Stem Cells from Human Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth Ameliorate Diabetic Nephropathy In Vivo and In Vitro by Inhibiting Advanced Glycation End Product-Activated Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition by Nanquan Rao, Xiaotong Wang, Jing Xie, Jingzhi Li, Yue Zhai, Xiaoxia Li, Tengjiaozi Fang, Yuanyuan Wang, Yuming Zhao, Lihong Ge

“…It has been proven that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have therapeutic effects on kidney disease. Stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED) are MSCs that are derived from dental pulps in exfoliated deciduous teeth from young patients and therefore have a high proliferation rate and an easy access. …”
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Identifying Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of the Phenolic Extracts and Mineral Contents of Virgin Olive Oils (Olea europaea L. cv. Edincik Su) from Different Regions in Turkey by Ayhan Dağdelen

“…The objective of this study was to identify the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of the phenolic extracts and mineral contents of virgin olive oils (Olea europaea L. cv. Edincik Su) obtained from three different locations, Edincik, Gomec, and Izmir, in Turkey. …”
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Prevalence, Patterns, and Factors Associated with Peripheral Neuropathies among Diabetic Patients at Tertiary Hospital in the Kilimanjaro Region: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study from North-Eastern Tanzania by Ahlam A. Amour, Nyasatu Chamba, Johnstone Kayandabila, Isaack A. Lyaruu, Dekker Marieke, Elichilia R. Shao, William Howlett

“…The study was a cross-sectional hospital-based study and was carried out from October 2017 to March 2018 among adolescent and adult patients attending Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) diabetes clinic. …”
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Association between triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index and risk of depression in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults: Evidence from a large national cohort study by Zhang-Yang Xu, Hong Zheng, Zi-Jun Pan, Shou-Yi Hu, Yun-Xia Wang, Wen-Jun Su

“…A total of 3,021 participants without a prior history of depression were recruited from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) and followed for seven years. …”
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Promoting Optimal Physical Exercise for Life: An Exercise and Self-Management Program to Encourage Participation in Physical Activity after Discharge from Stroke Rehabilitation—A Feasibility Study by Avril Mansfield, Svetlana Knorr, Vivien Poon, Elizabeth L. Inness, Laura Middleton, Louis Biasin, Karen Brunton, Jo-Anne Howe, Dina Brooks

“…People with stroke do not achieve adequate levels of physical exercise following discharge from rehabilitation. We developed a group exercise and self-management program (PROPEL), delivered during stroke rehabilitation, to promote uptake of physical activity after discharge. …”
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Exploring Dance as a Therapeutic Approach for Parkinson Disease Through the Social Robotics for Active and Healthy Ageing (SI-Robotics): Results From a Technical Feasibility Study by Roberta Bevilacqua, Elvira Maranesi, Marco Benadduci, Gabriella Cortellessa, Alessandro Umbrico, Francesca Fracasso, Giovanni Melone, Arianna Margaritini, Angela La Forgia, Pierpaolo Di Bitonto, Ada Potenza, Laura Fiorini, Carlo La Viola, Filippo Cavallo, Alessandro Leone, Andrea Caroppo, Gabriele Rescio, Mauro Marzorati, Amedeo Cesta, Giuseppe Pelliccioni, Giovanni Renato Riccardi, Lorena Rossi

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How many people in the Netherlands live with a hip, knee, or shoulder replacement?: prevalence estimates using data from the Dutch Arthroplasty Register (LROI) and Statistics Netherlands by Mirthe H. W. van Veghel, Liza N. van Steenbergen, Maaike G. J. Gademan, Wilbert B. van den Hout, B. W. Schreurs, Gerjon Hannink

“…Annual incidences and deaths from hip and knee arthroplasty since 2010, and shoulder arthroplasty since 2015, were observed from the LROI. …”
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Analysis of the dynamics of transition from non-colonization to colonization and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in hemodialysis patients using Markov models.... by Difariney González-Gómez, J Natalia Jiménez, Johanna M Vanegas, Daniela Montoya-Urrego

“…However, little is known about transition from non-colonization to colonization or bacteremia over time. …”
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A Signal Decomposition Method for Ultrasonic Guided Wave Generated from Debonding Combining Smoothed Pseudo Wigner-Ville Distribution and Vold–Kalman Filter Order Tracking by Junhua Wu, Xinglin Chen, Zheshu Ma

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Exosomal miR-141-3p from PDLSCs Alleviates High Glucose-Induced Senescence of PDLSCs by Activating the KEAP1-NRF2 Signaling Pathway by Min Liu, Rui Chen, Yunxuan Xu, Jiawen Zheng, Min Wang, Ping Wang

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DDO-adjuvanted influenza A virus nucleoprotein mRNA vaccine induces robust humoral and cellular type 1 immune responses and protects mice from challenge by Victoria Gnazzo, Hanaa Saleh, Ítalo A. Castro, Adrianus C. M. Boon, Amelia K. Pinto, James D. Brien, Carolina B. López

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Structurally convergent antibodies derived from different vaccine strategies target the influenza virus HA anchor epitope with a subset of VH3 and VK3 genes by Ting-Hui Lin, Chang-Chun David Lee, Monica L. Fernández-Quintero, James A. Ferguson, Julianna Han, Xueyong Zhu, Wenli Yu, Jenna J. Guthmiller, Florian Krammer, Patrick C. Wilson, Andrew B. Ward, Ian A. Wilson

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Association of sleep duration and sleep disorders with post-stroke depression and all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in US stroke survivors: results from NHANES 2005–2018 by Weirong Chen, Yingying Shen, Shina Song, Xiaofeng Li

“…Methods Adult stroke survivors from NHANES 2005–2018 were included. Sleep information and stroke diagnoses were derived from self-reports on relevant questionnaires. …”
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Improving explainability of post-separation suicide attempt prediction models for transitioning service members: insights from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers — Longitudinal Study by Emily R. Edwards, Joseph C. Geraci, Sarah M. Gildea, Claire Houtsma, Jacob A. Holdcraft, Chris J. Kennedy, Andrew J. King, Alex Luedtke, Brian P. Marx, James A. Naifeh, Nancy A. Sampson, Murray B. Stein, Robert J. Ursano, Ronald C. Kessler

“…Army soldier suicide-related behaviors increases substantially after separation from service. As universal prevention programs have been unable to resolve this problem, a previously reported machine learning model was developed using pre-separation predictors to target high-risk transitioning service members (TSMs) for more intensive interventions. …”
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Clinicians’ experience with infographic summaries from the BMJ Rapid Recommendations: a qualitative user-testing study among residents and interns at a large teaching hospital in Switzerland by Thomas Agoritsas, Per Vandvik, Tiffany Hirschel

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Engaging the private sector as part of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis service delivery in Vietnam: a comparative analysis of uptake, persistence and HIV seroconversion from 2018 to 2023 by Bao Ngoc Vu, Kimberly Green, Huong Phan, Long Tran, Phuong Phan, Tham Tran, Linh Doan, Yen Vu, Chau Pham, Dao Nguyen, Anh Doan, Trang Ngo, Phuong Tran, Vuong Nguyen, Bieu Nguyen, Thai Phan, Ha Nguyen

“…BackgroundIn Vietnam, PrEP was introduced in 2017 and scaled up from 2019. Private sector engagement (PSE) in PrEP service delivery was deployed as a strategy from the start to increase PrEP access. …”
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Extracellular Vesicles Released from Neprilysin Gene-Modified Human Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Enhance Therapeutic Effects in an Alzheimer’s Disease Animal Model by HyeJu Jeong, Ok Joon Kim, Seung-Hun Oh, Sanghoon Lee, Han A. Reum Lee, Kee Ook Lee, Boo-Yong Lee, Nam Keun Kim

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Exploring segmented assimilation theory in health education utilization and its influencing factors among internal migrants in China: insights from the 2017 China migrants dynamic survey by Ting Xu, Ting Xu, Zeyu Wang, Tingting Wang, Jiahua Shi, Aiyong Zhu, Enhong Dong, Enhong Dong

“…IntroductionThis study investigated segmented assimilation patterns and factors influencing health education utilization (HEU) among internal migrant populations in China, driven by concerns over their declining health owing to urbanization-related changes.MethodsData from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey were analyzed, focusing on 13,998 rural migrants. …”
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Perceived usefulness of trauma audit filters in urban India: a mixed-methods multicentre Delphi study comparing filters from the WHO and low and middle-income countries by Max Petzold, Lovenish Bains, Ulf Ekelund, Kapil Dev Soni, Nobhojit Roy, Martin Gerdin Wärnberg, Swati Gupta, Monty Khajanchi, Anurag Mishra, Jyoti Kamble, Helle Mølsted Alvesson, Johanna Berg, Shamita Chatterjee, Siddarth David, Rajdeep Singh, Prosanta Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pawanindra Lal, Vikas Malhotra, Ravi Meher, Lakshmeswar Nagaraj Mohan, Ritu Saxena, Prabhat Shrivastava, Sumit Sural

“…Objective To compare experts’ perceived usefulness of audit filters from Ghana, Cameroon, WHO and those locally developed; generate context-appropriate audit filters for trauma care in selected hospitals in urban India; and explore characteristics of audit filters that correlate to perceived usefulness.Design A mixed-methods approach using a multicentre online Delphi technique.Setting Two large tertiary hospitals in urban India.Methods Filters were rated on a scale from 1 to 10 in terms of perceived usefulness, with the option to add new filters and comments. …”
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Sulfated and Glucuronidated Conjugates of 3‑(4-Hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl) Propionic Acid Can Promote NO Production by Elevated Ca2+ Release from the Endoplasmic Reticulum in HUVECs by Tint Ni Ni Tun, Susumu Yoshino, Hiroyuki Kayaki, Hiroshige Kuwahara, Toshiro Matsui

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