A Case of Iatrogenic Cushing’s Syndrome following Use of an Over-the-Counter Arthritis Supplement by Colin Dunn, Joshua Amaya, Patrick Green

“…In particular, numerous complementary and alternative medicines have been found to contain steroids not previously known to users. Case Presentation. …”
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Analyses of Total Alkaloid Extract of Corydalis yanhusuo by Comprehensive RP × RP Liquid Chromatography with pH Difference by Xiaodong Wei, Hongling Shen, Lijun Wang, Qingyan Meng, Wenjie Liu

“…The first-dimension separation is carried out using methanol and water containing 1.0% ammonium hydroxide and a strong base-resistant RP column, which afforded a peak capacity of 94. …”
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Healthy Eating for Elders: Nutrition and Diabetes by Jennifer Hillan

“…It will also help people at high risk for diabetes reduce the chance of getting the disease. This leaflet contains some tips for a healthy diet. This document, FCS8612-Eng, is one in a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. …”
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The Benefits of Adding Sulfur and Urea to a Concentrate Mixture on the Utilization of Feed, Rumen Fermentation, and Milk Production in Dairy Cows Supplemental Fresh Cassava Root by Phussorn Sumadong, Sarong So, Anusorn Cherdthong

“…Fresh cassava roots that contain hydrocyanic acid (HCN) can be hazardous to animals when consumed. …”
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Catechins and Caffeine Inhibit Fat Accumulation in Mice through the Improvement of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism by Chikako Sugiura, Shiho Nishimatsu, Tatsuya Moriyama, Sayaka Ozasa, Teruo Kawada, Kazutoshi Sayama

“…To elucidate the inhibiting mechanisms of fat accumulation by catechins, caffeine, and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), ICR mice were fed diets containing either 0.3% catechins or 0.1% EGCG and/or 0.05% caffeine for 4 weeks. …”
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Review of drug recalls and quality of pharmaceutical products in Nepal by Astha Neupane, Maheshwor Bastakoti, Sabita Tamang, Basant Giri

“…Most of these sanitisers contained significant amounts of methanol (as high as 75% v/v) instead of appropriate amount of ethyl or isopropyl alcohol. …”
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High Strength Anhydrite Cement Based on Lime Mud From Water Treatment Process: One Step Synthesis in Water Environment, Characterization and Technological Parameters by Maksim Kamarou, Hongbin Tan, Dmitry Moskovskikh, Natallia Kulinich, Xiaoling Ma, Feihua Yang, Evgenii Beletskii, Elena Alekseeva, Sergey Yudin, Valentin Romanovski

“…ABSTRACT In the process of water treatment from surface water sources, lime mud as waste is formed. This waste contains CaO, Ca(OH)2, and CaCO3. The article proposes a comprehensive method for processing lime mud into high‐strength anhydrite cement. …”
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Synbiotic microcapsule dietary supplementation for prevention against co-infection diseases in Pacific white shrimp: a limited field experiment by Munti Yuhana, Andreas Tambun, Widanarni Widanarni, Usamah Afiff

“…Twenty four hours after WSSV injection the shrimps were immersed in the water-containing cells suspension of V. harveyi at the cell’s population dosage of 106 CFU.ml-1. …”
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A Primer on Exporting to Nicaragua by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…It is hoped that the information contained in this report provides a useful starting point for individuals interested in exploring export or investment opportunities in Nicaragua. …”
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Serum-Free Culture System for Spontaneous Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Spheroid Formation by Guoyi Dong, Shengpeng Wang, Yuping Ge, Qiuting Deng, Qi Cao, Quanlei Wang, Zhouchun Shang, Wenjie OuYang, Jing Li, Chao Liu, Jie Tang, Weihua Zhao, Ying Gu

“…To date, various 3D culture methods have been developed to form hMSC spheroids but most of them used culture medium containing fetal bovine serum (FBS), which is not suitable for further clinical use. …”
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Le traitement funéraire des enfants décédés avant un an dans l’Antiquité : études de cas by Frédérique Blaizot, Gersende Alix, Emmanuel Ferber

“…We present here three funerary groups which contain a large number of children who died in their first year. …”
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Human adaptation and diversification in the Microsporum canis complex by Xin Zhou, Sarah A. Ahmed, Chao Tang, Maria Eduarda Grisolia, José Francisco Ghignatti Warth, Kristen Webster, Andrea Peano, Silke Uhrlass, Claudia Cafarchia, Marie Pierre Hayette, Rosalie Sacheli, Tadeja Matos, Yingqian Kang, G. Sybren de Hoog, Peiying Feng

“…MAT1-1 was present only in M. canis, while the anthropophilic entities contained MAT1-2. The pseudocleistothecia were yielded by the mating behaviour of M. canis and M. audouinii. …”
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A Primer on Exporting to Peru by Christina D. Storz, Timothy G. Taylor, Gary F. Fairchild

“…It is hoped that the information contained in this report provides a useful starting point for individuals interested in exploring export or investment opportunities in Peru. …”
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Pavement Analysis and Design by Multiphysics Reconstructing Algorithm for the Virtual Asphalt Mixture Based on the Discrete-Element Method by Danhua Wang, Xunhao Ding, Tao Ma, Weiguang Zhang, Deyu Zhang

“…Then by distributing the coarse particles within container, virtual skeletons were formed firstly. An innovate algorithm was proposed afterwards to distinguish the external and internal area of the coarse aggregates and then model the mastic part by filling the irregular hollow shape with uniformly arranged balls. …”
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Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) to Nonnative Wildlife in South Florida by Justin Dalaba, Frank Mazzotti

“…Mazzotti and published by the UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department explains how the Early Detection and Rapid Response method works and how to apply it to increase the likelihood that an invasion will be successfully contained or eradicated while an invasive population is still small and localized. …”
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Estimation of Fresh and Hardened Properties of Self-Compacting Concrete by Optimized Radial Basis Function Methods by David Cadasse, Antonio Fontana

“…Most of the published literature on concrete containing fly ash was limited to predicting the hardened concrete properties. …”
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Traditional Treatment of Tuju Disease (Rheumatism) in Lontar Usada Based on Bali Local Wisdom by İ Ketut Ardhana, Putu Lakustini Cahyaningrum

“…The results obtained by traditional medicine have become a cultural heritage reflected in the existence of lontar (Hindu cultural records), which contain types of diseases, medicines from diseases, traditional materials, and procedures for making and presenting traditional medicine. …”
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Ensemble Methods with Voting Protocols Exhibit Superior Performance for Predicting Cancer Clinical Endpoints and Providing More Complete Coverage of Disease-Related Genes by Runyu Jing, Yu Liang, Yi Ran, Shengzhong Feng, Yanjie Wei, Li He

“…To identify a relatively stable scheme for modeling limited samples in the gene datasets and reveal the information that they contain, the present study first evaluated the performance of a series of modeling approaches for predicting clinical endpoints of cancer and later integrated the results using various voting protocols. …”
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Use of Hybrid Flame Retardants in Chemically Foamed rPET Blends by Veronika Anna Szabó, Sándor Kálmán Jakab, András Kovács, Tamara Zsuzsanna Böcz, Gábor Dogossy

“…Three different kinds of halogen-free flame retardant agents were used: ammonium polyphosphate-based Exolit AP 422 (AP), organic aluminum phosphate in the form of Exolit OP 1240 (OP), and Budit 342 containing melamine polyphosphate (MPP). The hybrid flame retardant mixture, by combining the swelling and charring mechanism, increased the flame retardancy of the samples. …”
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A Protozoology and Parasitological Techniques Brochure by Josefina Isabel Vázquez Martínez, Miladys Caridad Cedeño Borges, Mabel Collazo Díaz, Martina Sabina Jiménez Suárez, Luis Quintero Hernández, Jorge Barleta Del Castillo

“…Concepts and procedures within the field of study are included and it contains also a contents outline which summarizes their essence. …”
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