Effect and Safety of Pioglitazone-Metformin Tablets in the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Shaanxi Province: A Random... by Fu Jianfang, Xiao Wanxia, Gao Xiling, Xu Jing, Yang Wenjuan, Liu Jianrong, He Qingzhen, Ma Kaiyan, Lian Jingxuan, Chen Taixiong, Xu Qian, Li Mengying, Ming Jie, Ji Qiuhe

“…Combined treatment with pioglitazone-metformin can effectively reduce liver fat content and gamma-GT level in newly diagnosed diabetic patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and adverse events do not increase compared with the control group, showing good safety and tolerance. …”
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H. Wendl Leaf Metabolites Potentiate the Radiosensitivity of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Through Ki67 and PARP Inhibition by Nabil M. Selim PhD, Seham S. El-Hawary PhD, Soheir M. El Zalabani PhD, Rehab Nabil Shamma PhD, Nariman El Sayed Mahdy PhD, Noheir H. Sherif PhD, Khayrya A. Youssif PhD, Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen PhD, Mai H. Mekkawy PhD, Hanan A. Fahmy PhD

“…Likewise, the tumor markers alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) levels were considerably reduced in HCC rats. …”
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T-bet+ILC3 in peripheral blood is increased in the ankylosing spondylitis with high disease activity by Yang Liu, Yi Shen, Hongbai Ding, Dongyi He, Peng Cheng, Xinyao Wu, Zheng Xiang, Lei Shen, Yanqin Bian, Qi Zhu

“…The levels of different ILC subsets and the expression of T-box transcription factor 21 (T-bet) and retinoic-acid-receptor-related orphan receptor gamma (RORγt) in peripheral blood were analyzed via flow cytometry. …”
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Fat Body Metabolome Revealed Glutamine Metabolism Pathway Involved in Prepupal <i>Apis mellifera</i> Responding to Cold Stress by Xinjian Xu, Mingjie Cao, Chenyu Zhu, Lingqing Mo, Huajiao Huang, Jiaying Xie, Bingfeng Zhou, Shujing Zhou, Xiangjie Zhu

“…Furthermore, the expression levels of glutamine metabolism-related genes, <i>glutaminase</i> (<i>GLS</i>), <i>glutamate dehydrogenase</i> (<i>GDH</i>), and <i>gamma-glutamyl transferase</i> (<i>GGT-1</i> and <i>GGT-7</i>), were significantly decreased in cold-exposed prepupae compared with the control groups. …”
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Detecting Ground Level Enhancements Using Soil Moisture Sensor Networks by A. D. P. Hands, F. Baird, K. A. Ryden, C. S. Dyer, F. Lei, J. G. Evans, J. R. Wallbank, M. Szczykulska, D. Rylett, R. Rosolem, S. Fowler, D. Power, E. M. Henley

“…Use of fine temporal resolution would also provide a capability to detect Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (via secondary neutrons) which are produced by certain lightning discharges and which can provide a hazard to aircraft, particularly in tropical regions. …”
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Role of Paricalcitol in Modulating the Immune Response in Patients with Renal Disease by Silvia Lucisano, Adriana Arena, Giovanna Stassi, Daniela Iannello, Gaetano Montalto, Adolfo Romeo, Giuseppe Costantino, Rosaria Lupica, Valeria Cernaro, Domenico Santoro, Michele Buemi

“…Serum calcium, phosphorus, 25(OH)-vitamin D, parathyroid hormone (PTH), erythrocyte sedimentation rate, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, interleukin- (IL-) 17, IL-6, IL-1β, interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), plasmatic and urinary NGAL, and 24 h albuminuria and proteinuria were measured before and 24 h after an intravenous bolus of paricalcitol (5 mcg). …”
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Sjögren’s Syndrome: Concerted Triggering of Sicca Conditions by Zygmunt Mackiewicz, Justyna Mażul, Ieva Narkevičiūtė, Irena Dumalakienė, Irena Butrimienė, Rita Vilienė, Indrė Stankevičienė, Diana Mieliauskaitė

“…Also, a significantly different immune response to virus infection (protein IFI16, interferons gamma and beta, dendritic cells, and receptor for natural killers) was revealed in the minor salivary glands of the study groups. …”
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Changes in tear cytokine and lactoferrin levels in postmenopausal women with primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction complicated with obstructed meibomian gland dysfunction by Haili Jin, Xianjie Chen, Feng Ji, Yin Liu, Yonghong Sheng, Guoping Wang, Linfeng Han, Xiaohu Wang, He Ding, Jing Liu, Qingqing Fu

“…Tear fluid was collected from affected eyes of all participants using Schirmer I test and tested for cytokine concentrations (interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, IL-1β, interferon-gamma, tumour necrotic factor (TNF)-α, IL-10, epidermal growth factor (EGF)) using the Multiplex Luminex Assay. …”
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A randomized double-blind clinical trial investigating the effects of ellagic acid on glycemic status, liver enzymes, and oxidative stress in patients with non-alcoholic fatty live... by Sara Mighani, Rasoul Samimi, Mohamadreza Rashidi Nooshabadi, Seyed Amir Farzam, Hossein Khadem Haghighian, Maryam Javadi

“…Results At the end of the study, the mean of insulin, insulin resistance (IR), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), malondialdehyde (MDA), and C-reactive protein (CRP) were significantly decreased in the intervention group (P < 0.05). …”
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Prediction of Landslide Displacement Based on GreyRelational Analysis and VMD-SES-BP Model by AN Bei, JIANG Yanan, ZENG Qifei

“…Aiming at the “stepped” landslide displacement in the Three Gorges area,this paper proposes a new landslide displacement time series prediction model,namely VMD-SES-BP prediction model by combining variational mode decomposition (VMD),second exponential smoothing (SES),and BP neural network (BPNN);conducts the VMD of the GPS monitoring displacement data of landslide at Baishuihe River of the Three Gorges through this model to obtain the trend component and other sub-sequence components;makes rolling predictions of trend components by the SES,determines the influencing factors of other displacement components of the landslide through gray relational analysis (GRA),and learns and predicts by considering it as the training sample of BPNN.Comparing the prediction results of each component with the true value,the average relative error of prediction is 0.78%,the mean square error is 3.14 cm,and the correlation coefficient is 0.986.The experimental results show that the model is well applicable to the prediction of “stepped” landslide displacement,with high prediction accuracy,which provides a certain reference value for landslide displacement prediction.…”
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Spectroscopic, Thermal, Electrochemical, and Antimicrobial Studies of Mononuclear Manganese(II) Ditolyldithiophosphates by Ruchi Khajuria, Atiya Syed, Sandeep Kumar, Sushil K. Pandey

“…Antimicrobial screening of the complexes against gram negative bacteria E. coli, K. pneumonia, and P. aeruginosa and fungus S. rolfsii has shown potential bioactivity.…”
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VALVE FUZZY RELIABILITY EVALUATION METHOD BASED ON THE INFLUENCE OF NON-CRITICAL STATE OF THE SYSTEM by YU ShuRong, LUO WeiYe, XUE RuiYuan, YIN SiMin, LI YongLin

“…At present,the reliability of a single indicator is evaluated by a conventional reliability model.The results have only two states:the system is completely normal and the system is completely faulty.It is difficult to determine what state the valve system is between "good" and "failed".At the same time,ignoring the impact of non-critical state of the system on system reliability and evaluating method with a single indicator will result in insufficient evaluation results.Therefore,a fuzzy evaluation method based on triple index was proposed.The valve system failure probability PF,the failure probability considering the influence of non-critical states of the system P_EF and the mean time between failures MTBF as the indicators to evaluate the reliability gray number clustering were considered.The failure probability considering the influence of the non-critical state of the system was obtained by the cumulative failure probability of the system and the number of expected state transitions.The experimental results indicated that the method can well describe the influence of the non-critical state of the system on the reliability and can determine the reliable level of the system.…”
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Solar-driven production of renewable chemicals via biomass hydrogenation with green methanol by Guangyu Chen, Cenfeng Fu, Wenhua Zhang, Wanbing Gong, Jun Ma, Xiaomin Ji, Lisheng Qian, Xuefei Feng, Chuansheng Hu, Ran Long, Yujie Xiong

“…It is significant that the biomass upgrading driven by natural sunlight on a gram scale demonstrates the great practical potential. …”
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Post Irradiation Spindle Cell Carcinoma of Tonsillar Pillar by Prateek Kinra, V. Srinivas, Kavita Sinha, Vibha Dutta

“…The neoplasm occurred as a complication of radiotherapy (excessive cumulative radiation dose of 60 Gray) for carcinoma larynx with a latency period of three years. …”
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Twostriped Walkingstick, Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll) (Insecta: Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) by Michael C. Thomas

“…The last common name is particularly apt as this species is capable of squirting a strong-smelling defensive spray that is painfully irritating to the eyes and mucous membranes (Gray 1835, Meinwald et al. 1962, Eisner 1965, Stewart 1937, Hatch et al. 1993, Paysse et al. 2001, Dziezyc 1992). …”
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Alterations in Cortical Thickness and White Matter Integrity in Mild-to-Moderate Communicating Hydrocephalic School-Aged Children Measured by Whole-Brain Cortical Thickness Mapping... by Siyu Zhang, Xinjian Ye, Guanghui Bai, Yuchuan Fu, Chuanwan Mao, Aiqin Wu, Xiaozheng Liu, Zhihan Yan

“…However, effects of mild-to-moderate hydrocephalus on gray and white matter remain unclear in vivo. Using structural MRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), current study compared the cortical thickness and white matter integrity between children with mild-to-moderate communicating hydrocephalus and healthy controls. …”
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Prevalence and Infection’s Degree of Gastrointestinal Nematode Worm in Friesian Holstein Dairy Cows at KUTT Suka Makmur Pasuruan Regency by Kinanti Putri Utami, Kuncoro Puguh Santoso, Lucia Tri Suwanti, Poedji Hastutiek, Dian Ayu Permatasari, Agus Sunarso

“…Positive samples were further examined by McMaster methods to determine the number of worm eggs per gram feces. The type of worms were Oesophagostomum sp. (24%), Haemonchus sp. (20%), Mecistocirrus sp. (13%), Trichuris sp. (8%), Ostertagia sp. (6%), Trichostrongylus sp. (6%), Nematodirus sp. (3%), and Strongyloides sp. (3%). …”
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Characterization of Potential Virulence Factors of Vibrio mimicus Isolated from Fishery Products and Water by M. F. Hernández-Robles, I. Natividad-Bonifacio, A. K. Álvarez-Contreras, J. J. Tercero-Alburo, E. I. Quiñones-Ramírez, C. Vázquez-Salinas

“…Vibrio mimicus is a Gram-negative bacterium that is closely related to V. cholerae and causes gastroenteritis in humans due to contaminated fish consumption and seafood. …”
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Time-frequency image and high-order spectrum characteristics based radar signal recognition by Shitong LI, Daying QUAN, Zeyu TANG, Yun CHEN, Xiaofeng WANG, Xiaoping JIN

“…Aiming at improving the accuracy of radar signal recognition under a low signal-to-noise ratio, a radar signal recognition algorithm based both on time-frequency image and high-order spectrum feature was proposed.Firstly, the time-frequency image was obtained by Choi-Williams distribution (CWD) transform, based on which the time-frequency image was preprocessed and the texture features were extracted by gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) in sequence.Meanwhile, the symmetrical holder coefficient was used to extract the high-order spectral features of the signal.Then, the texture features and high-order spectrum features were form a new set of joint feature vectors.Finally, with the proposed feature vector the classification and recognition of radar signals were implemented by a support vector machine.The algorithm was verified on the data set with eight typical radar signals.Experimental results show that the recognition accuracy of different radar signals can achieve higher than 90% when the signal-to-noise ratio is -8 dB.…”
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Biological Activities and Nutraceutical Potentials of Water Extracts from Different Parts of Cynomorium Coccineum L. (Maltese Mushroom) by Zucca Paolo, Argiolas Antonio, Nieddu Mariella, Pintus Manuela, Rosa Antonella, Sanna Fabrizio, Steri Daniela, Rescigno Antonio

“…The results of electron transfer and hydrogen transfer assays showed that the antioxidant activity was mainly due to anthocyanins in the external layer, whereas the external layer and peeled plant extracts both inhibited the microbial growth of several Gram-positive strains. In contrast, the whole plant extract had the highest anti-tyrosinase activity and exhibited pro-erectile activity when administered subcutaneously. …”
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