Analysis of clinical and pathological prognostic factors of survival in rectal adenocarcinoma treated with preoperative radiochemotherapy by Sarhan Sydney Saad, Nora Forones, Gaspar Lopes Filho, Jaques Waisberg, Elesiario Caetano Júnior, Ricardo Artigiani-Neto, Delcio Matos

“…Clinical restaging was performed four to six weeks after the end of neoadjuvant treatment to characterize the degree of clinical tumor regression. …”
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A Clinical Study on Functional Outcome of Percutaneous Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy under Local Anesthesia by Suryansh Nema, Varun Kumar Agarwal

“…This study included 54 patients with radicular pain for at least 3 weeks with a positive nerve root compression sign and who underwent PTED under local anesthesia. …”
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Transformation and fate of Fe(III) in petroleum-hydrocarbon-contaminated soil and groundwater by Essouassi Elikem, David Bulmer, Kris Bradshaw, Ardalan Hayatifar, Matthew B. J. Lindsay, Steven D. Siciliano, Derek Peak

“…The fraction of Fe(II) in the subsoils generally increased after about 22 weeks of continuous amendment injection. Ferric ammonium citrate did not persist in the PHC-contaminated subsurface: the Fe(III) it contained was transformed to solid phases. …”
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Effect of Weight-Loss Diet Combined with Taurine Supplementation on Fasting Levels of Fibroblast Growth Factors19, 21, and 𝛃-klothoCo-Receptor in Obese Women: A Randomized Clinical... by Maryam Asadi, Fatemeh Haidari, Hossein Bavi Behbahani, Maryam J Chitsazi, Javad Mohammadi-asl, Kambiz Ahmadi-Angali

“…Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to two groups: a standard weight-loss group receiving 3 g/day of Tau capsules for 8 weeks (n=20) and a standard weight-loss group receiving placebo capsules for 8 weeks (n=18). …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Dapagliflozin versus Liraglutide in Patients with Overweight or Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial in Tianjin, Chin... by Hao Zhaohu, Huang Xiao, Shao Hailin, He Feng

“…T2DM patients with overweight or obesity who visited the Metabolic Disease Management Center at Tianjin Fourth Central Hospital from October 2019 to January 2020 were recruited and randomised to receive dapagliflozin or liraglutide for 24 weeks. Changes in blood glucose and lipid levels, blood pressure, and body weight, as well as the occurrence of hypoglycaemia and other adverse events, were compared. …”
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Unraveling the Beneficial Role of Resveratrol in Fructose-Induced Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis with a Focus on the AMPK/Nrf2 Signaling Axis by Soha S. Zakaria, Safaa M. Hanafy

“…<i>Materials and Methods</i>: Sixty male albino rats were allocated to three groups: group I, the normal control group; group II, the fructose-enriched diet group (FED), which was fed a 70% fructose diet for six weeks to induce NASH; and group III, the resveratrol–FED group (RES + FED), which was given the same FED diet plus an oral dose of 70 mg/kg resveratrol (RES) every day for an additional six weeks. …”
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Reversal of Early Diabetic Nephropathy by Islet Transplantation under the Kidney Capsule in a Rat Model by Yunqiang He, Ziqiang Xu, Mingshi Zhou, Minmin Wu, Xuehai Chen, Silu Wang, Kaiyan Qiu, Yong Cai, Hongxing Fu, Bicheng Chen, Mengtao Zhou

“…Streptozotocin was administered to the rats to induce diabetes. Twelve weeks later, the diabetic rats were divided into 3 groups: the islet-transplanted group (IT group), the insulin-treated group (IN group), and the untreated group (DN group). …”
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Serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and vascular endothelial growth factor as markers of disease activity in patients with axial spondyloarthritis by Mahendran Bhuvanesh, Chilkuri Balaji, Chinnadurai Saranya, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Trichangode Natesan Tamilselvam, Sankaralingam Rajeswari

“…There was significant reduction in serum TNF-α and VEGF levels after 24 weeks of treatment with etanercept (mean 161 pg/ml, P < 0.001 and mean 442 pg/ml, P < 0.001, respectively) but not with NSAID (P = 0.29, P = 0.25). …”
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Harmonizing multisite neonatal diffusion-weighted brain MRI data for developmental neuroscience by Alexandra F. Bonthrone, Manuel Blesa Cábez, A. David Edwards, Jo V. Hajnal, Serena J. Counsell, James P. Boardman

“…Our aim was to investigate the utility of ComBat, an empirical Bayes tool for multisite harmonization, in removing site effects from white matter (WM) dMRI measures in healthy infants born at 37 gestational weeks+ 0 days-42 weeks+ 6 days from the Theirworld Edinburgh Birth Cohort (n = 86) and Developing Human Connectome Project (n = 287). …”
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Bredemolic Acid Ameliorates Selected Liver Function Biomarkers in a Diet-Induced Prediabetic Rat Model by Akinjide Moses Akinnuga, Angezwa Siboto, Bongiwe Khumalo, Ntethelelo Hopewell Sibiya, Phikelelani Ngubane, Andile Khathi

“…The prediabetic rats were further subdivided into five groups (n = 6) and treated with either BA (80 mg/kg) or metformin (MET, 500 mg/kg) every third day for 12 weeks. After 12 weeks, blood samples and the liver were collected for biochemical analysis. …”
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Phytoalexin deficient 4 is associated with the lesion mimic trait in watermelon clalm mutant (Citrullus lanatus) by Jiale Shi, Congji Yang, Yuanyuan Qin, Qingqing Liu, Shengqi Hua, Defeng Wu, Wei Dong

“…Overexpression the ClCG04G001930 gene, designated as ClPAD4, yielded transgenic lines whose leaves gradually developed chlorotic lesions over 3 weeks. RNA interference of the ClPAD4 yielded transgenic lines whose cotyledon prone to diseased over 2 weeks. …”
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Prevalence of unexpected red blood cell antibodies in pregnant women and follow-up of pregnancy outcome in pregnant women treated with intra-uterine transfusion by Sunil Golia, Aseem Kumar Tiwari, Geet Aggarwal, Anil Khetrapal, Sandeep Kumar Tyagi, Chetna Jain, Shubham Gupta, Samruddhi Pawar

“…Follow-up was done for all 10 cases with unexpected antibody and anemia was monitored by MCA PSV (middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity).Two women developed severe anemia thus requiring single intrauterine transfusion (at 26 weeks and 28 weeks respectively) each, for correction of anemia. …”
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Assessment of Myometrial Concentrations of Oestrogen and Progesterone Receptors in the Lower Uterine Segment of Full-Term Pregnancies in Presence or Absence of Labour by Joana Soares de Arruda, Edward Araujo Júnior, Manuel de Jesus Simões, Luiz Kulay Júnior

“…The mean of gestational age was 39 weeks, (range, 37 to 41 weeks). The medians of PRs and ORs in pregnant women in labour (Group I) were 29.3 (range, 24.6–30.2) and 32.3 (range, 22.9–49.0), respectively. …”
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Chronic Rapamycin Prevents Electrophysiological and Morphological Alterations Produced by Conditional Pten Deletion in Mouse Cortex by Jason S. Hauptman, Joseph Antonios, Gary W. Mathern, Michael S. Levine, Carlos Cepeda

“…Rapamycin treatment for four weeks prevented these changes in Pten^-/- mice. …”
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Effect of a Yogic Breathing Technique on Immune Parameters among Healthcare Workers: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study by Archana Balasubramanian, Priyathersini Nagarajan, Mathangi Damal Chandrasekar, Kaviraja Udupa, Emmanuel Bhaskar, Divya Kanchibotla, Saumya Subramanian

“…The SKY intervention was delivered and followed up for 12 weeks. Baseline and post-SKY intervention blood investigations were compared between study and control groups (1:1 ratio) and analyzed. …”
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Zinc Supplementation Mitigates High Salt Diet-Induced Bone Damage: A Histological Evaluation of Osteocyte Apoptosis by Kaukab Anjum, Abdullah Qamar, Nomana Mahmood, Muhammad Marghoob Khan, Shazia Imran, Ayesha Ali

“…Methods: This was an investigational study conducted at the Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, over eight weeks. Thirty female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into three groups: control (Group C), high-salt diet (Group A), and high-salt diet with zinc supplementation (Group B). …”
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Hybrid Repair Combined with Fresh Arterial Allograft Extra-Anatomical Reconstruction: The Treatment of Infrarenal Abdominal Aneurysm above an Aortobifemoral Bypass Complicated by a... by Robert Novotny, Tomas Marada, Jiri Novotny, Jakub Kristek, Jaroslav Chlupac, Michal Kudla, Kvetoslav Lipar, Jiri Mendl, Jiri Fronek, Libor Janousek

“…The patient underwent intravenous ATB treatment with vancomycin for two weeks, followed by four weeks of oral rifampicin. …”
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A Cross Sectional Study of Assessment of Hearing in Infants of Gestational Diabetes Mothers by Srikanth Gopinath, Arulmozhi Sakthignanavel, Atul Mukul Bage, Rajan ND, Sasmita Mishra

“…The average gestational age was 39.2±5.7 from 36 weeks to 42 weeks. In the present study OAE has shown that 40% babies had bilateral refer and 18% had unilateral refer in GDM mothers which significantly higher than the normal mothers. …”
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Safety of Rimegepant in Adults with Migraine and Anxiety, Depression, or Using Antidepressants: Analysis of a Multicenter, Long-Term, Open-Label Study by David Kudrow, Susan Hutchinson, Glenn C. Pixton, Terence Fullerton

“…Numerical improvements in a variety of participant-reported outcomes were also observed at weeks 12 and 52. Conclusions Rimegepant showed favorable safety and tolerability in adults with migraine and a history of anxiety and/or depression and with SSRI and/or other antidepressant use. …”
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Effects of Diet Based on IgG Elimination Combined with Probiotics on Migraine Plus Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Yangzhi Xie, Guijuan Zhou, Yan Xu, Bing He, Yilin Wang, Rundong Ma, Yunqian Chang, Duanqun He, Chenlin Xu, Zijian Xiao

“…Migraine symptom, gut function score, medication use, and serum serotonin level were measured at baseline, 7 weeks, and 14 weeks. Improvement of migraine and gut symptom was achieved at a certain time point. …”
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