempts to reform it within the framework of the administrative reform paradigm (since 1998). …”
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Pressurised water flow in fractured permafrost rocks revealed by borehole temperature, electrical resistivity tomography, and piezometric pressure by M. Offer, M. Offer, S. Weber, S. Weber, M. Krautblatter, I. Hartmeyer, M. Keuschnig

“…Electrical resistivity measurements repeated monthly reveal a massive decrease in resistivity from June to July and the initiation of a low-resistivity (<span class="inline-formula">&lt;</span> 4 k<span class="inline-formula">Ω</span> m) zone in the lower part of the rock slope in June, gradually expanding to higher rock slope sections until September. We hypothesise that the reduction in electrical resistivity of more than an order of magnitude, which coincides with abrupt changes in borehole temperature and periods of high water heads up to 11.8 m, provides certain evidence of snowmelt water infiltration into the rockwall becoming pressurised within a widespread fracture network during the thawing season. …”
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