Pulmonary Densitovolumetry Using Computed Tomography in Patients with Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: Correlation with Pulmonary Function Tests by Patricia Gomes Cytrangulo De Marca, Telma Goldenberg, Fernanda Carvalho Queiroz Mello, Alysson Roncally Silva Carvalho, Alan Ranieri Medeiros Guimarães, Roberto Mogami, Agnaldo José Lopes

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Multinational comparison of new antidepressant use in older adults: a cohort study by Robyn Tamblyn, David Westfall Bates, David L Buckeridge, Will Dixon, Alan J Forster, Nadyne Girard, Jennifer Haas, Bettina Habib, Siyana Kurteva, Jack Li, Therese Sheppard

“…Chronic pain was the most common potential treatment indication. …”
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Improving the Reporting of Primary Care Research: Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary Care—the CRISP Statement by Phillips William R., Sturgiss Elizabeth, Glasziou Paul, olde Hartman Tim C., Orkin Aaron M., Prathivadi Pallavi, Reeve Joanne, Russell Grant M., van Weel Chris

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An open‐source LED lamp for use with the LI‐6800 photosynthesis system by Aarón I. Vélez‐Ramírez, Juan de Dios Moreno, Uriel G. Pérez‐Guerrero, Antonio M. Juarez, Hector Castillo‐Arriaga, Josefina Vázquez‐Medrano, Ilane Hernández‐Morales

“…Conclusions The lamp can be built using a basic electronics lab and a 3D printer. …”
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Prevention of Relapse in Reflux Esophagitis: A Placebo Controlled Study of Ranitidine 150 mg BID and 300 mg BID by John H Hegarty, Lars Halvorsen, Bouke P Hazenberg, Andrzej Nowak, Colin L Smith, Alan B Thomson, G Vantrappen, Ceri J Mckenna, Jane G Mills

“…OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy and safety of long term use of ranitidine 150 mg bid, 300 mg bid and placebo in prevention of endoscopic and symptomatic relapse of reflux esophagitis in an international, double-blind, placebo controlled, parallel group study.…”
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Peer and lay health work for people experiencing homelessness: A scoping review. by Jessica Mangan, Pablo Del Cid Nunez, Sara Daou, Graziella El-Khechen Richandi, Amna Siddiqui, Jonathan Wong, Liz Birk-Urovitz, Andrew Bond, Aaron M Orkin

“…The scope and breadth of peer and lay health worker programs among PEH has not been synthesized. …”
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Physiological and sanitary quality of soybean seeds in response to harvest delay by Carlos Henrique Conceição Sousa, Alan Mario Zuffo, Ricardo Mezzomo, Leandra Matos Barrozo, Fábio Steiner, Mohamed A. El-Tayeb, Hamada AbdElgawad, Charline Zaratin Alves

“…ABSTRACT Delays in soybean harvesting can limit seed viability and vigor. In this study, soybean cultivar seeds’ physiological and sanitary quality was evaluated in response to harvest delay. …”
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Buprenorphine for Chronic Pain: A Safer Alternative to Traditional Opioids by Suhani Dalal, Ahish Chitneni, Amnon A. Berger, Vwaire Orhurhu, Bilal Dar, Bennett Kramer, Anvinh Nguyen, John Pruit, Charles Halsted, Alan D. Kaye, Jamal Hasoon

“…With the ongoing public health crisis with prescription opioids, there is a need for safer alternatives for medication management in chronic pain patients. Buprenorphine is a partial mu-opioid agonist which is commonly utilized to treat patients with opioid-use disorders. …”
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Factores de Riesgo para Enfermedades Crónicas en Cienfuegos, Cuba 2010. Resultados preliminares de CARMEN II by Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Alain Morejón Giraldon, Alfredo Dario Espinosa Brito, Orestes Orlando Landrove Rodríguez, Dania Peraza Alejo, Pedro Ovidio Orduñez García Ovidio Orduñez García

“…El objetivo de esta comunicación breve es describir la prevalencia de cuatro de los más importante factores de riesgo de estas enfermedades durante el primer corte que se hace de la segunda medición del proyecto CARMEN Cienfuegos, mostrándose también las diferencias con los resultados de la primera medición. …”
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Chemoimmunotherapy as induction treatment in concurrent chemoradiotherapy for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma stage IVa by Kun-Peng Wu, Qing-Qing Li, Xu-Qiang Luo, Xiao-Xi Wang, Yan-Zhen Lai, Dan Tian, Hong-cheng Yang, Xue-Ling Wei, Lan-Ying Wang, Qiu-Ming Li, Dao Zhu, Si-Jie Chen, Yang-Si Li

“…Background Chemoimmunotherapy is the first-line therapy for patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and is currently the main induction treatment option for patients with locoregionally advanced NPC. …”
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Coherent harmonic generation of magnons in spin textures by Guibin Lan, Kang-Yuan Liu, Zhenyu Wang, Fan Xia, Hongjun Xu, Tengyu Guo, Yu Zhang, Bin He, Jiahui Li, Caihua Wan, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Peng Yan, Gang-Qin Liu, Xin-Yu Pan, Xiufeng Han, Guoqiang Yu

“…Abstract Harmonic generation, a notable non-linear phenomenon, has promising applications in information processing. …”
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Anti-TROVE2 Antibody Determined by Immune-Related Array May Serve as a Predictive Marker for Adalimumab Immunogenicity and Effectiveness in RA by Po-Ku Chen, Joung-Liang Lan, Yi-Ming Chen, Hsin-Hua Chen, Shih-Hsin Chang, Chia-Min Chung, Nurul H. Rutt, Ti-Myen Tan, Raja Nurashirin Raja Mamat, Nur Diana Anuar, Jonathan M. Blackburn, Der-Yuan Chen

“…The biomarkers were identified for predicting ADAb development and therapeutic response using the immune-related microarray and machine learning approach. ADAb-positive patients had lower drug levels at week 24 (median=0.024 μg/ml) compared with ADAb-negative patients (median=6.38 μg/ml, p<0.001). …”
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Combined prognostic value of the cancer stem cell markers CD47 and CD133 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Jian‐Hua Wang, Shu‐Ting Huang, Lan Zhang, Zi‐Gang Liu, Rong‐Xin Liang, Sen‐Wei Jiang, Yi‐Nan Jiang, Xing‐Juan Yu, Yu‐Chuan Jiang, Xi‐Zhao Li, Pei‐Fen Zhang, Zhe‐Sheng Wen, Min Zheng

“…Results Results conclude that CD47 and CD133 expression is increased in tumor tissues as compared to adjacent non‐tumor tissues. A positive correlation between CD47/CD133 expression and differentiation was found in 136 ESCC patients. …”
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Prophylactic Subacute Administration of Zinc Increases CCL2, CCR2, FGF2, and IGF-1 Expression and Prevents the Long-Term Memory Loss in a Rat Model of Cerebral Hypoxia-Ischemia by Victor Manuel Blanco-Alvarez, Guadalupe Soto-Rodriguez, Juan Antonio Gonzalez-Barrios, Daniel Martinez-Fong, Eduardo Brambila, Maricela Torres-Soto, Ana Karina Aguilar-Peralta, Alejandro Gonzalez-Vazquez, Constantino Tomás-Sanchez, I. Daniel Limón, Jose R. Eguibar, Araceli Ugarte, Jeanett Hernandez-Castillo, Bertha Alicia Leon-Chavez

“…Long-term memory was evaluated on day 7 after learning. …”
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Acute Neuroinflammatory Response in the Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta of Rats after a Local Injection of Lipopolysaccharide by Yazmin M. Flores-Martinez, Manuel A. Fernandez-Parrilla, Jose Ayala-Davila, David Reyes-Corona, Victor M. Blanco-Alvarez, Luis O. Soto-Rojas, Claudia Luna-Herrera, Juan A. Gonzalez-Barrios, Bertha A. Leon-Chavez, Maria E. Gutierrez-Castillo, Irma A. Martínez-Dávila, Daniel Martinez-Fong

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The International Vitreoretinal B-Cell Lymphoma Registry: a protocol paper by David J Wilson, Valérie Touitou, Justine R Smith, Manabu Mochizuki, Hiroshi Takase, Steven Yeh, Alexandra L Farrall, H Nida Sen, Daniel V Vasconcelos-Santos, Joke H de Boer, Ninette H ten Dam-van Loon, Janet L Davis, Anthony J Hall, Mark H B Radford

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HER-SAFE study design: an open-label, randomised controlled trial to investigate the safety of withdrawal of pharmacological treatment for recovered HER2-targeted therapy-related c... by Robin Chung, James C Moon, Alexander R Lyon, Charlotte H Manisty, Muhummad Sohaib Nazir, Malcolm Walker, Peter Kellman, Benjamin Dowsing, Daniel Chen, Jessica Artico, Mark Westwood, Hakim-Moulay Dehbi, Rebecca Roylance, Tom Crake, Peter Schmid, Arjun Ghosh, Maria Sol Andres, Joanna Pedra, Orla Worn

“…The Randomised Controlled Trial for the Safety of Withdrawal of Pharmacological Treatment for Recovered HER2 Targeted Therapy Related Cardiac Dysfunction (HER-SAFE) aims to evaluate whether HFT can be safely withdrawn in non-high cardiovascular (CV) risk patients with ‘recovered’ HER2 CTRCD.Methods and analysis This is a multicentre, open-label randomised controlled trial investigating whether withdrawal of HFT is non-inferior to continuation in non-high CV risk, breast cancer survivors with recovered HER2 CTRCD after cancer treatment completion. …”
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Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease Is an Independent Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Risks in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in China by Xiao-Hong Pang, Jue Han, Wan-Lan Ye, Xue Sun, Yue Ding, Wen-Juan Huang, Yi-Ming Zhao, Han-Yu Lou, Li-Zhen Shan, Ying-Xiu Kang, Xiao-Xiao Song, Song-Zhao Zhang, Wei Gu, Peng-Fei Shan

“…The patients were divided into a lower extremity PAD group (ankle-brachial index≤0.9 or >1.4; 88 patients, 7.5%) and a non-PAD group (ankle-brachial index>0.9 and ≤1.4; 1090 patients, 92.5%). …”
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Author Correction: Normal tissue radioprotection by amifostine via Warburg-type effects by Michael I. Koukourakis, Alexandra Giatromanolaki, Christos E. Zois, Dimitra Kalamida, Stamatia Pouliliou, Ilias V. Karagounis, Tzu-Lan Yeh, Martine I. Abboud, Timothy D. W. Claridge, Christopher J. Schofield, Efthimios Sivridis, Costantinos Simopoulos, Savvas P. Tokmakidis, Adrian L. Harris

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The R203M and D377Y mutations of the nucleocapsid protein promote SARS-CoV-2 infectivity by impairing RIG-I-mediated antiviral signaling. by Yongkui Li, Moran Li, Heng Xiao, Feng Liao, Miaomiao Shen, Weiwei Ge, Junxian Ou, Yuqing Liu, Lumiao Chen, Yue Zhao, Pin Wan, Jinbiao Liu, Jun Chen, Xianwu Lan, Shaorong Wu, Qiang Ding, Geng Li, Qiwei Zhang, Pan Pan

“…The viral protein mutations can modify virus-host interactions during virus evolution, and thus alter the extent of infection or pathogenicity. …”
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