Bioactive and Biological Potential of Black Chokeberry Leaves Under the Influence of Pressurized Liquid Extraction and Microwave-Assisted Extraction by Maja Repajić, Ivona Elez Garofulić, Ena Cegledi, Erika Dobroslavić, Sandra Pedisić, Ksenija Durgo, Ana Huđek Turković, Jasna Mrvčić, Karla Hanousek Čiča, Verica Dragović-Uzelac

“…MAE extracts contained more flavonols and phenolic acids, while PLE extracts had higher procyanidins and flavan-3-ols. …”
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Risk Factors of Post Dural Puncture Headache in Cesarean Section Patients: A Multivariate Analysis Study by Widya Istanto Nurcahyo, Johan Arifin, Doso Sutiyono, Bondan Irtani Cahyadi, Dina Paramita, Taufik Eko Nugroho, Chandra Hermawan Manapa, Indra Kusuma

“…Samples were taken from CS patients with spinal anesthesia at the Central Surgical Installation of Dr. …”
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Unilateral Agenesis of the Upper Permanent Lateral Incisors in Growing Patients: Gap Closure or Gap Opening? A Systematic Review by Gianna Dipalma, Angelo Michele Inchingolo, Pietro Lauria, Pierluigi Marotti, Silvia Chieppa, Daniela Di Venere, Andrea Palermo, Massimo Corsalini, Francesco Inchingolo, Alessio Danilo Inchingolo

“…However, because research samples are small and post-treatment evaluations are short, more prospective cohort studies are needed in the future to give better scientific evidence.…”
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Glucose Lowering Therapeutic Strategies for Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care Setting in France: A Cross-Sectional Study by N. Grandfils, B. Detournay, C. Attali, D. Joly, D. Simon, B. Vergès, M. Toussi, Y. Briand, O. Delaitre

“…To understand glucose lowering therapeutic strategies of French general practitioners (GPs) in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Methods. A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted from March to June 2011 among a sample of French GPs who contribute to the IMS Lifelink Disease Analyzer database. …”
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Mercaptophenylboronic Acid‐Mediated Nanozyme Immunochromatographic Assay for Simultaneous Detection of Respiratory Bacteria and Virus by Qing Yu, Jiaxuan Li, Shuai Zheng, Yajin Hu, Benshun Tian, Meirou Lu, Bing Gu, Chongwen Wang

“…By simultaneously detecting two significant respiratory bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and one respiratory virus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2), this study demonstrates that combination of FeAu@AuIr‐MPBA probe and antibody‐modified ICA strips can achieve ultrasensitive and highly specific detection of different respiratory pathogens, with sensitivity and detection range improved by more than 238 times compared to existing colorimetric ICA methods. …”
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Burnout, Work Addiction and Stress-Related Growth Among Emergency Physicians and Residents: A Comparative Study by Raluca Mihaela Tat, Adela Golea, Gabriela Vancu, Mihai-Bujor Grecu, Monica Puticiu, Andrei Hermenean, Luciana Teodora Rotaru, Mihai Alexandru Butoi, Mihaela Corlade-Andrei, Diana Cimpoesu

“…Methods: An online survey was sent to 461 EM professionals (170 physicians and 291 residents), with a response rate of 25.4%. …”
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Polymorphic variant of <i>NQO1</i> rs1800566 and antipsychotic-induced metabolic disorders in patients with schizophrenia by V. V. Tiguntsev, I. A. Mednova, I. V. Pozhidaev, E. V. Mikhalitskaya, D. A. Petkun, N. M. Vyalova, D. Z. Paderina, E. G. Kornetova, S. A. Ivanova

“…To conduct an associative analysis between antipsychotic-induced metabolic disorders and the polymorphic variant NQO1 rs1800566.Materials and methods. The study included 603 patients with schizophrenia, who underwent a comprehensive clinical, anthropometric and laboratory examination. …”
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Alignment between self- and perceived peer support for specific firearm policies: Results from a representative survey of adults in nine U.S. states by Michael D. Anestis, Jennifer Paruk, Jayna Moceri-Brooks, Shelby L. Bandel, Allison E. Bond, Daniel C. Semenza

“…One potential explanation is the misperception of peer support for firearm policies among individuals with differing political beliefs. Methods: A representative sample (n = 7529) of adults from nine states was recruited via KnowledgePanel and completed a self-report survey between June 13 and July 10, 2023. …”
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The concentration of matrix metalloproteinase 9 in the tumor and peritumoral tissue as prognostic marker in breast cancer patients by Cvetković Danijela M., Milošević Bojan Z., Cvetković Aleksandar M., Ninković Srđan M., Jovankić Jovana V., Jovanović Dalibor V., Marković Snežana D.

“…We investigated the role of matrix metalloproteinases 9 (MMP-9) concentration in peritumoral tissue as a prognostic marker in the breast cancer patients. Methods. The ELISA test was used to determine a total MMP-9 concentration in carcinoma and peritumoral tissue sample in the patients with breast cancer. …”
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Lymphedema pathogenesis involves antigen-driven expansion of CD4+ T cells in skin by Adana-Christine Campbell, Annica R. Stull-Lane, Jung Eun Baik, Ananta Sarker, Jinyeon Shin, Gopika Ashokan, Hyeung Ju Park, Bracha L. Pollack, Pradhi Pakkerakari, Yollanda Franco Parisotto, Arielle Roberts, Chrysothemis C. Brown, Babak J. Mehrara, Raghu P. Kataru

“…Clonality was significantly higher in lymphedema samples than in controls, both in human samples and a mouse model of the disease. …”
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Benchmarking of feed-forward neural network models for genomic prediction of quantitative traits in pigs by Junjian Wang, Francesco Tiezzi, Yijian Huang, Christian Maltecca, Jicai Jiang

“…GPUs offered significant computational efficiency gains for multi-layer FFNN models compared to CPUs, though FFNN models remained more computationally demanding than most linear methods. …”
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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

“…To address these limitations, a more phenotypic approach would be desirable, for which pharmacometabolomics (PMx) could be useful by studying and elucidating drug metabolism in patient samples, such as blood and urine. …”
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Dual Attention-Based Global-Local Feature Extraction Network for Unsupervised Change Detection in PolSAR Images by Dazhi Xu, Ming Li, Yan Wu, Peng Zhang, Xinyue Xin

“…Specifically, the feature constraint loss function is constructed to eliminate feature redundancy and fully exploit the complementarity between features, while the focal loss function is introduced to balance the impact of the inequality between changed and unchanged samples on the network. Numerical experiments on five real spaceborne PolSAR datasets demonstrate that our DA-GLN is more competitive than other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Gut microbiota diversity and composition in children with autism spectrum disorder: associations with symptom severity by Qinghuang Zeng, Yisheng Hu, Leiying Xie, Xinyi Zhang, Yun Huang, Jianbin Ye, Shouan Wang, Jia Xu

“…We hypothesize that the composition of gut microbiota in children with ASD may be strongly associated with the severity of their symptoms. Methods Here, fecal samples from children (divided in to three groups: neurotypical, severe ASD and mild ASD) at a hospital were collected. …”
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Signs and symptoms of vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) in clinical practice – the possible involvement of thyroid autoimmunity in genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) by Laura Cucinella, Federica Barbagallo, Mariacristina Erroi, Chiara Procaccianti, Ellis Martini, Lara Tiranini, Giorgia E. Parrotta, Greta Monne, Giulia M. Colombo, Aldo Calogero, Rossella E. Nappi

“…Women with thyroid ADs reported more severe VVA symptoms, but specific symptomatological clusters should be investigated in larger samples. …”
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Genetic characteristics of rotavirus a in Shenzhen and Zhuhai, China, 2020–2023 by Mingda Hu, Yixiong Lin, Rui Zhang, Xin Wang, Yaqing He, Huitao Huang, Boqian Wang, Wanqiu Liu, Kexin Li, Jingjing Fu, Xinru Zhao, Buaijier Aimaiti, Wensheng Yang, Hongbin Song, Hongguang Ren, Xiaofeng Hu

“…Methods We collected diarrheal stool samples from sentinel hospitals in Shenzhen and Zhuhai between 2020 and 2023. …”
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Microbiota Analysis and Characterisation of the Novel <i>Limosilactobacillus</i> Strains Isolated from Dogs by Ga-Yeong Lee, Hae-Yeon Jo, Muhammad Aleem Abbas, Ling Gui, Md Sekendar Ali, Seung-Jun Kim, Seung-Chun Park

“…<b>Results:</b> The analysis revealed that <i>Lactobacillus</i> dominated puppy faeces, while <i>Bacteroidetes</i> were more abundant in adult dogs. In total, 109 primary LAB candidates were isolated from faecal samples. …”
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The study of the elemental composition of peppermint (Mentha piperita) by K. V. Andrianov, Yu. A. Fedchenkova, O. P. Khvorost

“…Materials and methods of research The peppermint leaves of 3 samples were the object of our research. …”
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Prepandemic levels of cytokines and immunoglobulins and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 in the general population of Barcelona by Miquel Porta, Miquel Porta, Miquel Porta, Miquel Porta, Miquel Porta, Miquel Porta, José Pumarega, José Pumarega, José Pumarega, Ruth Aguilar, Ruth Aguilar, David Prieto-Merino, Laura Campi, Laura Campi, Cristina Rius, Cristina Rius, Cristina Rius, Judit Villar-García, Marta Vidal, Marta Vidal, Marta Vidal, Alfons Jimenez, Alfons Jimenez, Alfons Jimenez, Antonio Peña, Miguel-Ángel Muñoz, Miguel-Ángel Muñoz, Leonardo Trasande, Leonardo Trasande, Leonardo Trasande, Francisco Bolúmar, Francisco Bolúmar, Gemma Moncunill, Gemma Moncunill, Gemma Moncunill, Magda Gasull, Magda Gasull, Magda Gasull, Carlota Dobaño, Carlota Dobaño, Carlota Dobaño

“…The five individual isotype-antigen pairs more clearly associated with seropositivity were: protectively, IgG to CMV pp150, IgG to CMV pp65, and IgG to N OC43; and, increasing risk of seropositivity, IgM to CMV pp65 and IgM to EBV EA-D. …”
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5‐hydroxymethylcytosine features of portal venous blood predict metachronous liver metastases of colorectal cancer and reveal phosphodiesterase 4 as a therapeutic target by Nuo Xu, Zhaoya Gao, Deyan Wu, Hangyu Chen, Zijian Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yuchen Wang, Xuyang Lu, Xu Yao, Xuelan Liu, Yi‐You Huang, Meiying Qiu, Sen Wang, Jinqiang Liang, Can Mao, Feng Zhang, Huimin Xu, Yujiao Wang, Xian Li, Zhexin Chen, Dandan Huang, Jingyi Shi, Wensheng Huang, Fuming Lei, Zeruo Yang, Long Chen, Chuan He, Haichuan Zhu, Hai‐Bin Luo, Jin Gu, Jian Lin

“…Based on 5hmC‐Seal analysis of blood and tissue samples, this study found that portal venous blood was more relevant to tumour gDNA than peripheral blood. …”
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