Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of “Malocclusion Impact Questionnaire” into Moroccan Arabic by Farid Bourzgui, Samir Diouny, Hadam Mkhantar, Zineb Serhier, Mohamed Bennani Othmani

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Evaluation of Awareness, Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Related to Toxoplasmosis Among Females in Algeria by Mohamed Lounis, Samah Aissaoui, Fatima Ghouissem, Karim Souttou

“…While the infections are mostly asymptomatic, the disease could be severe in immune-compromised patients and pregnant women. This study was conducted to evaluate the level of knowledge, practice, and attitude toward this disease among a sample of Algerian women. …”
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Leptomeningeal Cells Transduce Peripheral Macrophages Inflammatory Signal to Microglia in Reponse to Porphyromonas gingivalis LPS by Yicong Liu, Zhou Wu, Xinwen Zhang, Junjun Ni, Weixian Yu, Yanmin Zhou, Hiroshi Nakanishi

“…The expression of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), TLR4, TNF-α, and inducible NO synthase was mainly detected in the gingival macrophages of chronic periodontitis patients. In in vitro studies, P.g. LPS induced the secretion of TNF-α and IL-1β from THP-1 human monocyte-like cell line and RAW264.7 mouse macrophages. …”
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Resistance to P. brasiliensis Experimental Infection of Inbred Mice Is Associated with an Efficient Neutrophil Mobilization and Activation by Mediators of Inflammation by Felipe Fornias Sperandio, Gisele Pesquero Fernandes, Ana Carolina Silvério Cerqueira Mendes, Giulia Maria de Alencar Castro Bani, Vera Lucia Garcia Calich, Eva Burger

“…Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a systemic fungal infection, endemic in Brazil, that leads to severe morbidity and even mortality if not correctly treated. Patients may respond differently to PCM depending on the pattern of the acquired immune response developed. …”
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In Vivo Functional Assessment of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporters (SGLTs) Using [18F]Me4FDG PET in Rats by Yohji Matsusaka, Xinyu Chen, Paula Arias-Loza, Rudolf A. Werner, Naoko Nose, Takanori Sasaki, Steven P. Rowe, Martin G. Pomper, Constantin Lapa, Takahiro Higuchi

“…Mediating glucose absorption in the small intestine and renal clearance, sodium glucose cotransporters (SGLTs) have emerged as an attractive therapeutic target in diabetic patients. A substantial fraction of patients, however, only achieve inadequate glycemic control. …”
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Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato inhibits CIITA transcription through pSTAT3 activation and enhanced SOCS1 and SOCS3 expression leading to limited IFN-γ production by Michelle A.E. Brouwer, Zara Karami, Samuel T. Keating, Hedwig Vrijmoeth, Heidi L.M. Lemmers, Helga Dijkstra, Frank L. van de Veerdonk, Mihaela Lupse, Hadewych J.M. ter Hofstede, Mihai G. Netea, Leo A.B. Joosten

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Circulation of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> strains of the Beijing Central Asian Outbreak genotype in the Kemerovo region — Kuzbass in 2018–2022 by Svetlana N. Zhdanova, Anna A. Vyazovaya, Irina B. Lebedeva, Vyacheslav V. Sinkov, Ilya G. Kondratov, Yakov Sh. Schwartz, Lyubov V. Rychkova, Elena B. Brusina, Igor V. Mokrousov, Oleg B. Ogarkov

“…Beijing CAO strains, detected mainly in newly diagnosed HIV/TB patients, require further monitoring and control of their spreading.…”
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Outbreak of carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neurorehabilitation unit: Genomic epidemiology reveals complex transmission pattern in a tertiary care hospital by Maria Grazia Silvotti, Erika Scaltriti, Luca Bolzoni, Beatrice Zerbi, Gabriella Tocci, Andrea Zappavigna, Gianfranco Lamberti, Federico Donati, Franco Federici, Stefano Pongolini, Giuliana Lo Cascio

“…We report an outbreak by KPC-Kp, in a neurorehabilitation unit in Italy, analysed through whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for transmission routes reconstruction to improve management of KPC-Kp infections in rehabilitation units. …”
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Interactions et transactions identitaires d'immigrés noirs dans l'espace public et les centres de santé au Maroc by Annélie Delescluse

“…The article then looks at the thorny issue of medical interactions between Moroccan healthcare staff and sub-Saharan patients who claim to be victims of racism in healthcare. …”
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Interrogating green social prescribing in South Wales; A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration. by Menna Brown, Katharine Sarah Aylett

“…<h4>Background</h4>As an umbrella term, social prescribing offers varied routes into society which promise to support, enhance, and empower individual citizens to take control of their own health and wellbeing. …”
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Use of isavuconazole in mucormycosis: a systematic review by Shobha Sanjeewani Gunathilaka, Reshani Kaumada Keragala, Kasun Madhumal Gunathilaka, Sujanthi Wickramage, Sachithra Ravindi Bandara, Indika Sanjeewa Senevirathne, Asela Sampath Jayaweera

“…A total of 31 articles, which included four case series, 24 case reports, one open-label trial, one randomized controlled trial, and one non-interventional registry study, were included in the final analysis. 135 adult patients and 14 children were treated with isavuconazole as primary monotherapy, primary combination therapy, nonprimary monotherapy, or nonprimary combination therapy. …”
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Brain glucose metabolism as a neuronal substrate of the abnormal behavioral response to stress in the mdx mouse, a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy by Sébastien Goutal, Marion Lancien, François Rivier, Nicolas Tournier, Cyrille Vaillend

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Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Review of the Studies Using Syngeneic, Autologous, Allogeneic, and Xenogeneic Cells by Christian Sávio-Silva, Stephany Beyerstedt, Poliana E. Soinski-Sousa, Expedito B. Casaro, Maria Theresa A. Balby-Rocha, Antônio Simplício-Filho, Jamille Alves-Silva, Érika B. Rangel

“…Therefore, randomized and controlled trials considering the source, optimal cell number, and route of delivery in DM patients are further required to advance MSC-based therapy. …”
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Optimasi Convolutional Neural Network Untuk Deteksi Covid-19 pada X-ray Thorax Berbasis Dropout by I Gede Totok Suryawan, I Putu Agus Eka Darma Udayana

“…The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), which has proved to be one of the methods that can use to screen patients and detect COVID-19.also have its own problem because it requires enormous computing power and generally a long training rate. …”
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