Trends in HPV-positive cervical cancer prevalence: a retrospective study from 2013 to 2020 by Xiaohui Yang, Shiyuan Qi, Liyan Dai, Qingjian Ye, Xiaomao Li

“…Conclusion The decline in HPV-positive cervical cancer cases highlights the success of China’s screening and post-2016 vaccination efforts. However, rising HPV infections in younger women and ongoing cancer risks in older groups emphasized the need to broaden adolescent vaccinations, sexual health education, and lifelong screening.…”
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Transcriptomic time course of skeletal muscle disuse and rehabilitation in middle‐aged adults by Zachary D. Von Ruff, Sean P. Kilroe, Erik D. Marchant, Emily J. Arentson‐Lantz, Steven Widen, Jill Thompson, Alejandro Villasante‐Tezanos, Elena Volpi, Doug Paddon‐Jones, Blake B. Rasmussen

“…Bilateral skeletal muscle biopsies were collected at Day 0 and Day 7 of disuse and 2 h post‐exercise on Days 7, 9, 11, and 21. Strength testing was conducted, and RNA sequencing was performed on muscle samples. …”
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Risk Stratification for Postoperative Opioid Induced Respiratory Depression: A Retrospective Case-Control Analysis of Existing Validated Tools by Hutcheson S, Pehrson A, Gassert RB, Guffey E, Shanahan PC, Sisk L, Patton S, Solla CA

“…A validated POIRD risk stratification tool could reduce these complications. 3 pre-existing validated opioid tools; and specific risk factors identified from these tools; were examined in this retrospective case-control study to determine if they could assess POIRD risk in patients discharged to hospital floors from the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).Patients and Methods: Our dataset includes 126 matched patients who underwent surgery at the University of Tennessee Medical Center from January 2019 to December 2021. …”
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La acción tutorial: Análisis de la dinámica intelectual desde la praxis universitaria by Nanci Coromoto Barrios Briceño, Jenny Andrea Quiroz Villacís

“… Los estudios de post grado se han venido incrementando en los últimos años, tanto en cantidad ofertada como en la cantidad de participantes inscritos en los mismos, sin embargo el número de egresados no se corresponde con el número de inscritos, muchos culminan su carga académica más no cumplen con la presentación del Trabajo de titulación requisito para la obtención de la titularidad, por lo que la producción intelectual sigue sin responder las expectativas que el mercado y la  sociedad requieren.  …”
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Eco-friendly synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles using pomegranate leaves and its antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, angiogenic activity, and toxicity assessment by Pradnya Sunil Bapte, Shreyas Pansambal, Pranav P. Bardapurkar, Suresh Ghotekar, Seema Sachin Borgave

“…In contrast, the embryos that survived higher ZnO concentrations exhibited developmental defects, primarily in hatching rate, eye pigmentation, and tail deformities, which were monitored until 72 h post-fertilization. The ZnO nanoparticles synthesized in the present study exhibited remarkable antioxidant, anticancer, and anti-angiogenic potentials, which warrant further thorough investigations into their potential applications in medicine.…”
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Designing Effective Protocol-Based Pharmacotherapy Management: Assessment of the Development Processes and Outcomes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care Prescription Management by Masatsugu Sato, Shiho Fujita, Masahiko Kimura, Ken Takeuchi, Yukihiro Hamahata, Yoshikazu Matsuda

“…The pre-initiative rates for SP, PPP, and PBPM-P were 68.3%, 30.7%, and 1.0%, respectively. Post-initiative, the rates were 48.3%, 26.6%, and 25.1%, respectively. …”
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Project-Based Activity as a Means of Socio-Emotional Development in Preschool Children by Valeriya A. Plotnikova, Alexander N. Veraksa, Nikolai E. Veraksa, Nataliya S. Nikolaeva

“…The participants were randomly distributed to the three groups: Research project group, Creative project group, and the Control group. 22 sessions were organized with the experimental conditions, and after completing the sessions, a post-test similar to the initial assessment was performed. …”
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Investigating the overwintering strategy of Ganaspis kimorum, a biological control agent of Drosophila suzukii by Lorenzo Fellin, Marco Valerio Rossi Stacconi, Gianfranco Anfora, M. Lukas Seehausen, Giada Bellotti, Sergio Angeli, Silvia Schmidt

“…Analysing the variation of Degree Days needed until adult emergence confirmed that G. kimorum arrests its development as a first-instar larva and suggests a lower thermal threshold of 9°C, with 329 ± 6 post-diapause Degree Days needed to develop to the adult stage. …”
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Monomorphic premature ventricular contractions in patients without cardiac structural changes: clinical and prognostic significance and evaluation of therapy effectiveness (clinica... by A. I. Olesin, I. V. Konstantinova, N. N. Tyuteleva, Yu. S. Zueva, V. S. Ivanov, A. V. Koziy

“…Animals were used to model PVCs by the mechanism of early post-depolarization (EPD) (aconitine), re-entry (peroxide or H2O2 arrhythmia). …”
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Comparative Colonisation Ability of Human Faecal Microbiome Transplantation Strategies in Murine Models by Bon‐Hee Gu, Ho Young Jung, Chae‐Yun Rim, Tae‐Yong Kim, Sang‐Jin Lee, Doo Young Choi, Han‐Ki Park, Myunghoo Kim

“…Notably, genera such as Bacteroides, Blautia, Medicaternibacter and Bifidobacteria were successfully colonised, whereas Roseburia, Anaerostipes, Anaerobutyricum and Faecalibacterium failed to establish in the murine gut post‐FMT. These findings highlight the challenges of replicating human gut microbiota in murine models and underscore the importance of selecting appropriate FMT methods based on desired outcomes. …”
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Evaluation of the Anti-inflammatory Effect of Aqueous Extract of Pistacia atlantica Gum in an Experimental Model of Ulcerative Colitis by Shabnam Bahrami, Nahid Babaei, Hadi Esmaeili Gouvarchin Ghaleh, Jaleh Mohajeri Borazjani, Mahdieh Farzanehpour

“…The treatment regimen was initiated on the 10th day of post-ulcerative colitis induction and the manifestation of disease symptoms. …”
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Regulatory mechanisms and clinical implications of PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) in major digestive tract cancers by Penghui Li, Yuan Xue, Xinyu Gu

“…They exert their effects through diverse mechanisms, including post-transcriptional gene silencing, epigenetic modifications, and modulation of signaling pathways involved in tumorigenesis, such as the Wnt/β-catenin, PI3K/Akt, and MAPK pathways. …”
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Impact of elevated glucose levels on cardiac function in STEMI patients: glucose delta as a prognostic biomarker by Bernardo F. Garcia, Francisco A. Fonseca, Maria C. Izar, Gilberto Szarf, Attilio Galhardo, Ibraim M. Pinto, Adriano M. Caixeta, Adriano P. Barbosa, Henrique T. Bianco, BATTLE-AMI. investigators

“…Infarct size and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) were assessed 30 days post-infarction using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. …”
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Intravitreal Plungerless Injector Device (IPLID): An Innovative Intravitreal Injector Device by Yepez JB, Murati FA, Petitto M, Kozak I, Arevalo JF

“…The mean duration of the injection was 17.51 minutes (range, 15 minutes to 20 minutes). Post-IPLID injection, 155 (51.7%) patients reported less pain compared to previous injections, 128 (42.7) patients reported pain similar to previous injections and 5.7% (17) of patients reported more pain than previous procedures. …”
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Could Urology’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Be Enhanced by the Routine Use of the Meares and Stamey Test? by Simone Botti, Tommaso Ceccato, Michele Rizzo, Giovanni Liguori, Alessandro Zucchi, Alessandro Palmieri, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen, Tommaso Cai

“…Alternative diagnostic methods, such as the two-glass pre- and post-massage test (PPMT), have demonstrated comparable diagnostic sensitivity while being more practical and time-efficient. …”
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Bioengineering of novel organotypic 3D human liver tissue model for drug-induced liver injury and toxicity studies by Camden Holm, Joseph Finelli, Mateo Frare, Alex Armento, Seyoum Ayehunie

“…BackgroundIn drug development, liver failure is the cause of approximately 30% of post marketing withdrawals of pharmaceuticals. Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) remains the leading cause of acute liver failure (ALF), accounting for approximately 15% of the cases.Materials and methodsIn this study, we developed a novel human three-dimensional (3D) liver tissue model by seeding adult primary human hepatocytes onto cell culture inserts under Air-Liquid Interface (ALI) condition for extended culture periods. …”
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Nickel mobilization during single-stage aqueous mineral carbonation of serpentinized peridotite at 185 °C and PCO₂ of 100 bar by Błażej Cieślik, Alicja Lacinska, Anna Pietranik, Maciej Róziewicz, Artur Pędziwiatr, Krzysztof Turniak, Agata Łamacz, Jakub Kierczak

“…Nickel released during the dissolution of forsterite (approximately 50 % of the whole Ni budget) was mainly incorporated in newly formed Ni-rich phyllosilicates (more than 98 %) and a small portion was mobilized into the post-carbonation fluid (less than 2 %), reaching a concentration of approximately18 mg/kg after 96 hours. …”
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Appropriate treatment for nail breakage following femur intertrochanteric fractures without additional reduction: case series and literature review by Hong Man Cho, Haeryong Heo, Myung Cheol Jung, Woochull Chung, Eunho Choi, Young Lee, Yoon Suh Cho

“…In seven cases with a fracture gap at the time of breakage, significant change was observed in the tip-apex distance (P = 0.016) or lateral extension of the proximal femoral nail antirotation blade (P = 0.005) between the immediate post-surgery and final follow-up results, with the gap healing radiographically at 21.50 ± 1.65 weeks. …”
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Unraveling regional variability in Dengue outbreaks in Brazil: leveraging the Moving Epidemics Method (MEM) and climate data to optimize vector control strategies. by Ayrton Sena Gouveia, Marcelo Ferreira da Costa Gomes, Iasmim Ferreira de Almeida, Raquel Martins Lana, Leonardo Soares Bastos, Lucas Monteiro Bianchi, Sara de Souza Oliveira, Eduardo Correa Araujo, Danielle Andreza da Cruz Ferreira, Dalila Machado Botelho Oliveira, Vinicius Barbosa Godinho, Luã Bida Vacaro, Thais Irene Souza Riback, Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Flávio Codeço Coelho, Cláudia Torres Codeço

“…Statistical outputs from MEM included the mean outbreak onset, duration, and variation of these measurements, pre- and post-epidemic thresholds, and the high-intensity level of cases. …”
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A Three-Dimensional Scale for the Qualitative and Quantitative Assessments of Secondary Alveolar Bone Grafting (SABG) in Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate Patients Using Cone-Beam Co... by Ashish Kumar, Puneet Batra, Karan Sharma, Sreevatsan Raghavan, Aditya Talwar, Amit Srivastava, Sundereshwer Chander Sood

“…Methods CBCT scans for pre- and 3-month post-SABG were reviewed for bone volume, height, width, and density of the bony bridge formed in the cleft defect in 20 patients with UCLP. …”
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