Evaluation of nematode susceptibility and resistance to anthelmintic drugs with a WMicrotracker motility assay by Mélanie Alberich, Marie Garcia, Julie Petermann, Clara Blancfuney, Sophie Jouffroy, Philippe Jacquiet, Anne Lespine

“…The assay first compared ivermectin (IVM) susceptibility among wild-type Bristol N2 (N2B), IVM-selected (IVR10), and nhr-8 loss-of-function (AE501; nhr8(ok186)) Caenorhabditis elegans strains. …”
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Hepatotoxicity Induced by Adalimumab in Chronic Plaque Psoriasis Patient: A Case Report by Algarzae NK, Alotaibi HM, Alajlan AH, AlSaleh MR, Alsalman AA

“…This case report highlights the importance of monitoring liver function tests in patients receiving Adalimumab, early recognition, and prompt medication dosage adjustment or discontinuation. …”
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Endothelium protecting properties of taurin in chronic heart failure with type 2 diabetes by M. E. Stacenko, S. V. Turkina, N. N. Shilina, A. A. Vinnikova

“…Assessment included 6-minute walking test, measurement of brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in blood, echocardiography, vascular components of endothelium functioning, plasmatic factors of endothelial function (NO metabolites concentration and endotheline-1 in serum), glucose level, insulin with IR-index, glycosilated hemoglobine, total cholesterol, low density and high density lipoproteides, triglycerides.Results. …”
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The Effect of Giving of Telang Flower Extract (Clitoria ternatea) on Degenerative Hepatocytes and Liver Necrosis of Mice Exposed to Cigarette Smoke by Suprijono Agus, Wulansari Ariani Hesti, Setyoningsih Endang

“…Telang flower extract has properties as an antioxidant. Flavonoids that function as antioxidants can reduce the number of free radicals formed from the lipid peroxidation process. …”
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The effects of unified pooling arrangement on health inequity in China: a DID-RIF approach by Jing Wu, Yuqing Liu, Chuncheng Wang, Lianjie Liu, Jiaqian Lu

“…Methods This study takes the provincial unified reform of basic medical insurance for urban employees in China as an example, uses the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data and related policy documents, and adopts the DID-RIF hybrid method to test the impact of the equalization of the medical insurance system on health inequity, by using the interaction term in the DID (Difference-in-Differences) model as the independent variable in the RIF (Recentered Influence Function) to exclude the influence of other interfering variables. …”
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FIRST CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF USING COLUMN FOR LPS-ADSORPTION OF TOXIPAK IN TREATMENT OF SEPSIS PATIENTS by L. L. Gendel, A. A. Sokolov, S. N. Gubanova, I. Yu. Adamova, P. A. Levashov

“…Endotoxicosis is one of the main factors of the pathogenesis of multiple organic dysfunctions in gram-negative sepsis, induced by the accumulation of lipopolysaccharides - wall components of gram-negative bacteria. …”
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Uniaxial compressive damage evolution and constitutive modeling of fissure-like rocks under different loading rates based on acoustic emission by Qinyong Wang, Wei Chen, Wenqing Peng, Yuanzeng Wang, Yu Zhou, Zhili Peng

“…To achieve this, prefabricated fissured rock specimens that mimic natural rocks were prepared. Uniaxial compression tests along with AE monitoring were carried out at various loading rates. …”
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Customized Metal 3D Printed Total Wrist Prosthesis in the Treatment of Severely Destroyed Wrist: Design Rationale and Clinical Applications by Qipei Wei, Chang Liu, Shanlin Chen, Min Liu

“…A paired t‐test was conducted to compare pre‐ and postoperative outcomes. …”
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Determination of the Relationship Between Voice and Swallowing Characteristics in Individuals aged 65 and Over with Sarcopenia Risk by Serkan Bengisu, Aynur İkra Demir

“…Swallowing was evaluated using the Swallowing Function Screening Test (EAT-10).Results: Participants were categorised into dysphagic (n=29) and non-dysphagic (n=20) groups based on their EAT-10 scores. …”
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Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Scheme for Assessment of Power Transformer Oil Deterioration Using Imprecise Information by Zuhaib Nishter, Fangzong Wang

“…Traditional diagnoses are based on strict measurements that do not account for the factors of variability and uncertainty of the actual data. …”
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Establishment Methods and Application Evaluation of Animal Models in Reproductive Toxicology Research by HUANG Dongyan, WU Jianhui

“…Research includes evaluating the damaging effects of test substances on reproductive function of parents and the toxicity evaluation of offspring embryos. …”
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Multidimensional Population Health Modeling: A Data-Driven Multivariate Statistical Learning Approach by Zhiyuan Wei, Adil Baran Narin, Sayanti Mukherjee

“…In this paper, we propose a data-driven multivariate statistical learning approach to simultaneously model various aspects of population health—characterizing the length and quality of life—as a function of health behaviors, clinical care, socioeconomic factors, physical environment, and demographics. …”
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An Alternative Psychophysical Diagnostic Indicator of the Aging Eye by John D. Rodriguez, Garrick Wallstrom, Divya Narayanan, Donna Welch, Mark B. Abelson

“…In this study, we test visual function recovery to mesopic luminance stimuli following a long duration photostress in young and elderly subjects. …”
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Association between the Body Roundness Index and spirometric parameters among U.S. Adolescents from NHANES 2007–2012 by Weibang Xu, Baoyi Huang, Yiyi Xu, Ganghua Huang

“…Abstract Background Obesity is an important factor affecting pulmonary function. The Body Roundness Index (BRI) is a new method of assessing body and visceral adiposity, but its association with spirometric parameters in adolescents has not been previously reported. …”
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Clinical features, treatment and prognosis analysis of distant metastatic esophageal cancer by Shuang Li, Yanwei Lu, Ruiqi Liu, Luanluan Huang, Ding Nan, Xiaoyan Chen, Wenjie Xia, Xiaodong Liang, Haibo Zhang

“…Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to eliminate group baseline differences.The data were divided into the training cohort (1116 cases) and validation cohort (426 cases) by using R software and random sampling function at the ratio of 7:3. The baseline table was plotted using Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test. …”
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Path model explaining the association between fear of falling and health-related quality of life in (pre-)frail older adults by Tjard Sattler, Sophie Gottschalk, Hans-Helmut König, Tobias Braun, Gisela Büchele, Michael Denkinger, Tim Fleiner, Corinna Nerz, Kilian Rapp, Martina Schäufele, Christian Werner, Judith Dams

“…The proposed model should be tested on an alternative sample, using longitudinal data, and extended to include additional explanatory factors (e.g. activity avoidance). …”
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Neurocognition as a major predictor of 8-week response to antipsychotics for drug-naïve first-episode schizophrenia using machine learning by Xianghe Wang, Tianqi Gao, Xiaodong Guo, Bingjie Huang, Yunfei Ji, Wanheng Hu, Xiaolin Yin, Yue Zheng, Chengcheng Pu, Xin Yu

“…The baseline neurocognitive tests with strong predictive significance were the Grooved Pegboard Test, Trail Making Test Part A, Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, Brief Visuospatial Learning Test, Hopkins Verbal Learning Test and Color Trails Test. …”
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Predicting autoimmune thyroiditis in primary Sjogren’s syndrome patients using a random forest classifier: a retrospective study by Jia-yun Wu, Jing-yu Zhang, Wen-qi Xia, Yue-ning Kang, Ru-yi Liao, Yu-ling Chen, Xiao-min Li, Ya Wen, Fan-xuan Meng, Li-ling Xu, Sheng-hui Wen, Hui-fen Liu, Yuan-qing Li, Jie-ruo Gu, Qing Lv, Yong Ren

“…All participants underwent thyroid function tests, including TPOAb and TgAb, and were accordingly divided into positive and negative thyroid autoantibody groups. …”
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Changes of mental and physical components of quality of life in patients after heart transplantation: experience of the Almazov National Medical Research Center by M. A. Simonenko, P. A. Fedotov, M. Yu. Sitnikova, V. A. Bart, L. A. Vasilieva, A. V. Berezina, M. A. Karpenko

“…According to the SF-36 and the coping test, the following components of QoL (BP, role-functioning physical, role-functioning emotional, vitality) and self-control were higher in physically active recipients. …”
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Cardiac MRI study of adverse events in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a prospective cohort study of cardiac adverse events by Antonio Di Muzio, Alessandro Marchese, Lorenzo Monti, Cristina Panico, Marinos Kallikourdis, Gianluigi Condorelli, Armando Santoro, Matteo Simonelli, Angelo Dipasquale, Pasquale Persico, Laura Giordano, Giovanna Finocchiaro, Agnese Losurdo, Matteo Perrino, Marco Francone, Chiara Catalano, Simone Serio, Federica Catapano, Stefano Figliozzi, Carla D’Andrea, Marco Cremonesi, Maria Chiara Tronconi, Enrico Lugli

“…ICI treatment was associated with a significant left ventricular ejection function (LVEF) reduction pre-ICI versus post-ICI treatment (60.1±8% to 58.1±8%, p=0.002, paired t-test) and more than 3% LVEF loss in a substantial proportion of patients (18; 32%). …”
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