The link between spreading depolarization and innate immunity in the central nervous system by Kadir Oguzhan Soylu, Muge Yemisci, Hulya Karatas

“…Mechanistically, the opening of pannexin-1 (Panx1) channels and the activation of the (NOD)-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome play critical roles in this process, facilitating the release of inflammatory signals that can exacerbate conditions like migraine. …”
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Validation of an Individualized Measure of Quality of Life, Patient Generated Index, for Use with People with Parkinson’s Disease by Ayse Kuspinar, Kedar K. V. Mate, Anne-Louise Lafontaine, Nancy Mayo

“…The PGI and standard PRO measures were compared at the total score, domain, and item levels. Pearson’s correlations and independent t-tests were used, as well as positive and negative predictive values. …”
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Corneal Epithelial Thickness Mapping: A Major Review by Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, Amir Hushang Beheshtnejad, Golshan Latifi, Marjan Akbari-Kamrani, Sadegh Ghafarian, Ahmad Masoomi, Seyed Ali Sonbolastan, Hamidreaza Jahanbani-Ardakani, Mehrnaz Atighechian, Laleh Banan, Hosein Nouri, Seyed-Hossein Abtahi

“…In this comprehensive synthesis, we reviewed all available data on ETM with different methods, including very high-frequency ultrasound (VHF-US) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in normal individuals, corneal or systemic diseases, and corneal surgical scenarios. …”
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An Extraction Method of Weak Low-Frequency Magnetic Communication Signals Based on Multisensor by Chao Huang, Xin Xu, Dunge Liu, Wanhua Zhu, Xiaojuan Zhang, Guangyou Fang

“…In this paper, we analyze the numerical characteristics of the low-frequency magnetic field and propose the algorithms of the fast optimization of blind source separation (FOBSS) and the frequency-domain correlation extraction (FDCE). FOBSS is based on blind source separation (BSS). …”
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Analysis of preprocessing for Generative Adversarial Networks: A case study on color fundoscopy to fluorescein angiography image-to-image translation by Veena K.M., Veena Mayya, Rashmi Naveen Raj, Sulatha V. Bhandary, Uma Kulkarni

“…Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are capturing the attention of peer researchers in paired or unpaired image-to-image translation applications, particularly in the domain of retinal image processing. Additionally, there are several effective image preprocessing techniques available that can significantly improve the performance of GANs. …”
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Large language models for causal hypothesis generation in science by Kai-Hendrik Cohrs, Emiliano Diaz, Vasileios Sitokonstantinou, Gherardo Varando, Gustau Camps-Valls

“…Towards the goal of understanding the causal structure underlying complex systems—such as the Earth, the climate, or the brain—integrating Large language models (LLMs) with data-driven and domain-expertise-driven approaches has the potential to become a game-changer, especially in data and expertise-limited scenarios. …”
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Effect of Timing on Visual Outcomes in Fovea-Involving Retinal Detachments Verified by SD-OCT by Reinhard Angermann, Nikolaos E. Bechrakis, Teresa Rauchegger, Marina Casazza, Yvonne Nowosielski, Claus Zehetner

“…To investigate the impact of surgical delay after the objectivation of the foveal status by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) on visual outcomes in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) with foveal involvement. …”
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CRMP4 and CRMP2 Interact to Coordinate Cytoskeleton Dynamics, Regulating Growth Cone Development and Axon Elongation by Minghui Tan, Caihui Cha, Yongheng Ye, Jifeng Zhang, Sumei Li, Fengming Wu, Sitang Gong, Guoqing Guo

“…With the overexpression of truncated CRMP2 or CRMP4 lacking the cytoskeleton interaction domain, the promoting effect of CRMP was suppressed. …”
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A multiprotein regulatory module, MED16–MBR1&2, controls MED25 homeostasis during jasmonate signaling by Fangming Wu, Chuanlong Sun, Ziying Zhu, Lei Deng, Feifei Yu, Qi Xie, Chuanyou Li

“…MED16 competes with MBR1&2 to bind to the von Willebrand Factor A (vWF-A) domain of MED25, thereby antagonizing the MBR1&2-mediated degradation of MED25 in vivo. …”
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TM Electromagnetic Scattering from PEC Polygonal Cross-Section Cylinders: A New Analytical Approach for the Efficient Evaluation of Improper Integrals Involving Oscillating and Slo... by Mario Lucido, Chiara Santomassimo, Fulvio Schettino, Marco Donald Migliore, Daniele Pinchera, Gaetano Panariello

“…The analysis of the TM electromagnetic scattering from perfectly electrically conducting polygonal cross-section cylinders is successfully carried out by means of an electric field integral equation formulation in the spectral domain and the method of analytical preconditioning which leads to a matrix equation at which Fredholm’s theory can be applied. …”
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Plasma-polymerized fluorocarbon Ag–Cu nanocomposites: Nanostructure optimization for superior SERS sensitivity by Joonhyuk Lee, Sung Hyun Kim, Seok-Kyun Son, Sang-Jin Lee

“…SERS measurements using rhodamine 6G demonstrated an enhancement factor (EF) of up to 108, further supported by finite-difference time-domain simulations based on nanostructures characterized by atomic force microscopy. …”
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Role of pattern and multifocal electroretinogram for macular evaluation in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with fingolimod by Randa H. Abdelgawad, Yasmine Z. Abdel Wadood, Mohamed Y.S. Seif, Mahmoud A. Sultan, Dina A. Zamzam, Safaa A.M. Aboud

“…PERG, MfERG, and spectral domain optical coherence tomography were performed before then 3 and 6 months after the treatment. …”
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The Microtubule-Associated Protein Tau and Its Relevance for Pancreatic Beta Cells by Magdalena Maj, Gregor Hoermann, Sazan Rasul, Wolfgang Base, Ludwig Wagner, Johannes Attems

“…We cloned one 3-repeat domain MAPT and transduced this into a beta-cell derived rodent cell line Rin-5F. …”
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Design and Evaluation of a Leader–Follower Isomorphic Vascular Interventional Surgical Robot by Pengfei Chen, Yutang Wang, Dapeng Tian

“…The classification process includes time-frequency domain feature extraction, feature selection based on the Relief method and random forest (RF) method, and a BP neural network (NN) classifier. …”
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Study of the Windowing and Overlap-Add Operation for a Super-Gaussian Random Vibration Test by Yiming Peng, Yang Li

“…To figure out the impacts of the proposed operation on the response kurtoses of a shaker table, we express the system transfer function in the time domain, and the WOA method is analysed considering the transfer function of a dynamic system. …”
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The use of artificial intelligence in induced pluripotent stem cell-based technology over 10-year period: A systematic scoping review. by Quan Duy Vo, Yukihiro Saito, Toshihiro Ida, Kazufumi Nakamura, Shinsuke Yuasa

“…<h4>Background</h4>Stem cell research, particularly in the domain of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, has shown significant progress. …”
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Analysis of G20 Countries in terms of Scientific Publication Performances by İlker Karadağ, Ömer Faruk Gürcan, Sinan Dündar

“…The achievement of countries in generating scientific publications is also a reflection of their efforts in the scientific domain. The quantitative volume of these publications is not a criterion alone, but the fact that they are a source of inspiration for other scientists carrying out their studies in other countries is an important indicator in terms of evaluating the quality of publications. …”
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Bacterial Diversity Associated with Terrestrial and Aquatic Snails by Konstantinos Apostolou, Canella Radea, Alexandra Meziti, Konstantinos Ar. Kormas

“…The introduction of the holobiont concept has triggered scientific interest in depicting the structural and functional diversity of animal microbial symbionts, which has resulted in an unprecedented wealth of such cross-domain biological associations. The steadfast technological progress in nucleic acid-based approaches would cause one to expect that scientific works on the microbial symbionts of animals would be balanced at least for the farmed animals of human interest. …”
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Fault-Tolerant One-Way Noiseless Amplification for Microwave Bosonic Quantum Information Processing by Hany Khalifa, Riku Jantti, Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

“…The proposed device is also suitable for applications in the optical domain.…”
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Evidence that a STAT3 Mutation Causing Hyper IgE Syndrome Leads to Repression of Transcriptional Activity by Sameer Bahal, Maha E. Houssen, Ania Manson, Lorena Lorenzo, Mark A. Russell, Noel G. Morgan, Fariba Tahami, Sofia Grigoriadou

“…Genetic analysis identified a missense mutation, N567D, in a conserved region of the linker domain of STAT3. Functional studies in HEK293 cells reveal that this mutation potently inhibits STAT3 activity when compared to the wildtype protein. …”
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