Ethanolic Extract of <i>Averrhoa carambola</i> Leaf Has an Anticancer Activity on Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells: An In Vitro Study by Oscar F. Beas-Guzmán, Ariana Cabrera-Licona, Gustavo A. Hernández-Fuentes, Silvia G. Ceballos-Magaña, José Guzmán-Esquivel, Luis De-León-Zaragoza, Mario Ramírez-Flores, Janet Diaz-Martinez, Idalia Garza-Veloz, Margarita L. Martínez-Fierro, Iram P. Rodríguez-Sanchez, Gabriel Ceja-Espíritu, Carmen Meza-Robles, Víctor H. Cervantes-Kardasch, Iván Delgado-Enciso

“…Migration, assessed through a wound healing assay, was reduced to 3.06% at 100 μg/mL, with only 16.23% of cells remaining attached. …”
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Exploring the protective role of caffeine against Taraxacum-Induced ribotoxic stress mediated through autophagy and mitochondrial depolarization by Chien-Jung Lin, Shu-Ting Liu, Zih-Syuan Wu, Shih-Ming Huang, Teng-Wei Chen

“…T. formosanum induced the N-terminal clipping of histone H3, which was observed not only in human HeLa cervical cancer cells but also in human Huh6 and HepG2 liver cancer cells. …”
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Identification and validation of TSPAN13 as a novel temozolomide resistance-related gene prognostic biomarker in glioblastoma. by Haofei Wang, Zhen Liu, Zesheng Peng, Peng Lv, Peng Fu, Xiaobing Jiang

“…We assessed cell proliferation, migration, and invasion capabilities through in vitro assays (including CCK-8, Edu, wound healing, and transwell assays) and quantitatively analyzed TSPAN13 expression levels in clinical glioma samples using tissue microarray immunohistochemistry. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Treatment of Physical Health Problems Without a Known Cause, Exemplified by Hypertension and Tinnitus by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Isack Kandel, Joav Merrick

“…For treatment in holistic medicine, it really does not matter as much that you cannot give the patient a precise medical diagnosis, because you can always work on the patient with the intention of healing his or her whole life and existence. It is quite a paradox that many of these diseases can be understood on the level of the individual patient at the same moment that the patient is cured; many of these diseases seem to be clearly related to the repression of the individual character, as stressed already by Hippocrates. …”
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Optimizing Phaeodactylum tricornutum cultivation: integrated strategies for enhancing biomass, lipid, and fucoxanthin production by Mostafa E. Elshobary, Walaa A. Abo-Shanab, Stephan S. W. Ende, Mohammed Alquraishi, Rania A. El-Shenody

“…The optimized conditions also altered the biodiesel characteristics, such as kinematic viscosity, cloud point, and higher heating value. Conclusion Our optimization approach reveals the significant potential of P. tricornutum as a versatile microbial platform for biomass, lipid, and fucoxanthin production. …”
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The effects of different egg yolk concentrations used with soy bean lecithin-based extender on semen quality to freeze bull semen by Serpil Sariozkan, Purhan Barbaros Tuncer, Mustafa Numan Bucak, Serhat Buyukleblebici, Huseyin Kinet, Ali Bilgen

“…Sperm cryosurvival was evaluated in vitro by microscopic assessments of post-thaw sperm motility (by means of the CASA), acrosomal and other abnormalities (head, mid-pieces, and tail) and plasma membrane integrity (evaluated by HOST).…”
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Degradation Kinetics of Ascorbic Acid in Xanthan Gum Solution by Runqi JIA, Yujie TANG, Weiwei HE, Xiaoxiao SONG, Junyi YIN

“…In addition, elevated reaction temperature accelerated the reaction between AA and XG, leading to a degradation rate of AA increased to 45.59% after heating at 90 ℃for 1 h. The degradation process of AA in this system followed the second-order reaction kinetics equation. …”
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Establishment and Validation of a Predictive Model for Radiation-Associated Aspiration Pneumonia in Patients with Radiation-Induced Dysphagia after Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by Honghong Li, Yong He, Xiaohuang Zhuo, Zongwei Yue, Xiaoming Rong, Yike Li, Yi Li, Lei He, Jinping Cheng, Dong Pan, Ruiqi Xue, Jinhua Cai, Jingru Jiang, Yongteng Xu, Yamei Tang

“…Radiotherapy for patients with head and neck cancers raises their risk of aspiration pneumonia-related death. …”
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Location-specific heterogeneity in landslide resilience index: A household-based comparative study in Rangamati Hill District, Bangladesh by Raihan Riaz, Neegar Sultana, Raihan Riaz

“…Finally, 294 household heads from eleven landslide-prone hills were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. …”
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The Effect of Aromatherapy with Lavender Oil on the Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Fibromyalgia by Gulsah Yasa Ozturk, Ibrahim Bashan

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of lavender oil, which has been used in complementary medicine as an aromatherapeutic, on the health-related quality of life in patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia and to determine the main volatile compounds of lavender oil with healing effects. Forty-two patients aged 18 years and over who were diagnosed with fibromyalgia according to the American College of Rheumatology 2010 diagnostic criteria and used lavender oil as an aromatherapeutic by applying it on the wrist or via inhalation for four weeks were included in this study. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine (Mindful, Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Complemented with Bodywork) Improves Quality of Life, Health, and Ability by Induction of Antonovsky-Sal... by Søren Ventegodt, Suzette Thegler, Tove Andreasen, Flemming Struve, Lars Enevoldsen, Laila Bassaine, Margrethe Torp, Joav Merrick

“…We found that during treatment, (in average 20 sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy complemented with bodywork at a cost of 1600 EURO), the patients entered a state of Antonovsky-salutogenesis (holistic, existential healing), which also improved their self-assessed health and general ability one whole step up a 5-point Likert Scale. …”
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Overestimating Impacts of Urbanization on Regional Temperatures in Developing Megacity: Beijing as an Example by Wei Cao, Lin Huang, Lulu Liu, Jun Zhai, Dan Wu

“…The results showed that the green space and landscape configuration should be considered in urban planning to increase green space and reduce the influence of urban heat island effect.…”
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Parametric Study of Rider’s Comfort in a Vehicle with Semi-Active Suspension System Under Steady State Conditions by Arinola Bola Ajayi, Sunday Joushua Ojolo, Ediketin Ojogho, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira

“…Thus, this study investigates the dynamic response of semi-active vehicle suspension system under the influence of steady state road conditions such as smooth, gravel and suburban roads to obtain mathematical equations based on the pitch and heave motions of the vehicle. Power spectral density, PSD, was used to characterize the road input spectrum on the basis of the road roughness parameters which correlate with International Roughness Index, (IRI). …”
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La folie de l’arc-en-ciel ou la longue errance de Bwila by Claudie Haxaire

“…The meaning of this ritual and the progression of the healing process can indeed be deduced from the Guro vision of the world and from the Guro notion of a person. …”
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Investigation of the Thermal Degradation Behavior of Coal/Biomass Blends for Kinetics Analysis with Sequential Method Implication by SHOAIB Hafiz Muhammad, QURESHI Tayyab, KHAN Ihtisham, MAHMOOD Hamayoun, IQBAL Tanveer

“….% were studied using a thermogravimetric analyzer in a nitrogen environment with 10K/min heating rate. A sequential method approach is used to calculate kinetics parameters quickly and accurately. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with newborn care practices among caregivers: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis in sub-Saharan Africa by Solomon Mohammed Salia, Amidu Alhassan, Billie de Haas, Jelle Stekelenburg, Robert Kaba Alhassan

“…An online search on electronic databases such as CIHNAL, Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and AJOL will be conducted from January 2021 to present to identify relevant academic, peer-reviewed quantitative studies published in English Language. Medical Subject Headings will aid in identifying keywords pertinent to the study's concepts, combined with Boolean operators to obtain suitable articles. …”
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Optimal Suppression of Photocatalytic Activity of Hybrid TiO2 Particles in Epoxy Thin Film by Using Taguchi Method by Sunderishwary S. Muniandy, Tan Sek Soon, Swee Yong Pung, Sivakumar Ramakrishnan

“…Key variables such as the concentration of the hybridization material (C), heating temperature (Th), and calcinating temperature (Tc) were selected with performance measured by photodegradation rate. …”
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β-Hydroxybutyrate Protects Against Cisplatin-Induced Renal Damage via Regulating Ferroptosis by Ruixue Tian, Shuqin Tang, Jingyu Zhao, Yajie Hao, Limei Zhao, Xiutao Han, Xingru Wang, Lijun Zhang, Rongshan Li, Xiaoshuang Zhou

“…More recent research has indicated that β-hydroxybutyrate (β-HB) protects against acute or chronic organ damage as an efficient healing agent. Nonetheless, the therapeutic mechanisms of β-HB in acute kidney damage caused by chemotherapeutic drugs remain unclear. …”
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Application of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in the Diagnosis of Infectious Keratitis by Xin-Yu Pan, Meng Wang, Yi-Dan Xu, Lin-Nong Wang

“…As a result, 214 cases (74.6%) were cured, 51 cases (17.8%) improved, 8 cases (2.8%) did not heal, ocular content enucleation was performed in 14 cases (4.9%), and the overall efficacy rate was 92.3%. …”
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Exploring the effects of dietary methionine supplementation on European seabass mucosal immune responses against Tenacibaculum maritimum by Inês Carvalho, Inês Carvalho, Diogo Peixoto, Diogo Peixoto, Inês Ferreira, Inês Ferreira, Diego Robledo, Diego Robledo, Lourenço Ramos-Pinto, Rodolfo Miguel Silva, José Fernando Gonçalves, Marina Machado, Carolina Tafalla, Benjamin Costas, Benjamin Costas

“…These findings, together with the lower mRNA expression of proinflammatory genes in the head kidney and the higher mortality rates observed in this group, suggest a potential impairment of the immune response.…”
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