Gender Preferences in Healthcare: A Study of Saudi Patients’ Physician Preferences by Alhomayani KM, Bukhary HA, Aljuaid FI, Alotaibi TA, Alqurashi FS, Althobaiti KN, Althobaiti NS, Althomali OY, Althobaiti AA, Aljuaid MM, Muhyei AM

“…Khalid M Alhomayani,1 Hashem A Bukhary,1 Fahd I Aljuaid,1 Turki A Alotaibi,2 Faisal S Alqurashi,2 Khaled N Althobaiti,2 Nawaf S Althobaiti,2 Osama Y Althomali,2 Abdullah A Althobaiti,2 Muhanad M Aljuaid,2 Abdullah M Muhyei2 1Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia; 2Faculty of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Khalid M Alhomayani, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia, Tel +966502788879, Email k.homayani@tu.edu.saBackground and Objective: Cultural and social factors, including physician gender, shape patient-provider relationships in Saudi Arabia. …”
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Molecular beam epitaxial In2Te3 electronic devices by Imhwan Kim, Jinseok Ryu, Eunsu Lee, Sangmin Lee, Seokje Lee, Wonwoo Suh, Jamin Lee, Miyoung Kim, Hong seok Oh, Gyu-Chul Yi

“…Furthermore, the Ti/In2Te3 Schottky diodes exhibit a low saturation current of 0.4 nA, an ideality factor of 26.7, and a Schottky barrier height of 0.68 eV.…”
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Voxel-Wise Brain-Wide Functional Connectivity Abnormalities in Patients with Primary Blepharospasm at Rest by Pan Pan, Shubao Wei, Huabing Li, Yangpan Ou, Feng Liu, Wenyan Jiang, Wenmei Li, Yiwu Lei, Yanqing Tang, Wenbin Guo, Shuguang Luo

“…An unbiased method was used in patients with BSP at rest to observe voxel-wise brain-wide functional connectivity (FC) changes. Method. A total of 48 subjects, including 24 untreated patients with BSP and 24 healthy controls, were recruited to undergo functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). …”
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Microvesicles Derived from Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance Alveolar Type II Cell Proliferation and Attenuate Lung Inflammation in a Rat Model of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia by Ou Zhou, Jingyi You, Xiaochuan Xu, Jiang Liu, Huijun Qiu, Chang Hao, Wenjing Zou, Wenjie Wu, Zhou Fu, Daiyin Tian, Lin Zou

“…Compared with the LPS-exposed group, MVs restored the AT2 cell number and SP-C expression in vivo and promoted the proliferation of AT2 cells in vitro. …”
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Plasma prolactin axis shift from placental to pituitary origin in late prepartum mice by Taku James Sairenji, Shinnosuke Masuda, Yuya Higuchi, Mitsue Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Yajima, Oh Kwan Ee, Yuki Fujiwara, Takuya Araki, Noriaki Shimokawa, Noriyuki Koibuchi

Subjects: “…prl3b1 (prolactin family 3, subfamily b, member 1)…”
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Metasurface higher-order poincaré sphere polarization detection clock by Hui Yang, Kai Ou, Qiang Liu, Meiyu Peng, Zhenwei Xie, Yuting Jiang, Honghui Jia, Xinbin Cheng, Hui Jing, Yueqiang Hu, Huigao Duan

“…As a proof of concept, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate fully resolving SoPs on the 0th, 1st, and 2nd HOPSs. …”
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Characterization of meat quality, storage stability, flavor-related compounds, and their relationship in Korean Woorimatdag No. 2 chicken breast meat during cold storage by Yousung Jung, Soomin Oh, Sangrok Lee, Hee-Jeong Lee, Hyo-Jun Choo, Cheorun Jo, Ki-Chang Nam, Jun-Heon Lee, Aera Jang

“…Flavor nucleotide content was influenced more by the storage period, whereas fatty acid composition was affected more by genetic differences. WRMD2 exhibited significantly higher levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially C20:4n6 and C22:6n3, than CB. …”
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Relatively high interest but limited active engagement in HIV cure research: Awareness, interest, and information-seeking among affected communities in the Netherlands by Maaike A.J. Noorman, John B.F. de Wit, Tamika A. Marcos, Sarah E. Stutterheim, Thijs Albers, Kai J. Jonas, Chantal den Daas

“…Results: The mean awareness was 3.08 (SD = 0.99) interest was higher at 3.67 (SD = 0.85), while the information-seeking frequency was lower at 2.33 (SD = 0.97). …”
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Comportamiento de diferentes cultivares de trigo a Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) y High Plains virus (HPV) mediante infección artificial con el vector Aceria tosichella Keifer, bajo condiciones de campo by A.D. DUMÓN, E.B. ARGÜELLO CARO, V. ALEMANDRI, M.F. MATTIO, G. DONAIRE, E. ALBERIONE, C.T. BAINOTTI, S.M. RODRÍGUEZ, G TRUOL

“…Se evaluó la incidencia, el grado de infección y la severidad de síntomas de las infecciones en los diferentes genotipos de trigo. …”
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Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from three different male XLRS patients carrying RS1 gene mutation by Sang-Yun Kim, Yong-Min Choi, Yunho Park, Seung-Hyun Kim, Hyun Beom Song, Jeong Hun Kim, Ok-Seon Kwon, Kyung-Sook Chung

“…In this study, we generated iPSC lines from three patients diagnosed with XLRS, each carrying distinct pathogenic RS1 variant (c.421C > T, c.130_140del and c.214G > A). …”
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Association of Side-Branch Treatment and Patient Factors in Left Anterior Descending Artery True Bifurcation Lesions: Analysis from the GRAND-DES Pooled Registry by Gyu Chul Oh, Kyung Woo Park, Jeehoon Kang, Jung-Kyu Han, Han-Mo Yang, Hyun-Jae Kang, Bon Kwon Koo, Hyo-Soo Kim

“…The SB treatment group showed a nonsignificant, but numerically lower rate of 3-year TLF (6.6% vs. 9.2%, HR 0.75, 95%CI 0.44–1.28, p = 0.29). …”
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Type of arrhythmias and the risk of sudden cardiac death in dialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Subhash Chander, Ahmad Bin Aamir, Rabia Latif, Om Parkash, F. N. U. Sorath, Sam Tan, Abhi Chand Lohana, Sheena Shiwlani, Mohammed Yaqub Nadeem

“…Eight included studies were randomized controlled trials, and five were cohort studies, which provided a pooled population size of 12,611 dialysis patients for the meta-analysis, which indicated a significantly larger effect size of arrhythmia [Cohen’s d = 110.38 (95%CI 42.72–178.05), p = 0.0]. …”
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Near Fatal Asthma: Clinical and Airway Biopsy Characteristics by Richard G. Barbers, Ilias C. Papanikolaou, Michael N. Koss, Ashish Patel, Elton Katagihara, Maggie Arenas, Khalid Chan, Colleen G. Azen, Om P. Sharma

“…NFE II group (𝑛=37) had a significant history of prior intubation and inhaled corticosteroids usage compared to ME II group (𝑛=41). …”
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Therapeutic Potential of Stem Cells Strategy for Cardiovascular Diseases by Chang Youn Lee, Ran Kim, Onju Ham, Jihyun Lee, Pilseog Kim, Seokyeon Lee, Sekyung Oh, Hojin Lee, Minyoung Lee, Jongmin Kim, Woochul Chang

“…CVDs are characterized by a broad range of pathological reactions including inflammation, necrosis, hyperplasia, and hypertrophy. …”
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Scrub typhus association with autoimmune biomarkers and clinical implications. by Hwanseung You, Jeongeun Song, Seonglyeong Kim, Sang-Min Oh, Joo-Hee Hwang, Jeong-Hwan Hwang, Wan-Hee Yoo, Yunjung Choi, Chang-Seop Lee

“…ANA titers above 1:80 were detected in 71.2% of patients; these titers were elevated in only 13.3% of the healthy controls. …”
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All‐Inorganic Perovskite Quantum‐Dot Optical Neuromorphic Synapses for Near‐Sensor Colored Image Recognition by Yung‐Chi Yao, Chia‐Jung Lee, Yong‐Jun Chen, Jun‐Zhi Feng, Hongseok Oh, Chin‐Shan Lue, Jinn‐Kong Sheu, Ya‐Ju Lee

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Serum Prohepcidin Levels Are Lower in Patients with Atrophic Gastritis by Hyung-Keun Kim, Eun-Chul Jang, Ju-Ok Yeom, Sun-Young Kim, Hyunjung Cho, Sung Soo Kim, Hiun-Suk Chae, Young-Seok Cho

“…Serum prohepcidin levels decrease in patients with atrophic gastritis, irrespective of H. pylori infection. It suggests that hepcidin may decrease due to gastric atrophy, a condition that causes a loss of hepcidin-producing parietal cells. …”
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Postpartum diseases and their effects on reproduction in dairy cows by J.F. Rocha, S.R.B. Couto, N.M.P.M. Caparelli, J.P.N. Andrade, C.G. Jayme, M.R.B. Mello

“…Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia…”
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Pharmacometabolomics Enables Real-World Drug Metabolism Sciences by Fleur B. Nijdam, Marieke A. J. Hof, Hans Blokzijl, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Eelko Hak, Gérard Hopfgartner, Frank Klont, on behalf of the TransplantLines Investigators

“…<b>Methods</b>: This study explored the potential of PMx to analyze real-world drug metabolite profiles of the extensively studied drug cyclosporine (CsA) using 24-h urine samples from 732 kidney and 350 liver transplant recipients included in the TransplantLines Biobank and Cohort Study (NCT identifier NCT03272841). …”
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Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Alpha in the Control of Cyclooxygenase 2 and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor: Involvement in Tumor Growth by Manuel Fresno, Cristina Cacheiro-Llaguno, Manuel D. D&amp;#237;az-Mu&amp;#241;oz, Raquel Grau, Miguel A. I&amp;#241;iguez

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