Molecular Identification and Phylogenetic Trees Reconstruction of Blue Swimming Crabs (Decapoda: Portunidae) from Pangpang Bay, Banyuwangi by Sapto Andriyono, Reza Istiqomatul Hidayah, Laksmi Sulmartiwi, Andi Aliah Hidayani, Md. Jobaidul Alam

“…Besides having an ecological function, crab also provides essential components for human health. …”
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EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY OF MELATONIN ADMINISTRATION IN THE PATIENTS WITH ATOPIC DERMATITIS by V. S. Shirinsky, V. M. Nepomnyashikh, M. I. Leonova, O. L. Krugleeva, V. S. Kozhevnikov, N. Yu. Solovyova, A. V. Shurlygina, G. I. Litvinenko, I. V. Shirinsky, O. A. Malysheva

“…Addition of melatonin to conventional treatment caused a 63 per cent decrease in relative risks of unfavorable outcome, defined as absence of 20 per cent improvement by the SCORAD scale. …”
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An investigation of SMART Recovery: protocol for a longitudinal cohort study of individuals making a new recovery attempt from alcohol use disorder by John F Kelly, Samuel A Levy, Bettina B Hoeppner

“…Primary outcomes are: frequency of SMART and AA meetings attendance; per cent days abstinent and per cent days heavy drinking. …”
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Molecular investigations on exosome enriched in vitro maturation of bovine cumulus cells: Insights from cumulus cell dynamics by P. Parvathi, R.S. Abhilash, C. Jayakumar, H.M. Harshan, K.P. Magnus, G. Radhika, E. Kurian, P. Prathima, S.M. Saifudeen

“…Both groups were incubated in a controlled environment of 5 per cent CO2 and 95 per cent relative humidity. Following maturation, cumulus expansion rates (Grade A 62.10 3.99 vs 50.00 2.24 ) and IVM rates (91.33 1.69 vs 75.93 2.85 ) were noted to be significantly higher (p 0.01) in the exosome supplemented group (Group II) compared to the control (Group I). …”
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Tuberculosis and lipid exchange by G. O. Kaminskaya, R. Yu. Аbdullaev

“…The first part describes the current understanding of the ways of lipid transportation in the human body, structural and functional specific features of various classes of lipoproteins and their role in the adaptation and pathology development. …”
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A cross-sectional study of hypertensive outpatients to determine the necessity of asking about erectile dysfunction symptoms by N. Sharifuddin, A.F. Abdul Aziz, M.S. Hamzah, R. Abdul Rashid, Z. Zainuddin, S.E.W. Puteh, M.Z. Abdul Hamid, N.A. Aziz

“…The International Index of Erectile Function-5 (IIEF-5) assessment was used with a standardised checklist. …”
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Methamphetamine-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension: data from the national biological sample and data repository for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH Biobank) by Prangthip Charoenpong, Navneet Dhillon, Kevin Murnane, Nicholas Goeders, Nicole Hall, Courtney Keller, Mohammad Alfrad Nobel Bhuiyan, Robert Walter

“…Male patients with MA-PAH exhibited a worse functional class and lower per cent predicted 6MWD, but no significant differences in haemodynamic findings were observed between the sexes.Conclusion There were no differences in haemodynamic between MA-PAH and IPAH but we found that MA-PAH differed from CTD-PAH. …”
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Fonctionnement des tombes du début du Bronze final (XIVe – XIIe s. av. J.C.) dans le sud-est du bassin parisien (France) by Stéphane Rottier

“…Eleven states of burial were defined as a result of taphonomic examinations. These functioned as stages of the burial process, depending upon the durability of the structure and its suitability for re-use. …”
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Lower synaptic density and its association with cognitive dysfunction in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder by Ming Zhou, Qian Xiao, Ling Xiao, Jiale Hou, Shuo Hu, Huixi Dong, Zhiyou He

“…Three-dimensional T1-weighted structural magnetic resonance imaging and 18F-SynVesT-1 positron emission tomography were conducted. Cognitive function was assessed using the Wisconsin Cart Sorting Test (WCST) in patients with OCD and HCs. …”
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Rationale, design and objectives of two phase III, randomised, placebo-controlled studies of GLPG1690, a novel autotaxin inhibitor, in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (ISABELA 1 and... by Kevin K Brown, Toby M Maher, Michael Kreuter, David J Lederer, Wim Wuyts, Nadia Verbruggen, Simone Stutvoet, Ann Fieuw, Paul Ford, Walid Abi-Saab, Marlies Wijsenbeek

“…Therefore, an unmet need exists for novel, well-tolerated agents that reduce lung function decline and improve quality of life. Here we report the design of two phase III studies of the novel IPF therapy, GLPG1690.Methods and analysis Two identically designed, phase III, international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multicentre studies (ISABELA 1 and 2) were initiated in November 2018. …”
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Lesing sammen med hele barnegruppen på avdelingen – en studie av lesepraksiser i norske barnehager by Elisabeth Brekke Stangeland, Ann Cecilie Bergene, Trude Hoel

“…The results show that reading one or more books for the whole group of children is common, but 20 per cent state that they did not read any books together with the full group last week. …”
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HUWE1 is a critical colonic tumour suppressor gene that prevents MYC signalling, DNA damage accumulation and tumour initiation by Kevin B Myant, Patrizia Cammareri, Michael C Hodder, Jimi Wills, Alex Von Kriegsheim, Balázs Győrffy, Mamun Rashid, Simona Polo, Elena Maspero, Lynsey Vaughan, Basanta Gurung, Evan Barry, Angeliki Malliri, Fernando Camargo, David J Adams, Antonio Iavarone, Anna Lasorella, Owen J Sansom

“…To determine the importance of HUWE1, we chose to examine its function in colorectal cancer, where it is mutated in up to 15 per cent of tumours. …”
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Perception of some intonational deviations in melodies by J. FYK

“…Moreover, in fifty per cent of the cases, the last tone of the second version was intonationally deviant either upwards or downwards. …”
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CLINICAL EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MEDICATIONS NEUROTRANSMITTER ACTIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY GLAUCOMA by I. A. Zakharova, R. V. Avdeev, V. A. Pristavka, S. N. Surnin, V. Y. Mahmutov, I. I. Savrasova

“…Neuromedin has a positive impact on the state of visual functions, hydrodynamics and morphometric parameters of the disk.…”
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Recent data on fusion far below the barrier for 12C + 28Si by Montagnoli G., Del Fabbro M., Stefanini A. M., Balogh M., Goasduff A., Andreetta G., Angelini F., Benito J., Bonhomme A., Brugnara D., Colucci G., Corradi L., Courtin S., Depalo R., Ertoprak A., Fioretto E., Galtarossa F., Servin B. Gongora, Gottardo A., Gozzelino A., Heine M., Mazzocco M., Mengoni D., Million B., Monpribat E., Del Alamo R. Nicolas, Pellumaj J., Vidal R.M. Perez, Pigliapoco S., Pilotto E., Polettini M., Rezynkina K., Rocchini M., Stramaccioni D., Szilner S., Trzcinska A., Dobon J. Valiente, Zago L., Zanon I.

“…We measured the fusion excitation function of 12C + 28Si down to hundreds of nanobarns, using 28Si beams from the XTU Tandem accelerator of LNL. …”
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Influence of a structured, 1-year-long dietary intervention regarding body composition and cardiovascular risk (ARCTIC) in coeliac disease: a protocol of a multicentre randomised c... by Zsolt Szakács, Nelli Farkas, Judit Bajor, Nándor Faluhelyi, Krisztina Hagymási, Zsófia Vereczkei, Míra Zsófia Peresztegi, Klára Lemes, Sarolta Dakó, Eszter Dakó, Szilvia Lada, Gábor Szekeres, Gyula Pásztor, Gabriella Pár, Emese Mezősi

“…Outcomes include anthropometric parameters (body composition analysis including weight, Body Mass Index, fat mass, per cent body fat, skeletal muscle mass, visceral fat area and total body water) and CV risk-related metabolic parameters (eg, lipid profile, homocysteine, fasting glucose, haemoglobin A1c, Homeostatic Model Assessment Index, metabolic hormones, waist circumference, blood pressure, liver function tests, liver steatosis rate and diet composition). …”
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Hybrid closed-loop systems for managing blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and economic modelling by Asra Asgharzadeh, Mubarak Patel, Martin Connock, Sara Damery, Iman Ghosh, Mary Jordan, Karoline Freeman, Anna Brown, Rachel Court, Sharin Baldwin, Fatai Ogunlayi, Chris Stinton, Ewen Cummins, Lena Al-Khudairy

“…Hybrid closed-loop arm of randomised controlled trials achieved improvement in glycated haemoglobin per cent [hybrid closed loop decreased glycated haemoglobin per cent by 0.28 (95% confidence interval −0.34 to −0.21), increased per cent of time in range (between 3.9 and 10.0 mmol/l) with a MD of 8.6 (95% confidence interval 7.03 to 10.22), and significantly decreased time in range (per cent above 10.0 mmol/l) with a MD of −7.2 (95% confidence interval −8.89 to −5.51), but did not significantly affect per cent of  time below range (< 3.9 mmol/l)]. …”
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Catch-up growth following early-life stunting in a low-resource area in rural Tanzania: the MAL-ED Metabolic study by Estomih Mduma, Samwel Jatosh, Mark D DeBoer, Eric R Houpt, Kiya Nemati, Yotham Z Michael, Bernadetha P Hhando

“…We assessed outcomes of height-for-age z-score (HAZ), stunting and catch-up growth using mixed-model linear and logistic regression to assess associations of maternal education, household income, socioeconomic status, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and thyroid function tests. We defined stunting as HAZ ≤−2 and catch-up growth both as stunting resolved from age 2 years to 11.5 years and a HAZ increase of &gt;0.5 from 2 years to 11.5 years.Results Cohort participants exhibited a moderate amount of catch-up growth, with per cent stunting decreasing from 72.6% at 2 years to 39.0% at 11.5 years. …”
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Phase 2 trial design of BMS-986278, a lysophosphatidic acid receptor 1 (LPA1) antagonist, in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) or progressive fibrotic interstitial... by Jeffrey J Swigris, Toby M Maher, Tamera J Corte, Aryeh Fischer, Hong Xiao, Lisa Lancaster, Takafumi Suda, Xiaojiang Zhan, Jonathan G Goldin, Scott M Palmer, Hideaki Watanabe, Takashi Ogura, Anne Minnich, Giridhar S Tirucherai, Brandon Elpers, R Adam Smith, Edgar D Charles

“…Introduction Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-IPF, progressive fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (PF-ILD), are associated with a progressive loss of lung function and a poor prognosis. Treatment with antifibrotic agents can slow, but not halt, disease progression, and treatment discontinuation because of adverse events is common. …”
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GRID-system Based on European EGI Standards for Large-scale Calculations Using the Original Accelerated Method of Quantum Chemistry by Nikolay A. Anikin, Alexander Y. Muskatin, Mikhail B. Kuzminsky, Alexandr I. Rusakov

“…For such calculations, new approximation methods have been developed, including for DFT functionals, and their software implementation is carried out. …”
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