Assessment of the Relationship between Diabetic Retinopathy and Nailfold Capillaries in Type 2 Diabetics with a Noninvasive Method: Nailfold Videocapillaroscopy by Seyit Uyar, Ayşe Balkarlı, Muhammet Kazım Erol, Bayram Yeşil, Abdullah Tokuç, Doğan Durmaz, Süheyla Görar, Ayhan Hilmi Çekin

“…Capillaroscopic changes were found to be correlated with diabetic retinopathy, in particular with longer disease duration in our study. Capillaroscopic imaging could be a useful new technique for assessment of diabetic microvascular changes.…”
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FutureMS cohort profile: a Scottish multicentre inception cohort study of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis by David Hunt, Siddharthan Chandran, Peter Connick, Peter Foley, Patrick K A Kearns, Sergio E Baranzini, Adam D Waldman, Sarah J Martin, Elizabeth Freyer, F J Carod-Artal, Lee Murphy, Amy Stenson, Jessie Chang, Rozanna Meijboom, Elizabeth N York, Yingdi Chen, Christine Weaver, Katarzyna Hafezi, Stacey Thomson, Adil Harroud, Margaret McLeod, Jonathon O'Riordan, Niall J J MacDougall

“…There is, therefore, a need for integrated predictive tools to inform individualised treatment decision making.Participants Established with the aim of addressing this need for individualised predictive tools, FutureMS is a nationally representative, prospective observational cohort study of 440 adults with a new diagnosis of relapsing-remitting MS living in Scotland at the time of diagnosis between May 2016 and March 2019.Findings to date The study aims to explore the pathobiology and determinants of disease heterogeneity in MS and combines detailed clinical phenotyping with imaging, genetic and biomarker metrics of disease activity and progression. …”
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Surgical Treatment of Double-Layered Lateral Meniscus by Masataka Ota, Hiroshi Takagi, Shin Kato, Fumiyoshi Kawashima, Koji Kanzaki

“…Plain radiography revealed no abnormal findings, whereas magnetic resonance imaging showed high signal in the posterior segment of the lateral meniscus and an increase in its volume. …”
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Clonal Populations of Amniotic Cells by Dilution and Direct Plating: Evidence for Hidden Diversity by Patricia G. Wilson, Lorna Devkota, Tiffany Payne, Laddie Crisp, Allison Winter, Zhan Wang

“…More than 40 clonal populations were recovered from 4 amniocentesis samples and representative clones were characterized by flow cytometry, conventional assays for differentiation potential, immunofluorescence imaging, and transcript analysis. The results revealed previously unreported diversity among stromal and epithelial cell types and identified unique cell types that could be lost or undetected in mixed cell populations. …”
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A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents by Omar Tayan, Muhammad N. Kabir, Yasser M. Alginahi

“…Such issues were largely addressed in the literature for images, audio, and video, with only a few papers addressing the challenge of sensitive plain-text media under known constraints. …”
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Increase of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Decrease of MCP-1 and Some Updated Epidemiology Aspects of Cystic Echinococcosis Human Cases in Calabria Region by Giovanni Matera, Maria Teresa Loria, Cinzia Peronace, Tatiana Catanzariti, Pio Settembre, Aida Giancotti, Angelo G. Lamberti, Giorgio S. Barreca, Luisa Galati, Gessica Dodaro, Maria Mazzitelli, Alessio Strazzulla, Carlo Torti, Angela Quirino, Maria Carla Liberto, Alfredo Focà

“…Echinococcosis diagnosis was based on imaging, serological investigations, and molecular assay. …”
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Insula Volume and Salience Network Are Associated with Memory Decline in Parkinson Disease: Complementary Analyses of Voxel-Based Morphometry versus Volume of Interest by Yan-Ting Lu, Wen-Neng Chang, Chiung-Chih Chang, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Nai-Ching Chen, Chi-Wei Huang, Wei-Che Lin, Ya-Ting Chang

“…Twenty-three PD-MCI patients were enrolled and underwent cognitive evaluation and 3-dimensional T1-weighted imaging. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to assess brain-behavior correlations and examine the relationship between insula and memory score. …”
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The Properties of Damaged Starch Granules: The Relationship Between Granule Structure and Water–Starch Polymer Interactions by Andrés Gustavo Teobaldi, Esteban Josué Carrillo Parra, Gabriela Noel Barrera, Pablo Daniel Ribotta

“…The appearance of the surface of the starch-damaged granules was rough and flaky (SEM images). Crystallinity reductions were related to higher mechanical damage levels of the granular structure (FT-IR and XRD). …”
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Surgical treatment and outcomes in aortic valve endocarditis and perivalvular abscesses by Ellelan Degife, Alyssa Morrison, Syed Bin Usman Mahmood, Sigurdur Ragnarsson, Andrea Amabile, Roland Assi, Prashanth Vallabjoyshula, Arnar Geirsson

“…One quarter of abscesses were not detected on preoperative imaging. Presence of abscess was a significant predictor of operative mortality. …”
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Supervised contrastive pre-training models for mammography screening by Zhenjie Cao, Zhuo Deng, Zhicheng Yang, Jie Ma, Lan Ma

“…We believe this work is the first to show that supervised contrastive pre-training (SCP) followed by supervised fine-tuning (SF) can outperform the supervised counterpart on these two critical medical imaging tasks.…”
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Massive Subchorionic Thrombohematoma (Breus’ Mole) Associated with Fetal Growth Restriction, Oligohydramnios, and Intrauterine Fetal Death by Miyuki Miyagi, Tadatsugu Kinjo, Keiko Mekaru, Hayase Nitta, Hitoshi Masamoto, Yoichi Aoki

“…Because MST is rare, it must be considered in the differential diagnosis of parental conditions. Magnetic resonance imaging can be optimal for diagnosing MST when ultrasound diagnosis is difficult.…”
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A Comparative Study of Dorsal Buccal Mucosa Graft Substitution Urethroplasty by Dorsal Urethrotomy Approach versus Ventral Sagittal Urethrotomy Approach by Mrinal Pahwa, Sanjeev Gupta, Mayank Pahwa, Brig D. K. Jain, Manu Gupta

“…Eighteen out of twenty patients voided well in each group, and postoperative imaging study in these patients showed a good lumen with no evidence of leak or extravasation. …”
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Case study of a neuroendocrine tumor of uncertain origin: single-cell transcriptomics unravels potential primary location by Frolova Tatyana, Ekaterina Avsievich, Diana Salimgereeva, Zoia Antysheva, Alesia Maluchenko, Denis Maksimov, Ilia Feidorov, Mark Voloshin, Olga Glazova, Natalia Bodunova, Nikolay Karnaukhov, Pavel Volchkov, Julia Krupinova

“…Methods Initial diagnostic methods, including imaging and histopathology, failed to resolve the tumor’s origin. …”
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The effect of focused reappraisal strategies on emotional intensity by Karol J. WILD, Andrei R. COSTEA, Sebastian „ PINTEA, Bianca MACAVEI, Oana Cătălina FODOR, Adrian N. OPRE

“…Based on our experimental design, images from NAPS were used as positive and negative emotional stimuli. …”
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Reduction of intestinal RIPK1 ameliorates HFD-induced metabolic disorders in female mice by Ye Yuan, Xiaomin Hu, Chunguang Guo, Yihua Xu, Shihan Li, Wei Wen, Xinli Hu, Fanxin Zeng, Weiyi Cui, Wenli Chen, Xueting Sun, Ning Hou, Jue Wang, Rui-Ping Xiao, Xiuqin Zhang

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Safety and efficacy of edoxaban monotherapy after bioabsorbable polymer everolimus-eluting stent implantation in a human-like coronary atherosclerotic porcine model by Daisuke Kitano, Suguru Migita, Yuxin Li, Yutaka Koyama, Katsunori Fukumoto, Sayaka Shimodai-Yamada, Akira Onishi, Daiichiro Fuchimoto, Shunichi Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Atsushi Hirayama, Hiroyuki Hao, Yasuo Okumura

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The role of smell in medical and psychological disorders: An interdisciplinary approach by Giuseppe Riva

“…In particular, electrophysiological studies and magnetic resonance imaging, which are very expensive, are emerging as diagnostic and research tools. …”

Age-related changes in brain signal variability in autism spectrum disorder by Priyanka Sigar, Nicholas Kathrein, Elijah Gragas, Lauren Kupis, Lucina Q. Uddin, Jason S. Nomi

“…Methods We conducted a cross-sectional examination of resting-state BSV and its relationship with age and RRBs in a cohort of individuals with Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (n = 351) and typically developing (TD) individuals (n = 402) aged 5–50 years obtained from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange. …”
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Topological Analysis of Brain Glucose Metabolic Connectivity Networks of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Combined with Mild Cognitive Impairment by LIANG Shengxiang, YANG Junchao, ZHANG Yusi, YIN Xiaolong, HUANG Li, LI Zuanfang

“…FDG-PET images were normalised to the Montreal neurological institute (MNI) spatial brain template by SPM 12 software. …”
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Signatures of lower respiratory tract microbiome in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia using shotgun metagenomic sequencing by Ting-Yu Yen, Ching Hsu, Ni-Chung Lee, Chao-Szu Wu, Hsin Wang, Kuan-Yi Lee, Chia-Ray Lin, Chun-Yi Lu, Mo-Li Tsai, Tzu-Yu Liu, Che Lin, Chien-Yu Chen, Luan-Yin Chang, Feipei Lai, Li-Min Huang

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