Analytical Accuracy of a Continuous Glucose Monitor in Adult Diabetic KetoacidosisTake-Home Points by Nathan L. Haas, MD, Lynn Ang, MD, Nazanene H. Esfandiari, MD, Ahsan M. Khan, MBBS, James A. Cranford, PhD, Ashley Cohen, MD, Jordan Sell, MD, Mostafa Abdel-Hamid, MD, Kevin E. Romanchik, BSN, RN, Frederick K. Korley, MD, PhD

“…Study Design and Methods: This was a prospective observational study at a single academic medical center emergency department. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of metabolomics and transcriptomics reveals varied tepal pigmentation across Gloriosa varieties by Yue Sun, Pinli Hu, Yanan Jiang, Zhenzhen Wang, Jiaxing Chang, Yiwei Zhou, Haojing Shao

“…Metabolomic analysis identified 50 carotenoids and 60 anthocyanins. It was observed that carotenoids primarily influence the yellow and orange color of Gloriosa tepals, with β-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin being the predominant carotenoids. …”
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A Regional Gravimetric and Hybrid Geoid Model in Northern Greece from Dedicated Gravity Campaigns by Georgios S. Vergos, Dimitrios A. Natsiopoulos, Elisavet G. Mamagiannou, Eleni A. Tzanou, Anastasia I. Triantafyllou, Ilias N. Tziavos, Dimitrios Ramnalis, Vassilios Polychronos

“…The scope was to determine a hybrid geoid model, tailored to the area and GNSS/leveling data, which will be the one used for the direct estimation of high-accuracy orthometric heights from GNSS observations. After the deterministic fit, a std to the GNSS/leveling data of 10.1 cm has been achieved, with 54.8% and 83.1% of the absolute height differences being below the 1 cm and 2 cm per square root km of baseline length. …”
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Soil phosphorus mobilization as affected by long-term organic fertilization in a tropical Regosol by Kalline De Almeida Alves Carneiro, Tancredo Augusto Feitosa De Souza, Gislaine Dos Santos Nascimento, Vânia Da Silva Fraga, Bruno de Oliveira Dias

“…Conclusion: The highest soil pH (8.01), soil P content by different extractors (P mehlich-1, P water, and P resin were 54.45, 14.36, and, 38.70 mg/kg, respectively), and soil P loss (128.83 mg/kg) were observed with the long-term non-fertilization system. …”
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Protein kinases MpkA and SepH transduce crosstalk between CWI and SIN pathways to activate protective hyphal septation under echinocandin cell wall stress by Alexander G. Doan, Jessica E. Schafer, Casey M. Douglas, Matthew S. Quintanilla, Meredith E. Morse, Harley Edwards, Walker D. Huso, Kelsey J. Gray, JungHun Lee, Joshua K. Dayie, Steven D. Harris, Mark R. Marten

“…The echinocandin micafungin, an inhibitor of β-(1,3)-glucan synthase, was employed to induce this stress. We observed a strong positive correlation between micafungin treatment and septum density in wild-type strains. …”
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Biofilm-Forming Ability in ESBL-Producing and Non-ESBL-Producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> Isolated from Canine Urinary... by Alessia Facchin, Joel Filipe, Irene Mauri, Filippo Tagliasacchi, Guido Grilli, Tiziana Vitiello, Gabriele Ratti, Laura Musa, Martina Penati, Paola Scarpa, Stefania Lauzi

“…Biofilm-forming capacity was observed in 23 (67.6%) isolates, regardless of bacterial species, including 20 weakly and 3 moderately adherent bacteria. …”
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Pre-pandemic cross-reactive antibody and cellular responses against SARS-CoV-2 among female sex workers in Dakar, Senegal by Bobby Brooke Herrera, Bobby Brooke Herrera, Bobby Brooke Herrera, Bobby Brooke Herrera, Beth Chaplin, Souleymane MBoup, Adam Abdullahi, Adam Abdullahi, Michelle He, Sydney M. Fisher, Sulaimon Akanmu, Charlotte A. Chang, Donald J. Hamel, Ravindra K. Gupta, Ravindra K. Gupta, Phyllis J. Kanki

“…For antibody-reactive plasma, paired peripheral blood mononuclear cells were stimulated by fusion proteins and IFN-γ cellular responses were assessed via ELISPOT.ResultsWe observed substantial levels of pre-existing cross-reactive immunity to SARS-CoV-2, stemming from prior exposure to seasonal hCoVs. …”
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NEAT1 regulates BMSCs aging through disruption of FGF2 nuclear transport by Zifei Wang, Wenyu Zhen, Qing Wang, Yuqiang Sun, Siyu Jin, Sensen Yu, Xing Wu, Wenhao Zhang, Yulong Zhang, Fei Xu, Rui Wang, Yuxuan Xie, Wansu Sun, Jianguang Xu, Hengguo Zhang

“…NEAT1 expression and distribution changes during aging process were observed using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in young (3 months) and aged (18 months) mice or human BMSCs. …”
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Impact of intermediate-dose tertiary prophylaxis on quality of life and psychological aspects of adult patients with severe/moderate hemophilia A by Hua Gao, Jia Liu, Shiqiu Zhou, Jing Gao, Jing Tan, Rong Chen

“…Significant correlations were observed for HAEMO-QoL-A with functional independence (P < 0.001), mood and emotions with age (P = 0.032), PHQ-9 scores with knee joint rehabilitation scores (P = 0.047), and GAD-7 scores with treatment experience and ankle joint rehabilitation scores (P = 0.029, P = 0.039).Conclusion Intermediate-dose tertiary prophylaxis with rhFVIII can improve quality of life but not relieve anxiety and depression in adults with severe/moderate hemophilia A. …”
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Micronutrient dose response (MiNDR) study among women of reproductive age and pregnant women in rural Bangladesh: study protocol for double-blind, randomised, controlled trials by Tahmeed Ahmed, Hasmot Ali, Michael Rosenblum, Daniel J Erchick, Towfida Jahan Siddiqua, Rezwanul Haque, Parul Christian, Sarah Baker, Eleonor Zavala, Kerry J Schulze, SM Tafsir Hasan, Khalid Bin Ahsan, Sulagna Bandyopadhyay, Hasan Mahmud Sujan, Md. Hafizur Rahman, Katherine K Stephenson, Ximing Ge, Ethan K Gough, Brooke Langevin, Lee Shu Fune Wu, Brian Dyer, Anjan Kumar Roy, Mohammad Jubair, Amena Al Nishan, Mathangi Gopalakrishnan, Klaus Kraemer

“…Supplement consumption is directly observed by study staff and weekly side effects and adverse events are monitored. …”
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Evaluation of host immune responses to Mycobacteriophage Fionnbharth by route of delivery by Thomas Smytheman, Tiffany Pecor, Dana E. Miller, Debora Ferede, Suhavi Kaur, Matthew H. Harband, Hazem F. M. Abdelaal, Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante, Krista G. Freeman, Whitney E. Harrington, Lisa M. Frenkel, Graham F. Hatfull, Rhea N. Coler, Sasha E. Larsen

“…To determine whether pre-treatment environmental exposure to Fionnbharth-like phages could induce antibody responses that are potentially neutralizing, ~ 500 human plasma samples from normal donors were evaluated by ELISA. We observed that 5% of samples had antibodies to Fionnbharth (with end point titers > 10− 3 dilution), although none were neutralizing. …”
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Both light and soil moisture affect the rhizosphere microecology in two oak species by Jinshuo Lian, Keke Cai, Aijing Yin, Yuan Yuan, Xinna Zhang, Chengyang Xu

“…Significant differences were observed in the composition of microorganisms and types of fungi in the rhizosphere soil of the two Quercus seedlings. …”
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Association between forced expiratory volume in 1 s and relapse-free survival in operable non-small cell lung cancer: a prospective cohort study with propensity score overlap weigh... by Jing Cheng, Yang Du, Karl Sylvester, Shaoping Wu, Suixin Liu, Yaoshan Dun, Baiyang You, Siqian Fu, Ning Xu, Jeffrey William Ripley-Gonzalez, Ni Cui

“…Objectives Investigate the correlation between the percentage of predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1%pred) and survival outcomes, namely relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS), in patients diagnosed with operable early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Design Prospective observational study.Setting Clinical settings in Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan, China.Participants From November 2014 to December 2019, 775 operable patients with NSCLC, median age 58 years (IQR 13) with 40.6% women, were consecutively enrolled and underwent preoperative FEV1 assessment. …”
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Early assessment of IL8 and PD1+ Treg predicts response and guides treatment monitoring in cemiplimab-treated cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma by Teresa Troiani, Fabiana Napolitano, Luigi Formisano, Roberto Bianco, Daniela Russo, Daniela Esposito, Giuseppe Ercolano, Angela Ianaro, Alberto Servetto, Daniela Claudia Maresca, Marcella Scala, Annarita Amato, Stefania Belli, Claudia Maria Ascione, Angela Vallefuoco, Giovanna Attanasio, Fabio Somma, Silvia Varricchio, Massimo Mascolo, Claudia Costa, Alessia Villani, Massimiliano Scalvenzi, Gianfranco Orlandino

“…Similar to tissue findings, no changes were observed in the whole T regulatory (Treg) population, although PD1+ Tregs, which were downregulated in responder patients (vs T0), showed a rebound enrichment in non-responders after three cycles of cemiplimab. …”
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Radiological abnormalities persist following COVID-19 and correlate with impaired health-related quality of life: a prospective cohort study of hospitalised patients by Rhian M Touyz, Ninian N Lang, Kevin G Blyth, Naveed Sattar, Patrick B Mark, Stefan Siebert, Colin Berry, Iain McInnes, Giles Roditi, Neil Basu, David Corcoran, Kenneth Mangion, Alex McConnachie, David Carrick, Jaclyn Carberry, Stuart Watkins, Paul Welsh, Sabrina Nordin, Katherine Scott, Christian Delles, Bernard Kelly, Fraser Goldie, John GF Cleland, Sharon Kean, Peter Kellman, David J Lowe, Andrew J Morrow, Antonia Ho, Rosemary Woodward, Tracey Hopkins, Ryan Wereski, Massimo Palmarini, Alasdair McIntosh, Campbell Rogers, Ammani Brown, Catherine Bagot, Kathryn Scott, Robert Sykes, Colin Church, Claire Rooney, Nicola Ryan, Clare Orange, Dirk Husmeier, Xiaoyu Luo, PETER W MACFARLANE, Heerajnarain Bulluck, Iain Findlay, Evonne McLennan, Michael Briscoe, Oliver Peck, Alastair J Rankin, Gruschen Veldtman, Varun Sharma, Kathryn McLaren, Elaine Butler, Sarah Mullen, Andrew Morrow, Patrick Mark, Daniel Doherty, Alexander Payne, Jennifer S Lees, Kaitlin J Mayne, Louise Inglis, Anna Kamdar, Hannah Bayes, Vivienne B Gibson, Lynsey Gillespie, Douglas Grieve, Pauline Hall Barrientos, Christopher McGinley, Connor Mckee, Sarah Allwood-Spiers, Sarah Weeden, Laura Knox, Lynn Abel, David Stobo, Andrew Dougherty, Liam Peng, David Barrie Stobo, Sylvia Wright, Stephen Dobbin, Keith Gillis, Sarah A Spiers, Ian Fergus, Kirsty Fallon, Lesley Gilmour, Chloe Cowan, Jurgen Van-Melckebeke, Kim Moran-Jones, Debra Stuart, Maureen Travers, Laura Dymock, Fiona Savage, Nicola Tynan, Sau Lee Chang, Mhairi Dupre, Lindsey Norton, George Bruce, Rosario Gonzalez-Lopez, Rebecca Stace, Dionne Russell, Jean Watt, Shahid Latif, Nick Hill, Amy Collinsworth, Ross McGeoch Vera Lennie, Robin P Weir

“…We present a prospective, observational, multicentre cohort study using multimodality imaging to describe the pulmonary sequelae of patients hospitalised with COVID-19, predictors of persistent abnormal radiology and implications on health status.Methods In survivors of COVID-19, we performed convalescent CT pulmonary angiogram and high-resolution CT imaging as part of the CISCO-19 study (ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT04403607). …”
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Assessment of photoreceptor recovery and visual function utilizing adaptive optics and microperimetry in patients with surgically closed macular holes by Yuanyuan Liu, Xueli Yang, Wei Zhou, Jinguo Yu, Song Chen, Tiangeng He, Caiyun You, Xiangda Meng, Mengyu Liao, Yi Lei, Hua Yan

“…Methods: We conducted a retrospective observational study of 31 eyes of 28 patients who underwent vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling to treat idiopathic MHs. …”
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Investigating intra‐tumoural heterogeneity and microenvironment diversity in primary cardiac angiosarcoma through single‐cell RNA sequencing by Jingyuan Huo, Zhen Wang, Wenting Zhao, Miao Chen, Haoyang Li, Fengpu He, Xiao Tian, Yaqi Ma, Firyuza Husanova, Liang Ma, Yiming Ni, Hongda Ding, Weidong Li, Hongfei Xu

“…T‐cell subset analysis showed exhausted antigen‐specific T‐cells, complicating the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade. Furthermore, we observed suppressive macrophages (SPP1+ and OLR1+) and reduced mitochondrial gene MT‐RNR2 (MTRNR2L12) expression in TME‐infiltrating cells, indicating impaired mitochondrial function. …”
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The efficacy of sodium-glucose transporter 2 inhibitors in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Hongsheng Li, Yanli Hou, Wenyong Xin, Lina Ding, Ying Yang, Yikun Zhang, Wenqi Wu, Zhibin Wang, Wenyu Ding

“…However, no significant changes in total cholesterol (TC) or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) were observed. The meta-analysis revealed a beneficial effect of SGLT-2 inhibitors on liver functions and body weight, BMI, TG, HDL-C, and glucose homeostasis in patients with NAFLD, indicating that SGLT-2 inhibitors might be a clinical therapeutic strategy for these patients, especially individuals with concurrent type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).…”
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Biochemical recurrence prediction after robot-assited radical prostatectomy (BCR-PRARP) by Tanan Bejrananda, Kiyoshi Takahara, Dutsadee Sowanthip, Tomonari Motonaga, Kota Yagi, Wataru Nakamura, Masanobu Saruta, Takuhisa Nukaya, Masashi Takenaka, Kenji Zennami, Manabu Ichino, Hitomi Sasaki, Makoto Sumitomo, Ryoichi Shiroki

“…Results: A total of 161 instances of BCR were observed during a median follow-up of 61.0 months (range, 12–162 months). …”
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Fusarium Head Blight in Argentina, a Profile of Produced Mycotoxins and a Biocontrol Strategy in Barley During Micro-Malting Process by María Silvina Alaniz-Zanon, Marianela Bossa, Lorenzo Antonio Rosales Cavaglieri, Juan Manuel Palazzini, Michael Sulyok, Sofía Noemí Chulze, María Laura Chiotta

“…Reduction in DON contamination (69.3–100%) in artificially infected grains with <i>F. graminearum</i> ss, was also observed. The present work contributes to the knowledge of FHB in Argentina and to the development of a strategy to control this disease and mycotoxin contamination in barley, promoting at the same time food security.…”
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