Effect of different dietary oil sources on the performance, egg quality and antioxidant capacity during the late laying period by Mengmeng Xu, Le Liu, Zongze Fan, Lizhu Niu, Wenxi Ning, He Cheng, Mengyun Li, Wenying Huo, Pan Zhou, Hongyu Deng, Wen Chen, Long Che

“…A total of 360 70-week-old Jinghong laying hens were randomly assigned to four groups of six replicates each, with 15 chickens per replicate. …”
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Effects of a Meal Replacement on Body Composition and Metabolic Parameters among Subjects with Overweight or Obesity by Xiaohui Guo, Yifan Xu, Hairong He, Hao Cai, Jianfen Zhang, Yibin Li, Xinyu Yan, Man Zhang, Na Zhang, Rolando L. Maddela, Jessie Nicodemus-Johnson, Guansheng Ma

“…The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of meal replacement, specifically 388 kcal in total energy, on body composition and metabolic parameters in individuals with overweight and obesity from a Chinese population. A parallel, randomized controlled trial was performed with 174 participants (ChiCTR-OOC-17012000). …”
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Comparative safety and effectiveness of cryoballoon versus radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Muhammad Furqan, Ifrah Inbisat Raza, Shaheera Younus, Hareer Fatima, Hiba Azhar, Sania Kaneez Fatima, Laiba Ali, Sara Khan, Aayat Ellahi

“…Methods This study compared the safety and effectiveness of CBA and RFCA for the treatment of AF using a thorough review of randomized controlled trials up until June 1, 2023. …”
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Augmenting neurocognitive remediation therapy to Preventive Cognitive Therapy for partially remitted depressed patients: protocol of a pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled t... by Huibert Burger, Claudi Bockting, Marlies Brouwer, Gert J Geurtsen, Amanda M Legemaat, Johanne G J van der Stappen, Maria Semkovska, Isidoor O Bergfeld, Nicoline Lous, Damiaan A J P Denys

“…Participants will be randomly allocated to PCT with oNCRT, or PCT only. …”
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Comparison of efficacy and safety of thrombus prevention strategies after abdominal and pelvic cancer surgery: Bayesian network based meta-analysis by Shiran Qin, Shiran Qin, Sitong Guo, Yucheng Yao, Yucheng Yao, Ying He, Dandan Xu, Dandan Xu, Henghai Su, Xiaoyu Chen, Haoru Meng

“…However, there is insufficient evidence supporting the choice of anticoagulation strategies.MethodsWe searched PubMed, The Cochrane Library, Embase, and Web of Science for randomized controlled trials from inception to January 2024. …”
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Reducing the dietary starch:protein ratios in low-protein diets enhanced the growth performance of goslings from 1 to 28 days of age by Xucheng Zheng, Qian Lu, Chunhui Huang, Usman Nazir, Zhi Yang, Haiming Yang, Zhiyue Wang

“…A total of 360 male 1-day-old Jiangnan White goslings were randomly divided into 6 groups with six replicates containing ten goslings each. …”
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Effect of electroacupuncture on discomfort in patients undergoing colonoscopy: protocol for a multicentre, randomised, controlled clinical trial by Chao Lin, Wenting Chen, Yue Yong, Jiangang Song, Xiangyu Sun, Yongqiang Wang, Liyue Lu, Chunchun Wang, Kuangdi Xu

“…A total of 500 participants will be randomly assigned to either the EA group or sham EA (SEA) group, in a 1:1 ratio. …”
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Preventive Effects of Intrauterine Injection of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Conditioned Media on Uterine Fibrosis Immediately after Endometrial Curettage in Rabbit by Sanaz Bazoobandi, Nader Tanideh, Farhad Rahmanifar, Shahrokh Zare, Omid Koohi-Hosseinabadi, Iman Razeghian-Jahromi, Mehdi Dianatpour, Masoumeh Ahmadi, Arezoo Khoradmehr, Iraj Nabipour, Zahra Khodabandeh, Amin Tamadon

“…Excised uteri of each of the 12 female rabbits were randomly divided into four groups of intact negative control, curettage positive control, BM-MSC injection, and BM-MSC-CM injection in the way that two corresponding uteri from a rabbit were allocated to different groups. …”
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Impact of Soybean Bioactive Peptides on Growth, Lipid Metabolism, Antioxidant Ability, Molecular Responses, and Gut Microbiota of Oriental River Prawn (<i>Macrobrachium nipponense<... by Chang Yang, Bo Liu, Liangkun Pan, Dong Xia, Cunxin Sun, Xiaochuan Zheng, Peng Chen, He Hu, Qunlan Zhou

“…The prawns (initial biomass per tank 17 g) were randomly divided into three groups with four replicates. …”
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Water Management of Arabica Coffee Seedlings Cultivated with a Hydroretentive Polymer by Mateus Oliveira Silva, Vanessa Reniele Souza de Arruda, Francisco Raylan Sousa Barbosa, Michel Wakim Mendes Firmino, Adriene Woods Pedrosa, Fernando França da Cunha

“…This study was conducted in a protected environment using a randomized block design with split plots and four replicates. …”
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The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) Guidelines and Consensus on the Definition, Current Evidence, Clinical Use and Future Applications for Physiologic Closed-Loop... by Pope JE, Deer TR, Sayed D, Antony AB, Bhandal HS, Calodney AK, Chakravarthy K, Costandi S, Diep J, Durbhakula S, Fishman MA, Gilligan C, Goree JH, Guirguis M, Hagedorn JM, Hunter CW, Kallewaard JW, Kapural L, Lam CM, Li S, Mayrsohn B, Nijhuis H, Nikolic S, Petersen EA, Poree LR, Puri SK, Reece DE, Rosen SM, Russo MA, Shah JM, Staats PS, Verrills P, Vu CM, Levy RM, Mekhail N

“…Included manuscripts encompassed meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), prospective or retrospective studies with follow-up to 12 months, limited to the English language. …”
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Effects of Conditioning Temperature on Pellet Quality, Nutrients Digestibility, and Metabolizable Energy of Broilers Diet by Seyedeh Vajiheh Shakhese Emampour, Abolghasem Golian, Heydar Zarghi, Ali Reza Hesabi Nameghi

“…The diet was prepared according to the experimental design, using a completely randomized design (CRD) with 11 treatments and 5 replicates per treatment. …”
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Analysis of Metabolic Risk Factors for Microcirculation Disorders Post-Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Predictive Model Construction: A Study on Patients with Unstable Angin... by Kangming Li, Shuang Liu, Jing Wang, Zhen Liu, Chunmei Qi

“…The total sample was randomly split into a 7:3 ratio for the training and validation sets. …”
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Principles of effective out-patient diagnostics of diffuse liver diseases by Komova A. G., M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Overall 5000 Moscow inhabitants age 18 to 75 years, chosen randomly within the «the liver check up» project, have been included in prospective population study. …”
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The effects of acute and chronic exercise on immune markers of TH1/TH2 cells in older adults: a systematic review by Thiago Henrique Teodoro, Katerine Palharini Manfrin Costa, Jonato Prestes, José Campanholi, James Navalta, Guilherme Borges Pereira

“…This review investigates the impact of acute and chronic exercise on immune markers of Th1 and Th2 cells in the older adults.MethodsThis study was conducted as a systematic review, following PRISMA guidelines, databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Science Direct, and Scopus were searched until March 2024, identifying randomized controlled trials and prospective observational studies that examined the effects of acute and chronic exercise on intracellular and surface markers, cytokines, and immunoglobulins in older adults. …”
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Evaluation of the rainfed and irrigated conditions on biomass and essential oil yield of German chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla) in response to melatonin foliar application by Hossein Gorgini Shabankareh, Mohammad Reza Asgharipour, Ali Salehi Sardoei, Ahmad Reza Kamaliun, Hamid Mohammadi, Mansour Ghorbanpour

“…The research was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three replications during the 2022–2023 period. …”
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Effect of Extracorporeal Shock Wave combined with Occupational Therapy on Forearm Pronation Disorder in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy by Hezeng LIU, Yong ZHAO, Bingxu JIN, Chuntao ZHANG, Yang YANG, Miaotao WU, Xiaoli WANG, Jixiang CHENG

“…Objective:To observe the effect of extracorporeal shock wave combined with occupational therapy therapy on forearm pronation disorder in children with spastic cerebral palsy(SCP).Methods:A total of 42 children with SCP were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group, with 21 cases in each group in the children rehabilitation department of the affiliated Nanhai maternity and children's Hospital of Guangzhou university of traditional Chinese medicine from January to December 2019.The control group was given targeted occupational therapy, including upper limb forearm pronator stretching therapy, neurophysiological therapy(Bobath technology), proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation therapy(PNF); game type occupational training including placing objects in forearm supination position, supination grasping stick, supination fetching game, palm and back game, etc..The above training was conducted once a day, 30 minutes per time, six times a week, three months as a course of treatment, continuous treatment for two courses.The observation group was given extracorporeal shock wave therapy on the basis of the control group.The child with SCP was in a comfortable position and the forearms of the upper limbs were placed on the plane so that it could free its own gravity.The abdomen of pronator teres muscle was impacted with the probe of shock wave therapeutic instrument(pressure intensity: 1.0-1.5 bar;frequency: 8-10 Hz;impact times: 1 000-2 000 times).Three to five minutes each time, once every three days, twice a week, three months as a course of treatment, continuous treatment for two courses.Before treatment, after treatment for three months and six months, the modified Ashworth scale(MAS)was used to evaluate the spasticity of forearm pronator muscles;the active range of motion(AROM)of forearm supination was measured by joint range of motion protractor;and the fine motor quotient(FMQ)of hands was evaluated by Peabody development motor scale-fine motor(PDMS-FM).Results:Before treatment, there was no significant difference in MAS score, AROM angle and FMQ score between two groups(<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05).Compared with before treatment, the MAS scores of the two groups decreased significantly after treatment for three and six months, and the AROM angle and FMQ score increased significantly, the difference was statistically significant(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Compared with the control group at the same time after treatment, MAS score of the observation group was significantly lower, AROM angle and FMQ score were significantly higher, the difference was statistically significant(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Extracorporeal shock wave combined with occupational therapy therapy can effectively improve the degree of upper limb spasticity and forearm supination joint activity in children with spastic cerebral palsy, and improve the fine motor function of hands.…”
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The Impact of p53 and Ki67 Expression in Endometrial Cancer and its Effect on Survival by Zekiye Sahin, Burak Bayraktar, Tugba Karadeniz, Muzaffer Sanci

“…The results of this study pave the way for new studies: however, randomized controlled prospective and multi-center studies are needed for immunohistochemical measures to be used as a parameter. …”
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Body weight gain and development of reproductive tract in crossbred Murrah × Mediterranean water buffalo heifers by Oswaldo J. González, Amílcar Acuña, Solaine Bradley, Ysis Cañizalez, Jorge Espinoza, Cindy Paniagua, María Virginia Suárez, Mónica Fuentes

“…The buffalo heifers (middle age: 710 days old and middleweight: 237 Kg) were randomly assigned to one of two treatments for 174 days. …”
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A cross-study analysis of the effect of a dual-strain probiotic applied via the waterline on the growth performance and gut health of broilers under a mild necrotic enteritis chall... by S.A.S. van der Klein, M. Bernardeau, Q. Wang, K. Gibbs

“…In each, 1,440 broilers were assigned to floor-pens (40 birds/pen, 12 pens/treatment) in a completely randomized design. Treatments in each trial were a non-challenged control (C); challenged control (10 x dose of Eimeria/bird on d 14 and 1.0 x ∼109 colony forming units (CFU)/bird of C. perfringens on d 16-20; CC); and CC supplemented daily via the waterline with 1 × 109 CFU/bird of probiotic (CC+Probiotic). …”
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