Physical and Physicochemical Characteristics, Bioactive Compounds, and Antioxidant Activity of Cladodes from Erect Prickly Pear Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw. by Soufiane Lahmidi, Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali, Hasnaâ Harrak

“…Their bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity were also investigated. The cladode age had a significant impact on all the studied characteristics except some morphological parameters. …”
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Local proteolytic system indicators as suspective factors of keratolysis development after urgent keratoplasty by E. V. Chentsova, N. V. Borovkova, K. V. Sirotkina, O. V. Beznos, T. A. Pavlenko

“…The patients who were supposed to have re-keratoplasty had a significantly higher MMP-9 concentration than the ones who expected the first keratoplasty. …”
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Hygiene and prevention of the addictions in adolescents: existential-humanistic model by P. N. Moskvitin

“…Science-based organizational and functional mechanism of prevention had based on a model of prevention the addictions in children and adolescents. …”
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Influence of clinical and therapeutic indicators on the severity of neurocognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia by E. G. Kornetova, A. A. Goncharova, E. G. Dmitrieva, A. A. Arzhanik, A. N. Kornetov, A. V. Semke

“…Assessment of cognitive functions was carried out for all patients using the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS), and clinical psychopathological symptomatology was evaluated using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). …”
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Transcription Analysis of the Myometrium of Labouring and Non-Labouring Women. by Gemma C Sharp, James L Hutchinson, Nanette Hibbert, Tom C Freeman, Philippa T K Saunders, Jane E Norman

“…Although half of the women in the labouring group had received pharmaceutical treatment to induce or augment labour, sensitivity analysis suggested that this did not confound our results. …”
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Vanadium remediation from polluted wastewater using a novel non-conventional adsorbent by Manar Banwan Hasan, Suha Anwer Ibrahim, Nisreen Mizher Rahmah, Thekra Atta Ibrahim, Alaa Hani Alminshid, Mohammed Nsaif Abbas

“…The results showed that the adsorption was spontaneous in the temperature range studied, that it had a negative entropy of 438 J/mol.K, and that it was exothermic with an enthalpy of 142.7 kJ/mol, which means that the adsorption is chemisorption. …”
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Outcomes According to Remnant Ligament Tissue Quality after Arthroscopic All-Inside Anterior Talofibular Ligament Repair for Chronic Ankle Instability by Sung Hyun Lee MD, PhD, Gyeong Hun Lim MD

“…Results: Among 163 patients, 22 were excluded based on predefined criteria, leaving 141 patients for analysis (Group G, n = 77; Group P, n = 64). Patients had a mean age of 32.1 years, and the average follow-up duration was 31.6 months. …”
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The lived experience of withdrawal from Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants: A qualitative interview study by Raqeeb Mahmood, Vuokko Wallace, Professor Nicola Wiles, Professor David Kessler, Katherine S. Button, Graeme Fairchild

“…Design and Setting We conducted in‐depth qualitative interviews with 20 individuals from the community who had attempted to withdraw from Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor antidepressants in the past year. …”
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Hepatoprotective potential of Chrysin in a rat model of isoniazid- and rifampicin-induced hepatic injury: suppression of matrix metalloproteinase and transforming growth factor β by Deepa Mandlik, Akhilesh Tokey, Rohit Lokhande, Yash Dagadu, Heena Choudhary, Satish Mandlik

“…Results Rats were divided into 6 groups, each of which had six rats. Isoniazid (100 mg/kg, p.o.) and rifampicin (100 mg/kg, p.o.) were administered to Group II to VI rats for 21 days; this caused hepatocellular damage. …”
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A case report on the treatment of diaphragmatic eventration-induced Budd-Chiari syndrome: the first innovative application of diaphragm plication by Jiming Ma, Bingjun Tang, Xuedong Wang, Liuqing Yang, Yumei Li, Yan Wen, Pengfei Wang

“…In some rare situations, abnormal diaphragmatic eventration (DE) is the main cause of BCS; furthermore, severe cases of DE-induced BCS can lead to liver congestion, functional impairment, and cirrhosis. Only three cases of DE-induced BCS have been reported in the literature to date, and no specific treatment modalities have been described. …”
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Soluble human macrophage factors are able to inhibit TGF-β-induced differentiation of lung fibroblasts by A. A. Maksimova, E. Ya. Shevela, L. V. Sakhno

“…On the contrary, M-M0 showed a strong inhibitory effect that reduced the amount of collagen I in the fibroblast cultures and the expression of marker myofibroblasts by fibroblasts. Interesting, GM-M0 had no such effect and did not prevent lung fibroblast differentiation like polarized cells. …”
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Effect of biochar application on the mobility of the textile dye drimaren red in an alluvial soil layer by Josielly Braz da Silva, Severino Martins dos Santos Neto, Luan Alves Furtado, Antonio Celso Dantas Antonino, Artur Paiva Coutinho

“…Layers with 0.25%BC and 1.00%BC added had an increase in adsorptive capacity of 31.68% and 8.62%, respectively, compared to the natural soil sorption capacity. …”
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Environmental stress affects DNA methylation of a CpG rich promoter region of serotonin transporter gene in a nurse cohort. by Jukka S Alasaari, Markus Lagus, Hanna M Ollila, Auli Toivola, Mika Kivimäki, Jussi Vahtera, Erkki Kronholm, Mikko Härmä, Sampsa Puttonen, Tiina Paunio

“…<h4>Principal findings</h4>We found that nurses in the high stress environment had significantly lower promoter methylation levels at all five CpG residues compared to nurses in the low stress environment (p<0.01). …”
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Surgery of eye injuries in an eight-year period by Vukosavljević Miroslav

“…The applied combined anterior/posterior segment surgeries had the potential to safely and successfully condense those separate procedures in one surgery. …”
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Cicatricial Tracheal Stenosis — A Long-Life Journey by A. A. Pechetov, G. A. Vishnevskaya, D. A. Volchanski, A. N. Lednev, I. I. Danilov, N. V. Gulova

“…The study involved five patients (two men and three women) aged between 43 and 63 years. All patients had undergone tracheostomy in childhood, followed by subsequent decannulation. …”
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Association between vitamin intake and prostate cancer: a cross-sectional study by Sen Pan, Chuanlin Wang, Wei Sun, Xin Zhang

“…BackgroundAs micronutrients, vitamins play a critical role in maintaining normal physiological functions. However, the impact of different types of vitamins on PCa remains controversial. …”
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The Role of Critical Shoulder Angle in Predicting the Outcome of Conservative Management of Shoulder Impingement Syndrome by Sardar Jaideep Singh, N C Karthik Aiyanna, K Mithun Prakash, Jeash Narayan Kanthalu Subramanian, Sreehari Sreedhar, Kanthalu Narayanan Subramanian

“…The statistically significant difference indicates that patients with CSA < 40° had better outcomes. Conclusion: CSA is a key factor in determining the success of conservative treatment for patients suffering from shoulder impingement syndrome. …”
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Clinical approbation today: analysis of current problems and solutions by V. V. Omelyanovskiy, D. V. Lukyantseva, T. I. Alekseeva, Yu. V. Voropaeva, T. A. Tomilina, R. A. Teryan, A. O. Gadzhieva

“…It is proposed to legally assign the functions of CA coordinator to the federal medical development organizations. …”
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Characteristics of Sciatic Nerve Repair With Neurolysis, End-to-end Repair, and Nerve Grafting: A Narrative Review by Stuti P. Garg, MD, Joshua P. Weissman, MD, Krish V. Shah, BA, Anooj Patel, MD, Abbas M. Hassan, MD, Jason H. Ko, MD, MBA

“…The most common mechanism of injury was iatrogenic. Patients had a mean Medical Research Council (MRC) score of 2.6 ± 1.6. …”
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Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Loaded Rhamnolipid Based Solid Lipid Nanoparticle as Skin Lightener Formulation: A Green Production Beside In Vitro/In Vivo Safety Index Evaluation by Fatemeh Asadpour Panbehchouleh, Hossein Amani, Majid Saeedi

“…The in vitro diffusion process demonstrated that MSB-SLN gel had a prolonged release pattern. The levels of MSB in the cutaneous layers (52.192±2.730% or 961.59±50.313 μg/cm2 ) and the receiver compartment (23.721±1.803 % or 437.049± 33.236 μg/cm2 ) for the MSB-SLN gel was higher than MSB simple and showed no cutaneous irritancy and toxicity in rats. …”
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