From Nonfunctioning Adrenocortical Cancer to Biochemically Silent Paraganglioma Associated with SDHB Mutation: An Uncommon Presentation of a Patient with a Retroperitoneal Mass by Izabella Freitas, Anna Albuquerque, Luiz de Marco, null Eduardo, José Renan Melo, Juliana Drummond, Beatriz Rocha

“…We report a 41-year-old male with a metastatic retroperitoneal lesion with atypical characteristics, displaying pathological findings consistent with both nonsecretory pheochromocytomas/paragangliomas and adrenal cortex carcinoma. The patient was examined for abdominal pain, weight loss, and hypertension. …”
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Young Coconut Juice Reduces Some Histopathological Changes Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease through the Modulation of Estrogen Receptors in Orchidectomized Rat Brains by Tatcha Balit, Mosaad A. Abdel-Wahhab, Nisaudah Radenahmad

“…The results showed that the number of NF200- and PV-reactive neurons in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex was significantly reduced in orx rats. However, it restored to normal in orx rats injected with EB or those administrated with YCJ in a dose-related manner. …”
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Functional Connectivity Analysis of NIRS Data under Rubber Hand Illusion to Find a Biomarker of Sense of Ownership by Naoki Arizono, Yuji Ohmura, Shiro Yano, Toshiyuki Kondo

“…This finding suggests that frontal cortex and motor related areas communicate with each other when the sense of ownership is induced. …”
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The effect of yeast on the treatment and prevention of experimentally induced cerebrocortical necrosis in lambs by Mahmut Ok, Kemal Irmak, Mustafa Ortatatlı, Veysi Aslan, Kemal Çiftçi, ismail Şen, Fatih M. Birdane

“…Histologically, ischemic neuronal changes, perivascular and perineuronal oedema and focal necrosis were determined in cerebellar cortex in all of the lambs, excluding lambs 1 and 3. …”
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Analysis of Connectivity in Electromyography Signals to Examine Neural Correlations in the Activation of Lower Leg Muscles for Postural Stability: A Pilot Study by Gordon Alderink, Diana McCrumb, David Zeitler, Samhita Rhodes

“…Results showed that connectivity in the beta and lower and upper gamma bands (30–100 Hz) was influenced by standing balance conditions and was indicative of a neural drive originating from the motor cortex. Instability was evaluated by comparing less stable standing conditions with a baseline—eyes open feet together stance. …”
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The regulation of glutamatergic nervous system in sleep-wake states and general anesthesia by Wei Luo, Meiyi Duan, Enpeng Liang, Siwei Wang, Jie Yuan

“…We discuss the involvement of glutamatergic neurons across various brain regions, including the brainstem, basal forebrain, thalamus, hypothalamus, and cortex, highlighting their contributions to physiological sleep-wake and anesthesia modulation. …”
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Cassava Waste Starch as a Source of Bioplastics: Development of a Polymeric Film with Antimicrobial Properties by Yuri D. O. Silveira, Adriana S. Franca, Leandro S. Oliveira

“…Cassava periderm and cortex were bleached with either NaClO or H₂O₂ before starch aqueous extraction. …”
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Effect of Lycium barbarum Polysaccharide on Decreasing Serum Amyloid A3 Expression through Inhibiting NF-κB Activation in a Mouse Model of Diabetic Nephropathy by Fengqi Wan, Fulin Ma, Jiaxin Wu, Xinyu Qiao, Minxue Chen, Wenjian Li, Liang Ma

“…Furthermore, LBP attenuates renal inflammation as evidenced by downregulating the mRNA levels of TNFα, IL1 β, IL6, and SAA3 in the renal cortex, as well as reducing the elevated circulating level and protein depositions of SAA3 in the kidney. …”
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Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia with Rare Histopathologic Features: A Case Report by Abbas Karimi, Mahboube Hasheminasab, Samira Derakhshan, Dariyoush Goudarzi Pour, Mahdis Khazaeli Najafabadi, Razie Hosseininavaz

“…Although some of the fibrous dysplasia have unusual clinical and radiographic features that can lead to a challenging diagnosis, most lesions reveal an expansile bone defect due to cortex thinning. This report presented a case of monostotic fibrous dysplasia of a 43-year-old woman with involvement of the right maxillary jaw and sinuses, which indicated unusual histopathological features. …”
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Relationship of Asymmetrical Dimethylarginine, Nitric Oxide, and Sustained Attention during Attack in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder by Serpil Canpolat, İsmet Kırpınar, Erdem Deveci, Hülya Aksoy, Zafer Bayraktutan, İbrahim Eren, Recep Demir, Salih Selek, Nazan Aydın

“…Metabolic detriments especially in relation to NO metabolism in frontal cortex and hypothalamus, psychomotor retardation, or loss of motivation may explain these deficits.…”
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Unveiling the functional connectivity of astrocytic networks with AstroNet, a graph reconstruction algorithm coupled to image processing by L. Zonca, F. C. Bellier, G. Milior, P. Aymard, J. Visser, A. Rancillac, N. Rouach, D. Holcman

“…Applied to the CA1 hippocampus and motor cortex, AstroNet reveals notable differences: astrocytes in the hippocampus display stronger connectivity, while cortical astrocytes form sparser networks. …”
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Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia of the Rib: A Case Report by Asha Mahadevappa, Sapna Patel, Sunila Ravishankar, Gubbanna V. Manjunath

“…Radiologically, X-ray and CT scan showed an expansible lesion of the medullary cavity with a ground-glass centre and thinning of cortex of the 5th rib. The resected lesion was a firm, well-defined solid, grey-white expansile mass replacing the medullary cavity. …”
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How Much PEEP Does High Flow Deliver via Tracheostomy? A Literature Review and Benchtop Experiment by Martin Thomas, Riddhi Joshi, Grant Cave

“…A randomised benchtop experiment was conducted, with a size 8 uncuffed Portex tracheostomy connected to an Optiflow™ with Airvo 2™ humidifier system. …”
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A Semi-Supervised Deep Network Embedding Approach Based on the Neighborhood Structure by Wenmao Wu, Zhizhou Yu, Jieyue He

“…The experimental results of vertex classification on two real-world network datasets demonstrate that SLLDNE outperforms the other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Isolation, Culture, and Characterization of Primary Kidney Fibroblasts from Human Patients with Chronic Antibody-mediated Kidney Transplant Rejection by Mantabya Kumar Singh, Mohit Kumar Rai, Vikas Agarwal, Narayan Prasad

“…Aim and Objective: This protocol describes a simple and reproducible method for selective propagation and culture of primary human kidney fibroblasts from kidney cortex tissue. Techniques for their isolation and characterization are described in detail. …”
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Respiratory Motion Compensation Using Diaphragm Tracking for Cone-Beam C-Arm CT: A Simulation and a Phantom Study by Marco Bögel, Hannes G. Hofmann, Joachim Hornegger, Rebecca Fahrig, Stefan Britzen, Andreas Maier

“…Using a motion corrected triangulation approach on the diaphragm vertex, we are able to estimate a motion signal. The estimated motion signal is used to compensate for respiratory motion in the target region, for example, heart or lungs. …”
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The Role of Silymarin in Mitigating Inflammation and Cognitive Impairment Induced by Ovariectomy in Wistar Rats by Razieh Moalefshahri, Hossein Javid, Fatemeh Gheybi, Somaye Fallahnezhad, Seyed Isaac Hashemy

“…It also significantly reduced IL-1β, TNF-α, and IL-6 levels in the cortex, hippocampus, and liver (P≤0.05 to P≤0.0001) and increased CAT and SOD while decreasing MDA levels (P≤0.05 to P≤0.001) compared to control and sham groups. …”
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Effect of Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Autism: A Randomized Double-Blind Crossover Trial by Anuwat Amatachaya, Narong Auvichayapat, Niramol Patjanasoontorn, Chanyut Suphakunpinyo, Niran Ngernyam, Benchaporn Aree-uea, Keattichai Keeratitanont, Paradee Auvichayapat

“…Twenty patients with autism received 5 consecutive days of both sham and active tDCS stimulation (1 mA) in a randomized double-blind crossover trial over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (F3) for 20 minutes in different orders. Measures of CARS, ATEC, and CGAS were administered before treatment and at 7 days posttreatment. …”
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EEG reveals brain network alterations in chronic aphasia during natural speech listening by Ramtin Mehraram, Jill Kries, Pieter De Clercq, Maaike Vandermosten, Tom Francart

“…In search of an objective biomarker for aphasia, we used EEG to investigate how functional network patterns in the cortex are affected in persons with post-stroke chronic aphasia (PWA) compared to healthy controls (HC) while they are listening to a story. …”
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Performance Evaluation of FPGA-Based Design of Modified Chua Oscillator by Filips Capligins, İsmail Koyuncu, Anna Litvinenko, Muhammed Furkan Taşdemir

“…Modified Chua chaotic oscillators which have two different numbers standards and designed, are synthesized for Virtex-6 on ML605 FPGA development board with Xilinx ISE Design Tools 14.2 program. …”
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