Clinical and experimental rationale for using phenylephrine with hypromellose for the treatment of extra accommodation strain in patients with myopia by M.V. Makhova, E.V. Shikh, V.V. Strakhov, D.S. Blinov, G.K. Poluosmak, E.V. Semeleva, E.V. Blinova

“…The experimental study was carried out in 40 sexually mature male rabbits of the Soviet Chinchilla breed to evaluate the development and duration of mydriatic effect and to measure the concentration of active ingredient — phenylephrine with hypromellose, as an excipient (Irifrin^® and Irifrin^® BK), phenylephrine without hypromellose (Preparation A) and phenylephrine with sodium hyaluronate as an excipient (Preparation B) in the aqueous humor within the eye anterior chamber using high-performance gas-liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometric detection. </p> <p> <b>Results</b>: the drug therapy of extra accommodation strain comprising 2.5% phenylephrine hydrochloride solution with hypromellose as an excipient (Irifrin^® BK) demonstrated a decrease in severity of extra accommodation strain after 30 days of treatment. …”
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Association between fat-soluble vitamin co-exposure patterns and blood pressure in people with hypertension: a cross-sectional study by Suming Dai, Ping Wang, Sijia Wang, Sijia Wang, Hong Chen, Zhixin Cui, Wenhai Lu, Wenhai Lu, Ziyi Zhou, Ziyi Zhou, Nan Zhang, Zhuo Wang, Tengfei Lin, Tengfei Lin, Yun Song, Yun Song, Lishun Liu, Lishun Liu, Xiao Huang, Ping Chen, Genfu Tang, Yong Duan, Yong Duan, Hao Zhang, Binyan Wang, Binyan Wang, Binyan Wang, Yan Yang, Yan Yang, Yan Yang, Zezhong Tian

“…The plasma concentrations of fat-soluble vitamins (A, E, D, and K) were assessed using liquid chromatography coupled with the mass spectrometry method. Participants were categorized into different co-exposure patterns using the unsupervised K-means clustering method. …”
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Decreased risk of cardiovascular disease mortality associated with occasional positive screens following cancer screenings by Yuting Ji, Yu Zhang, Hongyuan Duan, Xiaomin Liu, Yunmeng Zhang, Zhuowei Feng, Jingjing Li, Zeyu Fan, Ya Liu, Yacong Zhang, Lei Yang, Zhangyan Lyu, Fangfang Song, Fengju Song, Hua Li, Yubei Huang

“…Exploratory analyses indicated a significantly higher proportion of any body mass index (BMI) reduction among those with a baseline BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 who had positive screens compared to the control arm, particularly for individuals with occasional positive screens (48.07% vs. 47.04%, P value = 0.037). …”
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The effect of the number of endometrial CD138+ cells on the pregnancy outcomes of infertile patients in the proliferative phase by Yuye Li, Yuye Li, Shuyi Yu, Shuyi Yu, Wenjuan Liu, Yawen Chen, Xiaobing Yang, Juanhua Wu, Mingjuan Xu, Guanying You, Ruochun Lian, Chunyu Huang, Chunyu Huang, Wanru Chen, Yong Zeng, Yong Zeng, Fenghua Liu, Lianghui Diao

“…Although the 0 and ≥3 positive lesions groups showed a trend toward higher rates of clinical pregnancy (P =0.132), these differences failed to reach statistical significance. After age, body mass index (BMI), and clinical features were adjusted for, the ≥3 positive lesions group showed significantly lower live birth rates (aOR, 1.84; 95%CI, 1.08-3.15; P =0.026), clinical pregnancy (adjusted odds ratio (aOR), 1.78; 95% CI, 1.06-2.95; P =0.028), and ongoing pregnancy (aOR, 1.85; 95% CI, 1.09-3.15; P =0.024). …”
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N6-methyladenosine RNA modification regulates the transcription of SLC7A11 through KDM6B and GATA3 to modulate ferroptosis by Haisheng Zhang, Cheng Yi, Jianing Li, Yunqing Lu, Haoran Wang, Lijun Tao, Jiawang Zhou, Yonghuang Tan, Jiexin Li, Zhuojia Chen, Gholamreza Asadikaram, Jie Cao, Jianxin Peng, Wanglin Li, Junming He, Hongsheng Wang

“…Methods Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS) was used to detect changes in m6A levels in cells. …”
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ATClean: A Novel Method for Detecting Low-luminosity Transients and Application to Pre-explosion Counterparts from SN 2023ixf by S. Rest, A. Rest, C. D. Kilpatrick, J. E. Jencson, S. von Coelln, L. Strolger, S. Smartt, J. P. Anderson, A. Clocchiatti, D. A. Coulter, L. Denneau, S. Gomez, A. Heinze, R. Ridden-Harper, K. W. Smith, B. Stalder, J. L. Tonry, Q. Wang, Y. Zenati

“…We also compare our limits to short-timescale outbursts, similar to those expected for Type IIn SN progenitor stars or the Type II SN 2020tlf, and rule out outburst ejecta masses of >0.021 M _⊙ , much lower than the inferred mass of circumstellar matter around SN 2023ixf in the literature. …”
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The 0ν2β-decay CROSS experiment: preliminary results and prospects by The CROSS collaboration, I. C. Bandac, A. S. Barabash, L. Bergé, M. Brière, C. Bourgeois, P. Carniti, M. Chapellier, M. de Combarieu, I. Dafinei, F. A. Danevich, N. Dosme, D. Doullet, L. Dumoulin, F. Ferri, A. Giuliani, C. Gotti, P. Gras, E. Guerard, A. Ianni, H. Khalife, S. I. Konovalov, E. Legay, P. Loaiza, P. de Marcillac, S. Marnieros, C. A. Marrache-Kikuchi, C. Nones, V. Novati, E. Olivieri, C. Oriol, G. Pessina, D. V. Poda, T. Redon, V. I. Tretyak, V. I. Umatov, M. M. Zarytsky, A. S. Zolotarova

“…This experiment, comprising ∼ 3×1025 nuclei of 100Mo, will be a general test of the CROSS technology as well as a worldwide competitive search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, with sensitivity to the effective Majorana mass down to 70 meV in the most favorable conditions.…”
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Research note: The critical role of the interaction between Eimeria tenella invasion protein RON2 and host receptor annexin A2 in mediating parasite invasion by Junli Ni, Xiangjie Chen, Yunyun Sun, Yibin Zhu, Haiming Cai, Yongle Song, Minna Lv, Juan Li, Shenquan Liao, Nanshan Qi, Mingfei Sun, Jianfei Zhang, Youfang Gu, Xinchao Liu, Xuhui Lin

“…The receptor interacting with the EtRON2 protein was identified through a GST pull-down assay, followed by mass spectrometry, and the interaction was further validated through subcellular co-localization analysis. …”
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UNCOVER: The Rest-ultraviolet to Near-infrared Multiwavelength Structures and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter-detected Galaxies in A2744 by Sedona H. Price, Katherine A. Suess, Christina C. Williams, Rachel Bezanson, Gourav Khullar, Erica J. Nelson, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Seiji Fujimoto, Vasily Kokorev, Jenny E. Greene, Gabriel Brammer, Sam E. Cutler, Pratika Dayal, Lukas J. Furtak, Ivo Labbe, Joel Leja, Tim B. Miller, Themiya Nanayakkara, Richard Pan, Katherine E. Whitaker

“…Excluding the two AGN-dominated objects, the smaller long-wavelength sizes indicate that their rest-frame NIR light profiles, inferred to trace their stellar mass profiles, are more compact than their optical profiles. …”
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WRF-Chem simulations of snow nitrate and other physicochemical properties in northern China by X. Wang, X. Wang, T. Che, T. Che, X. Ruan, S. Yue, S. Yue, J. Wang, J. Wang, C. Zhao, C. Zhao, C. Zhao, L. Geng, L. Geng, L. Geng

“…In general, the model-simulated spatial variability in nitrate mass concentrations in the top snow layer (hereafter NITS) is consistent with observations. …”
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The Mother's Day Geomagnetic Storm on 10 May 2024: Aurora Observations and Low Latitude Space Weather Effects in Mexico by J. A. Gonzalez‐Esparza, E. Sanchez‐Garcia, M. Sergeeva, P. Corona‐Romero, L. X. Gonzalez‐Mendez, J. F. Valdes‐Galicia, E. Aguilar‐Rodriguez, M. Rodriguez‐Martinez, C. Ramirez‐Pacheco, C. I. Castellanos, M. Pazos, B. Mendoza, V. J. Gatica‐Acevedo, A. Melgarejo‐Morales, R. Caraballo, E. Andrade‐Mascote, P. Villanueva‐Hernandez, R. Bonifaz‐Alfonzo, P. Sierra, E. Romero‐Hernandez, I. Peralta‐Mendoza, E. Perez‐Tijerina, J. C. Mejia‐Ambriz, C. Guerrero‐Peña, A. Caccavari, G. Cifuentes‐Nava, E. Hernandez‐Quintero

“…This storm, the most intense since 2003, resulted from a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from active region 3664. The event was significant for space weather studies in Mexico, marking a milestone by enabling comprehensive measurements of its effects. …”
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The Knee-SCHOOL: a brief patient-centered multidisciplinary educational program for knee osteoarthritis by Denise Vianna Machado Ayres, Sabrina Saemy Tome Uchiyama, Andréa Oliveira Prates, Rosana Aparecida Freitas Lopes, Antenor Bispo Santos Silva, Denise Rodrigues Tsukimoto, Rosimeire Alves Amorim, Taynah Souza Ribeiro, Artur Cesar Aquino Santos, André Tadeu Sugawara, André Tadeu Sugawara, Marcos Montagnini, Linamara Rizzo Battistella, Linamara Rizzo Battistella, Marta Imamura, Marta Imamura

“…Study measures included demographic data (age, sex, and educational level), pain duration (years), pain intensity (visual analogue scale), affected knee (right, left, or both knees), comorbidities (presence of hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia), Body Mass Index (BMI), Bristol Stool Scale, Adapted Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), bioelectrical impedance, daytime sleepiness, and the impact of the KOA on pain, symptoms, activities of daily living, recreation, and quality of life. …”
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Pan-tumor analysis to investigate the obesity paradox in immune checkpoint blockade by Evan J Lipson, Ludmila Danilova, Elizabeth M Jaffee, Won Jin Ho, Mark Yarchoan, Yasser Ged, Jean Hoffman-Censits, Jennifer Durham, Sanjay Bansal, Chester Kao, Rajat Mohindra, Stephanie L Alden, Tanguy Y Seiwert, Soren Charmsaz, Howard L Li, Kabeer Munjal, Hua-Ling Tsai, Alexei Hernandez, Erin M Coyne, Rachel Garonce-Hediger, Laura Tang, Marina Baretti, Kathryn Howe, G Scott Chandler, Madelena Brancati, Aanika Warner, Ervin Griffin, Mari Nakazawa, Chris Thoburn, Jennifer Gizzi, Nicole E Gross, Elsa Hallab, Sarah S Shin, Aditi Guha

“…Patients were stratified by obesity status at treatment initiation, with obesity defined as body mass index (BMI)≥30 at treatment initiation and BMI≥18.5 and &lt;30 considered non-obese; underweight patients (BMI&lt;18.5) were excluded. …”
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Progression and mortality of patients with cystic fibrosis in China by Wangji Zhou, Yaqi Wang, Yanli Yang, Yanyan Sun, Chongsheng Cheng, Jinrong Dai, Shuzhen Meng, Keqi Chen, Yang Zhao, Xueqi Liu, Dingding Zhang, Song Liu, Weiguo Zhu, Yaping Liu, Kai-Feng Xu, Xinlun Tian

“…Compared to patients diagnosed with CF in childhood, adult-diagnosed patients exhibit a lower proportion of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (25.0% vs. 77.8%, P = 0.001) and a higher body mass index (19.6 vs. 17.7 kg/m2, P = 0.045). According to the mixed-effects model, for patients ≤ 30 years of age at diagnosis, FEV1% predicted decreased 1.17% per year. …”
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Failure of a Solar Filament Eruption Caused by Magnetic Reconnection with Overlying Coronal Loops by Leping Li, Hongqiang Song, Yijun Hou, Guiping Zhou, Baolin Tan, Kaifan Ji, Yongyuan Xiang, Zhenyong Hou, Yang Guo, Ye Qiu, Yingna Su, Haisheng Ji, Qingmin Zhang, Yudi Ou

“…As a failed eruption, the event is associated with an M4.4 flare but no coronal mass ejection. During the eruption, the filament became bright, and the overlying loops appeared first in the high-temperature channels. …”
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Disruption of tumor-intrinsic PGAM5 increases anti-PD-1 efficacy through the CCL2 signaling pathway by Yan Li, Hong Wang, Xiaoyang Li, Yuan He, Huiquan Liu, Dong Han, Ting Mei, Yixuan Li, Zilong Xu, Xiaoying Wei, Jianguo Wang, Peijie Zhou, Yuwen Wang, Ziye Li, Junhao Ning, Anlin Wang, Jingjing Cheng, Dong Qian

“…Immunofluorescence, chromatin-immunoprecipitation, ELISA, mass spectrometry were conducted to explore the molecular pathway. …”
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New Insights into Duckweed as an Alternative Source of Food and Feed: Key Components and Potential Technological Solutions to Increase Their Digestibility and Bioaccessibility by Krisztina Takács, Rita Végh, Zsuzsanna Mednyánszky, Joseph Haddad, Karim Allaf, Muying Du, Kewei Chen, Jianquan Kan, Tian Cai, Péter Molnár, Péter Bársony, Anita Maczó, Zsolt Zalán, István Dalmadi

“…Duckweed has special properties: It is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world (in freshwater), multiplying its mass in two days, so it can cover a water surface quickly even in filtered sunlight (doubling its biomass in 96 hours). …”
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Toward an integrated pantropical ocean observing system by Gregory R. Foltz, Yassir A. Eddebbar, Janet Sprintall, Antonietta Capotondi, Antonietta Capotondi, Sophie Cravatte, Sophie Cravatte, Peter Brandt, Peter Brandt, Adrienne J. Sutton, Tamaryn Morris, Juliet Hermes, Juliet Hermes, Clive R. McMahon, Michael J. McPhaden, Lev B. Looney, Lev B. Looney, Lev B. Looney, Franz Philip Tuchen, Franz Philip Tuchen, Mathew Koll Roxy, Fan Wang, Fei Chai, Regina R. Rodrigues, Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca, Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca, Aneesh C. Subramanian, Marcus Dengler, Cheyenne Stienbarger, Kathleen Bailey, Weidong Yu

“…Global climate is regulated by the ocean, which stores, releases, and transports large amounts of mass, heat, carbon, and oxygen. Understanding, monitoring, and predicting the exchanges of these quantities across the ocean’s surface, their interactions with the atmosphere, and their horizontal and vertical pathways through the global oceans, are key for advancing fundamental knowledge and improving forecasts and longer-term projections of climate, weather, and ocean ecosystems. …”
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Olanzapine for young PEople with aNorexia nervosa (OPEN): results of a feasibility study by Olena Said, Dominic Stringer, Ece Sengun Filiz, Hiba Mutwalli, Sevgi Bektas, Melahat Nur Akkese, Vanessa Kellermann, Katie Ireland, Elizabeth Tyrrell-Bunge, Demelza Beishon-Murley, Joel W. T. Khor, Lee Allman, Joanna Barker, Nicus Kotze, Ben Carter, Mima Simic, Dilveer Singh Sually, Jessica Bentley, Allan H. Young, Sloane Madden, Sarah Byford, Sabine Landau, Vanessa Lawrence, Janet Treasure, Ulrike Schmidt, Dasha Nicholls, Hubertus Himmerich

“…In addition, two exploratory effect size parameters were estimated: Mean change in body mass index (BMI) and mean change in ED psychopathology. …”
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Stable Isotope Turnover and Fractionation of Different Feed in the Juvenile Scylla paramamosain by Shengping ZHONG, Xiaohui CAI, Jianda SONG, Xujia LIU, Yinhui PENG, Lianghua HUANG, Changzi GE, Guoqiang HUANG

“…The relationship between Δ13C and mass growth rate (MGR, %) followed the formula Δ13C = a × ln(MGR) + b, and the relationship between Δ15N and MGR followed the formula Δ15N = a × ln(MGR) + b, with significant variations in the values of "a" and "b" when consuming different diets. …”
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