Sexuality after breast cancer treatment: An experience of asymmetry by Nynke Willers, Paul Enzlin, Patrick Neven, Sileny N Han

“…Conclusion: Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment have a distinct impact on sexual function and sexual well-being. Changes in social relationships due to the diagnosis and the physical side effects of treatment are associated with a decline in sexual well-being, which should receive more attention in research and clinical care.…”
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Metformin may alter the course of Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy: a case report by Shenoda Abd Elmaseh, Danielle A. Gauthier, Danielle A. Gauthier, Maryam Golmohammadi, Maryam Golmohammadi, Nutsa Pargalava, Valerio Carelli, Valerio Carelli, Alfredo A. Sadun, Alfredo A. Sadun

“…Our findings offer an intriguing perspective on LHON management but require more investigations, particularly on the molecular effects of metformin on the mitochondrial function in LHON patients.…”
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Undenatured type II collagen for knee osteoarthritis by Ashim Gupta, Nicola Maffulli

“…In addition, administration of UC type 2 (40 mg daily) is safe and efficacious in the short- and mid-term, reducing inflammation and pain, and improving function, range of motion (ROM) and overall QoL. Nonetheless, more adequately powered, prospective, multi-center, non-randomized and randomized controlled trials with longer follow-up are warranted to establish the long-term efficacy of UC type 2 in knee OA patients and justify its routine clinical use.…”
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RIS Assisted UAV for Weather-Dependent Satellite Terrestrial Integrated Network With Hybrid FSO/RF Systems by Xin Li, Yongjun Li, Xinkang Song, Long Shao, Hai Li

“…The performance of our proposed scheme is evaluated in terms of outage probability, average bit-error rate (BER) and ergodic capacity in the form of bivariate Fox's H function and bivariate Meijer's G function. …”
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Behavioural and Psychiatric Phenotypes in Men and Boys with X-Linked Ichthyosis: Evidence from a Worldwide Online Survey. by Sohini Chatterjee, Trevor Humby, William Davies

“…The data are consistent with the notion that STS is important in neurodevelopment and ongoing brain function, and with previous work suggesting high rates of developmental disorders in boys with XLI. …”
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Insulin Secretion Defect in Children and Adolescents with Obesity: Clinical and Molecular Genetic Characterization by Helena Enders-Seidlitz, Klemens Raile, Maolian Gong, Angela Galler, Peter Kuehnen, Susanna Wiegand

“…We also wanted to investigate adolescents with insulin secretion disorder more closely and analyze possible candidate genes of diabetes in a subcohort. …”
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A High-Resolution Spectral Analysis Method Based on Fast Iterative Least Squares Constraints by Yanyan Ma, Haixia Kang, Weifeng Luo, Yunxiao Zhang, Lintao Luo

“…This method replaces the traditional Tikhonov regularization objective function with an L1-norm regularized objective function and employs a greedy fast shrinkage algorithm. …”
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Role of Combined Use of Adiponectin and hsCRP in Cardiovascular Risk in Pediatric Neurogenic Bladder by Joanna Bagińska-Chyży, Alicja Szymańska, Agata Korzeniecka-Kozerska

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Myelomeningocele (MMC) is the most severe form of spina bifida, often accompanied by impaired motor function due to paralysis of the lower limbs, as well as neurogenic bladder (NB). …”
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Enhancing Wheat Spike Counting and Disease Detection Using a Probability Density Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning Models for Precision Agriculture by Ruiheng Li, Wenjie Hong, Ruiming Wu, Yan Wang, Xiaohan Wu, Zhongtian Shi, Yifei Xu, Zixu Han, Chunli Lv

“…By introducing the density loss function, we are able to effectively improve the detection accuracy when dealing with high-density regions. …”
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Is There Room for SERMs or SARMs as Alternative Therapies for Adult Male Hypogonadism? by Vito A. Giagulli, Andrea Silvestrini, Carmine Bruno, Vincenzo Triggiani, Alvaro Mordente, Antonio Mancini

“…Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) can be sustained by organic or functional alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis. …”
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Natural disease history of mouse models for limb girdle muscular dystrophy types 2D and 2F. by S Pasteuning-Vuhman, K Putker, C L Tanganyika-de Winter, J W Boertje-van der Meulen, L van Vliet, M Overzier, J J Plomp, A Aartsma-Rus, M van Putten

“…Muscle function of SGCA- and SGCD-null mice was impaired and declined over time. …”
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Are physical factors associated with poor prognosis following a whiplash trauma?: a protocol for a systematic review and data synthesis by Deborah Falla, Alessio Gallina, Ahmed Alalawi

“…Studies will be required to assess the prognostic ability of one or more physical factors that directly involve a body function and/or structure and can be measured objectively. …”
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Recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency by Paulo Henrique Ramos Feitosa, Maria Vera Cruz de Oliveira Castellano, Claudia Henrique da Costa, Amanda da Rocha Oliveira Cardoso, Luiz Fernando Ferreira Pereira, Frederico Leon Arrabal Fernandes, Fábio Marcelo Costa, Manuela Brisot Felisbino, Alina Faria França de Oliveira, Jose R Jardim, Marc Miravitlles

“…The most common deficiency is in the Z variant, and it is estimated that more than 3 million people worldwide have combinations of alleles associated with severe AATD. …”
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Aerodynamic Optimization Method for Propeller Airfoil Based on DBO-BP and NSWOA by Changjing Guo, Zhiling Xu, Xiaoyan Yang, Hao Li

“…The NACA4412 airfoil is selected as the research subject, optimizing the original airfoil at three angles of attack (2°, 5° and 10°). The CST (Class Function/Shape Function Transformation) airfoil parametrization method is used to parameterize the original airfoil, and Latin hypercube sampling is employed to perturb the original airfoil within a certain range to generate a sample space. …”
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A DEM super resolution reconstruction method based on normalizing flow by Jie Yu, Yangtenglong Li, Xuan Bai, Ronghao Yang, Mengxue Cui, Haohao Wu, Zheng Li, Fangzheng Su, Ze Li, Taohuai Liang, Hongliang Yan

“…The negative log-likelihood function and pixel loss function are used to accelerate the optimization to generate high-resolution DEM images that are closer to the natural terrain. …”
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Modified Decision Feedback Equalizers for Nonlinearity Compensation in Coherent PAM4 Transmission System by Zhengxuan Li, Zheng Xin, Siyu Luo, Acai Tan, Bingyao Cao

“…In addition, we incorporate the phase into the error function, proposing the phase-assisted decision feedback equalizer (PA-DFE). …”
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Differential benefits of 12-week morning vs. evening aerobic exercise on sleep and cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial by Bingyi Shen, Huiwen Zheng, Haibin Liu, Lihong Chen, Guangrui Yang

“…Evening exercise (6–8 p.m.) is more effective for enhancing vascular function. Trial registration: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, ChiCTR2400094208, 18/12/2024.…”
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Adaptive characteristics of the gut microbiota of the scaly-sided merganser (Mergus squamatus) in energy compensation at different developmental stages by Yanze Yu, Yanze Yu, Jiaming Wang, Luyi Shi, Hongyu Sun, Boxing Cheng, Yue Sun

“…This study provides foundational data on the gut microbiota structure and function of this species and enhances our understanding of microbial dynamics during waterfowl development.…”
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From bench to bedside: translating mesenchymal stem cell therapies through preclinical and clinical evidence by Jai Chand Patel, Meenakshi Shukla, Manish Shukla

“…Unlike traditional cell therapies that rely on engraftment, MSCs primarily function through paracrine signaling—secreting bioactive molecules like vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β), and exosomes. …”
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Intentions in reconstructive plastic surgery among post-bariatric patients in Brazil’s public health service by Priscila Chiarello de Souza Pinto Abdalla, Juan Carlos Montano Pedroso, Rafael Cauê Katayama, Sarhan Sydney Saad, Gabriel de Almeida Arruda Felix, Marília Baeninger, Alfredo Gragnani

“…Patients interested in arm surgery had significantly lower sexual function scores (p = 0.006). There was no significant correlation between total weight loss and surgical interest. …”
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