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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Persistence and Retention of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus in Stable Flies (Diptera: Muscidae)

Kateryn Rochon, Rodney B. Baker, Glen W. Almond et al. · 2015 · Journal of Medical Entomology

We investigated the acquisition of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus by the stable fly (Diptera: Muscidae; Stomoxys calcitrans (L.)) through a bloodmeal, and virus persistence in the digestive organs of the fly…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Food preferences throughout the menstrual cycle – A computer-assisted neuro-endocrino-psychological investigation

Marie Lefebvre, Michael P. Hengartner, Enrico Tronci et al. · 2022 · Physiology & Behavior

BACKGROUND: As eating behavior changes in relation to the menstrual cycle and weight changes with menopausal transition, ovarian hormones appear to be involved in regulating eating behavior. However, observations are contradictory and are difficult to compare, due to methodological problems related to nutritional epidemiology. To better understand the relationship between ovarian steroid hormones and eating behavior, our study evaluates women's responses to visual food cues at different points in the menstrual cycle with their specific serum estrogen/progesterone levels and women's responses i

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessHealth Professions

Experience of irreproducibility as a risk factor for poor mental health in biomedical science doctoral students: A survey and interview-based study

Nasser Lubega, Abigail Anderson, Nicole Nelson · 2023 · PLoS ONE

High rates of irreproducibility and of poor mental health in graduate students have been reported in the biomedical sciences in the past ten years, but to date, little research has investigated whether these two trends interact. In this study, we ask whether the experience of failing to replicate an expected finding impacts graduate students' mental health. Using an online survey paired with semi-structured qualitative interviews, we examined how often biomedical science doctoral students at a large American public university experienced events that could be interpreted as failures to replicat

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Exploring Bottom-Up Visual Processing and Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease With Dementia

Nicholas Murphy, Alison Killen, Rajnish Kumar Gupta et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in Neurology

Visual hallucinations (VH) are a common symptom of Parkinson's disease with dementia (PDD), affecting up to 65% of cases. Integrative models of their etiology posit that a decline in executive control of the visuo-perceptual system is a primary mechanism of VH generation. The role of bottom-up processing in the manifestation of VH in this condition is still not clear although visual evoked potential (VEP) differences have been associated with VH at an earlier stage of PD. Here we compared the amplitude and latency pattern reversal VEPs in healthy controls ( n = 21) and PDD patients ( n = 34) w

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

A Potential Role of Progestin-Induced Laminin-5/α6-Integrin Signaling in the Formation of Side Branches in the Mammary Gland

Gabriele Meyer, Jeffrey R. Leipprandt, Jianwei Xie et al. · 2012 · Endocrinology

Mammary organoids from adult mice produce tubules, analogous to mammary ducts in vivo, in response to hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) when cultured in collagen gels. The combination of HGF plus progestin (R5020) causes reduced tubule number…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessHealth Professions

Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a cross-sectional study

Ann‐Marie Towers, Stacey Rand, Stephen Allan et al. · 2025 · BMJ Open

OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents' quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) of four QoL measures. DESIGN: doption) study, a mixed-methods pilot of a prototype minimum dataset (MDS). SETTING: Care homes (with or without nursing) registered to provide care for older adults (>65 years) and/or those living with dementia. All homes used a digital record system from one of two suppliers. PARTICIPANTS: Data were extracted from 748 residents. All permanent

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Genetic Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in the Look AHEAD Trial

Jeanne M. McCaffery, George D. Papandonatos, Lucy F. Faulconbridge et al. · 2015 · Psychosomatic Medicine

OBJECTIVES: Numerous studies have found elevated depressive symptoms among individuals with Type 2 diabetes, yet the mechanisms remain unclear. We examined whether genetic loci previously associated with depressive symptoms predict…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Disconnected and Hyperactive: A Replication of Sensorimotor Cortex Abnormalities in Patients With Schizophrenia During Proactive Response Inhibition

Christopher J. Wertz, Faith M Hanlon, Nicholas A. Shaff et al. · 2018 · Schizophrenia Bulletin

Inhibitory failure represents a core dysfunction in patients with schizophrenia (SP), which has predominantly been tested in the literature using reactive (ie, altering behavior after a stimulus) rather than proactive (ie, purposefully…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAgricultural and Biological Sciences

A novel strategy to attenuate porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus by inhibiting viral replication in the target pulmonary alveolar macrophages via hematopoietic-specific miR-142

Shaoyuan Tan, Weixin Wu, Xinna Ge et al. · 2023 · One Health Advances

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is an economically important pathogen for the global pork industry. Although modified live virus (MLV) vaccines are commonly used for PRRSV prevention and control, they still carry a risk of infecting the host and replicating in target cells, thereby increasing the likehood of virus recombination and reversion to virulence. In this study, we inserted the target sequence of miR-142 into the nsp2 hypervariable region of PRRSV to inhibit viral replication in its host cells of pigs, with the aim of achieving virus attenuation. The chimeri

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Rethinking phase 2 trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Michael Benatar, Christopher McDermott, Martin R. Turner et al. · 2024 · Brain

There is a long history in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) of promoting therapies based on phase 2 data, which then fail in phase 3 trials. Experience suggests that studies of 6 months in duration are too short, especially with…

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Negative / Null Result ReportBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Increasing imputation and prediction accuracy for Chinese Holsteins using joint Chinese–Nordic reference population

Peipei Ma, Mogens Sandø Lund, Xiangdong Ding et al. · 2014 · Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

This study investigated the effect of including Nordic Holsteins in the reference population on the imputation accuracy and prediction accuracy for Chinese Holsteins. The data used in this study include 85 Chinese Holstein bulls genotyped…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Histogram analysis from stretched exponential model on diffusion-weighted imaging: evaluation of clinically significant prostate cancer

Eun-Ju Kim, Chan Kyo Kim, Hyun Soo Kim et al. · 2020 · British Journal of Radiology

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of histogram analysis of stretched exponential model (SEM) on diffusion-weighted imaging in evaluating clinically significant prostate cancer (CSC). Methods: A total of 85 patients with prostate cancer…

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Negative / Null Result Report

Single-ion induced surface modifications on hydrogen-covered Si(001) surfaces—significant difference between slow highly charged and swift heavy ions

C Länger, P Ernst, M Bender et al. · 2021 · New Journal of Physics

Abstract Hydrogen-covered Si(001) surfaces were exposed to swift heavy ions (SHI) and slow highly charged ions (HCI). Using scanning tunneling microscopy as analysis tool, the ion-induced modifications on the surface were resolved on the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Risk-Return Analysis of the Biopharmaceutical Industry as Compared to Other Industries

Cedric Popa, Karel Holvoet, Tessa Van Montfort et al. · 2018 · Frontiers in Pharmacology

Background: Profits in the biopharmaceutical industry have been scrutinized in social debate. However, drawing conclusions based on industry profitability only is inappropriate as such an analysis does not account for risks faced by investors. This study aims to measure risks and returns in the biopharmaceutical industry and investigates whether risk-adjusted return on investment in the biopharmaceutical industry is higher than that in other industries. Methods: To enable appropriate comparison, we identified six benchmark industries with characteristics that match those of the biopharmaceutic

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Machine Learning Did Not Outperform Conventional Competing Risk Modeling to Predict Revision Arthroplasty

Jacobien H. F. Oosterhoff, Anne de Hond, Rinne M Peters et al. · 2024 · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

BACKGROUND: Estimating the risk of revision after arthroplasty could inform patient and surgeon decision-making. However, there is a lack of well-performing prediction models assisting in this task, which may be due to current conventional…

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Negative / Null Result Report

No clinically significant difference in postoperative pain and side effects comparing conventional and enhanced recovery total hip arthroplasty with early mobilization

Jan Reinhard, Melanie Schindler, Franziska Leiss et al. · 2023 · Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Abstract Introduction Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) leads to less morbidity, faster recovery, and, therefore, shorter hospital stays. The expected increment of primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) in the U.S. highlights the need…

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Negative / Null Result Report

Observational study of the implementation of telephone advice nursing in Sweden: did callers follow recommendations and did the rate of healthcare visits change?

Amanda Sundberg, Anna Carin Wahlberg, Niklas Zethraeus et al. · 2021 · BMJ Open

Objectives Telephone advice nursing is introduced in many countries with one key aim being a reduction of avoidable healthcare visits. The aim of this study was to explore whether callers to a telephone advice nursing service followed the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Noise Reduction in EEG Signals using Convolutional Autoencoding Techniques

Conor Hanrahan · 2019 · ARROW@Dublin Institute of Technology (Dublin Institute of Technology)

The presence of noise in electroencephalography (EEG) signals can significantly reduce the accuracy of the analysis of the signal. This study assesses to what extent stacked autoencoders designed using one-dimensional convolutional neural…

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Replication FailureOpen accessMedicine

CAR T-Cell Targeting of Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Receptor

Daniela Achkova, Richard Beatson, John Maher · 2022 · Cells

Macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor (M-CSFR) is found in cells of the mononuclear phagocyte lineage and is aberrantly expressed in a range of tumours, in addition to tumour-associated macrophages. Consequently, a variety of cancer therapies directed against M-CSFR are under development. We set out to engineer chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that employ the natural ligands of this receptor, namely M-CSF or interleukin (IL)-34, to achieve specificity for M-CSFR-expressing target cells. Both M-CSF and IL-34 bind to overlapping regions of M-CSFR, although affinity of IL-34 is significa

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Replication FailureOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

A specific microRNA profile as predictive biomarker for systemic treatment in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Dennis Poel, Elske C. Gootjes, Lotte Bakkerus et al. · 2020 · Cancer Medicine

BACKGROUND: Palliative systemic therapy is currently standard of care for patients with extensive metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). A biomarker predicting chemotherapy benefit which prevents toxicity from ineffective treatment is urgently needed. Therefore, a previously developed tissue-derived microRNA profile to predict clinical benefit from chemotherapy was evaluated in tissue biopsies and serum from patients with mCRC. METHODS: Samples were prospectively collected from patients (N = 132) who were treated with capecitabine or 5-FU/LV with oxaliplatin ± bevacizumab. Response evaluation wa

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Results of the Kigali Imbereheza Project: A 2-Arm Individually Randomized Trial of TI-CBT Enhanced to Address ART Adherence and Mental Health for Rwandan Youth Living With HIV.

Geri R. Donenberg, Jessica Fitts, Charles Ingabire et al. · 2022 · PubMed

BACKGROUND: Adolescents living with HIV have elevated mental distress and suboptimal antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. SETTING: Two urban clinics in Kigali, Rwanda. METHODS: A 2-arm individual randomized controlled trial compared…

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