Thiopurines in the Management of Crohn’s Disease: Safety and Efficacy Profile in Patients with Normal TPMT Activity—A Retrospective Study by Amine Benmassaoud, Xuanqian Xie, Motaz AlYafi, Yves Theoret, Alain Bitton, Waqqas Afif, Talat Bessissow

“…This retrospective study evaluated the safety and efficacy of starting thiopurines at low dose versus full dose in patients with CD and normal TPMT. Methods. This was a single center retrospective study including adult CD patients with normal TPMT levels (≥25 nmol/hr/g Hgb) who were followed for 1 year. …”
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Antenatal Steroids and the IUGR Fetus: Are Exposure and Physiological Effects on the Lung and Cardiovascular System the Same as in Normally Grown Fetuses? by Janna L. Morrison, Kimberley J. Botting, Poh Seng Soo, Erin V. McGillick, Jennifer Hiscock, Song Zhang, I. Caroline McMillen, Sandra Orgeig

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Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy in an STXBP1 Patient with Lactic Acidemia and Normal Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Function by Dong Li, Elizabeth Bhoj, Elizabeth McCormick, Fengxiang Wang, James Snyder, Tiancheng Wang, Yan Zhao, Cecilia Kim, Rosetta Chiavacci, Lifeng Tian, Marni J. Falk, Hakon Hakonarson

“…We report a 7-year-old boy who presented for diagnostic evaluation of intractable epilepsy, episodic ataxia, resting tremor, and speech regression following a period of apparently normal early development. Mild lactic acidemia was detected on one occasion at the time of an intercurrent illness. …”
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Light to Moderate Alcohol Consumption Is Protective for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Normal Weight and Overweight Individuals but Not the Obese by Patricia A. Metcalf, Robert K. R. Scragg, Rod Jackson

“…Alcohol consumption was protective against diagnosis of T2DM in normal and overweight individuals but not in the obese.…”
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Improved Patient Outcomes by Normalizing Sympathovagal Balance: Differentiating Syncope—Precise Subtype Differentiation Leads to Improved Outcomes by Nicholas L. DePace, Julie A. Bateman, Michael Yayac, John Oh, Mushfiqur Siddique, Cesar Acosta, Jeysel M. Pinales, Aaron I. Vinik, Heather L. Bloom

“…P&S monitoring noninvasively, independently, and simultaneously measures parasympathetic and sympathetic (P&S) activity, including the normal P-decrease followed by an S-increase with head-up postural change (standing). …”
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Thermal and Electronic Conductivity in Normal and Superconducting Erbium Nickel Borocarbide (ErNi2B2C) by Habtamu Tesfaye

“…In this work, the total electronic energy, the electronic thermal conductivity, and the heat capacity of erbium nickel borocarbide, ErNi2B2C, in the normal and superconducting states are calculated using Boltzmann transport equations (BTEs) and energy dispersion relation function. …”
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Neural-Network-Based Approach for Extracting Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues of Real Normal Matrices and Some Extension to Real Matrices by Xiongfei Zou, Ying Tang, Shirong Bu, Zhengxiang Luo, Shouming Zhong

“…Moreover, we show that extracting eigen-pairs of general real matrices can be reduced to those of real normal matrices by employing the norm-reducing skill. …”
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Assessment of Fetal Autonomic Nervous System Activity by Fetal Magnetocardiography: Comparison of Normal Pregnancy and Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Akimune Fukushima, Kenji Nakai, Tomonobu Kanasugi, Miyuki Terata, Toru Sugiyama

“…To clarify the developmental activity of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) of the normal fetus and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) cases using fetal magnetocardiography (FMCG). …”
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Experimental Study on Normal Frost-Heave Force Generated from Loess upon Freezing considering Multiple Factors by Zai-kun Zhao, Tie-hang Wang, Xin Jin, Yu Zhang

“…An experimental study on the normal frost-heave force generated by loess was conducted by subjecting loess with various water contents and densities to different temperature conditions. …”
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Apropiación del concepto de desarrollo sostenible por parte del profesorado de una escuela normal by Ibón Silvera Rada, Sabina Esther Guerra Palma, José Luis Olivo-Franco

“…[Objetivo] Integrar el concepto de desarrollo sostenible en el currículo de la Escuela Normal Superior Santa Ana por parte del colectivo docente de ciencias naturales y educación ambiental mediante la estrategia espacio-contexto. …”
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Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia Is Associated with Achilles Tendon Rupture through Disrupting the Normal Functions of Tendon Stem/Progenitor Cells by Jingjing Liang, Biao Chen, Yanmei Li, Daibang Nie, Changbin Lei, Qing Yang, Yiqin Zhou, Shenglong Li, Shuaizhi Chen, Bin Li, Lin Shu, Liaobin Chen, Wang Wang

“…Our findings indicate that asymptomatic hyperuricemia may be a predisposition of ATR by impeding the normal functions of TSPCs. This information may provide theoretical and experimental basis for exploring the early prevention and care of ATR.…”
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Metabolic Risk Factors of Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, and Normal Elderly: A Population-Based Study by Chih-Kuang Cheng, Yu-Chien Tsao, Yuan-Chih Su, Fung-Chang Sung, Hsu-Chih Tai, Woon-Man Kung

“…AD patients, DLB patients, and normal control (NC) individuals from 1996 to 2013 were enrolled for risk assessment. …”
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Calculation of the criteria deviator and the vector of normal to the deviator section of the yield surface for the Murnaghan elastic-plastic material 1 by O. L. Shved

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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Women Who Have Aborted in Comparison with the Women with Normal Delivery in Ahvaz, Southwest of Iran by J. Saki, N. Mohammadpour, F. Moramezi, S. Khademvatan

“…The present study revealed 24.6% of the samples with abortion and 21.5% of the samples with normal delivery were positive for IgG antibodies. …”
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IQUB mutation induces radial spoke 1 deficiency causing asthenozoospermia with normal sperm morphology in humans and mice by Tingwenyi Hu, Xiangrong Tang, Tiechao Ruan, Shunhua Long, Guicen Liu, Jing Ma, Xueqi Li, Ruoxuan Zhang, Guoning Huang, Ying Shen, Tingting Lin

“…Results We identified a novel homozygous IQUB mutation [c.842del (p.L281Pfs*28)] in an ASZ male with normal sperm morphology (ANM), which resulted in the complete loss of IQUB in sperm flagella. …”
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Comparative analysis of galectin-1, galectin-3, and galectin-8 signatures in normal and choriocarcinoma trophoblast cell lines by Jovanović Krivokuća Milica, Legner Janko, Ćujić Danica, Vilotić Aleksandra, Grubiša Ivana, Vićovac Ljiljana, Bojić-Trbojević Žanka

“…Galectins are found in the placenta during both normal and pathological conditions. Specifically, galectins -1, -3, and -8 have been identified in extravillous trophoblast cells, with galectins -1, and -3 playing notable roles in trophoblast cell function. …”
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Comparative analysis of PI and fuzzy logic controller for grid connected wind turbine under normal and fault conditions by Mohamed Bahgat, Mohamed Ezzat, Mahmoud A. Attia, S. F. Mekhamer, Nourhan M. Elbehairy

“…It also delivers a smaller steady-state error, with improvements of around 2–4% under both normal conditions and most fault scenarios.…”
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STING agonist-based treatment promotes vascular normalization and tertiary lymphoid structure formation in the therapeutic melanoma microenvironment by Walter J Storkus, Ronald J Fecek, Manoj Chelvanambi, Jennifer L Taylor

“…Enhancement of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) is a critical element of efficacious therapy and one that may be achieved via administration of agents that promote tumor vascular normalization (VN) and/or induce the development of tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) within the tumor microenvironment (TME).Methods Low-dose stimulator of interferon genes (STING) agonist ADU S-100 (5 µg/mouse) was delivered intratumorally to established subcutaneous B16.F10 melanomas on days 10, 14 and 17 post-tumor inoculation. …”
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Is it Time to Normalize Scapular Dyskinesis? The Incidence of Scapular Dyskinesis in Those With and Without Symptoms: a Systematic Review of the Literature by Paul A. Salamh, William J. Hanney, Trey Boles, Daniel Holmes, Alex McMillan, Austin Wagner, Morey J. Kolber

“…More revealing is the number of asymptomatic individuals who do present with SD, suggesting that SD may be a normal finding among nearly half of the asymptomatic population…”
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Damage Characteristics Caused by Deep-Hole Blasting near Normal Fault and Its Effects on Coal and Gas Outbursts by Kui Gao, Guodong Qiao, Zegong Liu, Wei Xia

“…To understand the stability of coal and rock in areas of normal faults disturbed by the dynamic loads of blasting, the damage characteristics of coal and rock within a normal fault are investigated using similarity simulation tests. …”
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