Muscle quality index is correlated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional population-based study by Mengye Zhang, Hao Lin, Xue Xu

“…Conclusion This study provides evidence that decreased levels of MQI are correlated with an increased risk of IR and T2DM, indicating the potential utility as a marker for identifying IR and T2DM.…”
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Hadislerde Beyân ve Bedî İlmiyle İlgili Edebî Sanatların Kullanıma Dair Örnekler by Yaşar Seracettin Baytar

“…Peygamber’in (s.a.s.) anlam bakımından zengin, ifade açısından zarîf ve veciz hadisleri, mezkûr edebî sanatların kullanımına dair eşsiz güzellikte örnekler sunmaktadır. …”
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Changes in Tolaki People Burial in Southeast Sulawesi: From Boat-Shaped Grave Coffin (Soronga) to Boat-Shaped Islamic Tomb (Koburu Bangga) by Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba

“…It was made of stone, river stone, mountain stone, wood, and even tree was also used as a tomb marker. The boat-typed tomb still maintained because a faith that the deceased need vehicles to go to their destination. …”
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Clinico- Therapeutic Study of Stevens Johnson Syndrome-Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis and Prognostic Significance of SCORTEN in Indian Patients by Neha Chetan Jangid, Ankita Nirmal Choudhary, Bela Jashwantlal Shah, Shikha Rupalkumar Shah, Harshita R Vyas, Deval Mistry

“…Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of SCORTEN as a prognostic marker in SJS-TEN. Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital for two years. …”
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Endothelial Function in Women with and without a History of Glucose Intolerance in Pregnancy by Shireen Brewster, John Floras, Bernard Zinman, Ravi Retnakaran

“…Endothelial dysfunction, as indicated by impaired flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) on brachial artery ultrasound, is an early marker of vascular disease. Thus, we sought to evaluate endothelial function in women with and without recent glucose intolerance in pregnancy. …”
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Sareomycetes: more diverse than meets the eye by James K. Mitchell, Isaac Garrido-Benavent, Luis Quijada, Donald H. Pfister

“…Dating analyses using additional marker regions indicate the emergence of the Sareomycetes was roughly concurrent with the diversification of the genus Pinus, suggesting that this group of fungi emerged to exploit the newly-available resinous ecological niche supplied by Pinus or another, extinct group of conifers. …”
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Plasma Adiponectin and Its Correlation with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Obesity and in Type 2 Diabetes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Maha Hussein, Aasem Saif, Mona Amin, Osama Khalafallah, Ahmed Hussien, Samar Aboulsoud, Shrook Mousa

“…We assessed plasma adiponectin and its correlation with carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), as a marker of atherosclerosis, in Egyptian patients with NAFLD. …”
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Influence of preoperative frailty on quality of life after cardiac surgery: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Kathryn Bezzina, Christophe A Fehlmann, Ming Hao Guo, Sarah M Visintini, Fraser D Rubens, George A Wells, Rosetta Mazzola, Caroline McGuinty, Allen Huang, Lara Khoury, Kevin Emery Boczar

“…<h4>Background</h4>Frailty has emerged as an important prognostic marker of adverse outcomes after cardiac surgery, but evidence regarding its ability to predict quality of life after cardiac surgery is currently lacking. …”
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Preliminary Assessment of the Chemical Stability of Dried Extracts from Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. (Sterculiaceae) by Gisely C. Lopes, Renata Longhini, Paulo Victor P. dos Santos, Adriano A. S. Araújo, Marcos Luciano Bruschi, João Carlos P. de Mello

“…The results showed that PB2 is an appropriate compound to be used as a chemical marker in the quality control of dried extracts of G. ulmifolia. …”
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Phylogeny of Flavobacteria Group Isolated from Freshwater Using Multilocus Sequencing Analysis by Seyoung Mun, Jungnam Lee, Siwon Lee, Kyudong Han, Tae-Young Ahn

“…However, we have been unable to clearly identify five Flavobacterium species isolated from a freshwater by using the gene as a single marker, because the evolutionary history is incomplete and the pace of DNA substitutions is relatively rapid in the bacteria. …”
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Sex differences in the association between repetitive negative thinking and neurofilament light by Yolanda Lau, Amit Bansal, Cassandre Palix, Harriet Demnitz-King, Miranka Wirth, Olga Klimecki, Gael Chetelat, Géraldine Poisnel, Natalie L. Marchant, The Medit-Ageing Research Group

“…Exploratory analyses examined whether allostatic load, a marker of chronic stress, mediates any observed relationships. …”
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İbn Hacer el-Heytemî'ye (Ö. 974/1567) Nispet Edilen “en-Ni'metü'l-Kübrâ” İle Onun Özgün “en-Ni'metü'l-Kübrâ”sı Üzerine by İbrahim Hanek

“…Bununla birlikte mevlid kitabı olarak sadece mezkûr eseri te’lîf eden İbn Hacer’in, bu eserinin ilk dönemlerden itibaren farklı isimlerle anılması ve daha başka nedenlerden dolayı muhtelif pek çok mevlid kitabı te’lîf ettiğiyle ilgili yanlış ve oldukça yaygın kanaat de burada sorgulanmaya çalışılacaktır. …”
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Dynamic interplay of autophagy and membrane repair during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. by Jacques Augenstreich, Anna T Phan, Charles N S Allen, Anushka Poddar, Hanzhang Chen, Lalitha Srinivasan, Volker Briken

“…We employed time-lapse confocal microscopy to investigate the recruitment of LC3B (LC3), a key autophagy marker, to MCVs at the single cell level with our newly developed workflow for single cell and single MCV tracking and fluorescence quantification. …”
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Diabetes-Resistant NOR Mice Are More Severely Affected by Streptozotocin Compared to the Diabetes-Prone NOD Mice: Correlations with Liver and Kidney GLUT2 Expressions by S. Kahraman, C. Aydin, G. O. Elpek, E. Dirice, A. D. Sanlioglu

“…Although beta cell GLUT2 expression levels are frequently evaluated as a marker predicting STZ sensitivity in animal models, we report here very different diabetic responses to STZ in two different animal strains, in spite of similar initial GLUT2 expressions in beta cells. …”
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Reduced Serum Butyrylcholinesterase Activity Indicates Severe Systemic Inflammation in Critically Ill Patients by Aleksandar R. Zivkovic, Karsten Schmidt, Annette Sigl, Sebastian O. Decker, Thorsten Brenner, Stefan Hofer

“…We hypothesized that the activity of butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) might serve as a marker to identify and prognose systemic inflammation. …”
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β2microglobulin levels, clinical and sociodemographic variables in patients with recently diagnosed chronic lymphoproliferative syndrome by Pedro Javier Sánchez Sánchez, Julio Dámaso Fernández Águila, Pedro Sánchez Frenes, María de Jesús Sánchez Bouza, Karelys Díaz Alfonso

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> β2microglobulin is recognized as a tumor marker for different purposes in malignant hematopathies of lymphoid lineage; however, there is no history of its use in the Cienfuegos province.…”
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A Rare Case of Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Child with a Congenital Heart Disease by Bhim Gopal Dhoubhadel, Ujjwal Laghu, Raju Poudel, Konosuke Morimoto, Koya Ariyoshi

“…On examination, she had a pansystolic murmur and meningeal signs. Lumbar puncture was done; opening pressure was high (27 cm H2O) and white blood cell (WBC) count in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was slightly high. …”
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Elevated Preoperative Serum CA19-9 Levels in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Is Associated with Poor Prognosis after Resection by Yu-Ling Chen, Chien-Hung Chen, Rey-Heng Hu, Ming-Chih Ho, Yung-Ming Jeng

“…Serum levels of the tumor marker CA19-9 have been reported to be elevated in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but its clinicopathologic significance is still unknown. …”
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Association of mitochondrial haplogroup F with physical performance in korean population by In Wook Hwang, Kicheol Kim, Eun Ji Choi, Han Jun Jin

“…The heritability of an athlete status was reported to be about 70% in a twin study, and at least 155 genetic markers are known to be related with athlete status. …”
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FHL1 as a prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target in acute promyelocytic leukaemia by Bo Luo, Wei Li, Jingyuan Zeng, Yingyu Mao, Shuang He, Nan Hu, Qulian Guo, Xiaoli Zheng

“…FHL1 may play a role as a potential molecular marker and therapeutic target for predicting poor prognosis of AML and for direct treatment (chemotherapy).…”
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