In Vitro and In Vivo Wound Healing Activity of Astragalus floccosus Boiss. (Fabaceae) by Fatemeh Akbari, Mohammad Azadbakht, Ali Bagheri, Lale Vahedi

“…Histopathological results indicated that congestion, edema, inflammation, necrosis, and angiogenesis decreased during the examination and fibroblast proliferation fibrosis epithelization was increased especially in the RFF group in comparison to the silver sulfadiazine and free groups. …”
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The Role of Genetic and Immune Factors for the Pathogenesis of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis in Childhood by Priscila Menezes Ferri, Ana Cristina Simões e Silva, Soraya Luiza Campos Silva, Diego Junior Queiroga de Aquino, Eleonora Druve Tavares Fagundes, Débora Marques de Miranda, Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira

“…Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare cholestatic liver disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the biliary tree resulting in liver fibrosis. PSC is more common in male less than 40 years of age. …”
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Isolation, Culture, and Characterization of Primary Kidney Fibroblasts from Human Patients with Chronic Antibody-mediated Kidney Transplant Rejection by Mantabya Kumar Singh, Mohit Kumar Rai, Vikas Agarwal, Narayan Prasad

“…Background: Inflammation and fibrosis are the primary occurrences of chronic antibody-mediated rejection (CABMR) in kidney transplant patients. …”
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Fatal Hemoptysis due to Chronic Cavitary Pulmonary Aspergillosis Complicated by Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Tuberculosis by Ioannis Kokkonouzis, Ioannis Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos Doulgerakis, Grigorios Tsonis, Ioannis Lampaditis, Nikolaos Saridis, Vasilios Skoufaras

“…A CT scan revealed multiple consolidations, fibrosis, scaring, and cavitary lesions in both upper lobes with newly shadows which were fungus balls inside them. …”
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Awareness and attitudes of pregnant women concerning genetic disorders and pregnancy termination in northeastern Iran by Nafiseh Todarbary, Abouzar Irandegani, Mojtaba Meshkat, Aida Gholoobi, Tayebeh Hamzehloei

“…Education level was associated with abortion agreement for various conditions, including cleft lip or palate, Alzheimer’s disease, Turner syndrome, cystic fibrosis, phenylketonuria, Huntington’s disease, autism, fragile X syndrome, and epilepsy. …”
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Renal Protection by Genetic Deletion of the Atypical Chemokine Receptor ACKR2 in Diabetic OVE Mice by Shirong Zheng, Susan Coventry, Lu Cai, David W. Powell, Venkatakrishna R. Jala, Bodduluri Haribabu, Paul N. Epstein

“…ACKR2 deletion did not affect diabetic blood glucose levels but significantly decreased parameters of renal inflammation including leukocyte infiltration and fibrosis. Activation of pathways that increase inflammatory gene expression was attenuated. …”
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Assessment of Suspected Breast Lesions in Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer during Follow-Up after Breast-Conserving Surgery Using Multiparametric MRI by Lamiss Mohamed Abd El Aziz Sad, Naglaa Lofty Dabees, Dareen Abd El-Aziz Mohamed, Amr Tageldin, Samar Galal Younis

“…The aim of this study was at investigating the role of dynamic and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during follow-up after BCS and radiotherapy with/without chemotherapy to differentiate between locoregional recurrence and postoperative fibrosis. Patients and Methods. This prospective study was conducted at the oncology, radiology, and pathology departments, Tanta University. …”
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Platelet Counts and Liver Enzymes after Bariatric Surgery by Hans-Erik Johansson, Arvo Haenni, Björn Zethelius

“…Increased platelet counts (PCs) are associated with inflammatory conditions and are a valuable biomarker of the degree of fibrosis in NAFLD. We investigated alterations in PC, GGT, and ALT after biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD-DS) and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP). …”
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Effects of Renal Denervation on Ouabain-Induced Hypertension in Rats by Minna Tang, Jialu Hu, Wenshu Li, Ningzhi Zhang, Sisi Ning, Yan Yan, Zhaoqiang Cui

“…Masson staining and echocardiography showed that myocardial fibrosis and increased left ventricular mass in the ouabain group could be attenuated by RDN. …”
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Does the Intensity of IGG4 Immunostaining Have a Correlation with the Clinical Presentation of Riedel’s Thyroiditis? by C. A. Simões, M. R. Tavares, N. M. M. Andrade, T. M. Uehara, R. A. Dedivitis, C. R. Cernea

“…Riedel’s thyroiditis (RT) represents one type of IgG4-related thyroid disease (IgG4RTD) and the diagnosis involves quantitative immunohistochemistry showing dense lymphoplasmacellular inflammatory infiltrate consisting of IgG4-positive plasma cells with storiform fibrosis and obliterative phlebitis. We report a case of RT with progressive enlargement of the anterior neck, severe dysphagia, odynophagia, and dyspnea. …”
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Iron and ferroptosis in kidney disease: molecular and metabolic mechanisms by Wenjie Wang, Jingdi Chen, Liying Zhan, Handong Zou, Lu Wang, Mengmeng Guo, Hang Gao, Jing Xu, Wei Wu

“…Over the past decade, ferroptosis’ role in mediating the development and progression of renal disorders, such as acute kidney injury (renal ischemia-reperfusion injury, drug-induced acute kidney injury, severe acute pancreatitis induced acute kidney injury and sepsis-associated acute kidney injury), chronic kidney disease (diabetic nephropathy, renal fibrosis, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease) and renal cell carcinoma, has come into focus. …”
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Histopathologic evaluation of wooden breast and white striping myopathy in different broiler genotypes using light microscopy and image analysis by Zehra Avci-Kupeli, Erdem Caglar-Kupeli, Metin Petek

“…In the evaluation of histopathological lesions, the highest fibrosis scores were observed in the Cobb genotype (0.86), the highest mononuclear inflammatory cell infiltration scores in the Ross genotype (2.25), the highest lipidosis scores in the Anadolu–T genotype (3.22), and the highest degeneration scores in the Cobb genotype (3) (P>0.05). …”
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Proteome-wide mendelian randomization identifies causal plasma proteins in interstitial lung disease by Kunrong Yu, Wanying Li, Wenjie Long, Yijia Li, Yanting Li, Huili Liao, Jianhong Liu

“…Abstract Interstitial lung disease (ILD) has shown limited treatment advancements, with minimal exploration of circulating protein biomarkers causally linked to ILD and its subtypes beyond idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). In this study, we aimed to identify potential drug targets and circulating protein biomarkers for ILD and its subtypes. …”
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A Case of Abdominal Aortic Retroperitoneal and Mesenteric Amyloid Light Chain Amyloidoma by Kazuhiro Yokota, Dai Kishida, Hidekazu Kayano, Masahide Yazaki, Yuki Shimada, Yuji Akiyama, Toshihide Mimura

“…The patient was clinically diagnosed with retroperitoneal fibrosis, and prednisolone was administered at a dose of 40 mg/day. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Interstitial Lung Disease Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure Admitted to the ICU by Sourabh Pahuja, Milta Kuriakose, Satyam Agarwal, Pradeep Bajad, Arjun Khanna, Deepak Talwar

“…The mean hospital stay time was considerably higher in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and in patients with Type 2 respiratory failure. …”
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Actinomycotic Osteomyelitis of Maxilla Presenting as Oroantral Fistula: A Rare Case Report by Ashalata Gannepalli, Bhargavi Krishna Ayinampudi, Pacha Venkat Baghirath, G. Venkateshwara Reddy

“…These are normal commensals and become pathogens when they gain entry into tissue layers and bone where they establish and maintain an anaerobic environment with extensive sclerosis and fibrosis. This infection spreads contiguously, frequently ignoring tissue planes and surrounding tissues or organ. …”
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Airway basal stem cell therapy for lung diseases: an emerging regenerative medicine strategy by Xingren Liu, Xin Wang, Xue Wu, Shuhua Zhan, Yan Yang, Caiyu Jiang

“…Airway BSCs, which are strongly capable of self-renewal and multi-lineage differentiation, can effectively attenuate airway epithelial injury caused by environmental factors or genetic disorders, such as cystic fibrosis. This review comprehensively explores the efficacy and action mechanisms of airway BSCs across various lung disease models and describes potential strategies for inducing pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into pulmonary epithelial lineages on the basis of the original research findings. …”
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The Efficacy and Mechanism of Chinese Herbal Medicine on Diabetic Kidney Disease by Zhenzhen Lu, Yifei Zhong, Wangyi Liu, Ling Xiang, Yueyi Deng

“…The pathological features of DKD are the hypertrophy of mesangial cells, apoptosis of podocytes, glomerular basement membrane (GBM) thickening, accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM), glomerular sclerosis, and tubulointerstitial fibrosis. The etiology of DKD is very complicated and many factors are involved, such as genetic factors, hyperglycemia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, abnormalities of renal hemodynamics, and metabolism of vasoactive substances. …”
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Exfoliated Oral Mucosal Cell Micronucleus Frequency Evaluation in Healthy Individuals, Tobacco Users, and Patients with Potentially Malignant Disorders: An Analytical Comparative S... by V Kranthi, S Shylaja, Pallavi Kandi, Mohammed Abidullah, Neeharika Soorneedi, Tummakomma P. Latha

“…Materials and Procedures: The study included 80 participants divided into four groups: healthy persons, tobacco users without any clinically noticeable oral lesions, patients with leukoplakia, and patients with oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF). Each group included 20 participants. …”
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Therapeutic anti-inflammatory immune potentials of some seaweeds extracts on chemically induced liver injury in mice by Eman Bases, Mostafa M. El-Sheekh, Shimaa M. El Shafay, Rania El-shenody, Mohamed Nassef

“…Pre- and post-treatment of CCL4/mice with the P. pavonia and J. rubens extracts ameliorated the liver damages caused by CCl4 and significantly inhibited the necrotic area, indicating hepatic cell death and decreased periportal hepatic degeneration, fibrosis, and inflammation.…”
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