Sex-Specific Brain Activations during Single-Leg Exercise by Kyoungyoun Park-Braswell, Dustin Grooms, Sandra Shultz, Louisa Raisbeck, Christopher Rhea, Randy Schmitz

“… # Results There was significantly greater activation in the visual cortices and premotor cortex in females compared to males during the studied movement. …”
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Structural and Functional Deficits in Patients with Poststroke Dementia: A Multimodal MRI Study by Huaying Cai, Zhiyong Zhao, Linhui Ni, Guocan Han, Xingyue Hu, Dan Wu, Xianjun Ding, Jin Wang

“…Moreover, GMV in the left medial prefrontal cortex showed a significant positive correlation with the Mini-Cog assessment in PSD patients, and GMV in the left CPL displayed the highest area under the ROC curve among all the features for classifying PSD versus PSND patients. …”
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Nerve root magnetic stimulation regulates the synaptic plasticity of injured spinal cord by ascending sensory pathway by Ya Zheng, Lingyun Cao, Dan Zhao, Qi Yang, Chunya Gu, Yeran Mao, Guangyue Zhu, Yulian Zhu, Jing Zhao, Dongsheng Xu

“…Neuromagnetic stimulation targeting the nerve roots has been shown to improve motor function by enhancing nerve conduction in the injured spinal cord and restoring the synaptic ultrastructure of both the sensory and motor cortex. However, our understanding of the neurophysiological mechanisms by which nerve root magnetic stimulation facilitates motor function recovery in the spinal cord is limited, and its role in neuroplasticity remains unclear. …”
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Deafferentation-Induced Plasticity of Visual Callosal Connections: Predicting Critical Periods and Analyzing Cortical Abnormalities Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging by Jaime F. Olavarria, Andrew S. Bock, Lindsey A. Leigland, Christopher D. Kroenke

“…Subsequently, we compare these events to diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measurements of water diffusion anisotropy within developing cerebral cortex. We observed that the relationship between the timing of the critical period and the DTI-characterized developmental trajectory is strikingly similar in rodents and ferrets, which opens the possibility of using cortical DTI trajectories for predicting the critical period in species, such as humans, in which this period likely occurs prenatally. …”
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STRIAA (Severity TRichoscopy Index Alopecia Areata): Validation of a Novel Trichoscopic Tool for Evaluation of Alopecia Areata by Michela Starace, Francesca Pampaloni, Federico Quadrelli, Stephano Cedirian, Luca Rapparini, Francesca Bruni, Bianca Maria Piraccini

“…Methods Anonymized images from 340 patients were scored by two independent raters who analyzed four scalp areas (vertex, occipital, and left and right parietal) for trichoscopic signs: black dots, yellow dots, exclamation mark hairs, broken hairs, and short vellus hairs. …”
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Giant Cell Reparative Granuloma of the Orbit: Clinicopathological Characteristics and Treatment by Álvaro Bengoa-González, Enrique Mencía-Gutiérrez, Beatriz Alonso-Martín, Bianca-Maria Laslău, Elena Salvador, Ana-Belén Enguita-Valls, María-Dolores Lago-Llinás

“…In both cases, computed tomography revealed a heterogeneously growing well-defined mass, arising from the roof of the orbit, affecting the cortex, and invading the orbit. In the first case, the mass extended into the anterior cranial fossa. …”
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Exclusive displaced hadronic signatures in the LHC forward region by Xabier Cid Vidal, Yuhsin Tsai, Jose Zurita

“…Abstract The LHCb detector provides accurate vertex reconstruction and hadronic particle identification, which make the experiment an ideal place to look for light long-lived particles (LLP) decaying into Standard Model (SM) hadrons. …”
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Deficient Autophagy in Microglia Aggravates Repeated Social Defeat Stress-Induced Social Avoidance by Mai Sakai, Zhiqian Yu, Ryo Hirayama, Masa Nakasato, Yoshie Kikuchi, Chiaki Ono, Hiroshi Komatsu, Miharu Nakanishi, Hatsumi Yoshii, David Stellwagen, Tomoyuki Furuyashiki, Masaaki Komatsu, Hiroaki Tomita

“…This study was aimed at elucidating the autophagy signaling changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) under repeated social defeat (RSD) to investigate the involvement of microglial autophagy in RSD-induced behavioral changes. …”
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Hypergraph-based resource allocation for Device-to-Device underlay H-CRAN network by Pan Zhao, Wenlei Guo, Datong Xu, Zhiliang Jiang, Jie Chai, Lijun Sun, He Li, Weiliang Han

“…The first step is to solve a power allocation problem based on solid geometric programming with the vertex search method. Then, a channel allocation constructed by three-dimensional hypergraph matching is established, and the best result of this problem is obtained by a heuristic greed algorithm based on the bipartite conflict graph and µ -claw search. …”
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Sensorimotor Cortical Neuroplasticity in the Early Stage of Bell’s Palsy by Wenwen Song, Minhui Dai, Lihua Xuan, Zhijian Cao, Sisi Zhou, Courtney Lang, Kun Lv, Maosheng Xu, Jian Kong

“…Here, we use task-related and resting-state fMRI to investigate neuroplasticity in the primary sensory (S1) and motor cortex (M1) in patients with acute Bell’s palsy (BP). …”
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Altered brain dynamics of facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: a combined EEG/fMRI study by Philippa Hüpen, Barbara Schulte Holthausen, Christina Regenbogen, Thilo Kellermann, Han-Gue Jo, Ute Habel

“…Among six fMRI-informed EEG-DCM models, alterations in effective connectivity emerged between the primary visual cortex (V1) and the left occipital fusiform gyrus (lOFG). …”
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study of Motor Effect by Emanuela Inguaggiato, Nadia Bolognini, Simona Fiori, Giovanni Cioni

“…Anodal tDCS (1.5 mA, 20 min) was delivered over the primary motor cortex (M1) of the ipsilesional hemisphere. Results showed, only following the active stimulation, an immediate improvement in unimanual gross motor dexterity of hemiplegic, but not of nonhemiplegic, hand in Box and Block test (BBT). …”
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Current and future perspectives on clinical management of classic 21-hydroxylase deficiency by Analia Yogi, Kenichi Kashimada

“…For the appropriate management of classic 21OHD, the physician has to be well versed in the physiology of the adrenal cortex, growth, and reproductive function. Comprehensive understanding of patients’ requirements according to their life stage and sex is essential. …”
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Right Amygdalar and Temporofrontal Activation During Autobiographic, But Not During Fictitious Memory Retrieval by Hans J. Markowitsch, Alexander Thiel, Mechthild Reinkemeier, Josef Kessler, Adem Koyuncu, Wolf-Dieter Heiss

“…Selective activations of the right amygdala and the right ventral prefrontal cortex (at the level of the uncinate fascicle interconnnecting prefrontal and temporopolar areas) were found when subtracting fictitious from autobiographic retrieval. …”
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Evaluation of L-carnitine's protective properties against AlCl3-induced brain, liver, and renal toxicity in rats. by Haifa Ali Alqhtani

“…Furthermore, the histological structure of the cortex, hippocampus, and hepatic renal tissues appeared to change in response to AlCl3. …”
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Temporomandibular Disorders Related to Stress and HPA-Axis Regulation by Kordian Staniszewski, Henning Lygre, Ersilia Bifulco, Siv Kvinnsland, Lisa Willassen, Espen Helgeland, Trond Berge, Annika Rosén

“…Our findings indicate that patients with TMDs may have an upregulated HPA axis with higher F secretion from the adrenal cortex. Anxiety/depression and pain catastrophizing scores were significantly higher in the TMD group, and psychological factors may contribute to chronic upregulation of the HPA axis.…”
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Adrenal Incidentalomas in Cancer Patients Are Not Always “Innocent”: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Panagiota Economopoulou, Giannis Mountzios, Ioannis Kotsantis, Marios Bakogeorgos, Vassilios Ramfidis, Ioannis Kapiris, Efstratios Patsouris, Nikolaos Kentepozidis

“…Herein, we report an unusual case of a 78-year-old woman with synchronous presentation of sigmoid cancer and a nonfunctioning primary adrenal cortex carcinoma, who developed superior vena cava syndrome due to metastatic lymphadenopathy from the latter malignancy. …”
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Association Of Maternal Age And Hemoglobin Level With Apgar Score Of Newborns In A Tertiary Care Hospital Of Suburbs Of Islamabad by Muhammad Hassaan Farooq, Afnan Rizwan, Irfan Afzal Mughal, Syed Haider Raza Rizvi, Amna Faruqi, Asma Irfan

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on mothers (n=306) delivering live, full-term, singleton babies by spontaneous vertex delivery. Women who suffered stillbirths had babies of unknown gestational age or showed co-morbidities were excluded. …”
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System Consolidation of Spatial Memories in Mice: Effects of Enriched Environment by Joyce Bonaccorsi, Simona Cintoli, Rosa Mastrogiacomo, Sigrid Baldanzi, Chiara Braschi, Tommaso Pizzorusso, Maria Cristina Cenni, Nicoletta Berardi

“…We found that activation of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), suggested to have a privileged role in processing remote spatial memories, was evident at shorter time intervals after learning in EE mice; in addition, EE induced the progressive activation of a distributed cortical network not activated in non-EE mice. …”
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Total flavonoids of Abelmoschus manihot ameliorate lipid deposition in HK-2 cells by inhibiting fatty acid uptake mediated by CD36 by Xiaofang Wang, Chenquan Tang, Yi Jiang, Yi Xue, Enchao Zhou

“… This study aimed to explore the mechanism by which total flavones of Abelmoschl manihot reduce intracellular lipid deposition in HK-2 cells (Human renal cortex proximal tubule epithelial cells) and thus reduce cell apoptosis. …”
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