Changes in Blood Profile from Steady State in Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia Admitted for Vaso-occlusive Crisis and Acute Chest Syndrome by Timothy Klouda, Deepti Raybagkar, Bruce Bernstein, Nataly Apollonsky

“…These results indicate that trending laboratory markers may be useful to predict patients at risk for ACS development.…”
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Asymmetric Dimethyl Arginine as a Biomarker of Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Manuela Di Franco, Bruno Lucchino, Fabrizio Conti, Guido Valesini, Francesca Romana Spinelli

“…The pathophysiology of accelerated atherosclerosis associated to RA is not yet fully understood, and reliable and specific markers of early cardiovascular involvement are still lacking. …”
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Radiographically Occult Carcinomatous Spread of Breast Cancer to the Liver: A Challenging Case by Trish Millard, Akriti Gupta, Christiana Brenin, Paul Marshall, Patrick Dillon

“…We report a case of a 69-year-old woman with metastatic ductal carcinoma of the breast who presented with rising serum tumor markers and mildly cirrhotic contour of the liver on a CT scan. …”
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Clinical Utility of Neutrophil CD64 to Detect Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Three Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Undergoing Treatment with Biologics by Shinichi Nogi, Yoshiyuki Arinuma, Akiko Komiya, Atsushi Hashimoto, Toshihiro Matsui, Shigeto Tohma

“…Detection of tuberculosis (TB) is challenging due to the difficulty in distinguishing symptoms such as fever and elevation of inflammatory markers from other infections or a disease flare of RA. …”
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Primary Cholangiocarcinoma of the Liver Presenting as a Complicated Hepatic Cyst: A Diagnostic Challenge by Chang Won Ha, Sang Deok Shin, Myung Ji Goh, Byeong Geun Song, Wonseok Kang, Dong Hyun Sinn, Geum-Youn Gwak, Yong-Han Paik, Moon Seok Choi, Joon Hyeok Lee

“…This case highlights the diagnostic challenge of distinguishing between benign complicated hepatic cysts and malignancies, particularly when typical markers of infection are absent. Early biopsy and vigilant assessments are crucial in such presentations to avoid a delayed diagnosis and initiate appropriate treatment.…”
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Monocytes as Regulators of Inflammation and HIV-Related Comorbidities during cART by Joshua J. Anzinger, Tiffany R. Butterfield, Thomas A. Angelovich, Suzanne M. Crowe, Clovis S. Palmer

“…Although T-cell activation has been extensively examined in the context of cART-treated HIV infection, monocyte activation is only beginning to be recognized as an important source of inflammation in this context. Here we examine markers and sources of monocyte activation during cART-treated HIV infection and discuss the role of monocytes during cardiovascular disease, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder, and innate immune aging.…”
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Bing-Neel Syndrome Case Report: A Previously Undocumented IgG Variant with MRI, PET/CT, and PET/MRI Imaging by Daniel Halperin, Simon Hallam, Athar Haroon, Tom Butler, Samir Agrawal

“…We discuss the biological and radiological markers of his disease, including PET imaging, which has been minimal in this area to date.…”
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Critical evaluation of pathogenic factors of primary biliary cirrhosis by A. F. Sheptulina, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Detection of risk factors and the possible PBC causes allows to develop additional treatment approaches, and define new PBC markers, increase rate of early stage diagnostics.…”
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Cardiovascular Disease in Ageing: An Overview on Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm as an Emerging Inflammatory Disease by Calogera Pisano, Carmela Rita Balistreri, Alessandro Ricasoli, Giovanni Ruvolo

“…The coexistence of inflammatory cells with markers of apoptotic vascular cell death in the media of ascending aorta with aneurysms and type A dissections raises the possibility that activated T cells and macrophages may contribute to the elimination of smooth muscle cells and degradation of the matrix. …”
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Gut Microbiota in HIV Infection: Implication for Disease Progression and Management by Felix Chinweije Nwosu, Ekaterina Avershina, Robert Wilson, Knut Rudi

“…This review focuses on current knowledge of the complex microbial communities and microbial markers involved in the disruption of mucosal immune T-cells in the promotion of inflammatory processes in HIV infections. …”
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Clinical Outcomes of Specific Immunotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jiang Chen, Guo Xiao-Zhong, Xing-Shun Qi

“…The effects of specific immunotherapy were compared with those of nonspecific immunotherapy and the meta-analysis was executed with results regarding the overall survival (OS), immune responses data, and serum cancer markers data. The pooled analysis was performed by using the random-effects model. …”
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Role of Coagulation Factors in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Literature Review by Azeem Azam, Aleksandra Klisic, Filiz Mercantepe, Hamza Faseeh, Tolga Mercantepe, Saira Rafaqat

“…An integrative perspective on the role of coagulation markers in HCC may improve clinical management strategies for patients affected by this malignancy.…”
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Can Lp(a) become the next A1C? A case for digital health management tools to overcome inertia to Lipoprotein (a) testing by Christof Wedemeyer, Martin Peters, Graham Jones, Graham Jones

“…Despite its known correlations with risk of cardiovascular disease, awareness and testing for Lipoprotein (a) lags that of other serological markers with estimates that less than 1% of the US population have undergone screening. …”
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Oxidative Stress and Its Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Diseases by Julija Valaitienė, Agnė Laučytė-Cibulskienė

“…Conclusion Improved knowledge of biomolecular processes triggered by oxidative stress has helped develop tools for assessing oxidative stress markers and applying them in clinical settings. Nevertheless, some research gaps should be filled, specifically by defining the most clinically relevant biomarkers for oxidative stress with high sensitivity and specificity for CVD.…”
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Torsion of Fatty Appendage of Falciform Ligament: Acute Abdomen in a Child by Caroline Maccallum, Sarah Eaton, Daniel Chubb, Stephen Franzi

“…Torsion of the fatty appendage of the falciform ligament is an extremely rare condition that leads to severe abdominal pain and raised inflammatory markers. It can be recognised on ultrasound or CT scan. …”
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Diagnostic Lessons from a Complex Case of Postintestinal Transplantation Enteropathy by Cian Wade, Philip Allan, Elena Collantes, Srikanth R. Reddy, Peter J. Friend, Georgios Vrakas

“…This case illustrates the importance of developing reliable and specific markers for guiding the diagnosis of rejection and the use of antirejection therapeutics in this rapidly evolving field of transplant surgery.…”
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Effect of Cordyceps militaris extract containing cordycepin on the adipogenesis and lipolysis of adipocytes by Kazuya Kusama, Kodai Oka, Yumi Yashiro, Kanoko Yoshida, Hiroaki Miyaoka, Kazuhiro Tamura

“…In a diabetic obese mouse model, CM and cordycepin lowered serum low‐density lipoprotein/very low‐density lipoprotein levels and reduced oxidative stress and cell senescence markers. Thus, cordycepin inhibits preadipocyte differentiation and promotes lipolysis, which may serve as a novel obesity treatment. …”
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A Rare Tumor with a Very Rare Initial Presentation: Thymic Carcinoma as Bone Marrow Metastasis by Sonam Sharma, Leelavathi Dawson

“…This has led to difficulty in their histological classification and in predicting their prognostic and survival markers. Among them, thymic carcinoma is the most aggressive thymic epithelial tumor exhibiting cytological malignant features and a diversity of clinicopathological characteristics that can cause diagnostic dilemmas, misdiagnosis, and therapeutic challenge. …”
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Learning transitivity schemas: The role of the number of nominals and word order by Audisio Cynthia Pamela

“…Certain languages primarily rely on distributed cues, such as the number and ordering of noun phrases, while others prefer local devices like causative morphology or case markers. Extensive research has been conducted on the role played by the number and position of argument noun phrases in comprehending simple transitive sentences. …”
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COMPOSITION AND UTILIZATION OF THE APPLE- TREE COLLECTION IN BELARUS by Z. A. Kazlouskaya

“…A new trait-specific working collection of fungal disease resistance sources and donors has been established. Using molecular markers made it possible to identify large-fruit donors with 2-3 oligogenes of apple scab resistance in the same genome, and small-fruit donors with 1-3 oligogenes of powdery mildew resistance. …”
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