Erector Spinae Plane (ESP) Block for Postoperative Pain Management after Open Oncologic Abdominal Surgery by Michael Dubilet, Benjamin F. Gruenbaum, Michael Semyonov, Shlomo Yaron Ishay, Anton Osyntsov, Michael Friger, Alexander Geftler, Alexander Zlotnik, Evgeni Brotfain

“…Patients who were treated with a preincisional ESP block demonstrated significantly lower Visual Analog Scale scores at 60 minutes and 4, 8, and 12 hours following the surgery, compared to the control group (p<0.001). …”
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Comparative study of effect of clonidine with lignocaine and lignocaine alone infiltration in middle ear surgeries by Manjunatha Chandrashekar, S.N. Rajesh, K.J. Vedhashree, Prakash Handi, Sunil Khyadi

“…The surgeon satisfaction was better in group A than Group B. SBP and DBP found significantly higher in group B compared to group A. …”
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The role of attention in challenging the constraints of spatial statistical learning by T.M. Deeva, D.D. Kozlov

“…<strong>Results.</strong> We found that correct complete stimuli and correct subsets of more attended elements were appeared more familiar than stimuli with disrupted patterns. …”
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APLP2 Regulates Refractive Error and Myopia Development in Mice and Humans. by Andrei V Tkatchenko, Tatiana V Tkatchenko, Jeremy A Guggenheim, Virginie J M Verhoeven, Pirro G Hysi, Robert Wojciechowski, Pawan Kumar Singh, Ashok Kumar, Gopal Thinakaran, Consortium for Refractive Error and Myopia (CREAM), Cathy Williams

“…Myopia is the most common vision disorder and the leading cause of visual impairment worldwide. However, gene variants identified to date explain less than 10% of the variance in refractive error, leaving the majority of heritability unexplained ("missing heritability"). …”
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The relationship between physical activity, fatigue, sleep quality, and anxiety levels of students during the university examination period by Emine Baran, Ayşenur Yılmaz

“…Conclusion: Physical activity levels were found to be lower among university students during exam week compared to those reported in the literature. …”
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Clinical and morphological differential diagnosis of congenital hyperinsulinism before the stage of immunohistochemical study of paraffin-embedded specimens of pancreas in children by A. A. Perminova, L. B. Mitrofanova, A. A. Sukhotskaya, V. G. Bairov

“…The average proportion of endocrinocytes with large nuclei was significantly (p &lt;0.01) higher compared to the control both with FCH (in the affected area) and DCH (FCH – (1.82±0.50) %, DCH – (4.68±1.66) %, K – (0.34±0.21) %). We found a tendency to detect a higher absolute number of cells with large nuclei in DCH ((4.95±1.24) DCH and (3.71±1.56) FCH). …”
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Evaluating a computer-based body exposure paradigm for the treatment of body image disturbance in adolescent Anorexia Nervosa: effects on the attentional bias and emotions by Lena Sasse, Valeska Stonawski, Oliver Kratz, Gunther Moll, Stefanie Horndasch

“…Also, no changes in the AB were found within and between sessions in the INT group. …”
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Platelet rich plasma versus hyaluronic acid injection in chronic painful shoulder: Randomized blind clinical trial by Eman H EL-Hakeim, Zahraa Ibrahim Selim, Eman Ahmed Hamed Omran, Mery Hosney, Alaa S Abd-Elkader

“…Conclusion: Both PRP and HA groups showed statistically significant better outcomes in VAS, CS, and SPADI during follow-up visits, but PRP was found to be superior to HA at 4-week follow-up post injection.…”
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Dynamic assessment of intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy under pressure impact on peritoneal carcinomatosis in ovarian cancer (immediate results) by A. S. Dzasokhov, A. A. Kostin, V. L. Astashov, M. A. Andreev, A. V. Turiev, A. D. Uskov

“…The study involved 164 people with visually detectable and morphologically verified ovarian cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis of the peritoneum (IIIb-IIIc stages of ovarian cancer). …”
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Comparing the effects of intercostal and subcostal flank incision on post-operative pain and incisional hernia or bulge in patients undergoing open kidney surgery: A randomized cli... by Alireza Abdi, Behzad Imani, Seyed Habibollah Mousavibahar, Salman Khazaei, Shima Bahrami Jalal

“…Sixty-four patients were randomly divided into two groups of 32 patients, subcostal and intercostal, based on available sampling technique. The Visual Analog Scale was used to assess post-operative pain. …”
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Assessment of horizontal shifting errors in open-source DEMs and their impact on 1D hydraulic modeling of meandering river channel by Md. Ismail Firoz, Md. Latifur Rahman Sarker, Janet Nichol, Eko Siswanto

“…Thirdly, the horizontal shifting error was found to have severe implications for 1D inundation mapping accuracy. …”
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Effectiveness of a new thermal insulation blanket in the control of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and comfort: a randomized controlled trial by Isaura Carvalho, Miguel Carvalho, Fernando Abelha, Teresa Martins

“…Results No statistically significant differences were found between groups in mean temperature variation, visual perception of thermal comfort, and thermal and perioperative comfort scales. …”
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Impact of restorative treatment for symptomatic deep dentin caries on anxiety: the role of personality traits by Fikri Öcal, Yasemin Demirtaş Öcal

“…Pain and mood were measured using Visual Analog Scales (VAS-DP, VAS-M) before treatment and at three weeks post-treatment. …”
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Hepatogenic weakness as a clinical marker of hyperammonemia and of the effectiveness of its correction in patients with pre-cirrhotic stages of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by E. M. Petrova, V. A. Cheraneva, V. G. Grachev

“…Ornithine therapy in 17 patients was accompanied by a significant decrease in ammonemia (from 141.5 ± 54.9 to 98.5 ± 47.2 μmol/l, p = 0.0001) and hepatogenic weakness (from 5.64 ± 1.39 to 4, 14 ± 1.70 points, p = 0.014).It was found that patients with early stages of NAFLD have a high prevalence of HA. …”
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471 Defining proteomic and cellular elements of the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumor microenvironment with mass spectrometry imaging by Caroline Kittrell, Blake Sells, Lyndsay Young, Peggi Angel, Richard Drake

“…Additionally, immune cells within the PDAC tumor microenvironment were found to be organized into immature tertiary lymphoid structures composed primarily of CD20+ B cells. …”
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Does corrective exercises influence the performance, posture, range of motion and shoulder pain of swimmers with upper crossed syndrome? randomized clinical trial by Hossein Rezaei, Mahdi Gheitasi, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

“…However, no significant differences were found in performance measures such as swim record (P >.386) and stroke rate (P >.630). …”
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A Robust Scheme of Vertebrae Segmentation for Medical Diagnosis by Faisal Rehman, Syed Irtiza Ali Shah, Naveed Riaz, Syed Omer Gilani

“…It assists the radiologists and doctors in identifying various pathologies in the vertebrae with better visualizations. Accurate segmentation of vertebral disks and bones from the medical images is a tough job and becomes more challenging when dealing with various deformities and pathologies. …”
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Cognitive Impairments Induced by Concussive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Mouse Are Ameliorated by Treatment with Phenserine via Multiple Non-Cholinergic and Cholinergic Mechanism... by David Tweedie, Koji Fukui, Yazhou Li, Qian-Sheng Yu, Shani Barak, Ian A Tamargo, Vardit Rubovitch, Harold W Holloway, Elin Lehrmann, William H Wood, Yongqing Zhang, Kevin G Becker, Evelyn Perez, Henriette Van Praag, Yu Luo, Barry J Hoffer, Robert E Becker, Chaim G Pick, Nigel H Greig

“…Molecular pathways associated with lipid peroxidation were found to be regulated by mTBI, and treatment of mTBI animals with phenserine effectively reversed injury-induced regulations in the 'Blalock Alzheimer's Disease Up' pathway. …”
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Impact of a Fulbright award: A bibliometric analysis of persistence by Charlene Downing, Annie Temane, L. Amy Giles, Jean L. Hillyer, Sean C. Beatty

“…Results: A search of sources found 773 citations citing the 16 primary works. …”
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Motor Improvement-Related Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Changes in Parkinson’s Disease in Response to Antiparkinsonian Drugs by Soutarou Taguchi, Nachi Tanabe, Jun-ichi Niwa, Manabu Doyu

“…Furthermore, functional studies focusing on the LG and MG, especially in relation to therapies using audio-visual stimuli, may bring some new clues to explain the pathophysiology of PD.…”
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