An eastern Congolian endemic, or widespread but secretive? New data on the recently described Afrixalus lacustris (Anura, Hyperoliidae) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Tadeáš Nečas, Gabriel Badjedjea, Janis Czurda, Václav Gvoždík

“…Previously, because of its similarity, it had been understood to represent eastern populations of the unrelated A. laevis, which is known mainly from Cameroon. …”
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Protective Efficacy of the Calicivirus Valency of the Leucofeligen Vaccine against a Virulent Heterologous Challenge in Kittens by Cynthia Lesbros, Virginie Martin, Wojciech Najbar, Annaele Sanquer, David Mcgahie, Hyone-Myong Eun, Sylvie Gueguen

“…This study aimed to evaluate and characterize the protective efficacy of the FCV-F9 valency of a tetravalent vaccine, Leucofeligen, against challenge with an unrelated strain. Ten 9-week-old kittens were vaccinated while 10 remained as unvaccinated controls. …”
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Appearances Can Be Deceiving: What Is the Diagnosis for this Community-Acquired Pneumonia? by Frank YH Lin, Coleman Rotstein

“…At that time, he had felt unwell and had developed a fever with rightsided pleuritic chest pain that radiated to his right shoulder. …”
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Russianisms in Contemporary English Online Media by L.K. Khalitova

“…Russian borrowings from the household vocabulary (troika, matryoshka), sociopolitical lexicon (tsar/czar), and Sovietisms (gulag) can occur in contexts unrelated to the Russian history or culture. This demonstrates that Russianisms are acquiring new meanings and losing their specific cultural or national features due to assimilation.…”
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Growth and Physiological Responses of Phaseolus Species to Salinity Stress by J. S. Bayuelo-Jiménez, N. Jasso-Plata, I. Ochoa

“…Therefore, we suggest that tolerance to salt stress is largely unrelated to carbohydrate accumulation in Phaseolus species.…”
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Transfer Across Episodes of Analogical Reasoning: The Role of Visuo-Spatial Schemas by Jairo A. Navarrete-Ulloa, Maximo Trench

“…Prior to that, participants rated solutions to letter-string analogies aimed to elicit visuospatial operations that were either consistent, inconsistent or unrelated to the visuospatial operations underlying the later problem. …”
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Pseudo-precocious puberty secondary to Juvenile Granulosa cell tumour in a 30-month-old female toddler: A case report by Taiwo Oni, Adesola Adekoya, Grillo Elizabeth, John Nwadiokwu, Victor Okebalama, Oluwaseun Anifowose

“…She had a 2-year history of steroid-containing cream use. The unrelated parents had normal puberty. There was no similar history in the siblings. …”
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Correlation between cystoscopy findings and symptom severity in painful bladder syndrome by Devdatt Purushottam Palnitkar, Prakash Patankar, Suresh Patankar

“…Indications for the procedure included persistent hematuria, unrelenting symptoms, and suspected bladder pathology. …”
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Pathogenic PDE12 variants impair mitochondrial RNA processing causing neonatal mitochondrial disease by Lindsey Van Haute, Petra Páleníková, Jia Xin Tang, Pavel A Nash, Mariella T Simon, Angela Pyle, Monika Oláhová, Christopher A Powell, Pedro Rebelo-Guiomar, Alexander Stover, Michael Champion, Charulata Deshpande, Emma L Baple, Karen L Stals, Sian Ellard, Olivia Anselem, Clémence Molac, Giulia Petrilli, Laurence Loeuillet, Sarah Grotto, Tania Attie-Bitach, Jose E Abdenur, Robert W Taylor, Michal Minczuk

“…Here, we report that disease-causing PDE12 variants in three unrelated families are associated with mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiencies and wide-ranging clinical presentations in utero and within the neonatal period, with muscle and brain involvement leading to marked cytochrome c oxidase (COX) deficiency in muscle and severe lactic acidosis. …”
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Prenatal Stress due to a Natural Disaster Predicts Adiposity in Childhood: The Iowa Flood Study by Kelsey N. Dancause, David P. Laplante, Kimberly J. Hart, Michael W. O’Hara, Guillaume Elgbeili, Alain Brunet, Suzanne King

“…Natural disasters provide models of independent stressors unrelated to confounding maternal characteristics. …”
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Two-Stage Treatment of Enterocutaneous Fistulas by V. Yu. Struchkov, S. V. Berelavichus, E. A. Akhtanin, D. S. Gorin, M. V. Dvukhzhilov, A. A. Goev, A. I. Burmistrov, P. V. Markov, A. G. Kriger

“…Three (3.4 %) patients with enterocutaneous fistulas died from complications unrelated to the underlying disease and surgical interventions.Conclusion. …”
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Association of TNF-857C>T, TNFRSF1A36A>G, and TNFRSF1B676T>G Polymorphisms with Ischemic Stroke in a Greek Population by Sofia Markoula, Anthoula Chatzikyriakidou, Sotirios Giannopoulos, Kargiotis Odysseas, Sofia Markou, Konstantinos Vemmos, Ioannis Georgiou, Athanassios P. Kyritsis

“…One hundred seventy-three patients with first ever ischemic stroke of solely atherosclerotic etiology in Northwest Greece and a control group of 179 healthy unrelated subjects were evaluated. Results. TNFα-857TT, TNFR136AA, and TNFR2676TT genotypes were significantly increased in the patient group compared to controls (𝑃=.008, OR = 2.47 (1.26–4.84), 𝑃=.005, OR = 1.97 (1.22–3.17), and 𝑃=.003, OR = 2.2 (1.43–3.37), resp.). …”
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Transgenerational cues about local mate competition affect offspring sex ratios in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae by Duncan, Alison B., Marinosci, Cassandra, Devaux, Céline, Lefèvre, Sophie, Magalhães, Sara, Griffin, Joanne, Valente, Adeline, Ronce, Ophélie, Olivieri, Isabelle

“…The offspring sex ratios of females mated with their brother did not differ from those of females mated with an unrelated male. Females however produced a more female-biased offspring sex ratio if their mothers were alone on a patch compared to 15 other females. …”
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Total Body Irradiation without Chemotherapy as Conditioning for an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Sultan Altouri, Mitchell Sabloff, David Allan, Harry Atkins, Lothar Huebsch, Dawn Maze, Rajiv Samant, Christopher Bredeson

“…An HLA-matched graft from related or unrelated donor was infused on day 0. All but one, who received a CD34+-selected graft, received methotrexate and tacrolimus +/− antithymocyte globulin, as GVHD prophylaxis. …”
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Does it really help? Exploring the impact of Al-Generated writing assistant on the students’ English writing by Regina Rahmi, Zahria Amalina, Andriansyah Andriansyah, Adrian Rodgers

“…In some instances, the intended message and thoughts of the students were not effectively conveyed, leading to the inclusion of ideas unrelated to the initial topic. This study underlines the importance of considering linguistic and content-related aspects in evaluating AI-generated writing assistants. …”
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Next generation thiazolyl ketone inhibitors of cytosolic phospholipase A2 α for targeted cancer therapy by Felicity J. Ashcroft, Asimina Bourboula, Nur Mahammad, Efrosini Barbayianni, Astrid J. Feuerherm, Thanh Thuy Nguyen, Daiki Hayashi, Maroula G. Kokotou, Konstantinos Alevizopoulos, Edward A. Dennis, George Kokotos, Berit Johansen

“…We identify a more potent and selective lead molecule, GK420 (AVX420), which we test in parallel with AVX235 and a structurally unrelated compound, AVX002 for inhibition of cell viability across a panel of cancer cell lines. …”
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Haploidentical stem cell transplantation with posttransplant cyclophosphamide in children with Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome: a case report by Le Nguyen Ngoc Quynh, Binh Nguyen Thanh, Lien Luong Thi, Thuy Nguyen Thi Dieu, Duong Dang Anh, Pamela P. Lee, Tung Cao Viet, Dien Tran Minh

“…He received immunoglobulin replacement therapy and antimicrobial prophylaxis and underwent HSCT at 4 years 3 months of age. After failed unrelated cord blood HSCT, second rescue haploidentical HSCT had been performed using the patient’s mother as the donor, with stem cells collected from peripheral blood. …”
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Association Analysis of NALCN Polymorphisms rs1338041 and rs61973742 in a Chinese Population with Isolated Cervical Dystonia by Qingqing Zhou, Jing Yang, Bei Cao, Yongping Chen, Qianqian Wei, Ruwei Ou, Wei Song, Bi Zhao, Ying Wu, Huifang Shang

“…We also included 289 unrelated, age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs) from the same region. …”
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Serum Osteoprotegerin Is a Potential Biomarker of Insulin Resistance in Chinese Postmenopausal Women with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes by Peng Duan, Min Yang, Meilin Wei, Jia Liu, Ping Tu

“…The aim of this study is to investigate the circulating OPG levels in postmenopausal women with diabetes and prediabetes and explore the relationships between serum OPG and insulin resistance. A total of 271 unrelated Chinese postmenopausal women were recruited in this study. …”
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Case report: Watch-and-wait strategy in resectable esophageal cancer following neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy: a case series by Lingyu Tan, Lingyu Tan, Guozhen Yang, Guozhen Yang, Chufeng Zeng, Chufeng Zeng, Xu Zhang, Xu Zhang, Xu Zhang

“…However, surgical complications unrelated to the tumor continue to detract from patient outcomes. …”
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