Kidney transplant utilising donors after circulatory death: The first report from the African continent by T du Toit, K Manning, L Bertels, G Hoffman, D Thomson, Z A Barday

“…At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, the number of deceased organ donors has declined over the past 2 decades, necessitating a more liberal approach to donor selection. In 2007, measures to expand the deceased kidney donor pool were implemented, including an HIV positive-to-positive transplant programme and the utilisation of extended-criteria donors as well as donors after circulatory death (DCDs). …”
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Extraction of Abandoned Cropland Using Multisource Remote Sensing Images in Suburban Regions: A Case Study of Zengcheng, Guangdong Province by Shanshan Feng, Shun Jiang, Xu Liu, Lei Zhang, Yangying Gan, Ning Xia, Wenbin Wu, Canfang Zhou

“…Finally, croplands that remained unplanted for two or more consecutive years were extracted as abandonment. …”
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Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus-infected diabetic wounds by melatonin loaded nanocarriers by Alyaa Farid, Ayah Mohsen, Bassant Nasser, Habiba Alaa, Mariam Abdelaziz, Maryam Mustafa, Mustafa Mansour, Nourhan Adel, Salma Magdy, Salma Mohsen, Samah Adel, Sarah Ibrahim, Shaymaa Abdel-Rahman, Sohaila Mohamed, Yomna El-Karamany

“…Due to the wound healing activity of chitosan (CS), lecithin (Le) and melatonin (M), the present study aimed to load melatonin on CS/Le NPs and examine their effect on diabetic wounds infected with Staphylococcus aureus. …”
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Immunoenhancing effects of Gynostemma Pentaphyllum Extract on mucosal immunity against porcine epidemic diarrhea virus by Yanxiang Zhang, Ruihan Tang, Ruihan Tang, Yuanqing Liu, Zhihui Hao, Zhihui Hao, Zhihui Hao, Kai Fan, Shanshan Xie, Bo Tang, Shuaiyu Wang, Shuaiyu Wang, Shuaiyu Wang

“…Serum and mucosal lavage fluid were analyzed for specific IgG and secretory IgA (sIgA) antibody levels.ResultsThe results demonstrated that Gynostemma P.E significantly promoted immune organ development, enhanced splenic lymphocyte proliferation (p < 0.05), and elevated serum IgG and nasal mucosal sIgA antibody levels (p < 0.05).DiscussionThis study presents an innovative approach that integrates bioactive compounds from traditional Chinese medicine with intranasal mucosal immunization, offering new perspectives for combating gastrointestinal infections in veterinary medicine, and demonstrates that Gynostemma P.E significantly enhance PEDV-specific mucosal immunity in mice, providing a foundation for developing safer and more effective PEDV vaccines (and other veterinary vaccines), data supporting Gynostemma P.E as mucosal immunoadjuvants, and a theoretical framework for future clinical trials.…”
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Effects of home-based slow-paced breathing on functional performance in middle-aged women: A randomized controlled trial study by Karama Masmoudi, Fatma Chaari, Haithem Rebai, Sonia Sahli

“…As individuals age, functional performance declines, particularly affecting mobility, strength, and postural balance, with middle-aged women experiencing earlier and more pronounced impairments due to menopausal transition. …”
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The three-dimensional structure prediction of human bitter taste receptor using the method of AlphaFold3 by Takafumi Shimizu, Rio Ohno, Michihiro Kayama, Kenta Aso, Yasuyuki Fujii, Yoshitomo Suhara, Vittorio Calabrese, Naomi Osakabe

“…Our results show that AF3 provides more accurate structural predictions than AF2 for these receptors, though the predicted local distance difference test scores for AF3 were unexpectedly lower across all T2R subtypes. …”
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Profile of Humoral Immunity and B Cell Pool in Infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Prototype Strain and AZD1222 (ChAdOx nCoV-19) Vaccination by Débora Familiar-Macedo, Elzinandes Leal de Azeredo, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos, Paulo Vieira Damasco, Luzia Maria de-Oliveira-Pinto

“…Similar IgA and IgG production appeared to be present in the acute and recovered individuals. During vaccination, more IgG is produced than IgA. …”
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Unfavorable impact of female gender on outcomes following aortic valve replacement combined with coronary artery bypass grafting by Bartłomiej Perek, Sleiman Sebastian Aboul-Hassan, Tomasz Hrapkowicz, Radosław Gocoł, Marek Deja, Bogusław Kapelak, Jan Rogowski, Kazimierz Widenka, Marcin Krasoń, Bohdan Maruszewski, Romuald Cichoń, Marek Jemielity, Marek Jasiński

“…Women undergoing aortic valve replacement with concomitant artery bypass grafting presented worse early outcomes but comparable long-term survival to men.…”
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Visual hallucinations in neurosurgery: A systematic review and two case insights into Charles Bonnet Syndrome by Erica Grasso, Giulio Bonomo, Francesco Certo, Giacomo Cammarata, Giuseppe M.V. Barbagallo

“…Intra-axial tumors were more likely to cause CBS post-operatively, likely due to surgical trauma affecting the optic tracts or visual cortex, and often required additional treatment. …”
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Doxorubicin-loaded NK exosomes enable cytotoxicity against triple-negative breast cancer spheroids by Zahra Sadat Hashemi, Mahlegha Ghavami, Fateme Mohammadi, Mahdieh Shokrollahi Barough, Farhad Shokati, Saber Asghari, saeed khalili, Mandana Akbari Yekta, Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh, Ramin Sarrami Forooshani

“…Additionally, the additive action of this combination formula results in a more severe loss in cell viability.…”
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ICT-Net: An Integrated Convolution and Transformer-Based Network for Complex Liver and Liver Tumor Region Segmentation by Chukwuemeka Clinton Atabansi, Hui Li, Sheng Wang, Jing Nie, Haijun Liu, Bo Xu, Xichuan Zhou, Dewei Li

“…Clinical Translation Statement: ICT-Net enhances surgical planning accuracy through precise tumor margin delineation and improves therapy response assessment reliability, which holds meaningful promise to support more precise and effective clinical therapeutic strategies for patients with HCC.…”
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Severe gastrointestinal involvements in patients with adult dermatomyositis with anti-NXP2 antibody by Zhiwei Chen, Xiaodong Wang, Shuang Ye, Qi Feng, Qiong Fu, Jie Chen, Liyang Gu, Jie Fan, Yuting Dai, Yakai Fu, Mingshi Gao

“…NXP2+DM with GI involvements presented with more extramuscular systemic manifestations such as interstitial lung disease and subcutaneous calcinosis. …”
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A lightweight hybrid model for accurate ammonia prediction in pig houses by Jacqueline Musabimana, Qiuju Xie, Hong Zhou, Ping Zheng, Honggui Liu, Tiemin Ma, Jiming Liu

“…The model replaces feedforward networks with separable convolutional layers to capture local and spatial dependencies more efficiently, as well as reduce computational complexity. …”
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Structural basis for varying drug resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro E166 variants by Morgan A. Esler, Ke Shi, Joseph A. Rollie, Renee Delgado, Jyoti Vishwakarma, Agnieszka Dabrowska, Janani Prahlad, Seyed Arad Moghadasi, Reuben S. Harris, Hideki Aihara

“…We further show that E166I causes even more severe nirmatrelvir resistance, whereas E166A and E166L have much milder effects. …”
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Drug resistance mutations and phylogenetic analysis of HIV-1 subtypes B and F from mothers and children with vertical transmission by Aldicléya Lima Luz, Kledoaldo Lima, Élcio Leal, Fabrício Silva Pessôa, Geovani de Oliveira Ribeiro, Cláudia Regina de Andrade Arrais Rosa, Marcos Davi Gomes de Sousa, Pablo Cantalice Santos Farias, Heloisa Ramos Lacerda

“…Among the seven pairs with exams obtained five years or more after birth, four pairs presented very different DRAM profiles. …”
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Decreased Expression of Aquaporins as a Feature of Tubular Damage in Lupus Nephritis by Maxime Melchior, Marie Van Eycken, Charles Nicaise, Thomas Duquesne, Léa Longueville, Amandine Collin, Christine Decaestecker, Isabelle Salmon, Christine Delporte, Muhammad Soyfoo

“…In the subgroup of proliferative glomerulonephritis (class III/IV), this decrease in AQPs expression was more pronounced, particularly for AQP3. In addition, within this subgroup, we detected lower AQP2 expression in patients with higher interstitial inflammation score and lower AQP3 expression when higher interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy were present. …”
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Energy Recovery from Organic Wastes Using Microbial Fuel Cells: Traditional and Nonconventional Organic Substrates by Wilgince Apollon, Iryna Rusyn, Noris Evelin Paucar, Monte Hibbert, Sathish-Kumar Kamaraj, Chikashi Sato

“…In contrast, nonconventional waste streams offer a more sustainable alternative as feedstocks, aligning with zero-waste and regenerative agricultural principles. …”
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Prevalence of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi and anti-Leishmania infantum antibodies in domestic dogs from Tremedal, Bahia: insights from the Oxente Chagas Bahia Project by Tycha Bianca Sabaini Pavan, Larissa Carvalho Medrado Vasconcelos, Isabela Machado Serrano, Denis Augusto Argolo Campos, Ângelo Antônio Oliveira Silva, Randrin Queiroz Viana Ferreira, Daniel Dias Sampaio, Isadora Cristina de Siqueira, Fred Luciano Neves Santos

“…Abstract Background Chagas disease (CD) and visceral leishmaniasis (VL) are two important zoonotic diseases that present significant public health challenges in Latin America. …”
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Insights on the Permian tuff beds from the Saint-Affrique Basin (Massif Central, France): an integrated geochemical and geochronological study by Poujol, Marc, Mercuzot, Mathilde, Lopez, Michel, Bourquin, Sylvie, Bruguier, Olivier, Hallot, Erwan, Beccaletto, Laurent

“…In the Eastern Pangea intertropical domain (i.e. the present-day Western Europe), the late-Paleozoic (i.e. uppermost Carboniferous–Permian) history remains poorly constrained due to the lack of precise radiometric data. …”
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Development for Probiotics Based Insulin Delivery System by Byung Chull An, Jusung Lee, Hye Yeon Won, Yongku Ryu, Myung Jun Chung

“…Furthermore, insulin-CBT1 induced MIN6 proliferation 1.75-fold more than c-insulin, whereas differentiation and glucose uptake rates by 3T3-L1 were 39% and 15% lower, respectively. …”
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