Whole-body photobiomodulation therapy for chronic pain: a protocol for a feasibility trial by Nicola R Heneghan, Andrew Soundy, Bethany Fitzmaurice, Asius Rayen

“…The intervention will comprise 18 treatments over 6 weeks, with 6-month follow-up, in the whole-body photobiomodulation device. …”
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Lactococcus garvieae: An Uncommon Human Pathogen Causing Infective Endocarditis in a Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Diego H. González-Bravo, Sergio Alegre-Boschetti, Richard Silva-Cantillo, Joshua Mercado-Maldonado, Reyshley Ramos-Márquez, Gabriel Torres-Rivera, Carlos Cortés, Josue Mercado-Crespo

“…Reaching a diagnosis of L. garvieae endocarditis led us to the decision of prolonging the antibiotic course for 6 weeks with successful results. Ultimately, surgery was not required owing to the absence of prosthetic aortic valve dysfunction and paravalvular extension of the infection.…”
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Successful Use of a Multidisciplinary Approach to Treat a Perforated Duodenal Malignant Lymphoma in an Elderly Patient by Tomoko Takagishi, Yuta Niimi, Goshi Matsuki, Shinta Nagano, Junsuke Hinami, Masaaki Kajiwara, Kiyoshi Kaneko, Yoshihiro Kubota, Osamu Nakai

“…Residual lymphoma was treated with consolidation radiotherapy (50 Gy in 25 fractions) over 5 weeks after chemotherapy. The patient attained a complete response and has been disease-free for more than 4 years. …”
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L-Arginine Intake Effect on Adenine Nucleotide Metabolism in Rat Parenchymal and Reproductive Tissues by G. Kocic, J. Nikolic, T. Jevtovic-Stoimenov, D. Sokolovic, H. Kocic, T. Cvetkovic, D. Pavlovic, A. Cencic, D. Stojanovic

“…The aim of the present paper was to estimate the activity of the enzymes of adenine nucleotide metabolism: 5′-nucleotidase (5′-NU), adenosine deaminase (ADA), AMP deaminase, and xanthine oxidase (XO), during dietary intake of L-arginine for a period of four weeks of male Wistar rats. Adenosine concentration in tissues is maintained by the relative activities of the adenosine-producing enzyme, 5′-NU and the adenosine-degrading enzyme-ADA adenosine deaminase. …”
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A New Case of DRESS Syndrome Induced by Sulfasalazine and Triggered by Amoxicillin by Francesco Girelli, Simone Bernardi, Lucia Gardelli, Bruna Bassi, Gianluca Parente, Alessandra Dubini, Luigi Serra, Maurizio Nizzoli

“…Drug Rash Eosinophilia Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) syndrome is a systemic hypersensitivity reaction characterized by exfoliative dermatitis and maculopapular rash, lymphadenopathy, fever, eosinophilia, leukocytosis, and involvement of internal organs as liver, lung, heart, and kidney; the disorder starts within 2–6 weeks after taking a drug with an incidence that ranges from 1/1000 to 1/10000 exposures. …”
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Biofunctional Characterization of Collagen from Orange-Spotted Grouper, <i>Epinephelus coioides</i>: Maintenance of Cartilage in Aged Zebrafish by Shao-Yang Hu, Chen-Han Tsou, Chung-Chih Tseng, Tai-Wei Han, Chun-Hung Liu

“…The enzymatic hydrolysis of fin-derived collagen using pepsin yielded low-molecular-weight peptides (PHC), which were subsequently incorporated into the diet of 1.5-year-old zebrafish, either alone or in combination with glucosamine (GC), to assess their biological effects. After eight weeks of dietary supplementation, zebrafish fed PHC or the combined PHC + GC diets exhibited a significant upregulation of <i>sox9a</i> (<i>jef</i>) expression in spinal tissues, accompanied by a marked downregulation of <i>runx2</i>. …”
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Iron metabolism in a mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma by Dilay Yilmaz, Umesh Tharehalli, Rossana Paganoni, Paul Knoop, Andreas Gruber, Yuexin Chen, Rui Dong, Frank Leithäuser, Thomas Seufferlein, Kerstin Leopold, André Lechel, Maja Vujić Spasić

“…We show that all mutant mice developed liver cancer by 36-weeks of age in contrast to 3.4% tumors identified in control mice. …”
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Non-linear dose-response relationship between uterine artery pulsatility index and risk of preeclampsia in early pregnancy: A secondary analysis based on a nested cohort study. by Shaou Wang, Hao Dong

“…And the PI values of left and right uterine arteries of the subjects were obtained by transabdominal ultrasound using GE color doppler diagnostic device in early pregnancy (11-13 + 6 weeks), and finally the mean value of both was calculated and recorded as UtA-PI. …”
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Renal protective effect of a hydration supplemented with magnesium in patients receiving cisplatin for head and neck cancer by Takahiro Kimura, Taijiro Ozawa, Nobuhiro Hanai, Hitoshi Hirakawa, Hidenori Suzuki, Hiroshi Hosoi, Yasuhisa Hasegawa

“…Methods We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients with head and neck cancer who received two doses of cisplatin (80 mg/m2) and 5-fluorouracil (800 mg/m2) 3 weeks apart from August 2008 to October 2012. The regimen prior to 2011 (crystalloid-only) involved the administration of 1000 mL of lactated Ringer’s solution on the day prior to cisplatin infusion and 2000 mL of continuous infusion of saline on the day of cisplatin infusion. …”
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Effects of Dietary Addition of a Low-Pectin Apple Fibre Preparation on Rats by Fotschki Bartosz, Jurgoński Adam, Juśkiewicz Jerzy, Kołodziejczyk Krzysztof, Sójka Michał

“…The nutritional experiment was performed on rats allocated to 2 groups of 10 animals each and fed for 2 weeks with either a control cellulose-containing diet or an experimental low-pectin apple fibre-containing diet. …”
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Associations of infection burden with Kawasaki disease in a population-based setting during 30 years by Johannes Mofors, Håkan Eliasson, Gunnar Bergman, Sven-Erik Sonesson, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Göran Elinder, André Rudolph, Bodil Schiller

“…Temporal stratification revealed a prominent clustering of infections during the weeks before a Kawasaki diagnosis, but also higher frequencies of infections several months preceding Kawasaki disease with OR ranging from 5.1 (95% CI 3.6 to 7.1) 15–28 days to 1.3 (95% CI 1.1 to 1.6) 181–365 days prior Kawasaki disease. …”
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Clinical diagnosis of Q fever by targeted next-generation sequencing for identification of Coxiella burnetii by Shaohua Zhan, Haoyuan Jin, Hanbing Ji, Xin Hou, Jing Li, Ye Zhang, Jiajia Zheng, Liyan Cui

“…All five patients were treated promptly with oral doxycycline (0.1 g twice daily for 2 weeks) and discharged in improved health. Conclusions tNGS is a promising and significant tool for rapidly detecting C. burnetii infection.…”
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Efficacy and safety of Saireito (TJ-114) in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing catheter ablation procedures: A randomized pilot study. by Tetsuma Kawaji, Satoshi Shizuta, Hidenori Yaku, Kazuhisa Kaneda, Fumiya Yoneda, Shushi Nishiwaki, Munekazu Tanaka, Takanori Aizawa, Shun Hojo, Kenji Nakatsuma, Masashi Kato, Takafumi Yokomatsu, Shinji Miki, Koh Ono, Takeshi Kimura

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>Thirty-day use of Saireito following AF ablation was associated with a tendency toward reduced number of episodes of frequent atrial tachyarrhythmias during the treatment period, with more pronounced effect in the first two weeks.…”
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Nutritive value of cattle manure vermicast and its effect on in vitro ruminal gas production by Aminu Nasiru, Abdul Razak Alimon, Norli Ismail, Mahamad Hakimi Ibrahim

“…Results Vermicomposting of cattle manure at 2, 4 and 6 weeks linearly increased (P.05) significantly crude protein and ash, while it linearly decreased (P.05) significantly organic matter, neutral detergent fibre (NDF) and acid detergent fibre. …”
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Myocardial Perfusion and Function Are Distinctly Altered by Sevoflurane Anesthesia in Diet-Induced Prediabetic Rats by Charissa E. van den Brom, Chantal A. Boly, Carolien S. E. Bulte, Rob F. P. van den Akker, Rick F. J. Kwekkeboom, Stephan A. Loer, Christa Boer, R. Arthur Bouwman

“…Rats were fed a western diet (WD; n=18) or control diet (CD; n=18) for 8 weeks and underwent (contrast) echocardiography to determine perfusion and function during baseline and sevoflurane exposure. …”
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Cottonseed Meal Protein Hydrolysate Improves the Growth Performance of Chinese Mitten Crab (Eriocheir sinensis) by Promoting the Muscle Growth and Molting Performance by Chao-Fan He, Wen-Bin Liu, Ling Zhang, Wei-Liang Chen, Zi-Shang Liu, Xiang-Fei Li

“…A total of 240 crabs (mean body weight 37.32 ± 0.38 g) were individually randomly distributed to six diets supplemented with 0%, 0.2%, 0.4%, 0.8%, 1.6%, and 3.2% of CPH for 12 weeks. These findings indicated that the addition of CPH at 0.4% significantly increased the survival rate, body protein gain, apparent protein utilization, trypsin and pepsin activities, and the methyl farnesoate content. …”
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Following Spinal Cord Injury Transected Reticulospinal Tract Axons Develop New Collateral Inputs to Spinal Interneurons in Parallel with Locomotor Recovery by Zacnicte May, Keith K. Fenrich, Julia Dahlby, Nicholas J. Batty, Abel Torres-Espín, Karim Fouad

“…In one group of the animals, the T7 SCI was performed 2 weeks after the T10 SCI (delayed; dSTAG), and in another group, the T10 and T7 SCIs were concomitant (cSTAG). dSTAG animals had significantly more RtST-PrIN contacts in the grey matter compared to cSTAG animals (p<0.05). …”
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The Accordion Maneuver: A Noninvasive Strategy for Absent or Delayed Callus Formation in Cases of Limb Lengthening by Asim M. Makhdom, Adrian Sever Cartaleanu, Juan Sebastian Rendon, Isabelle Villemure, Reggie C. Hamdy

“…Four patients (6.15%) out of 65 showed poor bone regenerate in their tibiae and therefore accordion maneuver was applied for a mean of 6.75 weeks. Of these, three patients have had successful outcome with this technique. …”
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Arabidopsis apoplast TET8 positively correlates to leaf senescence, and tet3tet8 double mutants are delayed in leaf senescence by Jayde A. Zimmerman, Benjamin Verboonen, Andrew P. Harrison Hanson, Luis R. Arballo, Judy A. Brusslan

“…Genetic analysis showed a significant delay in leaf senescence in tet3tet8 double mutants after 6 weeks of growth suggesting that these two tetraspanin paralogs operate additively and are positive regulators of leaf senescence. …”
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Masquelet’s induced membrane technique in the upper limb: a systematic review of the current outcomes by Davide Pederiva, Lapo De Luca, Cesare Faldini, Luigi Branca Vergano

“…The average time interval between the first and second phases of the procedure was 9.5 weeks, and bone union took an average of 5.5 months. …”
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