Bio-inspired biomaterial coating for enzyme responsive release of antimicrobial peptides by Dennis A. Böhner, Karin Mörl, Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

“…This study offers a promising approach for functionalizing biomaterial surfaces with antimicrobial peptides, potentially reducing the incidence of implant-associated infections. …”
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Sleep hygiene practices and sleep quality among medical students in Egypt: a cross-sectional study by Ahmed Talaia, Ahmed Sowidan, Ahmed Fahim, Ahmed Elzohery, Amira Hammoda, Ibrahim Kabbash

“…Sleep hygiene is a collective term for the behaviors and environmental factors associated with good sleep. Objectives To assess the prevalence of poor sleep hygiene practices and poor sleep quality among medical students and to test the hypothesis that poor sleep hygiene is correlated with poor sleep quality. …”
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Multiple changes in peptide and lipid expression associated with regeneration in the nervous system of the medicinal leech. by Céline Meriaux, Karim Arafah, Aurélie Tasiemski, Maxence Wisztorski, Jocelyne Bruand, Céline Boidin-Wichlacz, Annie Desmons, Delphine Debois, Olivier Laprévote, Alain Brunelle, Terry Gaasterland, Eduardo Macagno, Isabelle Fournier, Michel Salzet

“…Moreover, the hypothesis that neural regeneration involves some molecular factors initially employed during embryonic neural development is tested.…”
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Is SF-12 a valid and reliable measurement of health-related quality of life among adults with Marfan syndrome? A confirmatory study. by Nathasha Udugampolage, Rosario Caruso, Mariangela Panetta, Edward Callus, Federica Dellafiore, Arianna Magon, Susan Marelli, Alessandro Pini

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a cross-sectional study in a convenience sample of 111 Italian adults with MFS, collecting anamnestic and socio-demographic information, the SF-12, and short-form Health Survey 36 (SF-36). A confirmatory factor analysis was performed to verify whether the items of SF-12 related to physical restrictions, physical functioning, and bodily pain were retained by the physical summary component of the SF-12. …”
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Engineering Saccharomyces boulardii for enhanced surface display capacity by Luping Xu, Xingjian Bai, Deokyeol Jeong, Dahye Lee, Fransheska Semidey, Chenhai Li, Eun Joong Oh

“…Initially, both systems were tested in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) and Sb to validate their design. …”
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Effect of Autolyzed Yeast on Performance and Physiological Indices of Broiler Chickens Reared at High Stock Density by Samaneh Ghaseminejad, Smayyeh Salari

“…Among the environmental factors, stocking density is an important factor in the production of broiler chickens due to its effects on health, well-being, and performance. …”
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Utilizing physical educators to monitor muscular strength and neuromuscular control among children with varied recess time by G. Kate Webb, Yan Zhang, Deborah J. Rhea

“…The purpose of this study was to utilize the physical education setting to examine MusS and NC factors in the Fall and Spring (Time 1 to Time 2) of one school year in a predominately Hispanic sample of second-grade children who received 60 min or 20 min of daily recess.MethodsThis quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test study administered four MusS tests and one NC test to District 1 (N = 59) which received 60 min of recess daily (intervention), and District 2 (N = 49) which received one 20 min daily recess (control). …”
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Hemostasis parameters in patients after coronary artery bypass surgery for stable angina by N. S. Lisyutenko, N. A. Morova, V. N. Tsekhanovich

“…The factors associated with higher risk of graft occlusion in patients with DM2 were high ratio between screening and confirmatory test for the detection of lupus anticoagulant (odds ratio 2.27; 95% -confidence interval 1.119-1.238; p &lt;0.05). …”
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Technology and determination of the applicability of stone blowing at the current track maintenance by V. N. Kaplin, A. A. Abrashitov, E. N. Grin’

“…The need to continue researching exactly the stone blowing technology arose due to the fact that in October 2017, due to climatic conditions (air temperature fluctuations to negative values), it was not possible to obtain force track profiles and clarify the migration factors of blown crushed stone into track ballast.The test results confirmed the effectiveness of track surfacing with a stone blowing process. …”
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Effect of adding fenofibrate versus curcumin to glimepiride in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial by Eman M. Nada, Nashwa M. El-Gharbawy, Haidy Abbas, Rehab H. Werida

“…Exclusion criteria were as follows: other types of diabetes, pregnancy, abnormal liver or kidney function tests, using other anti-diabetes medications, and non-adherence to medications. …”
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Quantifying Impairments in the Subacute Phase of Whiplash Associated Disorders—A Cross-Sectional Study by Harpa Ragnarsdóttir, Guðný Lilja Oddsdóttir, Magnús Kjartan Gíslason, Kristín Briem

“…Clinical measures included cROM, movement control (Butterfly test), and position sense (Head–Neck Relocation Test, HNRT). …”
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Multivariate prognosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease development in visceral obesity in patients with coronary artery disease and hypertension by I. V. Logacheva, T. A. Ryazanova, S. B. Ponomarev, V. R. Makarova

“…The liver state was assessed using clinical and functional biochemical tests and ultrasound. Lipid and carbohydrate metabolism parameters was also evaluated. …”
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Strain variation in Candida albicans glycolytic gene regulation by Min-Ju Kim, Amelia M. White, Aaron P. Mitchell

“…Our results lead to three main conclusions. First, the functional redundancy of Tye7 and Gal4 for glycolytic gene activation is preserved among all strains tested. …”
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Synthesis of zeolite-A/Fe3O4/biochar/MOF-5 composite for the defluoridation of drinking water by Tessema Derbe, Teketel Girma Gindose, Taju Sani, Enyew Amare Zereffa

“…The as-synthesized adsorbent was characterized by XRD, BET, FT-IR, and SEM–EDX to identify phase structure, surface area, functional group, morphology, and elemental composition, respectively. …”
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Transhyoid approach in surgical treatment of oropharyngeal carcinoma by A. V. Karpenko, R. R. Sibgatullin, А. А. Boyko, М. G. Kostova

“…A univariate analysis with chisquare and Fisher’s exact test was used to check the correlation between tumor factors and surgical variables (complications, mode of reconstruction). …”
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Prognostic role and tumor-suppressive effects of CADM family members and the potential molecular mechanisms of CADM1 in neuroblastoma by Yu Wang, Lingling Zheng, Jun Liu, Mingyu Zhang, Ying Kan, Wei Wang, Jigang Yang

“…Through functional enrichment analysis and interaction network construction, hub genes were screened to explore the molecular mechanism of CADMs in neuroblastoma. …”
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Prediction of course and progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with obesity and pathology of the biliary tract with the help of mathematical modeling. by A. Yu. Filippova, I. A. Gubar, V. V. Rudakova

“…According to the correlation analysis 30 factors that increase the risk of transformation of NAHS in NASH (p<0.05) were selected. …”
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The Role of Perceived Social Support on the Mental Health of Patients with Oral Squa-mous Cell Carcinoma in Shiraz City in 2022-23 by kamran Mirzaei, Ali Zareiyan Jahromi, Ida Mirzaei

“…The data were analyzed using descriptive indicators and the independent t-test, ANOVA (Tukey’s post-hoc test), Pearson’s correlation coefficient and linear regression at a significance level of 0.05 using SPSS version 25 statistical software. …”
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The Relationship Between Opium Smoking and Sway Back Posture and Spinal Musculoskeletal Disorders by Omid Massah, Amir Masoud Arab, Ali Farhoudian, Mehdi Noroozi, Fahimeh Hashemirad

“…We compared them regarding sway angle (sway back posture) and musculoskeletal complaints (NORDIC questionnaire), and the association of possible risk factors was investigated. We analyzed data using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, correlation coefficient, and paired t-test using SPSS software, version 23.  …”
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Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Transient Systemic Hypoxia–Ischemia Result in Subtle Alterations in Dendritic Complexity in Medial Frontal Cortical Neurons in Juvenile and Young Adul... by Zarena M. Dominguez, Suzy Davies, Nathaniel G. Pavlik, Jessie C. Newville, Brooke R. Hafer, Clement P. Jose, Jessica Gross, Roberto N. Almeida Mancero, Lauren L. Jantzie, Daniel D. Savage, Jessie R. Maxwell

“…Here, using two translationally relevant preclinical models, we investigated the short-term and lasting effects of PAE and TSHI on the morphology of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a region important in executive function, and tested whether PAE interacts with TSHI to produce a distinct pattern of injury relative to either condition alone. …”
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