Expression Levels of Some Antioxidant and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Genes in Patients with Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Giuseppe De Palma, Paola Mozzoni, Olga Acampa, Eveline Internullo, Paolo Carbognani, Michele Rusca, Matteo Goldoni, Massimo Corradi, Marcello Tiseo, Pietro Apostoli, Antonio Mutti

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Health-related quality of life measures used with Indigenous children/youth in the Pacific Rim: a scoping review by Sue Crengle, Trudy Sullivan, Emma H Wyeth, Sarah Derrett, Vicky Nelson, Georgia McCarty

“…Of these, 40 full-text papers were eligible, reporting on 32 unique studies. Twenty-nine HRQoL measures were used across eight countries. …”
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Analysis of Nucleotide Variations in Genes of Iron Management in Patients of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders by Emanuela Castiglioni, Dario Finazzi, Stefano Goldwurm, Gianni Pezzoli, Gianluca Forni, Domenico Girelli, Federica Maccarinelli, Maura Poli, Maurizio Ferrari, Laura Cremonesi, Paolo Arosio

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Does Adiponectin Act as an Antiangiogenic Factor in B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia? by Stefano Molica, Giovanna Digiesi, Angelo Vacca, Rosanna Mirabelli, Katia Todoerti, Caterina Battaglia, Fortunato Morabito, Antonino Neri, Domenico Ribatti

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Bloodstream infections at a tertiary hospital in the Gambia - a one-year retrospective study by Paul Rahden, Ebrima Barrow, Haddy Bah, Sheikh Omar Bittaye, David Nygren, Abdoulie Badjan

“…The majority were drawn from neonatal or paediatric patients (360/645, 56%) and overall primarily in intensive care units (406/645, 63%). The median age was 3 years (interquartile range 0–31 years) and 46% were female. …”
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Assessing vulnerability and climate risk to agriculture for developing resilient farming strategies in the Ganges Delta by Uttam Kumar Mandal, Fazlul Karim, Yingying Yu, Amit Ghosh, Taslima Zahan, Sonali Mallick, Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Priya Lal Chandra Paul, Mohammed Mainuddin

“…The Ganges Delta supports a unique coastal ecosystem that is highly susceptible to global climate change. …”
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Sequencing Analysis of Invasive Carbapenem-Resistant <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> Isolates Secondary to Gastrointestinal Colonization by Gaetano Maugeri, Maddalena Calvo, Dafne Bongiorno, Dalida Bivona, Giuseppe Migliorisi, Grete Francesca Privitera, Guido Scalia, Stefania Stefani

“…Infection development often derives from gastrointestinal colonization; thus, it is fundamental to monitor asymptomatic <i>K. pneumoniae</i> colonization through surveillance protocols, especially for intensive care and immunocompromised patients. We described a six-month routine screening protocol from the Policlinico of Catania (Italy), while blood samples were collected from the same patients only in cases of a systemic infection suspicion. …”
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Role of Paricalcitol in Modulating the Immune Response in Patients with Renal Disease by Silvia Lucisano, Adriana Arena, Giovanna Stassi, Daniela Iannello, Gaetano Montalto, Adolfo Romeo, Giuseppe Costantino, Rosaria Lupica, Valeria Cernaro, Domenico Santoro, Michele Buemi

“…NGAL, IL-1β, IL-17, IL-6, TNF-α, and IFN-γ were measured in the culture medium and in the 24 h urine collection. Results. 25(OH)-vitamin D was lower in CKD than in controls (p<0.0001), while inflammatory markers were higher in CKD group (p<0.0001). …”
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In vitro assessment of the nematicidal potential of Streptomyces violascens strain AS2 against root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne sp.) by Azlay Latifa, Oubassou Ez-Zahra, Berr Alexandre, Mayad El Hassan, Barakate Mustapha

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Real-world clinical experience with secukinumab in psoriatic arthritis: an observational study and a literature review by Eleonora Celletti, Giulio Gualdi, Emanuela Sabatini, Francesco Cipollone, Fabio Lobefaro, Paolo Amerio

“…Fifteen patients completed 6 months of follow-up, eleven patients completed 9 months, and six patients were followed for 12 months. The major comorbidities recorded were fibromyalgia (33% of patients), recurrent bilateral anterior uveitis, and autoimmune thyroiditis with hypothyroidism (both 13% of the patients). …”
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Don’t mind the gap: reframing the Perren strain rule for fracture healing using insights from virtual mechanical testing by Maham Tanveer, Karina Klein, Brigitte von Rechenberg, Salim Darwiche, Hannah L. Dailey

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Cardiovascular risk factors, global cardiovascular risk, and vascular age in a cohort of Peruvian HIV patients by German Valenzuela-Rodriguez, Jaime A. Collins, Raul Castillo, Luis R. Illescas, Adrian V. Hernandez, Carlos Diaz-Arocutipa

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The impact of the international rice genebank’s (IRG) on rice farming in Bangladesh by Donald Villanueva, Yuji Enriquez, Grace Lee Capilit

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Identification of individual-level clinical factors associated with increased risk of death during heatwaves: a time-stratified case-crossover study using national primary care rec... by Shakoor Hajat, Ross Thompson, Sari Kovats, Emer O’Connell, Helen Macintyre

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Early effects of LT3 + LT4 combination therapy on quality of life in hypothyroid patients: a randomized, double-blind, parallel-group comparison trial by Fatemeh Hajtalebi, Fariba Alaei-Shahmiri, Fatemeh Golgiri, Najmeh Shahini, Hamideh Akbari, Kasra Assadian, Seyedarad Mosalamiaghili

“…Compared with baseline, combination therapy significantly increased the physical component summary score after six months, but the difference was not significant. …”
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Effect of SIS3 on Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Repair in a Lipopolysaccharide-Induced ARDS Rat Model by Qiong Liang, Qiqing Lin, Yueyong Li, Weigui Luo, Xia Huang, Yujie Jiang, Chunyan Qin, Jin Nong, Xiang Chen, Suren Rao Sooranna, Liao Pinhu

“…A selective inhibitor of Smad3 (SIS3) was intraperitoneally injected into the disease model, while phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) was used in the control group. Animal tissues were then evaluated using histological analysis, immunohistochemistry, RT-qPCR, ELISA, and western blotting. …”
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Identification of a binding site for small molecule inhibitors targeting human TRPM4 by Babatunde Ekundayo, Prakash Arullampalam, Christian E. Gerber, Anne-Flore Hämmerli, Sabrina Guichard, Mey Boukenna, Daniela Ross-Kaschitza, Martin Lochner, Jean-Sebastien Rougier, Henning Stahlberg, Hugues Abriel, Dongchun Ni

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Prescription of Strong Opioids in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in the Province of Valladolid (Spain) by Rodrigo Enríquez de Salamanca Gambara, Ana María Sierra Santos, Ana María Ruiz San Pedro, Federico Montero Cuadrado, Irene Muñoz León, Miguel Ángel Castro Villamor, Alicia Córdoba Romero, Ana María Del Olmo Tornero, Lucía Pérez Pérez, León Morales-Quezada

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Synovial sarcoma. Evaluation of Prognosis with Emphasis on the Study of DNA Ploidy and Proliferation (PCNA and Ki-67) Markers by José M. Lopes, Einar Hannisdal, Bodil Bjerkehagen, Øyvind S. Bruland, Håvard E. Danielsen, Erik O. Pettersend, Manuel Sobrinho-Simões, Jahn M. Nesland

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Different Temporal Patterns of Specific and General Autobiographical Memories across the Lifespan in Alzheimer’s Disease by Nathalie Philippi, François Rousseau, Vincent Noblet, Anne Botzung, Olivier Després, Benjamin Cretin, Stéphane Kremer, Frédéric Blanc, Liliann Manning

“…We compared specific (i.e., associated with a unique time and space) and general (i.e., extended or repeated events) autobiographical memories (AbM) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). …”
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