Report of a Meeting: An Expert Consultation on Body Composition and Adiposity for Children and Adolescents in All Their Diversity by Lauren E O’Connor, Lucero Lopez-Perez, Ricardo X Martinez, Maureen K Spill, Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, Amanda J MacFarlane

“…Waist circumference and bioelectrical impedance were preferred clinical tests to use either alone or in combination with BMI for diagnosing obesity; preferential use was country specific. Most experts preferred fat mass index (fat mass/height2) to % body fat as the metric, because it is more sensitive to changes over time and depends on age and height, similar to BMI. …”
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Resistance of banana cultivars against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense in southern Ethiopia by Biruk Kedir, Chemeda Fininsa, Zelalem Bekeko, Abdi Mohammed

“…It is also suggested that, due to the limitations inherent to banana genetics, breeding disease‐resistant bananas, including the Cavendish dessert banana, represents a middle‐ to long‐term strategy as a future research direction in the study area and other tropical countries where the pathogen is the most prevalent.…”
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Paediatric asthma prevalence and environmental factors: A community-based cross-sectional study. by Dr . Nalla Krishna, Dr. Pandala Paramesh, Dr . Kavitha Vislavath, Dr. Ravinaik Nunavath, Dr. I Sridhar

“…Additionally, 68% of affected children came from lower socio-economic backgrounds. The most potent asthma predictor was poor indoor air quality (odds ratio = 4.5), alongside significant influences from tobacco smoke, outdoor pollution, sedentary lifestyles, and family asthma history. …”
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Tear Ferning Test and Pathological Effects on Ocular Surface before and after Topical Cyclosporine in Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis Patients by Marcella Nebbioso, Marta Sacchetti, Guia Bianchi, Anna Maria Zicari, Marzia Duse, Paola Del Regno, Alessandro Lambiase

“…All individuals were submitted to complete eye examination and skin prick test (SPT) for the most common allergens. Then, they were subjected to collection of the tears and to impression cytology to evaluate TFT, MUC5AC levels, and conjunctival goblet cell density, before and after treatment with CY in eye drops. …”
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The first phylogenetic reconstruction of Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda: Heligmonellidae) reveals 3 new genera, the polyphyletic nature of Carolinensis and Vexillata, and identifies 5... by F. Agustín Jiménez, Guinevere O Drabik, Jorge Falcón-Ordaz, Andrew G Hope, Kurt E Galbreath, Noé U de la Sancha, John M Kinsella, Chris T McCallister, Vasyl Tkach, Whitney Preisser, Scott L Gardner

“…To evaluate the phylogenetic signal from these characteristics, we use genetic data to reconstruct the first phylogeny for the Nippostrongylinae using nuclear and mitochondrial genes and include representatives of the most common and diverse genera. The reconstructed phylogeny features five distinct clades and allows us to identify three non-monophyletic taxa including Carolinensis, Vexillata and Hassalstrongylus. …”
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Identification of candidate genes associated with growth and development of sheep from a crossbred population using genome-wide association studies by T. E. Deniskova, O. A. Koshkina, S. N. Petrov, A. A. Sermyagin, N. A. Zinovieva

“…There were found SNPs that were significantly associated with the studied phenotypic traits overlapped with the QTLs, among which the most common categories were “Body weight (slaughter)”, “Muscle weight in carcass”, “Body weight (live)” and “Bone weight in carcass”. …”
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Activity May Not Reflect the Numbers: An Assessment of Capture Rate and Population Density of Dingoes (Canis familiaris) Within Landscape‐Scale Cell‐Fencing by Moses I. Omogbeme, Malcolm S. Kennedy, Tracey L. Kreplins, Halina T. Kobryn, Patricia A. Fleming

“…ABSTRACT Most human‐carnivore conflicts arise from the impact of predation on livestock. …”
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Dysregulated platelet function in COVID-19 patients by N. R. Gashimova, V. O. Bitsadze, L. L. Pankratyeva, J. Kh. Khizroeva, E. V. Slukhanchuk, K. N. Grigoreva, V. I. Tsibizova, J.-C. Gris, I. Elalamy, C. Ay, D. V. Blinov, V. N. Serov, A. D. Makatsariya

“…Platelets are small non-nucleated cells most known as the central mediators of hemostasis. …”
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Bioinformatically analyzed relationships between specific human genes associated with HIV attachment by Vladimir S. Davydenko, Yu. V. Ostankova, A. N. Schemelev, E. V. Anufrieva, V. V. Kushnareva, A. A. Totolian

“…The study compared the characteristics of the 100 most promising candidate genes (CG) according to the HumanNet web resource with background genes (CCR5, CXCR4, CCR2, CD4), known to be reliably linked to HIV attachment. …”
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Site‐Specific Impacts of Urbanisation on Annual Survival of a Forest Bird by Boglárka Bukor, Brett K. Sandercock, Karl L. Evans, Ivett Pipoly, Krisztina Sándor, András Liker, Gábor Seress

“…Survival probabilities decreased with bird age at both urban sites in most years, but such patterns were not detected at forest sites. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of Chloride-liberal versus Chloriderestrictive Intravenous Fluids among Patients Hospitalized in the United States by Louise Perrault, Dilip Makhija, Idal Beer, Suzanne Laplante, Sergio Iannazzo, Karthik Raghunathan

“…One-way sensitivity analyses indicated results were most sensitive to the relative risk for AKI development and relatively insensitive to fluid cost. …”
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Clinical impact of single-gene vs. panel sequencing in advanced HR + /HER2− breast cancer: insights and implications by Eva Valentina Klocker, Nina Dobrić, Ricarda Graf, Christine Beichler, Dominik Hlauschek, Christoph Suppan, Lara Pancheri, Daniel Egle, Carmen Albertini, Rupert Bartsch, Angelika Martina Starzer, Philipp Jakob Jost, Gabriel Rinnerthaler, Ellen Heitzer, Nadia Dandachi, Marija Balic

“…Abstract Hormone receptor-positive (HR + )/HER2−negative (HER2 − ) breast cancer is the most common subtype, with biomarker-driven therapies improving outcomes. …”
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DMFFNet: Dual-Mode Multiscale Feature Fusion-Based Pedestrian Detection Method by Ruizhe Hu, Ting Rui, Yan Ouyang, Jinkang Wang, Qunyan Jiang, Yinan Du

“…Most contemporary pedestrian detection algorithms are based on visible light image detection. …”
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Functional class criteria identification in patients with spinal muscular atrophy 5q by Yu. O. Papina, E. A. Melnik, E. D. Belousova, S. B. Artemyeva, A. V. Monakhova, O. A. Shidlovskaya, I. V. Shulyakova, D. V. Vlodavets

“…Spinal muscular atrophy 5q (SMA) is one of the most common inherited neuromuscular diseases in children with an autosomal recessive type of inheritance. …”
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Implementation of safety-related statutory information for herbal products under the pharmaceutical legislation between 1965 and 2021 in Finland: a content analysis of product info... by Sari M. Koski, Anna Hietikko, Marja Airaksinen, Pirjo Laitinen-Parkkonen

“…Of the contraindication (including special warnings and precautions) information, hypersensitivity/allergy information was included clearly most frequently. Conclusions This study is based on a unique archive material covering years 1965–2021 in Finland. …”
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Examination the effects of Zn2+ and Cu2+ on the Pb2+ binding with dissolved organic matter using absorbance spectroscopy by Jilai Zhang, Dan Jian, Chenglei Hu, Wenhua Chen, Ming Jiang, Sheng Wang, Youbo Su, Naiming Zhang, Zhihao Si, Menglan Lu

“…The results indicate that the addition both of Zn 2+or Cu 2+can reduce the binding of DOM to Pb 2+, with the effect of Cu 2+being the most obvious. Specifically, significant changes were evident in the differential log-transformed absorbance at higher Zn2+/Cu2+ concentrations, including modified spectral shapes, absorption wavelength fluctuation, and differential absorption intensity changes. …”
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Intravesical BCG: A Double-Edged Sword? The Untold Story of Infection Risks by Orçun Barkay, Ercüment Keskin

“…<i>Results:</i> UTIs developed in 39.1% (<i>n</i> = 94) of patients, with 25.8% (<i>n</i> = 62) caused by susceptible pathogens and 13.3% (<i>n</i> = 32) by resistant pathogens. The most common causative agent was <i>Escherichia coli</i> (80.7% in susceptible UTIs, 43.8% in resistant UTIs), followed by <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>. …”
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Age-dependent integration of cortical progenitors transplanted at CSF-neurogenic niche interface by Gretchen Greene, Nikorn Pothayee, Jahandar Jahanipour, Hyesoo Jie, Jung-Hwa Tao-Cheng, Emily Petrus, Dragan Maric, Alan P. Koretsky

“…Recent studies have demonstrated the ability of transplanted neural precursor cells and in vitro grown organoids to mature and locally integrate into host brain circuitry. Most studies have focused on how the transplant behaves and functions after the procedure, but the extent to which the host brain can properly innervate the transplant, particularly in the context of aging, is largely unexplored. …”
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Digital Psychosocial Interventions Tailored for People in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Scoping Review by Madison Scialanca, Karen Alexander, Babak Tofighi

“…Smartphone apps (n=8) were the most prevalent intervention delivery method, with other studies using telemedicine (n=3), virtual reality (n=1), telephone calls (n=1), or text messaging (n=3) to deliver psychosocial interventions in either a synchronous (n=7) or asynchronous (n=9) manner. …”
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Elevated plasma GDF15 combined with FGF21 suggests mitochondrial dysfunction in a subgroup of anorexia nervosa patients by Jingjing Xu, Ruyue Zhang, Vincent Millischer, Miranda Stiernborg, Claire E. Tume, Sara Mehdinia, Peter Barker, Zeynep Yilmaz, Vanessa F. Gonçalves, Catharina Lavebratt, Mikael Landén, Stephen O’Rahilly, Cynthia M. Bulik, Ida AK Nilsson

“…Sparse partial least squares discriminant analysis (sPLS-DA) identified six markers related to inflammatory processes or cellular stress from a set of 74 markers that distinguished AN with high GDF15 from the rest, with fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) being the most important contributor. Moreover, FGF21 plasma concentration was significantly higher in the group with high GDF15, suggesting an involvement of mitochondrial dysfunction. …”
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