Exploring chest wall deformities in childhood and adolescence: insights from a case-control study by Fedli Emre Kılıç, Osman Küçükkelepçe, Celal Varan, Hüseyin Tanrıverdi, Furkan Bakırhan

“…Abstract Background Chest wall deformities, though relatively uncommon in childhood and adolescence, significantly affect aesthetic perception and can impact cardiac and respiratory function. This study aims to compare individuals with pectus deformities to a healthy control group, shedding light on the condition’s etiology and prognosis. …”
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Maternal thyroid hormone is required to develop the hindbrain vasculature in zebrafish by Marlene Trindade, Nádia Silva, Joana Rodrigues, Koichi Kawakami, Marco A. Campinho

“…This mutation affects the capacity for intracellular transport of the hormone, leading to impaired brain development that constitutes the main pathophysiological basis of AHDS. …”
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Punctuation Patterns in <i>Finnegans Wake</i> by James Joyce Are Largely Translation-Invariant by Krzysztof Bartnicki, Stanisław Drożdż, Jarosław Kwapień, Tomasz Stanisz

“…All these changes take place within Weibull distributions such that the corresponding hazard functions are always increasing. Recent previous research shows that James Joyce’s famous novel <i>Finnegans Wake</i> is subject to such an extreme distribution from the Weibull family that the corresponding hazard function is clearly decreasing. …”
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Optogenetics reveals Cdc42 local activation by scaffold-mediated positive feedback and Ras GTPase. by Iker Lamas, Laura Merlini, Aleksandar Vještica, Vincent Vincenzetti, Sophie G Martin

“…We show that Scd2 function is dispensable when the positive feedback operates through an engineered interaction between the GEF and a Cdc42 effector, the p21-activated kinase 1 (Pak1). …”
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Multiple and Bilateral Sporadic Renal Cell Carcinomas: A Surgical Challenge by Antonios Katsimantas, Spyridon Paparidis, Konstantinos Bouropoulos, Nikolaos Ferakis

“…The patient avoided permanent or temporary dialysis and 6 months postoperatively he demonstrated no recurrence on imaging and his renal function remained stable.…”
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The Exploitation of Phenomena Related to Enunciation in a French as a Foreign Language Course Book: The Édito Example by Can Denizci

“…Methodologically, these elements thus constitute our analysis grid. The analysis of the list of utterances recommended by the course book concerning the expression of opinions leads us to the following findings: Firstly, the 1st/2nd-person pronouns/ possessive adjectives, the demonstrative pronoun ça and the presentative c’est undertake the shifting function. …”
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Fish Disease Detection Using Image Based Machine Learning Technique in Aquaculture by Md Shoaib Ahmed, Tanjim Taharat Aurpa, Md. Abul Kalam Azad

“…Fish diseases in aquaculture constitute a significant hazard to nutriment security. …”
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Acquired Piezo2 Channelopathy is One Principal Gateway to Pathophysiology by Balázs Sonkodi

“…Moreover, the principality of Piezo2 is suggested to extend beyond its physiological function, highlighting its relevance in the context of microdamage as well. …”
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Transcription factor binding site analysis identifies FOXO transcription factors as regulators of the cutaneous wound healing process. by Karl Markus Roupé, Srinivas Veerla, Joshua Olson, Erica L Stone, Ole E Sørensen, Stephen M Hedrick, Victor Nizet

“…FOXO3 has not previously been implicated as an important regulator of wound healing and its exact function in this process calls for further investigation.…”
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The Prevalence of Thyroid Malignancy in Multinodular Goiter in Erbil Governorate by Banin Naser Muhamad, Sabah Jalal Shareef

“…All patients evaluated preoperatively by history, clinical examination, thyroid function test, ultrasound study, fine needle aspiration cytology. …”
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A fully atomistic model of the Cx32 connexon. by Sergio Pantano, Francesco Zonta, Fabio Mammano

“…The lack of high resolution data for connexon structures has hampered so far the study of the structure-function relationships that link molecular effects of disease-causing mutations with their observed phenotypes. …”
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An Evaluation of Herbal Approaches for Managing Performance Anxiety in Singers by Alper Şakalar, Remziye Eda Kazancı

“…Performance anxiety constitutes a significant challenge for performing artists and can negatively impact their professional performance. …”
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A human-specific VNTR in the TRIB3 promoter causes gene expression variation between individuals. by Tiit Örd, Tarmo Puurand, Daima Örd, Tarmo Annilo, Märt Möls, Maido Remm, Tõnis Örd

“…Taken together, the results indicate that the promoter 33-bp VNTR constitutes a causal variant for TRIB3 expression variation between individuals and could underlie the results of SNP-based genetic studies.…”
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Gene circuit analysis of the terminal gap gene huckebein. by Maksat Ashyraliyev, Ken Siggens, Hilde Janssens, Joke Blom, Michael Akam, Johannes Jaeger

“…The gap gene network constitutes the first zygotic regulatory tier in the hierarchy of the segmentation genes involved in specifying the position of body segments. …”
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Nonlinear mechanical response of finite-length soft composites with random dislocations by Samira Jalilvand, Moein Mirzaei, Hamze Mousavi

“…Abstract The effects of random dislocations on the vibrational properties of finite-length RNA and DNA macro-structures have been investigated by means of a harmonic Hamiltonian and the Green’s function method. The RNA molecule has been modeled using a half ladder model, and three models (a fishbone model and two different strand models) have been employed to model the structure of DNA. …”
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Robust Strategy Generation for Automatic Navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles through Improved DDPG Algorithm by Wei Wang, Subin Huang, Huabin Diao

“…Second, we ensure the decision adaptability of the USV by constraining the extent of action change between adjacent time-steps by using a reward-function, which improves the USV-action smoothly. Finally, we design typical USV-automatic-navigation-scenarios to validate the performance of the Algorithm. …”
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Induction of proline-rich proteins in response to tannin treatment in Caenorhabditis elegans by Luise Greiffer, Luka Ressmann, Charlotte Sophia Kaiser, Eva Liebau, Verena Spiegler

“…Few reports exist regarding the occurrence or PRPs with similar function in nematodes and none of these proteins or their coding genes have been functionally characterized so far. …”
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HTLV-1 bZIP factor induces T-cell lymphoma and systemic inflammation in vivo. by Yorifumi Satou, Jun-Ichirou Yasunaga, Tiejun Zhao, Mika Yoshida, Paola Miyazato, Ken Takai, Kei Shimizu, Koichi Ohshima, Patrick L Green, Naganari Ohkura, Tomoyuki Yamaguchi, Masahiro Ono, Shimon Sakaguchi, Masao Matsuoka

“…ATL cells, which constitutively express CD25, resemble CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells (T(reg)). …”
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IGF2 ameliorates amyloidosis, increases cholinergic marker expression and raises BMP9 and neurotrophin levels in the hippocampus of the APPswePS1dE9 Alzheimer's disease model mice. by Tiffany J Mellott, Sarah M Pender, Rebecca M Burke, Erika A Langley, Jan Krzysztof Blusztajn

“…These data show that IGF2 administration is effective in reversing and preventing several pathophysiologic processes associated with AD and suggest that IGF2 may constitute a therapeutic target for AD.…”
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The replication initiator protein of a geminivirus interacts with host monoubiquitination machinery and stimulates transcription of the viral genome. by Nirbhay Kumar Kushwaha, Mansi, Supriya Chakraborty

“…Geminiviruses constitute a group of plant viruses, with a ssDNA genome, whose replication in the nucleus of an infected cell requires the function of geminivirus-encoded replication initiator protein (Rep). …”
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