GnRH Agonist versus hCG Trigger in Ovulation Induction with Intrauterine Insemination: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Minh Tam Le, Dac Nguyen Nguyen, Jessica Zolton, Vu Quoc Huy Nguyen, Quang Vinh Truong, Ngoc Thanh Cao, Alan Decherney, Micah J. Hill

“…This study is aimed at comparing clinical pregnancy rates (CPRs) in patients who are administered either gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) or human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) for ovulation trigger in intrauterine insemination (IUI) cycles. …”
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Nutritional state-dependent modulation of insulin-producing cells in Drosophila by Rituja S Bisen, Fathima Mukthar Iqbal, Federico Cascino-Milani, Till Bockemühl, Jan M Ache

“…Contrary to IPCs, Diuretic hormone 44-expressing neurons in the pars intercerebralis (DH44PINs) responded to glucose perfusion. …”
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Gut microbial 3α‐hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase promotes depression in males via degrading testosterone by Di Li, Jingru Cheng, Wei Zhang, Pengfei Cheng, Yuan He, Jinghan Jia, Chao Wang, Zhongchun Liu, Zhou Sun, Jinxi Wang

“…We found that the levels of serum steroid hormone testosterone in male patients with depression were lower than in healthy controls. …”
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Pruritus Features in Children with End-Stage Renal Disease Underwent Dialysis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mehryar Mehrkash, Seyed-javad Golestaneh, Yahya Madihi, Fatemeh Paknazar, Mahdi Hadian, Mojtaba Akbari, Bahareh Abtahi-Naeini

“…The distribution score of pruritus was directly correlated with the age (Spearman’s rho=0.42, P=0.02) and serum level of parathyroid hormone (PTH) (Spearman’s rho=0.42, P=0.04). In the reduced multiple logistic regression model, the increasing level of serum calcium was associated with increased odds of having total pruritus score≥5 (OR (odds ratio): 4.5; 95% CI 1.12 to 18.05). …”
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Detection of Amylin-β-amyloid Hetero-Oligomers by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay by Noah Leibold, Deepak Kotiya, Nirmal Verma, Florin Despa

“…Amylin is an amyloidogenic neuroendocrine hormone co-synthesized and co-secreted with insulin from the pancreas. …”
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Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Triggers Protective Pathways in Pancreatic Beta-Cells Exposed to Glycated Serum by Alessandra Puddu, Roberta Sanguineti, Arianna Durante, Alessio Nencioni, François Mach, Fabrizio Montecucco, Giorgio L. Viviani

“…Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), an incretin hormone that regulates glucose homeostasis, might counteract the harmful effects of AGEs on the beta cells in culture. …”
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Świadek męczeństwa i jego rola w świetle jurysprudencji Kongregacji Spraw Kanonizacyjnych by Zdzisław J. Kijas

“…Since death for the faith has the value of the Sacrament of Baptism, it may happen that an unbeliever or someone not practicing his faith, can give his life for the faith. …”
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Pre-primary school teacher training program in Kotebe University of Education: provision and policy implications by Abunu Arega Yismaw

“… If someone plans to build a house, she/he needs to lay the foundation that supports the entire structure. …”
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La discussion philosophique avec les enfants : Une dispositif communicationnel égalitaire comme pratique éducative de l’ouverture d’esprit. by Johanna Hawken

“…These cognitive acts reveal an intellectual relation between children, so much so as open-mindedness can be defined as a two-dimensional attitude, both as a cognitive disposition enabling the understanding of someone else’s idea and an ethical disposition enabling the acceptance of alterity. …”
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Unraveling TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR Transcription Factors in Safflower: A Blueprint for Stress Resilience and Metabolic Regulation by Lili Yu, Xintong Ma, Mingran Dai, Yue Chang, Nan Wang, Jian Zhang, Min Zhang, Na Yao, Abdul Wakeel Umar, Xiuming Liu

“…Promoter analyses uncovered light-, hormone-, and stress-responsive cis-elements, underscoring their regulatory potential. …”
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“A democratic art at a democratic price”: The American Celebrations of the Shakespeare Tercentenary, 1916 by Monika Smialkowska

“…A stunning range of large and small-scale Tercentenary projects were carried out across the country, including plays, masques, pageants, festivals, musical and dance tributes, lectures, sermons, exhibitions, courses, tableaux, planting of trees, and developing of Shakespeare gardens. …”
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Effect of Bariatric Weight Loss on the Adipose Lipolytic Transcriptome in Obese Humans by Shakun Karki, Melissa G. Farb, Samantha Myers, Caroline Apovian, Donald T. Hess, Noyan Gokce

“…We performed adipose tissue mRNA expression of proteins involved in triglyceride hydrolysis and correlated their weight loss induced alterations with systemic parameters associated with cardiovascular disease risk. mRNA transcripts of adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL), hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL), and lipid droplet proteins comparative gene identification 58 (CGI-58) and perilipin increased significantly after weight loss (p<0.05 for all). …”
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River God Propaganda in a Septimius Severus Statue from Perge by Ahmet ÇELİK

“…However, with this extremely unique beard in the statue belonging to Fountain F2, Septi­mius Severus resembles a river god, and therefore, it may have been propagandised that he was a river god who brought water to the city or someone who resembled a river god.…”
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Transcriptomics and Physiological Analyses of Soybean Stay-Green Syndrome by Dagang Wang, Yanan Wang, Ruidong Sun, Yong Yang, Wei Zhao, Guoyi Yu, Yueying Wang, Feng Wang, Lin Zhou, Zhiping Huang

“…Further investigation revealed that SGS mainly affected the expression levels of key genes involved in the regulation of photosynthesis, starch and sucrose metabolism, and plant hormone signal transduction. To support this finding, the chlorophyll content of the pods was to be found increased by 320% for chlorophyll <i>a</i> and 260% for chlorophyll <i>b</i>. …”
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Recognition of a Drowning Victim by Bystanders: A Scoping Review

“…This study categorizes behaviors that may indicate that a person is in danger or in need of help in the water, which should support bystanders in recognizing someone in distress and the need to activate rescue and emergency medical services (drowning chain of survival step two and “early recognition" in the domain of first aid education). …”
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Association Analysis of the Genomic and Functional Characteristics of Halotolerant <i>Glutamicibacter endophyticus</i> J2-5-19 from the Rhizosphere of <i>Suaeda salsa</i> by Longhao Sun, Shanshan Sun, Tianyang Liu, Xinmin Lei, Ruiqi Liu, Junyi Zhang, Shanshan Dai, Jing Li, Yanqin Ding

“…In this study, an HT-PGPB isolated from coastal saline-alkali soil in the Yellow River Delta was identified as <i>Glutamicibacter endophyticus</i> J2-5-19. The strain was capable of growing in media with up to 13% NaCl and producing proteases, siderophores, and the plant hormone IAA. …”
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Biological Characteristics and Medical Treatment of Breast Cancer in Young Women—A Featured Population: Results from the NORA Study by P. Pronzato, G. Mustacchi, A. De Matteis, F. Di Costanzo, E. Rulli, I. Floriani, M. E. Cazzaniga

“…Positive nodal status, large tumors, and elevated Ki67 all associated with the choice for chemotherapy followed by endocrine therapy in hormone receptor-positive patients (𝑃<.0001). At univariate analysis, ER-ve status, chemotherapy and age resulted as the only statistically significant variables (HR=2.02, 𝑃=.004, and >40 versus ≤40, 𝑃<.0001, resp.). …”
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Cangfudaotan Decoction Alleviates Insulin Resistance and Improves Follicular Development in Rats with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome via IGF-1-PI3K/Akt-Bax/Bcl-2 Pathway by Chenye Wang, Caifei Ding, Zhoujia Hua, Chunyue Chen, Jia Yu

“…CFD was able to improve IR, restore the serum hormone levels, inhibit the inflammatory cytokines in PCOS rat, and alleviate ovary morphological injury and apoptosis in PCOS rats. …”
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Rola narracji filozoficznej w etyce cnót środowiskowych by Dominika Dzwonkowska

“…Drugim narzędziem, ważnym na poziomie społecznym, jest edukacja moralna, która pozwala kształtować postawy moralne służące rozwojowi społeczeństwa w pożądanym kierunku.…”
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Functional Involvement of Melatonin and Its Receptors in Reproductive Regulation of the Marine Teleost, Large Yellow Croaker (<i>Larimichthys crocea</i>) by Xudong Liang, Jixiu Wang, Baoyi Huang, Haojie Yuan, Yucheng Ren, Chenqian Wu, Tianming Wang, Jingwen Yang

“…Enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) results further demonstrated that in vitro melatonin incubation in the brain of <i>L. crocea</i> influenced gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and testosterone secretion in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting actions beyond the classical hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis. …”
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