Neoadjuvant immunotherapy for DNA mismatch repair proficient/microsatellite stable non-metastatic rectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Huan Zhang, Jing Huang, Huanji Xu, Nanhao Yin, Nanhao Yin, Liyan Zhou, Liyan Zhou, Jianxin Xue, Jianxin Xue, Jianxin Xue, Min Ren

“…Non-metastatic pMMR/MSS RC receiving the short-course radiotherapy (SCRT) in neoadjuvant setting exhibited superior pooled pCR and MPR than long-course radiotherapy (LCRT) without upregulating the incidence of adverse effects. …”
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Analgesia and sedation strategies in neonates undergoing whole-body therapeutic hypothermia: A scoping review. by Mahima Joshi, Javed Muneer, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Ipsita Goswami

“…<h4>Objective</h4>This scoping review determines the breadth of research undertaken for pain and stress management in neonates undergoing hypothermia therapy, the pharmacokinetics of analgesic and sedative medications during hypothermia and the effect of such medication on short- and long-term neurological outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>We searched the following online databases namely, (i) MEDLINE, (ii) Web of Science, (iii) Cochrane Library, (iv) Scopus, (v) CINAHL, and (vi) EMBASE to identify published original articles between January 2005 and December 2022. …”
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Dietary β-Mannanase Affects the Growth, Antioxidant, and Immunes Responses of African Catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and Its Challenge Against Aeromonas hydrophila Infection by Ibrahim Adeshina, Bilal Ahamad Paray, Eijaz Ahmed Bhat, Shahid Sherzada, Olaolu O. Fawole, Dalhatu J. Bawa, Thais Pereira da Cruz, Lateef O. Tiamiyu

“…Therefore, feeding African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, β-mannanase enhanced growth performance, increased activity of digestive enzymes, gut morphology, enhanced generation of short-chain fatty acids, digesta potential of hydrogen (pH), and improved antioxidant profiles and immunity at the optimum dose of 5800 TMU/kg diet. …”
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Macrophage Notch1 signaling modulates regulatory T cells via the TGFB axis in early MASLD by Mengya Zhang, Kun Li, Xiaoxing Huang, Dongqin Xu, Ruobin Zong, Qintong Hu, Xiaoyu Dong, Qinyong Zhang, Chaochen Jiang, Yue Ge, Changyong Li, Jie Ping

“…Methods: A mouse model subjected to a short-term high-fat diet (HFD) to mimic early steatosis, along with liver biopsy samples from patients with simple steatosis, and macrophage-specific Notch1-knockout mice (Notch1M-KO), were used to investigate the role of Tregs in early MASLD and the effect of hepatic macrophage Notch1 signaling on Treg frequency. …”
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Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used in management of breast cancers in Qatar by Rasha.S.Abo El Alaa, Hend Al-Jaber, Fatima Al Zahraa Chokor, Abdullah A. Shaito, Layla Al-Mansoori

“…Despite advancements, current treatments still fall short of providing definitive solutions, particularly for triple-negative breast cancer. …”
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EyeLiner by Yoga Advaith Veturi, MSc, Steve McNamara, OD, Scott Kinder, MS, Christopher William Clark, MS, Upasana Thakuria, MS, Benjamin Bearce, MS, Niranjan Manoharan, MD, Naresh Mandava, MD, Malik Y. Kahook, MD, Praveer Singh, PhD, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, PhD

“…Clinicians assess changes in disease status by either independently reviewing or manually juxtaposing longitudinally acquired color fundus photos (CFPs). Distinguishing variations in image acquisition due to camera orientation, zoom, and exposure from true disease-related changes can be challenging. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Ultrasound-Guided Radiofrequency Treatment for Chronic Pain in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yuzhao Huang, Qiufang Deng, Liuqing Yang, Jiahui Ma, Ziyang Wang, Dong Huang, Ling Luo, Haocheng Zhou

“…Finally, most of the studies only provided short follow-up times, so we could not analyze the long-term effectiveness of ultrasound-guided RF in the treatment of patients with KOA. …”
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Adsorption, in vitro digestion and human gut microbiota regulation characteristics of three Poria cocos polysaccharides by Fangming Zhang, Hui Zheng, Tao Zheng, Pan Xu, Yao Xu, Yuxin Cao, Fan Jia, Yiqiong Zeng, Yubing Fan, Kai He, Xinwen Dai, Fengfei Hou, Yong Yang

“…The gut microbiota diversity of CMP was reduced, but the richness of probiotics, especially Parabacteroides distasonis was significantly enhanced compared with the ASP group, and the growth of harmful bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae was inhibited after CMP treatment. The short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) analysis results showed that all three PCPs could significantly promote the production of acetic acid, propionic acid and the total acid content compared with blank control group, and SCFAs producing activity was positively correlated with the proliferative capacity of probiotics. …”
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Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on postoperative sleep disturbance in older patients undergoing lower limb major arthroplasty: a prospective, double-blind, pilot,... by Chunyan Li, Jie Yang, He Liu, Wen Tan, Song Zhang, Hongxing Zhang, Yuan Han, Mingshu Tao, Rongguang Liu, Jiaxing Fang, Dexian Chen, Qi Wei, Xingyu Xiong, Wenxin Zhao, Junli Cao

“…No significant adverse events were reported.Conclusion In older patients undergoing lower limb major arthroplasty, a single session of anodal tDCS over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex showed a potentially prophylactic effect in improving postoperative short-term objective sleep measures. However, this benefit was temporary and was not maintained over time.…”
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Assessment of factors predicting the nutritional status of geriatric people in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia by Samar Lafi Aljohani

“…It includes demographic, habitual, and medical characteristics of the participants, anthropometric data (weight and height), and the validated short form of Mini Nutritional Assessment tool to assess their nutritional status. …”
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Study on the changes and influencing factors of depression in Chinese women with cancer: an analysis based on CHARLS panel data by Na Wang, Mengran Chang, Shidong Liu, Bing Chen

“…After data cleaning, a balanced short panel dataset containing 1,030 samples was obtained. …”
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A Digital Behavior Change Intervention for Health Promotion for Adults in Midlife: Protocol for a Multidimensional Assessment Study by Dagmar Soleymani, Dominique Pougheon-Bertrand, Rémi Gagnayre

“…The digital intervention aims to encourage people aged 40-55 years to look after their health in the short and medium terms by adopting small actions relating to 8 health determinants: nutrition, physical activity, smoking, alcohol, stress, cognitive health, sleep, and environmental health. …”
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Assessing the Effects of Land Use Practices on the Environment in Rugarama North Ntungamo District. by Turyahabwe, Deus

“…This should be done along with good husbandry practices such as crop rotation, and rotational grazing to avoid exhausting a particular plot of land in a short period, which in most cases forces people to encroach lands. …”
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Ethics of Procuring and Using Organs or Tissue from Infants and Newborns for Transplantation, Research, or Commercial Purposes: Protocol for a Bioethics Scoping Review [version 1;... by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Joe Brierley, Jerry Menikoff, Trung Nguyen, Brian D. Earp, Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu, Xiu Lim, Maide Barış, David Shaw, Melanie T Almonte

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La ferme à enclos quadrangulaire du Bois des Olivettes à Roncourt (Moselle) : une catégorie d’établissement romain largement diffusée dans la vallée mosellane by Gaël Brkojewitsch, Brice Chevaux

“…Some of these products may have been used for domestic purposes, but a marketable surplus cannot be ruled out. In short, when studied extensively, these small settlements attest to a wide range of activities –offering just as many means of subsistence– fuelling a diversified economy.To discuss the specific features of these farms in greater detail, we need to be able to compare the results of chemical or bioarchaeological studies, site by site, and these are still often lacking. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of permanent pacemaker implantation in patients with aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a prospective cohort study by Erlend Eriksen, Ronak Rajani, Sahrai Saeed, Svein Rotevatn, Daanyaal Wasim, Øyvind Bleie, Abukar Mohamed Ali, Erik Jerome Stene Packer, Håvard Keilegavlen

“…Permanent pacemaker implantation following TAVI had no impact on short or long-term survival.Ethics and dissemination The Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics (approval number: REK vest 33814/2019) and the Institutional Data Protection Services approved the study protocol. …”
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Symptomatic Pituitary Metastasis as Initial Manifestation of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Case Report and Review of Literature by Gunjan Y. Gandhi, Russell Fung, Patrick E. Natter, Raafat Makary, K. C. Balaji

“…Biochemical findings such as panhypopituitarism, acute clinical signs such as headache, visual symptoms, and diabetes insipidus and interval increase in sellar mass in a short time interval should raise suspicion for sellar metastasis.…”
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The impact of the objective state and self-esteem of health on academic performance in senior students of medical and humanitarian specialties, taking into account various environm... by V. V. Kuznetsov, K. V. Kosilov

“…In the study of quality of life associated with health, we used the international questionnaire “A short form of self-assessment of quality of life related to health MOS SF-36”. …”
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AN INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEM ON BIORESOURCE COLLECTIONS OF THE FASO OF RUSSIA by S. A. Lashin, D. A. Afonnikov, M. A. Genaev, F. V. Kazantsev, E. G. Komyshev, E. A. Oschepkova, А. V. Petrov, D. A. Rasskazov, A. A. Smirnova, N. A. Kolchanov

“…The portal contains the following functional sections: the home page containing general information on bioresource collections, the catalog of collections, individual pages for each particular collection with a short description (information about curators, statistical information about the number of storage units in the collection and the number of publications, as well as a link to the catalog of storage units of this BRC). …”
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Changes in photoperiod during the dry period impact colostrum production in Holstein and Jersey cows by K.J. Alward, A.J. Duncan, A.D. Ealy, G.E. Dahl, C.S. Petersson-Wolfe, R.R. Cockrum

“…ABSTRACT: Multiparous Holstein cows exposed to short-day photoperiod (SDPP) of 8 h of light per day during their dry period produced up to 3.2 kg more milk per day compared with cows exposed to long-day photoperiod (LDPP) of 16 h of light per day; it is unknown if a similar response would be observed for Jersey cow milk production. …”
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