Rates and Determinants of Depression and Anxiety Among Acute Leukemia Patients by Tran Thi Ha An, Nguyen Thao Van, Duong Minh Tam, Nguyen The Tai, Pham Thi Thu Hien, Pham Lien Huong, Vu Thi Lan, Phan Thi Minh Ngoc

“…Results: Participants had a mean age of 43.4 years (SD = 14.0), with 53.7% male and 69.5% residing in rural areas. Most were married (82.9%) and had completed high school (45.1%). …”
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Physiological plasticity in zebra finch color varieties mitigates DNA damage under oxidative stress by Cristiana I. Marques, Sol Rodríguez-Martínez, Pedro Miguel Araújo, Sandra Afonso, Mohammed Zougagh, Ángel Ríos, Miguel Carneiro, Ismael Galván

“…Sustained pheomelanin synthesis may thus reduce cysteine availability for antioxidant defenses, resulting in a trade-off most relevant in stressful environments. Here, we investigated how pheomelanin may influence birds’ response to oxidative stress. …”
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Clinical case of COVID-19 in a patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma by D. A. Malashenko, Zh. B. Ponezheva, A. N. Turapova, E. P. Rodionov, A. A. Ploskireva, M. A. Magomedov, N. G. Burda, I. I. Tsvetaev, T. A. Trubina

“…At present, infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus is one of the most urgent problems of infectious pathology. The total number of cases of a new coronavirus infection in the Russian Federation exceeded 22 million, of which more than 398 thousand cases were fatal.All resources of the healthcare organizations around the world were thrown into the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which affected the quality of medical care for patients with other diseases. …”
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Five advanced chatbots solving European Diploma in Radiology (EDiR) text-based questions: differences in performance and consistency by Jakub Pristoupil, Laura Oleaga, Vanesa Junquero, Cristina Merino, Suha Sureyya Ozbek, Lukas Lambert, European Society of Radiology (ESR)

“…Chatbots were prompted to evaluate each answer as correct or incorrect and grade its confidence level on a scale of 0 (not confident at all) to 10 (most confident). Scores per question were calculated using a weighted formula that accounted for correct and incorrect answers (range 0.0–1.0). …”
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Geo-mapping of government healthcare facilities providing diagnostic laboratory services in Delhi, India: a pilot study by Garima Jain, Usha Agrawal, Ankit Singh, Kshitij Misra, Sandeep Agrawal, Ashish Dutt Upadhyay, Surya Durbha

“…Background Despite significant advances, the Indian public diagnostic healthcare system faces serious challenges, particularly in availability and accessibility, often affecting those most in need. There is a wide urban–rural disparity, necessitating long travel distances for patients. …”
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Harnessing single-cell and multi-omics insights: STING pathway-based predictive signature for immunotherapy response in lung adenocarcinoma by Yang Ding, Dingli Wang, Dali Yan, Jun Fan, Zongli Ding, Lei Xue

“…BackgroundLung adenocarcinoma is the most prevalent type of small-cell carcinoma, with a poor prognosis. …”
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Sources of dissolved organic matter in initial rainwater and its photochemical activity by Yanting Xi, Sihan Fan, Yixin Liu, Danni Cui, Zhicheng Liao, Ziwei Guo, Chaochao Lai, Haodong Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Fengxia Han, Huan He, Bin Huang, Xuejun Pan

“…Among them, only SDOM that had undergone freeze-thaw cycles exhibited a promotive effect on the photodegradation of BPA, with the most significant effect observed at −20°C. Illumination (ultraviolet light (UV) and natural light (NL)) consumed the chromophoric groups of SDOM, disrupted its intricate electron transfer structure, and reduced the production of •OH and Triplet-state dissolved organic matter (3DOM∗). …”
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Modern Approaches to the Management of Children with Hypophosphatasia by Aleksander A. Baranov, Tatiana T. Batysheva, Olga V. Bykova, Nato D. Vashakmadze, Elena V. Vislobokova, Alisa V. Vitebskaya, Elena A. Vishneva, Victoria Yu. Voynova, Natalia V. Zhurkova, Ekaterina Yu. Zakharova, Larisa P. Kisel'nikova, Mikhail M. Kostik, Sergey I. Kutsev, Tea V. Margieva, Leyla S. Namazova-Baranova, Svetlana V. Mikhaylova, Sergey V. Moiseev, Tatyana S. Nagornaya, Liliia R. Selimzyanova, Alla N. Semyachkina, Olga Ya. Smirnova, Marina V. Fedoseenko, Svetlana V. Pishchal'nikova

“…Without timely treatment the prognosis of the disease is unfavorable in most cases. Such patients require follow-up by multidisciplinary team of physicians. …”
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Oral health status, oral hygiene behaviors, and caries risk assessment of individuals with special needs: a comparative study of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia by Osama Khattak, Farooq Ahmad Chaudhary, Shahzad Ahmad, Muhammad Amber Fareed, Shazia Iqbal, Asma Shakoor, Mohammed Nadeem Baig, Haifa Ali Almutairi, Rakhi Issrani, Azhar Iqbal

“…Tooth brushing frequency showed a significant difference between the two groups (p = 0.005). Most participants (76% in Pakistan, 62% in Saudi Arabia) were classified as high caries risk. …”
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Incidence, prevalence, and mortality of sarcoidosis in England: a population-based studyResearch in context by Katie Bechman, Mark D. Russell, Kathryn Biddle, Mark Gibson, Maryam Adas, Zijing Yang, Samir Patel, Alex Dregan, Sarah Walsh, Peter Brex, Amit Patel, Katherine J. Myall, Sam Norton, Surinder S. Birring, James Galloway

“…The age- and sex-standardised incidence per 100,000 person-years increased from 6.65 in 2003 to 7.73 in 2023, with the most pronounced rise occurring between 2010 and 2016. …”
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Scraping Therapy Improved Muscle Regeneration through Regulating GLUT4/Glycolytic and AMPK/mTOR/4EBP1 Pathways in Rats with Lumbar Multifidus Injury by Bin Zou, Juan Du, Qiwen Xuan, Yajing Wang, Zixiao Wang, Wen Zhang, Lianghua Wang, Wei Gu

“…There are many factors inducing NLBP, among which the damage and atrophy of multifidus (MF) are most closely related to NLBP. Scraping therapy can have significant treatment effects on NLBP with fewer adverse reactions and less medical fund input than other modalities or medications. …”
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Food additive mixtures and type 2 diabetes incidence: Results from the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort. by Marie Payen de la Garanderie, Anaïs Hasenbohler, Nicolas Dechamp, Guillaume Javaux, Fabien Szabo de Edelenyi, Cédric Agaësse, Alexandre De Sa, Laurent Bourhis, Raphaël Porcher, Fabrice Pierre, Xavier Coumoul, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Benjamin Allès, Léopold K Fezeu, Emmanuel Cosson, Sopio Tatulashvili, Inge Huybrechts, Serge Hercberg, Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy, Benoit Chassaing, Héloïse Rytter, Bernard Srour, Mathilde Touvier

“…Our objective was to identify most common food additive mixtures, and investigate their associations with type 2 diabetes incidence in a large prospective cohort.…”
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Antisense oligonucleotide targeting nicotinamide N-methyltransferase exhibits antitumor effects by Tomoaki Hara, Sikun Meng, Yuuya Kasahara, Takashi Osawa, Daisuke Motooka, Hiromichi Sato, Yasuko Arao, Yoshiko Saito, Kana Inoue, Yumiko Hamano, Yuichiro Doki, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Satoshi Obika, Hideshi Ishii

“…The antisense oligonucleotide candidates were finally narrowed down to eight sequences, and when they were examined for their inhibitory effect on NNMT expression in cancer cells, all of the sequences showed inhibitory effects. The most effective one was conjugated with a small molecule compound that targets the stroma of cancer tissues. …”
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Loading-related injuries of mechanically loaded broilers under field conditions by Julia Unterholzner, Elke Rauch, Alexandra Blaeske, Michael Erhard, Anne Werner, Paul Schmidt, Martin Gotthart, Helen Louton

“…Hematomas on the wing (6.55%) were the most common type of injury followed by hematomas on the wing tip (6.17%), abrasions on the body (4.92%), abrasions on the wing tip (4.25%), severe wing injuries (1.13%), and hematomas on the wing proximal to the wing tip (0.38%). …”
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Long-term mortality in mothers of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome: A population-based parallel-cohort study in England and Ontario, Canada. by Astrid Guttmann, Ruth Blackburn, Abby Amartey, Limei Zhou, Linda Wijlaars, Natasha Saunders, Katie Harron, Maria Chiu, Ruth Gilbert

“…Risk of death was not limited to the early postpartum period targeted by most public health programs. Policy responses to the current opioid epidemic require effective strategies for long-term support to improve the health and welfare of opioid-using mothers and their children.…”
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Effect of Cilostazol and Aspirin During Hyperacute Stroke Phase in Rats: An Experimental Research Study by Christiana Anastasiadou, Anastasios Papapetrou, George Galyfos, Kostas Vekrellis, Patroklos Katafygiotis, Andreas Lazaris, George Geroulakos, Angelos Megalopoulos, Christos Liapis, Nikolaos Kostomitsopoulos, John Kakisis

“…A neurological assessment indicated that the most severe deficits were in the combination therapy group. …”
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Identification and Expression Analysis of C2H2-Type Zinc Finger Protein (C2H2-ZFP) Genes in <i>Bougainvillea</i> in Different Colored Bracts by Yushan Wang, Yanping Hu, Wen Liu, Wengang Yu, Jian Wang, Yang Zhou

“…Zinc finger proteins (ZFPs), one of the most extensive transcription factor families in plants, are implicated in diverse biological functions, including plant morphogenesis, transcriptional regulation, and responses to abiotic stress. …”
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A mammoth task: stable isotope analyses as a tool to prevent illegal trade of elephant ivory by Maria E. A. Santos, Maria E. A. Santos, Pavel Toropov, Pihu Agarwal, Pihu Agarwal, Pierre Archimede Jonathan Frichot, Pierre Archimede Jonathan Frichot, Hannah Bethany Tilley, Wilson Wan Zhongyue, Jovy Chan, David Michael Baker, David Michael Baker

“…There was no overlap between δ2H and a small overlap for δ18O, while δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S of most mammoth samples were within the larger isotopic range values of the elephant samples. …”
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Analysis of Kidney Differential Metabolites and Hypoxia Adaptation Mechanism of Plateau Pikas Based on UHPLC-QE-MS by HE Yuxin, BAI Zhenzhong, XUE Hua, GUO Zixu, CAO Xuefeng

“…The analysis of related signaling pathways showed that the biosynthetic pathways of valine, leucine, and isoleucine had the largest impact factors (P<0.05), while the biosynthetic pathways of pantothenate and coenzyme A showed the most significant enrichment (P<0.05). Conclusion The differential metabolites of amino acids, pantothenate, and coenzyme A pathways in the kidneys of plateau pikas at different altitudes may be involved in the metabolic mechanisms of plateau pikas' hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude environments.…”
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Comparison of the effectiveness of immersive and non-immersive virtual reality in the treatment of vertigo in patients with peripheral vestibular dysfunction: a systematic review a... by Xiaoyi Liu, Xiaoyi Liu, Sha Yang, Yiru Wang, Ziwei Tong, Xiao An, Xiaoqing Ren, Xu Sun, Zhicong Zhou, Hong Wang, Xiaoying Liu

“…BackgroundVertigo is the most common clinical manifestation in patients with peripheral vestibular dysfunction (PVD), and severe episodes may be accompanied by nystagmus, tinnitus, and hearing loss, which can seriously affect quality of life. …”
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