Functional Improvement Trajectories After Surgery (FIT After Surgery) study: protocol for a multicentre prospective cohort study to evaluate significant new disability after major... by E Jacobsohn, Duminda N Wijeysundera, Gerald Lebovic, M Davis, Martine T E Puts, Shabbir M H Alibhai, Karim S Ladha, C Wong, Daniel I McIsaac, C Hanley, T Barnes, G Lorello, N Siddiqui, P Serrano, Tyler R Chesney, S Choi, J Van Vlymen, D Sussman, D Macdonald, P Jüni, Emily Hladkowicz, C David Mazer, M Bosch, CD Mazer, A Jerath, J Pazmino-Canizares, E Kennedy, R Spence, V Lyon, Alice C Wei, Julian F Daza, Sahar Ehtesham, Janet M van Vlymen, DN Wijeysundera, KS Ladha, JF Daza, G Mattina, E Hladkowicz, M Tessier, S Ehtesham, S Nnorom, SMH Alibhai, M Puts, G Lebovic, TR Chesney, AC Wei, S Drozdz, M Louridas, RH Breau, M Lalu, S Abdellatif, S Gagne, E Duceppe, K Zarnke, D Dumerton, M Karizhenskaia, H El Beheiry, F Bonazza, A Zahavich, M Thorleifson, S L Russell, H Bagry, SY MacDonell, J Dale-Gandar, L Kaustov, A Fleet, E Al Azazi, M Parotto, S A McCluskey, H Poonawala, D Dillane, Di McIsaac, S Avramescu, S Shabeen

“…Current approaches to measure postoperative recovery, which focus on death, complications and length of hospitalisation, may miss key relevant domains. We propose that postoperative disability is an important patient-centred outcome to measure intermediate-to-long recovery after major surgery in older adults.Methods and analysis The Functional Improvement Trajectories After Surgery (FIT After Surgery) study is a multicentre cohort study of 2000 older adults (≥65 years) having major non-cardiac surgery. …”
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Potential impact and mechanism of aged polyethylene microplastics on nitrogen assimilation of Lactuca sativa L. by Xiaoli Mou, Hedong Zhu, Renrui Dai, Li Lu, Shengqi Qi, Min Zhu, Yuyang Long, Nan Ma, Chao Chen, Jiali Shentu

“…In this study, pot experiments were conducted to investigate the potential effect of aged polyethylene (PE) microplastic addition (particle sizes: 20 and 0.1 µm, addition levels: 0.5 % [w/w], referred to as the control (CK), P20 (20-µm PE), AP20 (20-µm aged PE), P0.1 (0.1-µm PE), AP0.1 (0.1-µm aged PE) on MNPs accumulation and N assimilation in romaine lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). The results showed that the particle size of MNPs accumulated in lettuce decreased from root > stem > leaf. …”
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The cryptic lncRNA-encoded microprotein TPM3P9 drives oncogenic RNA splicing and tumorigenesis by Kun Meng, Yuying Li, Xiaoyi Yuan, Hui-Min Shen, Li-Ling Hu, Danya Liu, Fujin Shi, Dandan Zheng, Xinyu Shi, Nengqiao Wen, Yun Cao, Yun-Long Pan, Qing-Yu He, Chris Zhiyi Zhang

“…Mechanistically, TPM3P9 binds to the RRM1 domain of the splicing factor RBM4 to inhibit RBM4-mediated exon skipping in the transcription factor TCF7L2. …”
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A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of the New Orleans Intervention for Infant Mental Health: A Study Protocol by Rachel Pritchett, Bridie Fitzpatrick, Nicholas Watson, Richard Cotmore, Philip Wilson, Graham Bryce, Julia Donaldson, Kathleen Boyd, Charles Zeanah, John Norrie, Julie Taylor, Julie Larrieu, Martina Messow, Matt Forde, Fiona Turner, Susan Irving, Helen Minnis

“…The outcome assessment covers various fields of a child’s neurodevelopment to identify problems in any ESSENCE domain. The feasibility, reliability, and developmental appropriateness of all outcome measures are examined. …”
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Identification of the Granule-Bound Starch Synthase (GBSS) Genes Involved in Amylose Biosynthesis in Tartary Buckwheat (<i>Fagopyrum tataricum</i> (L.) Gaertn.) by Juan Huang, Fei Liu, Jieqiong Zhang, Bin Tang, Jiao Deng, Taoxiong Shi, Liwei Zhu, Hongyou Li, Qingfu Chen

“…Amino acid analyses revealed high homology in ten GBSS proteins from Tartary buckwheat, rice, maize, and <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>, with a specific starch synthase catalytic domain and ten conserved motifs. The Tartary buckwheat GBSS proteins had a closer relationship with GBSS proteins from monocot based on evolutionary relationship analysis. …”
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Evolution mechanisms of the scratch-induced elastoplastic stress fields and crack damage in γ-TiAl alloys by Zhaoqing Zhang, Kaining Shi, Yaoyao Shi, Huhu Li, Danni Lu, Yujie Kuang, Jiacheng Liu

“…The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) was applied to analyze load signals during the scratching process, enabling the precise identification of the plastic-to-brittle transition domain and the critical cutting depth for γ-TiAl alloys, and clarifying the damage mechanisms under different cutting depths. …”
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Effects of Physical Activity Level, Strength, Balance, and Body Composition on Perceived Health in Healthy Adults by José Manuel Delfa-de-la-Morena, Pedro Pinheiro Paes, Frederico Camarotti Júnior, Débora Priscila Lima de Oliveira, Rubem Cordeiro Feitosa, Byanka Santos Cavalcante de Oliveira, Juan-José Mijarra-Murillo, Aranzazu Martínez Moya, Miriam García-González, Francisco De Asís-Fernández

“…A linear regression model was generated between each domain of SF36 with SOT_CES, BFP, PAL, and S_Index. …”
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Detection of fusion events by RNA sequencing in FFPE versus freshly frozen colorectal cancer tissue samples by Maxim Sorokin, Maxim Sorokin, Maxim Sorokin, Maxim Sorokin, Vladimir Lyadov, Vladimir Lyadov, Vladimir Lyadov, Maria Suntsova, Marat Garipov, Anna Semenova, Natalia Popova, Egor Guguchkin, Rustam Heydarov, Marianna Zolotovskaia, Xiaowen Zhao, Qing Yan, Ye Wang, Evgeny Karpulevich, Anton Buzdin, Anton Buzdin, Anton Buzdin, Anton Buzdin

“…Finally, in one patient, we detected a potentially clinically actionable in-frame fusion of LRRFIP2 and ALK genes not previously described in colorectal cancer with an intact tyrosine kinase domain that can be potentially targeted by ALK inhibitors.…”
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Expression of USP18 and IL2RA Is Increased in Individuals Receiving Latent Tuberculosis Treatment with Isoniazid by Eleane de Oyarzabal, Lourdes García-García, Claudia Rangel-Escareño, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Lorena Orozco, María Teresa Herrera, Claudia Carranza, Eduardo Sada, Esmeralda Juárez, Alfredo Ponce-de-León, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Robert J. Wilkinson, Martha Torres

“…Expression of chemokine ligand 4 (CCL4), chemokine ligand 10 (CXCL10), chemokine ligand 11 (CXCL11), interferon alpha (IFNA), radical S-adenosyl methionine domain-containing 2 (RSAD2), ubiquitin-specific peptidase 18 (USP18), interferon-induced protein 44 (IFI44), interferon-induced protein 44 like (IFI44L), interferon-induced protein tetratricopeptide repeats 1(IFIT1), and interleukin 2 receptor subunit alpha (IL2RA) mRNA levels were assessed by qPCR before, during, and after INH treatment. …”
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LUBAC Formation Is Impaired in the Livers of Mice with MCD-Dependent Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis by Yasuka Matsunaga, Yusuke Nakatsu, Toshiaki Fukushima, Hirofumi Okubo, Misaki Iwashita, Hideyuki Sakoda, Midori Fujishiro, Takeshi Yamamotoya, Akifumi Kushiyama, Shin-ichiro Takahashi, Yoshihiro Tsuchiya, Hideaki Kamata, Fuminori Tokunaga, Kazuhiro Iwai, Tomoichiro Asano

“…Recently, it was reported that the new ubiquitin ligase complex termed linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex (LUBAC), composed of SHARPIN (SHANK-associated RH domain-interacting protein), HOIL-1L (longer isoform of heme-oxidized iron-regulatory protein 2 ubiquitin ligase-1), and HOIP (HOIL-1L interacting protein), forms linear ubiquitin on NF-κB essential modulator (NEMO) and thereby induces NF-κB pathway activation. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of a Novel Low-Dose Water-Dispersible Turmeric Extract in the Management of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial by Thanawala S, Shah R, Alluri KV, Bhupathiraju K, Prasad N, Agarwal Y

“…Improvement in the mean KOOS scores (baseline-Day 90) was evident, with significantly higher mean scores for each domain (pain, symptoms, activities of daily living, function in sport and recreation, and knee-related quality of life [QoL]) on Day 90 in the WDTE60N group than in the placebo group (p < 0.05). …”
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Smad1 Promotes Tumorigenicity and Chemoresistance of Glioblastoma by Sequestering p300 From p53 by Lingli Gong, Daxing Xu, Kaixiang Ni, Jie Li, Wei Mao, Bo Zhang, Zhening Pu, Xiangming Fang, Ying Yin, Li Ji, Jingjing Wang, Yaling Hu, Jiao Meng, Rui Zhang, Jiantong Jiao, Jian Zou

“…Through molecular docking, it is discovered that Smad1 and p53 both interact with the acetyltransferase domain of p300, but at different amino acid sites. …”
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Overexpression of OsDUF868.12 enhances salt tolerance in rice by Hao Chen, Jiale Wan, Jiali Zhu, Ziyi Wang, Caiyao Mao, Wanjing Xu, Juan Yang, Yijuan Kong, Xiaofei Zan, Rongjun Chen, Jianqing Zhu, Zhengjun Xu, Lihua Li, Lihua Li

“…Excessive salt accumuln in soil is one of the most important abiotic stresses in agricultural environments. The Domain of Unknown Function 868 (DUF868) family, comprising 15 members in rice, has been identified in the protein family database. …”
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The role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in predicting and combating antimicrobial resistance by Hazrat Bilal, Muhammad Nadeem Khan, Sabir Khan, Muhammad Shafiq, Wenjie Fang, Rahat Ullah Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Xiaohui Li, Qiao-Li Lv, Bin Xu

“…Supervised learning, unsupervised learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing are some of the main tools used in this domain. AI/ML models can use various data sources, such as clinical information, genomic sequences, microbiome insights, and epidemiological data for predicting AMR outbreaks. …”
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Ibuprofen reduces inflammation, necroptosis and protects photoreceptors from light-induced retinal degeneration by Ping-Wu Zhang, Zi-He Wan, Weifeng Li, Abhishek Vats, Kunal Mehta, Laura Fan, Lingli Zhou, Sean Li, Gloria Li, Casey J. Keuthan, Cynthia Berlinicke, Cheng Qian, Noriko Esumi, Elia J Duh, Donald J. Zack

“…Retinal structure and function were evaluated by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and electroretinography (ERG). …”
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A concept of natural genome reconstruction. Part 2. Effect of extracellular double-stranded DNA fragments on hematopoietic stem cells by V. S. Ruzanova, S. G. Oshikhmina, A. S. Proskurina, G. S. Ritter, S. S. Kirikovich, E. V. Levites, Y. R. Efremov, T. V. Karamysheva, M. I. Meschaninova, A. L. Mamaev, O. S. Taranov, A. S. Bogachev, S. V. Sidorov, S. D. Nikonov, O. Y. Leplina, A. A. Ostanin, E. R. Chernykh, N. A. Kolchanov, E. V. Dolgova, S. S. Bogachev

“…The bioinformatic analysis conducted indicates that the main surface marker proteins of hematopoietic stem cells belong to the indicated groups of factors and contain specific DNA binding sites, including a heparin-binding domain and clusters of positively charged amino acid residues. …”
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Nuclear-localized HKDC1 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma through phosphorylating RBBP5 to upregulate H3K4me3 by Ling Ye, Shengqi Shen, Qiankun Mao, Hui Lu, Haiying Liu, Pinggen Zhang, Zetan Jiang, Wenhao Ma, Yuchen Sun, Yiyang Chu, Zilong Zhou, Rui Liu, Jian Li, Shi-ting Li, Ping Gao, Huafeng Zhang

“…Summary: Metabolic enzymes play significant roles in the pathogenesis of various cancers through both canonical and noncanonical functions. Hexokinase domain-containing protein 1 (HKDC1) functions beyond glucose metabolism, but its underlying mechanisms in tumorigenesis are not fully understood. …”
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MP-LLAVRec: an agricultural product recommendation algorithm based on LLAVA and user modal preference by Peishan Li, Peishan Li, Peishan Li, Lutao Gao, Lutao Gao, Lutao Gao, Lilian Zhang, Lilian Zhang, Lilian Zhang, Lin Peng, Lin Peng, Lin Peng, Chunhui Bai, Chunhui Bai, Chunhui Bai, Linnan Yang, Linnan Yang, Linnan Yang

“…However, the following three problems still exist in the traditional agricultural product recommendation domain: (1) the problem of missing modalities made it difficult for consumers to intuitively and comprehensively understood the product information; (2) most of them relied on shallow information about the basic attributes of agricultural products and ignored the deeper associations among the products; (3) they ignored the deeper connections among individual users and the intrinsic associations between the user embedding and the localized user representation in different modalities, which affected the accuracy of user modeling and hindered the final recommendation effect.MethodsTo address these problems, this paper innovatively proposed an agricultural product recommendation algorithm based on LLAVA and user behavioral characteristics, MP-LLaVRec(Modal Preference - Large Language and Vision Recommendation). …”
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Severe neonatal hypotonia due to SLC30A5 variant affecting function of ZnT5 zinc transporter by Vadim Dolgin, Pauline Chabosseau, Jacob Bistritzer, Iris Noyman, Orna Staretz‐Chacham, Ohad Wormser, Noam Hadar, Marina Eskin‐Schwartz, Bibi Kanengisser‐Pines, Ginat Narkis, Ramy Abramsky, Eilon Shany, Guy A. Rutter, Kyla Marks, Ohad S. Birk

“…Combining homozygosity mapping and exome sequencing studies of consanguineous Bedouin kindred, as well as transfection experiments and zinc monitoring in HEK293 cells, we demonstrate that a bi‐allelic in‐frame 3bp deletion variant in SLC30A5, deleting isoleucine within the highly conserved cation efflux domain of the encoded ZnT5, results in lower cytosolic zinc concentrations, causing a syndrome of severe non‐progressive neonatal axial and limb hypotonia with high‐arched palate and respiratory failure. …”
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A novel USP4 inhibitor that suppresses colorectal cancer stemness by promoting β-catenin and Twist1 degradation by Fengtian Li, Yi Zhou, Xinyue Lin, Yaxin Zhang, Qingyong Hu, Enen Zhao, Huali Li, Xingyan Pan, Feng Shu, Kun Zhang, Chengmei Huang, Na Tang, Wenting Liao

“…A natural small molecule product U4-I05 diminished the stem-like features of CSCs and enhanced their sensitivity to oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil by targeting inhibition of its deubiquitinating enzyme activity through binding the catalytic domain of USP4 (311 cysteine site) at nanomolar concentrations, triggering proteasome-mediated degradation of β-catenin and Twist1. …”
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