Astaxanthin Inhibits Interleukin-6 Expression in Cerulein/Resistin-Stimulated Pancreatic Acinar Cells by Min Seung Kwak, Joo Weon Lim, Hyeyoung Kim

“…Acute pancreatitis is a common clinical condition with increasing the proinflammatory mediators, including interleukin-6 (IL-6). …”
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Drug Concentrations in the Air and their Influencing Factors in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit by Hui-Yun Tseng, Yi-Ting Tsai, Ying-Shiuan Su, Po-Pei Peng, Gwo-Hwa Wan

“…Abstract Aerosolized drug therapy is a common approach in treating respiratory diseases in clinical practice. …”
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Comparative efficacy of robot-assisted therapy associated with other different interventions on upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: A protocol for a network meta-analysis. by Qian Liu, Zuoyan Liu, Yang Xu, Li Liu, Fang Wang, Fanyu Zhao, Hong Cheng, Xiuying Hu

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Post-stroke movement disorders are common, especially upper limb dysfunction, which seriously affects the physical and mental health of stroke patients. …”
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Polytene chromosomes reflect functional organization of the Drosophila genome by D. S. Sidorenko, T. Yu. Zykova, V. A. Khoroshko, G. V. Pokholkova, S. A. Demakov, J. Larsson, E. S. Belyaeva, I. F. Zhimulev

“…Extremely long genes of different Drosophila chromosomes do not fit the common scheme, since they can occupy a series of alternating bands and interbands (up to nine chromosomal structures) formed by parts of these genes.…”
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Metformin Exhibits Anti‐Inflammatory Effects by Regulating microRNA‐451/CXCL16 and B Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma 2 in Patients With Osteoarthritis by Nahid Alimoradi, Amin Ramezani, Mohammad Tahami, Negar Firouzabadi

“…Objective Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common cause of chronic disability in joints among older individuals. …”
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Haematopinus suis Infestation in Pig Farms in Busogo Sector, Rwanda by E. Niyonsenga, J. Twizerimana, M. F. Mwabonimana

“…Haematopinus suis(H. suis) is a common ectoparasite of pigs and is economically important worldwide. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Effect of Oroxylum indicum on hepatocellular carcinoma via the P53 and VEGF pathways based on microfluidic chips by Xi Luo, Miao Zhao, Sicong Liu, Yi Zheng, Qiang Zhang, Yong-rui Bao, Shuai Wang, Tian-jiao Li, Xian-sheng Meng

“…Abstract Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), abbreviated as liver cancer, is one of the most common cancers in clinics. HCC has a wider spread and higher incidence due to its high malignancy and metastasis. …”
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Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anemia among University Students in Hodeida Province, Yemen by Abdullah Ahmed Al-alimi, Salem Bashanfer, Mohammed Abdo Morish

“…Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is one of the most common types of nutritional anemia in the worldwide and considered a major public health problem in developing countries especially in Yemen. …”
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Diagnosis dan Penatalaksanaan Karsinoma Sel Skuamosa Glotis Stadium Dini by Sukri Rahman Rahman, Bestari Jaka Budiman Jaka Budiman, Delva Swanda Swanda

“…</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>Laryngeal carsinoma is the common head and neck cancer. More than 90% of laryngeal cancers are squamous cell carcinoma, if the early detected the cure rate can the better. …”
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Total Parathyroidectomy with Subcutaneous Parathyroid Forearm Autotransplantation in the Treatment of Secondary Hyperparathyroidism: A Single-Center Experience by Claudio Casella, Alessandro Galani, Luigi Totaro, Silvia Ministrini, Silvia Lai, Mira Dimko, Nazario Portolani

“…Secondary hyperparathyroidism is common in chronic kidney disease. Parathyroidectomy is indicated in refractory hyperparathyroidism when medical treatments and so the parathyroid hormone levels cannot be lowered to acceptable values without causing significant hyperphosphatemia or hypercalcemia. …”
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Dynamic Reliability Management for FPGA-Based Systems by Jahanzeb Anwer, Sebastian Meisner, Marco Platzner

“…The motivation behind this research is the degradation of reliability in FPGA hardware due to single-event effects caused by radiation particles. Redundancy is a commonly used technique to enhance the fault-tolerance capability of radiation-sensitive applications. …”
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Testing a multi-behavioral intervention to improve oral health behaviors in the pediatric dental surgery population: protocol for the PROTECT trial by Joanna Buscemi, Teresa G. Borowski, David Avenetti, Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, Molly Martin, Molly Martin, Marc S. Atkins, Teresa Marshall, Michael Berbaum, Helen H. Lee, Helen H. Lee

“…Severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) is a common disease within marginalized pediatric populations. …”
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The Clinical Features, Risk Factors, and Outcome of Aneurysmal Lesions in Behcet’s Disease by Jiaxin Zhou, Jing Shi, Jinjing Liu, Luxi Sun, Lu Li, Chaoran Li, Xiuhua Wu, Yining Wang, Xinping Tian, Xiaofeng Zeng, Yi Liu, Wenjie Zheng, Yan Zhao

“…For the other 97 aortic and/or peripheral artery aneurysms in 59 patients, the most commonly affected vessels were abdominal aorta (27/97, 27.8%), coronary artery (10/97, 10.3%), and superficial femoral artery (8/97, 8.2%). …”
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Serum amylase level measurement in acute abdominal pain by Taher Abdullah Hawramy, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Botan H. Tahir

“…Overall, 68 patients were included, with mean age of 45.9 years over the aforementioned time period, 44 females (64.7%) and 24 males (35.3%), of which 37 patients had normal serum amylase level (14 male and 23 female patients), defined as levels between (35 IU/L-115 IU/L) by the laboratory (ELISA) device used for all the tests, while the other 31 patients (10 males and 21 females) had high serum amylase levels due to different disease processes, the most common two with equal frequencies were acute calculous cholecystitis (41.9%) and acute pancreatitis (41.9%).   …”
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Digitalization of business increases the costs of information security by O M. Makhalina, V. N. Makhalin

“…The content of cyber threats on the example of industrial enterprises has been considered.The number of cyber threats is constantly growing in the world, their complexity and diversity increase depending on the object of the attack, goals and objectives. The most common types of cyber attacks in the world has been considered in the article, the mechanism of their implementation, their source and the scale of damage they cause, have been described.In connection with the transition to a digital economy, the number of cyber threats is constantly growing. …”
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Soil porosity as a key factor of soil aggregate stability: insights from restricted grazing by Yi Yang, Yi Yang, Yi Yang, Zhongju Meng, Zhongju Meng, Zhongju Meng, Haonian Li, Haonian Li, Haonian Li, Yue Gao, Yue Gao, Yue Gao, Tianyang Li, Tianyang Li, Tianyang Li, Lei Qin

“…Overgrazing leads to steppe degradation and soil structure deterioration, which is common in desert steppes. Restricted grazing is a sustainable practice, but the mechanisms by which soil structure responds to restricted grazing have received little attention. …”
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Scoulerine promotes cytotoxicity and attenuates stemness in ovarian cancer by targeting PI3K/AKT/mTOR axis by Wang Fang, Zhang Yang, Pang Rui, Shi Shaohong, Wang Ran

“…In women, ovarian cancer is a common gynecological cancer associated with poor prognosis, reoccurrence and chemoresistance. …”
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The Value of Immune-Related Genes Signature in Osteosarcoma Based on Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis by Xin Wang, Li Gan, Ju Ye, Mengjie Tang, Wei Liu

“…Osteosarcoma (OS) is a serious malignant tumor that is more common in adolescents or children under 20 years of age. …”
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Single-shot super-resolved fringe projection profilometry (SSSR-FPP): 100,000 frames-per-second 3D imaging with deep learning by Bowen Wang, Wenwu Chen, Jiaming Qian, Shijie Feng, Qian Chen, Chao Zuo

“…Abstract To reveal the fundamental aspects hidden behind a variety of transient events in mechanics, physics, and biology, the highly desired ability to acquire three-dimensional (3D) images with ultrafast temporal resolution has been long sought. As one of the most commonly employed 3D sensing techniques, fringe projection profilometry (FPP) reconstructs the depth of a scene from stereo images taken with sequentially structured illuminations. …”
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Polymorphism of renin — angiotensin system genes in progression of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C by O. V. Taratina, T. N. Krasnova, L. M. Samokhodskaya, T. N. Lopatkina, V. A. Tkachuk, N. A. Mukhin

“…In CHC patients of «rapidly progressing fibrosis» group in comparison to «slowly progressing fibrosis» group minor A-allele (50,0 and 33,3% respectively, p=0,0126) and «mutant» АА-genotype (27,3 and 11,1%, р=0,0324; OR АА=3,00; 95% CI 1,07-8,45), AGT gene on locus G-6A, as well as minor T-allele (р=0,0407) of AGT gene in M235T locus were significantly more common while MM genotype of M235T polymorphism of AGT gene (20,8 and 44,4%, respectively, p=0,0090; OR MM=0,33; 95%-CI 0,15–0,73) were significant less frequent. …”
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