Endothelial HOXB9/SDC4 signaling exacerbates post-ischemic blood-brain and blood-spinal cord barrier disruption by promoting PKCα activation by Li-Qing Wang, Xiao-Yi Wang, Zuo-Xu Fan, Jie-Sheng Zheng, Yue-Hui Ma, Heng-Jun Zhou

“…Background: Ischemic stroke is one of the most deadly chronic diseases, it damages blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood-spinal cord barrier (BSCB). …”
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The Writers of Angaray and Class Struggle by Rabab Syeda Zehra

“…With a special emphasis on various classes of the Indian society and their conflicts, it evaluates the circumstances that led to these writers to strongly protest against the prevailing social, political and religious institutions, the economic inequality of the society, uneven distribution of wealth, plight of the poor, peasants, laborers and women, excessive role of the most rigid version of the religion as well as sexual repression and other unnecessary restrictions against human freedom. …”
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Rural–urban disparities of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: A scoping review by Mackenzie Kramer, Maxwell Cutty, Sara Knox, Alexander V. Alekseyenko, Abolfazl Mollalo

“…Sixty‐three articles met the eligibility criteria for data extraction and synthesis. Most articles were published after 2010 (85.7%) and were concentrated in the United States, China, and Canada (66.7%). …”
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends in Spousal Support for Breast Cancer Patients by Liu Y, Zhai Y, Gao L, Zhang G

“…Porter and Donald H. Baucom are among the most prolific authors. The main keyword clusters include #1 caregiving burden, #2 quality of life, #3 sexual health, #4 qualitative study, #5 dyadic coping, and #6 marital status. …”
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Risk factors associated with HIV infection in four large Brazilian blood centers: A multicentric case-control study (2009–2017) by Fernanda Dominique de Souza Gonçalves, Flávia da Costa Silva, Isabel Cristina Gomes Moura, Cesar de Almeida-Neto, Brian Custer, Ester Cerdeira Sabino, Paula Loureiro, Carolina Miranda, Luiz de Melo Amorim Filho, Tassila Salomon

“…Demographics significantly associated with infection were: Male sex, incomplete secondary education, separated/divorced/widowed, and bisexual/homosexual orientation. Behaviors most strongly associated with infection were: workplace exposure, intravenous drugs and men who had sex with other men. …”
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Dysregulation of Th17 and regulatory T Cells in chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis: a potential biomarker for disease management by A. S. Elgouhari, N. M. Lazareva, O. P. Baranova, I. V. Kudryavtsev, T. P. Ses, M. M. Ilkovich, A. A. Totolian

“…Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease of unknown etiology characterized by the formation of non-caseating granulomas, most commonly in the lung tissue. It presents with two main forms: acute and chronic. …”
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The prospective impact of food pricing on improving dietary consumption: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Ashkan Afshin, José L Peñalvo, Liana Del Gobbo, Jose Silva, Melody Michaelson, Martin O'Flaherty, Simon Capewell, Donna Spiegelman, Goodarz Danaei, Dariush Mozaffarian

“…Use of subsidies and combined multicomponent interventions appear most effective.…”
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Changes in hotel activities in Ukraine and Poland due to the war: Migration aspect by Alla Okhrimenko, Margaryta Boiko, Myroslava Bosovska, Nadiia Vedmid, Mariia Kulyk

“…In 2022, Poland received the most migrants from Ukraine due to its geographical position and significant economic ties. …”
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Factors motivating end-users’ behavioural intention to recommend m-health innovation: multi-group analysis by Ambrose Ogbonna Oloveze, Paschal Anayochukwu Ugwu, Raphael Valentine Obodoechi Okonkwo, Victor Chukwuemeka Okeke, Kelvin Chukwuoyims, Emmanuel Onyedikachi Ahaiwe

“…The SEM analysis show that subjective norm is the most vital factor that influences end-users’ intention to recommend mHealth innovation to others. …”
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Sense of personal agency towards mitigating the threat of antibiotic resistance: a focus group study with parents of children under 5 years old, conducted mid-pandemic [version 3;... by Laura Shallcross, Andrew Hayward, Michael Wilson, Gill Forbes, Becky McCall

“…Background Most antibiotic prescribing occurs in primary care, largely in children under 5 years old, and often inappropriately. …”
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Succession Characteristics of Soil Microbial Communities Along Elevational Gradients in the Lhasa River Basin and Analysis of Environmental Driving Factors by Xiaoyu Li, Xiangyang Sun, Baosheng An, Suyan Li, Jiule Li, Chuanfei Wang

“…The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau is among the most ecologically vulnerable and responsive areas worldwide. …”
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Multi-criteria assessment of climate smartness in rice-based cropping systems by Kiran Kumar Mohapatra, Amaresh Kumar Nayak, Ranjan Kumar Patra, Rahul Tripathi, Chinmaya Kumar Swain, Prasannajit Mishra, Manoranjan Satapathy, Rasu Eeswaran, Saheed Garnaik

“…As global warming and climate variabilities increasingly affect most of the rice growing regions including India, it is vital to introduce alternative options to rice-rice monocropping. …”
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Desmodium molliculum (Kunth) DC., an Andean medicinal plant: DNA barcoding and HPLC fingerprint for species discrimination and evaluation of its pharmacological potential by Eugenia Peñaherrera, Josue Sarmiento-Pacurucu, Efrén Santos-Ordóñez, Alexandr Kachatryan, Nancy Cuzco, David Vanegas, Jessica Calle-López, Liliana Villao-Uzho, Yvan Vander Heyden, Isabel Wilches, Fabián León-Tamariz

“…De novo genetic DNA barcodes were obtained for D. molliculum and the phylogenetic analysis separated them from those obtained from D. adscendens, demonstrating that the trnH-psbA, matK, and ITS1 markers are the most effective for differentiating between the species. …”
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Prevalence of Carbapenemase Genes, qacE, qacEΔ1 and cepA in Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria with Different Susceptibility to Chlorhexidine by K. G. Kosyakova, N. B. Esaulenko, O. A. Kameneva, S. P. Kazakov, A. Y. Dubinina, E. Y. Mezina, A. A. Zaitsev

“…Relevance The World Health Organization has provided a list of resistant bacteria that pose the greatest threat to society. Among them, the most important (critically high priority level) are Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii strains resistant to carbapenems, as well as enterobacteriaceae producing extended spectrum beta-lactamases and carbapenemases.Aim. …”
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PO89 | Apixaban for secondary prevention of venous thromboembolism in hemodialysis patients: pharmacokinetic profile and safety outcomes

“…Among DOACs, apixaban has shown the most favorable profile in this population. We report the case of a female dialysis patient with a history of unprovoked pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, previously treated with vitamin K antagonists (VKAs), than shifted to apixaban low-dose (2.5 mg twice daily) due to hemorrhagic complications while on VKAs; we focus on apixaban plasma levels and safety outcomes during follow-up. …”
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Seasonal dynamics and factors shaping microbiomes in freshwater finfish earthen aquaculture ponds in Bangladesh by Sanjit C. Debnath, Dominique L. Chaput, Jamie McMurtrie, Ashley G. Bell, Ben Temperton, Chadag V. Mohan, Md. M. Alam, Neaz A. Hasan, Mohammad M. Haque, David Bass, Charles R. Tyler

“…Pangasius (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) and tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) are two of the most widely farmed fish species and disease is a major impediment to the expansion of their production. …”
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Quercetin-loaded Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets enhance chemo-photothermal therapy in gastric cancer by Jing Liu, Sen Niu, Yufan Sheng, Xiong Zhou, Keming Zhang, Xingqian Hu, Zengyao Li

“…Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignancies of the digestive system. …”
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Effectiveness of digital platform in reducing unintentional medication discrepancies at transition of care from hospital discharge to primary healthcare settings: a randomised cont... by Yen Yen Phang, Jew Win Kuan, Ai Ling Oh, Chuo Yew Ting, Nor Anizah Osman, Stephen Moses

“…The incidence rate of prescription with UMDs was significantly lower in the MedBook Portal group (5/147, 3.4%) compared to the Standard Care group (30/160, 18.8%) (p < 0.001). The most common UMD was drug omission (54.4%). Multivariable logistic regression showed that the presence of MedBook Portal reduced the odds of UMDs by 87% (adjusted OR 0.134, 95% CI 0.049–0.336, p < 0.001), whereas each additional comorbidity increased the odds by 52% (adjusted OR 1.520, 95% CI 1.158–2.020, p = 0.003). …”
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Investigation for the effect of variations in heat exchange parameters on the performance of precooled combined engines by Hongwei Mao, Xiaotian Zhao, Haibo Ma, Yuan Ma, Ce Xiao, Minglong Du, Jinxin Liu, Xuefeng Chen

“…Results indicate that the hydrogen-helium regenerator has the most significant impact on engine performance, primarily due to changes in the air compressor inlet temperature. …”
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Epidemiological survey and analysis of mammalian orthoreovirus 3 in diarrheic pigs from five provinces of east China by QIN Pan, WANG Jingwei, WANG Bin, LEI Ximei, LI Long, HUANG Yaowei

“…Studies have found that the etiology of diarrhea is varied, including multiple viral, bacterial, and parasitic pathogens, but viruses such as porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), rotavirus (RV) and other enteroviruses (EV), are the predominant factors in most cases. Repeated outbreaks have also been reported on farms in which piglets had been immunized by vaccines targeting these viruses. …”
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