Immunopathological Changes of Streptococcus pneumoniae Causing Respiratory Infection in Lambs by Abbas A Hamzah, Zainab I Ibrahim

“…The blood samples were collected from all animal groups at day zero before pneumoniae induction and 3, 6, and 14 days post infection  for total and differential white blood cell count ‎(WBCs) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) assessments. Additionally, on days 6 and 14 post-exposure, trachea and lung tissue samples were harvested for macroscopic and microscopic pathological changes evaluation. …”
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Chronic restraint stress affects the diurnal rhythms of gut microbial composition and metabolism in a mouse model of depression by Yue Wang, Peijin Cui, Maolin Cao, Ling Ai, Li Zeng, Xue Li, Dan Chen, Fang Gong, Liang Fang, Chanjuan Zhou

“…Results CRS mice exhibited depressive-like behaviours after 4 weeks of restriction. Alpha- and beta-diversity analyses revealed that the microbial composition in control and CRS mice oscillated throughout the day. …”
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Simultaneous Pheochromocytoma, Paraganglioma, and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma without Known Mutation by Lorena Rasquin, Janna Prater, Jane Mayrin, Corrado Minimo

“…Urine metanephrines was elevated. After preoperative alpha-blockade, patient underwent total right adrenalectomy. …”
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Prognostic Value of CXCL13, CCL11, and CCL20 Chemokines in Multiple Sclerosis by Işıl Peker, Hacer Eroğlu İçli, Belgin Mutluay, Burcu Yüksel, Zeynep Özdemir, Mesrure Köseoğlu, Aysu Şen, Dilek Ataklı, Aysun Soysal, Musa Öztürk

Subjects: “…macrophage inflammatory protein 3-alfa…”
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Catheter ablation versus antiarrhythmic drugs with risk factor modification for treatment of atrial fibrillation: a protocol of a randomised controlled trial (PRAGUE-25 trial) by Stepan Havranek, Jiri Jarkovsky, Otakar Jiravský, Pavel Osmancik, Veronika Bulková, Jan Chovančík, Tomáš Roubíček, Dalibor Heřman, Zuzana Čarná, Vladimír Tuka, Martin Matoulek, Martin Fiala, Sylvie Stregl-Hruskova, Adam Latiňák, Jiřina Kotryová

“…An AF freedom of 65% in the RFM+AAD and of 60% in the CA is expected; therefore, 202 patients will be enrolled to achieve the non-inferiority with 80% power, 5% one-sided alpha and a non-inferiority margin of 12%.Ethics and dissemination The PRAGUE-25 trial will determine if modern non-invasive AF treatment strategies are non-inferior to CA. …”
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A Research on Professıonal Anxıety Levels of 3and 4 Grade Students of Faculty of Sport Scıences of Selcuk Unıversıty by Ramazan Topuz, İbrahim Bozkurt, Mehmet Özdemir

“…For this study, the Cronbach Alpha coefficent was calculated as 0.88. Significance level in the study was taken as 0.05. …”
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Isolation and Evaluation of Potential Use of Prebiotics—Utilizing Butyrate-Producing Bacteria in Nibea coibor by Zhongzhen Li, Ngoc Tuan Tran, Ming Zhang, Zhaoxi Li, Wanying Yang, Shuqi Wang, Zhong Hu, Shengkang Li

“…Contents of IL-6 (PS and PSGS groups), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) (CB, PS, and PSGS groups), total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC) (CB and PS groups), total superoxide dismutase (T-SOD) (PS group), catalase (CAT) (CB and PSGS groups), and activities of amylase (PS and PSGS groups), trypsin (CB group), and lipase (CBIG group) were increased. …”
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Regulation of miRNAs in obesity and diabetes by Eva Maher, Ava O'Meara, Cathy Brougham

“…Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGF-β), Tumour Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-α) and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A (VEGFA) were differentially expressed across each of the cell cohorts investigated. …”
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Systemic Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Childhood Obesity: Sex Differences in Adiposity Indices and Cardiovascular Risk by Tjaša Hertiš Petek, Evgenija Homšak, Mateja Svetej, Nataša Marčun Varda

“…We also aimed to assess the potential of the interferon-inducible T-cell alpha chemoattractant (I-TAC/CXCL11) as a novel biomarker. …”
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Knockdown of PTEN promotes colon cancer progression and induces M2 macrophage polarization in the colon cancer cell environment by Xu Han, Ting Yan, Lina Wang, Bin He, Huaxu Yu

“…Si-PTEN reduced the expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-1beta (IL-1β), and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), which upregulated the expression of Arg-1, CD206, CD163, p-p38, JNK, and AP-1 (P-values < 0.05). …”
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Petrological controls on the engineering properties of carbonate aggregates through a machine learning approach by Javid Hussain, Tehseen Zafar, Xiaodong Fu, Nafees Ali, Jian Chen, Fabrizio Frontalini, Jabir Hussain, Xiao Lina, George Kontakiotis, Olga Koumoutsakou

“…., r = 0.998, R² = 997, Root mean square error = 0.075, Variance Accounted For = 99.50%, Mean Absolute Percentage Error = 0.385%, Alpha 20 Index = 100, and performance index = 0.975). …”
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Instrumentos y escalas para medir la cultura organizacional: una revisión sistemática de la literatura en el período 2013-2023. by Javier Reyes Hernández, Juana Patlán Pérez

“…El 92,8 % de los instrumentos analizados supera el Alpha de Cronbach de 0,70, y para la validación, el 85,7 % empleó la validez de constructo. …”
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Development and Validation of the Pediatric Well-Being Picture Scale© Using a Mixed-Methods Research Design by Judith Quaranta, Rosa Darling, Mei-Hsiu Chen, Julia DeMartino, Madison Kozlowski

“…The test/retest reliability demonstrated strong correlations, with an ICC of 0.823 (95% CI [0.690, 0.905]). The Cronbach’s alpha for all the administrations was 0.74, 0.74, 0.84, and 0.89. …”
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Cerebrospinal fluid metabolites as potential biomarkers for epilepsy: Insights from genome‐wide association studies by Zhenxiang Zhao, Na Xing, Lin Hou

“…After False Discovery Rate (FDR) multiple testing correction, two metabolites (Methylmalonate and Gamma‐glutamyl‐alpha‐lysine) were found to have robust causal links to epilepsy (p < 0.05 and FDR<0.05). …”
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Tailored exercise and manual therapy versus standardised exercise for patients with shoulder subacromial pain: a feasibility randomised controlled trial (the Otago MASTER trial) by J Haxby Abbott, Daniel C Ribeiro, Zohreh Jafarian Tangrood, Gisela Sole, Ross Wilson

“…Since this is a feasibility study, we did not adjust alpha for multiple comparisons, and considered 75% CI as the probability threshold at 3-month follow-up. …”
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Comparison of Finasteride and Dutasteride on Risk of Prostate Cancer in Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Pooled Analysis of 15 Real-world Databases by Dae Yul Yang, Won-Woo Seo, Rae Woong Park, Sang Youl Rhee, Jae Myung Cha, Yoon Soo Hah, Chang Won Jeong, Kyung-Jin Kim, Hyeon-Jong Yang, Do Kyung Kim, Ji Yong Ha

“…Finasteride blocks only the type 2 form of 5-alpha-reductase, whereas dutasteride blocks both type 1 and 2 forms of the enzyme. …”

Distinct roles of Constitutive Photomorphogenesis Protein 1 homolog (COP1) in human hepatocyte models by Sébastien Soubeyrand, Paulina Lau, Ruth McPherson, Ruth McPherson

“…COP1 downregulation reduced hepatic nuclear factor-4 alpha (HNF4A) abundance and function, as assessed by a lower abundance of key HNF4A targets, reduced APOB secretion, and reporter assays. …”
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Fatty Acid Profile and Chemical Composition of Three Populations of Southern Cattail (Typha domingensis) from South of Iran by Mona Shojaee Barjouee, Massoumeh Farasat, Mehrnoosh Tadayoni

“…In roots and rhizomes, the maximum proportion of unsaturated fatty acids including oleic acid (ω-9), linoleic acid (ω-6), alpha- linolenic acid (ω-3) was 65.85±1.51%, whereas in stems and leaves, it was 41.10±0.09%. …”
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Study of the neuroprotective properties of metformin in rats with type 2 diabetes mellitus and brain injury induced by intracerebral hemorrhage by V.L. Holubiev, M.H. Oberemok, V.A. Tkachenko, Yu.V. Kharchenko, O.O. Bondarenko, A.E. Lievykh, V.I. Zhyliuk

“…Histopathological examination was performed using general histological staining techniques and immunohistochemical methods for assessment of expression of endothelial NO-synthase (eNOS), Growth Associated Protein 43 (GAP43), Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha (HIF-1α), neural cadherine (N-cadherine) and vascular endothelial cadherine (VE-cadherine). …”
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Association between fluoride exposure and the risk of serum CK and CK-MB elevation in adults: a cross-sectional study in China by Junhua Wu, Ming Qin, Yue Gao, Yang Liu, Xiaona Liu, Yuting Jiang, Yanmei Yang, Yanhui Gao

“…This study found that there was a positive association between urinary fluoride concentration and the risk of CK-MB elevation in participants under the age of 60 years(OR = 2.18 [95% CI: 1.39–3.42]), those who were of female gender (OR = 1.53 [95% CI: 1.07–2.19]), those who were overweight/obese (OR = 1.96 [95% CI: 1.28–2.99]), those who had central obesity (OR = 1.59 [95% CI: 1.12–2.25]), consumed alcohol (OR = 1.49 [95% CI: 1.09–2.05]), and smoked (OR = 1.50 [95% CI: 1.10–2.04]).ConclusionOur study suggests that fluoride exposure is associated with the risk of serum CK and CK-MB elevation; however, it is not associated with myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia, serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), serum alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (α-HBD), or serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST). …”
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