Le défaut passager (extraits) by Johann Mazé

“…One can approach an underground musician’s job or function as a succession of indescribable dog’s breakfasts, where poop occasionally competes with pee, where sleep and food are not always a given, where life on the road and car mechanics involve a particular connection with geography and punctuality. …”
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Study Effect of Periostin Level in Obese Iraqi Females Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Layla Othman Farhan, Ahmed Abduljabar Al-Sabbagh, Baydaa Ahmed Abed, Ahlam M. Farhan, Noor Ulhuda G. Mohammed

“…Conclusion: The current investigation discovered, in summary, that plasma periostin may function as a novel marker for insulin resistance, obesity, and inflammatory responses, which might be used to diagnose T2DM and obesity.…”
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Sickness-Associated Anorexia: Mother Nature’s Idea of Immunonutrition? by Gustav van Niekerk, Ashwin W. Isaacs, Theo Nell, Anna-Mart Engelbrecht

“…Collectively, these observations suggest that some patients might benefit from permissive underfeeding.…”
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Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) can overcome the cost of antibiotic resistance and may threaten vancomycin's clinical durability. by Samuel E Blechman, Erik S Wright

“…These results indicate that VRSA might be able to compensate for the fitness deficit associated with vanA-mediated resistance, which may pose a threat to the prolonged durability of vancomycin in the clinic. …”
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Unbiased machine learning-assisted approach for conditional discretization of human performances by Thepparit Banditwattanawong, Masawee Masdisornchote

“…These tasks stipulate a common condition that certain performance ranking labels might have no associated performance values and are referred to as conditional discretization. …”
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Antithyroid Drug Therapy for Graves’ Disease and Implications for Recurrence by Jia Liu, Jing Fu, Yuan Xu, Guang Wang

“…The addition of immunosuppressive drugs might be helpful to decrease the recurrence rate of GD patients after ATD withdrawal, whereas further studies are needed to address the safety and efficacy. …”
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No Evidence for Enrichment in Schizophrenia for Common Allelic Associations at Imprinted Loci. by Valentina Escott-Price, George Kirov, Elliott Rees, Anthony R Isles, Michael J Owen, Michael C O'Donovan

“…Most genetic studies assume that the function of a genetic variant is independent of the parent from which it is inherited, but this is not always true. …”
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The difficult discussion on the deactivation of implantable cardioverter devices at the end of life: a systematic review by Siobhan C. Murray, Claire McNamara, Anna V. Chatzi

“…Complex care requires facilitation by multidisciplinary teams and education around the device's function regarding EOL issues. Establishing expert consensus statements on advance care planning might help define the distinct roles of each healthcare practitioner involved. …”
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The SIRT1 deacetylase suppresses intestinal tumorigenesis and colon cancer growth. by Ron Firestein, Gil Blander, Shaday Michan, Philipp Oberdoerffer, Shuji Ogino, Jennifer Campbell, Anupama Bhimavarapu, Sandra Luikenhuis, Rafael de Cabo, Rafael de Cabo, Charles Fuchs, William C Hahn, Leonard P Guarente, David A Sinclair

“…Numerous longevity genes have been discovered in model organisms and altering their function results in prolonged lifespan. In mammals, some have speculated that any health benefits derived from manipulating these same pathways might be offset by increased cancer risk on account of their propensity to boost cell survival. …”
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Digital selfie editing shows sex specific associations between processing biases and life satisfaction by Kalai Hung, Michella Feldborg, Rachel Moseley, Kaiping Peng, Jie Sui

“…The findings suggest that congruency of subjective self-evaluation and objective processing of selfies might influence psychological well-being, while indicating sex differences in editing behaviors, underlying cognitive processes, and life satisfaction associations.…”
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Risk Factors Associated with Peritoneal-Dialysis-Related Peritonitis by Julia Kerschbaum, Paul König, Michael Rudnicki

“…Modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors analyzed in this paper might serve as a basis to improve patient care in peritoneal dialysis.…”
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Association between Cognitive Impairment and Hippocampal Subfield Volumes in Multiple System Atrophy by Atsuhiko Sugiyama, Hajime Yokota, Shigeki Hirano, Jiaqi Wang, Shoichi Ito, Satoshi Kuwabara

“…Specific structural changes in the hippocampus might be associated with cognitive deficits in MSA.…”
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Therapeutic potential of a choline-zinc-vitamin E nutraceutical complex in ameliorating thioacetamide-induced nonalcoholic fatty liver pathology in zebrafish. by Bingbing Cao, Jiali Zhou, Bo Xia, Xiaoqing Li, Rui Wang, Yiqiao Xu, Chunqi Li

“…Choline has been proven to be effective in maintaining liver function. However, the effect of choline, in combination with other nutrients, on the improvement of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) remains unclear. …”
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Serum Endoglin and Endocan Levels in Rosacea and Their Association with Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Case-Control Study by Melodi Çekiç, Ayşın köktürk, Lülüfer Tamer, Rojda Tanrıverdi

“…Endocan and endoglin, biomarkers associated with vascular and inflammatory processes, might play roles in rosacea and cardiovascular comorbidities. …”
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Quantifying monochromatic and polychromatic optical blur anisotropy in the periphery of myopes and emmetropes using a radial asymmetry metric by Chloe Degre Kendrick, Dibyendu Pusti, Geunyoung Yoon

“…A thorough account of peripheral blur across the visual field may lead to a better understanding of the cues that the peripheral visual system might rely on during processes such as accommodation, emmetropization, and myopization.…”
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The Perceptions of Individuals with Intellectual Disability toward Workplace Environment and Practices by Adel Alanazi

“…Findings: The findings indicate that the participants encounter recruitment challenges in terms of skills requirements, lack of trust from employers, perception of inability to function as required, perceptions of low skills, and low salaries. …”
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Differential expression of exosomal microRNAs in prefrontal cortices of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients. by Meredith G Banigan, Patricia F Kao, James A Kozubek, Ashley R Winslow, Juan Medina, Joan Costa, Andrea Schmitt, Anja Schneider, Howard Cabral, Ozge Cagsal-Getkin, Charles R Vanderburg, Ivana Delalle

“…Once secreted, exosomes are able to attach to recipient cells and release miRNAs potentially modulating the function of the recipient cell. We hypothesized that exosomal miRNA expression in brains of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) might differ from controls, reflecting either disease-specific or common aberrations in SZ and BD patients. …”
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Information and Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics in Complex Networks with Independent Spreaders by Yan Zhuang, Weihua Li, Yang Liu

“…The result shows that the extent to which information or knowledge can spread might be more extensive than we can explain in terms of link contagion only. …”
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Infection of Human Coronary Artery Endothelial Cells by Group B Streptococcus Contributes to Dysregulation of Apoptosis, Hemostasis, and Innate Immune Responses by Claudia Beyrich, Jürgen Löffler, Anna Kobsar, Christian P. Speer, Susanne Kneitz, Martin Eigenthaler

“…These results indicate that GBS infection might influence signalling pathways leading to impaired function of the innate immune system and hemorrhagic and inflammatory complications during GBS sepsis.…”
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Metaproteomic analysis decodes trophic interactions of microorganisms in the dark ocean by Zihao Zhao, Chie Amano, Thomas Reinthaler, Federico Baltar, Mónica V. Orellana, Gerhard J. Herndl

“…Close virus-host interactions of this taxon might explain the dominance of gammaproteobacterial proteins in the dissolved fraction. …”
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