TROPION-Breast04: a randomized phase III study of neoadjuvant datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) plus durvalumab followed by adjuvant durvalumab versus standard of care in patients... by Heather L. McArthur, Sara M. Tolaney, Rebecca Dent, Peter Schmid, Jamil Asselah, Qiang Liu, Jane Lowe Meisel, Naoki Niikura, Yeon Hee Park, Gustavo Werutsky, Giampaolo Bianchini, Jay C. Andersen, Robert Kozarski, Nana Rokutanda, Barbara Pistilli, Sibylle Loibl

“…Background: Despite treatment advances for patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and hormone receptor (HR)-low/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2−) breast cancer, treatments that improve clinical outcomes while mitigating toxicity are needed. …”
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Evaluating the association between lipidome and female reproductive diseases through comprehensive Mendelian randomization analyses by Ye Ma, Fang Wu, Zeming Yu, Lu Yang

“…Furthermore, it was determined that the causal associations between these lipidome profiles and FRDs were independent of BMI, obesity, diabetes, smoking, alcohol use, physical activity, inflammation, depression, waist-hip ratio, vitamin D, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, sex hormone binding globulin, and testosterone levels. …”
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Circulatory Immune Cells in Cushing Syndrome: Bystanders or Active Contributors to Atherometabolic Injury? A Study of Adhesion and Activation of Cell Surface Markers by Gloria Aranda, Cristina Lopez, Rebeca Fernandez-Ruiz, Yaiza Esteban, Guillermo Garcia-Eguren, Mireia Mora, Irene Halperin, Gregori Casals, Joaquim Enseñat, Felicia A. Hanzu

“…GC are immune suppressors, and the adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) has immune modulator activities. Both may act in atherothrombotic inflammation involving immune cells (IMNC). …”
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The Usefulness of the Pressure Algometer in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Orofacial Pain Patients: A Systematic Review by Agata Kamińska, Bartosz Dalewski, Ewa Sobolewska

“…Importantly, however, additional factors should be considered in the future for the evaluation of the PPT, including body symmetry and posture, hormone levels and the menstrual phase in women, and the use of medications and its influence on the PPT. …”
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Candidate SNP markers of social dominance, which may affect the affinity of the TATAbinding protein for human gene promoters by I. V. Chadaeva, D. A. Rasskazov, E. B. Sharypova, L. K. Savinkova, P. M. Ponomarenko, M. P. Ponomarenko

“…Within this hypothesis, we analyzed 21 human genes –ADORA2A, BDNF, CC2D1A, CC2D1B, ESR2, FEV, FOS, GH1, GLTSCR2, GRIN1, HTR1B, HTR1A, HTR2A, HTR2C, LGI4, LEP, MAOA, SLC17A7, SLC6A3, SNCA, TH – which represent the functions of proteins known as physiological markers of aggressive behavior in animals: hormones and their receptors, biosynthetic enzymes and receptors of neurotransmitters, transcription and neurotrophic factors. …”
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Changes in Intestinal Microbiota Are Associated with Islet Function in a Mouse Model of Dietary Vitamin A Deficiency by Yunting Zhou, Junming Zhou, Yumin Zhang, Jun Tang, Bo Sun, Wei Xu, Xiaohang Wang, Yang Chen, Zilin Sun

“…Reintroduction of dietary VA to VAD diet-fed mice restored tissue VA levels, endocrine hormone profiles, and inflammatory response, which are similar to those observed following VAS-controlled changes in intestinal microbiota. …”
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AMH Is a Good Predictor of Metabolic Risk in Women with PCOS: A Cross-Sectional Study by Miaoxian Ou, Pei Xu, Han Lin, Kaichi Ma, Mingxing Liu

“…This retrospective study analyzed the medical records of 461 PCOS patients collected between January 2019 and June 2020 to investigate the relationship between serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and parameters of metabolic risk in the population with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). …”
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60-month follow-up of Long Limb vs. Standard Limb Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for type 2 diabetes and obesity: the LONG LIMB RCT by Saleem Ansari, Anna Kamocka, Tina Mazaheri, Ibiyemi Ilesanmi, Lara Jimenez-Pacheco, Kleopatra Alexiadou, Joanna Tan, Harvinder Chahal, Krishna Moorthy, Sanjay Purkayastha, Anne Margot Umpleby, Stephen Robert Bloom, Francesco Rubino, Alexander Dimitri Miras, Ahmed Rashid Ahmed, Tricia Tan

“…Mixed-meal tolerance tests and a hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamp were used to measure postprandial gut hormone response, glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. …”
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Cohort profile: the multigeneration Respiratory Health in Northern Europe, Spain and Australia (RHINESSA) cohort by Thorarinn Gislason, Torben Sigsgaard, Vivi Schlünssen, Joachim Heinrich, Jesús Martínez-Moratalla, Øistein Svanes, Mathias Holm, Bertil Forsberg, Dan Norbäck, Rain Jogi, Kjell Torén, Deborah Jarvis, Magnus Ekström, Adrian Lowe, Caroline J Lodge, Michael Abramson, Shyamali Dharmage, Kathrine Pape, Cecilie Svanes, Gita Mishra, Caroline Lodge, Lyle Gurrin, Bruce Thompson, Eva Lindberg, Christer Janson, Simone Accordini, Ane Johannessen, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Karl Franklin, Andrei Malinovschi, Anna Oudin, Francisco Gómez Real, José Luis Sánchez-Ramos, Lennart Bråbäck, Torgeir Storaas, Shanshan Xu, Julia Dratva, John Holloway, Jorunn Kirkeleit, Christine Cramer, Gro Tjalvin, Anne Mette Lund Würtz, Randi Jacobsen Bertelsen, Oskar Jõgi, Signe Timm, Francisco Javier Callejas, Raúl Godoy, Trude Duelien Skorge, Christine Drengenes, Nils Oskar Jõgi, Maryia Khomich, Toril Mørkve Knudsen, Ingrid Kuiper, Juan Pablo López-Cervantes, Marianne Lønnebotn, Shokouh Makvandi-Nejad, Antonio Pérez, Anders Røsland, Rajesh Shigdel, Svein Magne Skulstad, Kai Triebner, Hilde Vindenes, Jose Luis Sanchez, Jose Maldonado, David Martino, Jennifer Perret, Lucia Calciano, William Horsnell, Susanne Krauss-Etchmann

“…Study protocols are harmonised across generations.Findings to date Collected data include spirometry, skin prick tests, exhaled nitric oxide, anthropometrics, bioimpedance, blood pressure; questionnaire/interview data on respiratory/general/reproductive health, indoor/outdoor environment, smoking, occupation, general characteristics and lifestyle; biobanked blood, urine, gingival fluid, skin swabs; measured specific and total IgE, DNA methylation, sex hormones and oral microbiome. Research results suggest that parental environment years before conception, in particular, father’s exposures such as smoking and overweight, may be of key importance for asthma and lung function, and that there is an important susceptibility window in male prepuberty. …”
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Increasing prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity in childhood type 1 diabetes in the pre-COVID but not during the COVID era by Vivien Herczeg, Eszter Muzslay, Diána Czipó, Lili Terkovics, Johanna Takács, Réka Garai, Réka Garai, Fanni Kovács, Andrea Luczay, Anna Körner, Péter Tóth-Heyn

“…Among our children with TA, 28.5% exhibited clinically relevant thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) abnormalities (most commonly subclinical hypothyroidism) and/or were prescribed thyroid medication. …”
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The significance of computer technologies in detecting plagiarism in scientific works by O. V. Pikhurets

“…The essence of plagiarism is the assignment of authorship to someone else’s original (literary, artistic, scientific) work or its part. …”
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Le bonheur n’est pas l’essentiel ? by Salome Berthon, Yan Bour, Sabine Chatelain, Marie-Noëlle Ottavi, Olivier Wathelet

“…Distinguant l’immédiateté du plaisir, de l’aspect différé, construit, négocié du bonheur, nous tâchons de voir en quoi, selon les situations et les relations, ils relèvent tantôt du « choisi », tantôt du « subi ». Nous portons ensuite un regard réflexif sur la position du chercheur, dont la subjectivité et les affects n’ont de cesse de mettre son ethnographie et son objectivité à l’épreuve. …”
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Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury by Veronica Guadagni, Marco Sarà, Massimiliano Conson, Antonio Carolei, Simona Sacco, Silvia Vadini, Caterina Pistarini, Arcangelo Barbonetti, Giuseppe Iaria, Francesca Pistoia

“…Empathy has been conceptualized as comprising a cognitive and an emotional component, the latter being further divided into direct and indirect aspects, which refer, respectively, to the explicit evaluation of the observer’s feelings while attending someone in an emotional situation and to the physiological response of the observer. …”
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Knowledge and perceptions about clinical research and its ethical conduct among college students from non-science background: a representative nation-wide survey from India by Jeffrey Pradeep Raj, Suraj Kallarakal Tomy, Amrutha Jose, Aadrika Kashyap, Joseph Varghese Kureethara, Tomy K Kallarakal

“…The significant predictors for willingness to participate in a CR were those living in villages as against those living in cities (p=0.002), belongs to Brahm Govind (BG) Prasad’s socioeconomic status class 1 (p=0.023) or class 4 (p=0.011) as against those in class 5, those who have heard about CR (p=0.023), participated in CR (p<0.001), have known someone participated in a CR (p<0.001) or higher total score of favourable perceptions (p<0.001).Conclusions While there was extensive media coverage on drug/vaccine development processes during the COVID-19 pandemic, significant knowledge gaps and concerns regarding various aspects of CR persisted. …”
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Diagnosis and treatment of the irritable bowel syndrome: clinical guidelines of the Russian gastroenterological association and Russian association of coloproctology by V. T. Ivashkin, Yu. A. Shelygin, Ye. K. Baranskaya, Ye. A. Belousova, A. G. Beniashvili, S. V. Vasilyev, A. O. Golovenko, O. V. Golovenko, Ye. G. Grigoryev, N. V. Kostenko, T. L. Lapina, I. D. Loranskaya, O. S. Lyashenko, I. V. Mayev, Ye. A. Poluektova, V. G. Rumyantsev, V. M. Timerbulatov, A. S. Trukhmanov, O. Yu. Fomenko, I. L. Khalif, E. Yu. Chashkova, A. A. Sheptulin, O. S. Shifrin, V. V. Yanovoy

“…Due to complexity of differential diagnostics, IBS should be considered as diagnosis by exclusion that require following investigations: clinical and biochemical blood tests; IgA or IgG anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies; thyroid hormone levels; fecal occult blood test; glucose or lactulose hydrogen breath test for bacterial overgrowth syndrome; stool test for coliform bacteria, stool test for Clostridium difficile toxins A and B; fecal calprotectin level; abdominal ultrasound; upper and lower endoscopies, at indications - with biopsies. …”
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Phthalate exposure induces microRNA-5010/Nrf2-EGR1/GDF15 signaling expression in prostate cancer by Yuh-Shyan Tsai, Yeong-Chin Jou, Ian Seng Cheong, Hsiu-Ting Tung, Lin-Nei Hsu, Hsin-Tzu Tsai, Tzong-Shin Tzai

“…Phthalate exposure is linked to prostate enlargement through sex hormonal changes and oxidative stress. However, its role and action mechanism in prostate cancer remain unclear. …”
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Comparative transcriptomic analysis and identification of candidate genes related to Verticillium wilt resistance in Gossypium barbadense and Gossypium hirsutum by Jieyin Zhao, Xingui Hu, Yuxiang Wang, Jiaxin Lu, Wenju Gao, Xuening Su, Quanjia Chen, Yanying Qu

“…Further analysis of the expression of hormone biosynthesis- and signal transduction-related genes revealed that most of the genes in the salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA) and ethylene (ET) biosynthesis pathways were highly expressed in Hai7124; the expression of SA and JA biosynthesis genes began to be significantly upregulated in the early stage of Verticillium wilt stress, while the expression of ET biosynthesis genes was upregulated mainly in the later stage. …”
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Treatment efficacy for infantile epileptic spasms syndrome in children with trisomy 21 by Henry Chen, Henry Chen, Adam L. Numis, Adam L. Numis, Renée A. Shellhaas, John R. Mytinger, Debopam Samanta, Rani K. Singh, Rani K. Singh, Shaun A. Hussain, Danielle Takacs, Kelly G. Knupp, Li-Rong Shao, Carl E. Stafstrom

“…First-line standard treatments for IESS include adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), oral corticosteroids, and vigabatrin. …”
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Two-dimensional semantic morphological feature extraction and atlas construction of maize ear leaves by Hongli Song, Hongli Song, Weiliang Wen, Weiliang Wen, Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Yanxin Zhao, Xinyu Guo, Xinyu Guo, Chunjiang Zhao, Chunjiang Zhao, Chunjiang Zhao

“…Maize ear leaves have important roles in photosynthesis, nutrient partitioning and hormone regulation. The morphological and structural variations observed in maize ear leaves are numerous and contribute significantly to the yield. …”
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Impact of gut microbial diversity on egg production performance in chickens by Liping Wu, Tao Zhang, Zhihua Luo, Huiyuan Xiao, Di Wang, Cailong Wu, Xinyan Fang, Jiawei Li, Jing Zhou, Junjie Miao, Hongli Tan, Yanan Wang, Qing Liu, Jianhua Huang

“…These differences in gut microbiota influence key physiological functions, including nutrient absorption and hormone regulation through metabolic pathways, and directly affect egg production performance. …”
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